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today health officials in florida said two more people have been infected with zika virus. that makes 35 now infected by local mosquitos. crews have been saturating the so-called zika zone with the virus that causes severe birth defects. today donald trump took his campaign to a battleground state he cannot afford to lose. >> reporter: donald trump sought to burnish his law and order credentials where he said his campaign is in good shape. >> they have good numbers, they
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carolina. >> reporter: the latest public survey show that he is lagging in a state which has voted for a democrat in a presidential election precisely once in 40 years. and while party officials in some states have complained about a lack of resources to mount a challenge, the north carolina trump campaign said in a statement, we will have all the staff and resources needed to win here. north carolina is the latest in a series of hugely important states last two weeks, including virginia, wisconsin, pennsylvania, florida and ohio, all currently uphill battles for trump. >> it's time for rule by the people, not rule by the special interests. >> reporter: it's a daunting political predicament with 82 days to go and one that gave rise to his latest campaign
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week. kellyanne is his new campaign manager. >> when it comes to personnel and senior level staff, more and more. >> reporter: now starting tomorrow, scott, the trump campaign will begin airing their first political ads of the general election. over the next 10 days, ads will be running in florida, ohio, pennsylvania, virginia, as well as here in north carolina. >> clinton's already been running ads for we today for the first time the state department acknowledged there was a link between a $400 million cash payment to iran and the release of four american prisoners. republicans call that ransom. but the administration denies it. margaret brennan, our state department correspondent is with us here tonight. >> they admit they held on to the cash until it was clear that the prisoners had left iran.
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this was ransom because the money was owed to iran as part of a failed arms deal 35 years ago. what we know is that money loaded with swiss franks and euros took off at the same time that a plane carrying the prisoners departed teheran. the planes cris crossed in the sky. they admitted to the link because they said they wanted maximum leverage, fearing iran would reneg. and they say that's state sponsorism of terror. and they accuse president obama of lying. >> and all this was a side deal to the nuclear deal as well. thank you very much. now, have a look at this boy. for the four years he has been on this earth he has known nothing but war. he has become the new face of syria's civil war, which has claimed the lives of more than
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children. here's holly williams. >> reporter: for a 4-year-old who just survived an air strike, you may think that he seems unnaturally calm. but in the numbing violence of aleppo there is no child hood. he had only minor head injuries and his brother, two sisters and parents -- many o have been killed and maimed. the syrian regime and its backers try to pull back control of the city. this little boy was pulled from the rubble two days ago. god is great shouted his rescuers. but the truth is aleppo is god forsaken. this video appeared to show a boy who's just lost his brother in an air strike.
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cries. another child robbed of his innocence. united states is trying to avoid being drawn deeper into this conflict. in the meantime, the syrian regime is bombing its own people with near impunity. they've even targeted hospitals. this security camera video shows a strike on omar's hospital in aleppo last month. last week, 15 syrian doctors still working in rebel-held aleppo wrote a letter to president obama telling him about four new born babies who they said were suffocated to death after a blast cut the oxygen supply to their inccue baiters. they also demanded america do more to stop the carnage, but at
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is struggling to negotiate even a three hour ceasefire in aleppo to deliver humanitarian aid. >> holly, thank you. coming up, seven chicago police officers could be fired for an alleged cover up and some popular hair care products are being investigated. chocolate s. peanut butter cups. tonight is perfect. can someone read me another story? daddd? mmm coming breyers gelato indulgences it's way beyond ice cream. these days. you are buying finish these days. i got a new dishwasher and they recommend finish. really? you should try it. unlike cascade gel, finish has active cleaning enzymes. its unique powerball takes on anything.
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in chicago today seven police officers face firing for allegedly covering up the truth. in the shooting of a black teenager. here's don dahler. >> reporter: today, officer jason van dyke was back in court on the same day eddie johnson said seven other officers should be fired. mainly because they falsified their police reports. in an email to the department, it . >> reporter: chicago's inspector general determined the officers did not tell the truth about mcdonald's death. it stated he made a threatening move towards the officer before
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but police dash cam video released under intense public pressure over a year later showed mcdonald was moving away from the officers when van dyke opened fire and continued firing even as the young man lay on the ground. that ignited pro-longed protest its and a u.s. justice department investigation into community activist. >> nothing would have happened with these individuals who clearly lied about what encounter happened that evening. then i don't think he would have had any chance of rebuilding trust in the community. >> reporter: the superintendent can recommend firing but they must first go through a review board. three additional officers were recommended for firing and two
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into this. >> these are pictures of 11-year-old iliana lawrence two years ago. her mother says she went nearly bald after using a wen by chaz dean hair product. it has celebrity endorsements and boasts of stronger, fuller hair. >> i noticed her hair brush was over flowing with hair. >> reporter: theda investigating after reports of hair loss, balding and rashes. last month the agency took the rare step of issuing a safety alert after learning the company had received 21,000 complaints. the company tells cbs news it is cooperating and its products are safe. we have shared our formulations and ingredients with the fda. we exceed the fda requirements for cosmetic manufacturers and
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saying the company did not address safety concerns related to hair loss. we do not know if the company has other safety data and we do not have the legal authority to require a cosmetics firm to require product safety information. no authority because nad law that's been in effect since 1938, the fda has limited power to regulate the $62 billion cosmetics industry. >> we're talking baby wipes, tooth pae, >> there's no legal requirement that a company makes sure the product is safe before they sell it. fda has no access to safety records. only congress can give them that power. >> reporter: meanwhile, wen products remain on the shelves. the company said as for the lawrences, they are
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>> april ross is her beach volleyball partner. does she need an action figure? >> she is literally a super hero. >> reporter: kerri walsh jennings has a nickname, six feet of sunshine. she's quickly become one of the superstars of this olympics. >> make no mistake, no one wants to win more than her. >> reporter: friends point to her strejt oldest winner in beach volleyball history. but as jennings has always said her biggest job might be mom to her three children ages seven and under. >> hi, mommy. >> say love you, miss you. >> reporter: in the london games, she was five weeks pregnant with her yungest as she became arguably one of the most dominant u.s. athletes ever. and she said being a mom came in
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>> i've been working this whole year to be a morning person and it's so hard. it's not who i am. i'm a mommy. if you wake me up at 4:00 in the morning, i'm ready to play. >> reporter: and this week she lost to host country brazil. after the match, jennings refused to speculate whether this would be her last. "i focus on the present" she said, "that's where my joy is." cbs news. and news" for this friday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back later for the morning news and of course "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city.
