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captioning funded by cbs good morning. it is wednesday, september 28th, 2016. welcome to "cbs this morning.? world leaders pay tribute to a founding father of israeli who became a warrior for peace. former president, prime minister and nobel peace prize winner shimon peres died overnight at age 93. >> hillary clinton talks about donald trump's past comments. see the tense moment between trump and alicia machado during an interview. >> are other banks resorting to the same tactics as wells fargo?
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did anybody see that debate last night? one down. two to go. >> both candidates declare debate victory. >> almost every single poll had us winning the debate against crooked hillary clinton. big league. big league. former israeli prime minister and president shi >> he was one of israeli's founding fathers and a key political figure for more than five decade. >> you should count their treatments. >> the flames get close, then we will head out. >> in southern california, homes threatened by the growing wildfire. >> crews are trying to keep the fire under control. >> makes a challenging situation. >> african-american male died after a police involved shooting in california. >> the male rapidly drew an
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northeast taiwan. >> knocking on the door of a cat five. a monster out there. >> wells fargo over phony accounts. john stumpf says he will cancel bonuses. >> elon musk sending people to mars. >> the man was proposing at a ring! >> they found it! >> all that matters. >> i won the polls easily. i won cbs. >> that is impressive but cbs did not conduct a post-debate poll. ah! that close! that close! >> on "cbs this morning." >> the debate got very nasty at times. >> in fact, donald trump interrupted hillary clinton 51 times during the debate. 51 times.
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interruptions, trump said, "no, she wasn't!" announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by toyota. let's go places! ? welcome to "cbs this morning." israeli and the world are honoring shimon peres as a visionary and a fighter for peace. the nobel prize winning former president and prime minister of israeli died overnight. the 93-year-old was the last surviving ad founding generation. >> president obama gave this tribute a light has gone out, but the hope he gave us will live and burn forever. he also said peres changed the course of human history working with other world leaders for decade to bring peace to the middle east. many of those leaders will travel to israeli on friday for the funeral. charlie d'agata is in london with the global reaction. >> reporter: good morning. well, they held a moment of silence in israeli this morning
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prime minister benefitijamin netanyahu called him a man of vision. peres's family said he died in the hospital after two weeks suffering a stroke. even for his own people, shimon peres was a putshiple -- puzzle. lacked formal education, yet brimmed with culture was a mediocre politician who became a statesman of spectacular vision. his servicen israeli's parliament lasted a 12 cabinets and was prime minister twice. his political career enaccident happensed all of israel's war but peres believed his country's security lay as much as making peace as being prepared in conflict. peres cooperated with his fierce political rival yitzhak rabin to
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israeli prime minister menachem begin and yasser arafat. >> we will have a settlement and with all of our neighbors, a comprehensive peace, peaceful. >> reporter: as foreign minister, peres was in charge of the peace process with the palestinians. the oslo accord, signed at the white house in 1993, when peres, prime minister yitzhak yasser arafat won the nobel peace prize. in 1994, per are res sat down with one of his many interviews with charlie rose. >> may i say, almost with a smile on my face, that only politicians have the right to make mistakes and without mistakes, you cannot reach peace. >> reporter: a long and mostly secret special relationship with king hussein of jordan culminated in israeli's second
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in what perhaps some dubbed his life best, shimon peres once said, the duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. just imagine what could be. that optimism remained right up until the end. earlier this month he posted a video message on facebook to first graders on their first day of school saying don't forget to be daring and curious and to dream big. >> wow. i love that, charlie! what a powerful statement ed to you, without mistakes you cannot reach peace and to first graders. >> the difference in peace the young bury the old in peace and the young bury the old and my better deem is making a better world for the young. >> he did that.
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end. >> ammunition on the campaign trail today. hillary clinton will be in new hampshire today with a former rival bernie standards. donald trump campaigns in illinois, iowa, and wisconsin. monday's debate drew a record 84 million viewers. clinton is capitalizing on this one moment, attacking the republican nominee's treatment of a beauty queen. nancy cordes is in white plains, new york, traveling with the clinton campaign. nancy, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. the clinton campaign says one of its goals with to go trump into making a mistake. they say it worked and that he is digging himself in deeper by fat shaming the former miss universe again and now she is fighting back. >> he was really rude with me. he was -- he tried to destroy my
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new miss universe! >> reporter: trump on fox yesterday. >> she gained a massive amount of weight and it was a real problem. >> reporter: brought back bad memories from years ago when she won a beauty pageant and forced to work out in fronts of an army of cam raze. >> she weighed 118, 117 pound and she went up to 160 or 70 so this is mb who likes to eat. >> appeared together, a few months later, machado said she only gained 18 pounds. >> she is one of the great miss universe and had a problem in the middle where she gained a little weight. >> i don't think so. >> she is probably right. >> i don't think so. >> okay. >> trump faked ignorance when clinton brought up machado on the debate stage. >> he called this woman miss piggy. donald, she has a name. >> where did you find this out?
