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when the shooting started, he told us they turned back, but he pressed on and now finds himself alone on the government side of aleppo, facing an uncertain future in a borrowed room right on the front line. true, there is no bombing here, but there's scant opportunity either, and very little hope. there was some hope, scott, when the cease-fire was in effect that violence would fall and aid would begin to flow more freely, not only in aleppo but across syria. even that hope has now been crushed. >> pelley: elizabeth palmer continuing her reporting from inside syria.
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well, it's video that is leading the fbi tonight to ask for help identifying these two men. they are wanted for questioning as possible witnesses in the weekend bomb blasts in new york and new jersey. the man charged in those attacks is recovering from gunshot wounds. homeland security correspondent jeff pegues is following this. >> reporter: at 8:30 saturday night, a pressure cooker bomb exploded on west 23rd street in manhattan. the f.b.i. is appealing for help in finding these two men who were four blocks away on west 27th street at the same time. police say the two men removed a bomb from a piece of luggage, putting it on the sidewalk, and then walked away, leaving the device but taking the suitcase.
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n.y.p.d. counter-terrorism chief james waters. >> they are witnesses. there are no criminal charges. they're not in any jeopardy of being arrested. so if you can help us find them or anybody else can tell us who they are, we would be very interested to speak to them. >> reporter: investigators are still unsure if ahmad khan rahami was part of a cell or acting on his own, or if there are still other bombs still unaccounted for. documents, rahami bought the ingredients for the bombs on ebay, including chemicals, ball bearings and electric igniters. the f.b.i. is still trying to figure out where he built the bombs, but two days before the bombings, the documents say a family member filmed rahami burying a small black cylindrical object in his backyard. a fuse was lit, there was a loud noise and flames followed by billowing smoke and laughter. today at a counter-terrorism
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michael mccaul held up a copy of rahami's hand-written journal. >> he talks about god willing the sound of bombs will be heard in the streets, gunshots to your police, death to your oppression. >> reporter: blood stained with a bullet hole through it, rahami wrote about martyrdom, and his praise of militants suggests he took inspiration from al qaeda as well as isis. investigatar to figure out how rahami was radicalized and by whom. scott, she spoke with investigators in dubai >> pelley: jeff pegues, thanks very much. the f.b.i. investigated rahami two years ago, but he was not considered a threat at the time. it's not the first time someone investigated by investigators has later been accused of terrorism. we asked anna werner to look into this. >> reporter: as ahmad khan rahami's case moves forward, federal agencies are working to keep up with what former f.b.i.
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do you think there are people who are being missed? >> absolutely. the f.b.i. does not have the resources, both legally and in terms of manpower and funding. these people are being radicalized quicker than we could identify them. >> reporter: in rahami's case, despite his father calling him a terrorist in 2014, and his year- long stay in pakistan, an f.b.i. source says at the time it found nothing in its indicators, such as links to other known terrorists or radicalized behavior, to point to rahami being a terror threat. since 9/11, the homeland security committee says there have been at least 166 home- grown jihadist plots in the u.s., including attempts to join terrorist groups overseas and execute attacks at home, an average of 11 per year. just this year alone, 26 people in the u.s. have been arrested in 13 states for isis-related activities including plots to
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sometimes there are clues, but to make a case, authorities need evidence that they often do not find. the orlando pulse nightclub shooter, omar mateen, had been on the f.b.i.'s terrorist watch list for ten months and was investigated but later removed from the list. in june he killed 49 people. cbs news consultant fran townsend says the system needs improvement. >> you want the terrorist watch list to be overinclusive, so if there is somebodyo be but you don't have enough, you want it to alert other agencies to put more information in that might push you over the edge. >> reporter: since 2014, authorities have arrested 105 people in the u.s. scott, they say those people were plotting attacks, attempted to join isis, or provided money, equipment or weapons to that terror group. >> pelley: anna werner, thanks. today, leaders of congress dropped their gavels and grabbed
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president on january 20th. today donald trump drove home his point with african american voters, and here's major garrett. >> reporter: donald trump met with a handful of sympathetic black pastors in cleveland today. >> god, i ask that you would touch this man, donald j. trump. >> reporter: trump was introduced and partly overshadowed by former boxing promoter don king, who used a racial epithet while describing discrimination against african americans. >> if you are dancing and sliding and gliding ( -- i mean negro, you are a dancing and sliding and gliding negro, so dare not alienate because you cannot assimilate. so, you know, you going to be a negro until you die. >> reporter: the effect was unsettling and symptomatic of trump's pitch to african
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trump has also turned down speaking invitations from the n.a.a.c.p. and other civil rights groups. yesterday in north carolina, trump said this about the state of black life in america. >> our african american communities are absolutely in the worst shape that they've ever been in before, ever, ever, ever. >> reporter: we asked toledo pastor kay david johnson how trump can better reach out. is trump a credible republican nominee to speak to the african american community? >> he has not sewn seeds and nurtured those seeds in the african american community. there is no closeness, there is no trust that has been developed. >> reporter: trump today called for nationwide use of stop-and- frisk tactics to reduce crime. scott, those policies were discontinued in new york city after they were ruled unconstitutional because the vast majority of those stopped and frisked by police were minorities. >> pelley: major garrett on the campaign for us tonight. major, thank you.
