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joining me on the phone is mike walter. thank you for being with us. what can you tell us about what is happening in terms of conditions there at this hour? >> sure. well, we are starting to see conditions improve across the city but we still have some significant flooding issues occurring in some of owner major thoroughfar thoroughfares. we have the buffalo bayou area is still out of its banks and we have significant flooding on memorial drive which is one of the major thoroughfares in and out of downtown houston. the major effect we have as a result of this storm is that we currently have all exits into downtown houston from i-44 closed as a precaution due to the fact that we do have water covering all of the roadways in that area. >> are you finding that people are listening to the warnings? have you had a lot of rescues in houston? >> we have had in astonishing low number of rescues for this type of event. obviously, following the may 25th memorial day flood we had here in houston, we think our residents did heed the warnings to stay home, which we

mike: congratulations on the walter cronkite award in journalistic excellence. a memorable line in your acceptance speech. when you wake up in the morning and say, what is my adventure going to be? friends. have been my -- friend. charlie: i remember charles kuralt who said, when we see a writer around cbs, we salute him or her, but thank you, mike. turning to hillary and her much anticipated testimony today, how did she do? mike: she did fantastically. friends, her allies, she was very smart. she'll most did a rope a dope strategy. she was classic and she was polished at her basic demeanor was if you want to ask me these questions for an eighth time, i will answer these questions for an eighth time. she said earlier that she did not have a lot of new things to say, and charlie, that is what she stuck to. charlie: what about you? this is not something she wanted to talk about, but given that, it she had two new pitfalls, as a leader, she did something wrong, and the second pitfall was, was there going to be a moment when she looked callous or she looked dishones

so you start showing up at places -- "the mike douglas show" here at wpvi. you interrupt walter cronkite as he's doing the evening news. i think we've got some pictures that show what that looks like. but in the end, any number of these people that you stop -- walter cronkite, governor shapp, bob brady, john street -- people who often disagree with you to begin with -- you change how they feel about the issues, and they become your friends. and that's sort of surprising that they don't become your enemies. "this guy interrupted what i was doing." they become friends. what lesson is that, in our divided politics, for the rest of us? >> learn to talk to people. learn to befriend them. if you have differences, talk with them. i've always believed that the issue of lgbt rights is one of education, one of invisibility. we did the zaps starting in 1973 because lgbt people weren't on tv. there were only three networks and pbs. at that time, there was no lgbt stories on tv. we never appeared on the news. and our reason for disrupting the cbs evening news with walter cronkite was he'd ne

walter mondale. he didn't address questions whether he will run. earlier, though, biden did sound more mike a candidate when he took a jab at hillary clinton for saying she's proud to have the republicans as an enemy. >> i still have a lot of republican friends, i don't think my chief enemy is the republican party. >> if biden does announce a white house run he would be the fifth democrat in the race since jim webb dropped out yesterday as a democrat. >> chelsea clinton says she has no plans to run for political office in the future. that's what she told us during an exclusive interview the after a stop on her book tour in philadelphia yesterday. she spoke with students at amy northwest middle school in roxborough about her book. then we asked her opinion on vice president biden's possible run against her mother and democratic front-runner hillary clinton. >> goodness, running for spt a big decision for anyone to make. certainly i believe the vice president has to make what he believes is the right choice for himself, his family and for our country. >> chelsea clinton went on to say she doe

walter cronkite. >> stephen: he did a morning show? >> he did, he did. mike wallace did a morning show. so cbs has a long tradition of doing morning shows and lots of people said, you know, are they and we got it right. ( cheers and applause ) yeah. we-- because, because we care. the news and so we say the news is back in the the morning. >> stephen: it's the newsiest of the morning shows. >> it is. >> stephen: this morning it's announced president obama they're going to put special forces into syria. >> indeed. >> stephen: you've underviewed bashar al-assad. >> i have. >> stephen: do you think he'll ever be pushed out of office or is he someone we're just going to have to live with in syria? >> certainly not in the capacity he is now. i think he will be transitionout, is the word they use over there. the russianed have come in to prop him up, and i suspect what they're doing is getting him into a position where they can bargain. they're scared if he goes-- the russians are and other people are-- who's going to follow him? and that's the big question, so everybody concerned wants to mak

