looking at that better air quality. back to you. i need to get the kids outside. that is good news. all right, thank you so much. do not forget the news co good morning to you, our viewers in the west. welcome to "cbs this morning." it's tuesday, september 15th. i'm gayle king with anthony mason and tony dokoupil. a hurricane closes in on the gulf coast as wildfires ravage the west. we'll take you to both places where they battle to save lives. climate fight. president trump refuses to accept climate change as a factor in the wildfires. drawing harsh words from joe biden. plus, bob woodward joins us on his bombshell tapes. >> deputy's heroism. how two sheriff's deputies took life-saving actions to help each other after they were ambushed. >> nba star carmelo anthony

tells us about his new fashion initiative to help black designers. and maren morris on motherhood. the country superstar reveals how she balances being a new mom with seeking musical inspiration during the pandemic. first, here's today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> as you can see, we are already getting the first impacts of hurricane sally. >> this thing is moving three miles an hour. >> wow. >> three. >> hurricane sally barrels towards the gulf coast. rapidly gaining strength. and people are bracing for impact. >> if you look at what else is out there we have all kinds of names in the atlantic basin. paulette, rene, sally, teddy, vicki. >> president trump was in california for a briefing on those devastating wildfires. >> it will start getting cooler. >> i wish -- >> you just watch. >> i wish science agreed with you. >> the hunt for the suspect in the shooting of two sheriff's deputies in southern california is intensifying. >> it breaks my heart.

a coward would ambush them. they're just doing their job. >> the big ten. a potential return thanks to the rapid results tests that should arrive on every campus this month. >> all that -- >> steven goss cowsky missed three field goals and an extra point. >> then, like he's been doing it all night -- >> and all that matters. >> president trump endorsed the idea of a four-hour presidential debate moderated by podcaster joe rogan. it would have been cool to have a debate where the two presidential candidates just smoke a joint and spend four hours talking about ufos. >> on "cbs this morning." >> what up, dudes. paul rudd here. actor and certified young person. >> paul rudd is spreading the word. wear a mask. >> rudd acts half his age in the new psa aimed at millennials. >> let's real talk. masks, they're totally beast. so slide that in your dms and

twitch it. >> rudd turned 51 years young earlier this year. >> we've got to yeet this voice. >> welcome to "cbs this morning." governor cuomo asked him to do it because we has such a baby face and so young at heart. >> a certified young person. >>ast age 51, i hope he's connect with actual young people. >> let's hope that message he's giving is effective. he sort of picked up on what jon lapook said that #don't kill grandma. wear your masks. it not only saves you but people you love. very important message. we're going to begin with the effects of hurricane sally. it can already -- she can already be felt this morning as she bears down on the gulf coast. the storm weakened overnight but forecasters warn it could be a category 1 when making landfall tomorrow. the gulf coast is already seeing intense waves there. forecasters say the biggest threat from the slow-moving storm could be an immense amount of rain.

that means a lot of rain. we begin in mobile, alabama, wither lead national correspondent. there is david begnaud. good morning to you. we see the rain already. >> good morning. things have really died down in mobile. that's consistent with this storm which has weakened and slowed down. this sucker is barely moving at 2 miles per hour. i was told that it is going to be recorded as one of the slowest storms on record for this part of the gulf coast. but here's the major threat. it's the rainfall. it could produce up to 20, maybe 24 inches of rain in this area of mobile, which would are historic flooding. this is what sally looks like from above. one of noaa's hurricane hunter planes flew over the storm yesterday. >> everything is scary now. >> there are thousands of people like janet ryan who have packed up and left their home. >> packed up what i need for maybe a couple of weeks because i don't know how much water there will be here. >> reporter: the biggest concern now is how much water the storm

is going to dump on the gulf coast. forecasters say it could be more than two feet of rain in some parts of the region. there are low-lying roads already under water in parts of mississippi. the national weather service is warning the flooding could be historic. from mississippi to florida, people are preparing. >> we're staffing up and making sure that everybody knows as much as we know to be ready for this storm. >> reporter: that's andrew gilich, the mayor of biloxi, mississippi. so far, no mandatory evacuation orders in place there but he's telling everyone, watch this thing. >> now is the time to be paying attention to the data and to the information. i guess that's the main thing about weather. it's chaos. >> reporter: i mentioned how the storm had slowed down. it slowed down so much so that landfall was supposed to happen today, but now it's expected to not happen until tomorrow. >> david, thank you very much.