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union workers to "stage an intervention for friends considering voting for trump." she pledged to build an economy that welcomes handicapped workers and promisd to end the subminimum wage for the disabled. she's campaigning in florida, a must-win for trump, where the candidates are now tied. be sure to tune in here on monday evening for the first presidential debate, clinton versus trump, 9:00 eastern on cbs. coming up next. congress sticks it to the maker of the epipen. and later, the last storm of the summer washes out roads and
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increased from about $100 for a two pack to more than $600. the 47-year-old tried defending the spike by saying the company only makes $100 for every two pack after cost. committee chairman republican jason chaffitz. >> when the juice is $1 and you're selling it for $600, there's room for profit. >> reporter: mylan has been the focus of public scrutiny since families complained about skyrocketing costs. in response to the criticism, the company increased the value of c announced a $300 generic version of the drug. for lexi henniger's family, their $1,200 pharmacy bill for two kids was cut in half by the coupon. >>but it wasn't quite what we were looking for from the company. we were hoping they would lower the overall price. >> reporter: lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agreed. democratic congressman elijah cummings. >> i'm concerned that this is a rope-a-dope strategy.
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they'll fly back to their mansions in their private jets and laugh all the way to the bank. >> reporter: an f.d.a. official also testified during the hearing.% committee members want to know why it takes so long for new drugs to be approved, arguing the hurdles are blocking competition. >> pelley: vinita nair, thanks very much. coming up, samsung's replacement phones, exploding batteries not included. ahh...still sick, huh?
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>> pelley: more than 100,000 school kids had this last day of summer off because of flooding. what's left of tropical storm julia has poured up to 16-inches of rain on virginia since sunday. 500,000 new galaxy note 7 cell phones went on sale today. samsung replaced the batteries that had been catching fire. recalled phones will start receiving alerts urging owners to shut them down. chicago's police department said today it will add nely years to try to stop the epidemic of gun violence. no word on where the money's coming from. chicago has had more than 500 homicides so far this year, more than all of last year. up next, cops and kids trading
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>> pelley: we began tot police. we'll end with a program aimed at preventing them. here's jericka duncan. >> we just need you guys to clear out of the area. >> for what? >> why? >> we got a few noise complaints. >> reporter: the adults in blue shirts are actually police, but on this day, they pretended to be teenagers. >> excuse me. >> what? what's wrong? >> reporter: and these teens acted as police. when back-up arrives, one
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this role-playing exercise was used at a high school assembly run by the chicago chapter of the national organization of black law enforcement executives. the goal is for students and police to learn from each other. >> it was very helpful to actually get that experience and that perspective. >> reporter: seniors rodney jackson, kiara jefferson, latrice williams and ayo taiwo. >> i love the role-playing part of the event. >> reporter: why? >> it's like they showed us their ever >> you have your own perception of it, but once you get that other perception, you kind of see how it plays hand in hand and what it's like. to have a phone this close to your face while you're trying to talk to somebody, it's not your ideal way to handle it. >> reporter: south holland police chief gregory baker says he became an officer after his friend was gunned down by police. >> we protect, we serve, but the part that's not mentioned a lot
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here got into this job because they care about people. that's what it's all about. >> reporter: chicago police officer caeana sanders. >> everyone is not against the police. in fact, the police are not all against the community. people really do still want that partnership. they want to feel safe. >> reporter: overall, did this need to happen? >> yeah. >> uh-huh. >> change has to start somewhere, and i think this is a good place to start. >> reporter: with a conversation to avoid confrontation. jericka duncan, cbs news, chicago. >> pelley: and that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight. for some of you the news continues, for others check back with us a little later for the morning news and of course cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new
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this is the "cbs overnight news." >> the investigation of the terror bombings in new york and new jersey is now stretching from the middle east to the streets of ma the suspect, ahmed rahami, was arrested. meanwhile, the search is on for two who may have released the second pressure bomb without even knowing it. jeff pegues has more. >> reporter: at 8:30 saturday night, a pressure cooker bomb exploded on west 23rd street in manhattan. the f.b.i. is appealing for help in finding these two men who were four blocks away on west 27th street at the same time.
