>> fancy. changing times. thanks so much for watching. the news continues all day on cbsn bay area. >> cbs this morning good morning to viewers in the west. welcome to "cbs this morning." it's monday, july 12th, 2021. i'm gayle king. that's anthony mason. tony is off today. the west faces a new wave of blistering heat and dangerous wildfires. california's largest fire this year spreads while flames in oregon threaten the region's power supply. new covid cases rise across the country driven by the dangerous delta variant that accounts for more than half of daily cases. dr. anthony fauci will talk with us about the risk and the remedy. cuba is rocked by its biggest public protests in decades. thousands of people are angry

over food shortages and the government's response to the pandemic. what authorities are doing to keep control. and sir richard branson rides his space plane into history books with a flawless test flight. how he's clearing the way for a new era of tourism. >> i'll say. first, here's today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> it's never been hotter. it feels like we're in an oven. >> hazy, hot, humid conditions. >> what do we do in 112, 113 heat? ac or cold beer. >> reporter: triple-digit weather and a drought fueling wildfires. scientists say we are witnessing the effects of climate change. >> reporter: fires exploded forcing evacuations and turning deadly. >> reporter: a new push to get americans vaccinated. >> there's no reason not to get vaccinated. public health officials are asking you to do something that will ultimately save your life. [ chants ] >> reporter: trump revived his

baseless claim that the 2020 election was rigged against him. [ cheers ] >> we all want. >> reporter: in cuba, thousands demonstrating against food shortages, pandemic restrictions, and the pace of vaccinations. all that -- [ cheers ] >> he has done it! >> at wimbledon, novak djokovic with his 20th grand slam title. all that matters -- >> champions! >> jubilant fans after italy won the euro cup in a penalty shoot-out. on "cbs this morning." >> clean release. ignition -- >> reporter: the launch of a new era in space travel. >> reporter: mission accomplished for virgin galactic led by founder and british billionaire richard branson. >> i was once a child with a dream looking up to the stars. now i'm an adult in a spaceship. if we can do this, just imagine what you can do.

yay! [ cheers ] >> this morning's "eye opener" is presented by progressive -- making it easy to bundle insurance. >> how cool is that? >> i loved everything about it. he was so excited. it was such a good day for him and us. you're back from vacation. tony is taking his baby leave. that's good. you're waiting for a baby. that's good. >> yeah. it is. >> it's really good. welcome to "cbs this morning." we're going to begin with this -- this morning with another severe heat wave in the west that is fueling destructive wildfires, fires in oregon and northern california have destroyed homes and forced people to evacuate. in arizona, a retired fire chief, jeff piechura, was killed along with his pilot when their reconnaissance plane crashed over the weekend. >> some 30 million people are under excessive heat warnings and advisories with record high temperatures in dozens of cities. our lead national correspondent david begnaud is in los angeles where there's concern over the power grid. david, good morning.

>> reporter: anthony, good morning. fires in oregon actually knocked out three major power transmission lines which provide 10% of t energy here to california. about 10% of the state's energy, roughly 5,500 end in had watts. what does that mean? it takes 5,500 megawatts to power every home here in los angeles county for two hours. that's what it means. there are backups, and the backups are working, but the fact that we're even having this discussion is why state officials are telling people conserve energy now and do it for the rest of the day. fire and fury in northern california as the so-called beckwourth complex blaze turned l >> i thought it was going to be mr. bad with a shovel and some water, you know. the flames are big and hot. >> reporter: and roads into raging infernos. it is now considered the largest california wildfire this year, growing to more than triple the size of the city of san francisco.

in oregon, just north of the california border, the bootleg fire exploded over the weekend. >> we are seeing doubling in size of the fire every 24 hours. basically every ember that falls will start a new fire. >> reporter: there was so much smoke and ash that it interfered with power lines to the south causing them to lose their connections. that means california lost roughly .1 of its energy. >> this is a big hit to the supply for california. >> reporter: for now there are reserves and other backup systems which have made up for the shortfall. but officials say they won't be able to restore those lines until tomorrow at the earliest. >> there's quite a bit of uncertainty about how severe this fire will be over the longer term. >> reporter: what's driving the fires? heat. tourists braved a visit to joshua tree national park in california. >> it feels like we're in an oven. >> reporter: death valley hit 130 degrees on friday, four degrees short of a world record. and as that beckwourth fire continues in northern

california, the state's energy grid remains at risk. >> you know, we're concerned. we're going to do everything we possibly can to maintain reliability. >> reporter: and today, a flex alert from 4:00 to 9:00 p.m. californians are asked to conserve energy, don't use major appliances like your oven and a dryer. back to you. >> boy, i'm stuck on 130 degrees. that kind of sounds like we think hell is supposed to be like. yikes. thank you, david. daily coronavirus cases are rising again across most of this country. over the past week, new cases are up by 66%. think about that number for just a second. infection rates are rising in more than three dozen states. less than half the country is fully vaccinated, and the highly infectious delta strain now makes up more than 50% of new cases. health officials say the speed of the variant spread is in their words worrisome. president biden's chief medical

adviser, we know him, dr. anthony fauci, joins us now to discuss. dr. fauci, it's always good to see you. even under these circumstances. let's start with that delta variant. what concerns you most about it, and why is this so dangerous? >> the concern is, first of all, the virus itself can transmit much more readily from person to person. we know that from experience in our own country as well as in several other countries. so you're dealing with a real bad actor virus. the issue is given the number of people in the country who are not vaccinated, that really is the concern because the vaccines that we have available that we are administering throughout the country do very well against the delta variant, particularly protecting against severe disease leading to hospitalization. we're concerned about those regions of the country, those states, those areas, those cities in which the level of vaccination is really quite low,

