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15 points.ke ver trump sees no reason to change. >> it's me. going iv i don't want to pivot. you have to be you. if you start pivoting you are not being honest with people. >> trump said his experience in the republican primaries taught him how to win even after losing in wisconsin. >> i have gotten here in a landslide. we'll see what happens. in the send. don't forget when i lost wisconsin, it was over for trump. except for one problem, i then went on a very good run. >> trump spokeswoman said today, roger ailes, former chairman of the fox news channel has no formal role with the campaign
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today the fbi gave a republican controlled congressional committee notes from its investigation of hillary clinton's private e-mail servers. the e-mails on the unsecured servers contain classified information. republicans say they want to nancy cordes is covering the c. >> reporter: as cl campaigned in philadelphia today, fbi agents were handing clsified as secret.they with the expectation it will not be disseminated or closed. democrats worry, the documents will selectively be leaked by republicans. just yesterday they sent a letter to d.c. u.s. attorney outlining evidence of what they call perjury and false entsy cl.
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>> they also went throh single e-mail. >> reporter: clinton for instance insisted her lawyers examined all 60,000 pages of he work related.ey disputed that last month.he l for secret did not d3individually read the didn't comment on today's move. >> i have nothing to say. >> but her aide said that they released to the public and not to partisan lawmakers. adding this is an extraordinarily rare step that was sought solely by republicans for the purposes of further second-guessing the career professionals at the fbi. >> republicans are especially eager to get a look at the fbi's notes on its interview with
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agents differs from what she told congress. they're trying to bolster that perjury accusation, scott, word. thank you. en our special series, we have been hearing from experts about the critical issues that . the moment he or she takes the oath. tonight, margaret bren nonis with retired general and former cia director, david petraeus, talking about the dangers of iraq on day one. the most about iraq right now? >> iraqi politics. we'll defeat the islamic state that is going to happen. just a question of how long it to become more inclusive if you are to cement the gains on the battlefield. >> when the next president takes office what's the best case scenario he or she will face in
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one in which the islamic state has been defeated on the battlefield and its terrorist cells have been reduced dramatically and the residual guerrillas insurgents are on the run. then most importantly, that politics in baghdad have been sufficiently inclusive so that the sunni arabs of iraq feel a stake in the success of new iraq rather than in its failure. >> what's the worst case scenario for the u.s.? >> the worst case scenario for the u.s. is if the situation goes seriously south for some all of a sudden we find ourselves having to really even get them moreo actual fighting to forestall the possibility of a collapse of iraq and perhaps the resumption of the kind of very near civil war that we saw back in 2006. >> how thin is that line between success and failure? >> well, the line between
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that's where this will play out. >> for the next president, will they have speak to the american public and talk about americans dying in combat in iraq once again? >> i fear that that probably is the case. that future presidents will have americans dying in places like iraq. this is really a generational struggle. >> here is where the candidates stand. hillary clinton plans to strengthen the iraqi government, boost support to local fors fighting isis, and increase air strikes. donald trump has said he would bomb isis more, but has the said contradictory things about ground forces. he said that he would send 20,000 to 30,000 forces if required. but also that the number is too high. >> margaret brennan with the security challenges of day one. margaret, thank you. today, another major health insurer said it is substantially dropping out of obamacare. aetna decision further limits choice and price competition especially in rural america. jan crawford has more. >> reporter: more than 900,000
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insurance under health care law in 15 states. but next year the company says it will offer affordable care act coverage in four of the states. effectively pulling out of 70% of the counties where it offered coverage. and leaving one arizona county near phoenix without any insurers offering obamacare. aetna said a simple question of math. numbers below prti company reported more than $430 million in losses since the health care exchanges opened in january of 2014. in part because not enough healthy people are signing up. aetna is just the latest of the major national health insurers to announce a pull back. united health care and humana unveiled major cuts. >> this is a red flag for the future of obamacare. >> larry leavitt with kietzer
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>> the next enrollment will be pivotal. if enrollment grows, concerns will fade away. but if enrollment stag nats. likely to trigger a debate. >> administration official said aetna's withdrawal does not change the fundamental fact that the obamacare marketplace will continue to bring quality coverage to millions of americans next year and every year after that.o county would be without insurance options when open enrollment starts later this fall. the big concern for consumers is choice. in some areas if people will have one or two insurers to pick from. >> jan crawford in the washington newsroom. thank you. coming up next, why the cost of this life saving device shot up 500%. >> and later, how many pushups
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43 million americans are at risk for anaphylaxis, a potentially life threatening reaction to anything from bee stings to peanut butter. they must carry epipens everywhere they go. but the cost is soaring. we asked vinita nair to find out why. >> reporter: justin and lexy heneger said the epipen saved their daughter's life twice. first time, elli was two. >> her lips turned blue. she wasn't able to breathe.
