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captioning funded by cbs good morning, tuesday, july 12th 2015. wild summer weather grips the nation. severe storms and extreme heat cause power outages and strand commuters and put lives in danger. >> republicans are asking donald trump to bow out of the presidential race. >> katy perry with nuns? why they want to keep them away that their convent. >> your world on "90 seco"nds. >> it's horrible.
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awful. >> heat, fire and floods from coast-to-coast. >> in texas, torrential downpours. >> people had to be evacuated from this fast moving wildfire. >> you do think john mccain is a hero? >> i do. by the way, i said it. >> a new poll shows donald trumpga ining significantly. >> the dah moi register is calling for trump to drop out. >> he is becoming a jackass. >> they have released a jailhouse video from the night a young black woman was found hanged in her cell. >> the death of miss bland was not a criminal act. >> john kasich throws his hat into the presidential republican ring. >> a woman is trying to rescue a 2-year-old from a locked car. >> dramatic rescue of a locked car in pennsylvania. >> alex morgan to grace the cover of the6 201 soccer video
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game. >> unique over the field. >> stephen colbert talking with his audience over lunch. >> i want to open up a bed and breakfast with a twist. you can never leave. >> all that matters. >> zach johnson, major champion again. >> i play golf for a living and i'm grateful for that. >> congratulations, champion golfer. >> in a "business week" poll they talk about the different things the chinese want. one of the things was anything trump. >> i feel like he is some sort of jewish holiday waiting to happen. we thought the craziness would only last a day! announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by toyota. let's go places. ♪
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welcome to "cbs this morning." millions of americans today will face sweltering conditions. a swath of dangerously warm temperatures will stretch from the southern plains to the east coast. the extreme heat is causing power outages and travel delays. >> when you combine scorching heat with high humidity it will feel like more than 100 degrees in several states. vladimir duthiers is in new york times square where the heat is on. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it is july. so the heat -- well, that is expected. but temperatures throughout the eastern portions of the country have been down right unbearable and, in some cases, dangerous. millions of americans are braving themselves for another day of soaring temperatures and soaking humidity especially along the east coast where they are suffering through the hottest stretch of the summer. >> it feels like 110 right now and that is not even moving around. >> reporter: over 20,000
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customers lost power in porgstions of new york city on monday due to the climbing temperatures and leaving many without air-conditioning. >> 83 degrees in the house. it's horrible! it's awful! i'm sweating like a pig and just took a shower after the second one. this is awful! >> reporter: power lines in brooklyn caught fire and possibly from the demand of electricity. and in new york city, passengers suffered swelt are heat underground. >> the baby is in the car. >> reporter: on monday this dramatic individual was caught on camera. two children in a locked car and officers were successfully able to smash the glass and rescue the baby and another young girl. and over the weekend, a toddler was discovered alone in a hot car in a kansas parking lot. the woman helped smash the glass and rescue the child.
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ten children have been killed in the united states from hot cars since the beginning of the year. it's almost 80 degrees here in times square and temperatures are expected to climb into the 90s with the heat index at almost a hundred. but there is is a little relief in sight. temperatures are expected to dip back into the 80s by the end of the week. . gayle? people in washi back in their homes as a flames shut down the interstate 90 was shut down. 200 firefighters are working to control the flames. a helicopter pilot fighting the fire walked away from a crash landing after the chopper suffered a mechanical failure. parts of the country from new mexico to west virginia face a threat of dangerous thunderstorms, hot temperatures and humidity today could creep prime conditions for storms overnight. flash floods swamped amarillo texas. they forced many roads to close. emergency crews had to perform water rescues. and some cars were nearly submerged.
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this morning an influential voice is calling on donald trump to quit the presidential race. iowa's top newspaper "the des moines register" says the billionaire cares more about promoting his brand than helping the company. editorial said if he was a b list celebrity his unchecked ego could be tolerated as a source of mild amusement but he now wants to become president. nancy cordes is in south carolina where trump willing speaking today. nancy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. "des moines register" did not mince words. they are the paper of record early in that key caucus state. they say trump's antics are, quote, polluting the waters and drowning out more qualified candidates. in its fiercely worded editorial "the des moines register" fail that trumps comments not to
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threaten the campaign but the manner in which we choose our nominees for president. trump's name calling, the paper says has turned him into the distract with attraction and he can generate headlines not by provoking thought by by provoking outrage. translation? >> he is a jacks dsjackass. >> reporter: perry weighed in the cancer of trumpism. >> being a disciplined is really important and that is i think, what his challenge is going to be. >> reporter: but trump told charlie rose his opponents are only taking shots at him to get attention. >> i'm leading the polls and they got zero i mean, one was 1% and another one has another 1% and one has zero. >> reporter: latest poll shows him 11 points hid of the nearest gop candidate but some made their vote before trump made his candidates about john mccain.
