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captioning sponsored by cbs a deadly fire in paradise. flames engulf the upper floors of on high rise in honolulu. the apartment building did not have sprinklers. also tonight, too hot to fly. a new report says climate change is making 9 air wors the air wor travelers. under a train with terrified passengers trapped inside. suddenly the train starts sliding them away. the dramatic rescue caught on camera. and venus williams falls short in an emotional finale after willable dumb.
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>> ninan: good evening, i'm reena ninan. it was when a fire in the world famous waikiki beach. at least three people were killed and a dozen injured. the building did not have fire sprinklers. >> reporter: >> reporter: at abousprinklers. at 32:15 smoke run through the high rise sending flames sky yard as flames ran down two stories including residents, and children and the elderly ran for their lives. >> it was horrendous. flames shooting out and black smoke. >> by night fall the fire had eaten its way through the 24 floor. >> voices screaming, constant screaming. help me help me, help me. >> three people died and a
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scralabled and in some cases scrawled into position to control the flames. honolulu fire cheap nanny neves his a sprinkler system could have saved lives. >> if there were sprinklers in this apartment, the fire would be contained to the unit of origin. >> by the mid 1970's u.s. building codes began to require sprinklers in all new high rises. the marco polo residence were built in 1971. an average of 40 people a year die in high rise fires in the u.s. according to a recent report. the death toll is zero or near zero in buildings with an automatic sprinkler system. robert solomon is with the national fire protection association. >> having the sprinkler system can protect everybody that's in there and it also has the benefit of protecting the persons who save us and rescue us should somhi
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>> reporter: the high rise in london where more than 80 people died in a fire last month also lacked a mud return sprinkler system. latter in high failed to pass legislation that would require sprinkler systems on older buildings. they may now reconsider. >> ninan: i certainly hope so. thank you, tony. today president trouble gave a revise republican healthcare plan a shout out on twitter. he said next the senate is going to vote on legislation to save the americans from the obamacare disaster. mr. trump is spending the weekend at his golf club in new jersey. >> reporter: president trouble appeared in good spirits greeting guests at the women's u.s. open golf tournament at bedminster golf course. there is concern about revelation of kremlin-linked attendees at a meeting at trump tower last year. the june 2016 gathering was set to be between donald trump, jr. campaign manager, paul man port and son-in-law jared
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intermediary gold stone and russian lawyer -- susfected links to russian intelligence was also there. >> as far as you know, as far this as incident is concerned this is all of it. >> this is everything. >> the development contradicts public statements from donald trump, jr. who based on e-mails he released accepted the meeting hoping to receive damaging info about hillary clinton. president trump has defended his campaign's actions. >> nothing happened from the meeting. zero happened from the meeting. and honestly i think the press made a very big deal over something that really a lot of people were doing. >> democrats used their weekly address to say they now have proof of collusion. >> donald trump, jr.'s e-mails we saw the first public evidence that the trump campaign eagerly intended to collude with russia. >> meanwhile the administration's travel ban is facing another set back.