hovering around 30% or so. you've got to do much better than that or you're going to start seeing what you showed on the screen just a few minutes ago, namely a considerable increase in the number of cases that are going to be localized to those areas with low vaccination rates. >> dr. fauci, less than half the country is fully vaccinated, and those who aren't, half of them say they don't plan to get a vaccine. when you look back, what do you think we could have done better in tomorrows of messaging to get -- in terms of messaging to get people more enthusiastic about the vaccine? >> i think a lot of effort has been put into getting the messaging out, particularly utilizing trusted messages in the community. people like the clergy, family people that the community trusts. when we started with the vaccine implementation plan, there were large efforts like auditoriums or sports enas filled with people getting vaccinated. when you get down to now a core

lesser group, you've got to go one on one. and that's really what the president was talking about, about trying to get some of these advisers, not federal officials, but community people to go out there and try and convince people why it's so important for their own health, for that of their family and for that of the community to go out and get vaccinated. we need to get more people vaccinated because that's the solution. >> yeah. >> this virus will, in fact, be protected against by the vaccine. >> dr. fauci, i don't know how many more times you can say to people, listen, it will save your life. i have this problem with some members of my own family which i'm now going to ban for thanksgiving vacation. that's how strongly i'm taking what you're saying. but over the weekend, there was a of hedc and the fpfizerays, le get a boosteshot.e a and cdc sa yet. does pfizer know something that the cdc and fda do not know?

>> no, not -- not really, gayle. the situation is as follows -- when you have a regulatory agency like fda or a public health agency like the cdc, whenever they make solid official recommendations, they will do that based on solid data, data and evidence that they've gotten from clinical studies which they are very actively accumulating right now and will utilize that data to make recommendations. what pfizer did understandably, they looked at their data and say, you know, based on what we see, we think people should get vaccinated with a boost. that's fine except they're not the official recommending organization. so although they do good work, they have study and data that we will go over with them to determine if there's anything there that we need to use. you're talking about the difference between an organization whose responsibility is to make an official recommendation based on

official recommendation based on data and a pharmaceutical company, as good as they are, who look at y prthu negeboosr shot foeoinsi idiffer the>> authorities seized multiple weapons and drugs from two hotel rooms near coors field, the site of tomorrow's event. senior investigative correspondent catherine herridge joins us now. >> reporter: good morning. in a statement, the fbi said there is no reason to believe the incident is connected to terrorism or a direct threat to the all-star game. as former agents tell cbs news, the next 48 hours are critically important to understand whether others are involved. >> we're not aware of any ongoing threat related these individuals or this situation. >> reporter: denver police

s.w.a.t. teams swarmed the maven hotel friday night after a hotel maid reported suspicious activity. two rooms at the top of the hotel were searched with multiple weapons including rifles and drugs seized. three men and one woman face initial charges including possession of a firearm by a previous offender, as well as narcotics possession. one of the suspects, ricardo rodriguez spoke to kcnc in this jailhouse interview. >> had a sniper rifle, probably two of them. two midsized -- three midsized assault rifles, ak-47s -- >> reporter: with nearly three decades at the atf, scott olympic park bombing, said the immediate priority is looking into the suspects' digital media. >> look at their digital exhaust. the cell phones, computers, hit social media companies with preservation orders to make sure that no evidence can be destroyed. >> reporter: with large crowds

expected for tuesday's game and the hotel's close proximity to coors field, he said -- >> everybody, go! >> reporter: the 2017 las vegas shooting where a lone gunman opened fire killing dozens and wounding dozens more was not far from anyone's mind. >> that was a seminal incident for law enforcement and hotel security. and they never really were able to look at these large events the same way again. >> i can tell you if i would have saw something like that, if i would have seen them preparing for something like that, i would have intervened, absolutely. >> reporter: and denver's mayor said he's spoken to major league baseball and the rockies and tuesday's game is going ahead. he wants everyone to understand and be reassured that the event and the area are safe. >> thank you so much. thousands of people across cuba took part in some of the biggest protests on the island in decades. the are angry over recent food and medicine shortages and a worsening covid outbreak.

some now want cuba's president to step down. manuel bojorquez is in miami with more on the story. manny, good morning to you. how are the cuban americans there reacting to this? >> reporter: gayle, good morning. this restaurant is typically the site of rallies and last night was no different. many showing up to protest. while the demonstrations may be commonplace, what's happening in cuba is not only rare but historic. [ chants ] thousands of protesters gathered in communities around havana and across the island nation shouting "freedom" and "we are not afraid." although protests began peacefully, they soon took a more violent turn as police and special forces moved in later on to break up the demonstrations. president miguel diaz-canel himself made an appearance at one protest and spoke with some of the citizens who confronted him.

demonstrators here say they are fed up by food shortages, rising prices, collapsing infrastructure, and the government's response to a rising number of covid-19 infections. on saturday, cuba recorded nearly 7,000 new cases. on cuban television, miguel diaz-canel blamed the protests on the u.s. and its trade embargo for a severe impact on cuba's recent economic downturn. >> the trump administration passed many more regulations, many more sanctions against it which basically has cut off all income coming into cuba. >> reporter: cbs news producer based in cuba -- >> i think the biden administration, he at least said at the beginning he was going to review this policy and make changes. but nothing has happened. >> reporter: several politicians have expressed their support for the people of cuba and those protesters, including cuban american senator marco rubio. as one defector told our cbs miami affiliate, seeing those protess was, quote, magical.

