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ground. i was like, that's a tornado. >> san antonio, texas, a man narrowly escaped his flooded suv thanks to senator firefighters and quick thinking. >> he's okay, a little embarrassed being stuck out there. >> in florida, a sink hole making more homes unfit for habitation. >> a catastrophic event. >> backpackers got too close to nature. >> they still camped out. >> i would have been at motel 6. >> an adorable scene when he didn't want to leave the park. >> all that matters is the success of this thing just making you giddy or is it so hard? >> giddy, yeah. it's difficult. anything worth doing is very intensity difficult, charlie rose. you know that. >> yes, i do. >> on "cbs this morning" -- >> russia state tv released footage of president vladimir putin. >> wow. >> he likes to be shirtless this guy. fishing in the wilderness. >> the only thing i can think to make this video more masculine

is to add this song to it. ♪ macho, macho man >> this morning's eye opener presented by toyota. presented by toyota. let's go places. captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning." norah o'donnell and gayle king are off. margaret brennan is here with vladimir duthiers of c bsn. a news poll shows most americans are worried that north korea's nuclear weapons program could lead to war. 72% say they are uneasy about a possible conflict. >> only 35% are confident in president trump's ability to handle the situation. the poll was taken over four days as the u.n. approved tough new economic sanctions against north korea. >> the u.s. will rely heavily on china to enforce the measures. china accounts for more than 90%

of north korean trade. trade between china and north korea is up more than 10% this year. ben tracy is in beijing with the goal for the new sanctions. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it took more than a month to get china and russia to go along with sanctions they say will cost north korea more than $1 billion each year but will they enforce the sanctions and will they work? >> reporter: north korea's most famous news anchor announced they won't put weapons on the negotiating table despite what it calls fabricated sanctions. building a nuclear weapon and missile program is not cheap. the u.n. sanctions banning major north korean exports like coal and iron are designed to starve the regime of the money to pay for it which also goes to elite

who don't challenge kim jong one's power. >> the north korean regime needs to make a choice. they can't continue their programs and keep their elites happy and keep the military happy. they have to start making choices that they haven't had to choose before. >> reporter: when we visited north korea this spring -- ♪ >> reporter: -- we saw kim jong-un unveil a massive new neighborhood of shimmering high rises, his way of showing the world that eight previous rounds of u.n. sanctions over more than a decade didn't work. this time china says it will fully enforce the sanctions which means cutting off a lot of trade that happens here in the chinese border town of dandong. it will likely come at the expense of citizens, many of whom are forced already to work in other countries. they send their pay worth more than a billion dollars to the regime.

they won't address that or the chinese companies and banks that do business with north korea. >> it is good we have a resolution. the next step is making sure the loopholes, all the areas called out are fixed one by one. >> reporter: another big thing the sanctions do not address is the oil that china exports to north korea. it's widely believed that if china were to simply cut that off the north korean regime would collapse. china has no interest in seeing that happen. they fear a refugee crisis on the roughly 800-mile-long border it shares with north korea. margaret? >> ben tracy in beijing, thank you. our poll finds no real change in the president's job rating. 36% approve and 58% disapprove, about the same as two months ago. the trump administration is studying a draft report on climate change that was leaked to the "new york times." the research by 13 federal agencies says it's possible to

attribute some extreme weather to climate change. they say average u.s. temperatures have risen rapidly since 1980 and are now the warmest in 1,700 years. major garrett is near the trump national golf club in new jersey. major, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. president trump's skepticism about the link between global warming and greenhouse gas emissions is well known. this report's startling conclusions suggest not just skepticism but at least initially a lack of curiosity. >> obama's talking about all of this with the global warming and -- a lot of it's a hoax. >> reporter: mr. trump has a history of challenging the science behind climate change including once suggesting, quote, the concept of global warming was created by and for the chinese. but a draft report from 13

federal agencies asserts the impact of climate change is being felt right now, creating higher temperatures and even causing some extreme weather events. >> i don't believe that climate change is a hoax. >> reporter: scott pruitt of the environmental protection agency was forced to admit he doesn't believe climate change is made up. since being confirmed by the senate he's questioned human involvement. >> i think measuring with precision human activity on the climate is very challenging to do. there is tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact. >> reporter: the report awaiting white house approval states many lines of evidence demonstrate human activities, especially emissions of greenhouse gases are primarily responsible for recent observed climate change. >> i was elected to represent the citizens of pittsburgh, not paris. >> reporter: in june, president trump pulled out of the paris climate accord, a global agreement aimed at reducing

greenhouse gas emissions. the president said the decision was to protect american jobs and he promised to protect the environment. >> going to have the cleanest air, the cleanest water. we will be environmentally friendly but we are not going to put our businesses out of work. >> reporter: when the president touts the biggest achievements of his administration so far, many are in the area of regulations repealing or rolling back those dealing with the environment from the obama administration and expanding the extraction of fossil fuels. charlie, the administration relentlessly argues that those regulations did far more economic harm than environmental good. >> major, thanks. dramatic video shows strong winds caused a car to tumble down the road in maryland as a suspected tornado tore through the city yesterday. no injuries were reported. the storm damaged homes and businesses. a team from the national weather service will be in the area today to confirm a tornado

