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the number of nontreated zika infections in florida rose to 16. this time the person is in palm beach county. 75 miles north of the miami zika zone but had travele to miami-dade coty. david begnaud has the latest on ba to birth defect. >> reporter: there has been aerial spraying over the zika zone at least three times now. cases.7 locally transmitted zika the onerea of wynwood was a ghost dotown. she feedhe had zika. today she received good ws. >> we did your test last week. was negative.
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reaction when yogot it? >> whew. >> reporter: she says she has been taking p including using bug spray any time she is outside. >> reporter: you understand how randomly i could have beenyo ?$ >> absolutely. and, and in any situation, when u pregna,us you j onthing that youre in control. >> reporter: her obstetrician, patients are forgetting abut prevention. >>eople want to beep tested. but you have bug spray in you are getting tested. do you have bug say in your purse. you have to focus on. images have to be of the mosquito, bites, that's what you need to avoid. >> reporter: tonight i palm beh unty, irenspectors i therea where the new caseas detected going dpoor to door askingeople r volunry
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may have been infected. charlie the kids are about to go back to school in florida. today the governor asked education leaders to start teaching students aut zika protection. >> thank yo david. folks in florida brang for severe flooding in richard, roads he bee closed because of heavy rains. anforecast is only getting worse. some places could get 9 ihes of rain in the next few days. th's because a storm system has stalled over the florida the bad weather extends althe way to new orleans. inhe pacific, tlropica storm javier is bearing down?v on baj california. heavy air expecd to pass by cabo san lucas toght. lf foot of rain is in the forecast an earlier storm, erm, dumpe a month wor o rain o central?z co men 24 hos. that trigger an avalanche of mud, that killed at least45 people. today, soldiers and rescue teams
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survivor wer transported in military vehicles to safety. by contras testern.s is bone dr burning out of control.fires are evacuations have been ordered in th san bernardino mountains, east of los angeles. hundreds of firefighters and 16 aircraft are battling the pilot fire it has burned 4500 acres. smoke has bln all theay w to las vegas. inakistan today, shot and killed a prominent lawyer. then auicide bomber attacked the hospital where mourner had gathered. at least 70 peoplee killed. more than 90 were hurt. both the talib and isis have claimed responsibility. tonight syria's biggest city slghtedanger of becoming a ouse. the assad regime's army backed eppo, but they have not been ed le tlock it down borateh poteports tight
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the keyur was reached er the weekend. en a newly formed coalition of opposition f???ighters iludi so rectl affiliated to al qaeda managed to bark through government lines. they released this drone footage which shows the moment auicide bomber drove a tck through thecy and blew himself up, allowing rebel groups to advance forward and seize a military complex with ammunition and heavyrtillery. it all looked so diffent just twweeks ag ter years of steal mate in the fight for control of the ty government troops backed by russian air sikes seidhe emniup route, cutting off an estimed 250,000 ople. in a desperate bid to break the launched a successful counter offensive and surprisingly were also able t take over the main road into the government held partf e city.
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people live. the ga was greeted with celebrations in rebel controlled parts of aleppo. they could be short-lived. there are growing fears of food and food shortages. and the allies, say they're amassing thousand more fighters along the front lines. the fight or aleppo is clearly intensifying and could become a pivotal battle in this war. at this stage, charliet is unclear whether either si can >> thanks, deborah. i talked to michael morell, former directo of the c i aunti contributor. he suggests the united stes action b syria rebels.essiv irania were giving wpo to e shiaailitia wling american ldiers, iranians were wed to make th the
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an investition is continuingonight into freak accide that took t life of a child at a water park in kansas city, kansas itappened on a water sde whose name is german forinsane. omar villafranco is in kansas city. e sunday afternoon when killed riding this 17 story water slide on araft. o other passengers were injured. winter persapio i theater pa spokesperson. >> all our rides are inspeed every day. actually. our ride are inspected by an outside party. >> cale the sonf kansas state representative scott swab, enjoying the park on a day honong state lawmakers.