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rick davis ran mccain's campaign in 2008. he says no question that trump has single-handedly changed the tone of this race. >> up until this point of time this campaign hard civil and smart. >> reporter: trump did finally apologize to mccain last night, sort of after he was brow-beaten into by fox news' bill o'reilly. >> say something to john mccain tonight, man to man. >> if there was a misunderstanding i would totally take it back but hopefully i said it correctly. >> reporter: the question will other editorial boards begin to follow "the des moines register" lead? and will it matter to donald trump? he is sure to have a thing or two to say about it when he speaks to this community in south carolina later this morning. >> we will all be watching. thank you. the republican field will gain a new candidate this morning. ohio governor john kasich is set to unveil his campaign on the
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ohio state university campus. the former congressman is known for his blunt style and independent streak and his entry makes kasich the 16th gop candidate seeking the presidential nomination. federal officials are digging deeper into the life of a man who killed five service members in tennessee. the fbi raided an apartment last night to learn more about mohammad youssuf ab dulluyoussuf abdulazeez. jericka duncan has more. >> reporter: until thursday's shootings, little was known about the gunman. but now authorities are starting to piece together a profile of him, looking at his computer and medical records. also wanting to know where he traveled and who he may have spoken to. the investigation led fbi agents to this apartment complex in a chattanooga suburbs last night. they were looking to talk to a
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person apparently associated with mohammad youssuf abdulazeez. federal officials are still trying to determine why the 24-year-old fired approximately 100 rounds at two military sites last week. he had purchased ammunition at this walmart while he was with two other men. in 2013 he lost his job at a nuclear power plant for failing a drug test. a source close to the family said that soon after, abdulazeez wrote about how far his life had fallen. he expressed suicidal thoughts, mart recently law enforcement sources say abdulazeez looked at the writings of radical claire irk anwar awlaki online. so far no direct link to isis or any other terrorist group overseas. as authorities look for answers, the memorial for the victims
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continues to grow. your brother enlisted right here? >> yes. >> reporter: 19-year-old melissa dennis says her 22-year-old brother is a marine based in australia who enlisted at the recruitment center. >> it's really heart wrenching for me. it's very humbling as well because this could have easily been my family. >> reporter: federal investigators say there is no evidence abdulazeez met with any extremists while he was in jordan. a source close to the family says relatives tried to get him to go to rehab to deal with his drug and depression issues but they were unsuccessful at that. >> thank you. new video sheds light this morning on the controversial death of a woman in a texas jail. a security camera shows officers rushing to help sandra bland. the sheriff says she was found hang inside her cell. the district attorney says it's too early to know how she died. sherry williams of khou says
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bland family does not believe this was a suicide. sherry, good morning. >> reporter: that's right, norah. good morning. the texas rangers and the fbi which have taken the lead on this investigation say they will treat it like any other homicide investigation. but sandra bland's family and civil rights leaders are outraged and they want the justice department to investigate. the security camera video from the waller county jail shows little activity in the hallway outside sandra bland's jail on july 13th. in this pretty much officials check on the 28-year-old and find her unconscious in her cell and a plastic bag around her neck. paramedics are called in to try to resuscitate bland but he she is pronounced dead a short time ago. >> the death of miss bland was an accident. not of criminal intent or act. >> reporter: she was stopped at
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this traffic citation. a lawyer for the bland family says he has seen the video and that the situation escalated when bland refused to put out her cigarette. >> the officer pulled back and pointed his taser at her and then she voluntarily complied and got out of the car. >> you just slammed my head to the ground! do you not even care about that? i can't even hear! >> reporter: bland was charged with assaulting an officer. waller county district attorney elton mathis. >> sandra bland was very combative. it was not a model traffic stop and it was not a model person. >> reporter: but bland's family remains certain she would not have taken her own life and are awaiting results from an independent autopsy they requested. >> my sister was somebody who was full of life who had so much to live for, and was thrilled about the next chapter in her life. >> reporter: since this tragedy, protesters have converged on waller county texas.
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meanwhile, the trooper who made that stop has been placed on administrative leave for violating traffic stop procedures. and, today, his dash cam video should be released. gayle? >> thank you, sherry. the family of a man who died in police custody in mississippi is also asking questions today and calling for a federal investigation this morning. bystander video shows troy good positioned on his stomach on a stretcher. witnesses say that the 30-year-old memphis man was hog-tied with his arms secured behind his back and then cinched to his ankles. >> they have hog-tied him. they have hog-tied him. that is such a bad idea. >> he was dead two hours after being detained. south haven police say it started with a call about a possible lsd overdose. police chief tells cbs news that officers followed normal protocol and that good was secured because of his, quote, delirium. the family is concerned about the amount of force that was
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used. the suspect in the killings of four people at a washington, d.c. mansion is charged with first-degree murder this morning. a judge found probable cause yesterday and we are learning new disturbing information about the death of businessman of he and his family and the housekeeper. one of the daughters who was away during the attack faced the accused killer in court. paula, what did we learn? >> reporter: lots more details in this gruesome case. the family had an alarm system and french doors were smashed at the time of the intrusion and learned the suspect windt paid money for cash. we learned the family and housekeeper were strangled and beaten on the morning of may 14th. >> i know that wint is the only person charged but the detective said yesterday he didn't think
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at the could have acted along. >> absolutely. even though this is daron wint's hearing. they asked a lot about the assistant. for hours they grueled him. why would he drop so much money off of this house and not ask about the whereabouts of his box? why was he texting pictures and thousands to friends and the defense attorneys asked about wint's own brother and brought out the fact some people at the scene when wint was arrested said wint's brother was linked to this crime. >> one of the daughters who was not there at the time, one was in the courtroom. what was her reaction? >> she displayed remarkable composure in this preliminary hearing and she sat in the front row. she is only 19 years old. and during the hours that details of her family's murder
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were revealed, she just stared intently and took notes and she couldn't actually see daron wint but when she could she stared at him intently. cuban official raised their flag over the embassy yesterday for the first time since 1961. diplomatic relations are now formally restored. a protester was arrested and charged with unlawful entry. in cuba hundreds of people lined up with visa's outside of havana. secretary of state john kerry will attend a formal flag raising ceremony there in august. secretary of state john kerry says he is troubled by a new pledge from iran's supreme leader and follows the historical nuclear green light. he says eyeit is very disturbing.