anthony? >> manuel bojorquez, thank you. there's been a major break in the investigation into the assassination of haiti's president. police say they arrested a key suspect, a haitian man based in florida. christian sanon is accused of helping to recruit some of the assassins who killed president moise last week. police believe sanon who identifies himself as a doctor flew into haiti last month. in a 2011 youtube video he calls the leaders of haiti corrupt. he's the third haitian with u.s. ties to be arrested. back here in the u.s., in texas the state legislature is set to vote this week on two restrictive voting bills. the legislation moved forward yesterday after a heated debate. critics say the measures unfairly harm black voters. mireya villarreal has more from austin. >> reporter: democratic house representative erin zwiener believes the push for tighter voting restrictions is based on

fear. why do you think this has become such a big deal during this session? >> texans are still struggling in the wake of covid. we have severe learning disruptions for our students and not a good plan to correct that. and we have trouble even keeping the lights on. so i think they are deathly afraid that texans are about to figure out that they have better options and are doing everything they can to cling on to power. >> reporter: bills filed by republican senate senators would include new i.d. requirements for people voting by mail, ban 24-hour voting and drive-through voting sites, and increase criminal penalties for election officials or people assisting voters. >> what we see today is greater suppression and legislation to provide less access to the polls.

>> reporter: hundreds of texans from across the state flocked to the capitol over the weekend and gave public testimonies in marathon all-night hearings. >> texas already has some of the most restrictive voting laws in the country. and this is going to create even more hurdles to people voting. >> it's a common sense reform bill that's going to help every texan vote. >> reporter: republican state senator brian hughes wrote the senate bill. democrats will say this is more about the idea that the election was stolen back in november and that these restrictions are being put in place to punish voters moving forward. >> senate bill 1 is about protecting voters from folks trying to steal their votes, from ballot harvesters, from unscrupulos workers, folks trying to mislead, literally % steal ballots. that still happens. >> reporter: democrats were able to block a similar set of restricted bills earlier this year by staging a walkout. they are considering that again as well as other options. but the lieutenant governor here in texas says if that happens, he will step in and make sure he protects the legislative process.

anthony? >> thank you. ahead, sir richard branson talks to us about his experience of a lifetime, a pioneering flight to the edge of space. how hundreds of paying customers are ready to follow him. first, it's 7:19. time to check yo

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♪ that's kanye. welcome back to "cbs this morning." the first of the so-called space billionaires left earth's atmosphere yesterday in a historic moment for commercial space travel. sir richard branson rode on a virgin galactic suborbital test flight. he became the first person to reach space in his own ship. so crazy. more than a week ahead if you h

the money to pay for it. >> for the next generation of dreamers, if we can do this, just imagine what you can do. yay! [ cheers ] >> reporter: more than 53 miles above earth, richard branson was walking on air -- or something close to it. giddy in microgravity, a tourist at the edge of space. >> it's the experience of a lifetime. >> reporter: on sunday, the 70-year-old knighted billionaire became the first space baron to ride out of earth's atmosphere ahead of billionaire jeff bezos. >> was it important to be first? >> honestly, no. >> reporter: not at all? >> honestly no. we've been both at this for about 20 years. it really doesn't -- didn't matter whether one of us went up

before the other. we need many, many, many, many spaceships, so many, many people can enjoy this. >> reporter: wherever he agringste.ranson brings >> astronaut, 001, licensed to thrill. >> reporter: his live streamed space adventure was a marketing bonanza. virgin galactic, his space company, plans to fly wannabe astronauts. a closed waiting list of more than 600 people have prepaid $250,000 apiece for a joyride into the cosmos. do you have the sense that this business is truly viable if you can't bring the price down? >> there's just so many people -- if you ask ten people, you'll find seven out of ten would love to go to space. the market is gigantic. but we will be able to bring the price down, you know. like with commercial aviation travel, it will take a few years, and the wealthy will -- will pay the bills and enable us to do that. >> reporter: branson's maiden spaceflight came on virgin

galactic's mother ship, a twin fuselage plane named "eve" after his late mother. "eve" carried the tethered plane called "unity" 8.5 miles above earth, then let go. >> release, release, release. clean release. ignition -- >> reporter: sending "unity" rocketing into space with branson on board. the total trip hour plus the nearly 20 years of grit to evolve virgin galactic to this moment. >> sir richard branson, astronaut. [ cheers ] >> reporter: but branson finally has his astronaut wings. of all your trophies in life, what does that astronaut pin rank? >> i would say it's the most important trophy. it was a culmination i suspect of a lot of wonderful adventures and

it was so cool. thank you so much. branson said that he's dreamt of this as a child, but when it happens you really can't describe it. he said it was magical and beautiful. he was giddy like a kid. fun to watch. >> one of the things that was so special was seeing how much he enjoyed it -- >> i thought so, too. >> really enjoyed it. >> he said "yay" when he took off his seat belt so he could float in the air. >> and as scared as i am, i think i could never do that, there was something about them being able to float in space and the way they did it -- >> almost makes you want to go, doesn't it, gayle? >> a little bit. but no time soon. even branson said halloweens going to do anything -- he's not going to do anything any time soon. he doesn't want to put his family through that any time soon. congratulations, sir richard branson. well done, sir. ahead, how long-suffering id rode a roller coaster of emotions in a championship that was for the ages. you're watchthat. we'll be right back.

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♪ he does it -- italy are champions of europe! >> one missed kick in a shoot-out decided the european soccer championship final between england and italy last night after a roller coaster game for fans. for england, it was another crushing loss in a history that goes back 55 years as the italians won the euro title for the first time since 1968. elizabeth palmer inlo, chris livesay in rome watched

the game with fans in those cities who were badly affected by the coronavirus and desperately wanted their teams to win. >> that means that italy are ch- >> reporter: the day ended with italy being crowned champions of european soccer. in both countries, it started with hope and joy. rare feelings during this pandemic. >> here in london the fans could smell victory. they haven't had a big win since 1966, and they feel the force with them tonight. they have an undeniable advantage, they're on home turf. >> reporter: you might have the home turf, but here in italy, fans are 33 matches undefeated. and they may have won a championship in this century. yeah, italians, they're liking their chances. what would it mean for you and the country if italy won?

