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a moment ago we reported on the colin powell e-mail hack. director of the cia told us russian lacquers have been breaking into u.s. political web sites for years. john brennan spoke to jeff pegue. s, what did he say? granted rare access off to the director this week. among topics. the cyberattack on state election systems and democratic national committee. brennan did not blame russia but did point to russia's history of elect, meddling in other controez. he also told us he expects more breached information to be released by hackers. >> do you expect more cyberattacks, more releases, before the election?
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out. i think there are capabilities a number of adversaries have. not just nation states or countries. talking about individuals who may want to, demonstrate that they're able to hack into systems and release things for whatever their agenda might be. political agenda, or one that its just trying to undermine our system of democracy here. >> well, brennan did not blame russia for the hack, scott, multiple law enforcement sources tell us, the evidence they are seeing points to these attacks at some level. >> jeff pegues with the interview. thank you. >> despite the hacks, the u.s. and russia are cooperating on syria. today, the cease-fire worked out by both, gave us a rare look at the remains of aleppo, syria's largest city. with no bombs falling for a second day, children ventured into the street. but 275,000 residents are in
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elizabeth palmer is there. >> reporter: here's the sound of a cease-fire working. for the second evening in a row, aleppo was largely quiet. and monitors confirmed they have recorded no deaths anywhere in seyria in the past 48 hours. what a contrast the last week. when russian and syrian planes were dropping bombs on rebel held aleppo. we drove into the government side of the city today through suburbs shattered by fighting. and heard the occasional rumble of artillery in the distance. this cease-fire is not perfect. but it is good enough that we found repair crews already out on the job, tackling the huge task of restoring power. and on both side of this divided city, the playgrounds were full
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the turkish government sent a couple of aid trucks, a short distance into syria. but there has been nothing like this where it is most needed in rebel-held aleppo where there were demonstration tuesday. opposition fighters and some local people making the point that they don't want aid handouts. they want the siege of their neighborhoods lifted. the united nations does have the first aid conys roll, scott. there is now a plan in the works supported by the u.s. and russia to have all of the armed parties including the syrian army pull back from the main highway into aleppo to let the trucks through. >> elizabeth palmer with rare reporting from aleppo. thank you, liz. super typhoon, most powerful anywhere in 2016 blowing 200 miles an hour when it hit taiwan today. have a look at this.
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off his motor bielk. but he survived. the storm is hammering china tonight. tropical storm julia is churning off the southeast coast of the united states. expected to gain strength and dump rain on georgia and the carolinas. david begnaud is in charleston, south carolina. david. >> scott, right now along charleston's battery, wind gusting. 25-30 miles an hour. national hurricane center says tropical storm julia moving slowly and erratically. julia formed last night over last west of jacksonville, florida. the first time that happened in the state of florida and unusual for a storm to form over land. it was two weeks ago tropical storm hermine, dumped nearly a foot of rain in some of the same southeastern u.s. areas that are now feeling the effects of tropical storm julia. scott, national hurricane center says jewel gentleman will remain
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days and may strengthen. >> david begnaud on the carolina coast, david. thank you very much. come offing up next, can cameras stop drivers from blowing past school buss? >> and a hero is reunited with
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on average, eight kids are killed eac off a school bus. now, drivers who ignore the flashing light and stop signs are being caught in 15 states by cameras on the bus. mark strassmann takes us to school. >> when the school bus in austin stopped two weeks ago, miles mcfadden got off. a pickup truck barreled into the 7th grader. >> i see this truck coming. i expect him to stop. he doesn't. and everything just goes into a
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otherwise fine. amy mcfadden is miles' mother. >> just your heart drops into your feet. and you just can barely breathe when you are watching that. >> reporter: the very next day. a driver in austin plowed into a high school junior getting off a school bus. amazingly he was also fine. by one estimate, american drivers illegally pass school buses with their stop signs out more than 14 million times last year. in br exterior cameras on 320 school buss. when the bus stop signs come out. five cameras start recording. >> the bus stop sign is out. every day austin school police review dozen of videos and find violators like this one, $300. >> that's quick. >> chief eric mendez. >> reporter: you would think the stop stein would beep hard to miss. >> you would think that the big 30-foot line, bright yellow school bus would be hard to miss.