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bomb from a piece of luggage, putting it on the sidewalk, and then walked away, leaving the device but taking the suitcase. the bomb never exploded. n.y.p.d. counter-terrorism chief james waters. >> they are witnesses. there are no criminal charges. they're not in any jeopardy of being arrested. so if you can help us find them or anybody else can tell us who they are, we would be very interested to speak to them. >> reporter: investigators are still unsure if ahmad khan rahami was part of a cell or acting on his own, or if there are still other bombs still unaccounted for. according rahami bought the ingredients to federal charging documents, for the bombs on ebay, including chemicals, ball bearings and electric igniters. the f.b.i. is still trying the figure out where he built the bombs, but two days before the bombings, the documents say a family member filmed rahami burying a small black cylindrical object in his backyard.
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noise and flames followed by billowing smoke and laughter. today at a counter-terrorism hearing in washington, homeland security committee chairman michael mccaul held up a copy of rahami's hand-written journal. >> he talks about god willing the sound of bombs will be heard in the streets, gunshots to your police, death to your oppression. >> reporter: blood stained with a bullet hole through it, rahami wrote about martyrdom, and his praise oli took inspiration from al qaeda as well as isis. donald trump's private foundation is coming under more scrutiny. it's already under investigation by the new york state attorney general over questions over political donations. now there are charges that trump used political donations to pay his legal bills. in recent years, his trump
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of a million for charges. last night, in north carolina, trump bragged about using other people's money in business deals, sort of the way the charity is operated and utterly without irony he said he would bring that philosophy for at least one aspect of foreign policy. >> we cannot have these people come into the united states. we don't know who they are. we know nothing about them. >> campaigning across north carolina, donald trump offered tougher screening of immigrants and safe zones for syrian war refugees, the latter paid for by wealthy gulf states. >> it's called opm, i do that in business all the time. there is nothing wrong with doing things with other people's money. >> reporter: that is an apt description of trump's foundation, which has used money
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gain. his charity has been investigated for months. >> i talked to tax experts who say they never saw anybody do anything like he has done in the last few years which is use the money in his charities to pay off the legal fees for his for-profit businesses. >> nearly all the money has come from other donors. tax documents show trump's foundation wrote a $100,000 check in 2007 to fisher house, a settle a local zoning area for his mar-a-lago club. the foundation sent $8,000 to a man who sued when trump with held prize money due after that man scored a hole in one at a golf course in 2010, and in 2014, it paid for this portrait of trump.
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riddled with inaccuracies, but when pence was asked about the inaccuracies he couldn't come up with a single example. >> a lost bag is customer never forgets but it happens, we have been trying out these devices to learn if that baggage is coming to that carousel near you, or if it's not. >> reporter: the airline's rate of bags lost or damaged is on decline, but nearly one in three passengers will have it happen to them. on this day, that passenger was ron mullinex. >> ron, that feeling when you and your wife were standing at
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everything stops and you were still a bag short. >> we know it happens. >> reporter: delta airlines is spending $50 million to try to make that happen a lot less often. installing a baggage system that puts a tag with a small radio frequency. it should wind its way into the system. american airlines alerts customers when their bags are off the flight, alaska airline is looking to see if they can work better than the paper that can smudge. >> every time an airline loses a suitcase and can't get it delivered to you at the baggage claim it costs them about $100 to bring it to your home or office or hotel. so that is a big expense that the airline would like to avoid.