let's go to meteorologist and climate specialist jeff berardelli who is watching this very closely. what are you seeing? >> good morning. i don't know if you can walk on water. if you could, you could walk faster than this storm. that's how slow it is moving. it's going to move only 90 miles in 36 hours. moving forward right now at 2 miles an hour. the storm hasn't strengthened much. it's waeeakened a bit because o dry air. winds are 85 miles an hour. if you think we've been here before, we have. we've seen these really slow moving storms like harvey. and one of the reasons for it is climate change. and warming world, forward speed has decreased by 16% near land. and in the future, rainfall rates are expected to increase by at least 14%, maybe double that. there is the forecast track from the national hurricane center. making landfall probably some time during the day tomorrow. that's how slow it is moving as a cat 1 storm. probably just to the west of

mobile bay. rainfall will be phenomenal. could be devastating. two feet. and we told you it could be 30 inches. now the national hurricane center saying that that is possible. in addition, storm surge is going to be a huge issue. if the storm moves just west of mobile bay, that will funnel and force the water into mobile bay. and it's got nowhere to go but up. watch out for devastating storm surge. a bit further towards the east and the barrier islands will block it. we'll see how this works out. but everybody, be careful. >> jeff, thank you. now to the explosion of wildfires in the west. dozens of people are dead in three states. at least 24 people are missing. in california, more than 3 million acres have been burned, and about 16,500 firefighters are trying to quell the flames. this eerie footage is from the city of talent in oregon where burned out streets look like they've been paved with pink flame retardant.

jonathan vigliotti is tracking this historic disaster. >> reporter: crews are using cadaver dogs to search through charred rubble in southeastern oregon looking for any sign of the missing. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: fast-moving flames ripped through nearly half a dozen towns last week giving residents little time to escape. even heavy duty fire retardant was not enough to save these homes. like ashley britten are seeing the destruction for the first time. >> it's the worst thing i've ever seen in my life. it's -- i've seen videos, but it's a thousand times worse than i could have ever imagined. >> reporter: firefighters across the west have been battling shifting winds as they try to gain control of more than a hundred fires. the hazardous smoke is so severe, the national weather service says it has created a haze across the country. all the way to washington, d.c. and alaska airlines announced it was temporarily suspending

flights to and from portland, oregon, and spokane, washington, due to the smoke. dave monroe lives in hard-hit talent, oregon. >> there's something going on. that's for sure, man, because it's one thing after another. every summer we're burning up. >> reporter: in california, wildfires have now burned an area larger than the size of connecticut. the state's governor, gavin newsom. >> i've been on so many fires over the last seven, eight years throughout this state. we've never been more stretched in our resourcs than over the last month. >> reporter: and the fire in this area has been the deadliest so far this year in california. it stands at 40% contained. in oregon, mobile morgues have been brought in as the search for at least two dozen people continues this morning. >> oh, boy. the story is very tough to hear day after day. thank you very much, jonathan. we need to know what's going on there. the twin disasters are giving the presidntial candidates one more thing to fight about today. in california, president trump

dismissed scientific evidence that climate change is behind the extreme weather. democratic nominee joe biden called him a climate arsonnist who is endangering americans. weijia jiang has the story. >> reporter: speaking r ining u smoky haze, president trump blamed the historic fires on fallen trees that were not cleared out. >> good, strong forest management. >> reporter: the president has pushed the idea for three years. but california governor gavin newsom pointed out that only 3% of land in the state is under state and local control. 57% is under the federal government. he said that climate change is a much bigger factor. >> science is in and observed evidence is self-evident that climate change is real, and that is exacer baiting this. >> reporter: a california national resources official urged mr. trump to acknowledge it. >> if we ignore that science and put our has in the sand and think it's all about vegetation

management, we're not going to succeed to get at protecting californians. >> but president trump pushed back. >> it will start getting cooler. you just watch. >> i wish science agreed with you. >> i don't think science knows, actually. >> it's science. >> reporter: former vice president joe biden blasted the president who has rolled back climate regulations and downplayed the threat of climate change for years. >> if you give a climate arsonnist four more years in the white house, why would anyone be surprised if we have more america ablaze. >> reporter: mr. trump is ignoring scientific recommendations on another front. holding his second indoor event in a row out west with little social distancing and few masks. >> this is supposed to be a roundtable, but it looks like a rally. but it is a rally -- >> reporter: back in washington, the top spokesman for the department of health and human services slammed government scientists in a live video he hosted on his personal facebook

page. michael caputo has taken the video down but in it he claimed the cdc included a resistance unit and said its scientists haven't gotten out of their sweatpants except for meetings at coffee shops to plot how they're going to attack donald trump next. we spoke with caputo last night who said he's feeling the pressures of the job and dealing with multiple threats against his family, and he claims that's what led to venting on facebook. happening today here at the white house, president trump is hosting a signing ceremony as the united arab emirates and bahrain commit to normalizing relations with israel. the agreement is a diplomatic success for the presidnt who helped broker the deal. anthony? >> weijia, thank you. the gunman who ambushed and shot two los angeles county sheriff's deputies is still on the run. the reward is up to $150,000 and the manhunt is intensifying. the sheriff is lashing out against, in his words, people