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>> in four months they sent citations to 6,600 motorists. >> lot of violators. >> those citationed generated $2 million in fines. but texas state senator, don hufeins would rather invest in safety features school systems have adopted like these six-foot extenders that block traffic from passing buses. >> need to focus on what works to prevent accidents before they occur. >> reporter: austin school cameras would be a safety alert. in the first week of the new school year, scott, these cameras recorded another 900 drivers going past buses that were letting kids on and off. >> mark strassmann. thank you very much. coming up. what's causing smartphone batteries to catch fire? ?
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batteries had issues they're coming under skroout scrutiny. the rechargeable batteries are unique, lithium ions move from one side to another. ions from the positive side are separated by an electrolyte layer that make their way to the negative side when charging. during use, the flow reverses. samsung tells cbs news, the positive and negative side came into contact with each other causing the manufacturing process error. >> that means there was a short circuit. vault this would be a flaw in the manufacturing process that wasn't caught during the quality control measurements. >> reporter: lithium ion batteries are popular they're lightweight and can store energy powering electronics like lap tops and hoverboards. last week, this jeep caught fire after the owner left his new phone inside the vehicle to charge. >> how likely is something like that to happen with other
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ion battery designs are one out of 10 million, 20 million. >> reporter: samsung reports 35 confirmed cases of the galaxy 7 catching fire. scott, for privacy reasons, the company will not disclose where those faulty batteries were made. >> jericka duncan, thank you. the america has a new top librarian. carla hayden, and chief justice john roberts swore her librarian of congress. the first woman. and first african-american to hold the position since it was created by thomas jefferson in 1802. hayden said "it its a wonderful way to show how much the country has grown." we'll close the book on this broadcast tonight with a happy reunion. flood victims and the man who
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in baton rouge last month. david phung, a land surveyor, demonstrated he is good in the water. saving a dog and her owner from floodwaters. this week, all three were reunited. here is omar villafranca. >> reporter: in the middle of
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flood. >> give me a knife. give me a knife. 27-year-old david phung jumped into the raging waters in baton rouge, to rescue a woman in this red car, sinking to her certain death. >> she had got into a deep part of the water. that's where you see that car started to sink. >> get my dog. get my dog. >> she was in real trouble. >> reporter: in the chaos, phung pulled 53-year-old haley brouilette to safety. >> get my dog. >> i can't get your dog. >> i took one deep breath. gave it one last try. was able to retrieve the dog. >> i got your dog. >> oh! >> oh, my god. >> she had just gotten out of the hospital after kidney surgery on the way to pick up medication when she drove into the floodwaters with her trusted dog, sassy. >> i was more scared for her than anything.
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brush with death, brouilette is still homeless. >> it is hard to start over. you don't know what it is doing. >> hopefully. >> oh. >> you are so sweet. >> this week, she was reunited with the stranger who rescued her. he brought her supplies, and dog treats for sassy. >> i think it is divine intervention. i believe that in my heart and my soul. >> reporter: proving the only thing that can match mother nature's worth is human nature's best. >> it is who we are in louisiana, we help people in times of need. and i was put in that place to help her out. >> reporter: omar villafranca, cbs news, denim springs, louisiana. >> that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us 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." warm welcome to the overnight news. i'm errol barnett. retired four star general and former sec stare of state colin powell its the latest figure to have his private e-mails again fingers pointing at russia. powell confirms the leaked e-mails are authentic. in them he holds nothing back on describing the current presidential candidates. powell describes fellow republican donald trump as a national disgrace and an international pariah. as for hillary clinton, powell wrote "i would rather not have to vote for her although she is a friend i respect." a person with a long track record, unbridled ambition,
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>> reporter: e-mails from powell's g-mail account. posted by an anonymously run website, called dc leaks, suspected of having ties to russian intelligence. his e-mails to friend, colleagues and reporters, show that he was deeply resentful that clinton and her supporters were comparing her use of a private account as secretary of state to his. the hacked e-mails reveal deep tensions between powell and the clinton campaign. in them,ow clinton's advisers in august to discuss burying the e-mail flap. sad thing, powell writes. clinton could have killed this two years ago by telling everyone honestly what she had done and not tie me to it. i told her staff, three times, not to dry that gambit. had to throw a minitantrum at a hampton's party to get their attention. in an e-mail, a year earlier, powell tells a business associate. i told you about the speaking