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companies. we tested these three tracking devices and this $450 suitcase. it can track your phone, weigh itself, and lock, but it is small and we found the location feature to be hit or miss. this provided a list of places where our bag had been complete with a map. it worked best with a smartphone bluetooth connection. both require service, but consistently located our bag with an app, which beat her time waiting for a bag. >> definitely frustrating. >> the devices cost is $80, they will go on line in the coming months, the airline believes they will reduce lost and late
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the terror bombings in new york city and new jersey have put the spotlight on the cia and its role in tracking down the possible links to radical groups overseas. jeff pegs with john brenna this. >> shortly before this unmarked air force jet was scheduled to take off this was how the cia director travels. the plane is equipped with secure systems ensuring he can communicate with the president during a crisis. we were headed to alabama, the cia did not allow us to record video during the flight but we
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about isis' success in inspiring attacks worldwide. >> they have had success in the past several years, and right now they're trying to reap the harvest of the investments. >> while the cia focuses on threats, brennan is looking at shortcomings within the agency himself. in 2013, he looked at the diversities, ethnics make up about 13% of the organization. brennan visited the agency in birmingham. >> everybody looked like me, thought like me, and had that background and experience, i think we would subject to tremendous group think. we would not be open to new ideas and perspective. >> did u.s. intelligence somehow miss what was under the surface
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>> no matter how much insight we had into what governments were thinking and acting, we didn't have the pulse of the streets as best as we should have. >> reporter: isis' group, part of the discontent. in europe they deployed cells to carry out the attacks in brusse brussels. >> do you think the people of brussels and europe should expect more o t >> i think isis' capability to carry out attacks outside the iraq theater will continue and could increase. >> could increase. >> could increase in the short-term. >> brennan's career spans 36 years, says he can't remember a time when the country faced so many dangerous and complex threats. as we rode in his motorcade, we asked about attacks on files and
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bases in at least two states. experts say the hacks trace back to russia. >> going forward, do you expect that there will be more cyber intrusions from russia, or russians leading up to the november 8th election? >> well, i believe that as we come to the election there will be additional attempts to exploit, to collect, possibly to disclose information that is presidential campaign. >> he was reluctant to discuss the campaign, insisting he was not a democrat or republican, but he claims he will not waterboard the terror suspects, even though republican nominee donald trump endorses the idea. >> i would refuse to carry out a direction to conduct waterboarding, i will just say no. >> even to a president? >> absolutely, even to a president. >> this seems like an odd place
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to birmingham is all about understanding evil. in 1963, in the middle of the civil rights movement, three members of the ku klux klan planted three sticks of dynamite outside a baptist church. the explosion killed four young black girls. >> so this makes real what we try to do every day to try to keep the country strong and the sinces secure. history will be made of the smithsonian african-american museum and culture. the event will kick off with the event with living color and includes thousands of exhibits. many of them were family treasures donated to the museum. teresa duncan reports. >> you could almost say this event foreshadowed our past, and
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today. >> you can pick up this and touch it and know that it was in his hands. now, doesn't that send a chill down your back? >> it does. >> yeah. >> this freedom paper belonged to josephtrammer, who protected his freedom using this tin box, only proof knowing he was no longer somebody else's property. >> as long as he had this, they could not enslave him. not easily anyway. >> his freedom paper, thompson says, offers an image of who joseph trammel was during a time when photos were rare, at 5'7" inches in height, with marks on his body. >> one thing i was curious about
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he was probably beaten at some point. >> the tin box was the only one like it here. during the interview, the director came by personally to show his appreciation. >> means a lot to me. >> more than 40,000 items were donated, more than any other smithsonian museum. clothing, pictures, jewelry. >> they fill vast silences in the record. >> reporter: the curator cal treasures. >> these are things that are irreplaceable apriceless. >> many of these bring up old wounds. >> my dad flew 140 missions in world war ii. 50 missions were the norm, now white guys were going home after 50 missions. >> this jacket belonged to her
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of airmen to fight in world war ii. >> when they came back from world war ii, they came off the liberty ship and there was a sign that said white this way, colored that way. to get back to a scene, you would have to bleep that out same situation that they left. >> reporter: and sharing that important history to future generations keeps people like rosemary crockett and elaine a story that should never be forgotten. >> for people who look at some of the artifacts and even the very painful time saying slavery is over, we should move forward why do we have to keep talking about it. what do you say to that? >> the past is never over because it influences what people do later on. >> the cbs office news will be right back. is that ice-t?
