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you for watching kpix5 news this morning. of course don't forget the news continues all day on cbsn bay area. >> you better not forget that. >> cbs this morning is up next. have a great tuesday. >> don't forget that either. good morning to you. welcome to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king. tropical stormrm elsa heaea towards shore. taliban fighters escalate their offensive fororcing mor than 1,000 afghan troops to flee into a neighboring country. we're on the ground as the u.s. withdraws. six months after a pro trump mob storms the capitol, a group
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talks about their anger and how they're coping in the aftermath. they'll share their special bond. pulitzer prize journalist nikole hannah jones joins us. she will reveal her next steps but first here's today's "eye opener." it's your world in 90 seconds. this is a tropical storm so i'm going to ride it out and be here for work. if they tell me i need to go, then i'll go then. >> preparations are now underway as florida gets ready for the arrival of tropical storm elsa. >> the storm system made landfall on the south coast of cuba. >> we don't anticipate the need for any type of widespread evacuations. >> worst nightmare you can possibly go through. >> more bodies found in the rubble of a collapsed condo in south florida after the demolition of the tower. >> they will continue the
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mission and the search. covid delta variant. >> cases will be accelerated in many parts of the country. iconic film director richard donor has died. >> he was known for his work on the lethal weapon. >> cooling off is a bear necessity. >> and all that matters. >> scores! >> game four of the stanley cup finals was in montreal. >> josh anderson scores the game winner. canadiens win 3-2 to force a game 5. >> anderson extends the series. >> on "cbs this morning." >> dad managed to juggle his baby and his beer catching the ball bare handed. >> ball caught, secures the beer. take care of the three bs, ball,
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baby, beer. >> needs three hands. >> this morning's eye open is presented by progressive making it easy to bundle insurance. >> handling one too many things. >> you have a baby, you know how to play baseball but there is a moment. >> i would have done exactly what that father did, make the catch and lift the beer in celebration, but the baby slipped. >> what's funny, guys. look at the guy's face who's looking at the baby fall. he's a little concerned. >> a little bit. >> we welcome you to "cbs this morning." we're concerned about tropical storm elsa. she is churning off the southwest coast of florida. here's where the system is right now west of the florida keys. it could make landfall along the gulf coast of the state early tomorrow. >> here you can see the effect tropical storm elsa has already had on the keys including heavy winds and intense rain. our omar villafranca is on san any bell island.
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people are already feeling the effects of the outer bands of the storm? >> you're absolutely right. good morning. right now you can see there's nobody here, also because it's early in the morning. when this is all said and done, we are avenue expecting 8 inches of rain, 65 mile per hour winds. that kind of weather is enough to make tourists pack up and start heading home. tropical storm elsa barreled across cuba monday dumping a foot of rain and slamming the island with around 60-mile-an-hour winds. it flooded towns and forced 180,000 people to evacuate their homes before turning towards florida. where elsa's wind started hammering the keys hours before the brunt of the storm even got close. 100 miles north on san any bell island we found beach goers already packing up as the potential for 50-mile-per-hour winds, flooding, tornades threatened to cut vacations
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short. >> is this going to hamper your plans? >> we may head home a day or two early. >> just because it's a tropical storm doesn't mean it can't have a dramatic effect on our area. >> reporter: further up the coast in tampa bay, people are filling up sand bags and stocking up on water bottles. >> we're used to preparing. that message that we send out over and over and over is prepare to be on your own for at least "48 hours." in the town of surfside rescue teams battled powerful wind as they continued their around the clock effort for victims. it kicked up dirt and debris making it difficult to see as they sifted through the shattering concrete. they recovered four more bodies bringing the death toll to 28 and do not plan to stop until they have found everyone. >> rescue teams in surfside are still searching for 117 people and will only stop if there are
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high winds or lightning. meanwhile, here on san any bell island they're expecting a four foot storm surge. >> that's a lot. omar, thank you. let's bring in jeff ber berradeli. >> the worst up through the tampa bay area. you can see the storm's located just through the west of key west. we're likely to see tornadoes. there will be some. almost always is. but the storm has not strengthened much. winds are still 60 miles an hour. it's no stronger than it was. however, that could change today. it's moving north northwest. around the coast at 12 miles an hour. there's the track. once it gets over this really warm water it could strengthen. just probably north of the tampa bay area around cedar key.
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there's a chance it could become a cat 1 hurricane. four to eight inches of rain. storm surges 2 to 5 feet. the coast is very low lying. pushing into the bay overnight. almost always floods on bay shore boulevard. lastly, wind gusts. going to be strong wind gusts, 0, 70, even 80 miles an hour at times. even though this is not a powerful system, it will cause power outages. there are dangers associated with it. >> we will keep tracking it. we move on to afghanistan where the u.s. withdrawal is turning into a group of military setbacks. some troops they supported for two decades are fighting back. our charlie dagada is in the
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capitol city this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, tony. a pretty bleak update from an afghan defense official. they're taking over rural areas in key districts to the north, but they're holding off trying to invade the city centers until all u.s. forces withdraw. heavy fighting has broken out across northern provinces as afghan government forces combine with local militias to take on taliban militants across several fronts. more than 1,000 afghan soldiers abandoned their posts and fled into neighboring tajikistan. to save their own lives. taliban fighters have been taking. showing off vehicles, weapons and explosives.