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>> reporter: within hours they had a spanish language campaign video featuring the former miss universe. >> did anybody see that debate last night? >> reporter: in raleigh, tuesday, clinton called trump's words dangerously incoherent. trump's medical records revealed 236 he is on the borderline between overweight and obese. >> your family give you a hard >> i think i could lose some way. i've sort of been a little bit this way. >> reporter: controversies like this one has prompted the arizona of republican to endorse a democrat for president the first time in its history. trump's long history of objectifying women and his demeaning comments about women during the campaign are not good
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deep character flaws. a red state is arizona and a state that clinton is trying to turn blue in this election. >> donald trump says he may be tougher in his next debate and hit his opponent hard where he campaigned yesterday. major garrett is in chicago this morning. >> reporter: donald trump loves to take credit for big tv ratings and he considers himself a ratings magnet for monday' now presidential debate and brought tv production values to a rally in central florida late last night where his own campaign cameras captured plenty of footage for a coming trump campaign commercial. ? >> reporter: donald trump's private jet glided slowly up to a jam-packed hangar in melbourne, florida, amid pseudopresidential fan fare. trump can't abide losing and cited none scientific online
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with hillary clinton. >> almost every single poll had us winning the debate against crooked hillary clinton. big league. big league. >> reporter: trump patted himself on the back for something else. restraint. >> i was also holding back. i didn't want to do anything to embarrass her. >> reporter: casting clinton as a captive of old-style politics, the gop nominee repriced what advisers thought what one of >> what has hillary clinton accomplished for your family the last 26 years she has been doing this? nothing. nothing. she has got experience but it's bad experience. >> reporter: having failed to drive the issue when face-to-face with clinton, trump said her e-mail scandal looks worse and worse. >> then her aides took the fifth amendment and her ring leaders were given immunity! and if you're not guilty of a
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for? >> reporter: trump found fault with lester holt and bulky microphone. >> he didn't ask her about the e-mails at all. he didn't ask her about her scandal. my microphone was terrible. i wonder if it was set up that way. >> reporter: hillary clinton dismissed the conspiracy. >> anybody who blames it on the microphone is not having a good night. >> reporter: trump brought his best fund-raisers to trump tower tuesfo call-around and after a few hours, he raised more than $18 million. online donations augmented that total but trump is still well short of the 140 million he is pledged to put on advertising between now and election day and on mounting pressure to spend more of his own money on his own cause. >> john heilemann is manager editor of bloomberg politics and co-host of "the circus" on show time a cbs affiliate.
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on the day after the debate? >> i think it was a beautifully set trap by the clinton campaign. hillary clinton got it in at the very end of the debate and trying to find a moment all night to lay that argument out. trump was plainly unprepared for it. kind of acting like where did you find that? well, i found it on television, in your book and "the new york times" and all over the place. managed to do the dumbest thing he did which to go on television following the raid and attack the woman again. that gave the story legs and able to keep talking about it. it wasn't just -- >> she is talking too. >> it wasn't just a debate hit any more. >> at a time he desperately need suburban women. >> you think about all of the good work. just strictly political good work for weeks his ability to stay relatively disciplined and to do all the things aimed at suburban republican leaning white women. then to engage in this kind of
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again, i don't know -- you guys may have know some exceptions in the world. i've never met a woman, rich, poor, black, white, republican, or democrat who thinks it's okay for a rich, powerful man to call a woman fat. >> you know why you've never met her? because there isn't one and that's why you've never met her. >> i just said it's not a great political strategy but i'll just say this. i think one of the things about trump, we talk about how much he attacks people. we accept attacks even really violent vicious attacks in politi attack hillary clinton and chris christie and march ro rubio. whether it's judge curiel or the khan family or miss machado, unprecedented and political thing and very dangerous. >> they have come out with an ad already. >> like i said it was a set trap
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trap was knowing -- >> i don't understand why they didn't anticipate it? >> who? >> the trump campaign. it was all over the press. >> look. you could fill a book with the number of totally predictable attacks that hillary clinton leveled against donald trump at the debate that trump seemed unprepared to handle in a crisp, clean way and then pivot away from those things. that is what you do in debate. you anticipate the attack and answer it quickly and move on to a topic of your choosing. he did not do that over and over again. always this is off the cris i think there is no question she executed will 85% of her plan and he executed about 15% or 20% of his plan. >> he said next time he'll go harder. >> he may. we will see. harder to do in the context of a town hall format and harder to be like that when you have ordinary scitizens and voters asking questions. >> we will have tuesday's vice presidential debate at 9:00/8:00 central on cbs. the moderator is elaine quijano
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tensions growing in a california community this morning after another deadly police shooting of a black man. officials in el cajon released this imagine showing a man pointing an object at police before one officer opened fire. police now know he was not carrying a gun. mireya villarreal is in el cajon, northeast of san diego, with how the shooting unfolded. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. friends tell us that the man's name is alfred have yet to release the full video from the still imagine you just saw. it was taken from a witness smartphone but they say the longo pulled his hands out of the pocket and pointed them in the direction of the officers. >> you killed my brother in front of me! >> reporter: video taken moments after the shooting shows a distraught woman who is identified as the man's sister. >> oh, my god! you killed my brother! >> do you have somebody you can