>> yes, it's a big day. after a year of closure, we need it. >> reporter: back in london, fans were brimming with hope, f think it's -- >> after the year we've had -- >> it's a morale lifter. >> scores! >> reporter: fans had just barely settled into their seats when two minutes in england scored. [ cheers ] >> scored. it's coming -- it would be great if we win it. >> what a start for england! >> reporter: national euphoria. [ cheers ] >> italy got off to a bad start, and the mood is not good. there's still plenty of time and plenty of hope. that hope eventually paid off when italy tied the game in the

second half. [ cheers ] giving fans a chance to exhale. >> i was losing it. i was like, yeah, my heart was stopping. >> we believe now. now we have a chance again. >> reporter: but that was it. neither side scored again even when the game went into extra time. and so it went to the high drama of penalty kicks. >> he's got to score here to keep england alive -- >> reporter: where england's storybook run came to a heartbreaking end. >> champions of europe! >> reporter: and the italians sealed their win. >> they did it the hard way. >> after covid, we struggled a lot with, you know, quarantine and now we can see each other, and we can celebrate together. it's great. it's wonderful. it's a wonderful feeling. >> reporter: in the end, victory came to the italians, and they're in ecstasy after such a tough year. what's the mood like in london?

>> reporter: well, chris, there's flno question that hurt. victory seemed so close. but this remarkable series and a really wonderful team has brought the whole country together the past few weeks in hope and excitement after what's been a really tough year. >> this has been brilliant to actually celebrate being english again, being part of the team and celebrating as a whole. it's been absolutely amazing. >> reporter: just a heartbreaking loss for england. one that the italians can understand. it was just four years ago that they failed to qualify for the 2018 world cup. liz? >> reporter: well, mentioning the world cup is very appropriate this morning. england's going to be licking its wounds for a while for sure. the series has shown that they've built up an amazing young team, and they've got their eye already on that world cup next year. anthony? >> liz, thank you. we really wanted both of those

teams to win. the three england players, by the way, who missed their penalty kicks were hit by all kind of online racial abuse after the game. what's been the response to that? >> reporter: gosh, it's added a really sad and ugly note to what was otherwise a good effort. this kind of racial abuse has a long history in european football. and now it's moved on line. it's especially ugly. twitter has already said this morning they've shut down some accounts, and there's been pretty universal condemnation -- everybody from prince william to boris johnson saying it's just a disgrace. the metropolitan police have also said that they're now trying to track down those behind it. >> all right. liz and chris, thank you both. >> oh, it's ugly and nasty. when you're the brunt of it, the condemnation doesn't matter. you know how painful and personally you take it. you could see h the were. >> yes. >> the 19-year-old guy was

crying. >> nobody wanted to lose that game. >> no. no, no. that's when you need the support and the love more than ever. when people know you did your best. >> that was so nice to see the coach and all the players really consoling these guys. grown men who were just falling apart. can you imagine the pressure? >> yes. >> one kick -- >> the entire country on your shoulders. next, vlad duthiers has the

♪ guess who's back. i like it. we should say, vlad, you are not going to be a dad. you posted a picture holding a fan that says "daddi." i thought you were having a baby. >> a lot of people said the same thing. remember nate burleson, he was here. he said vlady daddy. >> i get it -- >> i got excited. >> we were celebrating the birthday and she gave me one of

those flags. i'm not going to be a daddy -- yet. >> give it time. >> exactly. >> what do you want to talk about today? what's going on? here are stories we think you'll be talking about today. this is why i also don't go on carnival rides. people at a carnival in northern michigan raced to save folks trapped on a malfunctioning ride. look at this video out of traverse city. officials say the magic carpet ride, quote, came off the blocking, end quote, causing it to sway back and forth, yes, and nearly tip off. look at these onlookers. one dude is like -- whoa! he puts his -- he's freaking out. all the onlookers rushed to the base of the ride to steady it so the mechanics could get people off. no one was hurt. officials say the ride was sent to its manufacturer to be inspects -- inspected. it last got a satisfactory rating which i think is good. but -- >> i'm with you on the carnival rides, i'm always wary of them, too. >> i'm impressed people ran to the base of that.

if that spun off, people would have gotten hurt. >> your adrenaline kicks in. >> it does. but carnival rides -- the buccaneer, my dad made me go on it when i was 7, scared me, never again. never again. >> thanks, dad. >> lingering trauma. >> exactly. all right. actor anthony mackie hosted the espy awards and gave a shout out to someone we got to talk to on "cbs this morning." watch. >> one of my favorite athletes from new orleans is in the house. sorry, drew brees, you old news, all right? you don't count no more. i'm talking about the spelling bee champ. yeah. >> of course he's talking about scripps national spelling bee winner zaila avant-garde who got a personal invite from the marvel actor. mackie applauded the first african-american to win -- look at that. i love that. never gets old. >> i love that twirl. >> first african-american to win the spelling bee and realized her big-time basketball skills. you seen this? >> amazing. >> the 14-year-old hit the awards show red carpet and said it feels surreal.

listen. >> i still can't believe that i won scripps national spelling bee. so i'm still waiting for that to settle in. >> zaila avant-garde. >> was she here last week? so >> she was mote >> said elling is m thing. sketball iy i lovethat. >> she wants to play in the wnba. >> and go to harvard. >> and work for nasa. >> yeah. >> why not? she can do all those. >> thanks. stay with us. we'll be right back. this may look like a regular movie night. but if you're a kid with diabetes, it's more. it's the simple act of enjoying time with friends, knowing you understand your glucose levels. ♪

