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attorney general loretta lynch is coming under fire for an impromptu discussion with former president bill clinton. their meeting came as lynch's justice department is investigating the handling of classified information on hillary clinton's private e-mail server when clinton was secretary of state. nancy cordes is following this. >> no discussions were held on any cases or anything of that, and he didn't raise anything. >> reporter: the attorney general's insistence that the e- mail investigation never came up did not satisfy republicans, who renewed their calls today for a special counsel in the clinton case due to apparent conflicts of interest. and speculated about what the former president might have said to lynch on her plane in phoenix monday. >> this e-mail thing, it does not exist. just prove it, loretta. just forget about it. ain't nothing there. >> reporter: lynch says mr. clinton initiated the half hour
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visit when he discovered they were at the same airport. >> he did come over and say hello to my husband and myself and talk about his grandchildren and his travels and things like that. >> reporter: an aide to the former president says he was simply extending a courtesy, a courtesy trump argued in a radio interview today that lynch should have turned down. >> how bad a judgment is it for him or her to do this? who would do this. >> reporter: president obama was asked that very question today. but he ignored it while lynch and the white house press secretary side stepped. >> i think what should give people confidence is the 30-year career that attorney general lynch has in keeping the public's trust. >> reporter: the clinton campaign, frustrated by the unforced error, has had no comment, except to say they agree with lynch's version of events. one imagines, josh, that clinton herself had a lot to say to her
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husband about it in private. >> elliott: indeed. nancy cordes in washington, thank you. well five weeks now before the start of the olympics in rio, police say a mutilated body has washed up on copacabana beach where the beach volleyball competition will be held. this horrific discovery comes as olympics organizers deal with a raft of problems, including severe pollution in the venues for sailing, rowing, and other water sports. ben tracy is there. >> reporter: the brown stuff there, that's all raw sewage? >> yes. >> reporter: we flew over rio with mario moscatelli, a biologist who has been documenting the city's vast water pollution problem for the past 20 years. this is just unreal. i mean, this water is black. he hoped the olympics would force rio to clean it up. >> we had seven years, and our authorities didn't do almost anything. this is a toilet.
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>> reporter: raw sewage still flows from rio's poor neighborhoods right into the water. it sounds crude, but this is basically like flushing a giant toilet into the ocean. >> yes, yes. >> reporter: in the marina where olympic sailors will launch their boats, we saw a giant plume of sewage streaming into the water. tests found disease-causing viruses in rio's waters 1.7 million times the level that would be considered hazardous in the u.s. the problem is not just sewage, it's also trash, tons of it floating here in the bay, and some athletes say they're worried about running into it. arantza gumucio is an olympic sailor from chile. are you worried that the trash might impact the competition? >> we've seen it with other boats. they've collided with maybe it's a chair whatever, it can be anything. >> reporter: oceanographer david zee says the government promised to plan eight treatment plants in rio's polluted rivers. they built just one. they promised to treat 80% of
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the sewage flowing in the guanabara bay, and are only treating about half. so if you had to grade the job the government has done cleaning up the water, what grade would you give them? >> d. >> reporter: d? >> d. >> reporter: so they haven't done a very good job? >> no. >> it's easy to criticize. >> reporter: guido gelli is with rio's environmental department. why has rio not done what it's promised to do? >> well, it's an interesting question. the problem is the sewer system. because it's not easy. it's very expensive. and for olympic games, there are no problems with the surface of the bay in the place where the games will be. >> reporter: but it's hard to ignore that one of the most beautiful places on earth might not be ready for its close-up. ben tracy, cbs news, rio de janeiro. >> elliott: ben, thank you. well, today federal regulators opened an investigation into tesla's model s sports cars. in may, a driver using tesla's automated driving system was
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killed when his car crashed into an 18-wheeler in florida. investigators will look at whether the auto-pilot performed as expected. and government regulators are urging the owners of more than 300,000 honda and acura models to stop driving them and have their defective takata air bags replaced immediately. the urgent recall follows testing, which shows the air bags from the 2001 to 2003 model years have a far greater risk of rupturing and injuring drivers and passengers. more than 70 million vehicles with takata air bags have been recalled. well, still to come here, lower gas prices fuel what could be a record weekend for holiday travel. and a convicted killer gets a retrial thanks in part to a very popular podcast. and in a time of conflict and hate, two faiths come together under one roof.
