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captioning funded by cbs good morning. it is thursday, october 12th, 2017. welcome to "cbs this morning." strong winds send flames racing in california. entire towns are evacuated. the death toll is at 23. we'll hear from firefighters trying to save lives. harvey weinstein breaks his see lens. how he getsing help. how he kept his most prienkt moments secret. and ten men face centimeter hazing charges after an lsu student died, how
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extreme amounts. and how the people of china are going cash-free with the help of cell phones. why the u.s. is being left behind because of debit and credit cards. but we begin this morning with today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> this is absolutely devastating. it's heartbreaking. it looks like another planet. >> california fights to contain wildfires. >> new evacuation orders were issued for entire towns including the wine country, giving people minutes to get out. >> we're in the fight for the long haul. it's going to get worse before it gets better. >> he's speaking out for the first time. >> i'm not doing okay. i'm trying. i've got to get help, guys. >> perhaps i feel stronger. >> more tough talk. >> the calm before the storm. it seemed related to
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i'm building up the military like nobody's ever seen. >> i'm not saying i'm not doing anything, and i'm not. >> president trump is tweeting demand for the players to stand. >> he gave putin a puppy. you is ee him kiss that pup right there on the noggin. >> that will do it. the new york yankees have survived. they're headed to houston. >> -- and all that matters -- >> the hopes for the u.s. national soccer team, for the first time 1986 they will not be in the world cupp. >> they were slowed down by their parachute pants. >> on "cbs this morning." >> a historic change for the boy scouts of america. soon girls will be allowed to join. >> while i'm happy the girls are allowed, i want to say to the gri girls, look out for what you wish for. at least with the g
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>> announcer: this morning's "eye opener" is presented by toyota. let's go places. welcome to "cbs this morning." the wildfire disaster in northern california is worsening, and there appears tono end in sight. the fires are blame for at least 23 deaths. 285 people are reported missing, though the officials suggest many of them are out of touch with loved ones. 3,500 homes and businesses have been destroyed. >> think about this. there are entire towns under evacuation orders. highway patrol officers went door to door in part os sonoma county overnight, strongly advising homeowners to get out. >> at least 22 large wildfires are burning at this hour. carter evans is at santa rosa where firefighters are still having trouble getting to burned out areas. good morning.
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kmart that has been on lit rated. you can imagine how hot it was to bend those steel i beams. take a look at the shopping carts. this is what it looked like when it was fully engulfed. firefighters say there was nothing they could do. towering flames lit up the nigh sky, a warning to those still in the path of the wildfire. in part os california the safest place to view it is from the air. california highway patrol captured hillsides and towns burning to the ground. >> there have been fires that just blow through -- it's been going on for three days without resolution. we're just on edge. >> reporter: the fires have burned about 265 square miles, an area half the size of los angeles. >> we're in this fight for the long haul. it's going to continue to get worse before it gets better. >> reporter: more than 8,000 firefighters are facing extremely dry conditions. gusty winds, som
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miles per hour are changing direction with each passing minute. >> it's pushing the fire right through the grass toward these homes. >> reporter: some of these firefighters have been working nonstop since sunday, they're fighting extreme exhaustion with some men catching sleep wherever they can. >> we've had dozens of firefighters who have lost homes and have had families impacted and they're still out hu fighting the fire. >> reporter: new video shows first responders driving right into the inferno. more than 20,000 people have been evacuated from their homes. one family put strinch leprinkl their roof and begged first responders to save their house. meanwhile some are returning to the most devastated areaed for the first time to see the damage up close. >> this is absolutely devastating. it is heartbreaking. it's cr
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it looks like another planet. >> reporter: 98% of all wildfires are caused by people, but it is still not clear what caused this one. there were reports of very windy weather downing trees, power poles and lines on wednesday. pacific gas and electric notified officials right away and they're now getting. >> thanks, carter. satellite photos are showing how entire neighborhoods in santa rosa are reduced to ashes. chief weather castor lonnie quinn of our station wcbs is here to show us why october is such a dangerous month. good morning, lonnie. >> good morning, everyone. in effect through 5:00 p.m. today. i'm very confident they'll reissue the
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the weekend. typically california would have a flow comes in. onshore flow. we get to october with the high pressure that sets up over nevada and that can oftentimes give you an easterly or northeast wind. that's the problem. the air has to travel over the sierra mountains. take a look at what happens. all the air comes whipping in from the east. it goes up the mountains and down the mountains. it does a couple of things. it's picking up speed. that's a problem. it's drying out and warming up. stronger, faster, hotter, it's a problem and this is a problem. keep in mind, norah, once the winds die down, the fire is so big itself it creates its own weather. fire can actually create its own wind, norah. >> really scary to think about. lonnie, thank you so much. as a lit of his a
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expressing remorse and defiance. he said yesterday, quote, we all make mistakes. now 30 women describe inappropriate conduct by harvey weinstein. jericka duncan is here with the widening scandal. good morning. >> good morning. the lapd responded to what they called a family dispute. his 22-year-old daughter told police her father was suicidal and depressed. hours later weinstein told the paparazzi he's hoping for a second chance. facing allegations of sexual assault harvey weinstein surfaced wednesday in hollywood. >> i've got to get help, guys. you know what? we all make mistakes. second chance, i hope. >> he took a defiant tone with jab at other stars. >> you know what?
