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donald trump's campaign could have a lasting impact on his businesses. the recent survey by travel weekly found 61% of travel agents have not been recommending trump branded hotels and resorts. as much since the billionaire began his run for president. cbs news travel editor, peter greenburg is outside trump's newest hotel in washington, d.c. with the fallout from the presidential race. >> the building behind me the newest property in the trump portfolio, trump international hotel, right on pennsylvania avenue. in the historic post office. the one property in the trump business that may be vulnerable. >> we are building on pennsylvania avenue, the old
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post office. >> reporter: donald trump made it clear from day one of his presidential bid he would mix business and politics. >> just opening up on pennsylvania right next to the white house. so if i don't get there one way, i am going to got to pennsylvania avenue another. >> reporter: his new hotel in washington, d.c. just part of trump's travel portfolio include several u.s. hotels, 17 gulf clubs. winery. and hotel management and licensing business that exports the trump name to kpotic locations like panama and hawaii. >> the hotel's managing director. >> enough media attention. over the last, the last 12 months. so he is fantastic for me. >> when mexico sends it people. >> some of trump's comments throughout his campaign have sent shock waves through the hospitality industry. >> they're bringing drugs. they're bringing crime. they're rapists. >> ceo removed trump name and offerings from all brochures and
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web sites. >> one thing is for sure, the trump brand used to be an asset and now a liability. >> celebrity chefs pulled their restaurants from the d.c. hotel. >> just start kissing them. like a magnet. when you are a star they let you do it. >> editor-in-chief of "travel weekly" says the leaked videotape of trump making lewd comments about women might be a tipping point for agents who book hotels. >> travel agents are overwhelmingly women. travel decisions are made overwhelmingly by women. we surveyed our readership recently. and they said that 50% of their clients are proactively saying don't put me in a trump hotel. >> trump paints a different picture. during a june deposition for one of two lawsuits he filed in
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reaction to the chefs pulling out of his hotel. he was asked about the impact the presidential bid has the had on his business. >> i don't think it has had much. one example where it has been very positive, in florida, mar-a-lago, the manager said it is the best year we ever had at mar-a-lago. what do you attribute this to? >> the campaign. >> forbes editor, says revenues at trump golf courses were all up in the last year. but in other areas, the response has been mixed. >> some of his partners in the middleeast, licensing deals with, you can imagine are not happy with some of his comments. on the flip side we tacked to some partners in places like the philippines who say, there is more notoriety in, we can bring in more people. they're very excited about it. >> all of this, woodwork, molding. >> reporter: the stakes are high at the hotel in washington, d.c. the trump family and partners have poured a reported $2 million into renovating the old
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post office. >> this is a very special suite. >> into a 263-room luxury hotel. trump organization has $200 million lease for the building with the u.s. government. it runs for 60 years. of all the rumors, corporations or travel companies that are booking away from you guys. have you seen that at all? >> no, the numbers have been what i have ever seen in the trump hotel. it is going back to business. >> what you are telling me in the hotel business, business trumps politic thousands. >> business trumps politics. >> or, maybe not. industry insiders tell me that trump won the bid from the government because he substantially overpaid for the deal. and competitors like hilton and marriott dropped out. in fact, marriott told cbs that they actually crunched the numbers and determined based on the trump deal they couldn't figuree out how anybody could make a profit on this. cbs news did reach out to the trump organization for comment.
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we received none. one final piece of irony here, sure they didn't plan it. right next to the trump hotel on pennsylvania avenue, headquarters of the internal revenue service. >> nearly two weeks after hurricane matthew battered haiti killing 1,000 people and destroying thousand more homes and businesses, the nation is still a wreck. united nations aid convoys now travel under armed guard after several trucks were hijacked. and two warehouses were looted. the storm washed out roads and bridges and destroyed power and communications systems. there is little food or drinkable water. the people in some areas are getting desperate. vladamir duthier takes us there. >> we spent the last week in haiti covering aftermath of hurricane matthew. almost seven years ago i was here. less than 24 hours after the nation was rocked by an earthquake in 2010. i have been back several times since. always because of a tragedy. this time was no different. the capital port-au-prince was spared. towns on the island southern coast, jeremy were leveled. when we arrived in jeremy it wasn't hard to see why so many homes were wiped out.
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and so many were killed. all the roofs of in the country side are made of tin. no way tin is going to sustain in the face of 145 mile an hour wind. they have been sleeping outdoors. >> this woman told me they have nothing left. >> translator: they don't have anything. they don't have water. they don't have food. jeff jenti showed us what was left of his home. >> this is the bedroom. >> celese elasae has three children. she wonders if they will survive the aftermath. >> bread fruit. all they have to eat right now. everybody is giving me their names. i think they feel by giving me their names. we won't forget them. >> the next day we took a helicopter to port-au-pima. from the air looked like it was hit with a bomb. >> the people here are
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absolutely vulnerable. they don't have water. they don't have hey house. they don't have clothes. they can't find food to eat. they have problems with everything. now the big fear is cholera. the last outbreak killed 10,000. jeff daniel aliguere with doctors without borders. >> treated 100 people. so far not one person has died. a bright spot. almost seven years ago i was here. this is where tens of thousand of quake victims were unceremoniously buried in mass graves. on this sacred, hallowed ground, there is an overturned port-a-potties, breaks my heart to steep what we are seeing here. everybody should be ashamed. as we were leaving, we met some kids sitting on a sun-baked rocky soil. he wants few be a journalist. who, doctor? he wants few be a doctor.
