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it's tuesday, june 21st, % 2016. this is the cbs morning news. breaking overnight, firefighters in l.a. are struggling to get two wildfires under control before they merge into one mass i have inferno. this morning hundreds of people have been forced to flee their homes but some relief is in sight. >> donald trump dumped his campaign manager after weeks of controversy and poll numbers and now he's not only trailing hillary clinton in the polls but he's behind in something he
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holds dear, money. and police transcripts shed new light to the orlando terror attack. concerns that those killed were victims of police gunfire. good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquaters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm. >> lachina: -- i'm ann marie green. two new wildfires are burning out of control northeast of los angeles forcing the he evacuations of hundreds of homes. some 4500 acres have burned. the state's largest active fire engulfed nearly 8,000 acres. good morning. the good news is temperatures have cooled off and the winds have died down but that hasn't
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stopped big fires from popping upright next to home. the pair of fast moving wildfires continue to burn through brush in the mountains overnight as firefighters work to keep them from merging. >> there's a lot of homes here. >> the fires erupted monday amid an intense heat wave prompting hundreds of evacuations north of los angeles. >> we ask you to bring your medication and items of clothing in case the evacuation lasts longer than a day or two. >> it was sparked by a fatal car crash. less than two hours later the second started burning in the city of duarte. he fought to save his home. >> i felt lucky. it's scary. >> others packed up their pets and belongings and got out. >> you hope for the best. hope everybody is okay. >> the fast moving fire hit on a
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digits across southern california. the heat and rugged terrain making it difficult to get an upper hand. ash falling from the sky lead to more misery from residents. >> watching this fire made it worse so now we have ash falling. >> the heat wave will continue before expanding to the middle of the country. amazingly no structures have been damaged yet in this fire but in the process a sheriff's deputy suffered heat exhaustion and a firefighter did suffer minor injuries. cbs news in duarte, california. >> now politics and donald trump's former campaign manager corey lewandowski understands why he was fired. >> corey lewandowski has been by donald trump's side since the beginning of the mp
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trump aids republican officials and the press lead for frequent called for him to be fired. trump refused. >> i don't disguard people. i stay with people. >> he even stayed with him after he was charged with misdemeanor battery for grabbing a reporter by the arm. the report was dropped. but trailing hillary clinton in the polls, numbers have called for his head including trump's children. in a brief statement a trump spokeswoman said lewandowski will no longer be working with the campaign. >> i had a great privilege and an honor for being part of this for the last 18 and 19 months and i have no regrets. >> it comes amid a series of controversy. the latest followed
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massacre when trump tweeted appreciate the congrats for being right on radical islamic terrorism. he wished the club goers had been armed. even the nra said combining drugs and drinking is going too far. it leaves trump's chief strategist in charge. now they are trying to turn hill into a more conditioned candidate. a big change from the philosophy of let trump be trump. >> fund-raising is one problem the trump campaign is having. the latest information shows trump zbeting crushed by the clinton fund-raising operation. clinton's war chest totals more than $42 million while trump started the month with just under 1.3 million. trump attends a fund-raiser here in new york today w
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is exelected to pabt him as unfit to lead the nation's economy during a speech in columbus ohio. a british man that said he wanted to kill donald trump is being held without bail in las vegas. at a trump rally on saturday he tried to grab a police officer's gun. he told police he had been planning to assassinate trump for about a year. now to the orlando massacre. in one of several chilling 911 calls made as he shot people to death the gunman warned that you would be seeing more of this type of action going on. the first call came in a half hour after the attack began. >> reporter: orlando gunman omar mateen identified himself as a islamic soldier and said to tell america to stop bombing syria and iraq and that is why he was out here right now. on monday the fbi released the transcript of the three calls between
