captioning funded by cbs it's friday, august 4th, 2017. this is the "cbs morning news." a grand jury is now being used in the russian election meddling investigation as president trump continues to dismiss allegations of collusion. >> the russia story is a total fabrication. it's just an excuse for the greatest loss in the history of american politics. that's all it is. plus, one of the world's tallest residential buildings goes up in flames. >> this person obviously in a

position where he could not get to him because of the fast-moving water. and flash floods in southern california turns roads into rivers. good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. special counsel robert mueller has convened a granlz jury to investigate possible collusion between the trump campaign and russia. subpoenas have been issued in connection with the meeting between donald trump jr. and a russian lawyer. and hours after the news broke president trump trashed the investigation. hena doba is here in new york with the details. good morning, hena. >> good morning, anne-marie. he continues to insist this is all a witch hunt.

>> the russia story is a toal fabrication. >> president trump called the russian investigation into the 2016 election a hoax at a rally thursday night just after cbs news learned robert mueller is now using a grand jury to advance its federal probe. the move allows mueller and his team to streamline process to get subpoenas for records and testimony. trump insists this is all sour grains over his win in november. >> there are no russians in the campaign. there never were. we didn't win because of russia. we won because of you. that i can tell you. >> white house press secretary sarah sanders issued a statement that former fbi director james comey had said, quote, the president is not under investigation and that has no reason to change. reaction that he may be looking

into firing mueller, two bipartisan groups introduced bills thursday making that much harder to do. they stipulate if the president ever gave such an order, that would need to be required by the supreme court. >> ty cobb, a member of the president's legal team said the white house is fully committed to cooperating with mueller and, quote, it fabors anything that accelerates the conclusion of his work fairly. and mueller's investigation team expanded even further when it added an expert on foreign bribery. well, at the same rally where president trump spoke, democratic west virginia governor jim justice announced he's switching parties. justice said he will be registering as a republican today. he also said defections from his positions by west virginiaen democrats hurt people.

his switch leaves just 15 governors in 15 states. he was elected in november with 49% of vote. and we've gotten a glimpse of trump's negotiating style with foreign leaders. it involves some very blunt talk. the "washington post" published some transcripts of conversations the president trump had with australia. it's about the border wall and immigration policy. >> we will build the wall 100%. >> it was the biggest applause line of president trump's presidential campaign. >> who is going to pay for the wall? >> reporter: but just one week after taking office, president trump said in a phone call with mexican president enrique pena nieto that the wall and who will pay for it is economically, quote, the least important thing we're talking about. it could be the most important

thing we're talking about. he demanded pena nieto stop saying mexico won't pay for the wall. if you are going to say that mention colorado is not going to pay for the wall, then i'm not going to meet with you guys anymore because i cannot live with that. he also blamed mexico for the inflow of drugs adding, i won new hampshire because it's a drug-infested den. the post also contains the january 28th transcript of an even more explosive phone call with prime minister turnbull, one of north america's biggest allies. trump said, i hate taking tell. they're not going to go on to work for the local milk people. ton bull then told the president

a deal is a deal and you are going stick with it. soon after that the president abruptly ended the call. we should note that in the months since those phone calls, the president has had meetings with the leaders of australia and mexico that the white house has described as productive. chip reid, the cbs news,ing the white house. the pentagon has identify two american soldiers who were killed in afghanistan wednesday. they were killed when their convoy was hit by the taliban in kandah kandahar. the pentagon wants to send 4,000 more new troops to beef up. and there are growing concerns over carbon monoxide fumes in police vehicles. others are inspecting their fleetings. an officer in auburn, massachusetts, passed out at the wheel and crashed on wednesday.

>> he was found to have high levels of co in his blood as well. he still remains hospitalized. as a result of that in an abundance of caution, we decided to test the entire fleet for carbon monoxide. >> ford is investigating but says the departments may have created the problem when they added equipment after delivery. the young woman who encouraged her boyfriend to commit suicide was sentenced to 15 months in jail. lawyers for michelle carter say they will appeal. when she was 17 and conrad roy was 18, she sent him dozens of text messages and told him to get back into a truck filled with toxic gas. he was found with carbon monoxide poisoning in 2014. a raising fire in one of the tallest residential fires overnight. this was the second fire to hit

the 86-story torch tower in dubai in 2016. more than 40 floors appear to have been engulfed in flames. the tower was evacuated and no injuries are reported. this morning the firefighters say they have the blaze under control. in chicago, the a different day of the lola pa festival had to be evacuated. headlined act lorde has to cancel her set. a severe weather system triggered flash flooding in california just north of los angeles. motorists had to be rescued. a commuter train was also stranded. and elsewhere on the west coast, the heat is the issue. chief meteorologist eric fisher

