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an opinion of them. >> they're not in denial but when you have a police culture that we're all one and we all believe the same thing, then the outside world, the civilian population believe all police officers share that same mentality, but there are thousands of police officers across the country who are desperately hoping that there is a significant and comprehensive reform to change the modality away from this heavy handed structure into more community service based model. >> from retired detective, thanks so much. >> the cbs overnight news will be right back. >>
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president obama and hillary clinton posted reactions to the shooting. donald trump has not. the president on facebook said all americans should be deeply troubled. we can and must do better to institute the best practices that reduce the appearance or reality of racial bias in law enforcement. on twitter, clinton wrote america woke up to yet another tragedy of a life cut down too soon. black lives matter. and house democratic, elijah cummings made a plea to fbi director james comey. >> we can't allow black men to continue to be slaughtered. i woke up to my wife literally crying watching the tape and i hope you watched them. there's something wrong with this picture. mr. director, if you do nothing
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left, you have got to help us get ahold of this issue. >> and we'll have more reaction from across america later in the broadcast. and the hearing was called by republicans to grill him over his recommendation not to charge hillary clinton in the email scandal. more on that from jan crawford. >> the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. thank you. >> reporter: for more than four hours, fbi director james comey stood his ground. >> i did not coordinate that with anyone. the white house, the department of justice, nobody outside the fbi family had any idea what i was about to say. >> reporter: democrats call the republican-led hearing a sham. >> everyone knows what this committee is doing. sgl tod >> reporter: but comey said he was eager to testify. >> i think she was extremely
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careless. i think she was negligent. >> reporter: he pulled no punches, like in this exchange. >> secretary clinton said i did not email anyone classified material. >> there was classified material emailed. >> she said she used just one device. was that true? >> she used multiple devices during the four years of her term as secretary of state. >> secretary clinton said all work related emails were returned to the state department. >> no, we found thousands that were not returned. >> reporter: but what comey didn't find, compelling evidence that clinton intentionally mishandled information. >> we don't want to put people in jail unless we prove that they knew they were doing something they shouldn't do. >> reporter: comey revealed he didn't investigate whether she made any f
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she was testifying under oath about her email. republicans say they will now formally ask him to investigate whether any of her misstatements were criminal. and at the capital today was donald trump, not for a hearing but listening and talking with fellow republicans. here's major garret. [ sirens] >> reporter: he came looking for unity and for the most part found it with house republicans. starting with hous speaker, paul ryan. >> donald trump is a movement. >> very encouraging. >> i don't agree with everything donald trump says, i don't agree with everything my dear mother said. >> this is a breath of fresh air that i saw here today. >> charley dent of pennsylvania said trump remains a loose canon, only interested in unity as trump and his
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it. >> they said they didn't need unity. they were pretty aggressive about that and i think that's what we heard again today. >> reporter: trump later met with senate republicans.
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sass, mitt romney and others maddening. >> thank you. coming up next, more women are accusing fox news boss of sexual harassment. and later, taiwan gets a direct hit from a super typhoon. ♪ i don't think that's how they're made.
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carlson versus ails is getting ugly. she's suing him for sexual harassment. today her lawyer said quote we are prepared for the bomb that's going to fall on all of us. here with more on this. >> hi, everyone. i'm gretchen carlson. >> former fox news anchor woman says she was not the only woman sexually harassed by her former boss. a statement from her lawyer says many women have come forward to report similar sexist and harassing behavior from mr mr. ailes. she refused his sexual advancements and complained about severe and pervasive harassment. those were the reasons ailes replaced her in 2013 from fox and friends. when carlson, a
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graduate and former miss america accused of discriminatory treatment says i think you and i have had a sexualn are a long time ago. and ailes denies the accusations. fox provided her with more hours than any other employer in the industry for which he thanked me. >> gretchen carlson may have real problems with her past statements about roger ailes. she laz praised him in the past over and over again. once you've said those things out loud, it's very hard to say simultaneously this boss, this great boss was sexually harassing me. >> carlson's attorney says she was not allowed to speak to the press or publish anything, including her 2015 book without
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protests in st. paul over the fatal deaths of men in minnesota and louisiana. we end tonight by listening. >> the latest killings in batten rouge and minnesota are sickening and they're terrifying. basically the police have become the monster under the bed. that's what they are to young black people and it's terrifying because it's nothing i can do about it. when the police start to understand that their safety and lives are tied up in the lives of the people they need to protect, maybe they'll do betted -- better. >> i was raised to trust that if i were to call 911 or approach
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police officer that they would help me but in the case of my kids i'm not sure what to tell them. i'm not sure i can tell them if you go to a police officer you can get help. simply by running up to a police officer simply because you're a person of color. >> i'm off an victim of racial profiling. its hurtful. you become filled with rage and hate towards them. i know several people who have been assaulted by police officers who never became a case pi watched them drag my friends out of cars and beat them, stand on their neck. if you're a good cop listening to this, speak up, engage in the community, let them know you so they won't have a problem coming to talk to you about the violence in their hood and you won't have to beat them
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senseless. >> i woke up this morning to a gut punch that i don't think i ever could have anticipated. waking up and seeing another man die, another pool of blood on a t-shirt. another officer standing over a black body. i'm pissed off that i have to sit with my children and explain to them what that means and the fact i can't tell my kids to automatically trust the police is a problem for me because i know good police officers. i know great police sargeants but because i have to have this conversation with my children makes me feel less american and at the same time reminds me that imare cuhasn't changed as much as we would like to say she has. >> for some of you the news continues, for others, check back later for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city.