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negotiators during the rampage. >> we're not releasing the audio but while the killer made these murderous statements he did so in a chilling, calm, and deliberate manner. >> reporter: mateen also said there was a car with bombs outside the scene and you people are going to get it and i'm going to ignite it if they try to do anything stupid. some parts of the conversations were initially blacked out including mateen's pledge to isis. late monday the department of justice released a nonredacted version. still city officials refuse to release hundreds of other 911 calls they say out of respect to the victim's families. orlando police say they're defending themselves for criticism for how they responded to the shooting. the chief is not ruling out the possibility that some of the victims were shot by officers during the frantic search for mateen. >> that's part of the investigation bu
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are unsuspect. >> reporter: loretta lynch plans to meet investigators and survivors in orlando today. the latest gun control effort in the senate fell short. the senate voted down four separate gun control measures. lawmakers took up two separate issues which are background checks and how to ensure those with terrorist ties can't buy a gun. democrats and republicans introduced dualing bills. chris murphy lead last week's filibuster. >> i'm mort ified but not surprised by it. there's a vice like grip on this place even when 90% of the american public wants change. >> 55% of americans are in favor of stricter laws. 54% favor
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manufacturing of and sale and also possession of semiautomatic weapons and 87% say those on the government terrorist watch list or no fly list should be prevented from owning guns. vice president joe biden discussed gun control and other issue during an interview with charlie rose. he cautioned that isolating muslims would damage u.s. security. >> if we don't cooperate, if we talk about them being not particularly useful or competent. if we go out there and there's 1.5 million muslims in the world. if we make the religion the enemy, where are we going to get the cooperation. >> but is that what donald trump is doing in your judgment? >> yes. >> you can see more of the interview with biden coming up on cbs this morning. biden talks about gun control, politics and his relationship with the president. still to come, a ral
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some experience and i am about to retire. i am not quite as young as you still but relatively young. >> the two sat down earlier this month at the white house for jeter's blog, the player's tribune. the full interview hits the website tomorrow. some headlines on the morning newsstands now. apple ceo tim cook will host a california fund-raiser for a republican. house speaker paul ryan. it's not a company event. cook is trying to court both political parties. he pulled support from the upcoming republican national convention because of the distaste for donald trump. the new york times reports the arrest of three police department commanders in a federal corruption case. they're accused of taking expensive gifts from politically corrected business men that wanted favors. one officer accepted a private flight to vegas with a prostitute on board. the baltimore sun reports a judge will rule on thursday
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taste of cuban coffee for the first time in decades. >> good morning. fed chair janet yellen heads to capitol hill today. on wall street stocks gained ground as investors are confident that britain will not lead the european union. the dow climbed 129 points and the s&p gained 12 and nasdaq 36 points higher. the former ceo of volkswagen is being investigated over the emissions scandal. they admitted to rigging cars to cheat on u.s. emissions tests. prosecutors want to know if they informed investors soon enough about the scandal. cuban coffee is coming to america for the first time in more than 50 years but there is a catch. nespresso will be selling it this fall but only for its home brewers. the treasury department gave the
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they purchased the coffee in europe where it will be processed and packaged. and fit bit updated it's sleeping tracker app. it will look at previous sleep patterns and suggest a sleep goal and offer bed tile and wake up times and give sleep reminders. we should all be sleeping right now. >> that's the last thing i need is something else nagging me about my lack of sleep. >> thank god for cuban coffee. >> indeed. thanks, jill. still to come an actor's death is under investigation. it's raising new concerns about electronic shifters.