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♪ yep, it's monday, july 12th, 2021. we welcome you back to cbs this morning. i'm gayle king, and that's anthony mason, and tony is on baby leave. let's go. we take you inside the final months of the trump administration. first on cbs this morning, journalist talks about his revealing new book. see what made a rising young photographer from harlem shift her focus fromebti to aeople

first here's today's eye-opener. they provide 10% of the energy here to california. roughly 5,500 megawatts. >> the virus itself can transfer readily from person to person. the issue is given the number of people in the country who are not vaccinated, that really is the concern. >> while the demonstrations here may be commonplace, what is happening in cuba is not only rare, but historic. >> raising speculation about a threat to baseball's all-star game. >> the fbi said there's no reason to believe the incident is connected to terrorism.

>> richard was generous enough to give me a spacecraft of my very own to, give scientific accurate play by play of today's historic events, as well as doing this. >> you know, what is also cool about yesterday, richard branson took a small picture of stephen colbert up in space, and he pulled it out of his jacket the other day, and it showed stephen colbert and pictures of his family, and so i thought that was really cool. >> very cool spacecraft. >> we will begin with this. nothing cool about it. another heat wave bringing triple digit temperatures to the west. in northern california, the beckwourth fire. it forced a major highway to

close for several hours yesterday. the bootleg fire across the border in southern oregon is even bigger, and firefighters 24 hours.doubling ie that fire affected major power lines cutting off about 10% of california's electricity supply. the state is urging utility customers to cut back on power use while crews work to get the lines back in operation later today. police in haiti announced a major arrest after the assassination of haiti's president. a man in florida is accused of plotting some of the assassins so he could assume the presidency himself. >> in a press conference on sunday, haiti's chief of police announced the arrest of the 63-year-old haitian-american for

orchestrating haiti's president. he allegedly came with mercenaries hired to protect him. instead, they were sent to oust and replace the haitian leaders. >> they cannot take it anymore. >> in a series, he accuses haiti leaders of corruption and wasting the poorest nation's natural resources and seems to option for the country of 11 million people. >> they are waiting for somebody to come and establish jobs for them so they can have something to live by. >> they did not reveal a motive foheta bneth alleged killers contacted the self identified doctor after carrying out the assaat and police found a hat with a d.e.a. logo on it, and 20 boxes of ammunition and gun parts.

>> that's where our energies are best applied now is getting their arms around investigating this. >> the united states weighs haiti's request to send troops to stabilize the nation, and the fbi will aid in the investigation. >> so on saturday the first lady of haiti, who was injured, who has been treated at a hospital in miami, she released a voice message on twitter, and she said it all happened in the blink of an eye. she said you have to be a limitless criminal to assassinate the president and not give him a chance to say a single wood. >> their daughter hid in a room and was able to survive as well. >> sounds like they are on top of it and made an arrest. here in the u.s., aermonume

this morning. crowds slapped and cheered as the statue came down saturday. they have been moved in a temporary storage facility. the removal comes nearly four years after violence erupted at the unite the rally where one person died. long time coming. ahead and first on "cbs this morning," we'll talk to the author of a highly anticipated new book about the

ahead, now a nonprofit is challenging communities to take control of their food choices through urban agriculture, it's called. we'll talk to the founder about why she calls food the great equalizer, wow. plus, we're going to introduce you to a rising star in photography, flo ngala, thank you john tower, flo ngala, and learn how she pivoted from covering celebrities to street protests. you're watching "cbs this morning." we thank you for that. we'll be right back.

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we must decide that we will not stop, we will not rest until our american heritage of freedom, liberty and justice is once again safe and once again secure. >> that was former president trump at the closing day of the conservative political action conference also known as cpac. he continues to show his dominance of republican politics easily winning the cpac straw poll, beating out his closest challenge, florida governor ron desantis. now we're learning new details about mr. trump's final year in office and his current life in the new book "frankly,

we did win this election: theity inside story of how trump lost" by michael c. bender. paints a picture of chaos during the pandemic. the 2020 presidential campaign and protests after george floyd's death. it also portrays a presidential staff struggling to keep their boss on message. bender writes of a 2018 conversation in which mr. trump's then-chief of staff john kelly briefed him on the history of the first world war and its connections with world war ii. bender says trump replied, "well, hitler did a lot of good things," a stunned kelly told the president, "you cannot ever say anything supportive of adolph hitler. you just can't." in another section, bender details president trump's immediate reaction to the video showing george floyd's murder. bender recalls a repulsed trump turning away from the video saying, "this is blanking terrible." he later tweeted his support for the floyd family saying,

"justice will be served." the book's author, senior white house reporter for the "wall street journal" michael c. bender joins us now first on "cbs this morning." michael, thank you so much for being with us. we should say first that mr. trump has called the reports in your book totally false. >> uh-huh. >> but you did interview the former president and some 150 former staff members, friends, and advisers. what -- what is your biggest takeaway from the final year in the trump white house? >> yeah. what was revealed to me in reporting this book is how dangerous the people around the president thought he was for the country. and everybody knows the story of the chaos of this administration. >> yeah. >> but what i don't think people understand -- what i think this book really details is what a danger the people he was closest to thought he was when it came to wanting to put military on the streets and, you know,

wanting to objefuscate the detas of covid. you mentioned the text of the book, the president has complimented my hair. he's been -- that's the basis of our relationship. >> repeatedly. >> i'm glad he didn't disparage my hairdo. but -- but the president knows that i talked -- spent a lot of time talking to people very close to him. >> yes. people who talked to the president, by the way. >> i went to mar-a-lago twice and was down there for several hours each time. he was very, very gracious with his time. he invited me to dinner the first night we were there. so you know, he -- he's aware of what's in the book. we've talked about what's in the book. and he knows that people who don't normally talk to journalists were talking to me for this book. >> it was also interesting to see how there was such back-biting and competition behind the scenes with the people closest to him.