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guys, not like those [ bleep ]. >> very disturbed by the content of the tape. >> reporter: the manhattan d.a. said he had declined to press charges from the sex crimes unit. gutierrez wore a wire and recorded this conversation the next day. >> come on, i'm used to that. >> you're using to that? >> yes. come on. >> reporter: vance promised wednesday to look at any other claims. actress and model carla said i was relieved to find another woman in his roomful he asked us to kiss. then he tried to kiss me on the lips. >> actress sayaha ledoux said he
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to kiss me. hillary clinton said she'll take any money given by harvey weinstein to charity. >> this is a different side that i and many others had known in the past. >> his behavior was called disgusting, immoral, and inexcusable. norah? >> jericka, thank you. in the next half hour we'll going to hear from a former personal assistant to harvey weinstein. he describes the one way the movie mogul kept his alleged abuse quiet for so long. the president called on congress to approve his overhaul at an event yesterday in pennsylvania. he said that his plan shrinks the number of tax brackets from the number of 8 to 4, but details including iom
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unknown. major garrett is at the white house with the latest on this story. good morning. >> good morning. the president praised long haul truckers in pennsylvania and said his tax plan under con strugz will give families about $4,000 per year. sounds good. it's led outside analysts to question in the end whether these tax cuts will generate economic growth or boost wages. >> all i can say is you'd better get it passed. >> as the president struggles to get votes in the senate for tax reform, his feud with senator bob corker isn't his only problem on capitol hill. the white house fears other republican senators may block mr. trump's plan. >> we're going to fight and we're going to get those republicans and maybe a few of those democrats to raise their hands, and you're going to have so much money to
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wonderful country. >> the president appeared confident. he told his former head of security and clothe friend keith schiller, quote, i hate everyone in the white house. there are a few exceptions, but i hate them. the report also claims the chief of staff john kelly is miserable in his job and remains only out of a sense of duty. white house officials deny the accounts and sources say the president's mood is unpredictable and volatile as it always has been. kelly has been fatigued by the president's temper. still, kelly had enough sway to nominate his deputy, kirstjien nielsen. >> i'm not saying i'm doing anything and i'm not saying i'm not, but we shouldn't be tng
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interview with fox since taking office. he's given five to other broadcast outlets. he said they should have their licenses challenged or possibly revoked. that prompted ben sasse, the republican from nebraska whether he should recant. >> the president slammed the iran nuclear deal as one-sided last night in a fox news interview. >> i think it was one of the the most incompetently deals i've ever seen. we got nothing. we got nothing. it's horrible, horrible embarrassn't to our country. we did it out of weakness when actually we had great strength. >> margaret brennan is at the white house for decertifying what it means for its future. good morning. >> good morning. the presi w
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on iran, but he will not tear up that nuclear deal. instead, he's putting it in serious jeopardy by giving congress the power to decide whether to reimpose sanctions on iran. by doing so he's rejecting the top national security advisers who show iran is abiding by the nuclear agreement. but the administration wants to rewrite the new law. doing so in the past has infuriated president trump and led to arguments with secretary of state rex tillerson. the administration also wants to threaten new sanctions on iran in order to get a new round of diplomacy to address the problems mr. trump sees, including demands for more inspections and demands for what happens when the existing plan expires in ten years. this was all
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it alienated partners in europe, russia, and china. >> thank you so much. newly released laid owe calls show the effort to release the gunman. the recordinging raises more questions about the police response. jamie yuccas is outside the mandalay bay resort and casino. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this has many people wondering why the shooter stopped his gunfire after a hail of bullets into the hall way and then hundreds on a country concert below. these are some of the first gunshots fired by stephen paddock from inside his suite at mandalay bay. >> someone call the pleechlts someone's firing a gun down the hallway. >> steven schuck used
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phone to let them know. security guard jesus campos was already shot. >> i can't tell you what room. he looks like he fired down the hall. >> reporter: after schuck's call, it's unclear when mandalay bay called the police. >> nobody's trying to hide anybody. >> reporter: originally sheriff joe lombardo said campos interrupted the gunshots. >> what we want to do is draw the most accurate picture we can, and i'm telling you right now today that timeline might change again. >> reporter: investigators say paddock did not have any game bilk debting and his girlfriend did not worry about his mental health, but his motive remains unclear. the first lawsuit has been filed. jay gas per's family is suing. in an