touched down. chip reid is in salisbury where a cleanup is under way. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. take a look at the advantage. crews with the national weather service will be here to try to confirm that a tornado did that. something swept through salisbury monday afternoon. it was not a summer breeze. >> the wind picked up. we felt the glass shattering on the buildings. the awnings were almost ready to lift. >> reporter: part of this building crumbled under the storm. >> i heard what sounded like a freight train. it sounded like bulls running across the roof. >> reporter: the power of this suspected tornado was captured by the surveillance camera of a local pup, hopper's tap house lifting the sedan into the air on top of another vehicle. a different camera caught another car rolling down the street like tumble weed. >> the car that flipped onto the other cars, somebody was in that. >> reporter: blake benn who

arrived at the restaurant shortly after this went down said his employees helped pull someone out of the flipped car. >> this other gentleman was breaking the window trying to get the one guy out. >> reporter: the national weather service issued a severe thunderstorm warning at 1:37 p.m. for salisbury which detailed the possibility of a tornado. an official warning was never issued. national weather service officials say they believe the suspected twister touched at 1:40 p.m., three minutes after the thunderstorm warning. the same system that hit salisbury injured 30 people in tulsa, oklahoma, sunday. an ef-2 tornado caused widespread damage without warning. the national weather service only issued a tornado warning after the storm had passed. the city's sirens were never activated. no one died. >> we were running behind the storm. it evolves and moved quickly. the city worked well, communicated well.

it was just on our end. we were behind the storm. >> reporter: if what came through turns out to have been a tornado it will be the second tornado to have touched down in this region in two weeks. by the way, the general manager of hopper's tap house said this building is a loss but the main restaurant around the corner he hopes to have back in business later today. >> chip reid, thank you very much. flash flooding forced overnight rescues in the houston area. several drivers became stranded in the quickly rising water. he have rain flooded roads in san antonio. one man was trapped on the roof of his car as rushing water inched higher. the fire department brought in a ladder truck but it was too short. they used a step ladder to bridge the gap. firefighters received more than 200 storm-related calls. at least eight homes were hit by lightning. >> a seventh home threatened by a sink hole in florida has been condemned. the crater is larger than the

wingspan of a boeing 747. it first appeared more than three weeks ago and destroyed two homes. it could take months to make the area around the sink hole safe. manuel, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this is as close as authorities will let us get to the sink hole and the work being done in the area. there is a lot of activity now. only allowing us this close for security reasons. we can show you what it looked like earlier this morning from above. it has widened by another 30 feet since last week. no deaths or injuries have been reported but crews haven't been able to stabilize the banks or clear debris. officials describe this mammoth sinkhole now filled with water as the largest in the county in 30 years. it swallowed two homes in this tampa suburb. when it suddenly appeared july

14. after it widened over the weekend again five more houses were condemned and more families were displaced. >> the news that we won't be able to go back into the house ever is sad. it offers closure. it's not safe to live in. >> reporter: the county found cracked walls or unstable foundations in the houses it wants demolished. % >> this is a catastrophic event for people. their homes are the biggest investment they may have. >> reporter: officials say they don't know if the recent instability means the sink hole is still growing or if it aggravated existing depressions nearby. >> that area was a lake before. who knows? maybe it will be a lake in the future. >> reporter: as part of the full phase of the cleanup crews dumped 125 truckloads of uncrushed lime rock on the edge of the hole to keep the banks from collapsing. next, waste trucks will pump out water while a backhoe on a barge removes debris from the center of the sink hole.

some residents are unconvinced. >> they keep putting dirt in it. the dirt will keep moving. >> reporter: the county contractor expects the cleanup to be done in ten days at a cost of about a million dollars. margaret? >> we can hear them hard at work. good job competing with that truck. a man hunt is under way in missouri this morning for a former convict police say killed an officer during a traffic stop. the state highway patrol said it is looking for 39-year-old ian mccarthy. he has been charged in sunday's shooting death of police officer gary michael. all of this is happening in the clinton area of missouri. jericka duncan is following the intensifying search. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. law enforcement officials believe mccarthy is armed and dangerous and believe he's still in the state. police say the incident occurred during a routine traffic stop

involving a registration violation. what followed has left a community scared and a police department searching for a murderer. police in missouri are going door to door hunting for a man suspected of killing one of their own. >> shots fired. officer down. officer down. >> black suv. suspect believed to be running on foot from that location. subject is still armed. >> reporter: officials say ian mccarthy opened fire on 37-year-old gary michael late sunday and then fled from the scene. >> this is going to be a gsw times two to the chest and the patient is in cardiac arrest. >> reporter: officer michael who was on the clinton police force less than a year was later pronounced dead at the hospital. police say he returned fire on mccarthy but it is not clear if he hit his target. >> we obtained information that links him to this crime. he's no longer a person of interest.

he is a suspect in this killing. >> reporter: mccarthy is wanted in new hampshire and missouri and has a long rap sheet. in new hampshire alone he faced 20 counts including possession of a dangerous weapon and first degree assault. he's also served time behind bars. >> he's my hero. he's my big brother. >> reporter: chris michael said his brother gary will be remembered for strengthening the community he helped serve. >> even though there are a lot of tears today there was laughter. we got to remember him, who he was and who he is because he's still that person. he just proved it. >> michael is the 28th police officer to be killed by gunfire this year alone. he leaves behind a wife and stepson. >> jericka, thank you. a former northwestern university professor will face a murder charge in chicago. wyndham lathem waved extradition and is expected to plead not guilty. he's accused in the deadly stabbing of a 26-year-old man

trenton cornell-duranleau. an oxford university employee is detained in the case. lathem has received letters of support from friends and colleagues. >> they describe him as a kind, intelligent and gentle soul and a loyal and trusted friend. what he is accused of is contrary to the way he's lived his entire life. >> northwestern fired the professor for running from the police and banned him from campus. >> the marine corps is expected to order a safety stand down for all aircraft after the deaths of three marines in an osprey crash off eastern australia. they were identified as first lieutenant benjamin cross, 21-year-old corporal nathan ordway and private first class ruben velasco. they died saturday when they could not escape from the craft before it sank.

