>> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ captioning funded by cbs good morning. it is monday, october 31st, 2016. welcome to "cbs this morning." fbi director james comey faces major backlash for a new review of clinton-related e-mails. former attorney general eric holder says comey is a good man who made a serious error. kellyanne conway is here in studio 57, donald trump's campaign manager. an officer was shot as the week-long handhunt came for a violate end and they killed the suspect. do you get man when a lane is blocked? how a lane merger can speed traffic up for everybody.

we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener." your world in 90 seconds. we won't be distracted no matter what our opponents throw at us. we are just getting warmed up. right? >> the clinton campaign fires back at the director of the fbi. >> you slammed fbi director comey for going long on innuendo and light on facts. >> to throw into the campaign 11 days out with a break with a president is inappropriate. >> hillary clinton is not the victim, by the way. you, the american people, are the victims of this corrupt system. >> another powerful earthquake rattled central italy. >> this tremendouser, the strongest since 1980. the week-long manhunt in oklahoma is now over. michael vance has been killed by officers after a shoot-out. a kaw plcar plowed into a racing fans in martinsville speedway in virginia. the injuries were minor. >> i heard the wind go behind me

and then heard screams. >> a plane did tack off in ft. lauderdale after it was cleared. >> a close call at a chinese zoo after he climbed into the giant panda enclosure, trying to impress two women >> all that. wide open! jason witten to win the game! >> there will be a game six! cubs win it 3-2. >> going to win it! >> and all that matters. >> it was just announced that the fbi is reopening their investigation into the legally conduct of hillary clinton. we never thought we were going to say thank you to anthony weiner. >> on "cbs this morning." it's true. it seems anthony weiner is forcing the nation to relitigate the entire e-mail controversy and putting the chances of hillary clinton winning the presidency in serious danger. danger. i'm not having fun!

you're ruining my chance! dang it. announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by toyota. let's go places! ♪ ♪ welcome to "cbs this morning". the fbi now has a search warrant to review whether newly discovered e-mails passed through hillary clinton's private servers. the messages were found on a laptop used by former congressman anthony weiner. he is the estranged husband of longtime clinton aide huma abedin. >> eric holder and other ex-federal prosecutors and officials have signed a letter criticizing fbi director james comey. holder writes in "the washington post" that comey made a serious error and said it is up to the director to correct his mistake not for the sake of a political candidate or campaign but in order to protect our system of justice and best serve the american people. in july, comey recommended no criminal charges against clinton for her use of a private e-mail

server while she was secretary of state. jeff pegues is outside of fbi headquarters in washington. jeff, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. law enforcement sources say the fbi is trying to get the technology infrastructure in place to sort through these thousands of new e-mails that they want to review. we are told that the e-mails were discovered earlier this month, but fbi doctor james comey said he didn't find out about them until last thursday. cbs news has learned that fbi director james comey have been call members of congress who demanded he release more information about the review of the new e-mails. comey is under fire for making the disclosure 11 days before the plex. >> there is no way for the public to make an informed judgment. >> reporter: adam shift says friday's announcement broke agency protocol. >> this violates the department of justice's policy against

speaking about open or closed investigations, but also the d.o.j. policy about speaking about an investigation this close to an election. >> reporter: in a letter addressed to the fbi director on sunday, democratic senator harry reid accused comey of partisan actions and alleged he may have broken the law by violating the hatch act that bans most federal and some other government employees from participating in political activities that could help or on hurt a partisan group or candidate in a partisan election. investigators seized the laptop belonging to long time clinton aid huma abedin and estranged husband anthony weiner into a separate probe into weiner's alleged sexual communication with underaged girl and comey sent a vagary worded to congress on friday saying he did not know whether or not this material may be significant. cbs news has learned that the fbi deliberated over whether to

disclose the information. officials debated whether they would be accused of trying to manipulate the election by hiding the renewed investigation with evidence was found. officials ultimately concluded that the letter was the most credible approach after comey alleged to inform congress if anything else came up with clinton's use of private e-mail server. >> we would look at any additional information. >> we commend the fbi to keep their word. >> reporter: over the weekend vice presidential candidate mike pence praised comey's decision. >> what the decision this week showed even 11 days before an election no one is above the law. >> reporter: law enforcement sources say that abedin is cooperating and seems surprised that the e-mails were on a laptop. gayle? >> thank you, jeff. 71% in our latest cbs news battlegrond tracker poll say that this e-mail disclosure will not change their vote.

some of those people in 13 battleground states have already voted. just 5% of democrats say it makes them less likely to vote for hillary clinton. nancy cordes has clinton's response to the fbi letter. nancy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. well, with so many americans voting right now, the clinton camp didn't have time to dwell on what they saw as an unfair move by the fbi. instead, they are moving aggressively to shape public opinion on this, calling on the fbi to the director to explain himself with the assumption that the best defense is a good offense. >> it's pretty strange to put something like that out this with such little information right before an election. >> reporter: clinton came down hard this weekend on comey's move. >> it's unprecedented and it is deeply troubling. >> reporter: her campaign followed that up with a facebook video. >> the more information has come out the more overblown this all seems. >> it's already been viewed more than a million times. >> you're probably as putsled

and outraged as we are. >> are any of your going to be distracted. >> tim kaine kaine argued that outrage was helping the campaign. >> it is kind of revved up enthusiasm. a little bit of -- a little bit of righteous indignation and righteous anger. it's revved it up a about. >> reporter: huma abedin was clinton's longest serve aide and stayed in new york over the new york and she separated from t i anthony weiner in august. >> huma. they just found a lot of them. we never thought we were going to say thank you to anthony weiner. >> reporter: campaign chairman john podesta said no changes to abedin's duties in these final eight days. >> shes played a central and vital role in this campaign and she continues to do that. >> reporter: at a church in ft. lauderdale, clinton said the bible had taught her about ri resilience. >> no matter what is thrown our way, we are not going to back down, we are not going to give up. >> reporter: one thing giving