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killed him! >> reporter: she says she called police for help and told them her brother was mentally ill and unarmed and officers confirmed they received that information and when they arrived at the scene they say the man was acting erratically and refusing demands. >> reporter: this video freeze-frame shows the moment before the shooting. >> at one point, the male rapidly drew an object from his front both hands together on it and extended rapidly towards the officer taking what appeared to be a shooting stance. >> reporter: one sister discharged a taser while simultaneously another opened fire. police haven't said what the object the man pulled out was, but they now know it wasn't a gun. >> why did you take him? why why why? >> they didn't say anything. he didn't hear no rights. had he no rights. he was a black man he automatically had no rights so
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is mentally challenged. >> reporter: tensions quickly intensified at the scene as a growing crowd of people demanded answers but the police are urging calm. >> now is the time to allow the investigation to shed light on this event and we plan to be open and transparent. >> reporter: the names of the two officers have not yet been released but we do know both of them have 20 years of experience on the force. we also know that they are on administrative leave. the local here, their homicide division is conducting their own investigation. that will be reviewed by the district attorney's office and the fbi. gayle? >> thank you. dutch investigators are releasing a new report this morning on the downing of a malaysia airlines jetliner in ukraine. prosecutors told victims' families a short time ago that russia is behind the crash. the relatives say they were told
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the jet was transported from russia and fired from a section of ukraine held by pro-russian rebels. rusch's government denies this and they say it was shot from rebel held. police believe an apartment on the second floor may have been used as a marijuana grow house. the battalion chief was killed he was a 17-year veteran of the fire department and father of three children. families of 9/11 may soon be able to sue saudi arabia. first, it's time to check your local wea >> samantha: a very good wednesday morning to you. grab the umbrella even if it's not leaving when you leave the house. i do expect scattered showers to develop throughout late morning and into the afternoon. after-school practices, your
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? trump seemed to take his cues and bragging this morning he won the debate and citing several online polls. he said he won to prove it. >> i won cbs. >> that's right. he won cbs. which is news to cbs as their chief white house correspondent tweeted this morning, quote, donald trump said he won a news post debate poll. we did not conduct a post-debate poll. >> come on! >> oops! oops, mr. trump, oops. sounded good when ed it because i was thinking, i didn't know we conduct a poll. >> i had to look it up. welcome back to "cbs this morning.? this half hour, congress could decide today to allow families of 9/11 victims to sue saudi arabia over the allegations they helped the attackers. lawmakers may override a veto by president obama.
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disagree with the president. >> billionaire elon musk wants to colonize mars. how he hopes to send a hundred people to the planet within the next ten years. . time to show you some of the morning's headlines from around the globe. "the new york times" says a hundred thousand syrian children are trapped in a killing zone in aleppo. russian and syrian attacks on rebels there are intensifying and children can't escape the fighting. the world has seen heartbreaking images that show the of children in rebel-held areas of aleppo and one of the most gripping accounts in the paper today. >> horrendous. >> the story is heartbreaking. governor chris christie denied knowing about the bridgegate scandal while it happened once again. he reacted to testimony by david wildstein. two former aides to new jersey's
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the jam in 2013. governor christie is not charged. >> bloomberg reports on a historic plunge in grocery prices. government figures show that food prices declined for nine straight months in the united states. this is the longest streak of food deflation since 1960. some eggs sold for 99 cents a dozen. they say the reasons include low grain and oil prices and gas pric and walmart. >> referee: senate plans to vote to override president obama's veto of giving 9/11 families the right to sue saudi arabia. many claim the saudi government has connections to the terror plot. defense secretary ash carter tells congress the bill could undermine counterterrorism efforts around the world. margaret brennan is at the white house. >> reporter: good morning. well, the white house, saudi arabia, major u.s. businesses,
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today, it appears that the 9/11 families may soon be able to bring the kingdom of saudi arabia to court. terry stratta's husband tom ka will was killed in the world trade center. >> we want truth and justice for the murder of our loved ones like any other american is entitled to. >> reporter: the bill will allow 9/11 families to sue saudi arabia whose officials they su assistance and funding to the terrorists. 15 of the 19 attackers were saudi-born. but president obama vetoed it last week. arguing it makes american troops and diplomats vulnerable to retaliatory investigation in foreign courts. josh ernest. >> what do you say to the families, who, in their view, believe the white house is standing in the way to justice? >> the president is very sympathetic to the argument that the argument that the 9/11 families make and the president is very interested in making sure that those families
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stands with them. >> reporter: today, the senate is likely to override that veto, followed by the house. it would be the first time that president obama has had a veto overridden during his two terms in office. new york democrat chuck schumer. >> if the saudis were com they should pay a price in the name of justice and to prevent this from happening again. so i understand where the president is coming from but it's not where i'm coming from and the vast majority of house and senate members, democrat and republican. >> they have grown up without a dad. one child has memories of him and one child has no memories of him. >> reporter: terry spent the last 15 years raising three kids on her own and this is for them. >> i believe it's the way to protect ourselves from future terrorist attacks. i really believe we need to hold them accountable for the actions they take and ado it because of my children. >> reporter: oven though the bill would allow the families to bring saudi arabia to court in
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no evidence linking senior saudi officials or their government to these attacks. and, charlie, the kingdom, vehemently denies any links. >> margaret, thanks so much. space pioneer elon musk has his eyes set on a bold new mission. the man behind spacex says tesla unveiled an ambitious plan yesterday to take people to mars. passengers on the first journey to the red planet have to buy a pricey ticket andte earth's neighbor. >> reporter: this is what the first man mission to mars could look like. in the university of elon musk. >> i want to try to achieve here is to make mars seem possible. >> reporter: the founder of tesla and spacex said it could happen in about a decade. >> and liftoff. >> reporter: ambitious for a space company that has yet to launch a manned mission at all.