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race to help select good morning, i'm rahel solomon, updating this morning's breaking news, a body discovered after a house fire in kensington. homicide detective, the fire marshall, and agent, from alcohol, tobacco and firearms are on the scene, they say the pier was contained to the first floor of the house, but the body discovered on the second. another resident and firefighter suffered minor injuries. >> well, we send it over to katie with a check on today's forecast. looks like the weather is improving? >> i think so, even since early this morning we were on the air 4:30 a.m., still showers around at the moment, those are starting to mover out to sea or off to the south even though it may look gray, hint of blue in the sky. live look for you outside pleasant valley middle and high school, only gets more

pleasant with brighter skies, as well, also rebounds at least closer to what's typical , 10 degrees warmer than yesterday with the sun the next couple of days. >> week of 80s, not bad at all very good morning to all of you. so overturned tractor-trailer here, newark, delaware, 59 south, 89 of, heads up, out there for little bit. plus disable vehicle, southbound before the schuylkill pulled off to the right. an accident in montgomeryville , montgomery glenn drive. rahel, over to you. >> meisha, thank you. our next update is at 7:55, up next on cbs this morning, the challenges faced by tourists trying to smoke marijuana in nevada. i'm rahel solomon. good morning.

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health and human services. the commission on drugs called for a state of emergency to be declared over opioid abuse. >> the proposed budget contains nearly $11 billion for drug treatment, an increase of $202 million. it also cuts more than $167 million from drug abuse prevention programs. figures show nearly two-thirds of all drug overdoses were linked to opioids. >> the washington post reports dysfunction in washington is unfueling uncertainty for businesses. waiting for the trump administration to deliver on tax cuts and health care. companies say they are paralyzed and not taking risks. they have put hiring and investment decisions on hold. >> the "new york times" reports that hackers are demanding millions in bitcoin from hbo. yesterday they released a trove of executive e-mails and technical data. they also released five "game of thrones" scripts including one for an upcoming episode.

hackers are threatening to release more sensitive materials and shows if they are not paid. hbo reiterated the e-mail system as a whole was not hacked and said it is working with police. >> the denver post said jury selection is off to a slow start in taylor swift's court case. the singer was in the courtroom yesterday and is expected to testify. swift is being sued by former radio d.j. who said she falsely accused him of groping her. she countersued claiming assault and battery. lawyers expect a jury to be seated today. >> the san jose mercury news says google fired the employee who wrote a memo saying women don't work well in high stress jobs. james damore was dismissed yesterday. he wrote a widely shared memo that criticized the company's diversity initiatives. it belittled women's skills. among other things it said women are more neurotic. anna werner is here with how the memo is impacting google's work

environment. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the memo penned by that white male software engineer was read by millions. he said more needed to be done to encourage a diversity of viewpoints at google his words hit the company with such force a local radio station said some female employees took sick days to avoid an uncomfortable environment. james damore said he was booted from campus in california at 5:00 yesterday. he told cbs news he was wrongfully terminated for perpetuating gender stereotypes and said his three-year career at google ended for political reasons. >> when you say those things you have to reap the consequences of what you said. >> reporter: kara swisher smoke with employees who described the current environment inside the search giant as really toxic. >> this memo has set off a stream of things. we should say and do what we want.

the fact is goog le is a compan. it has rules. he broke the rules. >> reporter: in the 3,000-word document damore railed against what he called google's shaming culture which he said created a silent, psychologically unsafe environment. he said differences in distributions of traits may in part explain why we don't have 50% representation of women in tech. the lower number of women in high stress jobs, he wrote, is because women are more prone to anxiety. damore also alleged that google discriminates by having programs only for people with a certain gender or race. >> it is a document full of sexism. >> reporter: erica baker, a software engineer for nine years at google was shocked by the document. >> what made them feel that was okay? what made them feel safe and protected to share this blatant sexism inside google? >> reporter: google ceo sundar pichai said portions of the memo violate the code of conduct by

advancing harmful gender stereotypes. >> are they aiming to make sure women, people of color, everybody from under represented groups at google feel they could be successful. >> reporter: overall just 31% of google employees are female. that number drops to 19% among tech jobs. >> why are 80% of the people working at these companies white men? how do we change that? how do we build a bigger pie so everybody can share in it instead of fighting over what's here? >> reporter: damore told cbs news before he was fired he complained to the national labor relations board that google was trying to silence him. he believes the company's actions are illegal and said he's now exploring all possible legal remedies. google's ceo is cutting a vacation short for a company town hall on thursday. we'll hear more about this. >> why did he write it in the first place? >> i think you have to ask him. this is the paper.