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saying caleb brought abundant joy to our family and although he came into contact with. >> tallerhan niagara falls. >> it is dubbed the tallest water slide in the world. the attractn opene in 2014 after several delays. adjustments had to be made to ow the raft launching off the slide. in this promotional video released by the company, three drop down more than 168 feet miles per hour. passengers are thrust up and over another 50 foot drop. to ride, each passenger must be at least 4'6." the combined weight of three riders must be 400 pounds. this girl took the plunge with friend on the watt r slide an hour before the deadly accident. the 18-year-old was concerned
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>> ielt i had to hold on to keep my body from going up. i was so scared. >> the autopsy is complete. the results have not been released yet. charlie, the kansas city police department is leading this investigation. >> thank you, omar. still ahead, michael phelps in this is shaving. blades here, blades there. some more over there... whoa! that's not a blade. this is gillette shielding. with lubrication before and after the blades. shields from irritation for a close, comfortable shave. proshield from gillette.
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and phelps with olympic gold medal number 19. michael phelps off to a strong start in his fifth olympics. but there was something else that everyone steamed to be talkg about today. ben tracy is in rio with our on the spot coverage. >> out comes team usa. >> when michael phelps made his r if o debut. there were two questions how fast would he swim and what's with the purple mark all over ?q his body an ancient chinese pain relief treatment known as cupping. you can see him getting the treatment in his underarmor add. here's how cupping works. specialized suction cups pull the skin up and away from underlying muscles breaking capillaries. that draws blood to the area and speeds recovery. phelps is such a fan. he instagramed the photo of himself mid cup treatment to. day, cody miller said he is also
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during training. i'll have her put cups on my back. and she is like. so gross. >> dara torres is a 12 time medalist in swimming. >> is this a fringe thing in sports or something a lot of athletes do. >> i think a low key trend now. that michael phelps has been seen with cup marks all over his body. more athletes will do it. i wa doing itmg, in 2008 and not just for professional athletes. 2-year-old, gia san angelo uses the technique to relieve the back pain. this doctor treats her at mount sinai hospital in new york. actually jump starts the body's natural healing press. you can increase the blood flow and let the body do what it does to help resolve the issue. >> reporter: there isn't aot go showing the techniq works. many athletes here in rio swear by it.
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this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the overnight news. republic presidential nominee donald trump has outlined his plans to creats ands in speech i lo aued tha busess ce qlead wrorld's bigge economy. monday he offered details on the changes he would make if he wins the presidency. here is some of what trump had to say. >> i am proposi an across the board income taxedti for middle-income american this will lead to millions of the rich wil pay their fair
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it destroys jobs, or undermines our ability, as a nation, to compete. e of the plan.tion will be a ou current tax code is so burdensome, and so complex, that we waste 9 billion hours a year in tax code compliance. my plan will reduce the current numb of brackets from 7 to 3. and dramatically streamline the process. we will wor with house republicans, on this plan, using the same bracketshey ha proped. 12%. 25%. and 33%. for many americans, their tax rate will be 0. der my plan, no american companyl wil payor than 15% of their business income i
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inther words, we're reducing yo taxes from 35% to 15%. small businesses will benefit the most from this plan. require small business to pay as muchs three times more in taxes than what i am proposing. and hers regulations will put themotally out of business and you went be able to start. you business under the tremendous regulatory burden that you i am goi to cut regulations massively. my plan will alsoelp reduce theost of child care. by allowing parents to fully deduct the average cost of cld care spending from their taxes. we are also going to bng back
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rk overseas, they can't bring their money back into our country. our plan will bring that cash home, alying only a 10% tax. >> hillary clinton will define her own economic vision in an address thursday. democratic presidentiaominee will lay out her case i detroit. nancy cordes is covering the clinton kachl paicampaign. >>n economy that works for everyone. >> reporter: clinton'socus on the economy as trump veers offcourse. >> she is a monster. >> may be paying off. 57% of virnians tell cbs news shis prepared to be president compared to 36% who say that about trump. name calling, probably doesn't help. >> she is a totally unhinged person. she's's unbalanced. >> the comparison enabled
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areas. a third of virginia voters think she can bring change to waington. or that she tells the truth. >> so i may have short cirited it. >> clinton gave a tortured explanation friday for why she mischaracterized the fbi incorrectly he said she never publicly lied about her e-mails. >> direct oor comey said m answs were truthful. th'she bottom line consistent with what i said puicly. she is lying aboutlying. >> republicans argued she was parsing her rd. >> she has a fundamental way to say to people. i didn't lie to you. i didn't remember what i was going to say. >> mystery surround the excushion of an iranian scientist accused of being informant for t united states. over the weekend. i ran announced he was hanged as a traltor.
