♪ good morning. it is tuesday, august 9th, 2016. welcome to "cbs this morning." a restrained donald trump promises big tax cuts but he faces new opposition from his senior republican senator and gop security experts. >> three girls suffer serious injuries after being tossed from a ferris wheel. one eyewitness said it was like watching water pouring from a glass. plus, delton grounds hundreds more flights following a worldwide computer outage. the technology that plagued the entire airline industry. >> but we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> she is the candidate of the past. and unless we change policy, we

will not change results. 100%. >> donald trump lays out his economic plan. >> it will present a night and day contrast to the job-killing, tax-raising, poverty-inducing obama/clinton agenda. >> i have a very different approach. i intend to make the wealthy fay their fair share to build this economy. three young girls in serious condition after falling from the ferris wheel at a county fair next knoxville, tennessee. zika may be spreading north. the florida health department is investigating what could be the first case in palm beach county. >> the first one. >> in california, residents in another 5,000 homes have been told they may want to evacuate. >> along florida's gulf coast drenching rainstorms continue for a second day. >> the neighborhood is a freaking river. >> caleb schwab died of a neck

injury after falling off a giant waterslide in kansas city. >> problems on delta. >> it's coming to a madhouse. >> all that -- >> the dolphin used grabbed the ipad that a visitor was using. >> oh, my god! >> and a rocket to center field. he's going to head to third. he makes it. >> he just had a taste of that bag. >> "all that mattered" -- >> muhammad makes the assault and comes up with the touch to move on. >> ibtihaj muhammad became the first olympian to compete while wearing a hijab. >> usa! usa! >> efimova has the lead -- king has the lead, she's got it! >> over efimova.

>> announcer: "cbs this morning" is sponsored by toyota, let's go is sponsored by toyota, let's go places. captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning." norah o'donnell is cough. david jacobson is with us. donald trump is trying to bring the issues back to the republicans but more say they do not want to follow him. susan collins is the maine gop senator who publicly split with trump. she wrote in "the washington post" that his, quote, constant stream of denigrating comments made him unworthy of being our president. >> and foreign policy experts from the republican side warn that donald trump would be the most reckless president in american history. and later donald trump with e-mails to iran to execute a spy. his speech tweeted with a series of economic policies. major garrett is covering the trump campaign. >> reporter: good morning,

donald trump had a disciplined and generous day on the campaign trail. he read his speech and handed over most of it to republicans a rare act of unity by day's end tr trump is dealing with more public policy unrest. >> i want to jump-start america. and it can be done and it won't even be that hard. >> reporter: in a scripted speech before the detroit economic club trump scrapped his tax plan for one written by house republicans and championed by speaker paul ryan. >> we will work with house republicans on this plan using the same brackets they have proposed. 12%, 35%. and 33%. for many workers their tax rate will be zero. >> reporter: almost all of trump's policies mimic those of ronald reagan, across-the-board tax cuts, fewer regulations

support for fossil fuels. trump also called for a spending free on roads, bridges and airports and taxes to cover child care expenses. here details were few. >> we will also be rolling out proposals to increase choice and reduce costs in child care. offering much needed relief to american families. >> reporter: trump also attacked hillary clinton on turf bernie sanders made familiar. her association with multilateral trade deals like nafta. >> hillary clinton has supported the trade deals, stripping his city and this country of its jobs and its wlealth. >> reporter: clinton was quick to react. >> i have a different approach. i intend to make the wealthy pay their fair share to build this company. >> protesters interrupted trump's detroit speech more than a dozen time. after that, the trump campaign fired off a fund-raising e-mail

complementing the nominee saying he stayed on message and delivered the positive platform to america. here in north carolina, trump will have a rally where he will try to do the same thing. hillary clinton's campaign said trump manufactured his latest charge. he's alleged her state department e-mails may have tipped off iran that a missing nuclear scientist was cooperating with the u.s. the newest nationwide poll out this morning shows clinton leading trump 51% to 41%. nancy cordes is in orlando, florida, covering the trump campaign. good morning. >> good morning. trump went even farther accusing clinton of contributing to this man's murder. the kind of that in a normal election year would turn a race upside down. on a day that the trump campaign insist head was getting back on message. >> reporter: trump made the

accusation the 6:45 p.m. tweeting this. many people are saying that the iranians killed the scientist who helped the u.s. because of hillary clinton's hacked e-mails. it's unclear who trump meant by "many people" but a clinton spokesperson pounced tweeting that trump uses the phrase "many people are saying" what he really means is i made this up. like other baseless claims like when he suggested the president was a secret muslim. he sympathized with terrorists or iran. >> some say it's worse than stupidity. >> reporter: trump's tweet yesterday referred to shaman amiri. a myrie defected to the u.s. in 2009 but decided to return to iran the next year. trump linked amiri's death to

clinton. but trump spoke about amiri in 2010 and his relationship with the u.s. is well-known to iran. >> mr. amiri has come to the united states of his free will and he is free to go. >> reporter: a lot suit brought ten against her by parents of two benghazi victims. coming down hard on clinton at the republican convention. >> she deserves to be. >> the clinton campaign said the lawyer behind this lawsuit has been unsuccessfully attacking the clintons for decades adding, quote, there have been nine different investigations into this attack and none found any evidence whatsoever of any wrongdoing on the part of

