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visit dav.org. captioning funded by cbs it's monday, may 8th, 2017. this is the "cbs morning news." russia takes stage on capitol hill and russian's attempt to interfere in the u.s. election. emmanuel macron defeats right wing national list marine le pen becoming france's youngest president. and escaping a possible death. a 10-year-old fights off an
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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. well, the white house is pressing the senate to move quickly on the health care bill passed by the white house to replace obamacare but some republicans are voicing concern and today on capitol hill will be on russia's interference in the u.s. election and the testimony of former acting attorney general sally yates. hena daniels is here. good morning, hena. >> good morning, anne-marie. in the meantime the trump administration continues to defend its plan to overhaul obamacare, which faces significant changes in the senate. former acting attorney general sally yates will speak publicly for the first time today. detailing her january warning to the white house about michael flynn's contact with russia's ambassador to the u.s.
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here as to who knew what when, what was done with this. >> questions could also be raised about whether the trump campaign colluded with last year's election. >> we're going to determine whether there was any or not and where those facts lead us. >> president trump took to twitter to comment on the russian probe writing in part when will the fake media ask about the dem's dealings with russia. hours later he touted the house republican plan to repeal and replace obamacare which now faces a tough bat the senate. >> it's up to the senate if there are improvements to be made to make those improvements. >> the house bill is not going to come before us, the senate is starting from scratch. >> speaking in boston, former president obama made a case for preserving his signature health care law. >> it is my fervent hope regardless of party that t
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>> among other things is to allow states to opt out of care for those with pre-existing conditions. former president obama was in boston to accept the john f. kennedy profile and courage award. the trump justice department sent a letter to her attorney warning that there was a limit to what she could reveal. former director of national intelligence james clapper is also set to testify today. anne-marie. >> hena daniels here in new york. thank you so much, hena. ahead on "cbs this morning," we will talk to former secretary of state condoleezza rice about the testimony. kushner's sit ter spent the weekend promoting the family business in china including controversial eb-5 visa. it g
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conditional two-year green card after investing a half a billion dollar in u.s. businesses. kushner's lawyer told cbs news he has no contact with the business and has no interest in the family trust. governor greg abbott signed the measure on a facebook livestream last night with no public warning. it lets police ask during routine stops if someone is in the u.s. legally. it also threatens law offers wi with jail if they don't cooperate. the president-elect of france says a new page has been turned in politic. 39-year-old emmanuel macron easily defeated his opponent marine le pen. he's the first elected from outside the two
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parties since 1958. mark phillips is in paris. >> reporter: well, an election that was full of anger and scandal and intrigue has inthe end produced the expected result. emmanuel macron, a 39-year-old former investment banker and former cabinet minister who has never run for office before has been elected the next president of france. he does not come from either of the main traditional political parties. french voters rejected the socialist and the conservative republicans in the first round and they rejected the far right marine le pen in today's runoff. the win was decisive. the vote was around 65-35, but it's unclear how much of the macron vote was for him or just against her. macron called for unity after the vote was announced and promised action on france's problems. the defeated candidate, the well known marine le pen, is a controversial figure from the far right o
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she's anti-immigration in the national front, a party with a history of racism and anti-semitism. she didn't reach the 40% threshold she wanted but is now talking of rebranding her party and will continue to be a force. there was some last-minute drama in this election. a hack into macron's campaign dumped thousands of doubts onto the internet. the hack didn't seem to have any effect on the outcome it. was generally thought the hack in the interest of the le pen campaign and as in the u.s., there is a suspected russian connection. le pen was a favorite candidate of putin and seemed to have the support as well of donald trump who seemed to think terror attacks in france would have her favor. all of france's
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unemployment, its stagnant kmirk and terrorism, are now his problems. mark phillips, cbs news, paris. north korea has detained another u.s. citizen, the fourth held by the regime. he's committed of commits unspecified hostile acts against the country. well, the pentagon says ahead of the isis affiliate of afghanistan died last mount. he died following an eastern raid carried out by afghan and ugs farces. la garry planned the attack last month that killed or wounded more than 100 people. and the spchlt in the murder of two boston doctors is recovering in the hospital and is being arraigned today. the two doctors were found dea
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in an apartment building friday night. he opened fire and was wounded by police. police say the victims likely knew their killer and that's how he got into the building. >> it's a very safe area. it's a very safe building. the building is very safe. it's hard to get into the building, so i'm shocked. >> the doctors, both anesthesiologists were engaged to be maifred. the weather is expected to clear but floodwaters in many areas have yet to recede. damage estimates for farmers is about $65 million, $21 million for other businesses. 36 counties have been declared disaster areas. and firefighters in southern georgia are battling a massive wildfire that's consumed nearly 100,000 acres in a national wildlife refuge. an area