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on monday the u.n. security council endorsed this deal. iran will give up for making nuclear weapons in change for sanctions relief and it is steps lead together end of the sanctions. this morning, zach johnson has two big golf titles to his name. the iowa golfer won his second major yesterday at the british open in st. andrews, scotland. his precise putting in the final round inched him to the top. after a four golfer playoff, he won. >> i love to play golf. it's a beautiful game. golf is a great opportunity. i'm proud of great people. thank you. >> wow. johnson's win dashed the grand slam hopes of 21-year-old jordan spieth who missed the playoff by just one stroke.
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congratulations to zach johnson. >> indeed. that is an example of the pressure at these grand slam events. how difficult it is to win and how much you pour into it. if you win, you overcome. >> those touching happy tears were nice to see. paradise is hard for people to find in get-away destination. how to obtain announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by toyota. let's go places.
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a pair of nuns want the pope to know they have some business sense and part of their effort to stop a real estate deal with singer katy perry. >> he must know there are these poor nuns that really all they want is to sell their property take care of the money, and they are going to get the rest of it when we die, which is not going to be too much longer.
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♪ donald trump is in trouble this week after he says that john mccain is only considered a war hero because he was captured. and adding "i like people who weren't captured." which i guess explains the bumper sticker i saw today. there you go. >> this is so unbelievable to me! i mean, calling out a vet for being a p.o.w. what is next calling out a firefighter for getting caught in a burning building right? hey, didn't you see the fire burning in the building? >> you know what else if i may, just a moment and [ bleep ] cancer survivors too. let me tell you something. no. hey, let me just say this. please. i like people who don't get cancer. let me tell you something.
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>> his imitation of donald trump is pretty funny. >> it is indeed. >> love to see donald trump on "the jon stewart show." that would be great. welcome back. coming up this half hour fireworks in a battle involving singer katy perry who wants to buy a former convent but the nuns who live there are not impressed with her offering or her singing. why the singer just suffered a setback in their fight. retailers are left in a bind. how amazon and walmart and best buy could be paying a big price to help you save. that's ahead. time to show you this morning's headlines. "the washington post" reports on remission of a french teenager's h.i.v. infection. she stopped taking drug temt about 12 years. the longest hiatus for a young person. a researcher said it's the best indication yet that long-term interruption with the infection is possible in children.
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san francisco chronicle reports on a historic fine of $1.5 million for taking water during a drought in california. the regulators prepare a fine for a group of central valley farmers who are accused of illegally diverting the water from an aquaduct channel. "the new york times" reports two inmates how they escaped in a maximum prison in new york city. convicted killer david sweat cut through the wall in his cell and for months made a tunnel. he and matt cut through the wall and rigged up a fan using electricity from the tunnel lights. >> wow. the des moines register reports on iowa jury's conviction of a former security official from the multistate lottery. associations on two counts of 52-year-old eddie tipton was accused of installing a program they created winning lottery numbers he gave to to a friend.
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tipton face up to ten years in prison and five years for each count. the "los angeles times" reports on a setback on nuns trying to stop katie perry from buying their home. the judge denied the archdiocese from blocking the property. the sisters believe the deal they brokered is in the best interest of the convent. john black stone shows us what they fear will happen if the pop star prevails. >> reporter: for decades this sprawling eight-acre estate in los angeles was home to the sisters of the most molle and immaculate heart of the blessed virgin mary. now pop superstar katy perry wants to move in and make it her own. to the tune of $14.5 million. ♪ >> reporter: but the singer is hitting a sour note with sisters rose and kalanan who have lived there for years. >> to me it's a conscious matter. i do not want to sell the mother
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house and the retreat house to katy perry. >> reporter: you wouldn't want to see rock music parties going on over here? >> i would not. absolutely not. i wouldn't want to see them -- oh, gosh i better not say! >> reporter: you wouldn't want to see? >> never mind! ♪ >> reporter: the nuns aren't swayed by the fact that perry grew up the daughter of two evangelical ministers. >> i went to church on sunday morning and sunday evening and wednesday night. >> reporter: this fight over the nunnery may be more about money than morals. >> the only thing is we want the money to come to us. the arch bishop wants the money to go straight to him. >> reporter: the nuns claim the archdiocese doesn't have the right to sell to perry or anyone. they say they have already sold it to developer dana hollister. >> dana hollister is going to allow people to walk the grounds. it will be open. >> reporter: open to the public? >> right. >> reporter: that's important to you, open to the public?