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♪ this is the cbs overnight news. welcome to the overnight news. for the second time this week, another deadly police shooting of a black man is sparking out rage and raising more questions about the use of police force. philando castile was shot many times. his girlfriend streamed live to facebook the moments after. >> reporter: the woman in the passenger seat live streamed as her boyfriend was dying next to her. her young daughter was in the backseat. she says a police officer fired four shots at castile and that's when the video begins. >> we got p
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busted tail light in the back. >> reporter: his t-shirt is soaked in blood. she says he was shot four times. >> he was licensed to carry. he was trying to get his wallet, id out of his pock squt he let the officer know that he had a firearm and he was reaching for his wallet. and the officer just shot him in his arm. >> reporter: the st. anthony police officer sounds distraught. >> you told him to get his id, si his driver's license. oh, my god, please don't tell me he's dead. >> reporter: she continued to live stream even as being detained. >> it's shocking. its not something that occurs in this area often. >> reporter: witnesses saw castile laying in the road where uniformed personnel
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be performing cpr. his family and friends were united in grief and prayer outside the medical center. alza castile was his sister. >> it's like we're animals. it's modern day lynching we're seeing going on only we're getting killed on camera. >> reporter: valerie castile lost her only son. >> he did everything by the law and he died by the law. >> by the hand of the law. >> reporter: castile worked in a school cafeteria in st. paul. he would have celebrated his 23rd birthday tomorrow. castile's gun was taken from the scene and turned over to police for processing. the just department is investigating another shooting of a black man, alton sterling was shot where he was selling
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here's david. >> reporter: those candles on the ground behind me is where alton sterling died. somebody painted a mural of his face outside the store where he sold cd's for years. they believe their as were justified. this morning there's a second video and it is very clear but we want to warn you it's graphic. the second video is taken from a closer angle and appears to show alton sterling pinned down by two batten rouge police officers. moments later sterling is shot multiple times in the chest and the back. the 37-year-old died at the scene. >> when you see it on camera again and again and again, it's like wow. abdullah recorded the video in the parking lot of his convenience store. >> he didn't know why they were there, why they came to get him.
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governor made personal phone call to the department of justice, asking them to take over the investigation. >> we all learned lessons from what was done elsewhere in the country and we're trying to be as proactive as possible. >> reporter: the shooting happened early tuesday morning. officers responded to a disturbance call of a man reportedly armed. alton sterling has a lengthy criminal history including aggravated assault. district attorney says the officers involved may have acted within their rights. >> this is a state authorized killing. gives law enforcement officers a mandate to kill in defense of themselves or others. sgler sgler >> reporter: alton's 15-year-old son sobbed at a press conference. this is his muther.
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greatest fears is to see your child hurt and knowing there's nothing you can do about it. >> reporter: the officers involved have both been placed on paid administrative leave, specifically officer lake had been placed on paid administrative leave in 2014 for another officer involved shooting. the republican national convention is just over a week away. the gop is trying to keep hillary clinton's email troubles in the head lines. but presumptive nominee, donald trump spent his time revisiting controversies. >> when they told me the star of david, i said you got to be kidding. >> reporter: he spoke aboutover ohio. >> it's a star? >> reporter: it is a star. this one on
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the antidefamation league called it anti-semitic and both trump endorsers called it out of bounds and trump called the critics rac s racists. >> they're racially profiling, not us. because why do they bring it up? >> reporter: trump kept up his attacks on twitter, comparing his to one on the cover of a disney sticker book. the observer wrote an open letter condemnic trump's antisemtism writing. kushner responded my father in law is not an anti-semmite. >> and how about the emails that were wiped out. >> reporter: he spent a good part of his speech hammering
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>>nd a d ion't love saddam hu iein, hate him but he was dam good at kngilli mosquitos. speaking of mosquitos, how are you hillary? just turn your back and go someplace else or knock them on their as. one way or another. >> reporter: and newt gingrich will play a role, hinting he might be the vice president. we'll be right back.