fanning the flames of hatred. he's also praising the wounded deputy's response as carter evans reports. and we remind you, the video of this shooting may be upsetting. >> reporter: new video shows the two injured deputies moments after they were ambushed. the 31-year-old female deputy shot multiple times is covered in blood and tends to her 24-year-old partner. she applies a tourniquet to his bleeding arm. and she's shot in the face. >> she's one tough mom. they were both shot in the head and the fact they weren't gravely disabled from it is just a miracle. >> reporter: l.a. county sheriff villanueva says both deputies with just over a year on the job took life-saving actions to help each other. the female deputy, the mother of a 6-year-old, even managed to radio in her location after being shot. >> her voice is garbled because

she has a wound right in her jaw. but she was able to get off her location. >> reporter: surveillance video from the saturday shooting in compton shows the gunman walked right up to the patrol car and fired several shots at point-blank range before running away. despite being shot multiple times, the male deputy still tried to go after the gunman. >> he tried to grab his gun, but his right hand was disaged. >> reporter: the manhunt is in its fourth day. and the sheriff has 14 investigators working to find the shooter. >> what is this like to see this happen to two of your own. >> it breaks my heart. it pisses me off that a coward would ambush them. they're just trying to do their job trying to protect the passengers on the mta line. we're going to get them. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning," carter evans, los angeles. >> and sheriff villanueva is signaling out lebron james to increase the reward money to capture the shooter. lebron james has been critical

of police violence and helping lead the protests in favor of racial equality. we need to president that it goes across professions and races and creeds and wants to see lebron james step up to the plate. >> interesting how he responds. i don't know what lebron is going to do. nobody who supports black lives matter or racial equality thinks it's ever okay to just walk up to a police car and shoot police officers. we all agree. we need police officers in this country. we want good police officers in this country. it's just a matter of justice and equality and fighting fair. but it's -- you look at that video and that is just as upsetting and outrageous as any of the other things that we've seen. it's very, very -- i hope they catch him sooner rather than later. somebody knows who that guy is. the college football season limited by the covid-19 pandemic could see a late comeback. two major conferences that decided not play this fall are now rethinking that move. but one smaller school has lost more than just a season to the

coronavirus. nikki battiste has the story of one player who is now a presumed victim. >> just an infectious personality, an infectious smile and just a good guy to his core. he literally was the light of my life. >> reporter: 20-year-old jamain stephens was a defensive lineman at the california university of pennsylvania, a division 2 school that suspended all fall competition in july. his mother told us he returned to school in part to work out with his teammates. the family says stephens died last week of a blood clot to the heart after he tested positive for covid-19. >> i am very, very nervous for these young men and women. these kids, their lives are priceless. and it's just not worth it. it's not worth it. >> he'll go the distance. notre dame touchdown! >> reporter: so far 76 division i college football programs have

decided a season is worth it. but not without some setbacks. >> we've got positive cases. they got positive cases. >> reporter: several teams have postponed their opening games after coronavirus outbreaks. yet two of college football's biggest conferences, the pac-12 and big ten, are now considering seasons despite previous plans to cancel all fall sports. >> college football is a mess right now. >> reporter: nicole auerbach is a senior writer for "the athletic." the conference's desire to kick off the season is driven by lost revenue and increased testing but that may not be enough to justify a return to the gridiron. >> your football player may be following every single rule. they might be dealing with social distancing in the football facility and then they walk outside of that facility. and they're going to be around students who are partying, hanging out, playing video games, going to a cafeteria. all of these things. >> reporter: that's a risk people like jamain stephens' father say students and their families need to be aware of.

>> sports give us a release. it gives us freedom from all of this drama. we are not in a state of mind with it all to make the right decision. and as you know, we're sitting here right now talking about the loss of my son because we took a risk. >> reporter: jamain stephens would have turned 21 next week. we're here outside the football stadium at rutgers university. a member of the big ten conference whose university president met sunday to discuss accelerating the return to the field. no answers yet, but here at rutgers, the school's most recent covid testing data shows a negativity rate around 99%. tony? >> it is pretty low there. 1% positivity. nikki, thank you. ahead, new developments in the case of breonna taylor. the woman killed by police during a botched raid in louisville, kentucky. this is a big new

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this is a morning update. it is 7:26. i am michelle griego. in less than 24 hours, a new round of businesses in contra costa county will open after the county decided its rules were too strict. some personal care services

were resuming outdoors. over the last seven days, california has tested positive for covid-19 at the lowest rate on record. today at noon, california's top medical expert will give an update on the situation in the state. kamala harris will meet with emergency crews and toured the damage of the creek fire today. that fire is burning near fresno and has scorched almost a quarter of 1 million acres. we are dealing with an accident right around alvarado. there is one lane that is blocked off and the activity is to the shoulder. that is a bit of an improvement. if you're going towards the san mateo bridge, you might see some brake lights. we have a crash the northern 101 and oakland road that has been cleared now. was reported right after that area. talked about