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vegas review journal" sheriff lombardo says an autopsy has been performed on paddock and no brain abnormalities have been found. >> thanks a lot, jamie. the boy scouts of america will start admitting girls next year. an older group will begin in 2019. it will allow them to earn the coveted rank of eagle scout. the girl scouts criticize this decision. jim axelrod is here with what has resulted after yea of debate. >> this is an organization found more than a century ago to teach boys about loyalty, bravery, and kindness. for more than 107 years the boy scouts of america helped define for many what being a boy is all about. but in a unanimous decision the bo
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it would welcome girls into its iconic cub scout program and create a path for the older girls to anxious eagle scout. >> parents have less available time. they're looking for options. >> reporter: for 16-year-old sydney ireland, this means she can officially joan hur brother's new york-based troop next year and she'll be eligible to earn the rank of eagle scout, something attained by former president gerald ford and astronaut neil armstrong. >> reporter: the news was not celebrated by the boy scouts counterpart. in a statement girl scouts of the usa stood by the its current policy. we
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all-girl environmental. for girls like ireland means being allowed into the boy scouts meaning everything she wanted is being met. >> i want to do things that the boy scouts do. >> in the past 2 1/2 years the boy scouts also announced it would allow gay leaders and transgenders. scout leaders say it's all about fairness. >> i know. >> i'm so scared right now. >> gayle has opinions, jim. thank you so much. >> i just think boy scouts and girl scouts are good. i agree that can do anything. i like boy scouts and girl scouts. >> now in this story, this taejer talks about life with isis. in the words of
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some sad news. the united states men's soccer team will miss the world cup after losing to trinidad and tobago. the first time the u.s. men's team has failed to quality since the 1986 world cup, but even after losing, the u.s. still had a slim chance to qualify. we just needed mexico to tie honduras and it almost happened. mexico had a last-second free kik but the shot didn't make it past the defense wall. so sad. mexico wanted to help, but there was a wall in the way. >> i do feel bad though. that little
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maybe just maybe. >> the women will going to the world cup. >> we like that too. withing back to "cbs this morning." here are thee things you should know this morning. the house set to vote on a $36.5 million disaster park for the wildfire and hurricane relief. it includes $576 million for recoverients and a $5 billion loan to the virgin islands. the president's order takes aim at obamacare. it is expected to allow people to buy plans exempt from the coverage care requirements. they will likely be cheaper. people worry this will destabilize the market. actor ben affleck apologized for gropinro
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he tweeted yesterday, i acted inappropriately toward miss burton and i sincerely apologize. burton and them called him out after he publicly criticized harvey weinstein. nearly a dozen men are involved in a hazing. maxwell gruver died last month after becoming highly intoxicated during a hazing event. they're accused of forcing this 189-year-old to heavily drink. gruver is at least the second student to die. you may remember timothy piazza died. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. all ten subjects were members of this fraternity but their
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memberships have been pulled. it took less than five hours for all ten current and former lsu students to surrender to campus police on wednesday. the men were arrested and brought to the local prisonle all are charged with one misdemeanor count of hazing. 19-year-old mathew nauquin is also charged with the negligent homicide. his bail was set at $10,000. nine of the suspects were released on bond in less than 24 hours. >> i don't think he's going to be pleading guilty at this point. i don't know what happened. i'm looking forward to saeg everyone else's version of the story, but we're going to do it in a court of law. >> reporter: on septemb 1
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they were ordered to bible study. once there pledges were quizzed about the fraternity's quizzes. if they answered the question incorrectly, they were forced to drink one 90 proof alcohol. he was highly intoxicated and left of a couch. nine hours later he was found with a weak pulse. he was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead. gruver's alcohol level was .495% at the time of his death. more than six times the legal driving limit and nearly two times which is considered to be a life-threatening level of alcohol. justin shared a suite with him on campus. >> it's supposed to be a club full of friends, why did his life have to end so early. >> if convicted of hazing, the suspects could get 30 days in jail and also expelled from