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least a hundred passengers. each paying around $200,000. >> i think the first journey to mars is going to be really very dangerous. a risk of fatality will be high. no way around it. >> reporter: this month's explosion of a spacex rocket is a reminder of the significant consequences of failure. >> he has lost two falcon nine rockets the last 15 months and there is a sense that the -- would like to see him master that before talking about sending people to mars. a lot of the cost estimates that he made today are based on reusable launch technology. but they haven't been able to refly those rockets. >> reporter: it could cost about $10 billion to get the first ship off the ground. >> even if the ultimate goal of this doesn't pan out, the product that come out of this trying to attempt this will push us along in a direction that will benefit everybody. >> reporter: musk is hoping for a public private partnership to pay for the project.
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mouth is. >> i really don't have any other motivation, except to be able to make the biggest contribution i can to making life multiplanetary. >> reporter: for cbs news, carter evans, los angeles. >> i don't know. count me absent on that one. cost $200,000 that you have to pay and the first journey is very >> is this a one-way ticket? >> i'm with you, my dear. >> you too, norah. you two dare devils at the da table, no thank you. two are giving up at least $60 million in compensation because of the bank scheme but is the scandal bigger than wells fargo? another employee of another bank shares his experience of feeling pressure to meet those sales target or face the risk of
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? hey! hey! wells fargo's independent directors are punishing two top executives after scandal over sales practices. chairman and ceo john stumpf is forfeiting 41 million in stock awards and also forego his salary during the investigation. stumpf will not collect a bonus this year. >> former executive carry tolstedt is forfeiting the following. before the director's announcement she was expected to
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compensation. >> the fall back opened about two million unauthorized accounts in customers' names to meet lofty sales targets. omar villafranca shows us in dallas how this may be a larger problem in the banking industry. >> reporter: good morning. wells fargo fired more than 5,000 employees for opening those sham accounts. there is now a class action lawsuit on behalf of those employees in california who say they were either fired or demoted for not bending the rules to meet those sales now employees at other banks, including one in the dallas area, say it's a common occurrence. >> i accept full responsibility for all unethical sales practices in our retail banking business. >> reporter: john stumpf was contrite last week as lawmakers questioned him on wells fargo sales tactics but didn't go far enough for senatoristic warren
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>> elevate your desks of accountable is to bush the blame to your low level employees who don't have money for a fancy pr firm to defend themselves. it's gutless leadership. >> reporter: oscar garza was a person personal. he says aggressive sales tactics aren't just a problem at wells fargo. >> deceptive sales trade practices is across the industry and not specific to any branch. >> reporter: garza said he made $12 an hour and the make extra cash was to make certain sells goals by managers and even if that meant setting up goals they didn't want. were they goals or quotas? did they have to be met. >> they had to be met. >> reporter: what did it result in? >> termination. never a direct order but there
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do you what you need to do to meet that quota. >> reporter: a spokeswoman for chase bank disputed some of garza's claims and telling cbs news we don't have formal quotas that, if not met, would result in termination. adding any manager who would encourage a illegal activity and create a negative culture would be terminated. >> they have to sell as much as they can at all costs. >> reporter: jude conte works at the national employment law project and acquires it cited bankers from a variety of financial institutions all with similar stories, saying managers pushed workers to meet almost impossible goals and to ignore it when with consumers say no. >> it's a scary concept for the consumers and scary concept for the employees who are forced to engage in hard-sell techniques to push products that people don't really need. >> reporter: people don't necessarily want it either. according to federal regulators,
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have risen 26% the past year. garza felt the sales tactics were unethical and left the business and now a member of the committee for better banks. to avoid being taken advantage of, he said customers should tell personal bankers exactly what they want. >> do not run my credit. do not run my social. i do not want a credit card. be very specific. >> reporter: wells fargo announced it will pay million dollars in fines and the bank says it will get rid of all retail banking sales goals by the end of the year. >> nerves get the best of a groom-to-be as he drops the engagement ring at the yankees game. >> samantha: a very good wednesday morning to you. grab the umbrella even if it's
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this is like one of the big moments of his life. and, now, he can't find the ring. the box is empty. oh, that poor guy! >> that poor guy is right. here is one diamond at the ballpark that was not so easy to spot. andrew fox was proposing to his girlfriend at last night's yankees game. that is a good idea. then he dropped the ring. not so good. fans in his section all put their heads together to search for it. took a few minutes but cheers erupted when the ring was recovered. fox got on one knee and his girlfriend heather said? yes! andrew, i want to marry you. they found the ring stuck in the cuff of her jeans. there it was! >> he was sweating, man. he was sweating it big time. >> he looks so worried when you look at his face. but it ended up okay. >> not a bad story for the rest of their lives.
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from a strained quad. last night the tribe reported that corey kluber is going to miss the next seven to ten games, which could mean he will miss the first playoff game, which is on october 6th. that's just eight days away. the coach says he's not worried. he says that time off may actually be good for corey kluber. i have to tell you, the forecast is not good, is it, sam? a little rainy. >> samantha: no. this is good weather to stay inside and relax, but we have to go to wor school? here's what to prepare for. rain. if you live west of cleveland, west of elyria, there will be showers around this morning in the cleveland metro i'm thinking late morning into the afternoon is when our rain arriving. upper 60s today running way cooler than yesterday when we were way into the 70s.