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this is "the cbs overnight news". welcome to the overnight news. twin disasters, fire and flood continue to keep 10s of thourns of americans from their homes. in southern california, the blue cut fire has more than skil60,000 miles. and continues to burnout of control. and historic flood waters finally begin to reseed. omar villafranca where the clean up has barely begun. >> reporter: thousands of residents haven't had electricity in days.
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southern louisiana will never be the same. days after record rain triggered catastrophic flooding, parts of southern louisiana are still inundated with water. wednesday emergency teams continued search and rescue missions. parts of livingston perish are only accessible by boat. have you ever seen it like this? >> not this bad. >> reporter: we road along with national guard troops checking on peopl their homes. the national guard looks for two things, barking dogs and boats. people here don't leave their dogs behind and if there's a boat tied to the house, chances are they're still inside. around 3/4s of the homes here are a total loss. an estimated 40,000 are damaged and clean up could be costly. less than 21% of residential
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>> we actually lost everything in katrina and came here and 10 years later lost everything again. >> reporter: from the ground and from the air, sand bags are being piled up as areas prepare for the possibility of more flooding from over flowing canals. in the mountains east of los angeles, scorching temperatures and bone dry conditions are fuelling the massive blue cut fire. and between the san bernardino and san gabriel mouns. been forced to evacuate. >> reporter: there are 1500 firefighters on scene here. also 178 engine, 10 air tankers. but despite this massive wild fieting effort -- the frustration of firefighters becomes clear. >> the biggest thing was we had to continually retreat against
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that's something i haven't witnessed in this section ever. we have strike teams and remember our priorities are life, property and infrastructure and we can't stand in front of the 80 feet wall of fire. that's self defeating. >> reporter: it tore through neighborhoods with home after home going up in flames. it was only after smoke cleared wednesday that we can see the full extent of the devastation. >> i can tell you this fire came out >> reporter: the fire fight continued on the ground and from the air. this wild fire now stretches more than 17 miles. cuhone boulevard to brightwood. on the presidential campaign trail, hillary clinton is warning supporters not to get complacent. as new polls show her widening her lead-in colorado up by 10
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another poll shows trump with an 11 point lead in indiana. sfwlr >> reporter: leading by a lot in the polls comes with its own set of challengers. how do you keep your donors and supporters from assuming the race is over. >> don't be complacent, my friends. >> reporter: one way is by not insisting that race is closer than you think. it's a tough case to make now that clinton is leading in most most polls show her up by 12 points in have a havvirginia an pennsylvania. >> we have packets for you at the door so you can also canvas. >> reporter: and it is true that anything can happen. in 1988, one poll showed michael
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george h.w. bush. >> there are just 83 days left in this election. >> reporter: as she counts down, her campaign strategy is to keep safe. she has not had an official press conference in 258 days. and answering questions about her emails. >> director comey said my answers were truthful. >> reporter: her running mate was asked about his assertion in should have resigned following the monica lewinsky scandal. >> i tell you no reason to relitigate problems from 20 years ago. when americans want to talk about today and tomorrow. >> reporter: she has seen that voter complacency can have consequences. and she ended up losing because some of her supporters may have
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to get out and vote. >> reporter: his campaign is spending money in tv ads starting today. hillary clinton has spent more than 75 million on commercials since the democratic convention. and trump unveiled his new team at a round table first ever security briefing. >> reporter: donald trump quietly listening, giving a under new management. kellyanne conway sat next to his second. and then stephen bannon. >> it's a very busy time getting to the last 12 weeks of the campaign. >> reporter: conway's key roll will be traveling with trump. something he's been missing
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manager. they acknowledged trump has lost grund since the gop convention. conway denied those claims. >> paul has the exact same title today as he did yesterday. >> reporter: in a memo obtained by cbs news, manafort said he would continue to provide the long-range vision. and the state-run organizations are only now developing and mana the fall. new ceo bannon was once called the most dangerous political operative in america. his brass knuckled conservative conservativeitude which he honed at breitbart news. this june interview with trump is but one example. >> over the weekend, she would not say radical islam. do you believe that she could stand up under scrutiny with her
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? ? donald trump's former campaign chief, paul manafort is at the center of a corruption scandal in ukrain. he helped a pro-russian political party secretly send more than $2 million to washington lobbyists and his name showed up on a ledger showing he received cash. >> reporter: more than two years ago, this independent square was in chaos. and over thrown in a corruption investigation that followed, paul manafort's name has surfaced and officials here want to know why. $5 billion in undisclosed cash
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paul manafort. deputy prosecutor is in charge of the investigation. are you investigating paul manafort? >> we're investigating all this ledger, including the name paul manafort in this case. taxes and so on. >> reporter: the prosecutor confirmed that appears 12 times for 22 different entries are, totalling $12.7 million between 2007 and 2012. manafort has denied receiving any cash payments and it's not his signature on the ledger. investigators say they're tracking down those who did sign for the cash. the ledger itself is held at the anticorruption bureau.