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if convicted he could get five years of prison. they plan to talk over and says more charges could be filed. charlie? >> thanks, omar. cbs news has obtained video of a teenager who recently holly williams has the story of this young civilian who claims she was forced to go there when she was just 10 years old. holly, good morning. >> good morning. the 15-year-old girl was captured on video after escaping with other women. she was a devout muslim but hated living under isis. >> i'm from kansas. i've been in syria for five years. >> reporter: she survived life in the so-called isis capital
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and she saw things no child should ever have to see. >> every wre you see a bombed building, you smell the smells of the bodies. >> she said she was brought to syria against her will by her father. >> we were afraid of him. we didn't trust him. we were, quiet, shut up, sit down, you have nothing to say, be glad your head isn't chopped off. >> her father was later killed, she said, leaving her to fend for herself. she married a syrian man who was also killed by an air strike and reveals she's now 6 months' pregnant. >> i feel ready. i feel ready for what life want throws at me. >> reporter: because she's still a minor, we're not revealing her identity. this blog previously written by her mother shows the girl in happier times and what looks luke a normal american family. she thinks her mother is still in the u.s. >> hi, mom
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please, if you see this video, please contact me. >> now she says she wanted to be reunited with what's left of her family. >> i still have hope. hopes to go to school, hopes to be a normal person, hope to be a mother to my child. there's a lot of stories i could tell you. five years with isis, you see a lot. >> the girl was last seen in the custody of u.s.-backed syrian forces. we do not know if she has been handed over to the u.s. authorities. gayle? >> thank you very much, holly williams. it's one of those things you hope her mother sees her, gets back together. >> an in credibly sat story and great reporting by a team over there. someone who worked closely with harvey weinstein is opening up
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we have new insight this morning how the alleged widespread abuse of harvey weinstein stayed hidden. now his assistant is speaking out. he was his personal assistant in the early 2000s. bianna golodryga has the story. good morning. >> good morning. he said he's in utter shock. nearly 30 will have come forward to say they were abused or
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one of his former assistants who did not want to be identified and asked us to alter his voice told me he and others who worked for weinstein were victims as well. >> it was no secret that he had scores of women all across the globe. >> reporter: harvey weinstein's former assistant, a man he employed for over nine years said it was well known his boss was a philandering, but weinstein went to great lengths to keep it see quiet. >> we would be told at 2:00 so and so was coming. >> it wasn't until the recent reports from weinstein's alleged victims including accusations of rape that this former assistant says he realized what actually may have been going on behind closed doors. howo
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forward now? >> sick, angry, disgusted, victimized in our own strike. it seems like the company was structured from top to bottom to service whatever he was doing. >> reporter: weinstein's reputation were women -- >> in some ways i'm still under a passed out harvey weinstein and it's thanksgiving. >> congratulations you five ladies no longer have to pretend to be attracted to harvey weinstein. mack far land explained it. he wanted to tang a strong swing. make no mistake this comment came from a place of loathing and anger. the board said they're shocked and dismayed by the allegations
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but the news is perhaps not so surprising to many others in hollywood. >> many people were aware of his reputation as an alleged sexual predator. there were a lot of people who enabled him. >> reporter: the assistant said the message has been painful but needed to send hollywood a mome message. >> this is unacceptable and should have never happened. >> reporter: the witness i spoelk to said he never witnessed someone and he never helped facilitate the secret meetings. however, one actress said a different weinstein associate deliberately tricked her into visiting weinstein's room alone. we reached out to the weinstein company for these allegations an never heard back. this ace sis stand said he's bracing for more and more damaging
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more to come. there seems to be more conflicting reports. he's been here many times. i had no idea. i had never heard any of this. >> a his assistant said this worst kept secret, it was known but he was known to be a philandering and they all assumed it was consensual. clearly it wasn't. >> these are accusations of harassment. coming up next, a look at this morning's other headlines including a close call with an astrona astronaut. plus, a new
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it is thursday, october 12th, 2017. welcome back to "cbs this morning." the fire danger intensifies again in northern california with the winds fanning the flames. ahead, we'll hear from victims who had no warnings before the fierce got to their homes. plus the new kind of cow's milk that may be better for a person's health, but first your "eye opener" at 8:00. >> there appears to be no end in sight. >> it's coming in, winding whipping faster, strong, and hotter. >> i'm standing in what was
