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president obama and hillary clinton posted reactions to the shooting. donald trump has not. the president on facebook said all americans should be deeply troubled. we can and must do better to institute the best practices that reduce the appearance or reality of racial bias in law enforcement. and clinton wrote, america woke up to yet another tragedy of a life cut down too soon. black lives matter. and elijah cummings made a plea to director james comey. >> we can't allow black men to continue to be slaughtered. this morning i woke up to my wife literally crying watching the tape and i hope you watched them. there's something wrong with this picture. mr. director, if you do nothing else in your 2,000 plus days
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left, you have got to help us get ahold of this issue. >> and we'll have more reaction from across america later in the broadca broadcast. now the hearing at which you saw the fbi director was called by republicans to grill him over his recommendation not to charge hillary clinton in the email scandal. more on that now from jan crawford. >> the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. thank you. >> reporter: for more than four hours, fbi director james comey staunchly defending his investigation. >> i did not coordinate that with anyone, the white house, department of justice, nobody outside the fbi family had any idea what i was about to say. >> reporter: democrats call the republican-led hearing a sham. >> today 's hearing is political theater. >> reporter: but comey said he was eager to testify. >> i think she was extremely careless. i think she was negligent.
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>> reporter: he pulled no punches like in this exchange with south carolina republican. >> she said she didn't email any classified material. was that true? >> there was classified material emailed. >> secretary clinton said she used one devices. >> she used multiple devices during the four years of her time as secretary of state. >> she said all work related emails were returned to the statement department. >> we found thousands not returned. >> reporter: but what comey didn't find, compelling evidence clinton intended to mishandle classified information. which made her case different from those in the past. >> we don't want to put people in jail unless we prove they knew they were doing something they shouldn't do. >> reporter: but he didn't investigate whether she made any false statements while
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testifying under oath about her email. republicans said they will now formally ask him to investigate whether any of her misstatements were criminal. >> thank you. also at the capital was donald trump, not for a hearing but listening and talking with fellow republicans. here's major garret. [ sirens] >> reporter: donald trump came to capital hill in search of unity and for the most part he found it among more than 100 house republicans, starting with paul ryan. >> i think we had a great meeting. >> donald trump is a movement. >> i don't agree with everything donald trump says. >> donald trump is the answer. >> this is the breath of fresh air i saw here today. >> reporter: charley dent of pennsylvania says he remains a loose canon, only interested in unity as his advisors define it.
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>> they said they didn't need unity and they were pretty aggressive about that. >> reporter: trump later met with senate frequent critic talked to trump about his criticism of prisoners of war and latinos. >> i wanted to talk about a few of the concerns that we have and did. i want to support our nominee, i really do but given some of the statements that have been made, i find it difficult. >> reporter: and he met with former presidential rival, ted cruz. >> there was no discussion of any endorsement. he asked if i would speak at the convention and i said i would be glad to do so. >> reporter: and sass called the equivalent of a dumpster fire. and calling complaints from
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sass, mitt romney, john mccain and others maddening. coming up next, gretchen carlson's lawyer says more women are accusing fox news boss of sexual harassment. ialmost everything. you know, ke 1 i n 10 houses could get hit by an expensive septic disaster. but for only $7 a month, rid-x helps break down waste.
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carlson versus ailes is getting ugly. gretchen carlson is suing him for sexual harassment. and here with more on this. >> reporter: former fox news anchor woman gretchen carlson says she was not the only woman sexually harassed by her boss, roger ailes. an attorney samtatement says ma women have come forward. she alleges she was fired because she refused his sexual advanced and complained about severe pervasive sexual harassment. and according to carlson that was the reason she was removed from fox and friends in 2013. when a stanford graduate and
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former miss america accused him of discrimatory treatment, ailes said we should have had a sexual relationship a long time ago. he says fox news provided her with more on-air opportunities during her tenure than any other employer in the industry for which she thanked me in the book. >> gretchen carlson may have real problems with her past statements about roger ailes. once you put those things in print, once you've said those things out loud, it's very hard to say simultaneously this boss, this brilliant boss was sexually harassing me. >> carlson's attorney says she was not allowed to speak to the press or publish anything without ailes approval.