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a record for the holiday weekend. most are driving to their destinations, and to do it, jericka duncan says they're paying less to fill up. >> reporter: as gas prices approach their lowest levels in more than a decade, 36 million travelers plan to hit the road this weekend. >> i do a lot of traveling, going down to florida with my family, and there are six of us. and you know, with lower gas prices, it has helped tremendously. >> reporter: according to gasbuddy.com, the national average for a gallon of gas will be $2.27 this fourth of july, 50 cents less than last year and nearly a 40% drop from two years ago when the average price for regular gasoline was $3.66. tamara johnson is with a.a.a. >> the economy is starting to rise a little bit, so we see that consumers are taking the extra money they're saving at the pump, putting it toward a summer trip. >> it's going to be like 20 of us in a big house. >> fireworks. >> partying. >> reporter: ben civiletti and his girlfriend stopped in new
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jersey to fill up on their way to the beach. >> it was a nice surprise when we filled up right here to see it was only $40 as opposed to what would have been $65 or $70 a year ago. >> reporter: but low prices are creating a funding shortfall for some states, fueling lawmakers in maryland and washington state to increase gas taxes, and in new jersey, which has some of the cheapest prices in the country, the state legislature is considering a bill that would raise the gas tax from 14.5 cents to 37.5 a gallon. drivers in the south are expected to benefit the most, but, josh, people out west, well, they'll likely continue to pay over $2 a gallon. >> elliott: jericka duncan tonight, thank you for that. well, still to come here, the subject of a podcast that has millions riveted is getting a retrial.
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>> elliott: adnan syed has been granted a retrial for the murder of his ex-girlfriend. syed's story has been told in "serial," a very popular podcast. vinita nair has more. >> reporter: adnan syed was ultimately granted a retrial by a judge in maryland. but it was the more than 68 million people who downloaded a podcast about his trial and conviction that likely helped the most. lead defense attorney justin brown. >> we made it. we got him a new trial. i will curb my enthusiasm because there's still a lot more fighting to go. he's still not out of jail. >> reporter: syed had been serving a life sentence for the 1999 murder for his ex- girlfriend 18-year-old hae min lee. in overturning the case, the judge said syed had ineffective assistance and an expert witness had not been cross-examined.
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the podcast also raised questions about why another student who swore she could provide an alibi for syed was never called to testify. 35-year-old syed long maintained his innocence. >> no one could ever come with any type of proof or anecdote or anything to ever say that i was ever mad at her, that i was ever angry with her, that i ever threatened her. >> reporter: it's still not clear whether he'll be granted bail while the new trial gets under way. josh? >> elliott: very big news for the tens of millions who followed this case. vinita, thank you. coming up next, two faiths, one house of worship.
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next tuesday marks the end of ramadan, the muslim holy month. and at a time when religion is so often a source of division, one house of worship in washington, d.c., stands as home to a surprising unity. anna werner pays a visit. >> reporter: every friday inside this historic church, there's a call to prayer answered by hundreds of muslims, surrounded by christian icons. two religions, sharing the same space. >> it starts with people understanding each other, and then it goes to religions understanding each other.
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>> reporter: farooq syed has been organizing these prayers ever since the church of epiphany opened its doors to the muslim faithful who needed a place to worship eight years ago. the prayers began with 50 people. now there are over 300 who pray each week with the church's blessing. >> it's our job to be the hands and feet of peace in the world, and how do we do that is by loving one another. >> i don't know if they ever thought that muslims would come here and pray and become one of the biggest congregations of church of epiphany. >> reporter: so your congregation is much larger than the church's congregation? >> yes. this is the biggest congregation that the church of epiphany has, the muslim prayers. >> not only do they feed my stomach, but they also fed my soul. >> reporter: 50-year-old syed bond is homeless. he converted to islam in his 20s but found this prayer service by chance three years ago. he's one of dozens of homeless people who are part of this congregation.
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he now helps prepare the sanctuary for friday prayer. for bond, the church has become more than just a place to pray. >> look at that. i'm not christian, but i look at that as beautiful. [bell tolls] >> reporter: and during the prayers, we heard a sound, church bells. >> it's amazing. you know, it's amazing to see two things together. you know, who can imagine, you know, church bells ringing and a muslim giving a sermon? it's a moment of reflection for people who think that we are different. we are all the same. we are all the same. >> reporter: muslims and christians in unity in a church bearing witness to an epiphany. anna werner, cbs news, washington, d.c. >> elliott: a story of hope. that's the "cbs evening news." for scott pelley, i'm josh elliott. for sh of you the news
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continues, for others, check back tomorrow. ♪ this is the cbs overnight news. republicans on capital hill are again calling for a special prosecutor in the case of hillary clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. this comes after allegations that loretta lynch held a private meeting with hillary clinton's husband, former president, bill clinton. he got invited on to lynch's government jet for a chat. hillary clinton is currently under investigation by the justice department and the fbi. >> reporter: that meeting took place as president clinton was leaving that phoenix airport and lynch arriving. she says they didinate d not di the email investigation.