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a kmart. this is what it looked like when it was fully engulfed. >> as the list of victims grows, harvey weinstein -- >> #harvey weinstein hopes for a second chase. >> wednesday's announcement marks the mosting is can't change in the organization, one that was founded to teach boys about loyalty, bravery, and kindness. big news from the art world. a painting of jesus by leonardo da vinci, they say it could bring $100 million. it's interesting. jesus crying over the subject of the painting and when he heard how much this is going
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"eye opener" presented by brighthouse financial, established by metlife. i'm charlie rose with norah o'donnell and gayle king. windy conditions this morning are pushing the flameslet. at least 23 people have died. >> nearly 300 people are missing but officials think bad communication may explain that. the wildfires knocked out power to 77 cell towers. this morning only 13 will r out of service. last night high wail patrol officers went door to door encouraging evacuations. mireya villarreal with a family who barely had enough time to escape. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we're in the coffey park neighborhood, one of the hardest hit areas where there is literally nothing
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neighbors turned into first responders going door to door to make sure everyone was safe. >> it's devastating. >> when heather bauer saw ash raining down on her yard, she became the neighborhood emergency alert system. >> they're like what's going on. i said, you need to pack up your steph and get out. >> reporter: becauser's mother and two brothers lost their homes, her mother escaping only with the clothes she was wearing. >> did anybody get any warnings? >> no. >> reporter: many people in the danger zones were caught by surprise and needed help getting out. >> any units available? they called their house is on fire and need assistance evac yagt. >> reporter: sonoma county sheriff said alerts were sent out but admits not
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would have been notified. >> without landlines if you don't sign your cell phone up, you don't get that service. >> the fire also knocked out 77 cell phone towers. in those cases giordano said people should sign up for a system that can send alerts over wi-fi. >> is there a backup plan? >> news media. listen to your radio, pay attention to the cell phone, get on the web pangs. use them all so you don't miss the pieces. >> reporter: we spoke with a family whose aunt has been missing since sunday, a hotel employee saw that report, recognized the woman and helped us reacquaint the family. clearly this has taken a combination of efforts to make sure everyone stays safe. norah? >> wow. such reporting there. i hope everyone can
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relatives. a napa, california man is thanking officers for rescuing him ands he family. s they were rescued sunday as the wildfires approached their home. the helicopter could only fit four passengers, so tomeo stayed behind while his wife, their son, and parents left. >> i didn't know what was going to happen. i called my daughter and said, if i don't see you again, remember, i love you. that was it. that was the end. >> it was ugly. it was close. it wasll
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>> tamayo said his home was destroyed. one of the officers who went back in the helicopter said he wasn't sure they would see tamayo again after they left him the first time. geez, what a story. >> yes, yes. you can feel his pain. and as bad as it is to lose your life, to say good-bye to your daughter, you're just grateful you're alive. >> grateful toalive. the acting secretary of homeland security elaine duke is going to puerto rico to meet with hurricane victims. the fbi is investigating claims of possible fraud in connection with hurricane supplies. food and other items are allegedly being diverted. david begnaud is in puerto rico as they weighed in again on the u.s. territories' financial probable. >> reporter: good morning. trump has to decide how much money to spend. he went onto to tweet that those who circulate been amazing
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the most difficult circumstances cannot stay in puerto rico forever. based on our our reporting, people are not asking for forever. they're asking for things to get better right now. words are not necessary to describe martina rivera. >> he left me, she sobbed. her husband jorge died friday. doctors say he contracted a bacterial disease known as leptospirosis. he was eventually diagnosed with dengue and sent home. her older sister said the last thing he told them, i love you. it's spread through contaminated water but easily treatable with antibiotics. >> it's treated. >> reporter: that's the island's secretary. the government ordered him to figure out why clean wat i
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this island. >> reporter: at what point do you by pass the local government if they're another getting it done and at what point do you do it? >> we've been doing it. that's why we've been doing air drops in communities going directly twice where a brim has been destroyed by the water or any region that needs us to impact them directly, we'll keep doing it. >> reporter: three weeks after, the government is hangd out water filtering tablets as well as high-volume water filters. back at the pentecost tall church, the women son, why was he taken away. >> that was david begnaud reporting from puerto rico. really rough to hear that story, but he's done some of great reporting. now, $9 gallon of milk could be the drink of the future.