the clinton camp hope right now is the fact that so many americans, more than 20 million, had already voted before the fbi took this step. norah, the campaign has been careful to use words like puzzling and confusing to describe comey's move and allowing on other democrats like harry reid they know will go a lot further. >> a close race in three states. within a margin of error the poll was taken before the latest e-mail news come out. trump holds a two-point lead in arizona and arizona three points in colorado and three points in north carolina and ahead in pennsylvania by eight points. over the weekend, trump lashed out at clinton over the e-mail discovery. major garrett is covering the trump campaign. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. republicans in battleground states tell me they can feel the ground shifting and this race tightening significantly. now the field organizers are not

predicting a trump victory yet but they say clinton's e-mail woes are rallying trump who is hitting these notes with everything he's got. >> now the fbi has found, you're not going to believe this one. this just happened. another 650,000 e-mails. >> reporter: donald trump placed hillary clinton's ongoing e-mail scandal at the center of his stump speech sunday. >> i think that's called the motherlode. i think they found them all. >> reporter: delighted. >> the department of justice is fighting the fbi, that's because the department of justice is trying so hard to protect hillary clinton. >> reporter: prior to friday's discovery, the fbi was a favorite trump boogie man. part of a rigged beltway culture only he could fix.

>> they have essentially corrupted the director of the fbi. what has happened with the fbi is so sad. do they make a deal where everybody protects each other in washington? maybe that's it? i really believe? >> reporter: the agency is now back on trump's good side. >> what happened today, starting with the fbi, may be the system will become a little less rigged. beautiful. >> reporter: trump is counting on voters' anger with clinton to help win over skeptical republicans and build on his enthusiasm edge. the latest cbs news poll shows a majority of trump supporters in north carolina and arizona are more enthusiastic than in previous election. less than 40% of clinton supporters feel the same way. >> we are leading numerous national polls and those polls are all before the bombshell of corruption. >> reporter: over the weekend,

trump continued warning about nonexistent voter fraud repeated his promise to bring back waterboarding and said clinton lacks immigration policy could allow 650 million people to sneak into america in just one week. it's why even newly optimistic republicans fear trump's pension for veering off script could undercut his recent surge in momentum. cbs news political director and "face the nation" moderator john dickerson is in washington. good morning, john. >> reporter: good morning, charlie. >> what impact and what might be discovered that could make this a game-changer? >> well, i'm still trying to handle this first discovery. i can't imagine what might be discovered. we used to have october surprises. it was a single day in october. now the entire month is a surprise. i think, though, the change, of course, is the conversation all about hillary clinton and a damaging thing for hillary clinton, and something that encourages the campaign to behave in a way that reinforces

people's skepticism or concerns about it, which is why it's really interesting whether they will continue going after comey which is basically all they can do or whether they pivot. but the question is does it move anything? and, you know, our polling and other polling shows that on account surprises aren't what they used to be because everybody sorts new information about their existing partisanship. a lot of partisan sorting and not a lot of people sloshing between the two candidates and 22 million or so votes have already been cast. the activity on saturday suggested that early turnout among democrats you might expect a little dampening after this news coming hasn't happened so we will see how it plays out the last couple of days. but the real thing to watch is the republicans who were skeptical about trump that they have been worried about on the republican side, does it change any of those minds and that is what i'm looking for. >> did mr. comey have any other options? if had he waited until after the election to reveal this he could

have faced other accusations. any other way to handle this? >> i don't know. we don't know exactly what he has and seems to be confusing. you're right. imagine if nothing had been said and it came out after the election. it seemed like this was designed in a way to make nobody happy no matter what the election outcome is people are going to look to the fbi and have complaints. it is curious this idea of if the warrant had not been issued when he put out his first announcement and, therefore, they hadn't looked at the e-mails or -- it seems mentioning that might have lowered some of the speculation. of course, they might have looked at the e-mails without a warrant. there is no evidence of that. i guess it's quite confusing why there was not something to kind of keep everybody from wildly speculating because a lot of speculation and we see donald trump saying the only reason they did this is because they found some huge bombshell in the new cache of e-mails. >> you mentioned that more than 20 million people have already

voted in the early votes so there is some question about how much this may influence the final outcome. what have we learned from those early vote numbers? >> well, we find that -- you know, it depends on the different states how it's working. there is -- it's up in -- north carolina, for example, democrats are up but they are down from where they were in '12. we know there a lot of early voting going on. it will change in its composition. so we -- we don't really have a strong signal from early voting, although the democrats say that they are up in the early voting compared to republicans. >> but down from '12 and they lost in '12. >> right but you have the composition the electorate is different and north carolina voting rules and florida is different. comparisons to '12 you have to be careful about them. >> exactly. thanks, john. in our next hour, donald trump's campaign manager kellyanne conway will be here in studio 57 and we will get her candidate's latest reaction to the fbi letter ahead on "cbs this morning." a manhunt for an oklahoma

suspect wanted in a deadly crime spree came to a dramatic end. michael vance jr. was killed last night in a shoot-out with law enforcement officers. a sheriff was hit in the gunfire. vance had previously shot two other officers. police say he had a hit list with what appeared to be more intended victims. david begnaud is in butler, oklahoma, near the scene of the shoot-out. david, good morning. >> reporter: gayle, good morning. people across oklahoma were fearful, afraid of where this man was going to go next. he killed two members of his own family and shot law enforcement officers and posted on social media, warning of more random attacks. it ended right here on this county road in rural oklahoma where we are this morning. behind me, beneath the fog and in the distance, is a flatbed truck and our affiliate news 9 in oklahoma city reports the man was driving that truck, shooting outline the back of the window at highway patrol officers as they pursued him returning fire. and eventually killing him. the manhunt ended right here in