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through a ruling a federal judge expanded the definition of who is permitted entry through a bonafide relationship to include grandparents and other relatives. but attorney general jeff sessions said he will appeal that decision to the supreme court. reena. >> ninan: all right, thank you. rivers continue to rise in the upper mid west following several days of heavy rain. streets and homes are still flooded in parts of illinois and wisconsin. flood advisory, tend into northern ohio. more storms could pop up in the region tonight. officials said today it appears that a zinc hole that swallowed two homes strawpped growing. it owned up up friday as big as a football field. no one was hurt. it takes weeks. it's across tampa and across florida. fewer ever this big. more than 40 large wild fires are burning out of control this weekend in at least seven western states. of these fires were struck by lightening and are now
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fueled by triple digit heat. this summer we've seen how extreme heat can impact air travel. sometimes it's just too hot to fly. a new study says it's going to get a loss worse for air travelers. >> record high temperatures grounded dozen of flames in phoenix where mercury approached 120 degrees in late june. too hot for some smaller regional jets to take off. >> phoenix. >> it's a problem that will occur more for examplely at more airports. according to a columbia university study published in the journal climate change this week. researchers predict maximum temperatures at some airports could rise between seven and 14 degrees by 2080. is that really enough to push most modern airplanes out of their operational range. >> five to ten degree average increase, yes, it faces serious operational challenges. >> he runs askapilot.com. he says modern
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best in cooler air that's more dense because it generates more lift. as temperatures rise planes need more speed and longer runways to take off as well as lighter loasdz. >loads. >> sometimes the result of all that is we can't take a whole of people or fuel. you can be prohibited from flying at all. >> according to this study in the future up to 30% of flights could face some sort of weight restriction during heat wave. at laguardia for example where runways are notoriously short a boeing 737-800 would have to off load weight half the time during hottest days. smith says a solution would be decades away. >> you can't just swap new engines or new wings on a plane to meet whatever challenges that climate change is going to present. we have to work into this thinking of how newer planes are conceived. >> temperature here at lax is 110 degrees. the maximum operating teer
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118. you could see how that could cause problem if some of these predictions hold true. >> ninan: thank you for that report. there was a dramatic rest cue. about 50 miltz south of houston an suv got wedged beneath a train. then the train started moving. a police officer's body camera shows him walking up to the scene of the accident. police say two people were inside a dodge durango around 2. mented 30 a.m. forty morning when the driver ignored flashing lights at a railroad crossing crashing into a pacific union train that stopped at the crossing. the car was pinned underneath the train trapping the driver and his female passenger inside. >> hold on we've got medics coming. >> the officer called for emergency aid and tries to calm the crash victims. >> you've been in an accident. >> as the officer tries to open
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apparently unaware the suv is underneath his train. >> what the bleep. >> begins to move the locomotive forward dragging the suv with it. the officer radios for help. >> call the railroad company tell them to stop moving. they're dragging this car there's people inside. >> he runs to an ambulance asking for assistance. >> tell him to stop moving they're dragging this car. do something up at the front. >> the officer runs awe lock side the suv trying to calm the people inside the car. >> we're getting them to stop. >> finally a fire truck alerts the engineer. he hits the brakes, stopping the train. >> somebody physically talk to somebody. make sure they know not to keep moving again. >> reporter: police say the two people in the car were hospitalized with non-threatening injuries and alcohol may have been a factor in the character. crash. veniceli
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history in an emotional familiary at wimbledon. >> an unlikely story for the ages but marizio ende mar -- en' hope at the age of 57 to win at wimbledon in a century. williams was gracious in defeat wishing her sister serena expecting her child had been there. >> i miss you. i tried my best to do same things you do but i think there will be other opportunities. i do. >> the last time williams won wimbledon was nearly a decade ago. since then things have not been easy. she was diagnosed with sjogren's
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joint pain. >> as an athlete and you have fatigue that's tough. >> before this tournament she was in car accident in which one person died. last week police k4r5erd her of any wrongdoing but at a recent press conference the trauma had clearly taken its toll. >> really no words to describe like how devastating and, yeah. i'm completely speechless. and it's just ... maybe i should go. >> the 23 year old muguruza already knows what it's like to lose to a williams sister. she lost to serena two years ago but today she experienced what it was like to beat one. on sunday eyes on the main final at wimbledon as roger federer takes
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if he wins tomorrow he will be the first man to claim eight wimbledon titles. >> ninan: a new report says it's time to put the brakes on most high speed police chases.
