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good morning. it is monday august 4th 2014. welcome to "cbs this morning." thunderstorms turn deadly in california. thousands cut off to the world by mudslides and flash flooding. >> people in the midwest enter a third day without clean water. plus fallout from legalized pot. it's creating a new kind of drug trafficking. but we begin this morning with today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >>op we ened uphe t door and it was like a river outside. >> looks like the roads are
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completely washed out rehe. >> flash floods in california. >> thousands are stranded in san bernardino county. at least oneso pern was died when their vehicle was swept away. at least three wildfires are burning. >> a ban on drinking water in toledo, ohio, remains in effect for a third day in a row. >> the contamination is being blamed on an algae bloom in lake erie. >> a second ebola victim is scheduled to arrive tuesday. >> so is it likely he will survive? >> i can't predict the future for individual patients. >> a seven-hour cease-fire in gaza. t >> iheres international outrage after a bombing a u.n. center. >> thousands are thought to be
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killed in a powerful earthquake in southwest china. >> a man was rescued by the coast guard. >> the ball hit a lady on her finger and knocked the diamond out. >> this giant porpoise back with their family. >> officers found themselves in a slow speed chase. >> and all that matters -- >> hall of fame weekend in canton, ohio. >> on saturday former buffalo receiver tribute to his quarterback jim kelly. >> i'm honored to call you my family and teammate. i love you, man. >> hop in the shower. how about a car wash and sit in the back of the pickup. >> only in montana, man. >> this morn is's "eye opener" presented by toy tachlt let's go places. captioning funded by cbs
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welcome to "cbs this morning." norah o'donnell is off, vinita nair is off and i'm thrilled. >> i'm more thrilled. we begin with the mudslides in california. it cut off access to roads. >> thunderstorms in the san bern de-moe mountains washed away homes. one person died. children are among hundreds of campers stranded. >> reporter: it took just minutes for mountain roads to be transformed into rivers and those had little time to react. authorities ordered some 3,000 people to shelter in place until water has receded. rescue teams were called in reportedly saving one resident. >> we're just getting to the point where we're able to get in there and help people.
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>> reporter: the mudslides flooded roads and buried vehicles. the sheriff's deputies rescued at least five. >> there was a honda car that got swept off the street and down into a stream behind my house. >> rescue confirming no one was trapped inside. more cars were stuck in the hope glen area. this car was caught. in palm springs cars struggled to wade through the bone dry city street. the rain came down at 3 1/2 minlds an hour. for a state that suffered from a record drought this was too much of a good thing. carter evans, cbs news los angeles. in northern. most of the fires were start by lightning strikes.
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they took this dramatic video as they were surrounded by flames. they made it out safely. the fire's already burned about 183 square miles. on the other end of the country, millions of americans may dodge a bullet this week. tropical storm bertha is expected to strengthen to a hurricane later today but it's not likely to hinn the mainland u.s. it's expected to turn north-northeast. forecasters think the storm will parallel the eastern seaboard in the next few days. winds are hitting 70 miles an hour but they should weaken by tomorrow night. this morning a million and a half still cannot use their tap water. the water in lake erie is caution lots of toxins. adriana diaz is in ohio where the water supply has been off limits since early saturday. good morning. >> good morning. we're entering a third day of
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the crisis and these water purifications systems are ready to go. they can process up to 1,500 gallons of clean water an hour. test results overnight were encouraging but the mayor says they're still too close for comfort. >> we're still in status quo. the nonconsume is still in place. >> reporter: earlier this morning the mayor said he's not ready to lift the ban on drinking water. >> i've instructed our people to go resample and retest because i'm not going to take any chances with this community's well being and health. >> reporter: the ban impacts three counties in ohio and one from michigan that gets their water supply. it's four miles off the coast of lake erie. on saturday health officials considered the water supply off limits. tockens that come from algae were detected. if ingested micro siscystins can
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cause nausea and damage the liver. over the weekend volunteers gathered at a local high school to hand out bottles of water to hand out to city residents. they use water purification systems. at food stores lines are long and shelves are bare. tracy rhodes drove more than an hour to detroit's suburbs on sunday to find bottled water for his family after taping his faucets shut. >> i have four members. i need water. you have to do to make sure you have water and that water is provided. >> additional lab results could be released in a matter of hours. the governor has promised to look into the cause of this so it doesn't happen again. now to ebola in america.