hurricane laura. you know the song and words. what's the difference with this came hurricane? what's your biggest concern with sally? >> today the message is there's still time to heed the direction of your local elected officials and emergency managers. if you're under evacuation orders please heed those orders. the other thing is you still have time to make final preparations. you can do that quickly and, again, this storm will be a slow moving storm. lots of surge. and really more importantly lots of rain especially inland. rain, i think, because of such a slow mover will be the major issue as we move sally through alabama and georgia in next couple of days. >> slow moving storms. we keep hearing are the worse. where are you focus urge efforts on now? >> the president approved emergency he declarations for louisiana, alabama, mississippi to make sure those governors and emergency managers have the resources they need to do don't

duct emergency protective measures. we're coordinating with states. we have a significant footprint in louisiana because of hurricane laura. we're well postured. we're leaning into it to make sure we meet all the needs of all those three states. >> did you learn anything from hurricane laura the three weeks ago that's helping you deal with sally now? >> i think no matter if it's laura or whatever storm we try to lessons from everything we do. this business of emergency management is an imperfect business. so, you know, some things we do really well at and some things we wish we could get to are. we take those lessons learned and put them back in. especially in a covid environment we learn lessons every time we have those challenges. the majority of evacuees going to hotels and there's some problems with that because in some cases you displace the ability to house utility workers. we're making those adjustments

and again we work closely with the states and locals and tribes to get that more perfect solution. >> let's talk about the covid environment. it's still thriving in this country. is that affecting fema's efforts and affecting your resources? >> we actually, you know, way back when we were put in charge by the president to manage the covid response we knew hurricane season was coming. we gave plenty of documents, considerations to locals to have adaptive plans for the covid environment and states locals are doing it. there are challenges with that but i'm pretty pleased from what i've seen across the country. whether it's wildfires or it's hurricanes, states and locals have adapted to the new covid environment when it comes to these national hazards. >> listening to you this morning, it sounds like fema has it one control. do you feel as confident as you

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bucks county outside of philadelphia is by population the fourth largest in population and like the rest of the state of it's bracing for a massive increase in mail in ballots. hiring more staff and buying more machines. but it needs something else. doylestown, the county seat of bucks county. inside voting equipment for all precincts stretches wall to wall. those machines won't get as much use as usual this year because fewer people will vote in person and more will participate by mail. >> different role for everybody. >> reporter: bob harvie chairs the bucks county board of elections charging to make the alexandria work. >> we expected there to be more mail in ballot applications but we didn't expect these numbers and obviously the pandemic ramped everything up. >> reporter: in 2016 the county had about 20,000 requests for absentee ballots. this year it is expecting at least 200,000. possibly 250,000.

>> are you prepared to process that mail in mail in ballots if they come in? >> reporter: the challenging part is dealing with counting them as quickly as we can. >> reporter: bucks county is increasing its staff from 10 to 25. it had four scanners to counts absentee ballots now it has ten. and it is refurbishing this office to make room for staff and machinery. >> absentee and mail in ballot central. there's going be high-speed scanners here. ten of them. can the ballots quickly. >> reporter: bucks county bought its new equipment from clear ballot a company specializing in vote by mail technology. >> we've actually increased our customer base by 35% during the pandemic. >> reporter: hillary lincoln is vice president of marketing. >> 75% of our pennsylvania counties had to cale their absentee equipment so we helped them do that. >> reporter: of 13 states expected to be competitive this fall pennsylvania is one of four

that does not allow the procession of mail in ballots before election day. processing means opening envelope, flattening ballots and preparing the home be scanned for counting. all that takes time. >> basically any kind of relief to that that we can open any earlier would help us, whether it's three days or three weeks. >> reporter: pennsylvania legislature is debating whether to allow processing before election day. but without a change to state law bucks county expects to be counting mail in blapts after november 3rd. >> certainly we want to be done before, i would say, within a week. >> reporter: even in the best case scenario a couple of days, maybe three. >> yeah. >> reporter: if this race isn't close the delay might not batter but bucks county went to hillary clinton by less than one percentage point. a competitive county in a competitive state with oh, by the way 20 electoral votes that could decide the election. >> such an important story.

thank you very much. not just pennsylvania, it's michigan, wisconsin. we should prepare viewers for the fact they are not likely to get a result on election night. >> might end up being election week. >> that doesn't mean it's open. we're so used to knowing that night. i doubt very seriously whether we'll know. >> going a process. >> a journey. >> you need patience. >> absolutely. >> no more patience on this

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ad, vlad is on. >> yes, nancy. yes. yes. we're happy about that. keep it on right here while we share with you a few stories we think you'll be talking about today. scientists report a dramatic loss of ice in arctic. check this out. this is time lapse video showing a large chunk of ice roughly twice the size of manhattan. here in new york city, breaking apart from arctic's largest remaining ice shelf last month. scientists say it's been shrinking to new lows but the rest of that glacier is now more exposed to sea water and so expected to melt at a faster rate. rising temperatures due to climate change are to blame. >> wow. not a good look at all. i thought that was a typo when you said twice the size of manhattan. >> 44 square miles.