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people who got one of the hottest gifts last christmas are being told to return it because it can get too hot and catch fire. more than a half a million hover bords are being recalled. >> reporter: this caught fire out in the field. this is where the battery pack would be. everything around it is burned. the real point of concern is the battery packs and it's a collection of lithium ion
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batteries like this. when they catch fire, they end up looking more like that and the fires can be very intense. the battery pack sits right here. you could be standing right here. the safety commission has received at least 99 reports of the lithium ion battery packs over heating, smoking, catching fire and exploding. >> if you own a hover board, stop using it immediately. sglerks sgler >> reporter: chairman announced the recall of over 500,000 hover boards that do not meet the standards set by the independent safety science company ul. >> this is indicative of improper designs, manufacturing and i would say irresponsible sales. >> i just seen sparks, just shooting like a firework.
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son was charging a hoverboard when it started a fire that burned through the house. >> the hoverboard is still here. >> reporter: it's more than $2 million in property damage linked to hoverboards and in more than 20 states. it's forced many airlines and even the new york city subway to ban the scooters. >> it was until after we bought one that we heard about all the issues. >> reporter: their group purchased 50 hoverboards as a gift for employees. >> i hope they produce more safe, battery units so more people can use them and not be so worried about it. >> reporter: hoverboard maker, sagway says safety is its first priority. it will replace the battery
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hoverboards. a massive replica of noah's ark opened in kentucky. here from williams town. >> reporter: if the ark seems larger than life, that's the whole idea. but critics wonder why it was ever built at all. this is the ark encounter, a chapter from genesis told on a $100 million budget. four floors of noah, his family and beasts big and small. they sale first class through the watery chaos outside and seeing it is a privilege and a pilgrimage for the demarcus family. >> its breath taking, amazing. even outside, as soon as we walked up, it's jaw dropping. >> reporter: this was built with help from 100 amish craftsma
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following specks straight from the pages of genesis. it stands seven stories tall and 510 feet long. almost two football fields. this ark's christian backers consider themselves young earth creationests. that means evolution, junk science. the earth is only 6,000 years old. do you believe there were dinosaurs and people at the same time? >> absolutely do. >> reporter: the ark's 64-year-old visionary leads a ministry called answers in genesis. >> we are as faithfully as we can representing what god's word teaches. >> reporter: in 2014, hamm debated the truth with bill nye, known as the science guy. more than 5 million people have
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>> you don't want to raise a generation of science students who don't understand how we know our place in the cauosmos. >> reporter: hamm sees christians taking a stand. and what do you say to critics who say this is not science based? >> people can say its ignorant. they can come here. >> only christians, no gays and les lesbians. and it received kentucky tax incentives, which a court upheld. >> noah's ark is a church. it is clearly a religious point of view that says science is false, gay people are icky. >> reporter: he shouldn't expect an
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>> it would be a hilarious thing for people to visit. are you kidding? somebody really built this? decide for yourself if you think this is really reasonable. >> reporter: at today's grand opening, about 150 protesters plan to create a storm of their own. the cbs overnight news will be right back.
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you may not know who he is. but you'll find his work on the covers of magazines. albums on posters and postage stamps. then there are the children's books. more than two dozen of them. the subjects may vary but the theme is unmistakable. >> as a young kid, i didn't really see a lot of represe representations of black americans. i felt i needed to tell the story of going to art galries or museums and see images that looked like them and be proud of those images. >> reporter: the first black woman elected to congress and baseball players from the negro league and civil rights activist, harriet tubman and then this portrait of nelson mandela. >> i like
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that are spiritually strong or internally strong because that's how i want to see myself. >> reporter: so when he was commissioned to create the cover for the 90th anniversary of the new yorker, nelson took the publications mascot, and reimagined him as a contemporary african american man. a modern day aristocrat, swapping his eye glass for an iphone. how old were you dreing something like that? >> that looks like it was from high school. >> reporter: the inspiration for the elongated form found in much of nelson's early work actually came from a tv show. nelson was a big fan of "good times" and the paintings in the opening and closing credites. they were the work of barns but
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evans. played by jimmy walker. >> i can see an african-american artist on televisions who likes to draw and paint just like i do. ♪ >> reporter: he also idolized michael jackson. years later the phone rang. >> miechael jackson called and e told me how much he liked, loved the marvin gaye paintings and said i want one but about me. and i want it to be bigger. >> reporter: this was the result. finished after the superstar's death, it became theer cov of his poschms album. and he's worked with spike lee and debbie allen. >> he speaks from a place of such quiet scream, i would say.