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in nebraska. >> reporter: what if i told you there's a type of milk that even people who are lactose intolerant think they could drink, do you think that's the cream of the aisle or another marketing bull. we'll put it >> announcer: this
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developed in australia that's quickly catching on in the u.s. the makers of a2 milk claim it's easier on the stomach. people who find regular milk hard to digest say this is good news. don dahler shows us why the dairy industry is not so sure. good morning. >> good morning. "morning rounds." i feed like a doctor. it is not almond milk. it is pure cow's milk. it has noed a tifbs and it's not lactose-free. the difference is the type of protein found in the milk and the makers say the difference can be life-changing. four years ago lisa said her grandson nicholas stopped drinking milk after he was hit with severe stomach pain. >> the symptoms went away when he stopped drinking milk. >> repr:
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commerial for a2 milk, he told his grandmother. >> i got it for him and he has no problems when he drinks it. >> reporter: blake waltrip is the chief executive of a2 milk in the u.s. >> there's a1 and a2. we find the cows that produce a2 proteins a and that's what we use to make our milk. more than likely everything we sees feels the intolerance is to the a1 protein, not the lactose. >> they think they're lactose intolerant, but they have a problem with the a1 protein. >> that's correct. >> when a1 proteins are broken down in the gut, they form a fragment bc7 that causes inflammation and bloating, caution abdominal pain. but at this point the
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it's a theory not backed by any search. >> there's no science that says there's any value in this. two studies that have been done with a small number of subjects looked at different variable that really don't give us the answer we need to be able to tell whether or not this is really true or not. >> some of the a-2 milk sold in stores is produced here at prairieland dairy at first nebraska where the milk of hundreds of cows is collected. interestingly it's not modified. a simple dna test is performed on newborn calves using hair follicles. they're then separated from the rest of the herd so there's no cross-contamination. the milk lines must be separated and cleaned thoroughly. once bottled, the product must be tested again. the testing i
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>> no, the testing isn't cheap, but it's reflected, you know, in bringing this product to market. >> a2 milk sold at a premium price, roughly $9 per gallon compared to $5 per gallon for regular milk. >> these calves have all been bred for the a2 protein. >> that's right. >> rice predicts that a2 milk is the wave of the future. >> i think it will eventually be all a2. >> for now it's costly. despite the higher cost, lisa says she still recommends milk for their money. >> i'll say try it. it's worth it. >> now, while the dairy industry doesn't think a2 milk is there yet it welcomes in
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consumer choice. it's sold in specialty and high-end grocery stores but they expect to make a larger rollout in the near future. >> it tastes like milk. >> it is milk. >> it's going be great for a lot of people who have digestive issues. try it and see if they can drink this. >> pricey but worth it. >> do they make a chocolate version? >> yes. the brown cows produce the -- >> that's udderly fantastic story, thanks so much. hyperloop one is teaming up with billionaire richard branson. ahead, what this morning's announcement could mean for the transfer. and tomorrow night you can watch nfl football when the eagles meet the panthers. both are at
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jet plane made a big announcement this morning. the hyperloop transferred people through a tube at nearly 7up miles an hour meaning people could go from l.a. to san francisco in 30 minutes. branson will serve on the board of directors. they'll focus on creating a passenger and cargo service. >> boy. that's great. >> sign me up. >> new york to d.c. >> i like that too. >> five minutes. >> that's awesome. the number of deaths from breast cancer dropped shortly in recent decades because of break throughs. our dr. agus is in our toyota green room. ahead, the new treatment option is in our new series called grand rounds. more ahead. your local news is next.
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and here is the one, two strike three is called. ball game other. yankees win. the yankees win. >> a remarkable comeback for the new york yankees. they're headed back to the american league championship series for the first time in five years. the yanks beat the cleveland indians last night, 5-2. they had lost the first two division games of the series but they came back to win the final three. they'll play the houston astros next. that series starts friday with the winner heading to the world series. great game last night. >> great game.