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the second american infected with the deadly virus is prepared to come back to the country. plane left to pick up nancy writebol in liberia. she'll enter emory university hospital. dr. kent brantly is quarantined. vicente arenas has an update. vicente, good morning. >> reporter: dr. brantly received an experimental serum before leaving liberia. since there is no cure doctors are focusing on keeping his vital signs stable. they're hoping to keep his body strong enough to fight off the disease. dressed head to toe in a protective suit dr. kent brantly emerged from this ambulance saturday and walked inside the hospital on his own. he's in a room designed to keep deadly viruses like ebola from getting out. this doctor could be called on to help treat brantly.
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>> the room is designed to provide icu care for critical patients as well as have a surrounding infrastructure. >> reporter: brantly's wife amber saw him and said he was in good spirits adding we're confident he's receiving the very best care. on "face the nation" sln sunday the center for disease control told norah o'donnell he's encouraged by brantly's pros. >> we're told he will improve. >> is it likely he'll survive. i can't predict it. we'll follow that closely. >> security and the hospital is still tight just days after bramt li arrived by ambulance under heavy police escort. he was flown from africa in a jet in this tent that kept him quarantined. that plane left sunday to pick up nancy writebol the second worker infected with the virus.
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health officials say there's no reason to fear the virus will spread in the u.s. >> the way we take care of patients and our capability of isolating them would be very very much a strong indication that we would not have an outbreak here. >> reporter: the national institute of health is hoping to have an skparnltal vaccine by fall. charlie. >> vicente, thanks. our chief medical correspondent dr. jon lapook is with us. good morning. >> good morning. >> what's the latest? >> nancy writebol the second one infected is going to be flown over to the same area. >> what do we know about his condition? >> we're not getting any more information. to me -- i know dr. tom frieden was asked on "face the nation" will he survive. of course he's going to say i can't predict the future. i understand that. personally when i saw him
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getting out of the ambulance with very little assistance i found that reassuring. >> i think the fear is they hear of mortality rates and no cure. the sense is why are we bringing back these people to the hospital? >> you can do what's called supportive treatment, intravenous fluids and you heard about complications with clotting their even blood. i think in terms of the fear it's so important. we don't want the adrenaline level of the country rising. it's not a healthy thing. in the missile attacks and scud missile attacks there was an increase in heart attacks. stress is bad but there are other things that happen. i think it doesn't make sense. >> what is the experimental serum they're talking about? >> what is serum. you take blood and spin it down
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and the red cells go to the bottom and the clear yellow stuff on the top has factors with somebody who has had it and survived. there are factors you can give to somebody and you hope that that is somehow perfected. i think there are things people need to understand. there's africa and america. africa, i'm very, very worried. who knows what's going to happen to get it under control. here i think you've heard, yes, theoretically, the virus could come here. we know -- people don't know there have been past outbreaks brought under control dozens of them since the 1970 sz. the cdc knows how to handle it and control it. >> what is the latest with vaccines in the clinical trials? >> phase one is going to start in september. it's a small number of people. i'm told it's a couple of proteins.
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you're never going to see someone given an ebola vaccine to see if it works. there are a couple of other medications they can give after somebody's infected. >> one thing this will do is cause considerable danger to the virus. >> i think that's true. if there's a silver lining, maybe we can get research going. >> both of these research workers had two kids so our thoughts are with them. >> thank you. the fighting continues despite a seven-hour cease-fire for most of the territory. an attack on sunday sparked the strongest u.s. criticism of israel since the fighting again. israeli's shelling hit a school full of refugees. tell people were killed. >> a spokesperson called it disgraceful.