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i call it quiet scream because he's a quiet person, a gentle person but his art is screaming at you. it is begging you to go in and experience and feel. >> reporter: it was allen who convinced nelson to illustrate a children's book she wrote. >> sassy is her name. ever since i was born and could see, everywhere i looked, i saw dance. ju reporter: but these aren't st any children's books, they are some of the few that depict children of color. >> when a child opens a book and sees a face that looks like them, they know they matter. >> reporter: nelson's paintings may look historical. but look closer and you'll realize he's painting something that rarely if ever happened. black and white kids playing together in the 1930s. sglir >> it's not likely that could
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have happen but it's great to imagine it could have. this is what it could have looked like had things been different. ♪ >> reporter: there is nothing different cadir nelson can imagine do with his life because when the music starts to play and his subjects, the late muhammad ali comes into focus, his paint brush starts to sing. >> to express myself creatcreat every day of the week. >> rteeporr: pretty good gig. >> it's the best gig there is.
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a former fox news anchor is suing the network's powerful boss, accusing him of sexualt harassment. here's veneta. >> reporter: carlson's bold accusations came just two weeks after her last day at fox news. but ailes immediately fired back saying her accusations are false. >> miss america is gretchen carlson. >> reporter: for more than a decade, the former miss america was one of the most recognizable faces of fox news. but on wednesday, gretchen filed a lawsuit against ceo roger ailes alleging he sabotaged her career. can
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because she refused his sexual advances and complained about severe and pervasive harassment. he described her as a man hater and a killer who tried to show up the boys on fox and friends. when she complained, she claims he said i think you and i should have had a sexual relationship a long time ago. but ailes denies the accusations and said he would defend them vigorously. saying fox news provided her with more on-air opportunities over her 11 year tenure than any other employer in which she thanks me in the book. she thanked ailes for continuing to believe in me and giving me the opportunity to do what i love every day and described him as the most accessible boss i've ever worked for. >> in a sense what he's saying is the person
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air as a primary host and anchor is herself not credible. >> reporter: she joined fox in 2005 as co host of the morning show. and despite of high ratings, carlson was replaced. >> he is going to go forward in this case as strong as gretchen carl carlson. >> and that's the news. for some of you the news co continues. for others, check back with us for the morning news.
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this is the cbs overnight news. president obama arierived i poland overnight and spoke publicly for the first time about what he calls a serious problem back home. two fatal shootings by the police of black men in two days. >> this is not just a black issue, not just a hispanic issue. this is an american issue that we should all care about. all fair minded people should be concerned. when we see data that indicates disparities in how african-americans and latinos may be treated in var
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jurisdictions around the country, then its incumbent on all of us to say we can do better, we are better than this. >> philando castile was killed outside of st. paul. a day later, alton sterling was shot and killed in batten rouge, louisiana. >> reporter: please, officer don't tell me you just did this to him? >> reporter: philando castile's girlfriend started live streaming on facebook. >> we got pulled over for a busted tail light in the back. >> reporter: her video shows castile slumped over in the driver seat, his shirt stain would blood. >> he is licensed to carry. he was trying to get his id and wallet out his pock squt et andt the officer know he had a firearm and he was reaching for his wallet and the officer just shot him in his
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>> reporter: reynolds spoke calmly to the officer who still had his gun drawn. >> he had to get his id, sir, his driver's license. oh, god, please don't tell me he's dead. >> reporter: police officers attempted to give castile cpr but he later died. reynolds says they waited to give him cpr and comforted the officer first. >> i wanted everybody in the world to see what the police do and how they roll. and it's not right. it's not acceptable. >> reporter: governor mark dayton called for the department of justice open an investigation. >> would this have happened if the passengers were white? >> i don't think so. >> reporter: one co worker described him as warm and
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what was he like? >> home body. went to work, that's it. played video games. that's it. >> reporter: the two police officers are now on paid administrative leave. tonight, the department of justice says it is continuing to monitor this situation. >> and in st. paul tonight. now to the investigation in the shooting in batten rouge. >> reporter: in addition to the cell phone videos which graphically captured alton sterling's death, investigators are now looking at surveillance footage from outside the triple-s food mart where it occurred. both officers were wearing body cameras but at least one is seen picking his camera off the ground after the shooting. >> we're not buying the body cams fell off. >> reporter: stewart says this video fuels the