a gun fight with law enforcement officers in rural oklahoma. the violent crime spree. 38-year-old michael vance is now over. authorities say dewey county sheriff spotted vance in a truck and pulled him over. they exchanged gunfire. the sheriff was shot in the shoulder and elbow. vance took off. but was tracked down 25 minutes later and killed in a shoot-out with oklahoma state troopers. it all started sunday afternoon. authorities got a tip that the fugitive was hiding out near hammond, oklahoma, after a car he had stolen was spotted hidden away under heavy brush. >> a farmer discovered a vehicle in his field, a vehicle that come very close to matching the description of the vehicle we had been looking for. >> reporter: michael vance is suspected of shooting and stabbing to death his aunt and uncle ronald and valerie wilkinson eight days ago. according to to vance's arrest report he attempted to sever his

uncle's head. when authorities went to find him vance shot and wounded more officers. >> more intense than what i found. >> reporter: while on the road he posted live foods to faceb k facebook -- videos to facebook and threatening to attack more people. >> letting you know, this is real, see? i got a gun. that's the real deal. >> reporter: over the eight days that mike vance was actually on the run, authorities were telling people across this state that he was infected with aids and he was trying to use that to actually in fact, other people. norah, as the crime scene behind me is being processed, the suspect's body is still at the scene but state officials want to know the threat is over. >> what a strange story. david, thank you so much. italy is assessing the damage from its strongest earthquake in nearly 40 years. the 6.6 magnitude quake yesterday rocked mountainous central italy p.m. the third powerful earthquake to hit the region in two months. drone footage shows how an iconic medieval church was

leveled. it dates back to the 14th century. other treasured landmarks that withstood the previous quakes were also destroyed. no one reportedly killed or seriously hurt. cub fans this morning are keeping hope alive. they celebrated outside of wrigley field last night after chicago avoided elimination in game five of the world series. >> 2016. there will be a game six. cubs win it 3-2. >> a 101-mile-an-hour fastball ended the game. it was the first win at home for the cubs since 1945 in a world series. the indians still lead the series three games to two. game six is tomorrow in cleveland. >> it's getting good! >> oh, boy! >> talk about the pressure! pressure! pressure pressure! >> 105-mile-per-hour chapman had. >> i protect it's going all the way. >> seven games. >> yep. now this story. new questions that have emerged about the sexual assault scandal

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♪ and, now, the stream of consciousness musings of wcbs-2 meteorologist john elliott. >> it is 7:19. time to check your local weather. >> thank you, norah. you know, if i was to scale, my head would be worth about $400 million. >> it is time to check your local weather. >> thank you, kristine. i know her! i know kristine! rob lowe and his hair are downstairs right now. that's right. this guy does not age! look. a little gift for you. like a little pearl. the morning sun. >> it is 7:19. time to check your local weather. >> you know, i just got to say it. i think gayle's hair looks great! >> moving on! >> when you take it out of context, it looks a little goofy, right?

but maybe in the moment it makes a lot of sense. >> i've known john elliott for a long time. my kids love him. they say he is so great and they look great to get his reports every morning. >> seems like you never know what is coming out of his mouth. we love you, john elliott. welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up this half hour, "60 minutes sports" investigation about the sexual assault scandal at baylor university. that is not funny. how the athletic department kept abuse hidden from administrators. >> some traffic engineers are promoting a controversial way to merge on the highway but not all experts believe it's safe. ahead, we will show you the zipper merge and why critics say it could lead to accidents. time to show you some of the morning's headlines from around the globe. the times of london says russian president vladimir putin will launch a huge assault on rebel-held areas of aleppo in syria and could happen as early as this week. putin wanted to defeat rebel

leaders. aircraft carrier is said to be traveling to a strike position in the mediterranean. an accident involving an american airlines jet has touched off an investigation into certain engines made by general telectric. this plane caught fire on friday as it was taking off. all people were evacuated. the fire was caused by a disk that broke apart inside the mg. the trial getting under way of a former south carolina police officer charged with murdering an unarmed black man. michael slager who is white was caught on cell phone video last year while he was shooting at a black man. uber ex-passengers, researchers in boston found drivers cancel more than 10% of rides from passengers with black sounding names.

cancellations dropped under 5% for passengers with white sounding names. the difference was much smaller for lyft passengers. both uber and lyft say they do not tolerate sexual discrimination. the sexual assault scandal rocking baylor university and its football team is far worse than previously disclosed. "60 minutes sports" has learned since 2011, 17 female students had claims against 19 baylor football players and that included four alleged gank rag s rapes. ken starr and art briles lost their jobs. armen keteyian has been investigating since may. he talked with top administrators. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. our variation investigation rev raymond ramsslaur offer crossed with crawford. crawford said she couldn't get

police results including one for a baylor student who claimed she was gang raped. the gang raped encloses armstead and chapman in baylor university was contacted about the charges. reagan said the baylor campus police department he oversees had a history of bearing sexual assault complaints that came to them. >> here it is. >> reporter: you'll notice here, baylor university was contacted as part and parcel to the investigation of this incident report. nothing ever happened for well over a year. i'm just wondering what happened there? was there an investigation and, if not, why not? you have a police report. >> there was a police report. i suppose it stayed with the police department. it never came out of the police department that was -- that was

a significant failure to respond by our police department. there is no doubt about it. >> reporter: the victim blaming would be one answer. the other answer, i'll go back to it, is protecting the football team, protecting that brand. >> i don't believe that was at all the reason. i really think that it was probably feeling -- i don't know what was said, if they did talk to them. i don't know. >> reporter: they did talk to the victim. there is no question. there was -- it's a detailed police report. >> right. there was a title ix case that was opened up, we opened up that up and that is when i learned about it. and, at that time, we took the appropriate actions and eventually he was found responsible. >> reporter: eventually, he was. but in 2014, travon armstead was all big 12 tight end. >> that th-- that would be true >> reporter: patty crawford has years of investigating sexual assaults but nothing she said prepared her for baylor. in your mind, who is responsible? was it institutional failure