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>> residual force to protect the u.s. embassy and the airport. the taliban has already warned that all foreign forces must be out of the country by the september 11th deadline or they'll be treated as invaders and face the consequences. >> that afghan official tells us that the u.s. has pledged eight blackhawk helicopters by the end of the week. more than 20 by the end of the month. they'll be deployed by areas seeing the heavy ets fighting. >> charlie, thank you. fourth of july weekend travel may have revived the covid threat in the u.s. especially for unvaccinated people who are most at risk for the more contagious delta variant. 8 million passengers went
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through the airports from july 1st to the 4th. nearly triple of laster. erroll barnett. i traveled this weekend. it was a mess. >> reporter: yes, jamie. you were among the hundreds of thousands of people who traveled through airports like this one at dca this holiday weekend. all of this travel is happening right after the delta variant had been doubling every two weeks. it had pumped up in every 50 state and that preceded the holiday scramble. there was a real sense of rev valerie on the fourth of july as an estimated 48 million people left their homes to celebrate. >> it's good to be free again without the mask, at least outside. >> reporter: the growing threat is the delta variant of covid-19. it's 40 to 60% more transmissible with indications it may cause more serious disease. it now makes up more than 1/4 of all cases nationwide. >> all this travel this weekend
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mixes people up. the delta virus is traveling also so it will be introduced everywhere. >> reporter: dr. william shatner is an infectious disease expert at vanderbilt. >> we may see cases start to go up again along with hospitalizations and then down the road once again deaths. >> reporter: yesterday california announced the delta variant is now the dominant strain in the state making it at least the fifth state where the new strain has taken over. in places like arkansas, wyoming, nevada where full vaccination rates are below 50%, cases are once again spiking. nevada governor is trying to buck that trend with his state leading the nation in new covid cases. >> $5 million in cash and prizes for nearly 2,000 eligible nevada residents who have been vaccinated. >> reporter: this gamble could help as long as people get their second dose. in texas, for example, more than 1 million people skipped their
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second vaccine appointment which is about 9% of those eligible. and that's why we have to underscore, this pandemic is not over. that low vaccination rate of people who only have one dose does have health officials concerned. consider in the u.k. study it found the efficacy rate of the pfizer vaccine dropped to 33% for those with one dose. jumps up to 88% for two doses and for the vulnerable that could be the difference, gayle. >> keep saying the numbers. it makes sense to complete the process. if you are supposed to get two, please get two. thank you very much. erroll barnett. even though the delta variant is driving up the number of new covid cases, england plans to reopen fully in less than two weeks. prime minister boris onson announced tentative plans why i had to ease covid-19 restrictions. he says the country will have to, quote, learn to live with this virus. johnson said his government will examine the data and could end
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mandates on facemasks and social distancing on july 19th. about 86% of brittain's adult population has received at least one vaccine dose and 64% are fully vaccinated. some experts warn this reopening is a little premature because of the spread of the delta variant. the european union has made it easier to travel across borders as the pandemic shows signs of easing. travelers can show a so-called green pass to prove they've been vaccinated. the biden administration has resisted a similar move in the west. chris went to rome to tryout the new system. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. the pandemic has made travel a lot more complicated for security, airlines and the passenger. now europe is trying to cut a lot of that red tape by introducing its own version of a
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covid passport. check your ticket, check your bags and now check your covid passport or green pass as it's called in europe. at check in passengers can use an app to prove they've been vaccinated, tested negative or recovered from the virus before boarding like leo ruselle. we're lucky to have an app that's so easy to use, he said. we gave it a try in rome. it seems pretty painless. i have the app on my phone. i show that i've been vaccinated and hopefully it lets me pass through. >> we need to reconnect with people, societies in a safe way. >> reporter: ivan basatto is the chief aviation officer of the two airports. >> during the pandemic we need to make sure this is done. the green pass is a safe tool to ensure these conditions are
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observed. >> reporter: to be clear, no one is forcing europeans to use it. many here still carry hard copies of their covid information and as for concerns about handing over sensitive health data that might be abused, there isn't anything on the app that isn't required to travel anyway, like your name and when you had your last covid test. this slashes all the time. without the green pass, travelers like americans have to keep track on their own. >> i think every country should probably have something in an internationalized level to make sure of the citizens' safety. >> and something electronic versus a piece of paper. >> reporter: here at the rome airport the chief aviation officer told me a similar system in the u.s. would make everything easier, for the europeans going to the u.s. and
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considering how politicized things have gotten in the u.s., he doesn't see it happening. this morning we are remembering a movie director who changed the landscape of films. richard donner, lethal weapon and the goonies. we're sad to tell you that he died yesterday. he was 91 years old and director steven spielberg said this, he was all kid, all heart, all the time. nicki battiste joins us. all kid, all heart all the time. >> by all accounts he was a lovely, lovely man. donner's films hold a special place in cinematic history. he'll be celebrated for his ability to create member roshl
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mome -- member morable moments. redefining the genre with his 1978 blockbuster, superman. >> there's something i have to do. i'll see you later. >> reporter: but it was his range of work over a six decade career that cemented his legacy. >> i've done some wonderful films in my life. >> reporter: donner started on television. >> i thought i saw something out there. >> reporter: he established himself as a film director with the horror movie "the oemt men" in 1976 and went on to make the goon nis and the lethal weapon series. >> the story has grown. it's kept going. 12 years with this family. >> he was great at action pieces. he was great with stunts and elaborate pieces but it was really all about human beings. it was the characters that you remember. >> donner and his wife founded a
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company that produced hits like free willey, dead pool and the x men franchise. men who worked with him closely said it was his kindness and generosity that they will miss most. >> he leaves a legacy of personal connection. when you would see him in a room people gravitated towards him. >> donner's cause of death has not been disclosed. they were animal activists. donner never had his own children but was known for helping actors he worked with, paying for rehab for one goon nis star and covering college tuition for another. >> such a class act. >> when you walk into a room people just gravitate towards you. >> 91 but remembered as all kid. he made superman before the era of cgi. think about that.
