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on "cbs news roundup." storm debby is now a category 1 hurricane. closing in on florida with fears of potential record-setting rains farther north. rising tension in the middle east as the u.s. prepares to defend israel from potential attack. and the search for a running mate. vice president kamala harris is coming close to choosing her vp candidate. tropical storm debby has now strengthened to a category 1 hurricane as it hovers off florida's gulf coast with sustained winds of up to 75 miles per hour as florida's first hurricane of the season. fueled by warm waters in the gulf, debby is a big storm and slow moving, making it life-threatening with torrential rainfall expected across the southeast. some areas in the big bend have already been evacuated, and president biden has declared an emergency across f■lorida. cbs's tom hanson reports from crystal river in the path of the storm. >> reporter: debby is on a

collision course with the florida coast. the storm is a category 1 hurricane before making landfall in the state's big bend region. >> this is not necessarily going to be something that just passes and then we don't see any effect. you can continue to see flooding and you may even see a rebound of the storm. >> reporter: tens of thousands of people have already lost power, and more than 1,500 flights have been canceled nationwide. high wind warnings are in effect across the northern part of the state, with gusts expected to reach speeds over 75 miles an hour. >> this is about a five-foot surge. >> reporter: the main threat from this storm will be flooding. storm surges could reach as high as ten feet. and states of emergency are in effect for georgia and south carolina, where heavy downpours are expected to trigger widespread flooding this week. >> we're learning that already more than 19,000 customers across the state of florida are without power. governor ron desantis says

thousands of workers are standing by to make repairs when it's safe to do so. tom hanson, cbs news, crystal river, florida. in the middle east president biden will convene his national security team on monday to discuss possible attacks against israel. it comes after iran and hezbollah swore to retaliate for recent assassinations of hamas and hezbollah officials. cbs's debora patta is in jerusalem. >> reporter: another blow against peace. israeli police clash with protesters in tel aviv where not even the threat of that iranian attack could keep them off the streets. they accuse their prime minister of choosing escalation over a hostage deal. but netanyahu remains defiant and says former israeli diplomat alon pinkus increasingly at odds with the u.s. >> he's gone completely rogue, meaning untethered from reality,

intent on igniting a regional war, defying the military, defying president biden. >> reporter: pinkus believes the assassination of ismail haniyeh may have been justified but it was not smart. >> the location in tehran was meant deliberately to elicit provocation and escalation. >> they killed few ad shukr in a strike, mohammed deif, ismail haniyeh. why go after gaza? >> if you can finance-point a precise attack 2,000 kilometers away, then why bother decimating entire neighborhoods? that's me telling you that assassinations are morally and ethically okay but dropping those bombs on gaza are not. >> reporter: still, those bombs

keep falling israeli forces hit a hospital in the middle of the night and a school sheltering families, displaced repeatedly by war. "my brother was covered in blood," said this teenager as she relived the trauma. lives blown apart. neighborhoods already reduced to rubble. pulverized once again. as this country remains on high alert, netanyahu has once again warned that anyone who harms israel will pay a heavy price. debora patta, cbs news, jerusalem. vice president kamala harris is coming closer to making the biggest decision of her presidential campaign, choosing a running mate. that announcement is expected before tuesday. while a new poll from cbs news shows harris is enjoying a slight edge up 1% over donald

trump nationwide. and across battleground states the two candidates are neck and neck. cbs's natalie brand has more from the white house. >> reporter: every car going in and out of the vice president's residence under the microscope as she meets with some of her top running mate contenders. cbs news has confirmed the interviews include minnesota governor tim walz, arizona senator mark kelly, and pennsylvania governor josh shapiro. voters from that battleground state believe selecting a moderate could help in november. >> i think this will be a close election. so impacting even a sliver of independents or maybe undecided, i think that could bring over enough people to make a difference. >> reporter: new cbs news polling shows harris has infused new energy into the race, with the percentage of democrats who say they'l definitely vote rising to its highest point this year. and she's increased support among key groups such as black voters, younger voters and women. in the poll she's also leading trump on the question of

cognitive health. >> crazy kamala -- kamala -- you know there's about 19 different ways of saying it. >> reporter: as the former presdent tries to define his new opponent, stepping up attacks both personally and on policy. >> if harris wins this election, you will quickly have a kamala economic crash. >> reporter: the new polling shows trump still maintains a sizable lead with voters who say they'll be financially better off with him in office, a feeling echoed by supporters at his georgia rally this weekend. >> i don't vote on personality. i vote for policy. and i vote based upon how it affects my wallet. >> reporter: the new cbs polling also shows more voters believe trump's policies would decrease crossings at the southern border as immigration remains a top issue for republicans. natalie brand, cbs news, the white house. fire crews battling the park fire, california's largest wildfire of the year, managed to control a portion of the blaze this weekend, helped partly by a spell of cooler weather.