google's ideological echo chamber. he says he values diversity and inclusion, not denying that sexism exists and don't endorse using stereotypes. it's out there now. >> the google ceo is making the right move to come back, have a town meeting and face it. >> sounds like he wants to hear from people for sure. >> thank you. some of america's most exclusive schools face a fresh review of how race is used in college admissions. one estimate shows more than 43% of incoming students at ivy league schools were minorities, up from 37% in 2010. the trump administration is investigating a series of complaints against harvard claiming it puts asian american students at a disadvantage. in an interview you will see only on "cbs this morning" tony dokoupil spoke to an ivy league president who said race should, indeed, be part of the admissions process. tony, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this year documents revealed

princeton admissions officer discussing race and ethnicity of students in stark, sometimes uncomfortable terms. the president said it is controversial to be sure but said a race conscious approach is necessary. >> if we wanted to we could take students only with perfect gpas and fill a class with them. >> reporter: princeton president chris eisgruber will welcome a new freshman class packed with some of the best in america. every year his admissions officers consider more than just academics. >> let's be clear. we do take race and ethnicity into account in building a diverse campus. >> reporter: the supreme court ruled race is an acceptable factor in college admissions. >> we want our students to have an impact in the world in a multicultural and diverse society. to produce those students we need to have a diverse student body on campus. >> reporter: a group called students for fair admissions is accusing elite colleges of

discriminating against asian-american and white students using caps on enrollment and higher academic standards for admission. the group's president edward blum said it pits americans against one another. >> i had a 2230 sat, not perfect but not bad. perfect a.c.t. and 4.67 gpa, i believe. >> reporter: michael wang applied to almost every ivy league school but was only accepted to one. >> had i been african-american or latino i might have gone to more schools. i'm not sure myself. >> reporter: in 2015 federal civil rights investigators reported no evidence that princeton university used separate admissions processes, reviews or tracks by race. according to documents this spring admissions officers did discuss applicants in racial terms. no cultural flavor, reads one review of an hispanic applicant. very few americans with verbal scores like this.

>> can you guarantee asian american and white applicants aren't held to a higher standard? >> i can guarantee all our students are held to an equal standard. it is if you have to get into princeton. it is tough to get into other ivy colleges. but everybody gets a fair shake. >> reporter: harvard stands by its policy to consider race to enroll a diverse class of students. in a statement to cbs news harvard's process considers each applicant as a whole person. we review factors with standards established by the u.s. supreme court. >> tony, thank you. up next, mark strassmann on the gamble for visitors who want to use recreational marijuana in nevada. >> it is the latest tourist attraction in las vegas -- legal marijuana. this is what you get for about $50. but where you can smoke it legally is a very different challenge. we'll show you why coming up on "cbs this morning." as moms, out into the world,

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the legal use of marijuana is tempting to those who visit las vegas this year. even as las vegas restricts what people can do after they legally buy their pot. mark strassmann is on the strip with what some say is discrepancies in the law. mark, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this is the essence cannabis dispensary which sells 50 different strains of legal marijuana. this is venom og. a gram costs $18. cash only. for tourists, the legal challenge starts as soon as you walk out the front door. anything goes in vegas, right? wrong. on the strip buying marijuana legally is one thing. smoking it is another. nevada law mandates that legally bought marijuana be consumed in a private residence. nothing public which includes casinos, hotels, cars and

sidewalks. armen yemenidjian who owns this dispensary said the law puts most customers in a tough spot. >> 70 to 80% are tourists. they have no private space because they don't live here. no other industry in the world can you buy a product and not use it anywhere. it's silly. >> reporter: in eight states that have legalized marijuana implementing the drug laws is challenging for consumers. for instance, people in california and massachusetts may possess or grow it but not buy or sell it legally until next year. sales are legal in colorado, nevada, and washington. but for now public consumption is banned. nevada state senator tick segerblom supported legalizing marijuana here. >> people are buying it, using it. so this is not something new. let's take the next step and acknowledge that fact and provide a venue for them where they can have fun. >> marijuana has a place in sin city. >> exactly. marijuana is perfect for sin city. >> reporter: for now, vegas

casinos and hotels have too much at stake to allow it. gaming is a $13 billion a year business in the state. casino licenses require following federal, state, and local laws. >> this is the marijuana industry, the gaming industry. the two shall never meet. >> reporter: tony alamo chairs the nevada gaming commission. >> it is clear cut. it's against federal law. until that law changes that's the standard they have to maintain. >> reporter: 25-year-old david harper is visiting from houston. the marijuana he bought legally, he'll smoke illegally. >> got to be discreet, but oh, yeah. sure. >> reporter: you're not the only one? >> definitely not the only one. >> reporter: there is no consensus about the solution here. the local marijuana industry is pushing to legalize pot cafes, the kind they have in amsterdam and the kind that colorado will roll out later this month. for now, margaret, what tourists buy in vegas, they can't use in

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live from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia. this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news ". and good morning to you, i'm joe holden, later this morning, we expect to get details on immunization requirements from the philadelphia school district. superintendent william hite has planned a 10:00 press conference to outline those requirements. right now all student will have to get a fourth dose of the polio vaccine, the first day for student is tuesday, september 5th. >> how about a check on weather katie fehlinger in the eyewitness weather center. katie? >> it is getting better, joe. i've been watching these folds cameras for couple of hours, granted we did start off quite gray down the shore, most everywhere else it looks that way, too. now starting to see little break-in those clouds. you see that, the wet weather also making full departure, so only going to brighten up from

here, really look like beautiful day, beautiful several days, high pressure on our side, low 80s, sunny skies , humidity ramps p up by friday. >> week of 80s, thanks so much looking outside, couple of things going on, delaware memorial bridge, new jersey from delaware, heads up on this, looks like they have the bridge closed off for a little bit. it might still be, talcony palmyra bridge up at 7:00 czars going back down now , 896 still out there, joe. >> meisha, thank you. next update is at 8: 25, coming up cbs this morning, how mosquitos could be used to fight deadly diseases, i'm joe holden, good morning.