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page. on october fifth, 2012, paul manafort 's name appears against the sum of $400,000 designated for exit polling and another alth 812,000. the new tenants told us that office has been empty for more than two years. before he was trump's man, he spent the decade rebrandingian covech. he's now exiled in russia. prosecutors told us they will consider bringing criminal charges against paul manafort, just like every other name allegedly on that list if they believe there's been any wrong doing.
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her new roll on "cbs this morning." >> welcome. >> thank you. >> are you going to do what a campaign manager does in terms of what's happening in each state? or managing the candidate? >> a little bit of both. i think it's important to make sure internally our structure is sound, that people have the equipment, tools they need and that includes our data folks, our ground game. i'm a big believer of retail fantastic retail candidates. >> when he doesn't get in front of his own message. >> we started monday with a very muscular speech about radical islamic terrorism, why it matters, how to fight it. many feel we've been at war for 15 years against an enemy we can't name and hardly see but a majority of americans feel
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so, we would like to take a policy centric message directly to the american people and that's our goal. >> how is this not a campaign in trouble for outsiders looking in? >> i see it as a campaign expanding. because with 12 weeks to go, less than that now. who's counting? with just 12 weeks to go, we look at it as an expansion at a bidsy time for the campaign. more is more. broad shoulders we can get inside the door. paul manafort is still there as chairman. he retains his title and yesterday we were together. >> but now you have three leaders, it appears. >> and donald trump has made very clear who it is, so i'm fine with that. i respect him tremendously. he's the candidate. i would never have the fire in
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throat to do what he's done which is basically build a movement. >> i mean, there is -- paul manafort famously said if this campaign becomes a referendum on donald trump, it has failed. this campaign has been a referendum on donald trump. >> and i made similar remarks during the democratic convention. i notice when hillary clinton and her supporters are asked in interviews, tell what you're going to do about obama care? they talk about donald trump. so, hillary clinton wants to talk about donald trump. we want to talk directly to the american people. >> and you want to talk to women in particular. you talked about having a good message week. he says she lacks the physical and mental stamina to take on isis and all the many
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presidential. how do you get him to stop saying things like that? that would alienate a lot of women. >> you showed something i fine to be unbecoming for someone who wants to be commander and chief of our armed forces. she said well, they can get him to read different words from a teleprompter. there's not a single uninsured american who gets health care from that kind of nastiness and i'll pledge this to you. the way to speak to women and all americans is through issues. we've got to get away from this content free campaign and on to the substance and even talking to people doing well. how do they feel secure moving forward? >> but confident you can keep your candidate on message. because it's the exact problem you say you want to direct it towards. >> i'm confident he's finding joy on the job this week and that he relishes being
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rally where he's able to interact with the individuals and you don't see the local media inert views. so, yes, i am confident he can stay on message but also the message has to be one of substance, it has to be about issues. i'd rather lose a campaign where we put it all in the field substntively, where people saw the difference in the major issues of the day. this is about style, he can go back to the fun and successful and lucrative for him. they want it to be about tone and temperament. it needs to be about facts and figures. >> he has received an intelligence report. did he believe it? >> i can't disclose it. i can tell you he took it very seriously. >> you can't disclose whether he believed it or not? >> not the details.
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did he believe the intelligence report that the cia prepared for him? >> he certainly is taking it seriously and digesting it. nobody looks at something that complicated in one sitting. >> so donald trump is not saying i don't believe what they may be reporti reporting? >> no. and i was with him both times. and speaking of national security and foreign policy, we sat at and other notable national security experts. i also would call it very interactive. his questions were one of somebody who wants be to commander and chief and wants to do well by our armed forces, by the american people, our allies abroad. i think it's very symptomatic of the types of events we don't see
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choose finish. ? the olympic games are a show case for some of the world's greatest athletic performances and capturing the images is a sport in itself. >> reporter: so take a look at this. rio de janeiro, a very picturesque place to take a picture. but when it's your job toolympi photos are sent all over the
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expectations are pretty high. the olympics often look like an endless sprint to the finish. a blur of non-stop action. but that can also look like this. a singular moment frozen in time. a full story in one frame. >> the image is going to last a lot longer. it imprints itself in your mind and when it stands out, you remember that photo. >> reporter: photographer dennis pa has been creating these images for the past olympic games. he's now deputy director of photography for the associated press with a team of 61 photographers in rio. their work is used by news outlets around the world. >> on average 3,500 photos for the olympics. >> per day?