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>> not easy. ahead and only on "cbs this morning," how a group of lawmakers dealing with the
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welcome back to "cbs this morning." today marks exactly six months, six months since a pro trump mob stormed the u.s. capitol. we all remember that day. more than 500 people have been arrested and hundreds of investigations are still underway. so while some of the physical barriers have certaily come down around capitol hill, the mental scars remain. for many who work there including the members of congress. in a story that you'll see here only on "cbs this morning," nicole killian introduces us to a group of lawmakers who have developed a shared bond as they try to cope with what happened on that awful day.
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>> stay down. get down. >> hearing the insurrectionists. >> the pounding on the door. >> the capitol police were locking the doors with us inside. that's where i realized there was no way out. >> hearing the shots come from the speaker's lobby. and i just remember thinking, oh, my god. >> reporter: six months later the memories are still vivid for representatives who were among many members trapped in the house gallery january 6th. >> how was the gallery group formed? >> the very next day we had a caucus call and i said something about being trapped in the gallery. i mean, i think all of us felt like we had been forgotten up there and immediately i got just dozens of texts from people saying, i was in the gallery too. some i knew. veronica was right next to me.
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>> so she started a text chain that has evolved into a support group with about two dozen lawmakers. >> reporter: what were some of the initial conversations like for your group? >> there were a lot of tears. there was a lot of anger. >> reporter: what kind of toll has this taken on each of you personally? >> i was having some very violent nightmares that were deeply disturbing. >> i lost my life partner to suicide just about two years ago. i thought i was past the hardest part of that. what i found out after this was that i hadn't even begun to deal with that. >> reporter: it was this viral image of congresswoman wild and congressman crow that triggered flashbacks for him as an army ranger in iraq and afghanistan. >> to be thrust back into that, which i did, i kind of switched back into that mode of being ready to fight and do whatever was necessary to get us out. >> i'm a little bit choked up.
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that picture was taken right after i got off the phone with my kids. i think i started to have a panic attack. jason reached out, took my hand and started to comfort me that i'll never forget on his part. >> reporter: have any of you sought therapy? >> the tools that my therapist has given me to deal with the trauma, that has helped me tremendously. it is important to share with people that trauma takes a toll and that there is help out there. there's no shame in asking for help. >> reporter: or having difficult conversations. >> for those of us who were people of color, there were different reactions so take off your member pin -- >> take your pins off. >> reporter: i know i made a conscious decision, as did many of us, to leave the member pin on because it was the decision of do you want to be recognized by the insurrectionists or what happens if you take it off and you're not recognized with
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capitol police. there were beautiful moments in the group where there was a recognition of an experience that we didn't have. >> that was the first time in my life that me personally was on the receiving end of the violence of racism in our country, and since that it has allowed me to understand it in a more visceral sense. instead of just up here, also here. >> reporter: where does the gallery group go from here? >> it's been a meaningful group to have and a wonderful support group. >> i'll bring a pie to the next gathering. >> promises, promises. >> we have a lot of inside jokes. jason never brings the pies. >> reporter: you can see they are a very tight knit group. even though they're all democrats, some have tried to dialogue with republicans. this goes beyond therapy. now they consult each other on just about anything, whether that's legislation or the
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january 6th actions like the select committee. >> a stronger bond. nicole. thank you. every time you look at those pictures, guys, it does take you back to that day. i keep thinking, these were americans against other americans. i can't get over that. that shot of them -- of jason crow holding susan wild's hand, i remember that very vividly. i'll never forget it. >> sometimes we forget when you are looking at congress people, they are people. >> exactly. >> what do you do with it. >> what's so terrifying is the complete collapse of order. just like that, very ordered, regimented, process, you're in congress and then gone. >> at the u.s. capitol. >> at the u.s. capitol. >> i'm glad they also have pie. >> they don't. congressman crow, please bring the pie. coming up, cbs news is the only u.s. network on an american warship taking part in military drills and waters where russia as a large presence. we take you aboard "the u.s.s.