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allergic reaction to certain elmo affect by food allergies. >> just a fear we live in every time. every time we leave the house do. you have your epipen? >> reporter: injectors need to be replaced each year. and those costs are soaring. the henegers remember paying ago. today the same pack costs as much as $600. a 500% increase. all of it for a drug that delivers just one or $2 of the life saving hormone epinephrine. >> i don't think it is fair for the pashen. >> the owner of a pharmacy. >> the price hike began in 2007.
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became a monopoly for the drugmakerer after a competitor took a similar product off the market. in a statement, mylan tells cbs news the price increase reflects a significant investment to support the device over the committed to find solutions to meet the neds of the patients and families we serve. the company offers coupons to henegers that means tightening the family budget to pay for the crucial device. well, he was a guest at sunday brunch for more than 30 years. we'll remember john mclaughlin
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on big, soft surfaces. discover a new way to lysol that. tv host john mclaughlin died today, the former jesuit priest and nixon speech writer, and pioneered the talk show format. the mclaughlin group has been a fixture on sunday morning for 34 years. mclaughlin had a distinctive abrasive style of interrogating >> has the time come for george bush to reach for the telephone and -- say get me john tower. say to john, your time h nd interest of the party, yourself, republic, you ought to withdraw your nomination? has the time come? >> mclaughlin's place in culture was secured when he was spoofed on "saturday night live" by dana carvey. what number am i thinking of, pat buchanan?
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until this past sunday. he always had the final word. >> bye-bye. ? >> the talk at the olympic tuesday involved a dive nowhere near the swimming pool. american allison feel eks was going for the gold in the 400 meter when shawneee miller of the bahamas showed off her diving skills. she got the medal.
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we end with the latest internet craze. jim axelrod has the pushup challenge. >> 22 pushups here we go. >> move over ice buckets, there is a new challenge rippling through social media. pushups. 22, in fact. knocking them out, and challenging some one else to do it. >> i am taking the 22 pushup challenge. >> from stars like john kryzinski to a class of troops. it is not about pumping up pecs, designed to focus attention on a tragedy. for years it was estimated 22 veterans committed suicide each day. retired marine don dewinn is director of 22 kill, the organization behind the challenge. >> when the statistic came out g
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we wanted to find out more about where this number came from.>> bucket challenge raised $115 million. but the group behind this challenge, 22 kill, says its primary goal is to raise awareness, not money. rusty carter is an army vet. who fried to kill himself after coming home from iraq in 2011. >> if i knew of an organization at the time that was doing what we do at 22 kill, i don't feel th suicide. >> recently the department of veteran affairs adjusted the number down to 20 veterans a day who take their own lives. the numbers may have changed, but the mission has not. >> we are not going to be done until it is zero, not going to change our name because of a new study. but, what matters is the number is going down and not up. >> the hope now is to keep that
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community welcome the news of the arrest after wildfires destroyed more than 170 strek churs and displaced hundreds of families. >> i'm excited that -- that he is now in jail. in our 17 counts of arson to related to numerous fires in lake county over the past year. >> reporter: law enforcement would not say which fires the counts referred to. last year this same region was the rocky fire. the jerusalem fire. and the fatal valley fire invehd tyiring. meanwhile, tla >> this fire and the fires last year are really the new norm. large fires that grow very quickly and do a lot of destruction. >> rural community of lower lake dates back to the 150s.