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jury in california strongly urges the police to ease up on high speed car chases which put bystanders at risk. a report from the car chase, los angeles. >> look at that. look at that. >> reporter: the happens here almost daily. high speed chases sometimes reaching more than a hundred miles per hour. up above just about every police pursuit on the streets of los
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>> my biggest fear is somebody is really going to get hurt or die or there's going to be some extremely innocent person injured. >> look at the kid, look at the kid. >> reporter: for good reason because the new l.a. grand jury report which analyzed more than 4000 police chases ove0 police . resulting in people being injured, three people died. more than 90% were in response to non-violent crime. each near miss raises the likelihood for what happened to 15 year old jack phoenix killed while crossing the street by a suspected car thief fleeing the lapd at 90 miles per hour. >> the lapd needs to acknowledge what they did and apologize. >> nick phoenix is jack's father. >> do you think these pursuits need to happen. >> i do not. it's incredibly dangerous for a car to tear through town and
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car and encourage that? it's crazy. >> reporter: officer him -- jimenez says people -- >> they have nothing to lose so they might as well be famous or notorious. >> i think some people do think that way. and it's not fair. >> that's it right there, right there. >> reporter: the grand jury faulted a lack of proper training and found that most pursuits are unnecessary. while officers want to go ahead and catch the criminal, if the suspect is deemed to be not dangerous, it may be best to peel off instead of continuing to chase. cbs news los angeles. >> ninan: still ahead, a lawyer is shot. his girlfriend admits she pulled the trigger. was itself defense or love gone bad. 48 hours is on the case. >>
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hours" the extraordinary case of a young woman who claims she fatally shot her boyfriend a successful lawyer in self-defense. but investigators say it was rejection that pushed her over the edge. peter van sant has the story. >> on october 12th, 2012, shayna hubers shot her on again/off again boyfriend
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times. >> 911. >> ma'am, i have ... i killed my boyfriend in self-defense. >> police escorted shayna to the station where for almost three hours the 21 year old told anyone who would listen that she shot 29 year old ryan because she felt her life was in danger. >> -- i picked up the gun and in the middle of hip doing something with his arm or doing something crazy i shot him. >> but prosecutor michelle snodgrass believes that this was cold blooded murder and that the motivating factor was shayna's relentless obsession with the handsome lawyer. >> she wouldn't stop texting him. obsessively texting him. she showed up on an unsolved crime. >> by the fall of 120 authorities believed the swaying had reached a
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ryan had made plans for the weekend that did not include shayna. >> in her mind, this was a failure of sorts. shayna didn't fail. >> she was moving when she's shots were fired. >> but the defense argues that ryan had a violent temper and shayna's mother sharon hubers says investigators are wrong about her daughter. >> shayna hubers is not a murderer. no she is not. >> suggest see peter's full report tonight on 48 hours right here on cbs. up next it cost $3 million and can top 260 miles an hour. who wants to drive?
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greenwich connecticut where a transportation correspondence cliff vanally took a spin in the fastest car. take a look at the bug children. >bugatti chiron. >> you better hit the gas. >> a like
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that need for speed doesn't come cheap. you'll need to be in the tom cruise or jamie fox tax bracket to afford one. >> what am i going to spend if i want a bugatti. >> $2.2. >> $3 bite 3. >> ject. > -- correct.>> you got one of o work right especially the limited edition. you get a car which is the most powerful most beautiful and most luxurious car in the world. our customer want an average of 30-35 cars and they want to make it a pinnacle in their collection. >> reporter: we launched in the late 90's by volkswagon the bugatti name traces its history to bugatti who built cars under the ma toa no car could be too beautiful or expensive. today bugatti's are individually built in france where every detail where the carbon fiber skin to the color of
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zonsewn stitching can be compromise. the engine is the fastest in the world. they had to cap the top speed at 261 miles an hour for safety reasons. how fast could it go if you didn't have to limit the speed. >> we don't know that. >> how is the gas mileage. >> that's a very good question. we don't consider that. no customers ask about at that time. >> reporter: the car comes with four years free maintenance. for the same three million you could buy nine average american homes give 13 kids an ivy league education or buy a rolls royce phantom for each day of the week but a harvard degree can't do this. >> under two and-a-half seconds. that's fast. >> reporter: this is the official driver. yes, that's a real job. bugatti did make one
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they let me drive it. >> very little throttle. >> i was being conservative because it's not my $3 million. >> reporter: it feels like luxury and performs like a missile. like most people on the plan plt i'll never been able to p awe poure --awe ford one. >> reporter: if you want to own one of these you have to be patient. right now there's a three, three and-a-half year long waiting list but you'll be about 140 horns in the u.s. one thing you don't get for $3 million, very much trunk space. kris van cleave, cbs news, greenwich, connecticut. >> ninan: for $3 million someone else gets the groceries. that's the cbs weekend news. we continue now this hours streaming channel, cbsn and cbsnews.com.
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>> bob: saturday night in cincinnati for game two with the reds. must-see tv with max on the mound for his first start of the second half. >> bob: it's a saturday night in cincinnati at great american ballpark. they usually have great crowds on the weekends and the nats will try to make it two in a row in this series behind the all-star, the incomparable

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