hillary clinton. charlie. >> "wall street journal's" wash bureau chief is with us. welcome. >> thank you. >> referring to nancy's piece. your paper is covering the story about this iranian times. is anybody suggesting hillary clinton's e-mails? >> i don't think so. we wrote about a piece that described not only his arrival in the u.s. but the fact that he was cooperating with u.s. intelligence and the fact that he had been offered money. so this is not a secret. if you go back to 2010 you'll see it's well chronicled. i don't think the e-mails had anything to do with it. >> what did you think about the speech? >> except for the part about trade and what he has said about trade and other republicans, other than that, almost any mainstream republican could have given that speech. pretty standard tax cut steeler. pretty standard anti-regulatory material. and he stayed on message. >> what atwo things, one,

infrastructure spending and child care spending? >> that was interesting. i'm going to do a lot for child care and infrastructure spending. that echoes hillary clinton. so there was something for everybody in that speech which was interesting. >> you brought about trump versus trump. trump isn't sort of the message and trump the candidate. which one wins out? and can he stick to the message? >> donald trump is such a bright shiny object, people forget he didn't create these adages. he popped into these adages in the sense that it's failed us economically and culturally. he came into that environment. he didn't create it. if he fails this year, it will be there afterwards and i think both parties have to remember it. >> the question is, how large is it? >> i think it's larger than people thought. that's why we're having this conversation. otherwise jeb bush or scott walker, someone else would be the nominee. >> i want to talk about susan collins, the senator from maine

who said she's a lightweight republican. i've become dismayed by his cool comments. >> it's not too surprising in that regard. it shows me the breadth of the party. the problems with the party are well documented. we saw his problems with the national security just jed. this tells me moderates are involved as well. the trump campaign is interested in maine as a place where they might make a breakout. with a history of kind of a fondness for independent in a maverick state. but this makes you think maybe not so much. >> he was different yesterday at the news conference, jerry, in terms of temperament and demeanor? >> that was the thing. there were 12 or 14 various times his speech was interrupted by protesters. not once did he take that on.

he didn't engage them. i can't remember an occasion in the sense. somebody held him back, ivanka and the audience saying don't go there. >> nothing can change your campaign tactic like a double digit. >> it does brace your mind. >> to rethink some things. police in east tennessee want to know why a group of children fell out of a ferris wheel. the three girls dropped 30 feet in the ground. this happened in greene county, northeast of the knoxville, tv. vladimir duthiers is here. >> good morning. one witness said the ride eventually stopped after people on the ground began screaming at the ride operators. all three children were taken to the hospital with serious injuries. >> rescue command. we've had a major incident at the fair grounds at the ferris wheel. there's been at least three fall

out of the ferris wheel. >> reporter: emergency crews raced to the scene of the accident that left witnesses shaken. >> one is responsive. y'all need to get someone started that way and get ems around. >> reporter: panic ensued as eyewitnesses scrambled to see what happened. >> my two little girls were about midway in the other side of the ferris wheel when it happened. they were very upset crying. it's like a nightmare right now. >> reporter: the ferris wheel cars carrying the girls appeared to get stuck as the wheel was turning. the car tilted over tossing them from a ride. one eyewitness said it was like watching water pouring from a glass. investigators believe the girls fell 30 to 35 feet. they're still trying to determine what caused the ride to malfunction. >> we're trying to determine whether there were any malfunction. make sure there was no foul play that it was just an accident. >> the tennessee bureau of

investigation is insisting the greenville police department in its investigation. the captain said the victims were alert and answering questions at the hospital. delta airlines is working this morning to recover from its crippling computer outage. delta announced it's cancelling 250 more flights today. that's in addition to 1200 flights cancelled yesterday. stranded passengers waited in long lines as they waited for more information. ahead, we'll find what's behind the glitches that cause that. another round of severe weather. flash flood watches are posted along the coastline. rising waters have our hit parts of taylor and patco counties. the downpours are expected to last until later this week. drenching rains from tropical storm javier caused flooding in the mexican resort town of cabo san lucas.

instagram video showed cars driving through flooded streets. mudslides in mexico killed 45 people over the weekend. the storm is now set to move up the baja peninsula over the next three days. officials say the area received a months' worth of rain in just 24 hours. thousands of residents in southern california are under evacuation orders because of a massive wildfire. the so-called pilot fire broke out on sunday. it's burned almost 6300 acres in the lake arrowhead air. overnight firefighters were held by cooler temperatures and higher humidity. south florida is now reporting 17 cases of zika caused by local transmission. palm beach county has the first case of the virus. patients who recently traveled to the miami area. miami-dade and broward have a combined 16 cases. they're distributing posters to

school as kids return. they're also supplying mosquito repellant to public schools and colleges. team usa is expanding its medal count. several earned medals last night. team usa leads all countries with 19 overall medals. that includes five golds. china is in second with 13 total. japan and russia both have ten. ben tracy is outside of olympic park in rio with highlights of tense competitions yesterday. ben, good morning. >> gayle, good morning, if you're looking for american dominance here in rio, look no farther. the square building, that's where you'll find the swimming pool. american swimmers took home six individual medals including a big win over russia. >> she's got the lead! >> reporter: 19-year-old lilly

king put on a solid gold performance in the 100 meter breaststroke beating rival yulia efimova just days after the russian governing body let the russians compete. king's teammate katie meili joined her on the podium with the bronze. in another historic race, ryan murphy set a new olympic record winning gold in the 100 meter backstroke in an event the u.s. team has dominated until 1992. >> stretching for it. he gets it! >> reporter: u.s. teammate david plumber took third. and during the semifinals of the 200 meter butterfly, michael phelps remained focused before entering the pool, alongside his rival from south africa. his deliberate attempts to distract the olympic legend didn't seem to work. >> just to say i am ready.