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>> it is. >> reporter: but the archdiocese claims it's protecting the sisters from a bad deal saying it was forced to take legal action to protect all of the sisters from the and authorized transaction by dana hollister who took possession of the property for only 44,000 in cash and does not have to make any payments whatsoever to the sisters for three years. ♪ >> reporter: katy perry, who started her career singing christian music, even met the sisters to make her case. singing a gospel song for you? >> oh, come on. >> reporter: what did she sing? >> "oh, happy days." >> reporter: it doesn't impress you? >> well, no. >> reporter: they may be getting on, but they can still roar. ♪ ♪ hear me roar ♪ >> reporter: for "cbs this morning," john blackstone, los angeles. i think anybody who went to
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a catholic school knows do not mess with the nuns, right? >> it seems more a dispute than them between them and katy perry. she is a really really nice girl. >> looking forward to see what eventually happens in that case. best buy this morning is the largest retailer offering black friday in july. the electronics giant will begin a large sale on friday. charlie? >> as we reported amazon and walmart went head-to-head with big sales of their own last week. but are all of these stunts hurting the retailer's bottom line? mellody hobson is in houston. good morning. >> good morning. >> reporter: why are we having these price wars now? >> this is a fight to the death for a market share. these companies want at best to hold their market share, but, of course, they want to grow it and fend off the online
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competition, specifically amazon. amazon wants the scale of all of these shoppers and they want more prime customers to sign up to pay them an ongoing fee every year. so, you know, this is a really really, really tough retail environment. there is no question about it. good for the consumer terrible for the retailers. >> how is it impacting the retailer's bottom line? >> the profitability is much lower. they are duking it out in a way that it's hurting them. they hope that this is short term. we have seen layoffs with a lot of these retailers in recent years. malls are, obviously struggling but, you know, this isn't a pretty environment for them. >> what do you do as a consumer? i get all of the e-mails and seems we have access to so many different sales from every single company. how does a company compete in that kind of a market? >> well, i had lunch with one of the big box retail ceos yesterday and he made it clear
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competing is extraordinarily hard. what they are trying to do is distinguish themselves with private labeling. they want to be able to say to their customer we have something you can't get anywhere else even if it's as simple as a different color. now we will see how that plays out over time. but that is what they have been trying to do. >> what is it likely this will be successful? >> well, i think it's very very hard because the consumer can look online. what he said to me i thought was interesting. he said the consumer is savvy. he calls her she. he said she knows what she wants. she is budget conscious. she knows quality and value and she knows what she wants to pay. and if it's not worth it to her, she will not buy it. and she -- there's so much trans parentsy now about pricing, she, as he said can go and check. >> so much transparency and so much information? >> that's right. >> it is good for us. is there such a thing as sales fatigue for "she"? >> yes. there is such a thing. the other thing that he said to
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me, which was interesting, most of these sales are event-driven. labor day and father's day sale and back to school sale. in advance of those sales, the consumer pulls back and waits. and that is bad for the retailer. they know it's coming. and so the consumers have become trained to wait for the sale. and the question is will he or she now feel cheated if they don't get the sale which impacts their loyalty to the company? >> thank you very much. rowdy vacationers turn paradise into purgatory. ahead what some vacation destinations say they are now forced to do just to keep the peace in the summer. if you're heading on to have work and have to go, please set your dvr so you can watch "cbs this morning" any time. we will still be here and we will be right back. ♪
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many vacationers are heading to beaches this week to find relief from the july heat. but the people who live in these popular get-away spots want relief from partygoers. some vacation destination are
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cracking down on rowdy behavior that residents say plague their communities. michelle miller visits one resort town where the tension is thick. >> taxi! >> reporter: it's 4:00 a.m. on saturday and in montauk, new york, the party is in full swing. here, snarled traffic, fighting on the streets, and drunk patrons stumbling from bar-to-bar has become a weekly ritual. but this weekend, tighter controls were in effect. last tuesday, locals met to tell officials they have had enough after a particularly wild fourth of july weekend. on friday and saturday police issued a total of 74 town code violations, 51 parking violations and 34 traffic tickets, and made seven arrests. they responded to over a hundred calls over the two-day period. larry cantwell is the east town's supervisor and he says the town's reputation is at
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stake. >> montauk is a beautiful place and the character has changed so much and the drinking and, you know, the carrying on in the street has gotten out of hand. >> reporter: tuckedware on the tip of long island montauk prides itself for being a freedom loving off-the-grid place but in recent years its popularity from 20 something's from manhattan has soared and longtime residents want it to stop. >> it's like living in purgatory. you have heaven on one side and hell on the other. >> reporter: this man lives next door to the sloppy tuna one of the montauk's most popular night spots. >> they do not have the sanitary capabilities for the amount of people they are drawing and they use anything they can find to relieve themselves. >> reporter: that is your front yard? >> oftentimes my front yard. >> reporter: it bake too clear when pride was heckled with our
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cameras rolling. >> you're unhappy with the noise volume? you're unhappy with the revenue that comes into the town? >> reporter: the owner of the sloppy tuna says his establishment is fully compliant with the law and can't control what his clients do once they leave. >> we work with the police force, we work with the fire department, we work for the building code hand-in-hand, you know, to try to make sure we are doing things right. >> reporter: he says his seasonal visit injects on 10 merchandise dollars every year into the local economy and creating hundreds of dollars. >> there is a balance for sure. i mean, you want a growing economy, you want to create jobs but, at the same time, there's a limit. >> reporter: until the limit is found, montauk's identity crisis will continue. for "cbs this morning," michelle miller montauk, new york. >> it's called summertime.