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tensions remain high in the black sea after a confrontation last month between a british warship and a russian military. they buzzed the british destroyer. all of it happened in the same region where the u.s. and other countries are holding military exercises. russia threatened to bomb them.
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american destroyer "the u.s.s. ross" departed the port of odessa. holly williams is the only u.s. network correspondent aboard. >> reporter: we're sailing about 5,000 miles away from the east coast of the u.s. but as america's relationship with russia has deteriorated, the black sea, which is russia's backyard, has become a potential flashpoint. u.s. sailors opened fire on a hostile craft. took aim at enemy war planes and came under attack from fighter jets. this was just a simulation. a live fire military exercise with 28 u.s. allies. yet america's real life rival appeared to be keeping careful watch. four russianships took it in turns to shadow the u.s.s. ross.
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russian fighter jets repeatedly circled nearby. commander john d. john is a 20 year veteran of the navy and told us he wasn't concerned. it would take much more than this to provoke a clash. >> if somebody opened fire on you then that would warrant you taking self-defense measures. if somebody is aggressive and you feel threatened, then you have the right to defend yourself. la >> reporter: last month a british naval ship was subjected to more hostile tactics in the black sea. the u.k. government denied russia's claims that it dropped bombs in the british ship's path and fired shots but the russian military did threaten to attack. >> if you don't change the course, i'll fire. >> reporter: as tensions between the u.s. and russia have ratcheted up, the blacks sea region has become the scene of
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confrontations. and its allies recognize that. russia's threatened to bomb foreign warships that sail into those waters in the future. the training exercise was several miles away and "the u.s.s. ross" is heavily armored with tomahawk, torpedos. the captain calls it the swiss army knife of submarines. >> that's exactly right. >> reporter: during this exercise the u.s. navy used that might to reassure its allies. >> the message that it sends is that international air space, international water space is for everybody. it doesn't belong to one country. >> reporter: the u.s. says it's committed to maintaining security in the black sea and
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that's crucial for america's friends. many living in close proximity and fearing russian encroachment. for "cbs this morning," holly williams on board the "u.s.s. ross." >> we'll have the stori ♪
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who is black, was chosen ahead of her to host nba finals. in that chat nichols is heard telling lebron james and pfizer that nichols got the post because they have a terrible diversity record. >> i also don't want to let this moment pass without saying how much i respect, how much i value our colleagues here at espn and how deeply, deeply sorry i am for disappointing those i hurt, particularly maria taylor and how grateful i am to be part of this outstanding team. >> so far taylor has not responded to our request for comment. here's something from my home state in lake charles, louisiana. louisiana woman took matters into her own hands to get an alligator to stop blocking traffic. yes, it happens, folks. watch as she uses her foot to persuade it to leave. another man holding a stick walked over to try to help but
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the stubborn alligator wasn't having it. authorities sent out a reminder saying it's dangerous and illegal to handle gators and it's better to leave it to the pros. every once in a while you feel like you're in jurassic park. >> it's not just dangerous, it can be deadly. the bacteria in an alligator's mouth. >> i am not worried about the bacteria. the teeth. >> i want to go back to rachel nichols. >> yeah. >> of course we talked about it yesterday. i think it's very important. i think it's important that she said something, that she addressed it. it will now be interesting to hear what maria had to say. my thought is i thought she was calling espn out but i could also see from maria taylor's point of view -- >> she's essentially saying maria taylor would not have gotten that job if she were not black. >> maria taylor is very good at her job, too. we all know that.
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>> go ahead, tony. >> i think the apology is noteworthy. it did lack specificity. by not pointing out what she was saying is that maria would not have gotten the position if not for her skin color and that line of conversation from white people has like a 200 year history. >> right. >> it's a real grievance issue. that's why it resonated, it's a problem. i would have liked her to address that specifically when she apologized. >> she was complaining to lebron james's adviser. maria taylor has to work with lebron james's adviser. you have this issue even at work that she impacted her job. >> yeah. yeah. i could see where that's problematic. i still though, tony, took it when she said just because they have such a crappy history with diversity, i don't know why i -- i think she felt that something was being taken away from her that she normally gets. maria taylor was very deserving of getting that job. >> i think she was taking a shot
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it is tuesday, july 6th, 2021. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king with tony dokoupil and jamie yuccas. tropical storm elsa travels towards the coast. we're in the keys with the latest. nikole hannah jones fight for tenure came amid intense political controversy. today the creator of the 1619 project gives us her first interview since tenure was approved. danny trejo has a rough beginning to stardom including time behind bars.