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we have an update on a story we brought you earlier this week. a top navy ooficial was spotted pointing a gun at young men whose car was parked in front of his house. and he's been placed on administrative leave as police investigate the incident. tonight a super typhoon is hammering taiwan. evacuations have been ordered. this is nepartak. storm is expected to dump as much as three feet of rain in
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protests in st. paul over the 235i9al shoot gds of black men in minnesota and louisiana. we end tonight by listening. >> the latest killings in baton rouge and minnesota are devastating. it's terrifying because it's nothing i can do about that. when the police start to understand that their safety and lives are tied up in the lives of the people they need protect, maybe they'll do better. >> i was raised to respect police officers and fearful of their authority but if i were to call 911 or approach a police
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officer, they would help me but in the case of my kids, i'm not sure what i can tell them. i'm not sure i can tell them you are going to receive help. you might be perceived as the guilty party because you're a person of color. ♪ >> i'm often a victim of racial profiling. its hurtful. you become filled with rage and hate towards them. i know several people who have been assaulted by police officers who never became a case. i watched them drag my friends out of cars and beat them until help comes, stand on their necks. if your a're a good cop, speak engage in the community, let them know you so they won't have a problem coming to talk to you about the violence in their hood and you won't have to beat them senseless to get them to talk.
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>> i woke up this morning to a gut punch. that i don't think i could have anticipated. waking up and seeing another man die. another pool of blood on a t-shirt. another officer standing over a black body. i'm pissed off that i have to sit with my chilldren and explan to them what it means and the fact i can't tell my kids to automatically trust police is a problem for me because i know great police officers, great police sargeants but because i have to have this conversation with my children makes me feel less american and reminds me that america hasn't changed as much as we would like to say she has. >> that is the overnight news for this friday. for some off iyou the news continues, for others, check back with us for the morning news.
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♪ this is the cbs overnight news. >> welcome to the overnight news. for the second time this week another deadly police shooting of a black man is sparking outrage and raising more questions about the use of police force. philan philando castile was shot several times. his girlfriend streamed live to facebook. >> reporter: the woman in the passenger seat live streamed as her boyfriend was dying next to her, her daughter was in the backseat. >> we got pulled over for a busted tail light in the back.
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>> reporter: philando castile is still wearing his seatbelt. reynolds said he was shot four times. >> he's licensed to carry and he was trying to get his wallet and id out of his pocket and let the officer know he had a firearm and he was reaching for his wallet and the officer just shot him in his arm. >> reporter: the st. anthony police officer sounds distraught. >> i told him not to reach for it. >> you told him to get his id, sir, his driver's license. oh, my god, please don't tell me he's dead. >> reporter: she continues to live stream even as she's being detained. >> it's shocking. it's not something that occurs in this area often. >> reporter: witnesses saw castile laying in the road where uniform personnel appear to be
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performing cpr. his family and friends were united in grief and prayer outside the medical center. castile is philando's sister. >> it's like we're animals. it's basically modern day lynching only we're getting killed on camera. >> reporter: valerie castile lost her only son. >> he did everything by the law and he died by the law. >> by the hand of the law. >> reporter: castile worked in a school cafeteria in st. paul. he would have celebrated his 33rd birthday tomorrow. his gun was turned over to police for processing. and this one in baton rouge, louisiana. alton sterling was killed outside a convenience store where he was selling cd's. here's david.
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>> reporter: the candles on the ground behind me is the spot where alton sterling died. and someone painted a mural right near the spot where he sold cd's for years. we're told officers believe their actions were justified. this morning there's a second video that showed what happened and it's very clear but we want to warn you its graphic. the second video is taken from a closer angle and shows alton sterling being held down by two police officers and moment said later shot multiple times in the chest and back. he died at the scene. >> when you see it on camera again and again, it's like wow. >> abdullah recorded the video in the parking lot of his convenience store. >> he didn't know why they were
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there. >> reporter: john bell edwards made a personal phone call to the department of justice, asking them to take over the investigation. >> we all learned lessons from what was done the last several years and we're trying to be as proact rv kctive as possible. they respond to a disturbance call of a man reportedly armed. past charges include a felony drug offense and aggravated assault. district attorney says the officers may have acted within their rights. >> this is a potentially state-authorized killing. it gives law enforcement officers, it mandates them to kill in defense of themselves and others. >> reporter: alton sterling's 15-year-old sunk sobbed at a press conference. this is his mother. >> as a parent, one of the
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greatest fears is to see your child hurt and knowing there's nothing you can do about it. >> reporter: the officers involved have both been placed on paid administrative leave, specifically officer lake, he had been placed on paid administrative leave in 2014 for another officer related shootinshootin shooting. the gop is trying to keep hillary clinton's email troubles in the headlines but donald trump spent most of his time revisiting his controversies. >> when they told me star of david, i said you got to be kidding? >> reporter: donald trump spoke about his own controversies at a rally in ohio. it is a star. this one on a trump tweet swiftly deleted.