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♪ it is tuesday, july 21st, 2015. welcome back to "cbs this morning." more real news ahead, including presidential candidate lindsey graham in the studio 57. we will ask if donald trump's fight with the senator's close friend john mccain is hurting all republicans. but, first, here is a look at today's "eye opener" at 8:00. >> temperatures throughout the ereastorn ptions of the country have been down right unbearable and, in some cases, dangerous. washington state shut down part of interstate 90. >> roads closed. >> will others begin to follow the des moines register's lead and will any of it matter to donald trump? >>th> auorities are starting piece together a profile wanting to know where he traveled and who he may have
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spoken to. sandra bland's family and civil rights leaders are outraged and they want the justice department to investigate. >> why are we having these price wars now? >> this is a fight to the death for market share. good for the consumer terrible for the retailer. montauk is really a beautiful place but the character has changed so much. >> it's like living in purgatory. you have heaven on one side and you got hell on the other. >> you're unhappy with the noise volume? >> i wouldn't want to see rock music parties going on here? >> no i would not. absolutely not and i wouldn't want to see -- well, oh, gosh, i better not say. >> ready, 7. >> i'm gayle king with charlie rose and norah o'donnell. pressure is growing for donald trump to drop out of the republican presidential race. the top newspaper in the key state of iowa says that trump should pull the plug after his controversial comments about john mccain.
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"the des moines register" is saying the candidate is preventing qualified constituents to be heard. it wrote, quote. the people added the best way donald trump can serve his country is by apologizing to mccain and ending this campaign. >> i spoke with donald trump last night on "cbs this morning" and i asked him if the attacks on senator mccain are hurting his campaign. >> look. all i know is i will do a great job for the veterans. john mccain has a proven record of failing with the veterans. i can't tell you. polls will be coming out fairly soon. i guess then maybe we will have another conversation and i'll be able to tell you, but -- because i do have respect for polls and polling. >> if polling says this was a disaster for you, you will do what? >> well, i think then i would probably -- i don't know if i made a mistake. i have to get the word out about the veterans and the way they are being treated. >> you didn't do this to get the word out about veterans.
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>> no. >> because you were not happy with john mccain because he criticized the people who were supporting you on the immigration issue and you called him crazy. >> that's how it started. >> that whole comment is what started this. >> yeah. >> trump says the polls will show if his fight with senator mccain is a mistake. >> a close friend of senator mccain. senator lindsey graham joined senator mccain in new york. they were talking about the iran nuclear deal. >> graham is recently retired from the air force reserve. we are pleased to have him back in the studio. welcome. >> good morning. >> so explain to us what you think this donald trump phenomenon is about. is it celebrity or is he saying something that has a response within your party? >> well, i hope there is not much of a market for slandering p.o.w.s in my party. i don't think so. i don't need a poll to tell donald trump.
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it's not good soto say that john mccain is a loser when captured in the time of war and not good to say 11 million immigrants are rippists and drug dealers when therapist. all i can say this is turning into a circus. >> and damaging the party. >> yeah. i don't care if he drops out. stay in the race. just stop being a jackass. you don't have to run for president and be the world's biggest jackass. >> but john is not looking for an apology. i'm looking for him to be a reasonable member of the 16-person primary and not -- stop saying things like this. we are falling apart. the ayatollah is on the edge of having a nuclear weapon. run for recess but don't be the world's biggest jacksaa. >> what are you now to calling him that repeatedly? >> jackasses are offended.
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i've had it. come on. john is my friend. he's not a perfect person. he was tortured for five and a half years. when asked trump do you know what he went through in jail? no, it doesn't matter. it really does matter. it matters. >> what do you think, senator graham, he is rising in the polls? >> i think that is the beginning of the end has come. >> the beginning of the end? >> the beginning of the end has arrived because he has crossed the lines with the american people and will not be tolerated. frustration with the border on but very little frustration concerning those who have been captured in the time of war. this is the beginning and end of donald trump. >> new abc news poll said he has fallen after making those comments about senator mccain. trump is in your home state today in bluffton south carolina, where there is a large population of veterans. how do you think he'll be received? >> i don't know how he'll be received. the motto of our state is smiling faces, beautiful places. i don't think he quite fits that motto. i'm sure there will be some
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people say keep it up, donald. but i think most people prosecute south carolina since i've lived there all my life will be offended what he said about senator mccain and histo. we pretty serious people. >> how will this side show end? >> his poll numbers begin to drop. everybody is condemning him. thank goodness everybody in the feel i think but one has distanced themselves from him. it ends when people say enough. >> have you said anything to donald trump? >> no. >> you just called him and said knock it off? >> what good would that do calling donald trump? i'm more worried about the iran nuclear deal than donald trump and so is john mccain. john mccain said to me i'm having to talk about donald trump rather than iran on the verge of getting a nuclear weapon because of a horribly bad deal. the president went to the u.n. instead of his own congress. a sign of weakness disrespect and a bad deal. the head of the kuds source that killed 500 americans can
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copper-tipped ieds has been taken off the sanctions list and we can't talk about that because of donnell trump. to the american people this is a bad deal. it's going to lead to a nuclear arm race. let's please move on to things that matter. >> are there enough votes in congress to override a presidential veto? >> i think there will be. a no vote ensures the next president whoever he or she may be will have leverage. if congressional sanctions are left in place and the next president can get a better deal we can and must get a better deal. a yes vote takes the congressional sanctions off the table. the next president has no leverage and that is bad for us and israeli. >> why do you think the president feels so strongly about this and is convinced this is the only deal that is possible, the best deal that is possible, and the only way to stop iran from getting a nuclear weapon? what is it about this president. >> he is the neville chamberlain of our time. >> really? >> he believes the next 15 years
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iran is going to change their behavior because this deal doesn't require them to do a damn thing in terms of changing their behavior. at the passage at the end of 15 years, all inspections are lifted and here is this bet. i don't think he is a bad man. i think he misunderstands the world in the middle east. at the end of 15 years they can get a nuclear weapon with no strings attached. he thinks they are going to change over the next 15 years for the better. look at the last thousand years and you'll get a good idea of what they are going to do in the next 15 years. he is dangerously naive. he called the isil a j.v. team and drew a line against assad and assad crossed it and nothing happened. i think his foreign policies in a shamble and the continuation of a man who don't understand the middle east. >> when the baby boomers retire we will wipe out medicare and social security and all of the taxes paid will go to medicare
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and medicaid and interest on the debt. >> senator lindsey graham good to have you here at the table. >> thank you. >> we will have live coverage of trump's remarks in southeastern at 11:00 a.m. eastern, 10:00 central on our cbsn. watch at cbsnews.com/live or on the cbs news app. becoming father may give birth to a wider waist line is what the research shows. our doctor is in the green room with what people are calling dad bo
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♪ in our morning rounds fatherhood and fat, research out this morning finds new dads gain an average of about four pounds in the first ten years of becoming a father. men in the study who did not have kids lost weight.