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great team. i never thought they could come back three games in a row. >> remember, they won 21 straight. >> yes, yes, yes. they say it ain't over till it's over. there you go. congratulations to the yankees. welcome back to "cbs this morning." "usa today" reports air pollution from the california fires equals a year's worth of traffic. about 140,000 acres are burning. by one estimate, the fires have produced about 10,000 tons of pollutants. that is the same amount generated by about 35 million vehicles on the road each year. >> the hollywood post said it had temporarily limited her uses. be my voice. mcgowan had
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call for firing of members of the weinstein company she also tweeted ben affleck was aware of what was going on. twitter declined to comment. coach is changing its name to tapestry. it wants to broaden its image. coach says the new name speaks to, quote, creativity and craftsmanship. it goes into effect october 31st. beyonce released a new video for her song "freedom" to announce international day of the girls. the video features young women from around the world lip synching and dancing to the song. it also shows some shocking s y statistics that a girl dies every five minutes and 130 million girls are not in school. that a
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the power of her celebrities to bring attention to a very real policy issue. >> carries the same run the world, rule the world. we're launching a new medical series called "grand rounds." that's about other doctors teaching health care and advances in treatment. as you know, october is national breast cancer awareness month. one in eight women will get the disease but the death rate has plunged 80%. our dr. agus is a leading expert. he leads the university of southern california's westside cancer center. >> two decades makes me sound old. >> no. it just makes you sound like an expert. >> well said. >> that youno
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drop in the rates why? >> it's pretty amazing. it's dropping. we're screening, people are getting mammograms like they should and we're treating it better. early breast cancer when you take it out, you can dramatically reduce the rates of recurrence and that's increasing the number of those who survive. >> what about the treatments? >> it's a wild time for doing what we do. now when a person is diagnosed we can look at the genes and basically see the on and the off switches and we can target them. it's out there and working in saving lives and the newest form is a thirdpy which is blocking the don't eat me signal in allows the patient's own immune cells to attack the cancer. both of those are maybing people live longer than ever. >> what are herhereditary? >> about 5% to
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you have a chance of getting it. the test because it was patented several years ago now the supreme court said you can no longer patent a gene in our country and that test is $99. >> do you think more people should get the test? >> to me it's a no-brainer. knowledge is power. and knowing what to do. when angelina jolie said i have the fault y gene, it opened the doors to sate's okay to talk about. >> besides skin cancer, it's one of the most misdiagnosed cancers. why is that? >> you have a lout of mulot of muss. your body and the breast portion is small but a lot of women get it. we start to see it increase decade by decade. in the 20s it's rare, going to the 70s it's much more common.
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early detection matters. mammograms is not the greatest test in the-year-old wo. if you're a consumer, not fun. >> if you had to go what we go through, men had their you-know-what smashed, they'd 2350i7bd another way. depending on the tech, it can be very unpleasant. do you see another way? >> marie courier invested the x-ray machine and we still use it. the biggest question is why does it happen. if women take some of these estrogen modulating drugs, you can dramatically reduce tins dense of it and taking hormone replacement therapy can raise it. alcohol is a risk
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entair, being overweight. we still know those, but we still don't know the root of why it happens. >> thank you so much. >> a reminder, i need to get a mammogram. thank you. the days of overstuffed wallets in your back pocket or purse might come to an end. by 2020 mobile wallets on our phones are used to surpass debit and credit cards in the u.s. that's already happened in china. ben tracy is in beijing, china, to show us what being cashless is like. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. when i moved to china a couple of months ago, i could getting funny looks. then i got one of these. it's a code on my phone and now i can basically buy anything here in china. when you pay for something, how do you pay for it? >> by phone. >> reporter: on the streets of beijing, cash is definitely not king. >> what do you think of p
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>> that's rare, he says. only the elderly and those who kenting if it out pay cash. this woman says i rarely take my wallet when i go out. just my phone. that's because the phones can buy just about everything to clothes in the store to steamed buns on the street. they're used to pay for bike rides and bus rides, rent and utility bills. >> when's the last time you used cash? wow, that's a long time. >> payments on their platforms total more than $5.5 trillion last year ak 200% jump from the year before and nearly 50 times more than the value of mobile payments in the u.s. one of the big reasons mobile payments have caught on so quickly here in china is because of what most people here don't have in their wallets. credit cards.