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♪ it is tuesday, august 8, 2017. welcome back to "cbs this morning." ahead, surprising numbers on president trump and the economy in the latest cbs news poll. our director of elections and surveys tells us what they mean. only on "cbs this morning" we visit the lab learning to fight zika and other diseases by releasing 20 million mosquitos. but first here is today's eye opener at 8:00. a cbs news poll shows most americans are worried that north korea's nuclear weapons program could lead to war. >> the trump administration is studying a draft report on climate change that was leaked to the "new york times." >> this report awaits white house release and the lack of comment suggests not just

skepticism but a lack of curiosity. >> look at that damage. crews with the national weather service will try to confirm that a tornado did that. >> law enforcement officials believe mccarthy is armed and dangerous and also believe he is still in the state. >> this is as close as authorities will let us get to the sinkhole and to all the work being done. we can show you what it all looked like earlier this morning from above. >> i think i heard you once say when you first got started you had only 12 minutes of material. >> well, i did my 12 minutes one night. i came off and the audience was applauding. and the maitre d said to go back out. i said, that's all i have. i went back out and i said, which one would you like to hear again?

>> bob newhart, still funny. i'm charlie rose with margaret brennan and vladimir duthiers. a poll finds president trump's rating at 36%, an historic low unchanged from two months ago. >> the poll shows growing confidence in the economy. 69% of americans say the economy is good. that's the highest percentage in more than 15 years. >> president trump in the middle of his working vacation restarted an old argument yesterday with one of his critics in congress. connecticut senator richard blumenthal. major garrett is near the trump national golf club in b bedminster. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. in one way president trump's vacation is no different. saying he doesn't get enough credit for economic growth, more jobs and a boost in consumer and business confidence. speaking of twitter it was there

yesterday the president renewed a long-running feud with a democratic senator after watching him defend special counsel robert mueller. president trump began the day taking out his cable news frustration on twitter. >> this grand jury investigation -- >> reporter: after this tv appearance from democratic senator richard blumenthal. >> if the president threatens to fire robert mueller it's important to protect and safeguard the independence and integrity of the investigation. >> reporter: irritated by the senator's support for legislation that would protect special counsel robert mueller mr. trump tweeted interesting to watch senator richard blumenthal of connecticut talking about hoax russian collusion when he was a to ti vietnam con artist. blumenthal was still on the president's mind later. i think senator blumenthal should take a nice long vacation in vietnam where he lied about his service so he can say they was there. in his campaign blumenthal

apologized after saying he served in vietnam when he was in the marine reserves at the time but never deployed. mr. trump himself never served in the military. he received four deferments during vietnam to attend college and received a fifth for bone spurs in his heels. mr. trump's twitter out burst appears to be a departure from the discipline imposed by john kelly who had put in place a review process for presidential tweets. tweets which recently have been on message praised the u.n. security council sanctions and pushed positive economic news. a new cbs news poll shows 46% of americans now approve of the president's handling of the economy. on tap today the meeting with the president and his health & human services secretary tom price on the opioid crisis. later this week mike pence visits along with other cabinet officials. >> thank you. with us is anthony salvanto,

director of elections and surveys for cbs news. good morning. >> how are you? >> i'm well. it sounds like president trump's belief may be correct that he feels he's not getting credit and your poll says americans feel good about the economic health of the country. >> yeah. we haven't seen numbers like this for the economy in 15 years. they're really that high. he is getting credit. the issue is it's not the only thing they are judging him on. they are judging him on more than just the economy. so you ask people how they are evaluating him. they say it's more important the kind of culture and values he promotes than what he does for the economy. what that tells you is both his supporters see that as a supporter. they love the culture and value. they think he's fighting for people like them. his detractors don't like that culture and values. so that's where their judgment is going even as the ratings of the economy soar. >> doesn't what people feel at the kitchen table matter more than anything else when they

head to the voting booth? we are spinning ahead to 2018. >> right. there is a big difference between how the economy is generally doing and how they feel. individual confidence is up. it's not matching the overall economic numbers. a great example of that is the stock market. people say the stock market is doing better. but when you ask them does that matter to your life, less than half of people say that it does. that's because not everybody has money directly invested here. that's one metric that's good. they don't necessarily take home to the kitchen table. >> what's the most significant metric in terms of how a president is doing? >> well, right now it's partisanship in many ways. we have not seen in many years a president that's as split in this partisan divide where republicans give him very good numbers and democrats give him very bad numbers. the lines have just gone like this over the last couple of administrations. it was the same true in reverse for president obama. that speaks to the kind of tone

of the politics today. >> within the policy debate in washington there is a division within the republicans. >> yes, there is. there is. >> we saw it on health care, for example. >> yes. his ratings on health care are much lower than ratings on the economy. some republicans feel frustrated they didn't pass anything but there are some including republicans who felt they should have had a replacement bill for the health care before they tried to repeal obamacare. that's the sort of wait and see approach as well. that's part of the reason for their frustration. >> you asked about north korea. what do americans think this is headed and how do they think the president is handling it? >> they are uneasy about the potential for conflict. they don't necessarily think the north koreans are purposefully going to aim a missile at us. they think it is more posturing than anything else. that doesn't lessen the unease about conflict. for president trump's handling of it only a third say they have

confidence. that happens in an administration. until you see a president handle a crisis people project what they think about him already into those numbers. that said, there are a lot of ratings about the president handling this crisis and others that have been low. >> great to see you. one quick question, with respect to the handling of north korea do they consider it a crisis now? most people who talk about the president say he's not yet faced a genuine international crisis. >> they see it as a threat. that's how they define it, but one that can be contained by diplomacy. >> thank you. >> curbing the mosquito population could produce more mosquitos. only on "cbs this morning" mireya villarreal takes us inside the high tech lab that's spreading the pests. >> reporter: this is a l larval-rearing robot and this machine is one of a kind. it will produce 20 million mosquitos. it could be the key to wiping out dengue fever, the zika