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♪ fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars ♪ >> sunset on the first way of summer made way for a magnificent full moon. it's nicknamed the strawberry moon. the last time this happened was in 1967 and some remember that time as the summer of love. keep your stories to yourself. i'm sure there's some good ones. the death of a young hollywood actor could be linked to a vehicle recall. he died sunday when he was hit by his own jeep cherokee under recall. >> reporter: 27-year-old anton was found pinned between his 2015 jeep grand cherokee and a fence at his home in los angeles. the lapd says the suv was on and rolled into the star trek star because he may n
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into park properly. it's too early to know if the computerized shifter paid into the accident. the e-shift lacks the grooves and sensation of moving the car into park, drive or reverse and there's been more than 600 complaints about the vehicles not going into park and in some cases rolling away. in april they voluntarily recalled 1.1 million vehicles including the 2014 and 2015 jeep grand cherokees but company documents show the fix wasn't expected to be offered until at least july. cbs news first reported about this in march. gary told us about issuing with his 2014 jeep grand cherokee. >> i get out of the jeep and thought it was in park and it was in reverse still. >> reporter: we drove a similar vehicle in connecticut. >> here and i guess it's because there's not a -- i pushed all the way forward. it doesn't mean i end up in park. >> fiat chrysler
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happening today. will metro safe track slow your commute? many riders avoided the rails on monday. we are helping you get around the closures and delays. >> gun control show down. the senate fails to
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stricter gun laws. >> beach bacteria. one father's day at the beach has him fighting for his life after he contracts a flesh- eating bacteria. let's begin with allyson rae in what will be a yellow weather alert day. >> for mainly this afternoon, after the lunch hour showers and thunderstorms will push on through. take a look at temperatures. we are almost 10 degrees warmer than we were at this time yesterday. that is a sign of the humidity increasing, cloud cover as well. those two things combined kept our temperatures in the 70s. 79 near 80 for martinsburg. 77 winchester, washington 75. the frontal boundary is to downtown west. we have the yellow alert day because we are running the risk of hail or some strong winds. i will go through the future cast so you can see when the showers arrive hour by hour in a bit. over to you. >> go
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friends at home. we are issue and problem free. if anything, road construction. you will see that on baltimore avenue northbound side between campus and university boulevard. other than that, a quiet commute. we are anticipating some additional traffic along route 50 which is out in prince george county. this because of safe track in part and also because we know a lot of folks won't be teleworking today. 395 and 295 doing well in both directions. we will send it over to you. firefighters are trying to get an upper hand on several out of control wildfires. >> the biggest is west of santa barbara. a pair of fast moving brushfires tore through the angeles forest. positive development in new mexico. a 2 square mile fire that destroyed homes south of albuquerque is showing signs of slowing down. in arizona, crew
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a fire that burned more than 19 square miles. a popular amusement park ride is shut down after an accident sends several to the hospital. it happening on the zip in pip in ride. one empty car was waiting to take off. a second car holding ten riders wasn't able to slow down. the two cars crashed. no one was seriously hurt. the ride will stay closed until the park figures out how it happened. strong winds carry a bouncy house away in niagara, new york. no one was hurt when the winds lifted the inflatable 40 feet in the air and into high voltage power lines. it's important to make sure that the inflatables, if you have used them, you have to stake them in the ground like the manufacturer sucks. >> secure it to the ground like e
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stakes, 18-inch stakes to secure it. >> good point. >> they caution using the inflatables during strong winds to avoid them from being carried away. that is a quick look at what is going on this tuesday morning. >> the news at 4:30 starts right now. right now it's a yellow weather alert team. the first alert team is tracking the chance for storms. some could be severe. i'm andrea roane. >> glad you are with us, i'm mike hydeck. safe track 2 upped way. no problems so far -- underway. no problems so far but it is early. >> we will see isolated showers and thunderstorms. one thing to note, it won't be a rainy afternoon. the storms that do develop will be out there and they
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strong to severe. that a look. this is the severe weather outlook. slight risk. mainly areas in d.c. and to the south. the main threats will be strong winds and hail 75 right now. lunchtime still dry. 2:00 we have showers and storms developing west of 95. the extended futurecast in a few minutes. traveling inbound around the 5:30 to 6:00 hour we are expecting additional traffic. certainly so far so good with no issues around the beltway. issue and problem free on the northbound side of 95 working from areas like quantico to woodbridge and springfield. traveling on branch avenue, pennsylvania avenue, doing well in both directions. 301 an

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