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? have you heard? it is wednesday, september 28th, 2016. hump day! welcome back to "cbs this morning.? there is more real news ahead, including the baby with three genetic pare dr. david agus describes the procedure to screen out defects. first, here's a look at today's "eye opener" at 8:00. >> a moment of silence in israeli in honor of shimon per he's. president netanyahu called him a man of vision. >> one of the goals with this debate is to goat trump into making a mistake. they say it worked. >> trump loves to take credit for big tv ratings and he brought tv production values to a rally late last night. >> i've never met a woman, rich,
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or democrat who thinks it's okay for a rich, powerful man to call a woman fat. >> you know dwhy you've never mt her? because there is not one. >> a man pulled his hands out of his pockets and pointed them in the direction of the officers. >> as the vote are counted, it appears the 9/11 families may be able to bring saudi arabia to court. >> elon musk has his eyes set on a bold, new mission, to take people to mars. >> count me absent on tha >> is this a round trip ticket or not? >> i know. >> during the debate, donald trump's campaign was reportedly deleting old tweets that contradicted his on-air claims. and i think we actually have a clip of that process. i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell. the world is mourning shimon
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peace. israeli's former president and prime minister died overnight. two weeks after a stroke. he was 93. peres shared the nobel prize for reaching an interim peace deal with palestinian leaders. >> former president obama and former president clinton with expected to attend his funeral on friday. here are some conversations with him in 2012. >> in this long life that you cont t has been -- brought you the greatest sense of satisfaction? >> the thing that makes me is the people. really. pleasure. i don't think the world is a pleasure. i think to sell is a pleasure. >> what do you remember about him? >> a remarkable man. i saw him in israeli and i saw
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economic reconstruction to the palestinians as well as israelis. he died having not done all that he wanted to do. >> at 93. and had more to do? >> a great sense of the possibilities of peace. >> i love in the last hour that we learned that on monday, he sent a letter to first grader telling them to dream big and to be fearless. i think that says a lot about this man. >> another amazing thingha and yitzhak rabin came together when he was a prime minister and they were much better together than separate. >> he had secret friendships that helped lead to these peace negotiations and peace deals that he received the peace prize for. >> he was a constant appearance around the world. hillary clinton and donald trump both say they won the most watched debate in history. the facts are different. they attacked each other again yesterday, but also addressed
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>> i don't think any family should ever have to pay more than 10% of your income to child care. >> we will cut your taxes and let you deduct the cost of child care. it's about time. >> we are going to raise tax on millionaires and billionaires. and we are going to close corporate loopholes. >> i'm going to eliminate every unnecessary and costly regulation. >> we have to make it clear that everyone is respect from the law for the communities they protect and respect for the law from the communities that are protected. >> the policy, like stop and frisk in chicago, especially, where it's going crazy, could save thousands of lives. >> every call you make, every door you knock on, every friend, you register to vote to make the
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on november 8th. >> clinton goes to new hampshire with bernie sanders today. trump campaigns in the midwest. a suspicious package that forced the evacuation of charlotte's police headquarters is the latest evidence. the city remains on edge. a bomb squad safely removed the package yesterday with a robot. the scare follows last week's deadly police shooting of keith lamont scott. there's still questions surrounding his confrontation with officers. errol barnett is outside of the charlotte police department with more and new information. >> reporter: good morning. the witnesses and the keith scott family deny or say it's unclear if keith scott had a gun. even though there are new questions about his history with weapons, scott's supporters say it doesn't change during his deadly encounter with police. dash cam and body cam videos
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the fatal shooting of keith lamont scott. wb-tv is reporting the gun recovered at the scene was stolen by someone else and sold to scott. past evidence shows the 43-year-old had a history with firearms. in 2005, scott did prison time in texas after shooting a man. last october, scott's wife rakeiyia filed a protective order. the body cam appeared to start recording late and lacking audio for the first 40 seconds. show me how it is initiated. >> when with an officer decides to do a recording he taps this center button here and the body came begins to record. >> reporter: body cameras are now charlotte police. in 2015 the city spent 57 million dollars implementing 14 body cameras.