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adding everything, hrc touches she kind of screws up with hubris. >> baseless republican accusations. clinton's e-mails topic of discussion on capitol hill. >> i respectfully decline to answer. >> reporter: republican led hearing uncovered few details. but the congressman vowed to stay on the issue. >> if any body is under any illusion i will let go and sail into the sunset. they're ill advised. resting at her home chappacau, she left campaigning to others. her husband spoke in her place at two fundraisers. >> i really, really, really, want to elect hillary clinton. >> reporter: president obama made his first solo appearance for her. attacking trump with gusto. philadelphia. >> i mean he wasn't going to let you on his golf course. he wasn't going to let you buy in his condo. and now, sudden leap this guy is
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investigation by the new york state attorney general. the first dealt with trump university. the new one centers on the trump foundation. main your garrett reports. >> reporter: the donald j. foundation began in 1987 as a family charity. a lengthy investigation by "washington post" revealed trump stopped donating to his charity eight years ago and made questionable purchases using donor's money and prompted a new york state investigation at the moment trump hoped to working parents. >> we have been concerned that the trump foundation may have engauged. >> new york attorney general, eric snyderman is suing donald ptrump over alleged fraud at trump university. on tuesday, snyderman said he now has question as but the gop nominee foundation. >> wheat have been looking into the trump foundation. to make sure it is compliant with the laws that govern charities in new york. >> reporter: recent reports
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at least 25,000 dollars of donor's money was used for an illegal political contribution. 12,000 was spent on football gear, signed by tim tebow. and $20,000 on a six-foot tall painting of trump himself. president obama seized on the portrait during a rally for clinton in pennsylvania. >> the other canned dates foundation took money other people gave to then bought a 6 foot tall painting of himself. >> word of the inquiry spread hours before trump teamed with ivanka to unveil his plan to help working families. >> safe, affordable, high quality child care, should not be the luxury of a fortunate few. >> trump's plan would allow parents to deduct child care expenses from income tax, create savings accounts to care for dependent relatives. guarantee, six weeks of
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>> my opponent has no child care plan. she never will. >> clinton does have a child care plan. it offers 12 weeks of guaranteed leave for mothers and fathered paid for by hypertaxes on the wealthy. trump's plan is paid for by reducing waste in unemployment insurance. its wages for family leave are lower than clinton's. >> now as for the new investigation. trump's campaign denies the candidate did anything partisan hack. snyderman sat done to discuss the investigation on cbs this morning. >> as member of the new york leadership council of hillary clinton's. the optics this scud appear, politically motivated. >> traffic cop, democart. he speed by me. i have to give him a tick tell the. that simple. charities have to follow the rules. you can't say i gave money to a charity not give the money to a charity. and on the forms you file with my office. you can't give money to a
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charity. i am just following the rules as with any charity. we never had a press conference. never did it grandstanding on this. just me, doing my job. >> is this inquiry or investigation? >> not sure what the distinction. is it an investigation in the sense that we have asked for information. >> based on what? just based on the $25,000 contribution to pam bondi? >> our initial -- line of inquiry and other -- allegations havee >> what allegations? >> whistle blowers come forward all the time. we don't credit everything that we get. we look into allegations that we get. pam bondi contribution. >> let me ask you what the law is then. there are allegations trump used his foundation to pay for personal expenses, a painting of himself. would that be illegal? >> might be. certain circumstances. self-dealing regulations. understand there is a, two-level
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federal level. they may very well be conducting their own inquiry. members of congress request they'd do so. and we enforce the new york law on charity. we are looking into it as we have an on li g-- have an obligation. >> have you scrutinized the cliton foundation? >> a lot of questions raise add but, access donors may have had to her while she was secretary of state. what are you looking for there? >> the issue that has been raised there, why they haven't been required to disclose donations from foreign governments. and the answer is very simply that new york state attorney general's office has never asked any nonprofit to disclose contributions from foreign governments. historically in new york concern was with expenditures of new york state, and local governments of new york state, fund. concerns about graft, corruption. working through nonprofits. so the doctors without borders,