right up to the highest level of baylor, and i'm including the board of regents? >> absolutely. there were a lot of people like me at the university that did not want these things happening and fighting for it, but they didn't have the power or the authority and they were not heard. that is institutional. what drives a culture? it's the top. and that was the hardest thing for me to come to grips with was after all of this, this report is released after all of this, the discrimination became so clear, even against me. that's power and that is control. what is rape about? power and control. >> reporter: baylor prides itself on its christian values and creating a caring community. but our investigation found a culture where victims who came forward found themselves blamed for violating the university's

strict code of conduct, which prohibits drinking and premarital sex. >> so this is as much about a culture as one particular individual? >> absolutely. we talked to four of the board of regents and i interviewed the interim president and former coach of baylor, who sexual assault allegations were raised to that coach and went forward to the athletic department and that coach was told, "that's not your job. your job is to coach." >> did briles defend himself to some of the member of board of trustees? >> art briles is caught in the middle of this and a lot going on here, charlie, from the victim blaming which baylor now admits for the first time we blamed the victims, to i think what is happening with art briles is it's confusing to say the least right now because just take for a second. if reagan ramshaer said the reports stopped in the baylor police department, i would ask this question, how would art briles know?

>> ramsbaer had an interesting verse. >> patty crawford laid out the senior leadership at baylor what was happening and reagan ramshauer who denied saying this, patty said outloud in the meeting that these were not facts, that these women had mental illness. >> mental illness? >> that is the culture that patty crawford said she was dealing with at baylor. >> can you e armsee armen's ful report on "60 minutes sports" tomorrow night on hbo. >> drivers may help the flow of traffic who merge. a controvoversial driving maneur is called the zipping merge. here is an invitation we

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♪ last-minute merges on highways are often blamed for causing a little bit of road rage. but engineers and a handful of states are now encouraging drivers to use what they are calling the zipper merge. it's when drivers wait until the final moments to join a single lane of traffic before the construction zones. kris van cleave is driving through the 395 tunnel under construction in washington to explain this controversial move. >> reporter: well, good morning. this construction zone is one where lanes can go away and it can be very congested with speeds very low. it's perfect for the zipper merge.

the challenge is getting all of these drivers to understand it's okay to merge at the last minute. >> i stay in that lane as long as possible and then i merge into it. >> reporter: can you really blame deanna graves? when the other cars line up in the right lane, all that empty pavement on the left is just sitting there unused. now some traffic engineers are saying, go! use that space! so it's okay to cut? >> it's okay to take turns. >> reporter: kansas is one of at least eight states to try what is known as the zipper merge system. the state department of transportation put up signs asking drivers to use both lanes and take turns near a bridge construction project outside of kansas city. kdot is finding this brings predictability to the community and know it takes five to six minutes to get through the work zone in peak traffic and from the air you can see the cars keep moving and they come together -- well, like the teeth of a zipper. hence, the zipper merge. all right. so both lanes are in use.

we are moving. traffic engineer chris ty erickson showed us the zipper. >> they made a gap. weren't sure at first. >> reporter: one of the big challenges is retraining drivers not to merge early. some states have gotten creative to explain how lining up ahead of time can increase the backup. >> if they just do the zipper merge, that line wouldn't be so long. >> reporter: several studies point to the benefits of zipperer merging including 50% of shorter lines and reduction in speed and drivers reporting less anxiety and frustration. >> here in california, we are all about safety. >> reporter: mark zinger says his state continues to urge drivers to merge early. >> we don't want those people to cut in at the very last second. not only can it lead to road

rage incidents but sudden braking which can cause a direct collision. >> reporter: do you see a stday where the zipper merge is a norm. >> >> yes. it's one of those things come along as our cities grow that comes as welcome news to deanna graves. so this is like a life changing day for you? you're no longer the bad driver on the road? >> yes. my life is complete. yes. >> reporter: the zipper merge only works in high traffic, low-speed situations. if it's a work zone traveling closer to freeway speeds, experts say it's better to merge early and safely. >> kris, thank you. that makes sense. i feel like when you're on the highway, everybody is going fast and takes a while to get over. >> it doesn't seem to be the safest thing to do, i have to say. someone who has done it a couple times. >> what do you think of the zipper merge? >> i'm for it. if a man wants to impress a

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>> good morning, i'm jim donovan, the injury coy get case to the in the george washington bridgegate scandal. bridget kelly former aid to new jersey governor chris christie and former port authority executive director bill barone are accused of deliberately creating gridlock on the bridge. both kelly anbar own say they were told the lane closures were part of traffic study. we sends right over to katie for a look at today's wetter. >> forecast very pleasant, bit of rude awake never what we experienced over the weekend, pretty substantial warmth. we take a look at the difference one day has made here. yesterday we were awfully close to record. we didn't actually end up with one, but 79 was the over achieving number we ended up with. fifty-eight at best here today. you do the math. definitely cooler day. we are expecting to warm right

back up by mid to late week. next round of showers doesn't come until thursday, so pretty good looking forecast, smear. >> sure s katie, thank you. good morning, everyone being happy halloween, still dealing with this accident, 95 north past broad street, pulled all the way off to the right lane, it is still causing some pretty significant backups. they are extending back to the airport, also affecting platt bridge, as well, heads up on that, plus lansdale-doylestown still suspended due to power problems, be sure to check the schedules on line, downed tree bethlehem pike closed between skippack pike and lafayette avenue. jim, back to you. >> next update 8:25. coming up on cbs this morning, donald trump's campaign manager kelly ann conway is in studio 57. i'm jim donovan,