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shooting don't wear the equipment. >> all of those recordings are susceptible to being released to a defendant, then our susceptible to be released to the media, which could potentially put those officers at risk in the future because now we are publicizing the tactics. >> reporter: scott's death caused violent protests in charlotte and rattled members of the community. >> we need our fathers and mothers. >> reporter: including 9-year-old ziona w tearful plea at a recent city council meeting. >> we want to have peace and we want to be treated the same way as other people. >> reporter: now we should note that there is more footage that the cmpd has to release. on saturday they remove body and dash cam videos from the record and the same day the scott family plans to hold his
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a 5-month-old infant has three genetic parents. ahead, how the baby is born without a genetic disease. >> samantha: thanks so much, norah. i'm watching a band of rain moving north and northeast through the western part of our forecast region. if you live west of elyria, could be a pretty wet morning. i think in cleveland it is late morning into the afton our rain chances are a little more impressive, especially in afternoon and through tonight. otherwise, breezy today, breezy tonight and look at that. we're only in the upper 60s this
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? good love ? >> in our "morning rounds" a new fertility a three-parent baby. the controversial procedure reported yesterday using genetic material from one man and two women. the breakthrough treatment intends to stop mothers from passing down genetic disorders to their children. our dr. david agus is in los angeles. david, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. >> so explain what they mean by a three-parent baby. >> well, this was a woman who
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chromosomes and put it into a donor's egg with a nucleus had been removed. the baby has dna in the mitochondrial from the mother and chromosomes from the mother and the father. in the sense three parents. when you look at the amount of dna it looks like 2.001 parents rather than three but it's dna from three different people. >> i think what is exciting about it, it could help a lot of infertile couples, right? >> no question thousands of kids born err year with mitochondrial defects and many cosuccumb to this horrible disease and many women can't give birth because they know they have this particular defect. it opens up the door for them to have children of their own. >> how do they monitor this procedure? >> this procedure was started in the '90s and they were doing it and it stopped because bad things happened and it wasn't regulated. now this is really the first case with modern technology.
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is a fraction of the bad mitochondrial from the mother. we don't know the outcome. so the problem with experiences like this, if you want to call this an experiment you don't know the outcome until many years later. we need to follow this and follow this child to really understand better the ramifications of what was done. >> explain what migtochondrial is. >> there are 37 genes in mitochondrial and when they are defective, the organs that require a lot of power, the heart, brain, muscles don't work well and children who have these might tochondrial disorders cans this like this joredian couple in this story had children who died at a young age because of this might row condreal defect.
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united states to allow it to happen although it hasn't happened. in mexico you can do what you want in this regard. with these new technologies the world is flat and there need to be global governance saying we all do it right and have the right outcome both for the children and the parents. >> thank you, dr. david agus. one mother's difficult decision to show her son to the world changed history. ahead, how the emmett till tragedy galvanized the you're watching "cbs this morning." we will be right back. announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by mirafiber. from the makers of miralax. ity with dailycomfort fiber and is less likely to cause... unwanted gas. finally. try new mirafiber.
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? what's going on ? >> the smithsonian national museum of african-american history and culture in washington, d.c. is open to visitors after its dedication ceremony last weekend. it connects the artifactses and images of the past to the realities of the present. one of t anticipated museum is a casket that carried the boy 61 years ago. it's so sacred that visitors are not allowed to take pictures or videos. you have to see it in picture. michelle miller has more. >> reporter: it was 1955. the u.s. supreme court had outlawed legal segregration the year before yet blacks were living under a reign of terror.
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his story may have been lost to history, if not for his mother's decision to expose his brutal death. we warn you, these images can be hard to watch. before the protest in charlotte and ferguson were the chants of black lives matter. there was the story of emmett till. it started when the 14-year-old walked into a mississippi general store with his >> emmet said nothing out of line. mrs. bryant came out from behind us. for some reason, a wolf whistle emme terks t did. >> why did he do that? >> i tell people, i think he wanted us to laugh. >> reporter: police found emmett's body floating in a river and so badly beaten his mother could barely identify him. >> i saw his tongue had been
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on his chin. >> reporter: a young filmmaker named keith boshaun interviewed her 14 years ago, shortly before her death. >> this eye was out and it was lying about midway, the cheek. i discovered a hole. i said now was it necessary to shoot him? i said i want the world to see this, because there is no way i could tell this story and give them my son looked like. >> reporter: in the midst of grief, disbelief, and horror, mobley made the decision to expose her only child to the world. these photos of his body in an open casket were published in the black press. >> it's unbelievable. that someone can do that to another human being is just putting your mind how evil those people were. >> those black people in the deep south, this was finally
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>> reporter: michael eric dyson is a georgetown university sociology professor. >> it was meant to make them stay in their places. instead, it ignited a movement. >> reporter: rosa parks said it was till's images. >> this one image conjured the pain, the acrimony of lynching and showed to america, this this is evil. >> the essence of justice is truth and you cannot have justice without truth. >> reporter: filmmaker keith boshawn has been on a quest the last 25 years. he is revealing it in an upcoming feature film. his chance to finally tell the complete story. when you see that photo and you juxtapose it against the video
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and philando castille, to tamir rice. >> this there is no other story that speaks to this generation than the story of emmett till. >> reporter: no one was convicted of till's murder but his mother believes his legacy has become his justice. >> it took something to stir people up and let we are either going to stand together or we are going to fall together. >> reporter: that film make's reporting led the fbi to reopen this case. in 2005, till's body was exhumed but his casket left to be forgotten but a family member found it. >> you can sit and see the casket. it's smaller than you might
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>> samantha: it's good to see you again on this wednesday morning. i almost said thursday. i was trying to get to the weekend there. it is 8:26. we have some rain out there. in cleveland, elyria, down to akron and all points to the east nothing going on. if you look out west sandusky, toledo and south into county, it's pouring down rain and that extends all the way through marion almost to columbus. this is moving towards the north, so i think most of this will miss cleveland. in cleveland and the rest of the area, it's really late morning into the afternoon and evening that we have the best chance of rain. so if you're leaving the house now and it's not raining but you plan to be gone awhile through the afternoon, i would take an umbrella to be on the safe side. breezy, too, and cool.