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but it is providing new fodder for republicans. >> i did see the president at the phoenix airport the other night. >> reporter: the encounter between the attorney general and former president was initiated by him and reportedly lasted about half an hour on her plane on the tarmack. >> he did come over and say hello and speak to my husband and myself and talk about his grand chilldren and his travels and things like that. >> reporter: he said saying hello to a cabinet secretary is a courtesy the former president always extends. but this could hurt lynch as her agency investigates hillary clinton as her use of a private server while secretary of state. lynch insisted wednesday the probe will be fair. >> it's being handled by career investigators and agents who always follow the facts and the
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law sglerks t law. >> reporter: the encounter comes as another 165 pages of hillary clinton's emails were released as part of a separate court case. in one email from 2009, clinton tells her top aid she's concerned about the management of her personal and official files saying i think we need to get on this asap to be sure we know and design the system we want. huma said i would imagine anybody who has personal email, doesn't want that personal email to be read by anyone else. >> that was part of a lawsuit filed by a conservative legal group that alleged clinton set up her private email akuccount evade federal records requirements. clintons have not had any comment other than they agree with lynch's events. a week after the nation
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voted to leave the european union, the spokesman for the leave campaign said he doesn't want to be the prime minister. >> you, who have waited faithfully for the punch line of this speech. that having consulted colleagues and in view of the circumstances in parliament, i have concluded that person cannot be me. my role, my role will be to give every possible support to the next conservative administration to make sure that we properly fulfill the mandate of the people of the referendum and to champion the agenda i believe in. >> reporter: current prime minister, david cameron says he will step down as soon as a
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replacement is named. investigators in turkey have released another security video showing one of the terrorists who attacked the istanbul airport. that is him in the black waving what looks like a gun inside the international terminal. they were from russia. meanwhile, turkish police are conducting raids and making arrests. holly williams reports. >> reporter: those police raids targeted individuals accused of financing and recruiting for isis. according to turkey's state news agency. meanwhile, we have a much clearer idea of how this terror attack was carried out. it began here when the three attackers arrived at the international terminal in a taxi. turkish media claimed this photo shows the three suicide bombers as they arrived at the airport. two of the attackers managed to force their way inside the
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building, armed with guns and hand grenades, despite a layer of security at the door. they say these images show wron of the attackers inside the terminal and another in a thick quilted jacket in the middle of summer. which would have aroused suspicion. one detonated in the middle of the busy arrivals area, another at a nearby entrance and a third in the departure section, close to pass port control. they managed to shoot that attacker before he too, blew himself up. >> i heard the blast so i thought there must be some bomb. >> reporter: thomas kemper from atlanta, georgia, was just a short distance away from that blast waiting for a connecting flight. the attack sent him and other panicked passengers running for a place to hide. >> it was very terrifying especially as you have these images. the bomb went off, you're alive
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but they come and shoot you because you think of orlando and all this you have seen. >> reporter: heart broken relatives began burying their dead yesterday. most appear to have been muslims, murdered by terrorists during the islamic holy month of ramadan. the attackers were not muslim, said the turkish president. they've prepared their place in hell. on the presidential campaign trail, donald trump says it is time to get tough on the islamic state, including waterboarding any captured isis gunman. major garret has the story. >> reporter: donald trump wants to fight terrorism by using harsh interrogation tactics, massive bombing and temporarily block muslim immigration. and hillary clinton calls all of these tactics out of bounds and so do some top republicans. >> you know isis was created
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during the hillary clinton regime. >> reporter: donald trump blamed rival hillary clinton and the obama administration for miss reading the isis event. >> and if she gets in, it will be massive. and we won't even have a country anymore. we're going to be afraid to walk outside. >> reporter: trump's insistence that isis could whip the leading military power irks fellow republicans. so do his calls for using interrogation tactics in response to the group's barbarity. >> so, we can't do water boarding but they can do whatever they want to do. >> reporter: 2008 republican nominee and vietnam prisoner of war, senator john mccain says water boarding waists time and jeopardizes troops. >> if you inflict enough pain on someone, they will tell you whatever you want to hear just
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the summer olympics in rio begin in five weeks and for the first time since 1904, golf will be one of the sports. trouble is a lot of the top golfers are bypassing the games due to the zika virus. top ranked jason day say they had a long list they'll let others play through. bubba watson said he is not afraid of brazilian mosquitos or the shaky situation in rio. >> easy game, boys. easy game. >> reporter: bubba watson makes it look easy. at a private club in
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arizona, he's playing with his wife, caddy, child hood friend, now accountant, chad wells. a relaxed foursome with a ftrio of "60 minutes" camera crews tagging along. >> you won't even know it. 190 miles per hour, you won't even feel it. >> reporter: a dash of juvenile, a dash of genius and a full cup of cocky. that's a par. >> come on. >> are they allowed to beat you? >> oh, they're allowed. they just can't. >> in 10 years of playing golf and kadying for him, really he's only hit the ball bad a few times. he's a physical genius when it comes to his ability. >> reporter: watson doesn't like the driving range and hates talking about technique. he just plays.