mike. well, the national weather service issued the forecast which is interesting to look at. it involves a lot around el nino walters. they are getting wet weather there. happening. wet all the way up to southern new england. so you hook at forecast coming into winter. wetter than formal. that is not a good thing. temperatures too they are looking for. warmer temperatures across the northern tier states so this this case, if warmer and wetter would be more rain event and less snow. with you it only takes one or are two cold outbreak whens you have a wetter than normal pattern and get quit a bit of snow. long-range forecast like there are notorious for being weak. we will wait and see as the winter begins to unfold. we got plenty of time. we have a great day to day. we have another nice one tomorrow. about it does get cool. we head to weekend. 52 now in boston. but some of the temperatures have cooled off and lower 40's a fire up you 30's showing up there. a chilly night pause the clouds have not moved in yet. we need to debt to south reallywellly winds going and the clouds to come in in. that il with he help us get

mike, how did hillary clinton do today? >> well, charlie, hillary did fantastically. first, congratulations on the walter cronkite award for excellence in journalism. charlie, you had such a memorable line in your acceptance speech that i passed around to our colleagues when you said you wake up in the morning and say, what is my adventure going to be if questions have been my best friend and my power, curiosity, such a great message for all journalists. >> rose: we also emphasize writing, too, as you and dickerson have done for most of your adult life. remembering charles carrolt who said when we see a writer among cbs we stand up and salute him or her. turning to hillary and her much-anticipated testimony today, how did she do? >> she did fantastically. her campaign, colleagues and allies very excited. what she did was very smart. she took almost a rope a dope strategy. she we wanted in, was classic, polished and her basic demeanor and approach was if you want to ask me these questions for the eighth time, i will answer them for an eighth time. and she previewed the strategy when she said earlier, i do

mike, sal, back to you. >> thanks, dave. >>> the minnesota dentist who killed a beloved lion in zimbabwe has been cleared of any wrong doing. zimbabwe cabinet minister says the country is no longer seeking extradition of walter palmer. he sparked outrage around the world after killing cecil the lion. that lion was living in a park. >>> governor signed the bill over the weekend. the ban applies for k-12 schools and college campuses. firearms are already banned on those facilities. this law expands that to concealed weapons. the group called the firearm policy coalition plans to file a federal lawsuit against the law. >>> california public universities are pouring money into preventing school shootings. a spokeswoman for the uc system says $17 million has been spent to beef up security at its ten campuses. cal state has devised its own plans to prevent mass shooting. each of the 23 campuses has a strategy based on its size and location. california's community college system is the only group not required to have a mass shooting plan in place with 113 campuses it is the nation's largest higher education system. >>> coming up on mornings on 2 the 9 american idol wraps up the second round of auditions as the judg

walter, entered up testifying for me. we did invite them n he didn't get charged with trespassing. >> how about this. this one in philadelphia, that is where they used to shoot the mikeshow. he handcuffed himself, middle picture there handcuffed himself to one of the cameras and what did you say to the audience. >> you will not allow gay people on the show, we don't exist it business time you have fair representation of lgbp people in the media mike douglass show people a week later, had someone on the show. >> what does that mean. >> going through all of that, a as well as 18 and standing in front of the stone wall. i believed i had in future as a gay man. i had no money, in job, no prospects. i thought, a gay man meant nothing. >> we have you, there standing with the president. >> you have met everybody. >> and i got a chance later in life as a president's request to dance at the white house with the man that i love. >> and then you danced you say your point was you wanted to show the nation who gay people are. >> and people realize who we are, they will in the be afraid of us. way back when in 1969, 73, they had no idea who gay people were. they believed in mythed