you talk about jared, ivanka, eric, kellyanne conway, can you take us behind the scenes on those relationships? it was competitive and nasty. >> this is the world that trump created around himself where the litmus test to work for trump was loyally to him, not loyalty to the country, not loyalty to the constitution, but the lengths that you would go to to defend the president. >> the loyalty that seemed to work one way, by the way. go ahead. >> i think that's right, too. and -- and what the book shows here and the details and stories in this book show that that's how what kind of brings us to january 6th. and very few people around him were willing to stand up and tell him pointblank what was right and what was wrong. >> now, one thing that your book does, it puts us inside these spaces. i felt like a fly on the wall in air force one when the president's looking at the george floyd video for the first time and he's shaken and repulsed and couldn't finish watching it. but then there was a tone shift where he started, you know,

using more aggressive language against protesters, your e-book says we should crack their skulls. what was he rationale between going from his personal reaction of sympathy to this harder stance publicly? >> yeah. i appreciate that. i do think that this is a very crowded space of trump books. trump has saturated the media from day one. what i think that this book does is -- it's going to be the only one that takes us behind the scenes of how he managed the country, how the campaign struggled to catch up to biden in the final days despite being a $2 billion operation, and spends time with a very hard-core section of the trump base to start to show and understand what happened on january 6th and what brought us to this point. and explain why what trump saw as his, you know,ing ws a very w and order, tough message. >> you spoke to mr. trump about his relationship with mike pence

which obviously got very strained in those final days. you asked directly about whether he'd put pence on the ticket again if he runs again. >> i was struck the second time i spoke to president trump that at that point he and mike pence had spoken by phone half a dozen times. the president was reached out to mike pence. and someone who -- he had described to his supporters as basically a traitor to the country. >> yes. >> striking to me that he would reach out. i wanted to know if he would -- he would run with him again and if he expected pence to apologize for upholding the constitution. and it was striking to me that the president would not touch that issue. he -- he is not ready to make a decision about 2024. >> what's interesting is in 2016 team trump thought they were going to lose, in 2020 they thought they were going to win. after he didn't win, you said he goes from being leader of the free world to, you call it the

king of mar-a-lago, that when he got there, he really didn't know what to do. what is he life like now? you've said he does seem to be sort of trying to figure out his next move. >> there's a long scene in the book of what is happening in mar-a-lago, particularly the first few months after the presidency. he arrived in south florida at his beachfront home really unprepared for post-presidency life. his staff was brought into a room to set up shop where there was mattresses on the floor. they had to find their own desks at office depot and places like that. it took trump a while to find a routine again. what he's done not surprisingly is what he loves -- played golf. he plays up to 36 holes a day. you know, some -- some famous golfers come down to play with him. and we're seeing more and hear he's getting back on the scene -- >> during his presidency he knocked barack obama's playing

golf and trump outdone that. you said it was his political superpower, shameless -- >> he's willing to say and do things that other politicians were not. and that's not necessarily my analysis, that's -- that's what jared kushner identified quickly as a positive, a political positive for this president. >> all right. michael c. bender, thank you so much for being with us. we appreciate it. >> and bringing your nice hair. it is nice. >> frankly, we did win this election goes on sale tomorrow. you're watching "cbs this morning." we'll be right back.

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good morning. 8:25. i am michelle griego. no sign of a swimmer who disappeared at lake dell val yesterday. investigators say the man was seen jumping off a boat without a life preserver. it is not clear if he swam safe to another part of the lake or possibly drowned. somebody playing with fireworks ended up destroying a house in antioch. the woman told us her home was on fire when she got home saturday night. no word on arrests. hundreds of bay area google employees head back to work this morning two months ahead of the company's full reopening. the company will welcome workers in mountain view and red wood city on a voluntary

basis. i am gianna franco with a look at the roadways. some freeways are easing nicely. not seeing issues or delays along 101 out of the south bay. through the peninsula, things are moving well. keep in mind if taking 242 north bound, there is still a closure for cal trans. they should have lanes opened near 680 by 10:00. 21 minutes highway 4 to the maze. bay bridge toll plaza, metering lights remain on. a little murky at the golden gate. good morning. it's a cloudy start. we have foggy conditions and drizzle along the coast and around the bay. it's because of strong on shore flow kicking in and that's why temperatures will be a bit cooler today. you will really notice that difference inland. upper 70s to low to mid 80s inland with clearing and sunshine. cool, cloudy, breezy along

♪ we welcome you back to "cbs this morning" because it's time to bring you some of the stories -- this is my favorite part of the show -- that we call "talk of the table" this morning. you get to hear what everybody likes. adriana, you're in pole position. >> here's something a like a lot. my "talk of the table" is the number-one movie in the country. it's starring a female super hero, and guys, i have to correct the record. i was here a few months ago and i said something about marvel movies, and my husband almost disowned me. >> why? why? >> here's what i said -- yes. my husband watches these nonstop, and i feel like they're all the same. it's explosions and space. i've heard him say explosions in space a million times -- how