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he says israel must do more to meet its own standards and avoid civilian casualties. the suspicion that militants are operating nearby does not justify strikes that put at risk the lives of so many innocent civilians. we have more. >> reporter: good morning. there are more than 3,000 in this displaced school. the majority of them you see, are children. we're told many of them had run outside yesterday morning because they heard somebody was selling candy bars and ice cream. so they came outside the gates and at about 10:38 a.m. a rocket hit right here. you can actually see the point of impact and it looks like a very small crater but eyewitness reports carnage, shrapnel, bodies were littered across the ground including the bodies of five children.
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we know the youngest of those children was just three years old. the israeli military said it was targeting militants with the group islamic jihad who were on a motor vehicle nearby but representatives from the u.n. tell us that they shared the coordinates of this school with the israeli militants 33 times including just one hour before the attack. for "cbs this morning," clarissa ward gaza. this morning the state department is not commenting on a report that they listened to secretary of state john kerry's phone calls. they say it happened last year. report says kerry also used unsecured telephones the talk with world leaders and more than one foreign intelligence service was listening. survivors of a deadly quick were digging. hit hardest in the city of you
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dan. >> peaople can be see running through the streets of ludian. 4,100 people dead, 1,800 injured and the death toll is expected to rise. more than 3,000 troops and emergency workers are taking part in a massive rescue effort carrying survivors on their backs, even using makeshift stretchers with iv bags hang from sticks. these pictures posted on chinese media show workers looking through degree for a 6-month child. the area looked like a battlefield after the bombard
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bombardment bombardment. over 12,000 homes were destroyed. it knocked out power lines and roads will have to be rebuilt. they'll try to dig this city out from underneath the rubble. for "cbs this morning," seth doane, tokyo. two concertgoers died at a concert from an overdose. they were at the mad decent block party music festival in columbia. a 20-year-old was pronounced dead at a hospital on friday a 17-year-old died on sunday. a worker may have hissi iphone to thank for saving his life. they sent a map of the location. they found the hiker seriously hurt after a 10-hour search. he's recovering this morning at a hospital. tiger woods' future is in
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question this morning. he had to limp to a golf kufl and with drew after only eight holes. it was his third tournament since his back surgery in february. that's quite a limp. >> germany, france, and belgium are remembering the start of world war i. they met this morning in lee auj, belgium, where troops invaded. prince william said it marked the beginning of a historic century. >> we were enemies more than once in the last century and today we're friends and ald lies. we salute those who died to give us our freedom. we will remember them. >> this morning service was helped in one of the few cemeteries where jer map and british soldiers are buried side by side.
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president obama wakes up a year older. his birthday is today. today he's celebrating at the white house. the official calendar says he'll spend the day doing what he does attending meetings. >> happy birthday mr. president. and he played with childhood friends. a little guy stands up for a big guy. how
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the pass is hauled in by cory washington grabbing the ball and going 17 yards for a touchdown to give the giants the lead. >> a new year of pro football sunday way whoo-hoo. the game kicked off last night. that was in canton ohio. the new york giants beat the buffalo bills, 17-13. the nfl experimented with extra points in this game. so the ball was snapped from the 15 yard line instead of the 2. the longer extra opponent will continue in the second week of preseason games. on twitter, giants kicker josh brown told "cbs this morning" he'dhe wants to see a permanent rule change. quote, it definitely would shake it all up. it ain't no gimme.
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take it all in. charlie, you can explain it to me. >> after the show. >> yes. i will come with a paper and a pencil. i thought i understood football until that. >> i thought the whoo-hoo meant you're excited. >> i am. coming up we have more from canton where nfl hall of famer jim kelly returned to his old team and connected with his latest receiver. he's fighting cancer. we'll hear a tribute to kelly from teammate andre reed in his hall of fame induction speech. >> it was nos. the oscar-winning director dove as deep a go into the ocean. we'll show you what he found at the bottom. that's ahead. the gazette in colorado springs reports the act let iing department at the u.s. air force
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a academy academy. they drav and smoked marijuana and may have committed sexual assault against women. u.s. sent latin youth undercover in anti-cuba ploy. they posted as towerists and scouted for people they could turn into political activists. it was run by the same agentcy who created a cuban twitter to stir dissent. governor andrew cuomo is gaining momentum today. larry schwartz is his top aide. cuomo broke the group apart but prosecutors are looking into claims that the governor's office steered investigations away from cuomo's allies.