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a man in phoenix facing is a long list of charges including attempted murder after a security camera caught him trying to run down three police officers with his car. now one of the cops suffered a broken leg. all three will be okay. police say 44-year-old mark payne was just passing through without bail. michelle miller has this story. >> the three officers were responding to an assault call, but by the time they arrived, those suspects were gone. and as they stood in a parking lot. police say that's when the driver moved himself into position. and ran them over. >> surveillance footage shows the driver slamming into the officer standing in a gas station parking lot early tuesday morning. behind the wheel is 44-year-old
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his first day launched into the air, crashing through the store window. >> video shows the the suspect watching the officers. moving his car, couple spots in the parking lot. and running them down. >> one officer has a broken leg. the one thrown in the air, suffered a concussion. he was still able to help bring down payne seen fighting with police and was eventually subdued with a taser. >> payne faces threent attempted first degree murder. >> this is a violent, cowardly act, unacceptable. our phoenix police officers were targeted. >> this incident the lateest aparent attack on officers including the deadly shootings of police in dallas and baton rouge earlier this summer. >> we have all heard about officers being targeted ambushed in communities across this nation. but this happened here. these officers could have easily
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three funerals now. >> this week, marks the 300th birthday of america's first lighthouse. named a national historic landmark. mark albert paid a visit to boston lighthouse. >> jetting off into boston are bar aboard a coast guard boat we followed the currents of history. navigating to a beacon older than the republic. when we dock on little rooster island. greeted by a woman 1783. >> what is it like living on an island with a lighthouse? >> a dream come true. >> boston lighthouse has been both a dream and a vision for countless mariner throughs the centuries. three centuries in fact. >> people have been walking up this way to the base of the lighthouse for 300 years. >> absolutely. >> and snowman's job is to safe guard it for the next 300. she makes rounds twice a day. and took us along on a cloudy
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starting at the lighthouse's imposing granite base that its 7 1/2 feet thick. >> you are going to be touching part of the original 1716 foundation. >> right now? >> right now touching it. >> built 60 years before the american revolution. boston lighthouse has weathered countless storms. some man made. the american rebels set it on fire twice to stop it from guiding occupying british forces. george washington the order the second time. then the red coats in retreat from boston in 1776. blew up the lighthouse. the victorious americans, finally rebuilt it in 17 # 3. it has been raised in staged through the centuries. now towering over boston are bar at 89 feet tall. almost nine stories. >> as the conical walls get narrower, we reach the first ladder. >> come on up.
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>> this is what makes the light turn? >> exactly. >> wow. >> it rotates 4,000 pound of brass and glass. when we look inside we see ape short little bulb or lamp. 1,000 watts. >> tiny. >> tiny. gets magnified to 2 million power. >> by all the glass. >> all the glass. >> the crystal or that saved lives. unusual for a lighthouse. it rotates, counterclockwise. a light that cuts through the darkness every ten second. visible. 27 nautical miles away. awe off the the light gets reflected and refracted. into a narrow vein. and that's what we see. >> wow, this is breathtaking. oh, my gosh. there is downtown boston. >> absolutely.
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fireworks everywhere. of and down the north shore, south shore. panoramic views. >> you have the best view in boston? >> absolutely. >> snowman has been keeper for 13 years. oversees a team of 90 volunteers. she took us to her favorite spot on the island. a windy search. few get to experience. >> wlen ydo you think of your predecessors sitting and taking in the view? >> absolutely. been up here 3,:00 inhe morning. just awesome. a magical place. eechbl when it is foggy. it feels look you are close. nothing can happen to you. you are safe. >> reporter: the lighthouse. one of 371 operated by the postcard. >> claudia gilzer is captain of the port in boston. >> why does a 21st century coast guard need a 3 century old lighthouse. >> suffering the same purpose for 300 years.
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out of shoem waters, gathering them. >> mariners wanted to go to ports that had lighthouses, safer for them to navigate in and out. >> eric j.dolan is author of brilliant beacons history of the american lighthouse. he says boston lighthouse allowed its city to thrive and expand. lighthou lighthouses, rolled in commerce for the nation. >> we would not be the lighthouses and dependable keepers have provided. >> in your book you call them beacons and sentinels. >> yeah, towering symbols of welcome. and safety. >> but in an age of gps, radar, sonar. many wonder if the symbols of another era should drift into history. >> why not tear down some of the lighthouses? >> some lighthouses have been torn down.