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for many parts of the country summer is mosquito season. a familiar buzz alone might be enough to make you scar tisstar scratching. one company is releasing 20 million mosquitos into a california neighborhood in the name of science. the people behind the experiment in fresno hope it reduces the mosquito population. only on "cbs this morning" mireya villarreal is the first network correspondent to go inside the one of a kind lab in south san francisco. she learned how it could help scientists fight some of the world's deadliest diseases. >> reporter: it's just after sunrise in fresno, california. this van circling a residential

neighborhood is making an unusual delivery. it's hard to see with the naked eye, but flying out of this tube are thousands of mosquitos. new additions to the community. >> are the mosquitos going to bother us, bite us? so far it hasn't been much of a problem. >> reporter: it's not a problem for bonnie smith because despite putting more bugs in the air the experiment in this van could decrease the mosquitos in her backyard. >> the only ones we release are males which don't bite. only the females bite. the males we are releasing are s sterile. when they mate she'll produce and lay eggs but they won't hatch. each tray has 3,000 mosquitos. >> reporter: lionel upson is running this for veril, y. they are releasing a million mosquitos a week for 20 weeks this summer. you are going to release 20 million mosquitos in the fresno area. are neighbors concerned about

this? >> once people understand that male mosquitos don't bite and that if we are successful we'll reduce the population of mosquitos that do bite people are usual thrilled. >> reporter: the wild mosquitos do more than bite. the breed verily is breeding aedes aegypti spread some of the most dangerous diseases including dengue fever and zika. >> if we release enough of them for a long enough period of time we hope to eliminate the population of aedes aegypti mosquitos near where people live. >> reporter: to do that verily spent millions of dollars building a lab which breeds, sterilizes and rears millions of bugs, then sorts them by sex to ensure only the males are released. >> producing a million male mosquitos a week is quite a feat. >> reporter: jodi holeman works for a local government run mosquito control program. they tried a smaller scale version last summer but released only 800,000 pests. now partnered with the deep pockets of google they are able

to multiply that by a factor of 25. >> we really needed to have the ability to rear the number of males that would be needed to affect control. >> reporter: partnering with the google family of companies comes with complications. >> i always have a concern when google says it's going to do anything. >> reporter: john simpson of the nonprofit consumer watchdog has kept an eye on google for years. he sees nothing wrong with the science and safety of the fresno experiment. it's what comes next that concerns him. >> in the future if they've got all the proprietary information you have to meet their terms. it's because of their powerful position they can essentially dictate those terms. you then end up being at the verily's mercy. >> we don't know how we'll go to market with this as a business. we are focused on showing now that it can work. >> reporter: if it works the project could be a model for

other communities around the world. even though dengue fever and zika aren't threatening fresno, people don't seem to mind acting as test subjects for technology that could save millions of lives in the future. >> in a way it's neat to be a part of it in one small way. >> reporter: researchers in fresno are monitoring traps throughout the neighborhoods and are hoping to see a drop in mosquito populations by the end of the summer. for "cbs this morning," mireya villarreal, san francisco. >> the mosquitos kill so many people across the planet. any kind of technology that can help alleviate that. >> the impact of malaria is devastating. >> absolutely. many people heading to oregon to see the solar eclipse will have to find a new way to get around. ahead, why hertz said it had to cancel hundreds of rental car reservations. and actor chris o'dowd captured our attention in "bridesmaids". he'll join us with a look at his

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this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news". and good morning, i'm rahel solomon, police in haddon township, camden county serving chipping for the man who attempted topped lure a young girl into his car, suspect described as while male, late 30's erring early 40's, light con president-elect sean, hairy arms, he also wore thin silver frame glasses, and a silver ring. police say he tried to convince the young girl to get into his vehicle, as she walk on addison avenue, westmont sunday afternoon. if you recognize this man, police want to hear from you. >> over to kate way check on today's forecast, i hear the forecast is i am sneak. >> it is definitely. high pressure trying to nudge in here, rahel. as a result, still some gray skies out there, starting to see a little bit of break in the cloud cover. if you look closely, looking closely, you can tell that there is somewhat of a sun

sunlight reflection off buildings here in center city. so we are going to continue to clear out with every passing hour. winds out of the north, so little of a drier air mass, too. that means, em tour at 69 degrees actually feels like 69. at the moment, storm scan, also, clearing out. you can see, little break up in the cloud cover. so, as the morning progresses, really turns the nicer and nicer, both wednesday, and thursday, still look real nice too. unsettled pattern returns, meisha, how much, by the weekend. >> oh, okay, good to know, thank you so much, katie. so, to that end, good news, dry roadways, do have problems out there. so we have car fire here, delaware memorial bridge southbound, one lane was open, now it is two lanes, so we're starting to get this little bit remedy. still very slow there. overturned tractor-trailer still there 95 south ramp to 896, newark, delaware, still out there, also, we have accident city avenue at decker boulevard, center lane blocked , and take a look, how slow the schuylkill is. rahel, back to you. >> thank you, next update at 8:55, ahead on cbs this morning, a look at the new tv