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they called and trump called the critics racist. >> they're profiling. because why are they bringing this up? why do they bring it up? >> reporter: trump compared the image to one on the cover of a disney sticker book. a writer for the new york observer wrote an open letter tuesday condemnic what she called trump's anti-semtism writing. and he replied, my father in law is not an anti-semite. trump spent an early part of his speech hitting hillary clinton on her emails but it wasn't long before he returned to his
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unscripted off-the wall dialogue. >> i don't love saddam hussein, but he was dam good at killing terrorists. speaking of mosquitos, hi, hillary, how are you doing? turn around or knock them on their as, one or the other. >> reporter: and said newt gingrich will play a role and hinting he might even be vice president. and senator bob corker took themselves out of the running yesterday.
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people who got one of the hottest gifts last christmas are told to return it because it can get too hot and catch fire. chris van cleev has the details. >> reporter: this is a hoverboard that caught fire out in the field. you can see this is where the battery pack would be. everything around it is burned. the real point of concern are the battery packs. it's a collection of lithium ion batteries like this.
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when they catch fire they end up looking more like that. and the fires can be very intense. you could be standing right here. the consumer product safety commissions has received at least 99 reports of the lithium ion battery packs over heating, smoking, catching fire and exploding. >> if you own a hoverboard, stop using it immediately. >> reporter: cpse chairman announced the recall of more than 500,000 hoverboards made between june of 2015 and may of this year that do not meet the standards set by the independent safety science company, ul. >> this is indicative of improper design, improper manufacturing and i would say irresponsible sales. >> i seen sparks, like shooting like firework.
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>> reporter: jessica horn says her son was charnging a hoverboard when it started a fire that burned through the house. the destruction is some of the more $2 million in damage linked to hoverboards. and the potential danger has forced many airlines, universities and even the new york city subway to ban the self balancing scooters. >> it wasn't until after we bought them that we heard about l the issues with the fires. >> reporter: they purchased 50 hoverboards as gifts for their employees last year. >> i hope they start to produce more safe, battery unit such that more people could use them and not have to be so worried about it. >> reporter: hoverboard maker, swagway tells cbs news that safety is its first priority. it will replace the battery packs on it's recalled x1
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hoverboards. a massive opening of noah's ark is bringing a flood of visitors and critics. >> reporter: if the ark behind me seems larger than life, that's the whole idea. nothing like it has ever been built before but critics wonder why it was built at all. this is the ark encounter, a chapter from genesis told on $100 million budget. four floors of noah, his family and beasts big and small. they sail first class through the watery chaos outside. what are your first impressions? >> it's breath taking, amazing. even outside, it's just jaw dropping. >> reporter: this timber frame ark was built with help from
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amish craftsman straight from the pages of genesis and runs 510 feet long. this ark's christian backers consider themselves young earth creationests. that means evolution, junk science. the irearth is only 6,000 years old. do you believe there were dinosaurs and people at the same time? >> absolutely. they walked hand in hand. >> reporter: and they lead a ministry called answers in genesis. >> the truth is word in god and we are, as faithfully as we can, representing what god's word teaches. >> reporter: in 2014, hamm debated the truth with bill nye, known as the siencience guy on television. more than 5 million people have watched it online.