could you -- marvel is this incredible universe with storytelling and now i get it. i streamed "black widow" on saturday and loved it. it made $80 million at the north american box offices the opening weekend. the biggest opening for a movie since the start of the pandemic last year. scarlett johansson plays black widow and served also as executive producer on the project. the female-centric film was also directed by a woman, and that's what was so great. this is a movie that it's about women, there's no love interests, it's not about woman loving a man, it's about a woman kicking butt with her sister and all the complicated family dynamics they have to go through. >> it was great fun. i saw it, too. yes. it is nonstop action. but scarlett johansson was such a bad ass. the dynamics -- there's a great back story, too. >> the numbers, people going back to the movies. >> yes. yes, yes. i like that, too. mine is if you want some good music to get you into a summer mood or you want something to read, former

president barack obama to the rescue, out with his annual summer playlist. >> i always check this. great taste in music. >> remember when he used to do this in the white house? he's still doing it. we're glad. a mix of old and new, for instance -- ♪ so if you try to leave i'm going to leave the door open ♪ ♪ >> the best. i love that. >> i love there song. it's called "leave the door open" by bruno mars, of course, and anderpack. such a great song. other songs are allure by jay-z, "coyote" by joni mitchell. others include this -- i love this, you know this -- "does anybody know what time it is" by ella fitzgerald. this is what i like about barack obama's list, it's a wide variety. he's got great taste in music and spans all spectrum. for a good summer read, barack obama shared his list including

"the sweetness of water" by nathan harris, also oprah's book club pick, and "empire of pain." "project hail mary" by andy weir and "leave the world behind" by ruman alam. such a great variety. >> always go over the list and find things that i go got to read this, i got to try that. that's great. >> i was surprised he had all this time to read while he was in the white house to release these lists. >> yeah. i think he -- you need that escape. >> he likes to read, too. >> speaking of escape, for my "talk of the table," i'd like to talk about my lovely week off. >> yay. >> i brought some vacation video that i took of the fourth of july parade in the village of southampton, new york. i took this outside my parents' house on north mean street. the parade passes right by. we're selling the house, so this was sentimental. last time maybe. there forgive me if you've seen it on instagram, but -- if you follow me there, but i wanted to share it here. here's -- i wanted to show you my favorite float. i loved this.

someone took a tricked out -- i think it might be a lawnmower -- and turned it into a lobster. and the umbrella on the top is the piece de resistance. my favorite moment, there were some really cool cars. this one caught my eye. can you read the sign? not just a man, a mason. that is my new motto. >> but what does that mean? not just a man -- >> the masons is an organization. >> oh, yeah. yeah. >> i don't know anything about the masons, but that hit the spot for me. >> anthony, that could be a nice little tag thing for you. >> not just a man -- >> a mason. i like it. >> very good camera work, anthony. >> thank you very much. i've learned from the best. >> looks like you had a good vacation. now we're back to reality. always nice. turning now to our next guest, she is on a mission to tackle food insecurity in south florida through her nonprofit, i love the name, called hed healt the food. she's transformed eight vacant ts intvegetable rd

ey dtribute freeod derts whereis difficult to g f food. a mobile farmers market also provides information about cooking and healthy eating. in her 2019 ted talk, walker talked about the challenges facing people who are surrounded by unhealthy options like fast food. >> people two live in food deserts the most susceptible to these options because they are readily available in their communities. so what does that look like on the ground? it looks like families that are stuffed but starving. they're stuffed because they consumed highly caloric meals, they're starving because those meals contain little to no nutrients, and instea are packed with sugar and sodium and dangerous preservatives. if you live in a food desert, your priority is the price tag, not the ingredient label. >> now the cdc says your zip code -- listen to this for a second -- can have a greater impact on your health than even your dna.

what? food deserts contribute to a nu cditions di, nd onlye, e hood founder, i love the name of your company, health in the foodkeus >> soo see you. >> i like this part -- this is surprising, that your zip code can have a greater impact on your health than your dna. what does that mean? >> where you live completely dictates the kind of food that you have access to. it's really that simple. if you're in a neighborhood that is cut off from healthy, fresh greens, you're not going to be able to consistently eat healthy food. >> and you get diseases like -- which you say are preventable. >> preventable. diabetes, heart disease, stroke, obesity, they are totally preventable. and oftentimes linked to diet. >> how does this come to your attention, asha? i look at neighborhoods and if i see a -- an empty parking lot or a dirt, you know, filled with

nothing, i don't see beauty in that. you look at that and you see what? >> i see a community asset. i see an opportunity that's not being taken. i see an opportunity for a vibrant vegetable garden. so for us creating a sustainable resource in the community that doesn't necessarily have them was a really simple solution to a big problem. >> you literally go knocking on doors. >> that's it. >> take us through your pitch. it's you and your dog. >> sometimes me and my dog because you got to make sure we're safe. we'll knock on doors. we're -- community engagement is a huge part of what we had do. we're knocking on doors, finding out what people are interested in -- >> what do you say? >> hi, i'm asha, this is bailey. and we're going to be growing collard greens across the street. are you interested in anything else in your neighborhood? do you have any growing experience? do you want a job because we're also creating jobs for residents in neighborhoods that are food deserts. >> how has the pandemic affected these food deserts? >> it's interesting. people who live in food deserts were already struggling to access food and struggling to access healthy food. so this really only exacerbated it. the biggest difference is there are a new population of food

insecure individuals. it's a whole new audience of folks that are not able to access healthy food. >> i was shocked when i read that there are hundreds of food deserts in south florida alone. how big is this problem, and michelle obama brought a lot of attention to this when she was in the white house like ten years ago. what impact did her work make and how bad is the issue now? >> well, we're moving the needle. but michelle really sort of opened the door for all of us. we're walking through. the food insecurity warriors are following in her footsteps. our work is trying to move the needle, to make sure we're increasing opportunities to access to real food. but it's -- it's still a struggle. in miami there are over 300 food deserts, this is another type of pandemic. >> when you got a food truck you say it changed the game for you. what happened? >> it did. it made us mobile. we've got nine in south florida, this made us be able to connect them, reach other communities, and to have people come on board and make it an ractiv experience. our mobile food truck made a huge difference in our ability to reach communities. >> but what is your back story?