>> nothing uplifting about climate change. let's move on. >> you should send that tape to the white house. let's move on to the thanksgiving day parade. >> science doesn't know, it does know. look at that video, it knows. >> going to get cooler. >> speaking about macy's. moving on to something more uplifting. we will get to see the famous balloons, the festive floats and, of course, santa for the macy's day parade. there's a twist. the parade will only be one block long. let me explain how it will work. macy's has announced a initiative to a television only event this thanksgiving. the parade will skep its traditional route through manhattan so people don't gather during the pandemic. instead it will be staged in and around macy's flagship store in manhattan's herald square.

performers will be socially distanced and have to wear masks. >> cars will be pulling the floats. i thought should we even have a parade if it's only a block long? >> i think there's a lot of money at stake. that's why. i'll tell you my 24-year-old daughter came in last night and was so upset about all this news because we get up every thanksgiving day and watch the parade as a family. it's called tradition. but there are nomaring bands, college bands, won't thereabout. they did cancel the parade for three years during world war ii but this is just scaled down one. >> david begnaud and i were on last year with baby teddy on me. >> i remember that. >> the puppy and baby teddy will be very disappointed. >> vlad, you have an update for us? >> yes. the food fighters main man has written a theme song for our

rocker. abe was challenged to a drum battle. he accepted. after he declared she won the first-round he surprised her with this. ♪ >> he wrote that song for her. she wouldn't believe her ears. she thanked him for that. she's writing a response to him. >> best story. >> dave's daughter sang back up. ahead bob woodward will join us. stay with us. we'll be right back. thanks, vlad. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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here's today's eye opener at 8:00. hurricane sally, she can already be felt this morning as she bears down on the gulf coast. >> it could produce up to 20, maybe 24 inches of rain in this area of mobile. >> i don't know if you can walk on water because if you could, you could walk faster than this storm. that is how slow it is moving. >> fire in this area has been the deadliest so far this year in california. in oregon, mobile morgues have been brought in as the search for at least two dozen people continues. california president trump dismissed scientific evidence that climate change is behind the extreme weather. democratic nominee joe biden called him a climate arsonist. rutgers university met sunday to discuss accelerating the return to the field. the school's most recent covid testing data shows a negativity rate around 99%. detroit lions quarterback matthew stafford had the most adorable supporters headed into

his first game of the season. ♪ let's go lions >> is aford's wife kelly shared this video wishing daddy good luck. ♪ let's go lions yeah! >> good job! >> somebody with three kids i will point out you never get all of them smiling at the same time. one little girl is like this. >> i still think it's very motivating and cute family. >> very sweet. the latest on hurricane sally as it bears down on the gulf coast. right now she is a category 1 but that's still a lot of hurricane with a maximum sustained winds of 85 miles an hour. it's expected to make landfall in alabama sometime tomorrow. take a look at these incredible images. this is a hurricane from above, as pilots from noaa flew through the storm yesterday. our david begnaud is in mobile,

alabama, with more opinion when we saw you last hour, you said it's a slow-moving storm which explains why it's still raining and you're still standing in the rain. what tea like? >> reporter: bingo, good morning, my friend. since we last saw you at 7:00, the rain has slowed down but the hurricane as you said has slowed down, moving at 2 miles per hour and not long before i came on the air i heard from david parkinson our weather power proand meteorologist said this is one of the slowest moving storms on record in this part of the gulf coast. they've already canceled a quarter of the pooil production happening in the gulf. the good news is the storm has weakeneded but it could potentially sit over areas of the gulf coast like mobile, where we are this morning. this area is prone to flooding. they're looking in mobile at a potential storm surge of nine feet, and they could get, it's a possibility, of getting up to 20, maybe 24 inches of rain, which would cause historic flooding in this area. along the gulf coast, some people have chosen to get out and leave.

there are not any major mandatory evacuations going on, but again, the biggest threat from this storm will be the water, a combination of the storm surge and the rain falling from the sky. tony? >> slow is not good when it comes it a hurricane. david, thank you very much. sally is expected to make landfall sometime tomorrow. the storm has weakeneded over the last 24 hours and is not expected to restrengthen into a category 2 before it hits somewhere near alabama or the alabama/mississippi border. the latest track from the national hurricane center shows it lingering in alabama for more than 24 hours, and eventually weakening into a tropical storm, and then a tropical depression, before moving into georgia sometime early friday. for the first time, scientists say there may be signs of life on venus. it exists in tiny molecules in the atmosphere. researchers don't know how it got there, or what it means, but it's drawing new attention to earth's nearest planetary

neighbor. as holly williams reports, it's a world that couldn't be more different. >> reporter: its surface is hot enough to melt lead and cloaked in clouds of toxic gas, but scientists now believe something could be alive on venus, or actually just above it. profess professor sara seager with international scientists spotted a molecule phosphine. >> it leaves us with equally crazy ideas, one is that there is unknown chemistry and the other one is there's some possibility there might be some kind of life-producing phosphine on venus. >> on earth it is produced by bacteria and sometimes smells like rotting fish, an unromantic discovery on the planet named after the roman goddess of love. ♪ venus was the subject of much early space exploration, but the sulfuric acid in its atmosphere literally eats through