>> reporter: american divers david boudia and phil johnson won silver in synchronized diving. when he saw the scoreboard, johnson burst into tears and hugged his teammate. >> the united states expects gold. i didn't even think i'd get gold. but for phil and i, this is absolutely amazing. >> reporter: in the gym -- >> a combination right here, ooh! >> reporter: u.s. gymnast tumbled off the high bar. tonight, michael phelps is back in the pool. this is being dubbed the rematch in rio. he's going to be swimming the 200 meter butterfly against his south african rival. this is an event michael phelps just barely lost at the olympics. it's a big reason he came out of retirement for his fifth olympics. dana. >> i was listening to you.

ben tracy in rio. we were talking about the staredown. >> if looks could kill, what's he thinking? he's ready. we change our mood, the tragedy at the world's tallest waterslide. new concerns about safety. ahead, the worries about >> announcer: this national weather report sponsored by chick-fil-a. we didn't invent the chicken.

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♪ ahead, the impressions about the reliability of airline systems after delta's global shutdown. and tomorrow, meryl streep returns to studio

this is bs3 "eyewitness news". good morning, i'm brooke thomas. >> opening statements are expected today in the trial of pennsylvania attorney general, kathleen kane. kane's charged with leaking secret grand jury information, and lying under oath. kane insists the charges are pay-back for her crusade to expose judges and lawyers who trade racist and pornographic emails. right now a check on the eyewitness forecast with meteorologist, katie fehlinger. >> good morning, brooke, once once again expect to go see sunshine, nice warm august day underway, and at the moment we've got virtually no cloud cover out there. that is going to be something that we do see at least at some point during the day, some brighter than other, regardless the sun is up, and starting already to warm things up outside middle township high school in cape may courthouse, we look forward, to a warm day, nothing like what we will see

from here on out. we hit at least 09 starting tomorrow for string of 90 plus degrees day with humidity made to feel a lot hotter than that, also some scattered showers, storms, pretty much every day, too, meisha. >> looks that way, katie, take a look at this, guys, the ben franklin bridge. take a look at the fog as you push in the westbound direction. that's going to cause little visibility issues. look in new jersey look how gorgeous, 42 freeway, approaching 295, very slow there, accident pa turnpike before morgantown two, left lanes block there, brooke, over to you. >> thanks, meisha a next update at 7:55, find out why some athletes are getting booed at the rio olympics coming up on cbs this morning. i'm brooke thomas, good morning.

donald trump: i could stand in the middle of 5th avenue i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message. and shoot somebody and i wouldn't lose any voters, okay? and you can tell them to go f--- themselves! you know, you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever... you gotta see this guy. ahh, i don't know what i said, ahh. "i don't remember." he's going like "i don't remember!"

♪ nba mvp steph curry is enjoying president obama's company on vacation. the pair played some golf yesterday on martha's vineyard. curry skipped the olympics, you might recall, fighting ankle and knee injury. that didn't keep him from the golf course. the second day in a row the president played with an nba player who opted out of the games. yesterday he played with clippers chris paul. you golf? >> i do. >> you guys need your knees and ankles? >> you want to play well or not? >> i think it's scary. >> you could ride around in a golf cart. that would be fun. >> that would be a lot of fun. >> welcome back.

coming up in this half hour, doping sparks a heated debate at the olympics. several russian athletes initially banned from the games over illegal substances won an appeal to compete. how team usa is not hold back. plus passengers face more delays after a computer meltdown. it's the latest big carrier to face massive equipment failure. ahead, why the faa isn't doing anything at the computer estimates that might be anything but state of the art. >> the "the new york times" reports on finds that china may be breaking a plague by militiaizing a port in the china seas. china's president said there will be no intention to militiaize the area. reports of hacking on a

major network of cash registers. micros system is owned by oracle. it's used in more than 330,000 sites worldwide such as restaurants and hotels. the hackers are believed to be russian criminals. the company plans to contact customers whose data were afternooned. >> the "the boston globe" reports on a jogger killed in massachusetts. the 27-year-old worked for google in new york and was visiting her mother. her body was found on sunday. police do not say how she was killed. a law enforcement official says there are indications that her body was burned. google said it's deeply shocked and saddened. the san francisco chronicle say gummy ring candy las vegased with marijuana may have sickened 19 girls in a girl's birthday party. they were hospitalized with symptoms like dizziness and nausea. tests show that some of them had thc in their blood. the kansas city star said

the waterslide where a 10-year-old boy died sunday has not been inspected by the state since it opened two years ago. the verrucht slide is the tallest in the world. police say caleb schwab died from a neck injury. his father is a state lawmaker. omar villafranca is in kansas city where investigators are still trying to determine what happened. omar, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, it may be hard to see but part of the ride's enclosure on that second hump has been removed by investigators. there are no federal inspections for water parks in the u.s. according to a records requests investigators have not inspectored this schlitterbahn park until 2012. >> i heard a noise. that's when i turned around. >> reporter: jess and melanie went down the massive slide hours before caleb schwab. >> i saw a blood trail down the