how did you even notice this? honfestival? >> you know, it -- honestly? >> you know, it was -- >> were you food deprived, vegetables -- >> i was not. i was a very lucky young child. i had access to all the broccoli i could ever want. but i come from community-minded service people. and you know, we always knew that you could convert vacant land into vegetable gardens. for me it was my drive home from work. i've always been in nonprofit work. from the three mile drive from my office to my house i passed plays where you could get all the kale you want and places where there was no kale. the juxtaposition was too great. there's vacant land there, why are we not using that? >> what does it do for the people? there's something that happens to the people, too, when they get to participate. >> it's empowering. we are providing and growing a sustainable resource in community that are often thought of as marginalized and disconnected. this is the complete opposite. >> do you find people get drawn in easily? >> absolutely. we have an innate sense that

connects us to our food. so when you're putting your hands in the soil and creating your own food and working with other communities, it is this great equalizer. >> you call if an equalizer. what do you mean? >> i say food is a great equalizer because we work with so many communities and have amazing volunteers that come in. when our hands are in the soil and we're creating food, we're all the same. >> everybody has to eat. >> everybody has to eat. and you've got ashawalker.com because you're working on this and wellness for all of us is what you want to do. >> yes, exactly. yeah. it's the bridge. that's my personal wellness platform. it's the bridge between health in the hood and sharing more wellness practices with an even broader audience. >> health in the hood. i love that. >> thank you so much. coming up, we hear from a flavor behind revealing portraits of celebrities like cardi b. and photo journalism

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♪ like many of the best professional photographers, flo ngala finds herself at the intersection of art and photo journalism. over the last few years, the 26-year-old photographsed some of the world's most iconic celebrities. when americans took to the streets in the wake of george floyd's murder, she was inspired to capture those scenes. those images taken in her hometown of new york city draw from the street photography and

portraits that stretch back to the start of her career. ♪ >> at my latest school i would have my camera with me, literally these streets, anyone who looked beautiful. >> growing up in her harlem neighborhood, flo ngala quickly discovered the beauty all around her. and more than a decade ago, began documenting it with her camera. how old were you when you were taking these? >> i was like 15. >> reporter: she met us at a store where there was a pub owned by their parents. >> they owned the store, it was a family business. the first exposure i had to a black-owned business which was very powerful. it was really an immigrant story of like just hard work and perseverance, harlem is like this beautiful mecca of black excellence. seeing that and being inspired is what was ingrained in me at a very, very young age. they were just fearless and

resilient. that's where i got that from. >> reporter: her parents along with a high school photography teacher encouraged her to get creative. >> we got really close. i think that created a very safe space for me to create. she also was a very like sharp woman. and that's kind of how i learned i think for sure just like the tough love of it. my dad passed away in 2008. so he never saw me become a photographer. but i do feel like my entry into photography happened very soon after his passing. i remember i was always attracted to people who were deep in thought. seeing things like on the subway, you know. that's the actual best place to see all parts of new york city. ♪ she began with self-portraits and street photography. ♪ then in college, she was cast as an extra in a "fat joe" music video. it wasn't her work on screen but behind the camera that led to her big break. >> i emailed the photos to the director and producer. he sent those photos to someone that he works with. >> reporter: a marketing

executive at the record company liked what she saw. ♪ and offered her an opportunity to photograph rapper gucci mane after he left prison in 2016. the following year, she captured cardi b.'s ascent to fame and was only 22. >> i always believed in myself. ultimately that's what has manifested itself into exactly what i thought i wanted to do at 15. >> reporter: she has since photographed various celebrities from rapper busta rhymes to actress letitia wright and politician stacey abrams and landed covers on billboard and "the new york times." her main mission behind the camera, she says, is to tell the truth. with somebody like cardi b., what do you see? >> i still see her as a woman of color from the bronx who got out the mud. that's exactly how i see her. and i know exactly what that feels like and looks like because i did it, my mom did it,

and so there's no kind of i think narrative that i'm imposing on her. [ chants ] >> reporter: when demonstrations swept new york a little more than a year ago following george floyd's death, ngala took to the streets. first to protest, then to photograph. >> he was murdered the same week as my 25th birthday. i just was like, well, there's no way i can just sit here and -- if it wasn't for photography, there's so many things that we would have never been able to see. those things were the truth. that's how things were at the time. that's how people felt them to be. so i think that's what really felt powerful to me. >> and she's also an alum that of the organization figure skating in harlem which we featured here on "cbs this morning" back in march. >> yes. >> wow. >> yeah. she told me that it's a blessing to be an alumna and the community of the program fostered her own personal development. >> what can't she do honestly? she's a figure skater -- i love the shot of the black and white with the hand raised and the guy with the mask in the background.

>> really strong photograph. >> her personality is so great -- >> she looks for truth. that's one of the things we talked about when she's photographing, she searches for the truth in the image that she frames in her mind. >> you know what i like, she captures moments. >> yes. >> very candid that she captures it right when it's happening. >> absolutely. >> she's had a couple of opportunities and she's really seized them. that's really -- >> she's only 26 years old. >> i know. >> i just -- go ahead. >> i love that it's her photography teacher from high school that really encouraged her and set her on the path. >> she gave mad props to that photography teacher for inspiring her. we talked about those who came before her like gordon parks when also photographed powerful scenes in harlem when he was a that sees something in you that you don't even see yourself sometimes. bravo. >> one teacher can change your life. thank you, we'll be right back. stay with us. [baby crying] i got it. i got it. ♪ ♪

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