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>> fascinating is the word there. >> behind bars. tropical storm elsa churning up the south coast of florida. it could make landfall along the gulf coast early tomorrow. when this is all said and done, we're expecting about eight inches of rain, 65-mile-an-hour winds and that was already enough to make people pack um ap and head home. in these outer bands we're likely to see tornadoes. there will be some, there almost always is, in a tropical land system this time of year. they're taking over rural areas to the north, but they're holding on trying to invade those city centers until all u.s. forces withdraw. all of this travel is happening right after the delta variant had been doubling every two weeks and that preceded this recent holiday scramble. well, that's the way! >> the u.s. women's national soccer team played their final game before the olympics hosting
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mexico in a friendly game. >> the u.s. would put up a strong performance defeating mexico 4-0. >> the u.s. will take a 44-game unbeaten streak to the olympic games this month. so fun to watch. >> we like showtime for the stars and stripes. springsteen is going, too, to the olympics. daughter of bruce. >> congrats to her. we'll begin with the tropical storm elsa off the coast of florida. strong winds and heavy rain are already hammering the florida keys. miami station wofr is there. ted, good morning to you. what's it like where you are. >> ted, the wind and rain picked up overnight. you can take a look at the ocean there. normally this water is really
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do docile, but you can siee there, not docile at all. elsa gained strength after leaving cuba yesterday. flooding rain and forcing hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate their homes. as elsa moves to the florida coast, it's likely to make landfall tomorrow north of tampa bay. people in the storm a path aren't taking any chances. they've been filling up sandbags and stocking up on water. 15 counties around the state of florida are in a state of emergency. one thing florida officials and emergency officials are happy about is that most of the tourists who are here for the fourth of july weekend are now gone, and if people have any plans to fly out of key west later on today, that's probably down ther most of the flights have been canceled. gayle? we're going to talk with nikole hannah-jones.
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this follows weeks of controversy on and off campus. the u.s. board of trustees agreed to grant tenure to the pulitzer prize winner after declining to hold the issue in private meetings. on thursday the board did approve her tenure in a school faculty. in a statement after the vote, they defended their handling of the situation. >> members of this board have endured false claims and have been called the most unpleasant of names over the past few weeks. therefore, i believe that this board has earned the right to set the record straight. there have been days we have wrongly questioned this university's commitment to academic freedom and open scholarly inquiry. let me be per febfectly clear. we embrace and endorse educational freedom.
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>> controversy around her appointment related to her 1619 project which exposes the legacy of slavery in this country, the project drew criticism from conservatives, including former president donald trump. thousands of faculty and students spoke out in support of nicole hannah-jones and many praised her work while criticizing the university's actions. han hannah-jones has said she would not work for the university unless she was granted tenure. we get her
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we we reported how university of north carolina trustees agreed to offer tenure to journalist nikole hannah-jones after weeks of controversy. she is here with us after the first interview since the offer was approved. it was approved last week, wednesday, july 1st. nikole hannah-jones, we welcome you to "cbs this morning." >> thank you very much. >> we heard the vote was 1-4 offering you the tenure. what have you decided? >> i have decided not to accept the offer of tenure. i will not be teaching at the university. it was a difficult decision to race. instead i will be the chair at
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howard university. >> let's talk about you declining the offer. the vote was 9-4, clearly in your favor. you said you wouldn't take the job without being offered tenure. they offered you the tenure, but you're still saying thanks, but no. because? >> because look what it took to get tenure. this was a position that since the 1980s came with tenure. the knight chairs are designed for professional journalists when working in the field to come into academia. every other chair before me, who happened to be white, received that tenure. >> nobody had ever been denied tenure before? >> exactly. i went through the tenure process and i received the unanimous approval of the faculty to be granted tenure. so to be denied it and only have that vote occur on the last possible day at the last possible moment after a threat of legal action, after weeks of protests, after it became a national scandal, it's just not something that i want anymore.
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>> there are two chances, it seems to me, they could have voted for tenure. in november, and then you heard the tenure was being pulled. did anybody explain why it was being pulled? >> no, gayle. to this day nobody in the provost or the board has told me why my tenure was not taken up in november, why it was not taken up in january. even the public statements about needing more information about my credentials, they voted without ever asking me or receiving any additional information than what they had in november. >> at one point i believe there was an offer that you could teach for five years and then they would reconsider tenure. it seems at one point you had accepted that offer, right? >> i did. >> what changed your mind? >> i accepted it after going through months and months of the tenure process. this is my alma mater. i love the university. the university has given me a lot and i wanted to give back. it was embarrassing to be the first person to be denied tenure. it was embarrassing, and i didn't want this to become a
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public scandal. i didn't want to drag my university through the pages of newspapers because i was the first and the only black person in that position to be denied tenure. so i was willing to accept it. >> you never spoke up during that time. >> never. this didn't become public because of anything i did. as you know, this is the first time i'm speaking about this at all. >> why do you suppose they didn't right away offer you tenure? what do you think the reason is? >> i mean, what has been reported is that there was a great deal of political interference by conservatives who don't like the work that i've done, particularly the 1619 project, and also by the powerful donor who gave the largest donation in the 70-year history of the journalism school. so it's pretty clear that my tenure was not taken up because of political opposition, because of discriminatory views against my viewpoint, and i believe my race and my gender. >> should politics be part of
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this process? it seems to become very, very political. >> it's actually against state law for political interference to be part of the tenure process. no, it clearly shouldn't. every person who comes up for tenure should be judged by the quality of their work, by how they went through the tenure process. again, it has to be made clear i went through the official tenure process, and my peers in academia said i was deserving of tenure. these board members are political appointees who decided that i wasn't. >> can we say you had a 20-year career with impeccable credentials. the "new york times" said they did have a clarification. what was the clarification and what was the response to the criticism? >> the clarification was that we added two words to a statement on the role of slavery in the american revolution.