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the fresno bee says they were on a backpacking trip when they met the wild cat. sightings of mountain lions are rare. attacks are, too, thankfully. the national parks service said the men did the right thing by not running away. >> time to show you some of the morning headlines. usa today reports millennials are moving back in with their parents to save money to buy a home. millennials 36 and younger are the nation's largest group of home buyers. they are 34% of the total. a recent survey found 52% of millennials expect to move back home. 47% did not or do not expect to move back. >> variety remembers the actor who played the original godzilla. he died yesterday from pneumonia. he wore the body suit for every movie in the series from 1954 to 1972. he said he conducted his own research on how to portray the monster by studying animals at

the tokyo zoo. in later years he was a star at monster conventions. nakajima was 88. >> the "wall street journal" says the man who wrote the book on pass words admits he blew it. he and other experts are rethinking advice on how to create secure pass words. they recommend changing them only if there is a breach. special characters aren't needed. long easy to remember phrases are suggested instead. studies found four words strung together are much harder to crack than a phrase garbled with symbols. easier to remember. >> hard to remember the pass words. >> and there might be a secret room inside egypt's biggest pyramid. there is a void inside but researchers aren't sure about the exact location. the great pyramid is more than 4500 years old. the u.s. war in afghanistan has been going on for nearly 16

years. president trump has so far rejected the proposals from his national security adviser for the next steps there. speaking this week about the conflict secretary of state rex tillerson said, quote, to just say we are going to keep doing what we have been doing, the president is just not willing to accept that. >> eric prince has founded what was once blackwater. he wants to send 500 to cut the annual cost of the war to less than $10 billion. he's now executive director and chairman of frontier services group. good morning. >> good morning. >> lots of governments listen to this and say mercenaries and they are opposed. >> sure. >> any american left right or center wants to find a way to put an end to the war in afghanistan. right now you are spending more than the entire uk defense budget -- the united states is -- just in afghanistan. we have had as many as 140,000

troops. now they are at about 9,000 troops. 26,000 contractors that the u.s. has. as secretary mattis said, we are not winning there. to restructure that as i laid out in the article, you have to put someone clearly in charge. the interagency process, you have had 17 commanders in 15 years not counting ambassadors or station chiefs. you have to have one person clearly in charge of u.s. policy, spending, rules of engagement of the effort. >> this is a u.s. official in the state department or something like that? >> a super envoy, a presidential envoy, a lead federal official. we haven't had unity of command for 17 years. second, the u.s. isn't doing any training or mentoring at the battalion level where the rubber meet it s the road. this puts contracted people, attaching them to the afghan army at the battalion level. >> are the contract people going to be boots on the ground? >> yes. >> are they by definition

therefore mercenaries, hired by the u.s. government? >> the way the united nations defines mercenary is being attached to the afghan army they would not be mercenaries. they are contracted professionals, former special operations veterans with experience in that theater to go do the work. >> what does mattis think of this? >> he likes the analysis of the problem. he doesn't necessarily like the idea that you'd send contractors. >> he doesn't like your idea but likes the idea that the afghan war, we are not winning. >> yes. he said that. he's also said, i'm told, that mentoring at the ground level, air support and governance support, the three things laid out in the plan that puts training wheels on the afghan forces and keeps them upright and it would set the stage for the drawdown of the 9,000 americans and 26,000 other contractors to go from $45 billion in spend to less than ten.

that supports your afghan forces and keeps u.s. special operations forces there as well. >> general mac master also skeptical of the plan as are afghan officials. afghanistan's ambassador said to me contractors simply do not win wars. you need their buy-in order to have your men if they go into a situation protected legally. how do you persuade them? >> look, contractors are there in a big way now. this is a slight alteration of how they would be used. >> into combat-like situations. >> it's not a private army. they are attaching to the afghan army. imagine them as skeletal support on which each battalion is built around. afghan special forces are functional. they do well. they conduct 70, 80% of the missions. they are mentors this way by u.s. special forces. the problem is the u.s. army doesn't have enough sergeants. they can't send 4,000 sergeants and above to go do this mission.

>> wasn't the strategy to help the afghans fight the war themselves? >> absolutely. >> that's been the strategy for 15 years. it is now the longest war in american history. >> that completes that strategy. u.s. forces go for six or nine months. when they leave all the local area knowledge and experience leaves with them. this model allows contractors to go in -- >> it should be left with the afghans. that's the point. >> i agree. putting mentors in at the battalion level allows them to attach and know that area, the valley, to know the local government officials in the area. that gives you multi year continuity. when a u.s. guy goes in, he goes in for nine months and leaves and the local knowledge leaves with him. >> this has been a long, drawn out process for the trump administration. they are still struggling with this strategy. steve bannon, jared kushner said to be supportive of the idea. do you know what the president thinks? >> i don't. i haven't briefed him on it yet. >> do you plan to? >> i hope to.