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he's one of the longest hitters on tour. his drives, with that playful pink club, averaged 315 yards and he hardly ever hits the ball straight. >> look at that curve. look at that ball curve. >> reporter: everything's a hook, a slice, a fade or a draw. what have you seen him do? >> pretty much everything possible on the golf course or that you thought might be impossible. >> reporter: fellow pro, ricky fowler is also a close friend. >> he is a freak. >> reporter: the best example of that freakish talent came in one of the most famous shots in masters history. on the second hole of a playoff in 2012, watson's drive landed in the pine straw. >> when i hit it in the woods, i was devastated. my shoulders went down, i was done and i get over there and i see the crowd has made a path so
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i could pull this shot off. big hook. [ applause ] >> did it hook? oh, what a shot. >> reporter: how hard of a shot was it? >> it really is not that hard a shot for bubba. >> reporter: come on? >> for bubba to hook a golf ball 40 yards or whatever it is, i mean, he does that for fun. if we were playing for fun, i would have said good shot because i've seen him do that shot before. >> reporter: that produced a two putt par in 2012. and his first masters victory. angie had to watch from home with infant son caleb who they'd adopted just three weeks earlier. they were both there to see him win his second green jacket two years later. they've since adopted a daughter, dakota.
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>> look out. could it be? >> reporter: he's won four tournaments in the last two years. and he's climbed to number five in the world. and the legend is you never took a golf lesson. >> still haven't. >> reporter: is that true? >> yeah. the physical game is easy. that sounds bad. but i can do that. i can hit it far, i can curve it. i got the shot. it's just mentally being at that moment right then. >> reporter: and how hard is it to control the mental stuff for you? >> i'm getting better at it. >> reporter: but it doesn't always look that way. a few pechialant outbursts have alienated a lot of people. in 2013, microphones picked him up criticizing ted scott for the nine iron he recommended. all the sudden everybody went
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oh, my gosh, bubba watson's a jerk. >> so, with me, i got to get my anger out. don't let it linger, just get it out. and teddy knows. he always jokes, 10 seconds. give bubba 10 seconds, he's good. >> 10 seconds for bubba but it's left a lasting impression for some fans. >> my wish is that people wouldn't be so quick to judge that moment in hartford. i would say 80% of the guys on tour bash their caddies. why is that? because it's pressure. if you're thin skinned, you don't need to caddy because trust me you're going to get it. it's just part of the job. >> reporter: perhaps but when pga players were asked last year which of their fellow golfers they'd be least likely to help in a fist fight, bubba was last. >> i said well everybody thinks
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i'm tough. i like it. and my caddy, teddy said that's not what they mean. and he said people don't like me. and he said the reason they don't like you is they just don't understand you because you're nuts. >> reporter: were you surprised to hear people didn't like you? >> no. >> reporter: he insists he's not trying to rub people the wrong way it's just tough for him to be in his own skin sometimes. >> i have a lot of mental issues. i'm so fearful of things, which i shouldn't be, right? scared of crowds, heights, people. >> reporter: how do you reconcile that when you have to play golf with hundreds of people all around you? >> you know, in between holes is really scary to me because there's so many people that close to me. >> reporter: scary? what are you scared of? >> i'm just scared of people in general. >> he's scared of everything.
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>> reporter: ted scot learned of bubba's fears the first time they worked together 10 years ago. >> there was a 10-year-old kid who asked for his autograph and no one really knew who bubba was at the time. and this kid walked up to him and he ignored him and i thought man, what a jerk and as i got to know him i realized even that young kid coming up to him is a fearful situation to him. it sounds crazy but that's because it's not our fear. >> reporter: he's legitimately fearful of people he doesn't know? >> absolutely. >> reporter: but watson's nerve endings seem to be closer to the surface than most people. >> bubba notices everything. he'll say look over your right shoulder there's a guy with a red shirt and a blue cap and there's 3,000 people and he's like no, right there, man. >> we were doing this interview.