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line is under advisory. roads are closed and some schools won't open today. well, coming up on the "morning news" now, new protests over old symbols. tempers flair. and an unmanned space plane returns to architect after a nearly two-year top secret mission. this is the "cbs morning news." i never miss an early morning market. but with my back pain i couldn't sleep or get up in time. then i found aleve pm. the only one to combine a safe sleep aid plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. and now. i'm back! aleve pm for a better am. "how clean do you feel after going to the bathroom?" (laughter)
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a group of interglakt cal misfits gives the box office a big start. good morning, jill. >> good morning, anne-marie. this morning stocks in asia finished higher following the results of the french election. the dow gained 64 points for the week, the s&p finished 15 points higher. the nasdaq added 52 points. the price of oil is higher. u.s. crude gained 65 cents in early trading to $45.86 a barrel. there's growing sentiment that opec will extend its production cut when it meets next month. oil jumped 77 cents a barrel last friday. meanwhile friday's strong jobs report in this country added to asia and the u.s. the u.s. economy added 211,000 jobs. ton employment rate drops to 4%. that's a level we haven't seen since 2007 before thees
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good morning, we're hoping to learn more about former national security advisory michael flynn, when the former acting attorney general sally yates testifies today. >> plus, why some lucky rap fans get to thank nicki minaj
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>> let's talk weather now. it's kind of chilly now. >> it is chilly out there. tomorrow morning is going to be even cooler with some areas of frost for areas well to the north and west. you will need the jacket this morning. it's going to be another breezy day. you're probably going to need the jacket, at least a light jacket for much of the afternoon. 49 degrees right now, pretty dry air, and a nice wind out of the west, northwest. that wind is going to stick around as well. temperatures around the renal, we have some 30s out there for the shenandoah v. 39 for front royal. 38 for martinsburg, some of our cooler sports. 44 for waldorf and over into west virginia, they have some 20s out there. okay, so we are looking at a nice day, a lot of sunshine, finally getting rid of this mess we had over the weekend. we are going to stay dry today. temperatures running almost 10 degrees below average. now, this is not too unusual. jan had a great question this morning. she said are we breaking records? no, it's just a little cool here. we are going to e
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we'll explain in just a bit. 63 this afternoon for frederick. 50 for martinsburg, 58 for winchester and a little breezy. lots of sunshine, though, ellen. we have a water main break going on. you might not be able to get out of your neighborhood this morning. it's blocking both directions at this point on clifton road at laurel glen road. then a little bit north of there and a little west on 66 we to have some construction. that might slow you down if you're heading eastbound between route 244 and southerly road. it's out there. plus 66 eastbound inside the beltway right between the beltway and the dulles connector road there is construction there as well. 4:27, always dreaming, headed to the preakness now. that's only two weeks away, and when the kentucky
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the racetrack, he's going to face horses with fresh legs. most of them will not be going on to baltimore. the preakness set for may 20th. former acting attorney general sally yates testifies before a senate committee today. yates is expected to discuss what she told the white house about former national security advisory michael flynn. president trump says he's looking forward to working with france's new president emmanuel macron. the president released a tweet after he soundly defeated marine le pen. the cost of phillips has gone down. while the gas price has been falling it still costs more than this time last year when drivers were paying $0.14 less per gone. that's a quick look at what's going on. >> th
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on wusa9. >> hard to believe temperatures in the 40s right now. >> mm-hmm,. >> in washington d. c. looks like it's only going to get near the 60-degree mark as we head through the afternoon. don't expect a big warmup, at least not today. i'm mike hydeck. >> and i'm jan jeffcoat. it's crazy when that high is going to be 60 in some areas. >> yeah. >> bundle up this morning. >> i'm jan jeffcoat. all right, let's talk weather. when's the heat coming back? >> you know what, all week is going to be below average. we are going to have our warmest day on wednesday. wednesday we're going to have temperatures into the 70s but low 70s average for this time of the year, is low to mid-70s. so this morning we have our frost freeze advisories. we have a frost advisory for areas in west virginia, also in the higher elevations a freeze warning. tonight we'll have more areas that could see some patchy frost, even through the suburbs well off to
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tonight it's going to be even cooler by a couple of degrees. this is going to be the coolest24 hours of the next week. 49 for washington. 49 for fredericksburg, and 49 through waldorf. lotsof sunshine out there, just a had little cool. winds out of the west, northwest, and they are going to be pretty breeze at times, 10 to 15 miles per hour. we're going to stay dry today. we will have better rain chances for the end of the week. the next three days looking quiet and pleasant with a slow moderate warmup by wednesday. we'll talk about the chance for rain entering the forecast in a little bit. >> get it all over on monday, and then we have something to look forward to. on the roads, it's pretty nice. rails not open yet. if you are by clifton road we have a water main break by laurel glen road. it's closed in both directions while they do this water main

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