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photos. >> i can barely keep up looking at all of them. >> reporter: david goldman's third olympics. so that right there is a nice big graphic elmement of her walking with the flag. i might walk underneath her with a blue sky and the flag stretched out. i made that the it amount of rings and torches i have shot probably name in the hundreds and thousands. >> reporter: do these olympic rings kind of haunt you? >> yeah. i go to bed sometimes with not visions of sheep, i'm counting rings. >> reporter: but now he and his fellow photographers have help getting the extra special shots in hard to reach places. >> these are put in positions where photographers can't be.
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robotic cameras and dozens of remotely controlled ones in every corner of the olympic venues. sunk in the pool for unique underwater, underbody perspectives. >> somebody gets a great shot, it's out to the world in how many seconds? >> under two minutes from the time it's shot. >> reporter: that's fast. it may be taken in an instant but it may live forever. when you get that image, then it's the greatest reward. these photographers sometimes find themselves capturing a moment they didn't quite expect. during the winter olympics, david goldman was in a vip room with russian president vladimir putin. he took this picture of him checking the nails at the same time one of those snowflakes did
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the longest aircraft in the world has taken its maiden voyage. a first hand look at the air lander 10. >> reporter: on an air field just north of london, the world's longest aircraft spreads its tiny wings and takes to the sky. measuring in around the width an the airlander 10 is not what you call conventional. up close, it looks even stranger. >> this is the flight deck. >> reporter: but chief test pilot who was at the controls for the maiden flight says you need to look beyond the shape of the hull, which has been, you could say the but of some jokes to appreciate this very modern flying machine. >> any pilot would feel right at
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>> reporter: the helium filled airlander is a franken stein of technologies. taking the shape and lift benefits of a blimp and conbining them with the maneuverability of a helicopter and capacity of a cargo plane. they claim the aircraft is super efficient. >> essentially the engines of four suvs propel this thing. >> reporter: that's not a lot. >> but are we need. >> reporter: it can spend days in the air without refuelling but can't compete when it comes to speed. >> i go top speed, 65 knots. 73 mile-per-hour. >> reporter: spokesman chris daniels claims it could be used to drop humanitarian aid into disaster areas. >> it's amphibious, land on water, lake, desert, ice, you name it. >> reporter: it doesn't need an
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ground like other air ships, benefits that undoubtedly appeal to the u.s. army, for whom the technology was originally developed, before it was dropped due to the troop draw down and budget cuts. this enabled them to develop the aircraft for civilian uses. >> surely it pops like a balloon. no, it doesn't. the helium is under such low pressure that it would gradually we're the airlander. we're one of the safest forms of transport. >> reporter: there's already transportation. lockheed martin is developing its own modelal. >> the market is plenty big enough for two people to be in there competing. >> reporter: and despite its considerable size, the sky is plenty big enough too.
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news for this friday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back later for the morning news. ? ? medaling with the truth. ryan lochte and three other olympic swimmers are accused of making up the story about being robbed in rio. police say this video proves florida reports two more cases apparently spread by local mosquitos. the chicago police superintendent wants seven officers fired. accusing them of a cover up. in the fatal shooting of a black teenager. and maybe this child can get the world's attention. he's the new face of syria's civil war.
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>> announcer: this is "the cbs overnight news." the swimmer's story just didn't hold water. police in brazil say u.s. olympic star ryan lochte and three of his teammates made up the story about being robbed at gunpoint in rio last weekend. so, what did happen? let's go to the video replay. >> reporter: the security camera footage shows the four american swimmers at a gas station disappearing down a hallway towards the bathroom. they're stopped by a security guard. you can see them raising their hands. rio police accusing the americans of vandalizing the bathroom, arguing with a security guard and leaving $50 to pay for the damage. it is a dramatically different story than the one ryan lochte
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said the four swimmers had been robbed at gunpoint by men posing as police. rio police say the security guard did point a gun at lochte, but only because he was erratic and aggressive. gunner bentz and jack conger arrivedali alit a rio police st fo lochte left brazil before authorities could see his pass port. despite very real security, the made up story gave them an unwarned black eye. the chief of police says the u.s. swimmers owe everyone an aology because the only thing they told the truth about was
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swimmers of all time. life goes on. let's go. sfwlrks >> reporter: now we've tried contacting ryan lochte and his attorney several times. they have not responded. and scott, it is still possible they could be charged with falsely reporting a crime. >> our man in rio. east of los angeles, more than 1500 firefighters are tall. hot, dry gusts are whipping up fire tornados across brush brittle from drought. it's not known how many homes in san bernardino county were torched but more than 80,000 people have fled from their neighborhoods. carter evans is there. sfwlrks >> reporter: the air assault is relentless.