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do you hear them clicking a pen and tapping? i'm like, can they hear that on the microphone? and this thing keeps flickering. do you hear that? >> no. >> whew, man, he is a mess. >> reporter: a mess? >> yeah, but a fun mess, you know. i think bubba is an extremely emotional person but 95% of the time that's happiness. >> reporter: bubba watson's emotions are most closely connected to one person. tell me about your dad. >> um. >> reporter: gary watson was an army combat veteran. he died in 2010. >> my dad was a hard worker, very dedicated to his family. very smart. didn't like to be told what to do, kind of where i get my stuff
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scalpers use bots to buy out the tickets. and here with the latest efforts to crack down on machines. >> reporter: hamilton is officially sold out at the box office until may. that only leaves two alternate ways of snagging a seat. you can sleep outside for days hoping for a cancellation or you can turn to the computer, which is frustrating, it's also illegal in more than a dozen states and here in new york, violators could soon pay with their freedom. if you're looking for a ticket to broadway's hottest show, it's going to be hard to find and cost you plenty. >> so, for only $1945 -- that's the lowest price. >> reporter: it's not just hamilton. it can be next to impossible to get a ticket for concerts too.
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one reason is you're not competing for tickets with humans. you're competing against computers called ticket bots. the modern tool of old-fashioned scalpers and it's not a fair fight. a single ticketbot scooped up 520 seats to a beyonce concert in three minutes. another snagged up to more than a thousand u 2 tickets to a sidge show in a single minute. soon after the irish band announced its world tour. >> the problem is when you have systems that do it far faster than anyone could normally do it. i would love for it to be fixed but the question is how. i don't think you can stop the bots. >> reporter: they were supposed to be stopped by those captcha boxes that only humans could detect until now p.
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>> the idea that they're going to learn to operate more like humans. >> reporter: they sell those bot tickets on sites like stubhub where they can be marked up three times the price. >> we're working with the new york legislature and legislatures around the world to make sure bots are eliminated as the best possible way to allow people to get access to tickets fairly. >> reporter: lin-manuel called for tougher laws to stop the bots from killing broadway. >> the secondary ticket market is really like the wild west. >> reporter: new york attorney general helped lead the charge in the stiffer penalty. what is the fine? >> we're talking about thousands of dollars worth of fines for people who can make millions of dollars. >> reporter: but if governor cuomo signs the bill into law, offenders could face jail
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summer is here and the time is right for hitting the pool, unless you have read the new report by the centers for disease control, they say nearly 80% of public pools fail routine health inspections. here from plano, texas. >> reporter: whether you're diving or doing the back stroke, swimmers expect the water in their public pools to be clean. luis sanchez inspects pools for the city of plano north of dallas. he routinely checks the chemical levels and looks for any problems. >> i'll be looking at the pool floor making sure the drains and bottom of the pool is completely visib visible. >> reporter: almost 1/3 of local health departments don't clean their pools which can lead to bigger problems. >> i think is it clean? is it not clean?
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>> reporter: this public pool in new orleans was shut down last year after a number of swimmers became sick. >> my body was inflamed with rashes and itching and burning. >> my ears have been oozing and itching. really inflamed. >> reporter: the cdc looked at more than 84,000 inspection reports from california, arizona, texas, florida and new york. the states have nearly 40% of the nation's public pools. the cdc found almost 80% of pools and splash pads had at least one violation. the most common? improper ph levels, followed by improper safety equipment. and it showed one in eight public pools were immediately closed because of serious health and safety violations. >> an example would be not enough disinfectant or chlorine in the water. in this situation, germs could spread among swimmers.
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>> reporter: she says at every pool, especially where youngsters are swimming, rule number one is no number two. >> they're little kids. sometimes their bathroom habits aren't the same as adults. a lot of contaminants can be introduced into the water from kids. >> reporter: adults can bring germs into the water in ways they can't expect. >> just because it's a pair of shorts doesn't mean it's a swim suit. we want you to change out of those and get in a swim suit before you get in the pool. >> reporter: one of the biggest problem areas is where kids play. so the cdc says parents want to be extra
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captioning funded by cbs it's friday, july 1st, 2016. this is the "cbs morning news." conflict of interest. a meeting between former president clinton and the attorney general angers the gop and even has the democrats shaking their head. transgender ban dropped. the pentagon says transgender people can serve openly in the military. and severe water pollution mars olympic venues in rio. good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green.
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