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our dr. holly phillips joins us now. good morning. >> good morning. >> what is going on here? >> you know what? this is a very large study so researchers out of northwestern university looked at more than 10,000 men. they followed data over 20 years. they focused specifically on the period of time right after men became first-time fathers. so for a man who is about six feet tall right after they become a father they gain 4.4 pounds. for men who are six feet tall and don't live with the children, they still gained 3.3 pounds. the 4.4 pounds is if you live at home with the kids. this is in sharp contrast to men who didn't have children during the same period of time. they actually managed to lose a pound. >> four pounds doesn't seem like a lot. i think of women gaining weight because of babies. i totally get that. four pounds for a guy doesn't seem to be a lot. >> right, right. in this context it actually is. we know during this period of time early laid adolescence and
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early adulthood, men's weight really has a long-term effect on their lifetime risk of developing diabetes heart disease, cancer and even premature death. also there is an idea it's much easier to prevent weight gain in the first place than to lose weight. so we might be setting these men up for a trajectory of long-term weight gain. >> i think every one of my friends, the dad, they put on weight too. their own form of sort of like sympathy with their wives. just the stress of pregnancy or whatever it may be. >> absolutely. this study just found the association rather than the cause but there are a number of thors behind it. some are very simple right? where the new responsibilities of fatherhood you might not, you know, exercise as much exercise goes by the wayside. or what i call the human garbage disposal phenomenon where parents finish whatever is on their children's plate and men are eating a lot more pizza crusts. >> that happens. >> very much so. >> yes, it does. >> also there are more complex
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what we call neurobiologic causes where there are brain changes for both men and women around taking care of children and in parts of the brain and that can affect our hunger reflex as well. >> i find myself why am i eating these goldfish? because they are on my child's plate. >> charlie, when was the last time you had chicken fingers? >> henry, have you finished that chicken? i can see it now. >> thank you holly. >> give me a bite of that cheesecake. i want to make sure it tastes okay. >> that's what i have for dinner whatever is left on their plate. on "cbs this morning" one of the most important behind the uber's fight against the regulators. drum roll, please. david plouffe, president obama's former senior adviser, is here in the green room. you are watching "cbs this morning." announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by gi gilead. proud supporter of world
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♪ as one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. ♪ >> the space suit that protected neil armstrong during that historic moment spent the last decade in a very confined space. far from the moon. this morning, the smithsonian national air and space museum hopes to put it back on display by turning to simpler
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technology. chris is inside the museum to show us how you can tailor the future. >> reporter: good morning. these space suits are replicas. the challenge with the real deal is they are only supposed to last about six months. 46 years later, some of the 24 different materials that make up the suit are starting to decay. the space suit that took one giant leap for mankind. >> there is a nick down here. >> reporter: is showing its age. >> go for landing. >> reporter: in 1969 the world watched as neil armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon and he did it in this. but before the smith sonya can take the small step of putting it back on display, lisa young has vvery expensive work to do. >> time is taking its toll and to the layers you don't see. the interior rubber bladder is becoming brittle and is breaking. you see a visible change in the materials themselves. >> this is your chance to be a part of history. >> reporter: marking the 46th anniversary of apollo 11's moon
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landing the museum kicked-started a effort to." reboost the suit. >> reporter: 64% of the budget comes from the ferguson. the rest from donors and grants. crowd funding is a new frontier for the institution as it hopes to raise $50000 in 30 days to refund the preservation of armstrong's space suit. the museum's hope the campaign build a connection those who weren't around to watch it live. don't get too close to the suit. can i touch it? >> no. >> reporter: it requires three years for x-rays and cat scans to make a 3d scan of the suit to live on forever. armstrong's apollo 11 suit joined the smithsonian's collect in 1976 but not on display the last ten years. the goal is have it ready for the lunar landing's in 2019.