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story. >> this strange series of events includes execution, nuclear secrets and u.s. diplomacy. a scientist with vital information on deadly nuclear weapon defects to the states. seven ars later his family says he was hanged. the big question here is, what made dr. amiri return to iran. s love for his son, may have cost dr. iri his life. he wasreunited with his fame having receid a in tehran in 2010. his story at the team that he had been kidnapped by cia agen. he reap cysted spilling the beans on iran's nuclearprogram. it soon became clear iraan authoritie weren't buying h is version of events. he disappeared. presumably imprison uil this weekend's announcement. officials said amiri was executed f giving america what they called the great satan, vital and secret information.
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murky le even by the standard ofnt esonage. he dected to the u.s. in 2009. secrets about his country' nuclear program. but mths later, wanted to go home. heems t have gotten cold feet. >> the senior vicidene pres for the centeror strategic and inteatstudies.>> he came up with stories?p?,?] about him going back and being with his famil i$iraq. >> one of the stories claimed h had been kidnapped while on pgrageo mecca and ?!captivy.night months of then secreta of state, clint said amir is h own >>r. amiri has been in the united stateof his o free ll. >>or k le pr nuclear proam is dangerous game amiri would have known the risk >> from their perspective this is how uh y treat traitors it
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this summer. and earned him a tick tight rio. >> wasn't like i demanded this of myself. >> reporter: you didn't stay i ametting back in the pool and going to make the next olympics. >> no way. he has no expectations for the future, but more importantly no regrets about the past. >> i really try to aindividual regret. i don't think anybody should be stuck in the past. that's a dead life if you are stuck in the past. life moves forward. >> because irvan helped the u.s. swim team win here, ties for the record for longest gap of a u.s. swimmer between medals. 16 years set way back in 1924. >> the "cbs overnight news" will
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mass shootings have become an all too familiar sight on televion. this past week marked 50 y that kind of horror on tv. anna werner take is a look back in a story for "sunday morning." >> it is a summer day in austin, as students at the university of texas stroll the campus. a day much like the one 50 years ago, long before anyone knew the term mass shooting. >> this i where -- >> yeah. >> it's the day and the spot
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see the tower. >> oh, yeah. >> right over you. >> that day was august 1, 1966. walter cronkite anchored a special cbs news report. >> a deranged engineering student at university of texas climbed to an austin landmark at noon how to day. >> a man perched atop the university of texas clock tower began firing on the people belo west and south side of the campus as sniper zeroed in on his target with unerring accuracy. >> he shot at random. for more than 90 minutes. >> claire, an 18-year-old student, 8 months pregnant walking on campus with boyfriend tom eckman. at first didn't know what was happening. >> you never heard the shot?
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i just felt a big jolt. then i started falling. >> reporter: as she fell to the pavement, her boyfriend, tom, turned to ask her what was wrong. the next thing she knew, he was lying dead next to her. and she couldn't move. >> you thought you were dead? >> i thought i was going to die. yeah. >> the killer was 25-year-old charles joseph whitman, a former marine sharpshooter. unknown to anyone, he already killed his wife and mother in their homes, before heading to the tower's 2th floor observation deck with multiple guns. it was the first school mass shooting in modern u.s. history. he affect sewed many lives in that one day. retired texas ranger, martinez was a young officer with the police department at the time. arriving on campus. he couldn't believe what they saw.
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could hear all of the shooting going on. it was look a war. >> back then, there was no such thing as rapid response teams. it was left to martinez and civilian, followed by a fellow officer, houston mccoy to climb to the top of the tower. to face off against the sniper and his arsenal. as martinez described it at the time. >> he didn't have it level. he and i just kept firing. >> i could tell by impact that i hit him. i kept advancing. shooting. mccoy shot and hit him. and started going down. >> the shooter was dead. he killed 16 people that day. and injured dozens more. the mass shooting brought fundamental changes to police
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for decades at u.t. the only reminder of the terrible day could be find on this rock. keith maitland who went to school there wondered why he never heard more. >> this is a story i think that anybody who grew up here has heard a little bit about. but if you want to get past just that little bit there isn really a lot out there to kind of fill in the blanks. >> so he made a called "tower." >> we can see the movement south side of the clock. >> it uses animation and archive footage to tell the story of the day. >> the shot hit me. rick shade o ricochetted off the building. >> then what happened? >> then everybody ran. >> what i want to understand what was it look to live through something like this?