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between. >> china has leap frogged the u.s. into going into a cashless sew side. >> he says china's cashless lever lugs has happened in just three years, largely thanks to these things called qr codes. you simply scan them with your phone to pay. nearly every business and person has one. from the farmer's market to the musician on the street playing an instrument in a pit. >> it really is ubiquitous in china from the larger cities, the fanciest hotels, to the most humble street side shacks will always use qr codes. >> the chinese are comfortable doing everything on their phones while in the u.s., they still rule. >> these kinds of legacy
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of newer technology much more slowering so in the u.s. i think the u.s. has a little bit of catching up to do. >> a recent survey found 40% of chinese people kaye less than $15 on them but they would never dream of leaving home without this. as one guy told me on the street, you can't achieve anything without your foechblt gayle? >> that guy on the street was great. didn't you love how he opened when i moved to china a couple of months ago. >> reporter: chef otah is in the green room. he believes no meal is complete without a little something sweet at temd. he talks about d
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internationally renowned chef has created a name for himself. he's the owner of several deli's bearing his name and the high-end restaurant in london. his award-winning cookbooks have sold more than 3.7 million copes worldwide. he's now out with
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dessert book called "sweet." we welcome otolenke. this is such a beautiful cookbook. tell us why you wanted to do desserts. >> this with us my first job in the kitchen. i would stand in the corner and whip up egg whites when he would tell me. >> you've become an expert. >> i think i am. in our shops in london we have mountains of meringue. people who come in are absorbed by meringue. there's
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chocolate meringue. >> what do you say to people? >> like anything, you could abuse it or use it and i think sugar that comes from snack bars or savory food, all the hidden sugars are what you don't want to consume. but making a cake and baking it, it's a lovely home ritual and it would be a shame to lose a bit of the culinary arts because we're a bit obsessed at the moment. you say tarts and pies are a sense of the occasion. do you believe anybody can be a baker? anybody? >> absolutely. absolutely. >> i think you're wrong. >> i think i can give you a private lesson. >> i think you should too. you think baking is different than any other types of .
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are very, very clear. you've got the size of the pan, the temperature, you know how long you're going to bake it. when you cook a fish, it's very easy to overcook it. if you cook a cake, the recipe gives you a good guideline. we hold you the hand through the recipe and give you a good result. >> you talk about rose and sweet water you still think this is something that anybody listening to us could cook. >> listen. we're talking about this lemmon sponge cake. >> i am going to make this tonight. i'm manging this lemon sponge cake tonight. >> you promise? >> i can do it. can i hold this up for one scored? can you get a tight shot of this? i thought, hello, government this is a thing of beauty. >> it's got no flour. almond mill and chocolate
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ganache. it's a slightly more complex. >> when they use your name like a verb, what do they mean? >> steams people talk about ottolenghi simplifying a dish. we have like chocolate tarts in the book with crystalized rosemarie on the top. it's savory whu when you add it to a chocolate tart, it makes it jump. we do special things. not all of the recipes. >> it sounds like yu've got critics in your own house. your 4-year-old says i want help the make it. >> helen is my co-author and makes great cakes. >> and you say, dad
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too. sweek. a person inside a mascot costume rarely gets much attention. why he received one emotional reaction from one texas family. you can hear more from our show on apple's ipods. today's sleep scientist matthew walker give advice on getting a full night's sleep. learn why it can help. you're watching "cbs this morning."
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well, good morning. . >> this happened last night the dmv still pumped about this grand slam in the 8th inning that forced a game 5 which will be right here at nats park tonight. it's the first homegrand slam in nats' post season history. coming up big to keepthe playoff hopes alive. hopefully they can clinch it tonight at nats' park. >> i just want to say what she said, right. you're my sportsauthority. my husband ran intothe room he was like oh my god did you see what they did. . >> it was pretty awesome. . >> so nats haven't gotten out of the first round for a while. >> absolutely we're rooting for you and continuing our decade
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cancer awareness here at wusa9 with experts you see behind me. they'll be here throughout the hour to take your calls about treatment options, any questions you have, prevention, you name it. >> these ladies, if you want to talk to them call the number on your screen to learn everything from breast cancer risks to treatment options family history and prevention. again, thenumber is on your screen. phone lines are open all hour long. we're going to start today's show with an amazing story of inspiration and hope. >> yeah, it's a follow-up to a report that you saw right here on wusa9. . >> 10-year old isabella cabrera has been raised to never say never. do you know you're an inspiration to other people? >> yeah . >> she signed up to play violin at island creek even though she knew it would be difficult given the fact she was born with an incomplete

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