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the original text said that one of the primary reasons that colonists decided to break off from the british empire was to end slavery. we added that some of the colonists decided to break off. we should clarify if necessary. that has never been seen as making a project illegitimate because you try to strengthen and clarify your argument. >> i encourage people to read the statement, it's eight pages, where you really take us through what happened. i want people to understand you had offers from many universities after this controversy started to rise with north carolina. many people approached you and said, please come here, including howard. why did you decide that it would be howard? i raise that question because some would say, look, howard already understands this. would you be more effective working for, say, a predominantly white university that may need to understand the work that you do?
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>> yeah, you know, i have been very, very thoughtful about my decision to go to an historically black college. what i decided is since the second grade when i started being bussed into white schools, i spent my entire life proving that i blocelonged in elite whi spaces that weren't built for black people. i got a lot of clarity through what happened with the university of california. that anymore, that black professionals should feel free and perhaps an obligation to go to our own institutions and bring our talent and resources to our own institutions and help to build them up as well. this was not my fight. i fought the battle i want to fight, which is i deserved to be treated equally and get a tenure. i won that battle. but it's not my job to heal the university of north carolina. that's the people of power who created the situation in the first place. >> are there any other reasons you could think of other than
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the 1619 project that they would delay your tenure or that this would become a controversy? >> absolutely not. i worked at the "new york times." look at the work i've done. i wish we could make public the letter of recommendations from others in the field. it was clear i was credentialed enough to teach 18-year-olds how to do journalism at the university of north carolina. i don't think anyone can say there was any other reason other than political appointees did not like the nature of my work, and that is illegal discrimination. >> had you told north carolina your decision before joining us today? we like an inclusive, always, but did you inform them this was a decision you were going to make? >> i told dean susan king, who has been a tremendous advocate for me, who has been one of the few leaders who has shown, i think, a great deal of integrity in this process.
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i told leaders of the black american caucus and i told a group of protesters. i went to north carolina this past weekend so i could tell them in person how grateful i was for their support, how appalled i was at the way the students were treated at the board of trustees meeting and that i wasn't coming. i didn't want them to feel betrayed. but as for the chancellor and the provost, i didn't, because i haven't heard from them since this happened. >> you haven't heard from them? >> absolutely not. >> what's the personal toll this has taken on you? you said, listen, oyou've been tarheels fan since you were a little girl -- go, heels -- i know you're supposed to say that -- but how has this affected you personally? >> it's been extremely difficult. people see me as some type of a symbol of things either they love or they hate, but ic'm a human being. i didn't ask for this. i really just wanted to give back to the place that has given
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me so much. this year i was indeducteucted media hall of fame by north carolina. it is housed at the university of north carolina. i was so excited to have the opportunity to engage with pstudents the way that my professors engaged with me. this has been one of the most difficult periods of my life, which is why i've been silent about it. >> how do you feel about going to howard? i imagine at howard they're doing the hula that they have nikole hannah-jones on their staff. >> your friend oprah told me at one point i was at a supreme point of destiny. that's how i thought about howard university. one of my regrets is i didn't go to howard as an undergraduate. it's so clear to me that this is the right thing for me to do at this moment. howard has an amazing journalism
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program. at this point i'm bringing $15 million in resources to help build up investigative reporting at howard, i'm trying to raise 27 million, so to bring those types of resources to a university that punches above its weight, i'm excited. something great came out of this. >> i think we will say congratulations to you, nicole h hannah-jones, and we'll get a statement from university of north carolina. thank you for watching and we'll be right back.
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such a good song, but do you want to feel old? >> yes. >> that's janet jackson's number one hit single from 2001. "all for you." >> that was just yesterday, right? >> it was produced by legendary songwriters jimmy jam and terry lewis. the powerhouse duo has helped create chart topping hits for people like janet jackson, mariah carey and boys to men. jam and lewis will join us to discuss their own new music that's being released this week.