side. >> reporter: first responders found the 10-year-old in a pool verrucht's base. two women were in the raft with schwab. they were taken to the hospital for minor facial injuries. >> it is taller then niagara falls. >> reporter: verrucht's plunge is 17 feet high. the second drop is 50 feet. two people can ride in one at the same time. paul oberhouser said his came off while riding with a friend and 9-year-old son two weeks ago. >> as soon as i hit the bottom of the first curve, the shoulder strap kind of busted loose. >> reporter: he said he had to grip handles by the legs to hold on. and told park staff he had to hang on. >> they said, oh, no, that's not

good. sounded like they were going to do something about it. >> reporter: in a statement, schlitterbahn said safety is a top priority and that the rides are inspected daily. >> all of the regulation, done on a state and local level with respect to amusement parks. it's really up to the manufacturers and the park to make sure they meet state. >> reporter: schlitterbahn is expected to reopen tomorrow. it's unclear how long the water slides will remain closed. dana. outrage is growing in rio over a medal-winning russian athlete with a history of doping. yulia efimova won silver last night in the 100 meter breaststroke. she's tested positive for banned substances. ben tracy joins us with how doping is now dominating the olympics discussion. ben, good morning. >> reporter: good morning again.

this russian swimmer was not even supposed to be here. she had been banned because of her doping history and also because of the vast doping program we now know is going on inside of russia but then she was quietly added back on to the roster here in rio just days ago after winning an appeal. she swam in lane 5 right next to her american rival lily king. and by the time they touched the wall, the russian who had served a 16-month suspension for doping won a silver medal, coming in second to the 19-year-old american. the grudge match between the two began over the weekend when they engaged in a fierce finger shakoff. littly king said afterwards you're shaking your finger for number one and you've been caught for drug cheating. i'm just not a fan. >> she's justified. >> reporter: members of team usa are not holding back about having known dopers in the pool. >> during the games there will probably be people who missed

the podium to people who don't deserve to be on the podium and that is wrong. >> reporter: russia initially submitted 389 athletes for the games only 271 have been approved to compete. in the past days 8 russians banned for doping have been allowed back in after winning appeals. most of them swimmers. the ioc claims there's nothing they can do. what do you say to the other swimmers who are now expressing concerns about competing in the pool with what they describe as known cheaters? >> i think people have served sanctions and are now clear. i would think that in the united states you'd appreciate the idea of give everyone the chance to prove their own innocence. >> reporter: thomas hobbiert is a doping expert.

he believes they did so because vladimir putin spent $50 billion on the sochi olympics, an all-time record. >> i do not see an end to this in sight. i think the incentive to dope was built into the system a long time ago. >> reporter: which could be why michael phelps now in his fifth olympics is frustrated by his lack of progress. >> you want to be able to compete on an even playing field. in my career, i don't know if i've ever competed in a clean sport. >> reporter: to be fair, some u.s. athletes have been caught up in the doping scandal. they have a history of doping asked whether or not they should be here competing, swimmer lilly king says no. gayle. >> haven't ever competed in a clean event. >> yeah. >> there are a lot of olympic swimmers who really feel the

same way. it's a strong feeling. >> not a level playing field. >> that mean mugster that lilly king gave the russian is very, very true. >> i'm going to beat you. >> a look says everything. we know what you meant. ben tracy, we thank you in rio. as well as good to see you there. critics call the delta airlines meltdown unacceptable, but does the entire industry need an upgrade? that's a question a lot of people are asking now. that's coming up next. if you're heading out the door we hate that you have to leave us but you can watch us live on the cbs "all-access" app. on your device. a report on homeland security nearly 15 years after 9/11. you'll want to hear what he has to say. we'll be right back.

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♪ we're following the latest fallout from the delta computer meltdown which has led to the cancellation of nearly 250 more flights today. about 1,000 flights were

cancelled yesterday. at one point, only six delta flights were in the air over the u.s. a snapshot from august 1st shows how their normally hundreds. and how an outage knocked out computers for dozens stranded. chris, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, delta says its computer systems are working again. but check out the line here for people trying to check in and check their bags. now, the airline is investigating what happened yesterday. and the big question, why their backup systems didn't kick in. the outage disabled delta's flight status alerts. >> we found out that we're four hours delayed. and by the time we get to our connection flight in laguardia, we're going to be an hour late. >> reporter: an airport monitor incorrectly listed flights as on time. the delays and cancellations prompted an apology from delta's ceo. >> it's say all hands on deck

effort. we lost power about 2:30 this morning which caused us to implement the ground stop we hut put in place. >> it's unacceptable to the traveling public and unacceptable to delta and its employees. >> reporter: dealt's network raises questions about the reliability of computers used by airlines not regulated by the faa. last year united and american both suffered computer problems. in july, a faulty router for southwest to round flight. a disruption that lasted days. >> they're running on a reservation system that is more than 35 years old. in fact, it once belonged to an airline that went out of business in 1982. >> reporter: george hobbic founded watchdog air.com. >> they haven't fixed the technology over the years this is why we're seeing this happen.