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♪ it is monday, october 31st, 2016. you know what that means? happy halloween! welcome back to "cbs this morning." there is more real news ahead, including the fbi director criticized for telling congress about more e-mails possibly linked to hillary clinton. see how it's changing what the candidates say about him. first, here's a look at today's "eye opener" at 8:00. >> the e-mails were discovered earlier this month, but james comey said he didn't find out about them until last thursday. >> the clinton camp is moving aggressively to shape public opinion on this and calling on the fbi director to explain himself. >> hillary clinton's new fbi woes are rallying skeptical republicans to trump who are trying to hit these notes with everything he has got. >> what might be discovered that

could make this a game-changer? >> i'm still trying to handle this first discovery. i can't imagine what might be discovered. we used to have october surprises. it was a single day in october. now the entire month is a surprise. two members of his own family shot law enforcement officers and then posted on social media warning of more random attacks. it ended right here on this county road in rural oklahoma where we are this morning. italy is assessing earthquake that hit the region. >> take a look how these dancers at a charlotte, north carolina hornets game got down during intermission. ♪ >> i'm charlie with gayle king and norah o'donnell. fbi investigators have a search

warrant. they are on a laptop shared by long time aide huma abedin and her estranged husband anthony weiner. fbi director sent congress on friday a vaguely worded letter saying he didn't know if the e-mails may be significant. >> former attorney general eric holder, along with nearly 100 former justice departments officials on both sides of the aisle said they were aston extinguished and p -- astonished and perplexed by come yinch comey's decision. since july, when comey recommended no criminal charges against a former secretary of state, clinton and donald trump have had different reactions to the e-mail server investigation. >> although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. >> today is the best evidence

ever that we have seen that our system is absolutely, totally rigged. >> we did not find evidence sufficient to establish that she knew she was sending classified information beyond a reasonable doubt. >> look at what he said when he testified before congress. because when he did, he clarified much of what he had said in his press conference and i appreciated that. >> but he said it was sloppy. >> no. he did not. >> hillary clinton's handling of the top secret information was sloppy or represent sloppiness? >> yeah, that's not way to express the same concept. >> the biggest rigging of what has happened with the fbi and the justice department with respect to hillary clinton because she is so guilty. >> is there not a fair basis to say we did it in any way that was honest or independent. >> it was revealed by the finn director that thousands of more e-mails have been discovered on a laptop that was shared by her top aide huma abedin and her husband. >> it might not be as rigged as i thought.

>> voters deserve to get full and complete facts, and so we have called on director comey to explain everything right away, put it all out on the table. right? >> the fbi may have to check thousands of e-mails so the review is expected to run past election day. donald trump's campaign manager is just arriving here at the cbs broadcast center. we will talk to kellyanne conway. she is outside getting out of the car. about the fbi e-mail probe and what else could happen. there she is in the last eight days of the ca

kellyanne conway, donald trump's campaign manager is joining us at the table. welcome. >> thank you. >> donald trump said, yesterday, this is bigger than watergate. do you all know something we don't know and how could he know that when the fbi is saying we don't know what is in the

e-mails yet. >> he is saying this is explosive and i think it reminds people what their hess stations about hillary clinton are in the first place. even for undecided voters, they are quite decided and known her for decades. >> how can it be explosive when we don't know what is in it yet? >> even the democrats are calling explosive and unprecedented. >> saying the fact he made this announcement. >> but, look. sitting on information like that also could have affected the election so i think comey was an impossible spot. i'm reading the reports this morning and yesterday that suggest that others in the fbi knew about it for quite a while and just told jim comey so he was compelled to come forward and dsay -- >> the hillary clinton campaign is asking them to reveal everything. do you agree with that? >> i think the investigations take time. i don't think anybody should force their hand and i think the clinton campaign is asking the fbi to do something they know the fbi can't do which is to

rush through because there is an election next week is rush through the normal channels. there are 650,000 e-mails we keep reading in the published reports. >> on anthony weiner's laptop. >> that is a lot of e-mails to sift through. >> if the fbi says we did not go through this by election day that is okay with you? >> we hear hillary clinton having boos at one of her rallies yesterday. maybe asking the wrong candidate all along are you inciting anger and violence at your rallies? are you qualified for president and fit for office? >> if they find out in fact, there is nothing there and go through it before the election day you want them to announce. we looked at all of these things and there is nothing there, we maintain our original judgment? >> if they want, they can say that, i guess. the damage is done. remember. let's go back to the beginning because hillary clinton set up a home private server that you're not allowed to do and her people were told you're not allowed to do. she put on national security

risks and receiving e-mails from the president of the united states on a private server who then president obama apparently happened to notice and told someone is this a private e-mail? this woman has imperiled our national security and what good reason? for her petty personal political gain. she is just unqualified and unfit to be president. that simple. >> let me ask you about the democrat irsenator harry reid. he has written a letter highly critical as you know of what the fbi doctor has done. he says that comey also has explosive information about close ties and coordination between donald trump and his top advisers and the russian government. would you encourage the fbi to release information about that? >> if they want to. but we are listening to harry reid, put him under oath and see if he'll say the same thing. this is the same man who said mitt romney was hiding things in his tax returns. he gives all kinds of allegations about people and people repeat them without evidence and i think it's really

dangerous. >> do you know what he is talking about? some former official in the campaign who may have had some contact with the russian government? >> charlie, i have zero knowledge except what i read in the press like we all do. >> so his claims make no sense to me. >>? >> they make no sense and i think a desperate attempt i saw by the democrats over the weekend. look. a woman who reported last week hillary clinton spent tens of thousands of dollars on polling and focus groups two years before the election to find out what she believes and who she is and how to convey that to the rest of us and no way they have a plan b in place. they were told last week the race is over and no path for trump and wait out the clock. look at last week her poll ratings evaporating before some of the swing states before fbi comey made his new revelation and i don't think they were ready for the race to take this turn again. >> let's talk about our battleground tracker poll says people have already voted and this new revelation will not change their minds. >> not 71% have voted. 71% say they won't change their minds. >> thank you, norah.