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has been destroyed. he filled his pickup with instruments and couldn't get his truck out in time. >> full of guitars miech grandfather started the boys band in 1917. put the instruments. music stuff in here. >> fire was burning out of control. over here.ing s left except the goldfish in his . >> flooding concerns remain high in parts of louisiana. as historic floodwaters continue to flow south of baton rouge. governor john bell edwards says least 10 people. more than 40,000 have been damaged. >> the water is starting to recede. to give you an idea. we were on a rels cue boat sunday. we passed by the house. all we could see was the roof. thousand of homes in this area are damaged.
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before it gets better. >> we are not going to give up. we are going to stay to the bloody end. and if it knocks us down we are going to get back up and rebuild. >> overnight, voluntary evacuations were under way in ascension parish as floodwaters from the overflowing river poured into the community. on monday, national guard helicopters pulled more people to safety from the unpress denlt unprecedented flooding hitting louisiana. we went along on a the flood zone. we are now flying over seven springs, as you can see this area is covered in walter right now. roughly, 90% of the homes in denim springs have flood damage. the city's main highway is washed out. christina broad and her boyfriend, brooks wiltson returned to their flooded home for the first time monday. >> my god. this is my entire life.
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away. >> like the end of your life. ened of your world. having to start over like that. >> more than 11,000 people have been forced into shelters. >> never thought i would see this day. >> i know. >> 20,000 rescued since friday in large part due off to the help of volunteers. >> very proud of the effort that we are making. more than anything else. i am proud of the way that louisianans are taking care of >> craig's home is a loss the but he is thankful for what he has. >> we are homeless, but hopeful. we'll rebuild and get back. >> reporter: all of this walter its heading south into ascension parish. there is a flooding concern. governor edward will meet with federal officials to discuss the recovery process. >> as you just heard many volunteers in louisiana have stepped up to join the rescue efforts.
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survive. >> for the past several days one of the only ways to get around in certain parts of baton rouge has been with a boat or something like this. a chevy truck converted into a high-riding hunting vehicle. for this week, this truck hasn't been use ford hunting. it's been used for rescuing people that have been stranded by the floods.taed to rise. robert and teague rolled into action. >> 250s. elderly. 30 dogs. pld their homes. they're part of the loose collection of volunteers known locally as the cajun navy. >> you don't get emotional right when yo >> with 911 operators overwhelmed, scott and jessica gaspar turned to facebook for help. eventually, boats arrived to take them and their 11 children
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>> what we truly saw were friend, neighbors, complete strangers rescuing people left and right. the officials had no idea this was going to happen. so it was truly, the guy next door. >> you should have seen the line peopl >> patrick mulhurn, heads up celtic studios. its massive sound stages usually the site for movies like oblivion and twilight saga converted into shelters for those left homeless. >> there was 4,000 people here yesterday. a l no doubt about it. >> reporter: as the devastating as the the floodwaters have been. mulhurn says outpouring of support is a hopeful sign enseu of police shootings and racial tensions. >> floodwaters don't diskrim nate. they dent care, race, color, creed, religion, jernd, you name it. >> latrenda and her children have been living at the shelter
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>> ever think you would see anyting like this in baton rouge? >> no, i never thought that i would be experiencing what the katrina victim have experienced. >> lisa wellmeier survived hurricane katrina, she moved to baton rouge after 11 years ago and finds herself flooded out again. >> what i learned it is not about the material things, it is about the soul of louisiana. and that's what they have got. they have got a real big, healthy heart. lisa wellmeier explaned ow welcomed her family and others from new orleans after katrina. she said now it is time for her to repay the favor by helping those who cam to her rescue nearly 11 years ago. >> the "cbs overnight news" wi
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a french catholic priest on a mission to find the forgotten victims of the holocaust. nearly half of the 6 million jewish victims were executed in fields and forests and buried in mass unmarked graves. for the past 15 years, father patrick dubois has been tracking down burial sites and looking for witnesses who are still laura logan reports in a story for "60 minutes." >> the general order was to e te baby, even the old mommy. >> aic >> annihilation. if hitler did not lose the war, i don't think today one jew would be alive. >> father patrick dubois is on a motion to find hitler's hidden killing fields. before him lies a continent of these mass graves and extermination sites, many of them are invisible. >> yeah, totally invisible. and under corn fields.