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even tiny embers could be catastrophic. you're looking at the head of the fire right now and firefighters want to keep it on the hill moving this direction. what they don't want it to do is jump across the road. >> as we get the winds, that has potential -- >> reporter: battalion chief mike brown says it's extraordinary. >> spotting ahead of itself bay 3 and 400 feet. fire walls thatk tornado. fire behavior that, as firefighters we read about, train about, but to actually see it was truly amazing. >> reporter: as the blue cut fire roared through desert towns, civilians had hours to flee. able flores is still looking for his horse. >> a home can be replaced but not human life or an animal that you love. >> reporter: trucks are once
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they've been trapped since the fire began. costing up to $1 million a day in economic losses. and rail traffic is also moving again. among the homes and buildings burned to the ground, the summit restaurant, an icon along route 66 say owners. >> we've been through a lot of storms and car accidents but this time we didn't make it. >> reporter: a lot of history here. we're told elvis presley and john wayne once dined where i'm standing. and the wind is picking up. those hazardous red flag conditions are expected to continue into the night. >> carter, thank you very much. today southern louisiana saw more thunderstorms. three irn inches of rain swamped baton rouge just as neighborhoods were beginning to dry out from historic floods
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omar villafranca is covering the flood zone. >> reporter: the emotions came flooding back when janice harrell saw the damage two feet of water did to her home. >> i had a 15 feet canal behind my house and it was dry. >> reporter: she has insurance to cover flood damage and the contents of her home but says it's still not enough. >> we're tearing t allow the water to come out. >> reporter: 17,000 residents have submitted insurance claims, but only 20% have flood insurance. so far 80,000 have registered for federal disaster assistance. the maximum amount given by fema is $32,000. thousands of louisianans cannot go home yet. flood waters are keeping them from their homes.
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celtic studios which has been turned into a shelter by the owner. >> this is about making sure people are taken care of and they're going to have a roof over their heads and that kind of comfort. >> reporter: more than 4,000 people are still in shelters because they can't get to their home because of the water or they don't do have one to go back to. 19,000 fema workers are here and more are on the way. >> more are on the way. >> fema workers are here and
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. ? ? today health officials in florida said two more people have been infected with zika virus. that makes 35 now infected by local mosquitos. crews have been saturating the so-called zika zone with insecticide hoping to the virus that causes birth defects. today donald trump took his campaign to a battle ground state he cannot afford to lose. >> reporter: donald trump on a visit this afternoon with police in north carolina. where he said his campaign is in good shape. >> looks like it's going very well. i guess they got very good numbers announced in north caroli
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what numbers trump was referring to since the latest public surveys show he is lagging in a state which has voted democrat in a presidential election once in 40 years. and the north carolina trump campaign said in a statement today we will have all the staff and resources needed to win here. north carolina is the latest in a series of hugely important states trump has ved past two weeks. wisconsin, michigan, florida, pennsylvania, and ohio. all currently uphill battles for trump. >> it's time for rule by the people, not rule for the special interests. >> reporter: it's a daunting political predicament with 82 days to go and one that gave rise to his latest campaign leadership upheaval this week. kellyanne conway is the new
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>> we look at it as an expansion during a busy time in the campaign. when it comes to staff, more is more. >> reporter: starting tomorrow, the trump campaign will with gin airing their first political ads of the election. they'll be running in florida, ohio, pennsylvania, virginia, as well as here in north carolina. >> clinton's already been running ads for weeks. today for the first time the state department acknowledged there was a link between a $400 million cash payment to iran and the release of four american prisoners. republicans call that ransom. but the administration denies it. margaret brennan, our state department correspondent. >> well, the administration admits they held on to the cash that it was clear that the prisoners had left iran.
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was ransom because the money was owed to iran as the are esult of a failed arms deal 35 years ago. a plane took off at the same time that a plane carrying the prisoners departed teheran. they criss crossed in the sky. they said they wanted maximum leverage, fearing iran would reneg. and they say that's clea ransom payment to a state sponsor of terrorism. >> and all of this was a side deal to the nuclear agreement as well. thank you very much. now, have a look at this boy. for the four years he has been on this earth he has known nothing but war. he has become the new face of syria's civil war, which has claimed the lives of more than
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children. here's holly williams. >> reporter: for a 4-year-old who just survived an air strike, you may think that omra omran daqneesh seems unusually calm. but in aleppo, there is no child hood. he only had minor head injuries and his other two sisters and parents all survived the strike. many other children have killed and maimed. the syrian regime and its backers in russia try to claw back control of the city. this little boy was pulled from the rubble two days ago. bloody but apparently still alive. "god is great" shouted his rescuers, but the truth is aleppo is god forsaken. this appears to show a boy who's just lost his brother in an air
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cried. another child robbed of his innocence. the united states is trying to avoid being drawn deeper into this conflict. in the meantime, the syrian regime is bombing its own people with near impunity. they've even targeted hospitals. this security camera vid yesheo as strike on omar been abdul aziz hospital in aleppo last week. last week 16 syrian doctors still working in rebel held aleppo wrote a letter to president obama telling him about four newborn babies who they said were suffocated to death after the blast cut the oxygen supply to their incubators and they demanded american do more to stop the carnage.