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>> you don't want to raise a generation of science students who don't understand how we know our place in the cosmos. >> reporter: on this ark, hamm sees christians taking a stand. and what do you say to critics who say this is not scientifically based? >> people can say all they want and say they don't believe it. that's fine. i invite them all to come here. >> reporter: critics complain of discrimination in hiring. single people have to sign a chastty pledge, no gay people. and it received tax incentives, which a federal court upheld. >> noah's ark is a church. it is clearly a religious point of view that says science is false, gay people are icky. >> reporter: true believers may flock to hamm's ark but
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shouldn't expect an olive branch from bill nye. >> somebody really built this? use your head. decide for yourself if you think this is reasonable. >> reporter: he plans to attack 2 million people but today 150 pro testers plan to create a storm of their own. the cbs overnight news will be right back. so you have 10 years of exi doence? but no phd... first kid here's all the numbers, food's in the fridge, oh and lucas likes to pull on jewelry, so you might want to lose the nose ring by their second kid, every mom is an expert, and more likely to choose luvs than first time moms
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you may not know who he is. but you'll find his work on the covers of magazines, albums, on posters and postage stamps. then there are the children's books. more than two dozen of them. the subjects may vary but the theme is unmistakable. >> as a young kid i didn't see a lot of representations of african-americans. i felt i had a self-appointed responsibility to tell that story of children who would go to museums or art galleries and see images that look like them and be proud. >> reporter: images like shirley chism, the first black woman eect a elected to congress and then there's this portrait of nelson mandela. his fist raised in rebellion against apartheid. >> i like to choose subjects
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that are internally strong or spiritually strong because that's how i want to see myself. >> reporter: so when he was commissioned to create the cover of the 90th anniversary of the new yorker, he took the publication's mascot and realized him as a modern day aristocrat. swapping his old school eye glass for an iphone. how old were you when you were drewi drawing something like that? >> that looks like high school. >> reporter: the inspiration for the elongated form found in much of nelson early work came from a tv show. nelson was a big fan of "big times" and the paintings in the opening and closing credits. they were the work of artist ernie barns but passed off on
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the show as the work of artist j.j. evans played by jimmy walker. >> i can remember seeing an african-american artist on television who loves to paint like i do. >> reporter: and he idolized michael jackson. years later the phone rang. >> michael jakckson called and e told me how much he loved the march gay paintings and said i want one. what about me? and i want it to be bigger. >> reporter: this was the result. finished after the superstar's death. it became the cover of jackson 's poschums album. >> kadir speaks from a place of such quiet scream, i would say. i call it quiet scream because
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he's a quiet person, a gentle person but his art is just screaming at you. it is begging you to go in and experience and feel. >> reporter: it was allen who convinced nelson to illustrate a children's book she wrote. >> sassy is her name. ever since i was born and could see, everywhere i looked, i saw dance. >> reporter: but these aren't just any children's books. they are some of the few that depict children of color. >> when a child opens a book and sees a face that looks like them, they know they matter. >> this is called stick ballers. >> reporter: nelson's paintings may look historical. he's been compared to norman rockwell but look closer you'll realize he's painting something that rarely if ever happened. black and white kids playing together in the 1930s. >> it's not likely that could have happen given the times but
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it's great to imagine it could have. this is what it could have looked like had things been different. ♪ >> reporter: there's nothing different kadir nelson can imagine doing with his life because when that music starts to play and the subject comes into focus, his paint brush starts to sing. >> i'm proud i get to do what i love every day. to express myself creatively every day of the week. >> pretty good gig. >> it's the best gig there is. >> we'll be right back.
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a former fox news anchor is suing her former boss. gretchen carlson claims she was fired after denying accusations by aires. >> ailes immediately fired back saying her accusations were false. >> miss america is gretchen carlson. miss minnesota. >> for more than a decade, miss america was one of the most recognizable faces of fox news. but grectchen filed a lawsuit against roger ailes alleging he sabotaged her career. carlson claims she was fired
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because she refused his sexual advances and complained of severe and pervasive sexual harassment. ailes described her as a man hater who tried to show up the boys on fox and friends. she claims he said i think you and i should have had a sexual relationship a long time ago. but in a statement to cbs news, ailes said he would defend them vigorously, saying fox news provided her with more on-air opportunities over her 11 year tenure than any other employer in the industry in which she thanked me in her book. and "in her book she described him as the most accessible boss i've ever worked for. >> if he make as full throated effort to undercut her
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credibility, in a senls hese he saying someone he himself had as an anchor is not credible. sflrks a >> don't expect roger ailes to sit back and say nothing. he's going to go forward as strong as gretchen carlson. >> and that's the overnight news for this friday. for some of you the news continues, for others check back with us later for the morning news. from the broadcast center in new york city.
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captioning funded by cbs it's friday, july 8th, 2016. this is the "cbs morning news." breaking news. snipers target police officers in dallas during the city's protest over recent police shootings. this morning, at least five officers are dead and six others injured. 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. we begin with breaking news in dallas, texas, where at least five police officers were killed
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