spacecraft. >> mars 2020. >> reporter: and focus switched to earth's other neighbor. >> i think of venus as the neglected sibling. >> reporter: why neglected? >> because so much attention is on mars. >> reporter: that could now change, with a tantalizing discovery that might be a sign of life. for "cbs this morning," i'm holly williams. > i'll do venus today. you remember the book "men are from mars, women are from venus" who knew they were competing. something's going on. >> i don't think i'll be moving there any time soon. the atmosphere eats through spacecraft. >> and smells like dead fish. >> something i always crave. i think i'll stay here on 57th street. it's really nice in here. president trump graded his own coronavirus response in a conversation with journalist bob woodward. ahead, what do you think that grade is? we'll explain. plus woodwad will give his perspective on the administration's handling of the

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new audio released by bob word reveals more about president trump's early recognition of the severity of the coronavirus. the clip comes from april from one of the 18 interviews that woodward conducted with the president for his book "rage" publ

woodward asked the president to grade his coronavirus response and the president said quote i give ourselves an a. but the grade is incomplete and i'll tell yu. if we come assault weapon vaccine and therapeutics and i give myself an a plus. this comes, of course, as the death toll in the u.s. approaches 200,000 by far the highest of any country on earth. bob woodward joins us now from washington. bob, good morning. congratulations to publication day. president trump just proannounced your book on fox news boring. you have a quote for the paper back. we have a lot to get to. we want to begin with the grade the president gave himself an a moving up to a plus. he said nothing more could have

been done. from your reporting and your research do you agree and what grade would you give the president? >> well, i don't think i should give grades, but i can report at the end of january it was laid down to him in great detail that the pandemic was coming and that it was equivalent to the 1918 spanish flu pandemic in this country 100 years ago that killed 675,000 and it was laid out to the president why this is the case the deputy national security adviser in the white house had sources, medical sources in china where he had worked for the "wall street journal" for seven years that had these sources had impeccable credentials and laid out exactly

what was coming and the president knew this and, for instance, a few days later at the state of the union address he said we're doing everything we can rather than telling the truth to the american public about what he had been warned about. >> your former reporting partner carl bernstein, watergate fame called these tapes, the tapes tied to your book graver than those watergate tapes referring to the loss of life and importance for history. do you agree with that assessment? is this greater than watergate? >> it's hard to compare. >> no one died in watergae. 200,000 people have died here. >> yes. and nixon was a criminal president. and if you look at the chronology, the authinformation

was able to get, the president's job i remember at one point i remember asking president trump what is that job, how would you define that job? he said the job is to protect the people. he failed to do that. and he could have, i in initial discussion with him in february i thought he was talking about the virus in china. i later learned, unfortunately, it took a number of months the until may that he had been told in january about this. >> bob, the president revealed to you that the u.s. has a secret new nuclear weapons system that neither the president of china or russia know about. what was your reaction when you heard that? >> well, i did some reporting afterwards and some people said there is something.

it's in dispute. one of the key experts i talked to said there's no such weapons system. there are lots of things on the drawing boards. >> so you don't know whether it actually exists. >> i do not. and the president insisted that it did. he's the commander-in-chief. but, again, he will say things as we talked that just don't check out. >> you reported the former director of national intelligence dan coates couldn't shake the believe that president putin had something on president trump. did you come to believe that president putin does have something? >> well, you can't know for sure and dan coates -- now, remember under the new re-organization

after 9/11, he's the number one intelligence official in country. he oversees the cia, the national security agency and they looked through everything because of president trump's clear affection and reliance on putin and said this just doesn't add up, doesn't make sense. they did not find proof, but for coates the suspicion endured. >> you know, bob, your spoke at length with the president about race reliegations in this count. he said i don't have to be black to understand the black point of view. you can get the tone and inflection when you heard him. did you get the sense he unders the pain that black people in this country are going through right now? >> when i explicitlied asked him, do you see that anger and pain that black people have and

particularly for somebody like myself, somebody white privilege, somebody like trump, i said, you know, we got to get out of our shoes and really understand this and trump mocked me. this tape is out. he said boy, you're really drinking the kool-aid and just listen to you and he said he did not have that feeling that it was his job to understand somebody else's pain and anger. i know as a reporter it's my job to try to do that. i would argue passionately it's the president's job. >> he also says that he doesn't want to create panic and that's one of the reasons why he didn't -- that he wasn't more forthcoming about what he had been told about this virus. some people say creating panic

can be i had calling card. lindsey graham said you can win, mr. president, if you go with the law and order strategy that he seems to be mounting right now. and there are ads right now running where he says, you know, america is burning literally and accusing biden supporters of that. do you think that the president likes creating chaos? at one point in book jared kushner says controversy elevate the conversation. that he likes being disruptive. >> yeah. isn't that really interesting that this whole idea controversy elevate the message. in other words, when the president says it's the best economy in world, the best economy that america has ever had, that's not true. it was a good economy before the pandemic. but it was not the best in the 1950s and so forth.