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in chicago today, seven police officers face firing for allegedly covering up the truth. in the shooting of a black teenager. here's don dahler. >> reporter: today officer jason van dyke who is accused of first degree murder for teenager mcdonald. and eddie said seven officers at the scene should be fired, their are police reports. johnson said. sfwlr >> reporter: chicago's inspector general determined they did not tell the truth. it stated the knife wielding teenager made a threatening move towards officer van dyke before he shot.
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>> reporter: but police dash cam video released more than a year later showed mcdonald was moving away from officers when van dyke opened fire and continued firing even as the young man lay on the ground. that ignited prolonged protests and a u.s. justice department investigation into chicago police community activist, tory barren. >> nothing would have happened with these individuals who clearically lied about what encounter happened that evening, then i don't think he would have had any chance of rebuilding trust within the community. >> reporter: the superintendent can recommend firing but the still unnamed officers must first go through a review board. three more were recommended from firing but two had already
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into this. >> reporter: these are pictures of 11-year-old ilana lawrence two years ago. her mother miriam says she went nearly bald after using a wen by chaz dean hair care product. it has celebrity endorsements and boasts of stronger, fuller hair. but not for ilana, says her mom. >> i noticed her hair brush was over flowing with hair. >> reporter: the fda began hair loss, balding and rashes. last month the agency took the rare step of issuing a safety alert after learning the company had received 21,000 complaints. the company tells cbs news, it is cooperating and its products
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saying the company did not address safety concerns related to hair loss. we need to know if the company has other safety data and we do not have the legal authority to require a cosmetics firm to provide product safety information. because under a law that's been in effect since 1938, the fda has limited power to regulate the cosmetics industry. >> baby wipes, tooth paste, deodorant, shampoo. there's no legal requirement that a company makes sure the product is safe before they sell it. fda has no access to safety records. only congress can give them that power. >> reporter: mel, wen products remain on the shelf. >> reporter: as for the lawrences, they are now part of
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april walsh is walsh jennings' partner. does she need an action figure? >> yes, she's got super powers. sglr >> reporter: kerri walsh jennings has a nickname, six feet of sunshine. >> she's not six feet of sunshine when she's on the court. make no mistake, no one wants to win more than her. >> reporter: fans maturity as the oldest winner in beach volleyball history. and her biggest job might be mom to her three children ages seven and under. >> say i love you. i miss you. >> reporter: during the london games, she was five weeks pregnant with her youngest as she bab came arguably one of the most dominate olympic athletes ever. she said being a mom came in
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year to try and be a morning person. that's not who i am. but i'm a mommy and you wake me up at 4:00 in the morning i'm ready to play. >> reporter: after 26 straight wins, she lost to host country, brazil. she refused to speculate on whether this would be her last. "i focus on the present" she said. and tha news for this friday. for some of you the news continues, for others check back with us a little bit 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. welcome to the overnight news. twin disasters, fire and flood continue to keep 10s of thousands of americans from their homes. in southern california, the blue cut fire has already charred more than 60 square miles. and in louisiana, historic flood waters finally begin to receipt. at least 1/3 of the state has been declared a disaster area. omar villafranca. >> reporter: thousands of otherer residents haven't had electricity in days.
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flood and it's clear parts of southern louisiana will never be the same. days after record rain triggered catastrophic flooding, parts of southern louisiana are still inundated with water. wednesday emergency teams continued search and rescue missions. parts of livingston perish are only accessible by boat. we road along with national guard troops checking on people still hunkered down in their homes. the national guard looks for two things, barking dog and boats. people here don't leave their dogs behind and if there's a boat tied to the house, chances are they're still inside. around 3/4s of the homes here are a total loss. overall, an estimated 40,000 are damaged and clean up could be costly. less than 21% of residential
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>> we lost everything in katrina. came here and 10 years later lost everything again. >> reporter: from the ground and from the air, sand bags are being piled up as areas prepare for the possibility of more flooding from over flowing canals. scorching temperatures and bone dry conditions are fuelling the massive blue cut fire between the san bernardino and san gabriel more than 80,000 have been forced to evacuate. >> reporter: there are 1500 firefighters on scene and 178 engines and 10 tank. >> reporter: one look at the huge walls of flame in san bernardino county and the fro frustration becomes clear.