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sh whats schwartz is staying quiet. >> banks' career was cut shot. he spent five years in prison. now he says i am honored to say i've taken an amazing position in the front office of the nfl. god is good. thank you. >> we like him. congratulations to him. now to a strike at a supermarket store. employees are fuming about the firing of their boss more so over who gave him the pink slip. that's where things could come to a head today. michael rosenfield good morning to you. >> reporter: hi, gayle. good morning to you. arthur t.demoulas was president
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for six years. they have rallied to his defense but so far they're sticking to their plan. the former president they call arty t. is reinstated. >> i was trayined to be loyal.- i've been with the company for 13 years. >> reporter: for more than a century market basket had been a family run company, albeit one in a 20-year feud. the demoulas family controlled it. president arthur t.demoulas was fired by arthur s. they say it would help to maximize its potential and pave the way for continuing success in the fuehrer. shortly after, protests erupted
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and have continued every week since. instead of stocking grocery aisles, they're spending hours on picket lines. joe schmidt was a market basket manager for 27 years. he's one of eight employees fired by the grocery chain after helping to spearhead the protest they are planning to sue the company. >> i know at the end of the day i did the right thing. i knowky look my children in the eye and say hey, i took a stance at something. >> there are 71 market baskets. today customers are greeted with empty shelves because even the truck drivers who deliver groceries have gone on strike. >> we're not receive any orders take any deliveries until he's put back in with his full status. >> now they're urging employees back to work.
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now they announced a diop fair to replace absent employees who don't return by today and said quote, any associate that wants to return will be not penalized. one analyst estimates they're losing about $10 million a day because of the protests and another major rally is expected tomorrow and organizers are expecting more than 10,000 people. charlie. >> michael thank you so much. >> i think so too. it's sort of nice to see them standing behind their bosh. >> it also shows you what they can do. let's turn to pro football. the hall of fame welcomed seven new players this weekend. he went into the hall ten years what if there was a credit card where the reward was that new car smell
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kentucky. yes. whether it's through prosecution. like i said, time is money. when you're paying a deputy by the hour he's not working on other case. >> reporter: they crush the different vials. >> you can see it's starting to turn cloud covers. >> reporter: pinkish purple means pot. while on patrol. it's not the only answer. >> you stop somebody confiscate a smatll amount on marijuana, you get out of here? >>. >> yes. >> they'rengs.
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rocks. keep that in mind with all these results. 54% say, no he did not act ethically. i think as revelations come out people's thoughts seem to be evolving. there was a time a lot of people thought it was heroic and now as the repercussions come through, they're coming around. >> a lot of people thought it was awful, that because of investigations following it was okay. >> absolutely. i think it's such a fluid -- >> the biggest misjudgment in u.s. history? >> the biggest misjudgment is slavery. >> i
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welcome 850 million visitors a year but some museums are going beyond the exhibits. they're drawing new visitors by making museum itself an adventure. jamie wax took part in a sleepover at the national museum in new york city. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. that's right. we were up until the wee hours of the morning here at the history with 150 lucky people. for many of them the experience was a dream of a lifetime. it's friday night at the museum and even though the main doors are closed -- there's a special event under way inside.
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penetrated before he saw a watery moonscape but in the sediment he found a deep what sciencists found abundant life. >> something like 20,000 of genomes. we know at least 68 of them are brand-new species. >> reporter: he found what looks like a giant shrimp. >> a compound currently being testified by the team. >> reporter: they're mining the sediment cameron retrieved from the cold ocean floor for hints that's like being home. for "cbs this morning" i'm bill whitaker along the central california life. >> i'll say. you want to go play with him. i love passion and cure otty i love plays those ing things.
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