it was better. >> bob, i want to get in this. tony just said he's already said your book is boring. he's tweeted about that. he called you a whack job. it was a hit job. the book is fake. do you think his words on social media is more important than the facts than you're telling in book? >> you know, i was thinking about this last night. and what am i trying to say in this book? i'm trying to say to people this is what i found. i know lots of trump supporters, business people, financial advisors, workers, the computer. thank you very much. we'll be right back. i apologize. we're getting the computer wave off here. cups,

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♪ that's country superthe star maren morris performing her hit song. she's having a transformational year. her song has hit the top charts. she's the most nominated female artist at this year's country music academy awards. she has four more nominations including female artist of the year and album of the year. as of this spring morris sanu

mom. we caught up with her from her home in nashville where she's been quarantining during the pandemic. ♪ >> when she last performed live in front of some 60,000 fans at the houston rodeo in early march, maren morris was nearly nine months pregnant. >> honestly i feel great. he's kicking. i think we'll be okay. ♪ >> and she was. but the last hours of morris' pregnancy would be challenging. >> it was pretty gnarly at the end. nu >> you were in labor for 30 hours? >> yes. then i ended up with a c section because he was breach. >> her son with her husband ryan hurd was born later in march. then the pandemic closed down the world and morris found

herself battling postpartum depression. >> i'm kind of coming through the tunnel now. i feel back to normal. but, you know, fortunately i was able to do like phone therapy during the pandemic and people that loved me hey okay if you're drowning right now there's help. >> did you feel like you were drowning at times >> oh, yeah. you're trying to become a new mother and good parenter and do everything right and you just feel like you suck at every level and then the one thing that i always felt like i have a handle on is my music and to not be able to tour and have to furlough my band and crew it was just lot. >> morris may have had to postpone her 2020 tour, but it didn't stop her song "the bones" from take off. ♪ >> every time i got in my car this summer and turned on the radio there you were. >> sorry. >> no, no.

i was rooting for you. i thought wow this is really great. >> you saw the last time i ever got to play it live at the houston rodeo. ♪ >> "the bones" would spend 19 weeks at number one on the country chart, breaking the record for a female solo artist. >> i think a lot of it was maybe the message behind "the bones" taking on a larger theme beyond love song, the house don't fall when the bones are good. a lot of people reached out to me and said that's our country right now. >> morris has been outspoken about the state of the country on social media. and she has a black lives matter sign in front of her home. >> are you at all worried being open about your response to this in country music world? >> i'm not woerld. it's not political. it's not partisan to be like, these people need justice. there needs reform.

it's a human issue. it's not harmed me in any career way. people need to know what side you're on and i want to be on the right side of history not the wrong. ♪ >> morris broke out in 2016, behind her hit song "my church." >> this is where you did your writing? >> yeah. >> when i spoke her that year for "cbs sunday morning" she took me in studio where she collabora collaborated with her producer. >> it made so much sense -- ♪ i'm a '90s baby in my '80s mercedes ♪ . >> he died last year of brain cancer. >> i thought what am i going to do without my friend and also

like musically like who am i without him in this world? i'm kind of enjoying the feeling through the dark, trying to find the light right now. >> have you started to answer that question of who you are without him? >> no. i know that he'll always be a part of my sound. >> it must be kind of scary. >> i think i made the best art and decisions in my life when i'm scared. i can always tell when a song is too comfort zone, like i phone it in. i need to it really challenge me. ♪ >> that's what i would do with my songs with busby. i don't know what my sound looks like from this day on. i know the lyrics are country but the rest is sort of up in air. >> makes it interesting to see what happens. >> i'll look back at my

interview when i finish my third record and i'll go you were so confused and so blurry and then all sharpened after you talked to anthony. >> i can't wait to see what does happen. busby was 43. this was a real shock. he also produced her second album, co-produced her second album. she is feeling her way through the dark. as she said she's written four songs. i heard one of them. >> i can't wait. >> i heard one of them. >> if they are all in that category she won't have a problem. >> i love her music. >> i want to mention the sign on the front yard, that topic overall can be controversial. >> not easy to confront that in nashville. >> she's not making a calculation, she said this is the way i'm going with it. >> you take such a public stand, right. especially in that lane is very unusual. i applaud her for that. >> she's from the day i met her

i've been impressed with her. >> you guys have history. >> she knows who she is and the minute i met her this girl is going places and in four years you see how far she's come. >> you was right. she ain't done. >> 55th academy of country music awards will air tomorrow night at 8:00, 7:00 central. maren morris will perform with her band. tomorrow on cbs "this morning" we'll talk with kelse kelsea ballerini. >> ahead an inside look at nba all-star carmelo anthony's newest fashion collaboration. he'll tell us about his work to give black fashion designers a platform and

nba superstar and social activist carmelo anthony is launch agnew initiative aimed at highlighting black fashion designers through his fashion label. anthony a ten time all-star who is a longtime champion for social justice is also known for