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integrally entwined with the i dent team of the communities where they're located. if you try to tear down ate lighthouse, you are going to have a political uprising. >> just asking congress. wliel the coast guard has awed mated all its lighthouses. lawmakers decreed in 19 # 9 that boston lighthouse, the nation's first, be forever manned as a tribute. which is why sally snowman is the latest in a long l keepers to live on little rooster island. kept company with husband jay. >> in 300 years how many keepers? >> i'm the 70th. the first 69 were men. >> first woman deeper. >> of still making history after three centuries. >> absolutely. keep on making it. inside her front door, a sign that says we'll leave the light on for you. at boston lighthouse that isn't just a staying. an unlinking promise kept for
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story. >> reporter: if the museum has a sound track, hymns inspired jazz, blues, soul, led to rock 'n' roll, hip-hop draws inspiration from all styles. it didn't play by the rules. as it turns out that's exactly what america was craving. >> this is a journey into sound. >> let me tell you something. hip-hop back in the day. for me it represented everything w ? ? >> stroiaight out of compton. >> hip-hop is one of the only true american made musics. it's much more than just the music. music transcends language. transcends, territories, boundaries. >> reporter: this is the story of how hip-hop changed american culture.
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here, we have to take you back to where it all began. here on these streets. graffitis, gangs, beat boxing filled the air. nervous energy and simmering frustrations people were looking for a change. according to music legend. a local dj in this building a turntables, mixer, sampling coolest parts of the music. called the barackdown. just lick that hip-hop was born. the beats became -- called the break down. just like that hip-hop was born. >> we didn't talk about the party. we talked about things. like some times, like a jungle makes me wonder how i keep from going under.
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then we realize, this beat was a vehicle for, just, just straight street poetry. ? push me because i'm close to the edge ? ? i'm trying not to lose my head ? hip-hop took off. ? don't you tell me to smile ? >> reporter: shaped by place. east coast. ? ? west coast. dirty south. and it began to transcend race and class. >> we have to understand that there was some eyes and minds opened with our music. ? ?7 >> what we had to do with our
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mad at you. we're mad at things. and guess what? you are probably mad at the same stuff we are mad at. ? fight the power, fight the power that be ? ? not about to be the victim ? >> i think hip-hop has capability to address anything and also get through to its listener. just what are we going to use the platform for? a woman is wrong ? >> here we are almost 30 years later dealing with the same issues. >> everyone is listening. today's mcs are moguls. >> yeah. >> reporter: yesterday's controversies became successes. you might say, hip-hop had made it. >> i think the responsibility musicians have is to be the voice that laws cannot make.
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we have seen the signs. school open, drive carefully. many people don't pay attention. austin, texas for example has grown communities, putting cameras on their school buss to protect the kids. mark strassmann has the story. >> the austin school distric nothing remarkable about this one until stop signs come on front and back. the signs turn on five mounted cameras like these two. which automatically record whether nearby cars come to a stop for the kids. and all too often they don't. miles mcfadden was bruised but fine? what do you remember about that
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>> walking, see a truck coming. i expect him to stop. he doesn't. everything just goes into a blur. >> amy mcfadden, miles' mother saw the video of the collision that night. on television. >> it is just your heart drops into your feet. and you just can barely breathe when you are watching that. >> the very next day in austin, another truck hit a high school student getting off the bus. amazingly, he was fine. by one estimate, american drivers illegally pass school last year. on average, roughly eight kids a year are killed by drivers who ignore school bus stop signs. >> right down the road where everything happened. >> his daughter gabby was killed after getting off her school bus in florida in 2010. the 71-year-old driver was never charged. mayer is pushing lawmakers to allow school bus cameras to keep students safe.
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it its preventible. not a tragedy. we know it is going to happen again. >> at least 15 states allow cameras to be mounted outside school buss to record motorists illegally passing. austin added the cameras last january. >> we had the bus, stop signs out. >> every day, school police review videos of violators. like this one. the fine is $300. >> that's probably $50 to 100 right there. in four months they sent citations to >> that was a significant number. >> when school bus cameras here always watching, up to drivers to recognize that stop signs really do mean stop. >> that's somebody's baby. every one of those kids is somebody's baby. it is my responsibility as a driver to make sure that every one of those kids gets home safely. >> and that is the "overnight
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