>> reporter: airlines pretty much regulate every from fuel and how much snacks to implement on a plane. the airline industry generally has reliable systems but portions can be decades old. >> airlines are technology companies that fly airplanes. their technology systems have to be as reliable as their aircraft. >> reporter: the department of transportation tells "cbs this morning" it is in discussion with delta over the technical issues and continues to monitor the situation. delta is offering compensation in the form of $200 flight vouchers for people whose flights were cancelled or who suffered a three hour or longer delay. dana. >> chris, thank you. ahead, an extraordinary breach of security as an airline passenger jumps off a jet bridge with his carry-on luggage. >> oh, my gosh. >> he chases the plane. >> run, forrest, run! >> b

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this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news". good morning, i'm joe holden. reputed philly mob boss joey merlino expected in a florida courtroom this morning. merlino spent dozen years in prison on racketeering charges, arrested last week by federal authorities accused of being part of an organized multi state crime ring. today's hearing will decide if merlino gets out on bail. let's sends it right over to katie fehlinger in the eyewitness weather center good morning, joe, once again expect to go see pretty nice day unfold out there across the delaware valley. little fog here and, there some of it actually gliding over center city philadelphia right now. but don't want it to deter you, generally will scour out in the next couple of hours, ends up with more sun than anything, remaining nice and quiet at this point. today pretty good day, when you factor in where we go from here.

it is a lot hotter, a lot more humid, a lot more unsettled starting tomorrow. meisha? >> katie, thank you so much. still looking very busy out on the roadways this morning, take a look at this, schuylkill westbound at the boulevard, before city avenue, yikes. moving in the westbound direction, eastbound side, you're not that much better moving into center city. fifty-nine before girard what you are looking at here, no longer traveling at posted speeds, brake lights going up there. turnpike past norristown, two lanes still blocked. also an accident where a pedestrian was stuck at 130, all lanes still blocked, joe, over to you. >> meisha, thank you. next update at 8:25, coming up on cbs this morning, the a hint healing art making headlines in rio. i'm joe holden. good morning.

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♪ it is tuesday, august 9th, 2016. welcome to "cbs this morning." >> there is more real news ahead including donald trump's newest attack on clinton hang seng. and cia insider michael morell tells charlie why he thinks trump is too dangerous to be president. here's the "eye opener" at 8:00. >> handed over the house to house republicans a rare act of humility. >> it's an allegation to which there is no proof. >> he was different yesterday at the news conference, jerry. did you think so in terms of temperament? >> 12, 14, various times

interrupted by protesters, not once did he pick them off. >> and people on the ground began screaming at the ride operators. all three children were taken to a local hospital. >> check out the line here for people trying to check in and check their bags. the airline is investigating what happened and the big question why their backup systems didn't kick in. >> americans have gotten six individual medals including a very big win over russia. >> if you're wondering why we took pictures instead of footage because we're not allowed to. the olympic committee won't even allow the rings. we'll be 0 showing a graphic kind of made from onion rings. >> announcer: this morning's "eye opener" at 8:00 is presented by liberty mutual insurance. i'm charlie rose with gayle

king and dana jacobson. norah is off. donald trump is still losing support from other top republicans, maine senator susan collins writes in "the washington post" this, i am a life long republican but donald trump does not reflect historical republican values. she is the most gop senator to say she will not vote for donald trump. >> donald trump may be reaching out to other officials in the party. in a speech he scrapped the tax plan that he announced last september. he will replace it with a less extensive one drafted by house republicans. during that economic speech in detroit, trump also attacked the policies of hillary clinton and president obama. clinton hit back during a campaign swing in florida. but some of their plans did sound a lot a like.

>> rich will fpay their fair share. >> intend to make the rich pay their fair share. >> we will eliminate the other special interest loophole that have been so good for wall street investors for people like me. >> he wants to roll back regulations on wall street. i want to tighten them. >> upon taking office i will issue a temporary moratorium on new agency regulation. >> we've got to work together to make sure small businesses have a chance to cut through the red tape to get the help that they need. >> we will build the next generation of roads, bridges, railways, tunnels, seaports and airports. >> our roads, our bridges, our tunnels, our ports, our airports, our water systems, our sewer systems. they are in desperate need of being either repaired or

maintained or built. >> donald trump shifted focus dramatically last night appearing to blame hillary clinton for the execution of a nuclear scientist. trump did not provide any evidence he tweeted quote many people saying that the iranians killed a scientist to help the u.s. because of hacked e-mails. amiri was executed. amiri deflected to america in 2009 but decided to return to iran the next year. a clinton spokesman said trump is lying saying many people saying equals i made this up. dozens of national security and foreign policy experts warn that donald trump could be, quote, the most reckless president in american history. the group of 50 republicans signed an open letter yesterday, vowing not to vote for trump. they include former directors of the cia and anational intelligence plus two former

homeland securities. in a statement trump called the nothing more than the failed elite. michael morell in "the new york times" called trump a, quote, threat to national security. i spoke with morell last night on the pbs program. >> now, tell me about why you felt compelled to change where you were, contributor of cbs, on public voice. former acting director and deputy director of the cia. a man who gained increasing respect for his voice because of his access to media, to say, i'm going in a different direction? >> two things, i think, brought me to the decision to write the op-ed. one was a growing belief that donald trump, mr. trump, rather, i don't want to be disrespectful