will this change how y'all campaign, these remaining eight days? >> no. >> changing your strategy? >> no, it hasn't changed the strategy since it was announced. it was around 1:00 or 2:00 p.m. on friday. trump made other stops. he mentions it at the beginning and talks about obamacare and isis and patriotism. the reason he does that this has to go on independent of us and also obamacare is a huge boiling issue now. it's people are opening up their mailbox and clicking on their computers and noticing their premiums are exploding out of control. we don't want americans to go through another four, eight years where they are deciding between paying the rent, paying for food or paying for these explosive obamacare premiums. >> can you turn around pennsylvania? she has an eight-point -- >> we don't see it that way. >> you disagree with the polling numbers? >> yes. we see pennsylvania a tighter race. a state where donald trump's message, renegotiating bad trade deals and creating 25 million

jobs over ten years unleashing energy investment, and also just repealing -- replacing obamacare, including getting rid of obamacare? >> obamacare is your issue? >> a huge issue. it's a signature issue that helped republicans win and 2013 we nominated romney care which was a political cover for obamacare. but people are getting those premium increases now. >> new york magazine said you are a mother of four children and he responded how you respond to donald trump the way you would with your children. what do you say to that? >> i love the picture, for once. so many bad ones out of there. that is not a fair relationship with mr. trump and our relationship. we have a great working relationship. i respect him and it's his campaign, gayle, and it's his

candidacy and has to be his choice an advice voice. i love the fact it took donald trump to elevate the first female in history to be a campaign manager. >> do your mothering skills come into play? >> 24/7 situation. not just donald trump. >> eight more days. former drug user is challenging his experience on the streets to help his juice business thrive. >> the addict in me is what i bring to this operation. this relentless pursuit of greatness and pure authentic self-expression. >> ahead, how focusing on wellness for everybody transformed his life. you're watching "cbs this morning." we will be right back.

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her owen is in the airplane. it brings back memories for khalil rafati. >> i >> reporter: he moved to los angeles. but there was no escaping his demons. rafati started using and selling drugs and that led to a felony drug conviction and later his decent into heroin addiction and homelessness. >> this is the last house on the block. i had nowhere else to go. this is where i could get drugs and i could panhandle. it's like being hijacked. you have to have drugs. >> reporter: more than once, rafati ended up in the los angeles county jail. so you actually haven't been back here since you were released in jail? >> yeah. now that gave me a shudder. >> reporter: yeah? >> yeah. inside there is way worse than where we just were. >> reporter: how bad were the withdrawals in there?

>> the worst ever. on a cold, cement floor. yeah. >> reporter: rafati has been sober 13 years now, but admits he still thinks about getting high sometimes. what stops him, he says, is the life he has now. >> that is as california as you can get. >> reporter: a thriving business he built with his pattern haley gorsy and the ruffle 200 employs that depend on him. sun life organic has six locations in los angeles. his flagship shop in malibu with his loyal celebrity clientele sells super food spoojmoothies a life that he credits saving his life. it's a long way from skid row. what was the point where you were, like, no, this really is the end? i'm stopping. >> the seizures, the abscesses, my teeth were literally rotting out of my head. so just the physical condition that i was in really drove me to

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the bride stealing the show at one atlanta wedding. jen briskin wanted a beloved role for her grandfather stanley. she asked him to be flower girl grandpa. he sprinkled some of the petals on the guest and not just in the aisle. go, grandpa stanley. don't you love that story? >> i do. congratulations to them. bruce springsteen is standing up for heroes. ♪ ♪ higher even if we are just dancing in the dark ♪ >> he'll be back on stage tomorrow to the bob woodruff foundation. bob and his wife lee will share

this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news". good morning, i'm rahel solomon, there will be two high profile guests at tonight's jefferson jackson event in center city vice president biden and house minority leader nancy pelosi are the keynote speakers, democratic city committee philadelphia is hosting the event at the sheet metal workers hall. and melania trump will be in philadelphia suburbs this week, tweeting, mrs. trump will be in the area on thursday, no word though on where exactly or what time. now, let's get over to katie fehlinger with a look at the forecast. >> really looking very very pleasant halloween forecast all-in-all, little breezy outside, definitely going to be a chilly day by comparison to the exceptional warmth of yesterday. but beautiful view, to kick start the day here outside middle township high school, few clouds rolling in

obviously bright sunshine, and sun glare, becomes an issue if you are traveling eastbound. but storm scan quiet. it is going to stay that way through the day, behind last night's stormy weather back into temperatures at best upper 50's, so, again, very far cry from what we experienced yesterday, in shorts and t-shirts myself but regardless back into the actual chilly air here, suggest one of the costumes headed out trick-or-treating look at the warm up back to the 70s for two more days here the seven day, by thursday few more showers come through with the next front. meisha? >> yes, we have the sunshine out there, and it is not really posing problems that per say, how much, we do have very busy roadways, weaver accidents here in delaware county multiple vehicles involved. fifty-nine north near route 420, see the right lane compromised and how slow moving it the around there. ninety-five north past broad, still out there, blocking right lane, backups extending to the airport, platt bridge also affected and an accident in north wales. 202 northbound closed at route 63, and you will have to use this alternate dekalb pike or

309 your best bet plus another accident in cherry hill new jersey, rahel, back over to you. >> meisha, thank you. our next update is at 8: 55, ahead on cbs this morning, journalist booed woodruff injured in iraq has made up his mission to