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already number one on itunes. anthony mason has their story. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: kings of leon caught fire behind their hit "sex on fire" in 2008. a family band. three brothers, caleb, nathan on drums, jared on base and their cousin matthew on lead guitar. where did your love of music first come from? >> our dad was a traveling minister. church music was a huge part of mine and caleb's lives, we were the oldest. >> reporter: nathan and caleb moved to nashville to become songwriters were signed to a reporting deal in 2002. they wanted to name themselves for their grandfather. leon, the label had a different idea.
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>> they wanted us to be called the fallwell brothers. >> reporter: you put your foot down, no way? >> no we are going to be kings of leon. they said that's the worst band name ever. you are sabotaging your career. >> we dropped it. >> reporter: the label wanted them to work with professional musicians. instead they brought in then 15-year-old jared, and 17-year-old matthew. they were look do they play? we just bought jared a bass today. he's learning. they said what about matthew? i said well he played a song over the phone from mississippi. sounded pretty good. >> reporter: the kings of leon grew up quickly. >> jared and matt became men like on the road. >> nathan still tries to order for us at dinner and stuff like that. >> a point where the younger brother usually fights back.
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did that change the balance of the band? >> we started pretty early on. things would come to a vote. i still don't like that. >> reporter: you don't like votes? >> no. >> reporter: the band broke first in britain where their third album "because of the times" climbed to number one and kids started mimicking their look. >> i went into a bar, one night, and -- someone came up to me what are you a kings of leon wannabe? i was like, yeah. yes, i am. >> yeah, it was crazy. we would leave london, having played sold out shows and like -- getting recognized at the airport. and then we would get home and our mom would be there to pick us up. ♪ someone like you >> reporter: their fourth album would break them worldwide. only by the night sold more than 8 million copies. success brought greater pressure and some fans accused them of selling out. >> even though you try not to read all that stuff. you start to hear it.
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and it starts to kind of -- weigh on you a little bit. in 2011, caleb notoriously walked off stage in the middle of a concert and didn't come back. the kings canceled the rest of their u.s. tour. mentally where were you? >> ready for a break. >> exhausted. >> unemployed. >> frazzled. >> we hadn't done that, i don't think we would be talking about our seventh album right now, you know. ♪ the walls come down >> reporter: is it easier to get through that when you guys are all family? >> family. it is a double-edged sword. like, you fight a lot ears. but you get over it a lot easier too. ♪ when the walls come down ♪ when the walls come down >> reporter: and the music press is already calling this the kings' comeback year. >> i think we might have lost sight of why we wanted to be in the band in the first place. and play music. and i think, that we just got
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lawmakers in new jersey are considering a measure to end the annual black bear hunt after the apparent killing of a beloved neighborhood bear. pedal was famous for walking around town on his hind legs like a bear in the cartoon. he hasn't been seen since the bow and arrow hunt ended this weekend. witnesses say pedals was killed. fish and wildlife workers said a dead bear that looked like pedals was brought into a weigh in station. >> reporter: pedals was a frequent visitor to the neighborhood for years but quickly gained a devoted following well beyond new jersey. that means when people learned of his apparent death, they were
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crushed. >> looks like he is missing the front paw. >> reporter: for years pedals the bear became some of what a celebrity in northern new jersey. >> a bipedal bear. >> reporter: walking on two feet apparently because of injuries to both front paws. he would be seen roaming the new jersey suburbs. over the weekend fans were disturbed to hear about the bear's reported death on a facebook page devoted to the animal. >> to the immediate area, he was look a mascot, you know, they loved him. >> reporter: lisa rose rublack first broke the news on social media. >> how are you able to confirm it? >> we made a lot of friend. hunting buddies of ours. friends and one one is line with the bear. and he told us. told us that we saw him. so it was enough, we believe him. >> reporter: wildlife officials have not confirmed pedal's death. announcement on the fan page, that was taken down after the comment section became combative. was snuff -- was enough to draw national attention. much like the controversial shootings of the gorilla and the
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lion, pedals' apparent killing has been met with outrage.e i t makes me sick to my stomach. it is horrible. >> reporter: why? >> because an innocent bear, minding his business. searching for food. >> reporter: more than 500 bears were killed during new jersey's recent black bear hunt. a tool the department of environmental protection says is necessary in controlling the state's bear population. estimate at 3,000 bears. >> it just takes one person that doesn't care if he is alive or dead or thinks that it would be funny to kill an icon.>> fans o than $20,000 to build a special enclosure at a wildlife sanctuary. wildlife officials tell us they will release photos of an injured bear that was killed early this week. but without any dna samples it may be impossible to know that the bear was in fact pedals. >> that's the "overnight news" for this tuesday.
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♪ it's tuesday, october 18th, 2016. this is "cbs morning news." >> we're witnessing a criminal enterprise that has turned our government into a vehicle for the clints' personal profit at your expense. but it gets worse. >> donald trump is pouncing on newly released fbi records. he said it proves quid pro quo when hillary clinton was secretary of state. and while he's stumping, clinton is preparing for the third and final presidential debate. and a retired u.s. general faces prison time for lying
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