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before we get to them, let's take a look at their hits stretching back more than three decades. >> they created musical genius janet jackson from "nasty" to "what have you done for me lately." ? . >> hey! >> still resonated today. >> jam and lewis's sound did not stop with janet. >> they co-wrote monster hits for artists like michael, mary
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j. blige and boys to men. ♪ with 16 hits at the top 100, jam and lewis have produced more billboard 100s than any other song writing team in history making it no surprise when the power duo was inducted into the songwriters hall of fame in 2017 but they say they're only just getting started. jam and lewis's latest creations pair them with some familiar voices like usher and mariah carey. snoilts ♪ ♪ >> except this time they're getting top billing releasing their very first bill as artists. jam and lewis. >> good looking album cover. >> good morning, guys. it's so exciting to have you here. >> so nice to see icons, isn't it? icons and legends. >> old, is that the same thing? >> no, no, no.
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>> i do want to say, you had the idea to have this album 35 years ago. i want to know, what took you guys so long to actually produce your own album? >> it actually started back 35 years ago because we were producing an album "control" which is 35 years old. janet stole one of our songs from our album which turned into "what have you done for me lately" so it launched her career, ended ours. >> we appreciate that. >> it's taken this long to get there. that's what's taken so long. >> why is now the right time? >> couldn't be a better time. we went through a couple years of covid and it gave us time to settle down, get all the artists, friends together and make music. that's what we did. >> i'm originally from minneapolis. are we going to hear any minneapolis sound on this album? >> we reunited morris day along with jerome benton. >> you're kidding? >> jerome, terry's brother.
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>> what's up, bro. >> for the band, we used the roots. it's a great collaboration. >> and the sounds of blackness. >> the sounds of blackness are on there from minneapolis. 50 years they're celebrating this year. >> i've already heard it. terry, hi. good to see you too. >> good to see you as well. >> that janet jackson song "that's the way love goes" that was my divorce song. i'm not kidding, that was the one that got me through. i remember being on the dance floor dancing by myself. >> we all have that song, gayle. >> we all have a song. you work with mariah, mary j. blige. no janet this time. how did you decide who you were going to work with? what was the process? >> we put a wish list together of people we'd love to work with. a lot of people on the wish list, we are doing a volume 2, by the way. that's why we're calling the album volume 1. there still is a volume 2 and a volume 3 and hopefully a whole bunch of them. at this point in our careers
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we're having so much fun. we put our wish list together and a bunch of people were saying yes. >> nobody is going to say no to you two. >> i'm fascinated by the collaboration of you two together. you met as teenagers, in the outward bound program. >> upward bound. >> that's right. you discovered you had two different tastes in music. you were you and he was what? upward bound? >> i'm the funky guy. he's the pretty guy. he's the pretty boy. >> thank you, terry. thank you. >> but at some point we figured how to mesh it together. >> it was a little bit different because i would put my funky bass on his pretty cords and it didn't go and he'd say, no, not that. he'd do the vice versa. >> i like funky boy and pretty boy. >> anthony's on vacation. >> go ahead, tony dokoupil.
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>> tony dokoupil here. some people write one hit, maybe two, you've got hits in three decades. i'm curious how you kept up that longevity, consistency and how do you start? where does the song begin for you? >> it's four decades, but who's counting. >> pretty boy. >> but, no, for us it's really the inspiratin. the artist is the inspiration. we tailor make the songs for each artist. we try not to do the same thing for different people. we want that suit to fit perfectly for that artist exactly the way they want it, the color, the fit, the whole thing. that's really been i think -- not the secret to our longevity. the other thing i'll say is we actually planned on having a long career when we did our very first interview, somebody said to us, you guys are the hottest producers. we said, we don't want to be the hottest producers, we want to be warm for a long time. >> nice. >> that's what we're trying to still do. >> you've had 41 hits in the top
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ten on the billboard charts. is there a particular song or album you're really proud of? >> well, we've got to go back to our minneapolis roots and say probably the time capsule song if we were going to put something in a time capsule and open it 100 years later that explains jam and lewis it would be the song "optimistic" by the sounds of blackness. >> that's a good one. i do have to ask because i moved from minneapolis. i'm out in los angeles. you moved from minneapolis out to los angeles? are you more minneapolis or los angeles? and how much did minneapolis hate you when you left? >> i don't think we got any hate. we love minneapolis. it's still home. home is where the people you love live and minneapolis is that. we're in l.a. but we love minneapolis. >> we love you guys. after all of these years you clearly still love what you do. why do you love what you do so much? still, i look at rhythm nation
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which by the way still holds up today. >> right. >> it still holds up today. >> yeah, which is kind of bitter sweet. because, you know, you're happy that music holds up, but then the messages that are on that album we thought would be eradicated, we wouldn't be talking about racism and all of these things now still today. that's kind of too bad. we wake up every day with a song in our head, not necessarily a good one, but at least there's an idea in our head every day. >> exactly. >> the cool thing for me and terry is we get to work together. we've known each other for 40 plus years now and we love working together. there's nothing else that we really know how to do well. we're just going to continue to do this. too old to learn anything new. >> who decided on the look, the sunglasses and black hat. >> it's early in l.a. >> definitely a look. you always know when you see them exactly who it is. who decided on that look, terry? >> well, this look actually comes from -- a lot from me,