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against the advancing wall of fire and that's something i haven't witnessed in this area ever. lives also include firefighters lives and we can't stand in front of the 80 foot wall of fire. >> reporter: the fire tore through neighborhoods with home after home going up in flames. it was only after smoke cleared wednesday that we could see the full extent of the devastation. >> i can tell you this fire came out screaming through this section of the burn >> reporter: the fire fight continues on the ground and from the air. this wild fire now stretches more than 17 miles. which remains under mandatory evacuation orders. on the presidential campaign trail, hillary clinton is warning her supporters naot to get complacent. in colorado, clinton is up by 10
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with an 11 point lead in indiana. >> reporter: leading by a lot in the polls comes with its own set of challenges. how do you keep your supporters and donors from assuming the race is over? >> don't be complacent, my friends. >> reporter: one way to do is by insisting that races are a lot closer than they think. it's a tough case to make now that clinton is leading in most of the most polls show her up by 11 in virginia. >> ask everybody you know to register. >> we have packets for you at the door so you can also canvas. >> reporter: and it is true that anything can happen. in 1988, one poll showed michael
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>> there are just 83 days left in this election. >> reporter: as clinton counts down the days, she has not an official press conference in 258 days and her answering questions about her emails. her running mate was asked about his assertion in president clinton should have resigned following the monica lewinsky scandal. >> i was disappointed but there's no reason to litigate problems of 20 years ago when americans want to talk about what are we doing today and tomorrow. >> reporter: she was leading in michigan by 20 points before that primary earlier this year but ended up losing. because some of her supporters
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ohio, pennsylvania will be seeing a lot more of donald trump. his campaign is spending about $5 million on tv ads starting today. and hillary clinton has spent more than 75 million on commercials since the democratic convention. and trump unveiled his new team at a round table for his first national security briefing. >> repor glimpse of his campaign under new management. kellyanne conway sat next to his second, paul manafort. >> you need to add talent, more people. it's just a very busy team getting to the last 12 weeks of the campaign. >> reporter: providing a voice on politics he respects. something missing since he sacked his first campaign
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some acknowledge trump has lost ground since the gop convention. conway denied those claims. >> paul has the exact same title he has today as he did yesterday. >> reporter: in a memo obtained by cbs news, manafort said he will continue to provide the big picture, long-range campaign vision. but cbs news has learned the state organizations are only now developing and many lack the resources and guidance to compete in the fall. title, new ceo bannon was once called the most dangerous political operative in america. his expertise is brass knuckled conservative advocacy which he honed at breitbart news. this june interview with trump is but one example. >> over the weekend, she would
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donald trump's former campaign chief, paul manafort is at the center of corruption scandal in ukrain. he helped a pro-russian political party secretly send $2 million to political loyi and his name showed up in a hand written ledger showing he received thousands in cash. >> reporter: more than two years ago this independent square was in chaos, the president over thrown in the corruption investigation that followed, paul manafort's name surfaces. and ofilthss want to know why.
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paul manafort. deputy prosecutor is in charge of the investigation. are you investigating paul manafort? >> we are investigating all this black ledger, including his name, paul manafort in this case. we have a lot of questions. where is this money for paid for and taxes and so on. >> reporter: the prosecutor come 12 times for 22 different entries are totalling $12.7 million between 2007 and 2012. manafort has denied receiving any cash payments and it's not his signature on the ledger. the ledger itself is at the anticorruption bureau. we weren't allowed to film the pages because of the ongoing
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showed us a copy of one page. an october fifth, 2012, does uginated for exit polling. this is the last registered address for manafort's company here in downtown kiev. but they say it's been empty for more than two years. re right-hand man, he spent his name with yanakovic. and he's now exiled in russia. prosecutors told us it will consider bringing criminal charges against paul manafort, just like every other name on that list if they believe there's any wrong doing.
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kellyanne conway described her new roll on cbs this morning. >> are you going to be doing in terms of the organization, each state or managing the candidate? >> a little bit of beth. i think it's important to make sure our infrafructure is sound and that includes our data operation, and our ground game. i'm a big believer of retail politi fantastic retail candidate. >> when he doesn't get in front of his own message. >> we started monday with a very muscular speech about radical islamic terrorism. how to fight it, what it is, why it it matters. many feel we've been at war for 15 years against an enemy we can't see or name. a majority of americans feel that things can get better
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uplifting, optimistic policy centric message directly to the american people. >> how is this not a campaign in trouble from outsiders looking in? >> i see it as a campaign expanding. because with 12 weeks left to go -- who's counting? we look at it as an expansion at a critical and busy time for the campaign. when it comes to senior level staff, more is more. broad shoulders we can get inside the door. paul manafort retains his title and paul and stephen bannon and i yesterday were together. >> but now you have three leaders, it appears. somebody has to making the call. >> i'd say it's a combination of us and donald trump has made it very clear who it is. i respect him tremendously.
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the belly or biel in my throat to do what he has done, which is build a movement. >> paul manafort famously said if this campaign becomes a referendum on donald trump, it has failed. it it has been a referendum on donald trump. >> i agree with you and i made similar remarks during the democratic convention last month because i noticed the democrats -- when hillary clinton and her supporters are asked tell to do about obama care? they talk about donald trump. so, hillary clinton wants to talk about donald trump. we want to talk directly to the american people. that's the difference. >> and you want to talk to women in particular. you were talking about having a good messaging week. donald trump said "she lacks the physical stamina to take on isis and all the many adversaries we face.