here, that mr. trump would be a threat to our national security as commander in chief. he has said things on the campaign trail that have assisted our adversaries, have assisted vladimir putin and that have assisted isis. the second was, i've known hillary clinton a long time. and i felt some of the perceptions that are out there about her are just not true. so, putting both of those reasons together, i decided to speak out. and one of the things, charlie, that struck me as i was going through this, and i was actually writing the op-ed and talking to people about my views, that there are many people who share my views. and many people who share what i wrote in that op-ed that they're afraid to speak out. they're afraid of being attacked. they're afraid of the republican party not being with them down the road. right? i felt afraid of not speaking

out. i felt afraid of the consequences of not speaking out. and i think that serious republicans, of which there are many, need to think about the consequences of not speaking out. >> i asked about the relationship with russia's president. >> here's what i'd like to see him do. i'd like to see him stand up tomorrow and denounce putin's military incursion into ukraine. i'd like to see him denounce putin's annexation of crimea. i'd like to see him denounce putin's assistance to the rebels in eastern ukraine that resulted in the shootdown of an asian airliner. i'd like to see him renounce what putin is doing supporting a dictator and butcher. i'll tell you at the end of the day, putin would have more

respect for him than he does now. >> you say he's an agent of the russian -- >> unwitting agent. that's why he's taken the positions he's taken. >> morell has talked about what he'd personally like to see done in syria, what he'd like to be done in syria to end the civil war there. >> when we were in iraq, the iranians were giving weapons to the shia militia, who were killing american soldiers. making us pay a price. we need to make the iranians pay a price in syria. we need to make the russians pay a price. i want to go after those things that assad uses as his personal power base. i want to scare assad. i want to destroy his presidential aircraft on the ground. i want to destroy his presidential helicopters. i want to make him think we're coming after him, right?

i'm not advocating attacking him. i'm not advocating that. i'm advocating going after what is his power base and what he needs to survive and him to think this is not going to end well for me. >> what he's saying, he would like to see this done on the ground by our allies to people in opposition to the assad government. that they ought to be doing more to make the russians fear, the iranians fear and assad fear. >> i remember after reading michael morell's books, he certainly has the credentials to back up all of this. he's really stepping up and speaking up. >> it shows you how someone involved with the cia the mind-set. the sense of how he sees the world and many other things. >> you wonder how much that resonates with people out there when they hear that. team usa begins day four of the rio games after winning several more medals. go, usa. the united states leads all

countries with 19 overall medals. we should say that -- lead all countries with 19 yearall medals including five golds. china has 13. japan and russia both have 10. ben russell is there with the victories. gen, good morning again. >> reporter: good morning, gayle, you guys just can't get rid of me this morning. before we get to the dominance in the pool until rio. let's talk about what happened in the sand more accurately early this morning. these volleyball matches have been taking place around midnite. we saw kerri walsh jennings and april ross beat china's beach volleyball team. walsh jennings remains undefeated in her olympic career. in all our olympics she's only dropped one set. in swimming the u.s. took home six individual medals one went to 19-year-old lilly king in the 100 meter breaststroke. that's when she beat her russian rival whose doping ban was

overturned jut days before allowed to get in the pool. michael phelps will go tonight for his 24th medal in that same event in the finals. it's being called the rematch in rio because he's trying to redeem himself from the london olympics. american dives david boudia and phil johnson won gold in sink kron nic synchronized diving. fierce five is looking to repeat as olympic champions. team usa heavily favored to win that event, because they just crushed the competition in the qualifying rounds. so, it should be another good night watching the olympics and seeing some americans take home a lot more hardware. gayle. >> another good night. another late night. thank you very much, ben tracy. it is fun to watch though. 15 years after 9/11, are we say any offer, do you think?

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gwyneth paltrow and jennifer aniston. i thought what a bad case of chickenpox but it looks like it works. but what is it? >> cupping is a technique that's been around for thousands of years. it's documented in egypt. ancient egypt and greece and other civilization. it's now being used around the world. we're seeing it more in our western culture. basically it's taking cups that action like suction cups. placing them in the back of the body, usually the back or stomach. it takes five to 20 minutes. either using heat or a pump. you create a suction and that pulls up the capillaries, the small blood vessels which dilate and even break and that's what causes the bruises that we see. the goal is to alleviate pain and treat a lot of other disorders. and in addition in chinese medicine it's to improve the balance in your chi.

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>> they're unsightly. >> it's mostly safe. although there are cases, of course, of skin blistering, infections. >> how long does that last and how often should you do it? >> about five to seven days. it's recommended you do it every couple months. not every day. >> thank you. >> and it's legal. ahead, a dolphin flips over one of the most popular gadgets on the market. that is coming up next on "cbs this morning." >> announcer: cbs morning rounds sponsored by the makers of nondrowsy claritin. join claritin nonblue skies today.

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♪ welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up in this half hour, u.s. has spent an estimated trillion dollars on anti-terror agencies since 9/11. joining us steven brill for the first time on the set, shows us how billions of taxpayer money has been wasted, he says. his new article in "the atlantic" shows why it may be time to rethink the terror fight. and a chef powerhouse see how a new recipe is winning over meat lovers. >> right now, it's time to show you the headlines from around the globe.