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from my family, because in my family all the men wore hats and suits and this is kind of the look that i adopted over the years. if you look at little kid pictures of me, i dressed the same. >> there you are. >> pretty boy said, i like that look. i'm going to do it too. >> you don't have to make any decisions. >> come on in, pretty boy. >> jimmy -- >> congrats. the album is very, very good. i love it. >> awesome. >> can't wait for number two. >> and three and four and five. thank you guys so much for being with us. we appreciate it. their full album jam and lewis volume 1 will be released, mark your calendar, this friday. ahead, one of hollywood's best bad guys
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♪ ♪ danny trejo is one of hollywood's most recognizable bad guys playing roles in movie and tv like ma schett tai, breaking bad, from dusk till dawn and des perfect rad doe. don't let his mastery of tough and deadly roles fool you. they are nothing like the man himself. now he's looking back at his memoir. we visited the 77-year-old at his los angeles home to talk about his journey from the
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intimate san quentin state prison to a life helping others find sobriety with blockbusters all along the way. if looks could kill, danny trejo just might be the most menacing actor in hollywood. channelling his real life rage, he created the ultimate bad ass on screen. >> director loved me the way i was portraying these guys and then he said, danny, how do you do that? i watch you -- this killer and then you immediately go play with your kids because i've been that guy. that guy makes me sick. >> being that guy is at the heart of his cathartic confessional. born in 1944 to mexican immigrants, danny grew up in an abusive home in los angeles. >> i can remember my dad threatening to kill me, you know, 7 years old. i remember my grandma, i'll break every bone in your body. that's what i learned to love my
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uncle gilbert. my grandfather would be a tyrant, frothing at the mouth at us. i'd be scared to death and gilbert would be going -- nodding. he was on heroin. i didn't know it. i didn't want to be like that. >> he idolized his uncle who got him high when he was 8. gilbert put a gun in his hand and taught him how to be tough. >> practice. give me the money. give me the money. gilbert gave me a sawed off shotgun and the minute you hold a sawed off shotgun you don't have to say anything. that was my first acting lesson. >> at 13, 14 years old? >> yes. >> a violent young adult, trejo spent 11 years in and out of california's most notorious prison for crimes including selling drugs and armed robbery. >> 1968 i made a promise, lord, if you let me die with dignity
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i'll say your name every day and i'll do whatever i can for my fellow inmate. as an inmate i never thought i would get out of prison. >> he gana tending aa meetings in 1969 and he became a drug counselor. some 15 years later danny stopped by the set of "run away train" trying to help a struggling addict stay clean. the director took notice of his cold sullen stare. when he learned he had been a boxing champ in prison he put him in the ring launching a career that now boasts some 400 on screen appearances. >> the county jail, the floors are always waxed because they have free labor. >> in his garage full of classic cars, trejo re-created the prison floor like the ones he was forced to sleep on. >> if i screw up i can go back real quick. >> how often do you come out here and put a rolf toilet paper behind your head.
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>> once a week. >> once a week? >> really. >> got to stay grounded. >> muriels of his movies are also a connection to his past. >> i put michelle there because she's just absolutely gorgeous and i put her in front of bob's big boy because we robbed bob's big boy in 1962. >> inside his home just 13 miles from where he grew up he showed us his pride and joy. >> you wear sparkle shoes? >> of course. these are actually penitentiary boots. >> why do you keep these? >> because i never want to wear them again. it's like people ask me a lot of times, don't you ever get a yen to use drugs? i never want to go back. i remember showering with 50 men and trying not to look. i can remember being shook down and being stripped down and that's what drugs mean to me, you know? >> the shame? >> the shame. >> that shame motivates his charity work.
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going to prisons to speak to inmates about getting clean. >> everything good that has happened to me has happened as a direct result of helping someone else. remember that. >> the tough guy who's really a softy. >> come on, boys. >> is taking readers on a frightening journey from trauma to triumph. >> what do you hope people take away from reading this? >> redemption. it doesn't matter where you start. it matters where you end up. >> you look super tough right now. >> he is quite the softy. one of his most prized moments in life is that he got to meet president obama and what happened in that meeting is that president obama sees him, steps out of line and says, i know you, "machette." and trejo said, that was the most terrified i was. >> jamie, i'm embarrassed to say. once i see his face i knew exactly who he was.
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backstory. >> he's been in 400 films. credits to 400 films. he had the most killings on camera of anyone. that's how much of a bad guy he is in these films, right? he says sometimes his life -- my producer, robin singer says it's shocking to survive. >> it's so shocking he turned out the way he did being in an abusive home. being in an abusive home, given a sawed off shotgun. >> it doesn't matter where you started, it's where you end. >> so great he left the set to go upstairs and reflect. >> is that what's happening? >> yeah, he had to go up and reflect on danny trejo. he has to catch a plane on a story he's working on that we're going to tell you about. >> we have to get out of here, too. >> yes. >> we'll b
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