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>> the man inside of it and what it did to help him explore this other world. >> reporter: professor james hanson is armstrong's official biographer. >> i think the story of neil armstrong, who he was, why was he chosen i think that the smithsonian and its curators are very wise in knowing that that is a two-part story that needs to be told. >> there he is. a foot coming the down the steps. >> reporter: a story that with your help will be told again and again and to leave star gazers to experience that one man's one small step. >> it's one small step for man. one giant leap for mankind. >> reporter: in over the first 24 hours of this online fund-raising effort they have already surpassed $170,000 and counting. >> that's great. good they are working to save it. >> a shout-out to the smithsonian sm
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♪ welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up in this half hour, uber's chief adviser that would be david plouffe is in studio 57. there he is in the green room. we will look at the car's explosive growth and becoming a physical football in the 2015 race. plus what the former obama team insider thinks about the president's big summer. right now it's time to show of some of this morning's headlines around the the global. san antonio express news reports on a historic win for the spurs and coach becky hammond. yesterday, the spurs won this year's las vegas summer league title. they defeated the sun 93-90. hammond is the first male to serve as a head coach in the summer league. >> go, becky.
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"usa today" reports on the owner of a diner for yelling at a toddler. the owner said the little girl had been crying for an owner. the mom posted on facebook the owner is a lunatic and screamed in the face of my almost 2-year-old child. the owner of marcy's diner said she did yell and they said did you just yell at a child, yep, sure did, shut her up too. why is it okay for that kid to disrupt the experience for 75 people? >> she said everybody in the restaurant applauded her efforts. the mom, of course is not so happy about it. the independent in england reports on a husband who promised to quit smoking and he was caught with a cigarette by google street view! the husband claimed he quit the habit after a heart attack. his wife said he stormed out of the house after an argument over snacks that she found in his car! google's cameras captured him sneaking a smoke in his driveway. his wife saw it online and mamma was not happy about that. >> busted! >> busted!
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new fuel this morning in the battle of uber the on-demand car app has taken to the air waves in new york. uber has a blunt message aimed at the city's mayor and its taxis. but that is just one front in the company's worldwide fight to grow even bigger. >> reporter: taxi drivers and their spourers say their industry is being squeezed by less expensive and less regulated shared services. uber says it's simply using the free market to provide a service and create jobs. protesters have demonstrated against uber across the globe and here in the united states. perhaps the biggest battleground is new york city. >> you need to get to the night shift in the south bronx. >> reporter: over the weekend, uber unveiled this commercial a not so thinly veiled staff at new york cab drivers.
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>> and while taxis often refuse people in minority neighborhoods. >> reporter: new york mayor bill dah blass de blasio has received fund from the taxi industry has been trying to limit uber's growth. he defended his actions in a editorial writing from ensuring the workers make a decent living to demand the surge of 2,000 new cars on our street every month, it's our responsibility to act. >> it's a pretty vital service. >> reporter: presidential hope-of-hope hopefuls have been using uber not just to ride but to score political points. >> the medallion holders for taxi cabs raise money and have influence. >> it's raising hard questions about workplace protection and what a good job will look like in the future. >> reporter: first on "cbs this morning," we are joined by david plouffe, uber's chief adviser and a board member.
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you may already know him. he served as president obama's campaign manager in 2008 and became a senior white house adviser and we are pleased to have him here. welcome. >> thank you for having me here. >> reference the conversation we graham. here is what he said at this table and i'd love your response because you helped put barack obama into the white house. here it is. >> he is the neville chamber of our time. >> neville chamberlain? >> yes. over the next 15 years he believes the next 15 years that iran is going to change their behavior because this deal doesn't require them to do a damn thing in terms of changing their behavior. >> how do you react? >> well, those are strong words obviously. maybe not in the trump category but everyone is trying to appeal that and i understand that. the last thing we should be is doing is fighting a middle east war and this is a chance at peace and making sure that iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon and i hope people support the deal. putting my old hat on for a
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minute. >> let's turn to uber now. where is the bite now in new york city? >> in new york city, the mayor is trying to cap uber and cap lift lift and every service. it means a cap on jobs. it's killing over 10,000 jobs. it means poor service in underserved areas like the bronx, like the queens. so we are going to fight this with everything we have. now, mayors here in new york and elsewhere usually don't lose city council votes so we are an underdog and understand that. the last thing you should be doing if you're trying to create jobs in a city and provide more economic opportunity and have more environmental friendly transportation options, this is exactly the wrongdo. at the end of the day i think the motivation is taxi industry showered the mayor and city council president and others with a lot of money and this is payback. >> this is fascinating. you have uber who just hired president obama's chief strategy strategist strategist. why is uber and policytics on the
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intersection on this? >> every city in the world needs more revenue from their residents. including huge opportunities for tens of thousands of people in major global cities to earn a living or supplement a living. there is transportation deserts all over the world. >> you just heard that the woman who might be the democratic nominee, hillary clinton say that these big economies doesn't provide the kind of workplace protection that democrats and the party you're with has worked for in the past. >> jobs and benefits. >> i think that was an overblown reaction. she also said positive things about it and over time they will embrace what this means. she has talked a lot in her career about flexibility. nothing like this in the economy that uber provides. you drive whenever you want. people fit it around the rest of their lives and they are able to add the average uber driver drives less than 18 hours a week. in chicago half of the drivers