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fun seeing him singing "take me out to the ball game." ." harry caray used to all sing that song. journalist bob woodruff turned the worst day of his life in a force for the good. he's in the toyota greenroom with his wife lee! hello! and somebody else sitting there. ahead, their mission to help wounded veterans. who else is there, norah? >> jeff kinney. how his hugely popular children's series "wimpy kid" helped him meet the pope. time to show you some of the morning's headlines from around the globe. bob dylan broke his silence about winning the nobel prize for literature. he spoke to the telegraph in his first interview since being awarded the prize earlier this month. the singer seemed amused by the honor saying, "isn't that something"? dylan plans to be at the awards ceremony in december, quote, if

it's at all possible." >> the los angeles times found a woman alive after a week missing in the mohave desert. she had been in a wreck. she had been missing for five days. h injuries are called serious but not life-threatening. >> the candy sales are expected to go 5.5% up this year hitting nearly $4 billion, the strongest increase since 2011. one comist says it's part of consumer spending because of low gas prices and modest inflation and they say 70% of parents eat their kids candy. >> i'm guilty. i had three pieces last night. >> there you go. "usa today" reports on tesla motors elon musk backing solar tiles and made by solar city which is seeking to merge with tes

tesla. musk says the price will be better a house with traditional roofing and power from the grid. new york's daily news reports that swimmer michael phelps has taken his marriage wedding public with a ceremony in cabo, mexico. they were married weeks before the olympics. he posted his pictures on instagram as mrs. nicole phelps. they have a five-month-old son. bob woodruff was seriously injured by a roadside bomb ten years ago while on assignment in iraq. he spent five weeks in a coma but he recovered and returned to work 13 months later. the experience inspired bob and his lovely wife lee to start the bob woodruff foundation take helps wounded service members and verts and their families. >> since 2007 their annual benefit stand up for heroes has raised more than $33 million and brings together the biggest names in music and

entertainment. tomorrow it features bruce spring sting and jon stewart and more. they have raised more than $5 million. bob and lee woodruff are with us this morning. can i begin by reading this note? none of us can prevent the bad things from happening, but the key is how we respond. so i want to thank you ten years after from the worst day of our lives from taking something awful and building some things to do good. looking back, could you ever believe to believe what it has been? >> i don't think so. i mean, it's been ten years. after this event, we will have raised $40 million. giving that back to the landscape of veterans communities. >> i thought it was going to be small? we thought it was going to be small and not this big. about 40 million raised and 2.5 veterans and their family members have been helped.

>> also, you're recovering too. >> that is true. that's true. i got my abilities back now and have a wife still with me and didn't divorce me so it's been amazingly successful. >> we are big fans of lee's as well. >> thank you, norah! >> i think one of the things both of you have done is because you were cared for at walter reid and you were embedded with u.s. troops and decided to do this and give back to them. explain why you feel a debt of gratitude to the military? >> well, i think everybody in this country, we know how much we owe for those who have served in these wars and risked their lives to accomplish what they have in a world that the united states has remained vulnerable. we were invaded back in 2001. they have done so much for the people and also the most skilled military we ever had. probably any military in the entire world what they have been able to do and part of that there is no draft. our kids don't have to serve. that's their decision. and the ones that are doing it, not only they are so good at it but the ones who have taken this

risk for our country. >> you talk about, bob, the anniversary of your live day. i love how you characterize that. you say you can find happiness again but what was it like from getting from there to realizing i can be happy again? because it seems so overwhelming and so helpless and hopeless. i remember this story, as we all do at this table. i remember that story we vl when you were hurt. >> yeah, it's been a long path, but i think, you know, just have so many friends and so many kids, you know, and my wife and my family, it's been -- it's coming back faster than we expected. >> i think, too, you asked about how we got here. i think being so privileged, bob being a journalist and having being injured on the job, as if any of you were, you know, cbs would bring everything to bear, so we had so much for his recovery and we looked at the others in the hospital who were in the military who didn't necessarily. we thought, no one knows this is going on. everybody in america just

assumes that our service members are taken care of when they come home. and ten years ago that was not the case. >> what did you see, lee, in particular being that made you say unit? we got to do something about that? >> we saw empty rooms with young injured men and no family members able to be there because that's not something we pay for as a government. and you recover with loved ones around you. right? that is your motivation. >> you hope new things available to veterans including ivf. >> i've been very passionate about that. we stepped out of our lane. we are not an advocacy secret all. i feel so personally passionate. our twins are ivf babies so i know the heart ache of infertili infertility. we have saw the injured service members come home and not able to have families and the government does not pay for that. if you're active duty, the government pays for it that is just wrong. >> you focused on care for wounded warriors but you haven't left out the care givers who are

usually the spouse which also bear a heavy burden. >> i think a couple of big things that don't get as much attention for what they have done, absolutely. medically, the doctors, the nurses, the medics, and the caregivers, the spouses at home, whether it's a wife or a husband. >> anybody that -- >> one of the things, you know, i know about the foundation is bring the caregivers in too. you treat them and give them a full spa day. >> we have massage and yoga and l'oreal hair and outfits and dior makeup. >> you make them feel special. >> it's like a queen for a day moment. >> it is a queen for the day. >> anyone who knows bruce springsteen and jon stewart, not surprised they are involved. how did you get them involved? >> they moved to new jersey! >> that's right. not far away. early on the new york comic festival, the amazing people from there saw some of the stories we were reporting on about a year after i came back,