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there is an epidemic of young black men dying that hands of police officers. >> if you don't care, there's something wrong with you. if you're getting desensatized to seeing this so many times, there's something wrong. >> i'm urging everyone to use restraint. >> reporter: former police chief called him cd man and he knows both officers now on paid administrative leave. >> i know how badly that looks. it's horrendous. i wouldn't let my grandchildren watch it. we got to be patient. we're going to threat process work and trust what the federal government says. >> reporter: and today she sat at the site of her nephew's death where a memorial and a mural have become a gathering spot for mourners. >> no justice, no peace. they murdered my nephew and i i demand justice. >> reporter: the city of
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rouge is majority black, but the police department is 70% white. tonight, louisiana's governor will attend a prayer vigil, along with the immediate family of alton sterling. >> former new york city police detective is director of the black law enforcement alliance. let me ask you this. people are profoundly upset and shaken. how and why on the most basic level does this keep happening? >> it keeps happening because when we fail to learn lessons from history and i think what you're seeing and witnessing now and the frustration and anger by the community and nation, entire nation because it's not just about these two individual two cases now. it's about the history, the pattern of cases that have occurred over the last several decades involving fatal shooting p
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primarily young black men. >> so, what is it that we do to change this as an officer, as a father as a member of the community? certainly you've got to have some idea of a solution? >> absolutely. you have to change part of the police culture itself. we can no longer operate under this militarized quota driven, heavy handed enforcement model. it's time to incorporate really serious public safety, public service community-based models into these strickture structur cannot ignore the role that race has played historically in policing and penalize those who cooperate outside of the standards. >> how do officers discuss this among themselves? they must feel as though the public has an opinion of them?
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>> police officers are not in denial about it. but when you have a police culture that requires the outside appearance to be we're all one and we all believe the same thing, then the civilian population believe all officers share that same mentality. but there are thousands of officers desperately hoping there's a significant and comprehensive reform to changing the modality away from a heavy handed structure and into a more public servbaice-sed model. >> mark, thanks so much. the cbs overnight news will be right back.
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president obama and hillary clinton posted reactions to the shooting. donald trump has not. the president on facebook said all americans should be deeply troubled. we can and must do better to institute the best practices that reduce the appearance or reality of racial bias in law enforcement. and clinton wrote, america woke up to yet another tragedy of a life cut down too soon. black lives matter. and elijah cummings made a plea to director james comey. >> we can't allow black men to continue to be slaughtered. this morning i woke up to my wife literally crying watching the tape and i hope you watched them. there's something wrong with this picture. mr. director, if you do nothing else
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left, you have got to help us get ahold of this issue. >> and we'll have more reaction from across america later in the broadca broadcast. now the hearing at which you saw the fbi director was called by republicans to grill him over his recommendation not to charge hillary clinton in the email scandal. more on that now from jan crawford. >> the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. thank you. >> reporter: for more than four hours, fbi director james comey staunchly defending his investigation. >> i did not coordinate that with anyone, the white house, department of justice, nobody outside the fbi family had any idea what i was about to say. >> reporter: democrats call the republican-led hearing a sham. >> today 's hearing is political theater. >> reporter: but comey said he was eager to testify. >> i think she was extremely
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careless. i think she was negligent. >> reporter: he pulled no punches like in this exchange with south carolina republican. >> she said she didn't email any classified material. was that true? >> there was classified material emailed. >> secretary clinton said she used one devices. >> she used multiple devices during the four years of her time as secretary of state. >> she said all work related emails were returned to the statement department. >> we found thousands not returned. >> reporter: but what comey didn't find, compelling evidence clinton intended to mishandle classified information. which made her case different from those in the past. >> we don't want to put people in jail unless we prove they knew they were doing something they shouldn't do. >> reporter: but he didn't investigate whethe s