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under a field. yeah, yeah. >> many would never be recorded? >> never be recorded and still buried like animals. >> repor w republic of moldova where in one day he took us to four unmarked mass graves. in this field, he toemd , 60 jews. beneath this farm, 100. above this city, under this 1,000 body. do you think they're still here? >> yeah. yeah, they're still here. >> reporter: thousand of eyewitnesses, millions of and investigating have led him to more than 1700 execution sites. once in ukraine, under the supervision of a rabbi, and the
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>> officially a place where no jew had been killed. we found 17 mass graves. >> what did you find? y you see a mover with, holding his boy until the end. the boy tried to go out. you see thatanother one was, was buried alive. she had the mouth open. she was buried with the earth. >> reporter: in june 1941, hilt hitler invaded the soviet union behind his front line troops were mobile death squads, whose job was to hunt down every last jew. they methodically entered villages, rounded up jewish familiesand marched them to freshly dug graves. some of the remains buried here in lithuania. the assassins reached remote corners, like a tiny village in moldova. when the killers came here they really had one purpose? >> only one goal.
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>> translator: as soon as they came they locked everyone saw them taking them away. >> he asked where the jews were killed. a ravine over there. come and see if you want. >> what you are learning is >> if we had never come. >> reporter: giorgi brought us down the road where he said all the jewish families from the village were taken. he told us the day of the shoo h now, 70 years later, we watched to tdgnslar: the jews were facing the ditch so they were shooting them in the back of ei into the ditch. they were shooting them as if they were dogs. >> he said it was a beautiful
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>> with the sunshine. >> reporter: when you are doing this here in a place like this, do you ever stop and think, how le.i finally we foundy. we came back. >> father dubois lead no congre search for the jewish victim for his calling. >> you are not a typical priest? >> i think ebo his way. the pope also its not a typical pope. but i am a priest. >> reporter: with the blessing of the cardinal and vatican he created in 2004, the or together as one. >> we will begin and first look >> reporter: based in paris his team begins by combing through millions of pages ofma archesble ter the collapse of the soviet union. they search for clues that lead
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witness testimonies. to date they have recorded over 4,000 witnesses. who were children at the time. many were recruited by the nazis or local police to dig the mass graves. or to take the gold teeth, jewelry and clothing of the victims. >> what have we learned about the holocaust that we didn't know before you began your investigations? >> i learned a lot about humanity. i learned everybody can be a killer, any bed can be a victim. i learned that you like to see other people dying in front of you, killed by other people when you are sure you will not be
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>> reporter: it was a dramatic finding. that villages chose to watch people being leaned up and a revelation he would have never have come to were it not for h grandf claudius dubois, held as prisoner of war in a nazi camp in rawa-ruska. but he never wanto o e t it. village to find out what happened there.
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forest, where 50 elderly villagers were waiting. >> he said, patrk, i b y at the mass grave of the last 1,500 jews of rawa-ruska. like in a movie. >> to watch the reporto to cbsnews.com and click on 60 cbsnews.com and click on 60 minutes. he said sureut get one inspired by dentists, with a round brush head. go pro with oral-b.ad cupo break up plaque and rotates to sweep it away. clean versus sonicare diamondclean. my mouth feels super clean! oral-b. know you're getting a superior clean.