his style, we could say off the court. his program aims to support black designers with a debut collection. anthony told us he hopes his new program will give underrepresented design ears platform for years to come. >> we are black people. we create the culture. how do we think about what's going to happen to us in the black community in five years, from a creative standpoint what does that look like? >> that's the question nba star carmelo anthony is trying to answer. with a new clothing collection he's calling a black future. it's part of the propel program. the new initiative anthony is launching to support the creative black community and he's calling on 70 emerging design stories make that vision a reality. what was your mission? what was your goal? >> i didn't know what it was at first. now we deal with so much trauma daily like all day, all night,

always a black and brown community we've been affected by that. how do we give people who are dealing with this trauma need an outlet or resources from pelle them forward. >> it doesn't sound to me eat they are is a one and done for you. >> black future is one of the best things i've done. to sit there would those designers on a zoom call. >> what i'm trying to create here hasn't been done yet. >> it wasn't just about designing. we have real conversations about life because a lot of those designers are actually still in those communities that's been affected. >> how are you feeling as we sit here. there was another incident in the news involving a black man and a police officer. also in the news two police officers shot. how are you navigating this? >> it's hard to wake up, wake up and hear about another tragedy, police killing or associate killing the police. that's just where we're at as a

country right now. and for the black community we're tired of it. we just fed up with it. on the flip side of that to see the two cops who got shot we don't want that either. we don't need that. >> you wrote a very moving letter in july addressed to young men and women of color. you said it's hard for me to tell you not to be afraid when i'm afraid. what did you snamean? >> i'm afraid of the unknown. i don't know how to keep having these conversations with the younger generation, with my son. i never thought i would have to have this conversation with him at 13. i'm fearful of telling him the wrong thing or my emotions being put at the forefront because he'll take everything i say and how i say it and he's going to build off of that. >> it is a conversation no blab parent wants to have with their child but despite the fear, anthony is setting an example for his son by using his voice

to speak for change. >> you know what? enough is enough. >> you were recently guest editor-in-chief of "slam" magazine. very powerful. what was your message in the magazine? >> the message was the time is now. like my son is on the cover. these are the new voice, the most important voices. this is the future. our time now is to make a change. >> i'm sure it was a deliberate choice because you were both in a hoodie. >> i am who i am at the end of the day. my son have it. he's definitely not, you know, not intimidating anybody. >> anthony is no stranger to speaking his mind and opening his heart. earlier this year he spoke candidly about the challenges he faced after parting ways the houston rockets in 2018. at the time he went unsigned for a year before eventually joining

the portland trail blazers. >> you talk very frankly where you said you hit rock bottom and that you got through with the then of kobe and lebron. what did you mean? >> it was just like oh, this is happening. i never thought this could happen to me. i was so naive about it. so, you know, kobe there was for me when i was talking to him. lebron there was at times. there were just certain people giving me little nuggets here and there. >> it came from people who you respected. >> came from people i respected but also it came from people i didn't even know too. >> you're in portland. >> yes. >> when you went to portland did you think portland would be the place for you, because you're kicking butt in portland. >> i didn't think that -- i didn't know what though i. by the time i got forward. i can just the tell you i worked so hard mentally, emotionally,

spiritually to get to the point where i was able to accept it. for so long i had disconnected myself from the game because i just felt like the game doesn't love me the way i love the game my more. so maybe it's time for me to walk away and that's where it was at. so when i got the call from portland i already knew what i wanted. i was at peace with it. can we work together? are we going to do this together? do you want me or need me. >> was that an important distinction. >> that was a very important point. >> do you want me or need me. what's more important? >> want. >> want. >> because if you want me then you will do everything that you have to do to make it work, right? if you need me, yeah i need you, but we can look over here too. so i was very big on them saying we want you hear. we believe in you. >> your happy there? >> i'm happy. >> i get the impression that

black excellence not words to you. >> it's a movement. it's who we are. it's what we have inside of us. we always had black excellence. now we have our voice, we have a platform and i'll continue to bring people along with me. >> carmelo anthony, very smart, very thoughtful. he thinks a lot about what's happening in the country. he said i'm not a politician. he goes i'm really not even into politics. what i'm into is my community. it's not to me about democrat or republican it's about right or wrong and reminds me of maren morris. it's not about democrat, republican, it's about right or wrong and standing in the right place and he feels very strongly about young people. he says there's three words i tell them, lover, hell and right. when you love something you will go through hell to make it right so it's love, hell and right. >> i love that he said at the end he tends to bring people

along with him sway real act of generosity. i'm used to him when he blade the nuggets. >> there's rumors people want him to come back to the knicks. i asked him about that. he said i'm in portland, happy in portland. a lot of people would be happy to see him come back to new york. >> i'm glad he's happy. that's main thing. >> his wife and son live in new york. that's another reason. >> that's tough. coast to coast thing is hard. >> they are making it work. >> all right. you're watching "cbs this morning". we'll be right back. stay with us.

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