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testifying under oath about her email. republicans said they will now formally ask him to investigate whether any of her misstatements were criminal. >> thank you. also at the capital was donald trump, not for a hearing but listening and talking with fellow republicans. here's major garret. [ sirens] >> reporter: donald trump came to capital hill in search of unity and for the most part he found it among more than 100 house republicans, starting with paul ryan. >> i think we had a great meeting. >> donald trump is a movement. >> i don't agree with everything donald trump says. >> donald trump is the answer. >> thise> reporter: charley dent of pennsylvania says he remains a loose canon, only
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unity as his advisors define it. >> they said they didn't need unity and they were pretty aggressive about that. >> reporter: trump later met with senate republicans. frequent critic talked to trump about his criticism of prisoners of war and latinos. >> i wanted to talk about a few of the concerns that we have and did. i want to support our nominee, i really do but given some of the statements that have been made, i find it difficult. >> reporter: and he met with former presidential rival, ted cruz. >> there was no discussion of any endorsement. he asked if i would speak at the convention and i said i would be glad to do so. >> reporter: and sass called the equivalent of a dumpster fire. and calli
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carlson versus ailes is getting ugly. gretchen carlson is suing him for sexual harassment. and here with more on this. >> reporter: former fox news anchor woman gretchen carlson says she was not the only woman sexually harassed by her boss, roger ailes. an attorney samtatement says ma women have come forward. she alleges she was fired because she refused his sexual advanced and complained about severe pervasive sexual harassment. and according to carlson that was the reason she was removed from fox and friends in
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when a stanford graduate and former miss america accused him of discrimatory treatment, ailes said we should have had a sexual relationship a long time ago. he says fox news provided her with more on-air opportunities during her tenure than any other employer in the industry for which she thanked me in the book. >> gretchen carlson may have real problems with her past statements about roger ailes. once you put those things in print, once you've said those things out loud, it's very hard to say simultaneously this boss, this brilliant boss was sexually harassing me. >> carlson's attorney says she was not allowed to speak to the press or publish anything without
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and she's a former cbs correspondent and anchor. when we come back, an update on a navy official .
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we have an update on a story we brought you earlier this week. a top navy ooficial was spotted pointing a gun at young men whose car was parked in front of his house. and he's been placed on administrative leave as police investigate the incident. tonight a super typhoon is hammering taiwan. evacuations have been ordered. this is nepartak. storm is ex
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protests in st. paul over the 235i9al shoot gds of black men in minnesota and louisiana. we end tonight by listening. >> the latest killings in baton rouge and minnesota are devastating. it's terrifying because it's nothing i can do about that. when the police start to understand that their safety and lives are tied up in the lives of the people they need protect, maybe they'll do better. >> i was raised to respect police officers and fearful of their authority but if i were to call 91
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officer, they would help me but in the case of my kids, i'm not sure what i can tell them. i'm not sure i can tell them you are going to receive help. you might be perceived as the guilty party because you're a person of color. ♪ >> i'm often a victim of racial profiling. its hurtful. you become filled with rage and hate towards them. i know several people who have been assaulted by police officers who never became a case. i watched them drag my friends out of cars and beat them until help comes, stand on their necks. if your a're a good cop, speak engage in the community, let them know you so they won't have a problem coming to talk to you about the violence in their hood and you won't have to beat them senseless to get them
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>> i woke up this morning to a gut punch. that i don't think i could have anticipated. waking up and seeing another man die. another pool of blood on a t-shirt. another officer standing over a black body. i'm pissed off that i have to sit with my chilldren and explan to them what it means and the fact i can't tell my kids to automatically trust police is a problem for me because i know great police officers, great police sargeants but because i have to have this conversation with my children makes me feel less american and reminds me that america hasn't changed as much as we would like to say she has. >> that is the overnight news for this friday. for some off iyou the news continues, for others, check back with us for the morning
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♪ this is the cbs overnight news. >> welcome to the overnight news. for the second time this week another deadly police shooting of a black man is sparking outrage and raising more questions about the use of police force. philan philando castile was shot several times. his girlfriend streamed live to facebook. >> reporter: the woman in the passenger seat live streamed as her boyfriend was dying next to her, her daughter was in the backseat. >> we got pulled over for a busted tail light