look, there are still americans dying there. like i said, any american -- left, right or center -- wants to find a way to cauterize this wound. 16 years is enough. we have another trillion dollars in health care costs that we are going to owe for the afghan war. let's bring it to a close. people may not like the idea of using contractors for that. let's get used to the idea. it's better than having american soldiers there endlessly. are we going to have this conversation in another ten years? >> i have a question about your firm global security services. could that company be involved and would that present a conflict of interest? >> look, if it comes to a bid or whatever, if someone is able to come up with a solution that saves taxpayers $40 billion, anyone should compete and do that. >> but you would profit from the war? >> well, we are not there now. any vendor that solves the solution, that's capitalism. that's what it's about. >> your sister is in the

administration. >> she is, yes. >> betsy devos. that would not preclude you from bidding on this? >> of course not. >> about blackwater, two former blackwater colleagues had their sentence overturned. >> yes. >> do you expect the third? >> no. what happened is the guy's murder conviction was thrown out. that was the second time the justice department tried to prosecute him. and the sentence that was thrown at the other three guys was thrown out as cruel and unusual under the 8th amendment. >> what remains? >> it remains to be determined what sentences the guys get now. they have to go for resentencing. >> okay. >> doesn't this raise concerns about how you would tackle this situation in afghanistan. >> sure. >> you need to get legal protections. >> and clearly defined accountability method. you could use the ucmj. >> military court of justice. >> uniform code of military

justice, a military trial in afghanistan under u.s. military law. any contractor that goes to do the job would be happy to sign up. >> you have to negotiate that with the afghan government and they are skeptical. you think you can win them over. >> the afghan government doesn't want to be abandoned. the argument to say just pull out of afghanistan completely would be bad. i think within six or 12 months you would see the taliban -- >> that's what they think happened last time. >> being abandoned. >> yes. >> sure. >> they raise that question all the time. >> if that happens in afghanistan that's a rally cry for every crazy jihadi around the world. >> thank you for coming. >> thanks. actor chris o'dowd played a former hitman turned film maker in "get shorty." he's in the toyota green room to share why violent roles make him

stop it. please stop. please stop. i believe you. you're not drunk. i still have to give you a ticket. >> what? why? >> funny thing about brake lights -- you have to have them. >> i knew it. >> actor chris o'dowd who won kristen wiig's heart in "bridesmaids." you can see the table cracking

up when watching that scene. he's been in "this is 40" and "saint vincent" and also was in hbo's "girls." he's now in "get shorty." he plays a hitman trying to leave his criminal past to become a film maker. in this preview of sunday's premiere his character pitches an idea to a producer. >> mr. moreweather, i'm sure you're busy but i have a script i know you will love. it's quicker if i tell you about it. the story takes place in the olden days in europe. there is a young irish guy. he's in love with this beautiful girl but he loses her because he has to go to war. he sees some terrible [ bleep ] and he does some terrible [ bleep ]. by the time he comes home looking for her he's too [ bleep ] in the head to connect. so he needs to find the part of himself that remembers how to love. and, you know, there's funny

bits. >> that's ray romano in the scene. chris o'dowd joins us at the table. >> thank you very much for having me. >> your character is trying to change his life going from somebody who kills people to becoming a film maker. >> that's right. >> what drew you to the role? >> i don't get to play tough guys very often. people see me as more of a hugger than a fighter. >> a hugger. >> yeah. they don't realize my hugs are quite violent. it was tempting. i hadn't read something this sharp in a while that was also funny. it was easy for me to jump on. >> you have violent scenes? >> there is a little violence. i'm generally the guy trying to make violence not happen. but i'm surrounded by people who are trigger happy and probably borderline psychotic. i'm trying to get out of that to create a new life for my family, something for pure. so i go to hollywood. >> pure. >> and you're making fun of

hollywood. >> definitely poking fun a bit. there are elements of satire in it. i don't have a big problem with hollywood. i live in l.a., but it is kind of like the needy aunt in the family. >> how do you kind of live in l.a.? >> i'm over and back. i'm a big traveller, charlie, like yourself. >> what about the movie with john travolta? >> we are obviously working off the same source material with the book. it's totally different. it's like you visit a bar at a different time of the week. so the movie is quite sharp. it's like visiting the bar on a saturday night when everybody is dressed to the nines looking their best and the pick-up lines are working. our show is like you visited it at 3:00 a.m. on a wednesday. the floor is sticky. you're fighting with your girlfriend. the bar bill is about to arrive. you can't afford to pay it. that's ours. >> what's it like working with ray romano? >> he's terrific.

he has this weird voice. he -- >> yours is completely normal. >> yeah. >> are you doing a film with aaron sorkin? >> i am. >> he's directing? writing and directing? >> that's right. >> have you already shot it? >> we have. >> how is he as a director? >> terrific. it's all about the language. he's very specific. but when you're a writer that good it's nice to be told that the commas matter. >> the commas matter. >> comma, yeah. >> he's specific about the way a line is portrayed. >> i would like that, too. you think if he wrote it he knows exactly what he meant and every pause. >> that's right. >> it had meaning to him. that gives you the freedom to follow that. >> it gives you the security of knowing that the words were correct in the first place. >> like you don't correct shakespeare. >> exactly. >> you and your wife have a new baby boy.

>> yes. >> you describe -- he's the second son, right? >> that's right. >> you describe the life of a father as going from traveling in the london under ground to the subway system in new york. >> that's right. when you have one son it's like you have the london underground. it's tough going but at midnight it stops until 6:00 a.m. then you can recoup and clean it. but two kids is like having the subway where it runs 24 hours and it always smells like pee. >> always dirty. >> margaret wanted to know. we were asking you about your officer character. >> yeah. >> chris, thank you very much. "get shorty" premiers sunday. this is "cbs this morning."

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this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news." >> good morning, i'm joe holden, the philadelphia fire marshall has declared a deadly fire in kensington, a case of arson. the fire broke out just before 11:00 last night in the 1800 block of east clementine street. the fire was confined to the first floor. but firefighters discovered the body of a 28 year old man, on the second floor, the victim not yet identified. another resident and a firefighter suffered minor injuries. let's get a look at the forecast, katie fehlinger in the weather center. katie? >> joe, right now, things looking a little bit better than they did even a hour ago. the skies are trying sluggish ly but sure enough to

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