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? >> we also honor marcellus who, unfortunately, could not make it here today, and morgan freeman, who undoubtedly is off playing a black president again. heer >> he must have been really busy. can't wait to hear, where was he? that was president obama last week at the national medals of arts and humidity ceremony. morgan freeman was not able to attend that ceremony at the white house but he did make it here to join us here. hello, morgan freeman! he's in our toyota green room. >> hello. this green legend is taking a turn behind the camera for the
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secretary." we will give awe preview. >> jan crawford will introduce us to ryan speedo green. how he overcome a difficult childhood. time to show you some of the morning's headlines from around the globe. president obama nominating the first ambassador to cuba in more than 5 years. jeffrey dilroentas has served in havana since 2014. he has to be confirmed by the senate. an officer's good deed. mark ross posted a facebook photo of him and officer robson. ross was pulled over for speeding after he tried to get to detroit after his sister died. the two prayed together and the officer drove ross to his destination 100 miles away. everybody knows how much he dislikes cops but he said this gives him hope. ed the families were so touched they have now invited the
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"wall street journal" says online retailer amazon is building its own shipping operations. it would compete with u.p.s. and fedex. by one estimate, amazon would may more than $1 billion a year if it stopped using those shippers and amazon spokesman denies it's trying to replace its delivery partners. a home run by a big leagu diaz of the cardinals hit the first grand slam of his career last night in st. louis. he had just returned from a memorial service for jose fernandez where he grew up together. fernandez died on sunday after a boating accident. >> morgan freeman has one of the most distinctive careers in hollywood. you hear his voice you know exactly who it is. he made a name for himself in
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behind the camera, freeman is one of the executive producers of the cbs news political drama "madam secretary." this episode starts off with a exciting career change for elizabeth mccord, played by actress tea leoni. >> you look great. >> totally vice presidential. >> i told you, that information is on complete lockdown until >> still, you have to pretend like you don't know anything. >> seriously? ignorance is a plus? this is your moment. >> really, pal. you have to toe the line on this one. >> okay. >> morgan freeman is here. what great directing in that scene. >> thank you very much. >> can we start with this? you heard president obama having fun at your expense. where were you that you couldn't go to the white house? could you share with the group?
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>> oh, okay. >> right. there. >> we will give you a pass. >> thank you very much. let's talk about you directing season three premiere because you're in the episode. how do you direct yourself? you're in it for a nanosecond but you're in it. >> yeah. i thought i would sit down and talk to myself about ten minutes before going on and telling myself to settle down and don't try to overdo it, you know? just say your lines. >> just deliver? >> yeah. >> directing something you really like? it is. i like working with actors. they like working with me. it's one of those things. >> makes it work. >> the first time i directed was way back there. i did a movie called "bopa." and i had just walked with clint eastwood, so i had a really good instruction on how best to do it. >> to do it, yeah. >> what is the key to being a
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>> yeah? >> yeah. then get out of the way. >> really? >> some say it's like 75% of it? >> yeah. more than like 80% of it. you're always working with professionals, particularly at that level. your crew, your actors, they all know what they are doing. they may not always know what you want. >> yeah. >> so, you know, trying to get that over is what to speak. >> is anything you really wanted that you don't have? >> anything i really want? >> wanted. >> wanted? >> yeah. >> no. >> i didn't think so. >> why didn't you think so, charlie? >> because i know that -- i mean, i just know that you're a man who goes after his pursuits, whether it's flying or whether it's directing, or whether it
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to your curiosity. you do it. >> you know me well! >> you're not like the other kid in the class. that is a great picture. >> that is true, isn't it? >> this was at the convention. >> you were at the convention. when your voice came on narrating hillary clinton's bid by video, everybody knew instantly who it was. why did you want to do that? i know they asked you, i get that. >> yeah, they asked me and we back quite a few years. actually, i met them while he was still governor of arkansas. and we have been friend for years. and i like them. >> you live in a fellow southern state, mississippi. >> right next door. >> exactly. >> talk about the voice, though. why you? what is it about your voice? where does it come from? >> you're asking the wrong person, charlie. it comes from somewhere down in
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>> i had -- when i was in school, i took voice and diction and voice development and over the years, it goes by itself, you know? your voice, everybody knows charl rose. >> did you take those classes because you were trying to develop it or someone sent you a message, you got a great voice and you should spend time developing it? >> i went to school to learn how i took acting classes. i flunked the acting. really. i mean, i didn't really flunk it. i made a d. just got over. >> that's flunking. that ain't good. >> but the voice thing was -- i had a really good instructor on telling me how to do that. >> listen. your voice is so recognizable that the ways people came to you. let's roll that clip. the first time i heard it, i thought that is genius.
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have you arrive saelve. hazard ahead. ladies avoid all clear present dangers. make a u-turn. let's keep our enemies guessing. you've arrived. it's been my honor and duty to see you through this mission. >> morgan, that is so fun. you only did that for a temporary amount of time. you know people want you to come back. >> they do? >> yes, they do. >> we love "waze." we miss your voice. >> we may talk about that. all right.>> again? >> i don't know. >> but you want to? >> yes. i've been asked back to "madam secretary" sometime this season. >> was that you asking yourself? >> as executive producer? >> well, executive producer, i think, is different than producer. >> did you watch the debate the other night? >> i did. >> what is your take on the election this season? >> well, i'm like everybody else. my fingers are crossed.