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>> reporter: philando castile is still wearing his seatbelt. reynolds said he was shot four times. >> he's licensed to carry and he was trying to get his wallet and id out of his pocket and let the officer know he had a firearm and he was reaching for his wallet and the officer just shot him in his arm. >> reporter: the st. anthony police officer sounds distraught. >> i told him not to reach for it. >> you told him to get his id, sir, his driver's license. oh, my god, please don't tell me he's dead. >> reporter: she continues to live stream even as she's being detained. >> it's shocking. it's not something that occurs in this area often. >> reporter: witnesses saw castile laying in the road
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uniform personnel appear to be performing cpr. his family and friends w united in grief and prayer outside the medical center. castile is philando's sister. >> it's like we're animals. it's basically modern day lynching only we're getting killed on camera. >> reporter: valerie castile lost her only son. >> he did everything by the law and he died by the law. >> by the hand of the law. >> reporter: castile worked in a school cafeteria in st. paul. he would have celebrated his 33rd birthday tomorrow. his gun was turned over to police for processing. and this one in baton rouge, louisiana. alton sterling was killed outside a convenience store where he was selling
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here's david. >> reporter: the candles on the ground behind me is the spot where alton sterling died. and someone painted a mural right near the spot where he sold cd's for years. we're told officers believe their actions were justified. this morning there's a second video that showed what happened and it's very clear but we want to warn you its graphic. the second video is taken from a closer angle and shows alton sterling being held down by two police officers and moment said later shot multiple times in the chest and back. he died at the scene. >> when you see it on camera again and again, it's like wow. >> abdullah recorded the video in the parking lot of his convenience store. >> he didn't know w
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there. >> reporter: john bell edwards made a personal phone call to the department of justice, asking them to take over the investigation. >> we all learned lessons from what was done the last several years and we're trying to be as proact rv kctive as possible. they respond to a disturbance call of a man reportedly armed. past charges include a felony drug offense and aggravated assault. district attorney says the officers may have acted within their rights. >> this is a potentially state-authorized killing. it gives law enforcement officers, it mandates them to kill in defense of themselves and others. >> reporter: alton sterling's 15-year-old sunk sobbed at a press conference. this is his
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>> as a parent, one of the greatest fears is to see your child hurt and knowing there's nothing you can do about it. >> reporter: the officers involved have both been placed on paid administrative leave, specifically officer lake, he had been placed on paid administrative leave in 2014 for another officer related shootinshootin shooting. the gop is trying to keep hillary clinton's email troubles in the headlines but donald trump spent most of his time revisiting his controversies. >> when they told me star of david, i said you got to be kidding? >> reporter: donald trump spoke about his own controversies at a rally in ohio. it is a star. this one on a t
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swiftly deleted. they called it anti-sem eanti-e. and trump called the critics racist. >> they're profiling. because why are they bringing this up? why do they bring it up? >> reporter: trump compared the image to one on the cover of a disney sticker book. a writer for the new york observer wrote an open letter tuesday condemnic what she called trump's anti-semtism writing. and he replied, my father in law is not an anti-semite. trump spent an early part of his speech hitting hillary clinton on her emails but it wasn't long fo
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unscripted off-the wall dialogue. >> i don't love saddam hussein, but he was dam good at killing terrorists. speaking of mosquitos, hi, hillary, how are you doing? turn around or knock them on their as, one or the other. >> reporter: and said newt gingrich will play a role and hinting he might even be vice president. and senator bob corker took themselves out of the running yesterday.
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skin healthier and stronger. people who got one of the hottest gifts last christmas are told to return it because it can get too hot and catch fire. chris van cleev has the details. >> reporter: this is a hoverboard that caught fire out in the field. you can see this is where the battery pack would be. everything around it is burned. the real point of concern are the battery packs. it's a collection of lithium ion
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batteries like this. when they catch fire they end up looking more like that. and the fires can be very intense. you could be standing right here. the consumer product safety commissions has received at least 99 reports of the lithium ion battery packs over heating, smoking, catching fire and exploding. >> if you own a hoverboard, stop using it immediately. >> reporter: cpse chairman announced the recall of more than 500,000 hoverboards made between june of 2015 and may of this year that do not meet the standards set by the independent safety science company, ul. >> this is indicative of improper design, improper manufacturing and i would say irresponsible sales. >> i seen sparks, like shooting like firework.