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antonio, texas. their freedom came without warning after months of secret negotiations. still, seven americans remain wrongfully detained in russian jails, and critics say the swap itself will just embolden vladimir putin and others to take more americans hostage. seth jones reports. >> reporter: that emotional homecoming was the result of intricate secret negotiations which the white house called a feat of diplomacy. among the americans who were unjustly imprisoned in russia and returning home were paul whelan, the veteran u.s. marine, and "wall street journal" reporter evan gershkovich, already advocating for other detainees. >> basically everybody i sat with is a political prisoner, and nobody -- nobody knows them publicly. >> reporter: as many as seven wrongfully detained americans were left behind, including teacher marc fogle, sentenced to 14 years for carrying medical

marijuana. but the family of alsu kurmasheva, a reporter with radio free europe radio liberty got to embrace her on u.s. soil. >> it was important to celebrate the return of our fellow americans. but also having been involved in these matters for as long as i have been i know the serious side of this. >> reporter: john sullivan, cbs be news contributor, was once the u.s. ambassador to russia. >> it just reinforces the value of the russian government detaining wrongfully americans in russia to use for trades like this. >> reporter: in august, 16 political prisoners were reeased from detention in russia and belarus in exchange for eight russians held in five other countries. >> they stepped up. they took a chance for us. >> reporter: president biden hailed the multinational cooperation. germany may have made the biggest sacrifice, freeing vadim krasikov, a convicted assassin

working for the russian state. he was given a hero's welcome by the russian president himself. >> putin can say with some accuracy, we take care of our own. if i send you to berlin to murder someone, i won't leave you stuck there, i'll get you home. >> reporter: as diplomats worked in secret, it was often up to family members, colleagues and friends to keep the names and stories of those being held very much in the public eye. paul whelan's family pushed for his freedom for more than five years. >> yeah, i'm glad i'm home. yeah. i'm never going back there again. >> reporter: the "wall street journal" kept evan gershkovich's story in the headlines. >> she tries to stay positive. >> reporter: and we traveled to prague in january to find the outpouring of support to free alsu kurmasheva, led by her husband, pavel butorin.

>> i need to keep it together. i don't want emotion to get involved. >> reporter: early thursday they were among the familis summoned to the white house for that surprise announcement. >> we're anywhere in the oval office. >> bye. see you soon. >> reporter: kurmasheva and her fellow freed americans are now decompressing at a san antonio military hospital. >> how do you stop someone like putin from making a busines out of this, capturing, throwing in jail americans to get what he wants down the road? >> well, extremely difficult. my concern now is that other countries are going to see what the russians have been able to do. this is becoming not just a russian problem. it's a global problem. >> that was seth doane reporting. "cbs news roundup" will be right

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they excited about harris as the nominee but that they're going to vote. and that'll make your poll numbers go up. in fact, if you look at our estimates across each and every one of the battleground states, from pennsylvania to michigan, down south georgia, arizona and others, they're all even or close. and that is your reset race. you see core democratic constituencies saying they're going to vote. specifically black voters are enthusiastic. their numbers are saying they're going to vote are up from july. and i want to talk about the women's vote because not only does harris do better than biden was doing but women tell us they think that harris would look out for the interests of women much more so than donald trump. so it's not just the demographic break. that's the rationale behind it, ed. >> and they were the ones who seemed most excited, women. but bottom line is you're saying after two weeks she's brought the race back to even in essence. >> yep. big reset. >> now, she'd make history as the first black woman to be

nominated by the democratic party, potentially the first black woman to win the presidency. does the polling suggest the country's ready for that? >> so when people assess the state of the country, that answer is yes. and i'll give you some historical context. there's an old cbs polling question, it goes back 25 years, which was was america ready to elect a black president. by around the year 2000 that number was low. it changed when barack obama was running. and it went to a majority saying yes. and now you ask a similar question, is america ready to elect a black woman president, and you get over 2/3, including people who aren't voting for. that's the state of the country. but what's also interesting, ed, is the way the script has flipped a little on some of these campaign dynamics like who has the mental and cognitive health to serve as president. that was something joe biden was trailing on before he left the race. now it's harris who's seen as having more of that. and she's also closer to trump

on key views like being competent, being effective, more so than joe biden was, which all in all goes back to that idea of democratic excitement like they think they've got a better candidate to take on trump. >> it explains part of why they've been attacking trump, calling him weird and raising questions about his age as well, because they must be seeing that as well. now, the race to define harris is under way. they're spending tens of millions of dollars in her campaign to play up the fact that she was a prosecutor and has worked with the president on various issues. the former president calling her a san francisco liberal and doing other things. but on the issues also does he still enjoy an advantage over harris now the democrat on the big issues of concerns of voters? >> that's really important because some things in this race have not changed. the idea that you would be better off financially if trump were elected trump still has a big advantage over now kamala harris on that. and the idea that his policies would slow or decrease the number of migrants trying to

cross the border. that he still has an edge on. but to your point about defining harris, well, there is a larger number who say they think her policies are similar, mostly the same but not entirely the same as joe biden's. so it's that little bit of difference defining what that is that i do think is going to be key to watch in the campaign in the next few weeks. >> ed o'keefe and anthony [comedian] i was like put a pin in it, we're done! [audience laughing]

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it's monday, august 5th, 2024. this is "cbs news mornings." here comes debby. the storm gaining strength to hurricane status as it gets ready to slam florida's west coast. the countdown is on. kamala harris just hours away from unveiling her running mate and kicking off a tour of battleground states.