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drive less than ten hours a week. they are using it to top off their income. for someone a family is making $48,000, one of them drives for ten hours a week. they go from 48 to 60. that is life changing for them and why i'm so passionate what we are doing here. we need to do everything we can to bring more economic opportunity to more people. >> i'm a uber user and the customers really aren't complaining so much. the experience for the most part is good. when there is a customerkerfluffle they team so respond immediately. >> when you bring a problem is it is status quo. in many cases a monopoly. the only way people have had to get around the city other than driving themselves in many cases is take a taxi cab. the taxi industry is strong today and will be strong tomorrow. we are part of the ecosystem. i think what you're seeing despite some of the issues your
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raising, we are operating in almost 325 cities in over 58 countries and 50 places in the u.s. alone have passed new laws in the last six months to permit uber to operate. >> but they say they can't handle the traffic. >> the only place saying that is mayor de blasio. complete nonsense. if you want to reduce congestion you want people not driving their own cars. >> they say uber is way too aggressive and has had to pull back. >> the demand is there. people are clamoring for more transportation option and people are clamoring to drive on the platform. so what we are trying to do is provide an opportunity. listen. i'm speaking at a conference today about the cities of tomorrow. we are going to have a population influx in urban areas of historic proportions the next ten years. most of them can't build new roads and the only way to do is have people less driving their personal cars. >> one supporting it is jeb bush who went to silicon valley and
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said we are in favor of the shared economy. >> 50 places in the u.s. have passed new laws the last six months, democrats and republicans. a lot of support what we are doing and other companies are doing. >> jeb bush who took uber and rated his driver five as far as. you must have been doing the hulo hoop after that. >> we have been in the news a lot. truth is a lot of people still don't know what uber is. a lot of people are saying what uber? i'll download the app and we were grateful for the attention and the support. >> i've talked to people on both sides of this debate who say one of the other problems too is some of the local governments are concerned because they are not getting the social security, medicare and medicaid taxes an employer would pay in. how do you deal with that? >> first of all, look at new york city where we are today. limo and taxi drivers are almost all independent contractors so no different than the uber model. i think, gens theagain, they are usinging this as supplement.
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we ought to listen to the market that people are clamoring to drive on the platform and referred to their friends and family members. they think this is a good thing for them and their family and i think cities ought to be embracing it. >> david, i have to go. thank you so much for being here. on tonight's "cbs evening news" anthony mason takes a look at uber and the city. how
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iran keeps their nuclear facilities. military sites can go uninspected. restrictions end after 10 years. then iran could build a nuclear weapon in two months. iran has violated 20 inantertional agreements isand l theeading state sponsor of terrorism.
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this morning a small team of chemists and mechanical engineers from montana is celebrating a major victory. they won the wendy schmidt ocean prize. sun burst sensors developed a sensor to monitor the health of our ocean. x prize and their giant paydays are designed to jump-start innovation. ♪ >> reporter: x prize started with an audacious idea and focus the planet's brightest minds on its biggest problems and encourage innovation through prize competition. the inaugural challenge was announced in 1996. $10 million to the privately financed team that launched a roo usable craft of carrying
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passengers into space. its success ignited today's $2 million private space sector space industry. since then x prize has awarded more than 27 million dollars and facilitated real change. in 2010 the creation of the first affordable car to manage more than 100 miles per gallon. a year later in response to the deep water horizon oil spill, technology that skims oil from the ocean's surface at quadruple the industry's previous pace. and, now, the $2 million wendy schmidt ocean. where teams develop an affordable to identify and measure ocean acidity that threatens marine life and the climate. wendy schmidt is donated nearly $6 million to environmental research and peter demanis the
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ceo of x prize. good morning. we love smart things and innovation like this. why is an acidic ocean so dangerous and why is it in your passion? >> this is a really important issue because 30% of the emissions that we put into the atmosphere are absorbed into the oceans. we are changing the chemistry of the ocean and that changes all life in the oceans. it makes it hard for shell fish to make their shells and destroys our coral reefs. we are attached to the oceans. 2 billion people get their primary source of the protein from the oceans and more than the rain forest get our oxygen and 3 billion have the ocean for their livelihood. >> 600 million of your own money says you're serious about this, wendy. peter, talk about sunburst company, only nine employees. >> we had 70 teams that entered the competition and 18 delivered
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hardware and what sun burst sensors out of the landlock, montana, did was build technology that is actually 10 to 15 times cheaper than anything else and has gone down to extraordinary depths and 3,000 meters and 10,000 feet and it's able to act accurately measure the ph. unless you can measure something, you can't change it. we don't know what is going on in our oceans which is a scary part about it because what we do in the next ten years affects the next 10,000 years. understanding it and being able to measure it and make a difference matters to all of us. to my kids and to all of our families. >> wendy what is the status of the deep water horizon? >> the status of the spill? they are still finding oil coming up on to the shores. you see the long tail and effect of oil spills 50 years out from when they occurred. the cleanup technology that we brought forth in the competition that ended in 2011 is out there
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and deployed to help clean up spills faster inchts 600% faster. >> it's been ten years since you released the first prize. has your goal changed? >> no. our goals is finding problems on the planet that have market failures they are stuck. what should we be able to solve that we are not? we put up large pashcash prizes and 30 million google lunal prize and another prize for ilan musk for global learning around the world. we put up these prizes and ask innovators to solve them. we say, we don't care where you're from or where you went to scoop. you solve this problem and be you win the cash and we all win a better world. it's a model for driving it and folks want to tell us where to go and go to xprize doirg.org and share your ideas why we should be going. >> it's a great idea. >> so many young people.
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>> we had teams all over the place. a high school team from carmel california, who crowd source funded for their team and one of their moms was their coach. >> i like that! it's always good when your passion can lead to cash. i think that is always a good thing! thank you, both. we thank you again. you are watching "cbs this morning." we will be right back.
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