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>> reporter: jessica horn says her son was charnging a hoverboard when it started a fire that burned through the house. the destruction is some of the more $2 million in damage linked to hoverboards. and the potential danger has forced many airlines, universities and even the new york city subway to ban the self balancing scooters. >> it wasn't until after we bought them that we heard about l the issues with the fires. >> reporter: they purchased 50 hoverboards as gifts for their employees last year. >> i hope they start to produce more safe, battery unit such that more people could use them and not have to be so worried about it. >> reporter: hoverboard maker, swagway tells cbs news that safety is its first priority. it will replace the battery
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hoverboards. a massive opening of noah's ark is bringing a flood of visitors and critics. >> reporter: if the ark behind me seems larger than life, that's the whole idea. nothing like it has ever been built before but critics wonder why it was built at all. this is the ark encounter, a chapter from genesis told on $100 million budget. four floors of noah, his family and beasts big and small. they sail first class through the watery chaos outside. what are your first impressions? >> it's breath taking, amazing. even outside, it's just jaw dropping. >> reporter: this timber frame ark was built with
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amish craftsman straight from the pages of genesis and runs 510 feet long. this ark's christian backers consider themselves young earth creationests. that means evolution, junk science. the irearth is only 6,000 years old. do you believe there were dinosaurs and people at the same time? >> absolutely. they walked hand in hand. >> reporter: and they lead a ministry called answers in genesis. >> the truth is word in god and we are, as faithfully as we can, representing what god's word teaches. >> reporter: in 2014, hamm debated the truth with bill nye, known as the siencience guy on television. more than 5 million peoha
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>> you don't want to raise a generation of science students who don't understand how we know our place in the cosmos. >> reporter: on this ark, hamm sees christians taking a stand. and what do you say to critics who say this is not scientifically based? >> people can say all they want and say they don't believe it. that's fine. i invite them all to come here. >> reporter: critics complain of discrimination in hiring. single people have to sign a chastty pledge, no gay people. and it received tax incentives, which a federal court upheld. >> noah's ark is a church. it is clearly a religious point of view that says science is false, gay people are icky. >> reporter: true believers
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shouldn't expect an olive branch from bill nye. >> somebody really built this? use your head. decide for yourself if you think this is reasonable. >> reporter: he plans to attack 2 million people but today 150 pro testers plan to create a storm of their own. the cbs overnight news will be right back. so you have 10 years of experience? i do but no phd... first kid here's all the numbers, food's in the fridge, oh and lucas likes to pull on jewelry, so you might want to lose the nose ring by their second kid, every mom is an expert,
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he's an artist whose work appears on albums and in the homes of celebrities. but few people know his name or his story. ben tracy introduces us. >> reporter: in downtown los angeles, the sounds of the city blend with the sounds of soul. the artist is
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you may not know who he is. but you'll find his work on the covers of magazines, albums, on posters and postage stamps. then there are the children's books. more than two dozen of them. the subjects may vary but the theme is unmistakable. >> as a young kid i didn't see a lot of representations of african-americans. i felt i had a self-appointed responsibility to tell that story of children who would go to museums or art galleries and see images that look like them and be proud. >> reporter: images like shirley chism, the first black woman eect a elected to congress and then there's this portrait of nelson mandela. his fist raised in rebellion against apartheid. >> i
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that are internally strong or spiritually strong because that's how i want to see myself. >> reporter: so when he was commissioned to create the cover of the 90th anniversary of the new yorker, he took the publication's mascot and realized him as a modern day aristocrat. swapping his old school eye glass for an iphone. how old were you when you were drewi drawing something like that? >> that looks like high school. >> reporter: the inspiration for the elongated form found in much of nelson early work came from a tv show. nelson was a big fan of "big times" and the paintings in the opening and closing credits. they were the work of artist ernie barns but passed off on
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the show as the work of artist j.j. evans played by jimmy walker. >> i can remember seeing an african-american artist on television who loves to paint like i do. >> reporter: and he idolized michael jackson. years later the phone rang. >> michael jakckson called and e told me how much he loved the march gay paintings and said i want one. what about me? and i want it to be bigger. >> reporter: this was the result. finished after the superstar's death. it became the cover of jackson 's poschums album. >> kadir speaks from a place of such quiet scream, i would
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i call it quiet scream because he's a quiet person, a gentle person but his art is just screaming at you. it is begging you to go in and experience and feel. >> reporter: it was allen who convinced nelson to illustrate a children's book she wrote. >> sassy is her name. ever since i was born and could see, everywhere i looked, i saw dance. >> reporter: but these aren't just any children's books. they are some of the few that depict children of color. >> when a child opens a book and sees a face that looks like them, they know they matter. >> this is called stick ballers. >> reporter: nelson's paintings may look historical. he's been compared to norman rockwell but look closer you'll realize he's painting something that rarely if ever happened. black and white kids playing together in the 1930s. >> it's not likely that could have hapn
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it's great to imagine it could have. this is what it could have looked like had things been different. ♪ >> reporter: there's nothing different kadir nelson can imagine doing with his life because when that music starts to play and the subject comes into focus, his paint brush starts to sing. >> i'm proud i get to do what i love every day. to express myself creatively every day of the week. >> pretty good gig. >> it's the best gig there is. >> we'll be right back.
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captioning funded by cbs it's friday, july 8th, 2016. this is the "cbs morning news." breaking news. snipers target police officers in dallas during the city's protest over recent police shootings. this morning, at least five officers are dead and six others injured. good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. we begin with breaking news in dallas, texas, where at least

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