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how does it impact a community? >> the worst days of your lives. >> reporter: in the process he wound up reconnecting people who it turned out had not seen each other since that day, 50 years ago. >> people like claire wilson james. >> hi, claire. >> hello, baby. >> and artly snuff. snuff was just a teenager at the time. that's him on the right in the dark shirt. running out in full view of the carry her some 100 yard down the steps to safety. something he says he simply felt he had to do. >> because she was shot. she was obviously pregnant. it was the most horrific day of my life. >> to this day? >> oh, gosh, yes. i didn't go to war. that was my war. >> because why? >> because the blood. the death.
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the loss of innocence. i think what i probably learned the most is that you have to deal withdr trauma. for people who weren't given an opportunity it really sits with them and kind of eats away at them over the course of the rest of their lives. >> reporter: even people you might not expect. like ray martinez, who before he was a police officer, was a [ gunfire ] >> reporter: he told us on the way to the tower to stop the sniper that day he was forced to run past claire as she lay bleeding on the quad without stopping to help her. >> that day -- i was thinking like a medic but also thinking like a policeman. i saw her wounded. and i felt like it was my duty to grab her and take her out of there. >> reporter: in the movie version of this, you're the guy
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the day. and you are telling me that even you, are wracked by guilt? >> well, if you are a human being and you got feelings for people, yes. >> reporter: the university is now taking steps to remember those lost. this past week, a new larger memorial was dedicated. listing the names of those killed. including claire wilson james boyfriend and also her baby. and in the shadow of the tower, there is now friendship. and healing for survivors. and from claire, something else. and you forgive him? >> oh, yeah, how could -- god's forgiven me everything i have done. that kind of person.rom being - you know, that, that decide to go that way.
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a video of a massive alligator roaming a golf course is getting a lot of attention on line. david begnaud has the story behind the siting. >> reporter: the golfers who took the video were in disbelief. a giant gator standing hig its legs just saintering across the golf course. it is a sight so unreal, that chubs, as he has become known, is something of an internet phenomenon. the individually that made him famous has been viewed more than 19 million times. but regulars here in palm meadow, florida, are unfazed. >> this is a great course, you see a lot of gators out here. big ones. fighting. running across. it's pretty interesting course. i mean it's fun.
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realize, these things go very short distances billion out they tire out quickly. >> they're fast. >> they're fast for a short distance. like us old guys. you know? >> his head was about -- here. >> course manager ken powell says chub has been a fixture on the fairway for years. he believes the gafor is at least 15 feet long and likely 40 or 50 years old. when chubs comes out, play doesn't stop. if golfers hit a ball close to another one. and play right on through. >> he is not a nuisance alligator. we have no plans to have anybody come and take him away. he is not hurting anybody. >> reporter: once kidded endangered. alligators are federally protected species. more than 1 mlion reptiles in habit florida. fatal attacks on humans are rare. only six have been recorded in the state in the last 10 years. and that includes the killing of a 2-year-old boy at disney world
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>> alligators can live in any body of freshwater. tim geist is a trapper and says% treated as a potential threat. >> a lot of the public doesn't understand when they feed an alligator they're creating a monster. feed the alligator, he is going to coop coming back for more, gets bigger, bigger, bigger. sees you as potential meal. >> reporter: chubs may look like a monmonster, but the club belis as long as patrons leave him golfers and gators can peacefully cope exist. that's the "cbs overnight news" for this tuesday morning. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new
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? it's tuesday, august 9, 2016. this is the "cbs morning news." donald trump tried to stay on couldn't keep ranking republicans from jumping ship. a new poll gives hillary clinton an even larger lead, but a new lawsuit blames her for two deaths in benghazi. and bad blood in the water. with the staredown and a record breaking swim american lily king gets her revenge against her russian rival in rio.
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