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library remains a trusted source for research. >> reporter: librarians at new york public library have been called the human google. they may not be as fast as your favorite search engine they're as reliable as ever. the fifth avenue branch of the new york public library attracts about 2.5 million visitors each year. many pose with the lions named patience and fortitude. hall, and pass through the reading rooms without cracking a book. but the tables are full here. shushing happens as much as you may remember.d thphones keep ri researchers.oncomments that we get from callers is thank god a reached a human being. even on chat some times. people will say is this a robo or person. we have to laugh and say, yeah,
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new york public library ask desk. which receives about 300 inquiries a day. >> we answer telephone, e-mail, chat, text, facebook, twitter, snail mail queries from new yorkers and peopro this is our library.eren librar. >> researchers here can access materials not availato general public. but google and even wikipedia are not off- and more things are on line. the computer is a tool for us. faster we can find an answer for somebody. the better. >> while the average google search takes .2 second. this human search engine is a bit slower. five minutes per call is typical. >>:00 in the search box, upper right corner. such a thing as a typical question?
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reference. ? ? >> reporter: here are some recent questions as read by our cbs this morning summer interns. >> i need to know the exterior dimensions of radio city music hall. >> i'm looking for a new york city law that -- >> i'mki history of black lipstick? le inspired subject, more or >> bernard van marseeven keeps >> a neighborhood nickname that didn't qui p lowbro, orders noho, soho, and little italy. >> lowbro sound insulting. what's the most interesting que? >> usually like the last one that i have gotten.caer that than the ordinary treat. wider i didn't believe them at first. i want up to their block, and i, measured it out. and it is true.bout-feet wider e
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>> wow. >> bernard you are awfully dedicated?lad at i am able to do this job. it's, you known' magement, but kind of like always amazed i get paid to do this work. so. >> i love this collection. >> reporter: surprising as it may sound that sentiment is shared on this floor. where people proudly answer whatever is on your mind. question.tude. also that moment, ah-ha. that moment. hearing the joy in their voice. check mark goes off. i managed to accomplish that. >> reporter: so, in case you are wondering. the lions named patience and fortitude are larger than life size. that law prohibits monkeys from soliciting money dates back to 1887. and black lipstick first came in
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a recent wave of car thefts in texas part of a high tech trend. some car thieves are gg on hot wiring and turning to hacking. here's kris van cleave. >> reporter: point. click. steal. a houston home shows this guy, getting into a jeep wrangler and breaking out his laptop. board computer diagnostic port to trick it into accepting a key that he brought with him and then, just driving off. who needs to hot wire when you that jeep belonged to david payne's daughter. >> my daughter was sleeping in the room above it. her dog was sleeping with her. the dog slept through it. she slept through it. nobody ever heard a thing. like being invaded, the guy is
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in your driveway. >> reporter: typically thieves target older cars because of the value of their parts. but not these two. working always at night. they struck again. using a laptop to take this jeep grand cherokee. police arrested michael arsey and jesse solea, and believe the pair made off with 100 vehicles smuggled into mexico. >> if it is this easy to steal or some one has the knowledge and ability, and knows how to utilize that ability to be able to commit the theft. it is a scary situation. >> pol of p investigation in california. the national insurance crime bureau which investigates stolen car claims for the insurance industry noticed an uptick in newer harder to steal vehicles being taken. >> which sort of surprised us, because they have all of this new technology. >>roeporter: almost like cyberhot wiring. >> yes. in the old days thieves could a to hotwire a car.
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fund by cbs it is wednesday, august 17th, 2016. this is the "cbs this morning" a attorney california wildfire explodes forcing more than 80,000 people to flee their homes. into aldfi in the northf the state continues. official revealing the accused arsonist once worked on the front lines of fires as a state inmate. intense flooding continues to devastate louisiana, while some escape the rising water, spreading across the state. others are heading home to survey the damage.
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