exact issues we are talking about. they looked at this and they were so moved by it and so upset by how the veterans are being treated. they said, we can have a little fund-raising event. we can have comedians and they can donate their time to come here and do a fund-raiser. next thing you know springsteen wants to come and do the same thing. >> i have a funny story. coma, five weeks and playing bruce springsteen music. when he wakes up, i tell him in his coma, so bruce wrote him a letter. bruce was a fan and he was a fan of bruce. bruce said i'll come back stage when you wake up. i lied a little bit and said bruce said he will come down and play for you. he wakes up from his coma, i need one of those nanar, because he didn't know guitar. i said why? you never played guitar. he said i have to be ready when the boss man comes. he heard that and only thing he remembered in his coma. he told bruce that story and ten years later, he is playing. be careful what you say in a

coma. >> i know. ten years and going strong. goodness. congratulations. >> nice. you got to come. >> empire state building is being lit tomorrow night on stage. >> wow! >> for the first time. good. >> congratulations, woodruff's. >> thank you for all of your support too. >> absolutely. glad to do that. you can get more information on the bob woodruff foundation and stand up for heroes by visiti i "cbs this morning".com. >> the best selling authory behind diary of a wimpy kid is in our studio. he will show us how the character is

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paid authors list. tomorrow the series 11ed book "diary of a wimpy kid double down" hits the book stories. i think we have the whole collection in our house. we are fans in our house. i didn't know you originally had wanted to write this for adults? >> yeah. when i was a kid, i read comic books and comic strips that my father put in front of me, so i always thought that i would be a cartoonist. when i wrote "diary of a wimpy kid." i thought i was writing for my father, somebody who wanted to work back on his childhood. my editor said we think you've written a children series. >> you went, really? >> are you greg? >> i think i'm greg but sort of a tortured twisted version. actually, he is a twisted, tortured version of me and exaggerated form of my worst part, i think. >> lisa who produces this segment her son colton is here. colton has never been to this

program, by the way. you're in today and colton is here. you walk in the room and his mouth falls open. what were trutiying to connect h kids? greg is sarcastic but not a wise ass which i think is fun to read. >> greg has plenty of flaws. maybe he is less flawed than i was as a kid. i'm really trying to look at childhood from every possible angle and greg is the avatar. he is the ki gooi representing all kids in my mind. >> reporter: when you first started the hrp books were big and you thought i can't be like that or i need to do something else? >> when i was writing "diary of a wimpy kid" i was reading "harry potter" and "harry potter" is a underdog but not in some ways. he is brave, he is famous and magical. he is powerful. he's a good athlete. i was like i wasn't any of those things. i was just a normal kid. greg is the anti-"harry potter" in some ways. >> as you travel around the world, the pope has a copy of

this. >> yes. >> in latin. 82 languages. you say kids with autism -- the most? >> i have found that kids who have autism or dyslexia that they really take to my books. i think that what it is is that these pictures in the books, they give the kids little islands to swim to and the pictures provide context. even the pope, if he is learning latin, he can look at the picture and read the text and he gets some context from that feedback. >> you're taking this worldwide, though. as charlie said, when you go on the on road, this is the first time you're doing a book tour globally? >> we started that book tour last year and continuing it this year. we went to brazil, china, romania and going to india and korea and all around the world this year. >> the message resonates even outside of america, a lot of wimpy people around the world is what you're finding? >> yeah. if i'm sitting in front of a crowd in brazil, i say what is

it about this book that about really an american kid that resonates? i think is that childhood is a universal condition, really. is that kids have -- most kids have parents and siblings and pets and homework and teachers. this is the stories of childhood. >> why did you and your wife decide to open up a book store? >> because we wanted something nice in the middle of our com t community and now in plainsville, massachusetts, we have nationally known authors visiting us and we are enriched and the greater community is already enriched. >> a book store can be a community gathering place? >> absolutely. book stores are so vital to a community. >> remember that cartoonist career you had wanted had ever worked out for you? are you frustrated it didn't go the way you wanted? clearly have you commercial success, he i get that. >> i was frustrated i didn't want to become a newspaper

cartoonist because i wanted to be but i think this is a better dream. the fact i'm here with you today is would not have happened if i was in newspaper comics. >> you'll be in movies as well and television? >> yeah, we are working on a fourth diary of "wimpy kid" right now and long haul and next work i'm starting on an animated television series. >> thanks. >> congratulation, jeff kinney. >> thank you. >> "diary of a wimpy kid double down" goes on sale tomorrow. dogs deserve a treat on halloween! a gold retriever comes to life.

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>> negotiated ores for septa and the union representing about 5700 workers, are meeting right now, to try to reach a deal before tonight's midnight deadline. strike would affect philadelphia bus, trolley, and subway lines, but not regional rails and service outside the city. sticking points are pensions, healthcare, and other issues. now, let's turn to katie for a look at today's forecast. >> looking like nice day overall, jim, the big difference here it is so much cooler by comparison to the weekends that really spoiled us, you look at the difference in the thermometer readings, just from the same time yesterday, it is 14 degrees colder right now, than it was this same time yesterday at philadelphia international airport. so, we are off to much cooler

start, and as it translates to the thermometer readings, not only is it, yes, technically cooler but factor in the north breeze out there makes it feel that much chillier, so 36 currently north-northwest winds flow 10 miles per hour in mount pocono, probably feeling maybe closer to the freezing mark, as the day goes on, nothing but sunshine, i expect the breeze will taper off as well as the kids go out for trick-or-treat, maybe rustling leaving, nice warm up to go along with this, too, more seasonable tomorrow, then spike, 72 in the sunshine on wednesday, that looks like real gem, more showers late in the day though on thursday. meisha? >> all right, katie and it is still looking very busy outside, so getting right to it. accident here 95 north 420, compromised and another one around there, by the airport, this

at ridley park, and it is actually the back up from both of the accidents, the one near 420 and and by the airport, heads up on there, very slow on interstate 95, northbound also accident here, fatal motorcycle accident delaware, route 141 southbound close the at 95, you will have alternate, james street is your best bet. another accident in cherry

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