. said donald trump's daughter ivanka is being criticized by her clothing company. a diner in charge of ivanka's fashion line said the company only offers unpaid maternity leave. other workers made the same claim. ivanka trump declined to comment for the story. bloomberg said apple is planning to unveil a new ipad as early as next month. sources tell bloomburg will will not be a headphone jack, it will have an updated home button that vibrates instead of clicks. and there will be a dual camera system on the larger iphone. >> have you ordered yours already? dana, what you know about charlie, whenever it comes out, a week ahead of time. new york post reports on pokemon go new record gains.

the previous seller was a game clash royale. fans of pokemon go usually play for about 26 minutes a day. "time" magazine said swimmer michael phelps has become an internet sensation, he was caught on camera in an intense stare as he geared up for the 200 meter butterfly. he was shadow boxing and dancing in front of him. his stare has become a social media look. britain's guardian reports on the beaches. officials are cracking down on vacationers who stake out with towels and gears out on umbrellas. those who leave gear out overnight can be fined $200. >> you have to make sure you get a good space. i plead guilty on that.

and "the new york times" said the way to ease pedestrian traffic on the brooklyn britain. they've turned to times square in the sky. more than 13,000 pedestrians and cycles cross it on a typical day. building the old one is now being considered. we're approaching the 15th anniversary of the september 11th attacks. there has not been another one like that but the fear remaining. a poll taken in orlando found that two-thirds of americans feel a terror attack is very or somewhat likely in the next few months. author steven brill with an estimated trillion-dollar state built since 9/11 in a magazine of the atlantic entitled are we any safer. we'd like to welcome back steven brill back to studio 57. good morning. >> good morning.

well, we're not safer, we've done a lot of things to make us safer. there are tens of thousands of men and women who make up every morning in the last 15 years doing yeoman's work to try to keep us safer. but the kinds of threats that we faced on 9/11 have expanded and have multiplied. in part because we went into iraq and -- you know -- >> let's talk about the threat and what we can do to make us safer. >> well, the kind of orchestrated threat that i write about the bio terror threat. the threat of a dirty bomb where someone can go into a hospital and fuel some radiological material very easily and mix it with a stand explosive, and create a bomb that causes radiation contamination that will scare people. and scare the country so much that we may evacuate -- have to evacuate, a large portion of

lower manhattan or something or something like that. that's the kind of orchestrated threat. lone wolf who can go into a gun store, uniquely, in this country, and buy an assault rival and then shoot up a shopping mall or theater. and if he yells out an impression, in arabic, we assume that's a terror attack. and it scares us much more than than what has sadly become the attack that happens in this country with assault weapons. >> that's what will be borne out that more people will be killed by assault weapons than they will by terrorism? >> but terrorism is about fear. >> right. >> and that's what makes it such a force in this country. and such a force to contend with. and it makes the politics of terror dangerous for anybody. >> steven, this is

extraordinary. number one, it's 20,000 words, you did a lot of work on this piece. but what's pass mafascinating t me is how you compared september 10th 2001 and after that. you said john ashcroft had -- >> the attorney general had rejected a request from the fbi to increase their antiterror branches. and the fbi officials testified in congress that day, that the biggest terrorism threat in the united states was from animal life activists. >> that's peta? >> right. >> and on september 11th, you'll remember, the president was reading to school children in an elementary children in florida. and ashcroft was on his way reading to school children in milwaukee. so that was a different time. this is now 15 years of what i call the september 12th era. and it's been a difficult time. but we really have to take our

hats off to the people who wake up every day. the department of homeland security. and the tsa who, you know, we love to ridicule and make fun of who have been obsessed with keeping us safe. and the only time we notice them is if there's an attack or if they do something stupid. >> you're very complimentary about jeh johnson? >> yeah, i think he did a good job. the bush administration and obama administration did a good job, from that day, september 10th when we were all asleep. >> you've all written this idea of never again which makes people feel safe is not realistic? >> right. it's a promise that donald trump is making. it's a promise that president bush made after 9/11. and the day avenufter, i can sey

the president would want to reassure the country of that but it's totally unrealistic. but the idea that somebody can say i'm running for president and i'm going to declare war on islam. and the day i take office all of this is going to stop, it's just ridiculous. it's exactly what a terrorist want us to say. >> we assume efforts have been made and they've been thwarted. >> yes. >> and the second question comes up in terms of the future. what is it that we need to do, or not do? >> we need to deal with bio terrorist threats. dirty bomb threats. >> how do we get to it is my question? >> to deal with a dirty bomb is actually easy. it doesn't cost anything. what that entails the president of the united states getting on the bullypulpit and saying this

bomb is scarier than it is. >> you're saying the reaction? >> yeah, the reaction. the other thing we have to do, is we have to accept the fact that never again is a fallacy. we seem to be okay with accepting the fact that people can be mentally ill do these things but we don't accept it for terrorists. >> in a political year, you talk about an october surprise? >> right. i think that is a real possibility in part because, i don't want to engage on the price of politics, but it doesn't take a genius to figure out that the terrorists would love to have someone like a donald trump be the president of the united states because he is willing to declare war on all muslims. and that's the way they have framed the issue since september 11. president bush refused to take that bait.

and president obama refused to take that bait. he campaigns on that. >> an article that's very frightening, i think there are a lot of lessons to be learned there. you say we've spent billions of dollars and it's always money well spent. >> we're on a beanbag, we kind of got that as business as usual. >> very usual, steven brill. thank you. we're going to take a turn to a lighter topic. take a glance in our toyota green room if you will because this may attest like meat, may look like meat and may bleed