of or boston station wbz, has more on that. >> it's been a scorching couple of days across the northwest and the smoke from fires is not helping. things are starting to cool relatively speaking just a little bit. high temperatures close to 90 in seattle over the next several days. talk about triple digits in spokane, 90s in portland and sacramento. we're going to dial it back a little bit, not much in the way of record high over that three-day stretch, just above the average of normal temperatures. we head through friday evening and into saturday morning across interior parts of the northeast. a chance of wint gusts, isolated tornado and a chance of rain across new york state and pennsylvania. behind it, a fall preview. look at the cool air. it's going to dominate much of the middle of the country. temperatures as much as 5 to 15

degrees below average. i'm meteorologist eric fisher for cbs news. tourists will be allow loued to return to north carolina islands following a power outage. power was cut to both islands a week ago when construction crews working on a bridge hit some underground transmission lines and that forced an estimated 50,000 visitors to leave at the height of the tourist season. well, coming up on the "morning news" now, cyber surprise. a hacker once hailed a hero is arrested. and a dazzling play on the diamond as the orioles pull off a triple play. this is the "cbs morning news." . i should know. i have chronic dry eye caused by reduced tear production due to inflammation. so i use restasis multidose. it helps me make more of my own tears, with continued use, twice a day, every day. restasis multidose helps increase your eyes' natural ability to produce tears, which may be reduced by inflammation

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here's look at the forecast in some cities around the country. fast food is getting faster all the time, thanks to technology, but the need for speed could leave some workers behind. wendy gillette explain. >> reporter: jonathan alvarez has only 30 minutes for lunch, so when the mcdonald's nears he job added self-order kiosks, he found it as timesavers. mcdonald's says skipping the traditional cashier is part of the experience of the future. at some locations you can order the food at the mcdonald's app and pick it up at the drive-through or even get table service. mcdonald's plans to have kiosks in most of its restaurants by 2020. >> reporter: the fast food giant is not alone.

bypassing cashiers could be just the beginning. this is flippy, a burg-flipping robot that be beualed in calle restaurants next year. the machine uses artificial intelligence to identify foods and cook them properly. martin ford, author of "rise of the robots" believes more restaurants will adopt this type of technology in the future, leaving fewer jobs. >> for me it's easier to imagine a fast food store employing a third less of employees or half less of employees. >> reporter: she's not concerned she'll lose her job. >> i feel like there's always going be a need for someone to be up there, someone to fix something if something's wrong. technology isn't always, you know, 100%. >> reporter: these kiosks could soon be as familiar as atms.

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our top story this morning. special counsel robert mueller has convened a grand jury to investigate possible collusion between the trump campaign and russia. subpoenas have been issued in connection with the meeting between donald trump jr. and a russian lawyer. trump trashed the russian investigation at rapid citiy in west virginia calling it. anna werner and investigative producer laura strickler have been looking into that. >> reporter: themty lot in jersey city, new jersey, is where the kushner companies plan to put two gleaming towers of rental apartments an retail

space, a project called one journal square, but pros dutiers from the u.s. attorney's office in brooklyn now want to know more about the project's financing. according to the ball street journal they've subpoenaed the company for a use of a program that allows foreigners to get green cards, residency, in exchange for $500,000 or more. they're called eb-5 visas. the kushners used eb-5 financing. the second carrying the president's name. trump bay street. a company spokesman told us the program is frequently used by many large developers to raise funds and help create jobs and they did nothing improper. but in may the company apologized after kushner's sister told chinese investors that the journal square project was important to her entire family and specifically

mentioned jared, now a top aide to the president, raising questions of peddling. and there's the question of the u.s. immigration fund. republican senator chuck grassley is calling for a federal review of that company's arrangement with the kushner company. >> i think the goal of the eb-5 program is low income -- investment in low income areas, and i think that obviously did not serve that goal. >> did not. >> did not. >> jared kushner's trust still maintain answer interest in the bay trump street project. he said he will recuse himself from any matters concerned the eb-5 visa program. anna werner, cbs news, washington. coming up on "cbs this morning," our morning rounds shows us the transgender oregon

man who gave birth to a baby boy and why he's sharing his story on social media. plus, closing the digital divide. we'll tell you why the government is making a huge investment in high-speed rural areas. and major league baseball is on pace to shatter a home run record. why some say the ball has a lot to do with that. that's the "cbs morning news" for this friday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green, have a i'm anne-marie green, have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

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>> this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news" this morning. >> clean clean up is underway after rain floods and leaves drivers stranded. >> special election in the probe, gets help in this investigation: >> and as police department's nationwide sounds the alarm over carbon monoxide fumes inside their ford explorers, philadelphia police are taking precautions of their own. well, today is friday, august 4, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm jan carabeo. rahel solomon is off