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today you can do everything in just one click, even keep your toilet clean and fresh. introducing lysol click gel. click it in to enjoy clean freshness with every flush. lysol. start healthing. ? yeah, click ? with the state of this year's presidential election, a lot of people are looking back fondly to the good old days of ronald reagan, well, if you miss those days, christies's holding an auction, paintings and cowboy boots. it is already under way. >> an auction like this, is it
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valuables and putting them on display? >> no, it's far more sophisticated than that. here we had objects that sat on the president's desk. >> 1986. >> reporter: the items from the private collection of reagan and mrs. reagan are the narrative. >> here we have the thanksgiving platter and turkey salt and peppers. >> do we know who made the tu >> i don't know. >> of their friends. >> with love, margaret and dennis thatcher. >> reporter: and of the man and woman most remember from their time in washington. >> a lot of these things were in the white house when the president was at the peak of his powers. so that is very, very alluring. >> reporter: everything up for bid was part of the reagans' everyday life. >> in the library there was this
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cocktail nap kins. >> i would point out that it's reagans', which means it's either his or her bar but not both. >> that is right. >> the news and grammar are back in the morning. >> here is one of the presidential doodlers, with the football here i guess he is sort of thinking back to his time. >> do you like to play football? >> not much. >> this looks like hugh ck >> this is probably nancy reagan. >> honestly, it looks more like jane wyman to me, it does, i'm serious. there are a pair of leather ottomans, a jelly bean jar that sat on the desk of reagan's private office. and a bronze sculpture of the president as a cowboy. >> what is interesting to me here is he became so firmly identified with california and the west but of course he was
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learn to ride a horse until he went to hollywood. this is a piece of the berlin wall, with the president standing at the gate. and next to the famous speech. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> what is the asking price for this? >> this is ten to $20,000 into mr. auctioneer, bring down these prices. >> here we have a football signed by the president, with his most iconic film and political slogan. >> going to be in there with all they got, win just one for the gipper. >> of course he could not have known when he made that movie how important it would be to his entire political career. and apparently he and tom brady had the same ball boy. >> are you ready? >> no, i have to catch it --
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>> this was not only about the president, this necklace worn by the first lady. >> she was sort of controversial at the beginning about -- concerning all the glitziness. >> reporter: in an interview, mike wallace asked nancy reagan about her emphasis on style and elegance, during a type of economic hardship. >> and were you unprepared for the scrutiny you were going to get? >> yes, i really was. >> seat? >> reporter: now you can own the furniture used during that conversation and much, much more. >> prince charles, princess diana had sat here. >> so i'm sitting where a lot of famous back sides had sat? >> absolutely, this photograph was taken at the statue of liberty, a birthday gift to
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>> it seems like a marriage made in heaven, but in the end it was just another hollywood romance, brad pitt and angelina jolie are getting divorced. between them they have about half a billion dollars. but jolie wants kids. >> reporter: they were the definition of the power couple, the a-listers, their relationship blossomed like the big bang, which seems like the split seemed like the splitting of the app, they were together a decade before they got married. something pitt told me that was in part at the urging of their children. they have six in all. >> yeah, it means something to them. and they have questions when
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married and why is that. >> so what do you tell them? >> we will some day, that's a great idea, get mommy a ring, okay, i will. >> but in the end it lasted just over two years, the reasons are varied but oddly it seems the microscope was not one of them. although the frenzy that accompanied them everywhere, jolie said she ignore it. >> they're not who i am, i spend my day not caring about them, i find them quite shallow. >> when it first hit, it was very discombobulating and i would rappel from it. >> the brangelina power glass had enormous power to do good. kids make it right foundation,
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rebuild the ninth ward. >> we have a duty to help refugees. >> reporter: jolie became a good will ambassador, and later a special envoy to the high commission of the refugees. >> this is my fourth visit to jordan since the conflict began. >> reporter: she even made headlines by writing one herself, pinning an op-ed about her choice to have a double mastectomy. but it was the children they ra fuel much of the work they did apart. as jolie told them in 2011. >> i don't want to be more successful. i don't want more money. i want my kids to be healthy. i want to have a great family and i want them to be great people. that is my ambition. >> reporter: both are now asking for privacy. something the couple rarely enenjoyed when the news was happy and even less when it was not. lee cowan, hollywood.
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others you can check back captioning funded by cbs it's thursday, september 22nd, 2016. this is the "cbs morning news." don't throw >> a second night of violence in charlotte. protesters confront police and break window and block roads. the governor declares a state of emergency and calls in the national guard. good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters in new york. good to be with you. i'm meg oliver in for anne-marie green. the national guard is now trying to restore order in

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