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eyes. >> toes, legs? >> yeah. yeah. >> you worried? >> am i worried? >> yeah. >> a little bit. yeah. just a little bit. i think we're at a serious crossroads in terms of who we are. ? what is america to me ? >> thank you, my friend. >> wonderful to have you here. > it's wonderful to be here. always nice to see you guys. >> say that loud. >> "madam secretary" we love you more. the new season of "madam secretary" premieres on sunday at 9:00/8:00. where? >> cbs. >> would you just say "cbs this morning"? >> "cbs this morning," here we are! >> love it. music lifted a troubled teen to the world's elite stages. should i keep reading?
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opening tonight at the metropolitan opera in new york city. it tells a tragic tale of love torn apart by illness but the opera might not be the most dramatic story on that stage. jan crawford shows us the remarkable journey of one of the players. jan, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. so, you know, at 6'5" is built like a football linebacker and ryan speedo green is hard to miss, but had he a rough childhood and says he was nearly lost before ter teenager. but then, against all odds, he found his way out with opera. ? >> reporter: with that rich, robust voice. ? >> reporter: a presence commanding the stage. it's easy to see why ryan speedo green, 0 years old, is -- 30 years old is considered one of the most promising stars of opera.
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>> reporter: gracing top stages in europe and the u.s. but his improbableable rise of the elite of all the arts has its roots in poverty and violence. you know your father was largely absent? >> yes, he was. >> reporter: and your mother could be rather abusive? >> i wouldn't describe it as abusive. it was a volatile relationship. it was tough. really tough. >> reporter: green grew up near norfolk, virginia, amid and dysfunction. in elementary school he was sent to a class for the most disruptive students taught by bet hi hughes. >> the first time i met her, i threw my desk at her and how i said hello to her. rather than sending me home or to the office she told me you can sit on the floor and learn since you don't want to have a desk. she nearly gave up on me. >> reporter: even when he almost
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when she had a steady job and things were looking up. >> reporter: we traveled to virginia with "the new york times" magazine writer daniel bergner. his book "sing for your life" chronicles ryan green's story. >> it was here that ryan threatened his mom's life, probably with a knife. cops came. he was 12 years old. when he was loaded into back of that car, cuffed, shackled, driven across the virginia's juvenile facility of last resort. >> reporter: the facility, a tough place for troubled kids was home for two long months. >> i was lost and that is pretty much the best way i can put it. i was lost. >> reporter: green also found himself in solitary confinement. >> when i got out, i promised mice i would never get there again. i started pursuing other entertaining things as a child joining the latin club and being
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outlets so i could stay off the street. >> reporter: the big break of his childhood came from the arts in norfolk. he was accepted but didn't know what he was getting into. >> this is ryan as a 12 grader. >> reporter: allen fisher is head of the school's vocal progr program. >> it was not an exceptional voice back in ninth grade, but over the four years, it grew to become an exception. >> reporter: at governor's, green flourished under a voice teacher named robert brown. >> they need somebody to be their foundation and be the person possess kick them in the butt when they need to be kicked in the butt. he taught me not only music but he was a father figure to me. >> reporter: brown took his students to see carmen at new york's metropolitan opera, a title role performed by denise
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something that a person of color could do. when i left the met that evening, i told mr. brown, i want to get to the met someday. that's what i'm going to do, i'm going to sing at the met. >> reporter: that is exactly what he did. gruen threw himself into the study of opera and after graduate school entered a national competition at the met. he won! ? >> reporter: and, tonight, he is back, opening in a do you ever just stop and think, wow? i can't believe this? >> even arriving a couple of weeks ago in new york to start rehearsals, i woke up in my apartment and sort of pinched myself thinking, like, i'm going to go to work at the metropolitan opera. >> reporter: and you're going to continue to doing it? >> i am. the dream is not finished. ? >> reporter: now denise graves who was, obviously, an inspiration to green is
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wife irene. he and irene got married earlier this year. his mother is planning to attend a later performance. i think that relationship is still a work-in-progress. what an incredible journey he's had. gayle? >> with such a happy ending. guess what. january, i want to go see it. number one, his speaking voice is so great and to see where he has gone from a to b to z is a great success story. >> i want to see it too. betty who inspired him and robert brown, his voice teacher. for every person who has a dream, they need somebody to be their foundation. >> i wrote that down too!
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great stories and interesting people. that does it for us. tune into the "cbs evening news"
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>> samantha: all right. well the clouds are moving over the cleveland area, not a ton of sunshine out there. we have some showers out to the west. good morning to you. if you're just joining us, i've been tracking rain all morning. these showers lift off towards the north, but the band as a whole has been trying to spread a little bit farther to the east, so i would not rule out some light rain i soon as late morning. so into the 9:00 hour, probably closer to 10:00, 11:00, i think most of it would be pretty light. the steadiest stuff remains to the west closer to sandusky and toledo. for the rest of today i would expect increasing rain chances through the day. if you're about to step out the door, it's not raining where you are. akron or canton maybe. take your umbrella if you're gone for a while, because that rain will pick up later today.
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wednesday. hey, we've got more rain chances
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