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♪ veggie burgers are making a comeback after decades in the shadows. they were once considered to be a sad alternative to their cow-based counterpart. the veggie burger has been reimagined by award winning chefs and silicon valley. vanita nair. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, we're here at the vegan restaurant where veggie burgers are so popular they've created one for breakfast. this is a tofu burger with

sausage. in the past few years they've been reinvented. everyday, customers jam-pack here in new york and every day they leave saying the same thing. >> really good burger. >> it's kind of crispy and soft inside. >> reporter: the patty is handmade and the toppings can be customized but this burger has no meat in it. the owner and chef. do you see it in the customers, a sort of fearfulness of what they might be eating? >> that happens sometimes. a lot of our favorite regulars came here almost as a gag. >> reporter: no. >> all right. let's try this. we've been able to win them over. >> reporter: the burger made with chickpeas, quinoa, farrow and lots of tomatoes can be served on a bun.

i think you're guacamole. the editor for "the new york times" cooking said heavenly helped paved way for other veggie burgers. >> veggie burger had a rough history in the united states, right. we think of as a patty filled with saw dust and dirt. well, that's changed. >> there a difference in how the purveyors of burgers are doing it? >> yeah, a burger should not be about making a burger out of hamburger. it's about making a burger. >> reporter: last year burger joint white castle tested out a veggie slider. customers liked it so much, they put it on a permit ewe in every city. >> i'm a carnivore but a veggie burger will always be good. >> reporter: but what if there's a veggie burger that looked and

tasted like red meat. that was the idea behind the flavor burger. dr. pat brown a former researcher at stanford university is the ceo of impossible foods. how many years of thought does this burger represent? >> well, let's see. we've been around for five years. we have about 80 scientists and engineers, all of whom have been thinking about this. so, i guess that would be 400 person years of thought. >> reporter: investors such as google ventures and bill gaelts have shelled out $182 million for plant-based meet alternative. >> there's millions of people around the world for whom meat is an essential part of the pleasure of life. but making it the way we're making it today takes an enormous to on natural resources and the environment. we can find a better way to make meat that meat lovers will still get all of that pleasure and nutrition without all the

environmental damage. >> it definitely has the right texture. it definitely has the right flavor. i wouldn't know it's fake meat. >> reporter: so far the impossible burger is only on the menu in new york. working to develop it for nationwide distribution. he thinks the other goals are less possible. do you think the veggie burger ever stands to replace the traditional burger? >> it's not going to replay the traditional burger anytime soon. the veggie burger has moved from something that is essentially tasteless to something that is awesome. >> reporter: impossible foods tells us they are already working on other alternatives for the chicken and the egg. before they can get it into grocery stores, they want to get it into more restaurants like this. as for the one new york city restaurant that already sells us, they tell us every day it's on the menu, it's sold out. dana, luckily for you guys, i heard you have samples in the

green room. >> that sounds very good as you make us hungry. before i saw that piece i had no desire anything that goes from tasteless to awesome and doesn't cost like dirt, i'm going to try it. >> thank you. police officers face many tough challenges but what about a stuck deer? how one officer's determination saved the day. up next on "cbs this morning."

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♪ sure are stuck, aren't you? >> this deer got stuck in a fence but a michigan police officer came to its rescue, as you can see on the body camera. gave it a strong push. and the animal took off. >> oh. >> all in a day's work. >> i love the cop saying, you sure are stuck, aren't you? how kind.

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live from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia. this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news". and good morning, i'm joe holden. thank you for being with us, it is not clear if sensitive information was compromised but police are searching for the thief who stole a hospital computer. take a look at surveillance video from methodist hospital in south broad. it is from 6:00 p.m. on july 28th, and a man took a desk top computer, monitor, keyboard and mouse. he got away through the broad street doors. if you recognize this suspected thief, you're asked to contact police. now, the eyewitness weather forecast, meteorologist, katie fehlinger in the weather center. hi, kate. >> i hey there, joe, good morning, another one of those nice august days, ever so slightly more humid than yesterday was, but, we are off to a warm start. some of you have ended up with some fog, that's had a chance to clear out over philadelphia. seventy-four the magic number up and down i-95, that

sunshine really helping to efficiently heat up the atmosphere, so we expect to get new the low 80s at the shore today. today is a good beach day, good for any other outdoor plans you have scheduled, but scattered showers, storms to dodge, starting tomorrow. that really is a theme of this forecast, look at this, you've got 90 plus degrees heat starting tomorrow for the majority of the seven day. will feel closer to triple digits at this height of the heat here, and every day, right through monday, bridges potential for showers and storms. so, here we go. >> bring the umbrella, all right, katie, thank you so much. looking outside, guys, still have the accident 95 north at the vine, left lane still compromised delays extending all the way back past the walt whitman bridge. so pretty significant here. you're going to want to give yourself extra time. accident is cleared here white horse pike before gibbsboro road. all lanes have now reopened. then take a look at this, you guys, this accident has cleared finally this morning. this is where a pedestrian was struck route 130 southbound, this is in new jersey, again, all lanes open there. however in the world of septa,

paoli thorndale inbound line delayed 40 minutes. check your schedules on line. this is because of overhead power problems, joe, back over to you. >> meisha, thank you. that's "eyewitness news" for now. join us for "eyewitness news" at noon. i'm joe holden. make it a great day.

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