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how do you get him to stop saying things like that? >> the fact is -- >> that would alienate a lot of people. >> you just showed something i find to be unbecoming for somebody who wants to be commander and chief. she said well, they can get him to read words from a teleprompter. there's not aing isingle unins american who gets health care because of this nastiness. the wayo all americans is through issues. we have to get away from this content-free campaign. how do they protect that? >> but you're confident you can keep your candidate on message? because it's that exact problem which has complicated what you say you want to redirect it to. >> i'm glad that he relishes
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partly on teleprompter but at a rally when he's able to interact with the individuals and what you don't see is the meetings with fam aelgilies and other fo. so, i'm confident he can stay on message and it has to be about substance and issues. i'd rather lose a campaign where we put it on the table substntively. than winning it on style. if this is about go back to "the apprentice." i think it also needs to be about facts and figures. >> speaking of facts and figures. he's received an intelligence report. did he believe it? >> i can't disclose it. i can say he took it very seriously. >> you can't disclose whether he believed it or not? >> no, about the details.
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report that the cia prepared for him? >> yes, when you say believe, he is certainly taking it seriously. nobody looks at something that complicated in one sitting. >> so, he's not saying i'm not believing what they're reporting because they don't know what they're doing? >> no, he didn't say that in my presence before or after the briefing. and we sat at a round table w congressman, generals and other national security experts. it was a very, very great conversation and i would call it very interactive. his questions are one of somebody who wants to be commander and chief and wants to do well by our armed forces, our allies abroad and i was happy to sit in that round table because i think it's symptomatic of the types of events we don't see as
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blocks. >> reporter: the olympics often look like an endless sprint to the finish. a blur of non-stop action. but that can also look like this. a singular moment frozen in time. a full story in one frame. >> an image is going to last a lot longer. it imprints itself in your mind and when something stands out because it's different, spectacular, you remember this photo. >> reporter: he's been creating these photos for the last 12 olympic games. he's now deputy director of photography for the associated pres with a team of 61 photographers in rio. their work is used by news outlets around the world. >> we're sending on average 3,500 photos from these olympics. >> 3,500 --
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photos. >> i can barely keep up looking at all of them. >> reporter: what are you looking for? this is david goldman's third olympics. >> i'm seeing this woman walking with a flag, holding it up. this is a nice graphic element. i might run underneath and shoot with a wide angle and her arm stretched out. got the rings and focus on the shadow. the amount of rings and torches i have shot probably number in the hundreds and thousands. >> reporter: do these olympic rings haunt you? >> yeah. they do. i go to bed sometimes with not visions of sheep, i'm counting rings. >> reporter: but now they have some help in getting those extra special shots in hard to reach places. >> these cameras are put into positions where photographers can't be. there's no physical way for them
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eight robotic cameras and dozens of remotely controlled ones in every corner of the olympic venues. they're in the rafters and sunk in the pool for unique underwater, underbody perspectives. it's out to the world in how many seconds? >> out to the network in two minutes from the time it's shot. >> reporter: if it the right moment, it may live forever. >> when you get that image, it's the greatest reward. >> reporter: these photographers sometimes find themselves capturing a moment they didn't quite expect. during the winter olympics, david goldman was in a vip room with russian president vladimir putin. he took this picture of him checking his nails at the same time one of the snowflakes did
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the longest aircraft in the world has taken its maiden voyage. >> reporter: on an air field just north of london, the world's longest aircraft spreads its tiny wings and takes to the sky. measuring in around the width the airlander 10 is not what you'd call conventional. up close, it looks even stranger. >> this is the flight deck. >> reporter: but chief test pilot, david burns, who was at the controls for the maiden flight, says you need to look beyond the shape of the hull, which has been the but of some jokes, to appreciate the very modern flying machine.
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home coming in here. >> reporter: the helium filled airlander taking the shape and lift benefits of a blimp and combining them with the maneuverability of a helicopter and a cargo capacity of a small cargo plane. and they claim the air kraccraf super efficient. >> essentially the engines of four suv's propel this thing. >> reporter: that's not it can't compete with planes or helicopters when it comes to speed. how fast can you go? >> top speed, 65 knots, about 73 miles per hour. >> reporter: spokesman cris hri daniels say it can be used to deliver humanitarian aid. >> it can land on desert, ice, you name it. >> reporter: it doesn't need an
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ground like other air ships. the u.s. army is whom it was originally developed, before the was drawn because of budget cuts and troop draw downs. this allowed them to developing the aircraft for civilian usess. >> we can riddle that hull with bullets. the helium is under such low pressure that it seep out. we are one of the safest forms of transport. >> rep already competition in the industry. lockheed martin is developing its own model. >> i think it's good for the industry. the market is plenty big enough for two people to be in there competing. >> reporter: and despite the considerable size, the sky is plenty big enough too. london. and that's the overnight
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for some of you the news continues, for others, check back a little later for thehehet captioning funded by cbs it's friday, august 19th, 2016. this is the "cbs morning news." american swimmers are facing possible charges in brazil this getting robbed at gun point. overnight, u.s. olympic officials blast ryan lochte and his teammates and new surveillance video shows what really happened in rio. believe it or not, i regret it. >> donald trump's change of heart. he expressed regret at a rally but stopped short of apologizing to anyone in particular. there are two new cases of zika in miami-dade county this morning.
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