kansas from the tower. at nighttime, of course, the view of the city is quite extraordinary, the most iconic views of kansas city are typically taken from this location, either from the wall or from the tower itself. at nighttime it is really quite beautiful. looking south down the mold, in the summertime or in the spring it is brilliant green. again, it is very engaging site which i think is a most fitting tribute to this tower which rests upon the memorial courtyard. this memorial courtyard is used for social activities, most notably our memorial day ceremonies are here for us, honoring those who served and continue to serve and have lost their lives. another important part of the architecture of the memorial is the sphinx here. this is looking east and is looking towards the horrors of war. so looking to the past. it's eyes covered because of the horror of war. one of the -- one of the truths i think which is told here at the museum is to speak about the courage about the -- the commitment and sacrifice of those who served, and equally to speak about war's horror. we tell the full story of the true price

next we tour the national world war i museum and memorial in kansas city to learn about objects related to america's role in what was then called the great war. >> i'm dorn carter, the senior curator of the national world war i museum and memorial in kansas city, missouri. the museum is the nation's museum for the history of world war i. it is a global museum. we talk about all of the belligerents that were involved in world war i. it is not just about the united states during the war, but everything from the summer of 1914 to the peace treaty of june 1919. our collection is the most comprehensive collection of world war i materials in the world. it is not the largest, but it is comprehensive in that we do deal with all nations that were involved in the war. we're not just centric to the country that we're located in. in the museum when you're going through the exhibitions you see about 10% of the museum collection at any one time. the rest we use for research, for references, for loans to other institutions, and just to make sure that we have an encyclopedic collection of the war. when

in some of our offices such as kansas city and new york, it's less than that. those leases were entered into several years ago, i think at a time when perhaps there was an expectation amongst some that the cftc would become a much bigger agency and that space was taken on. we are handing that authority to enter into leases back to gao and we are searching now as hard as we can to fill that space whether through subtenancy or otherwise. we have been working very hard in kansas city in particular and have entertained a number of offers. unfortunately they didn't make economic sense for us. we continue to find ways to utilize that space in new york. your second question was? >> let me go to mr. clayton now. te telework was my question. >> teleworking has increased. it's one aspect of technology that i believe and our staff that handles operations believes can actually reduce the required footprint per employee. we have been working to do that. rough data, it used to be 290 square feet per employee. we're now down to about 245 square feet and we're looking to trend

( tiffany @ flash )wide spread flooding across kansas city has led to dozens of water rescues and closed roads. on the left you see live aerials over the flooding. on the right is video of recues earlier this morning. kansas city fire department responded to several car rescues as drivers got trapped in the high watersthe national weather service is reports that four to seven inches of rain fell across a widespread area causing some folksto abandon their cars because of the rising waters.roads across the flood areas have also been closed in all directions because of the high level waters . ( mark ) a san francisco police officer charged with child pornography is due in court later today. officer joshua enea was arrested yesterday in san francisco. an investigation into enea was launched back in february. kron4 sources say multiple child porn images were found on his computer at his antioch home. enea is a ten year veteran of the force. he has been placed on leave without pay. (mark) happening today... sentencing will begin for the couple convicted of torturing and murdering a 3-year-old

he grew up near kansas city and tells the kansas city star newspaper he wore the tie hoping his buddiesld see hit. >> he knew it would be televised. >>> a bag of dust if you can believe it was sold at auction but a cool one. >> not just any dust. neil armstrong personally filled it on the moon 1969, a chicago woman bought it two years ago in a government auction for about a thousand dollars. it sold yesterday at sotheby's auction house for 1.8 million. not a b >>> well, today we inhale the salty stuff. this is a really big day. >> bring it on. >> there you go. >> it is national junk food day and we have plenty to go on. a day to forgo worries about calories and consuming anything healthy. >> they're being urged to consume their favorite snacks and post on social media at national dunk food day. enjoy the day with family and friends. we' we'll be over here eating popcorn. >> we got a start on th lawmakers expressing outrage this morning after the washington post reports that president donald trump is asking advisers abt members -- and even himself. this comes amid the growing investigati

louis comes out better off than kansas city. the other aspect of it, i found very disturbing, is that in this bidding war to get a factory to locate in one city rather than the other, a great effort to avoid cities that have unions or that a have strong unions that are likely to negotiate contracts -- labor contracts that raise wages or take advantage of the considerable value added that manufacturing makes possible. so that's another aspect which i find quite disturbingment disturbingment -- --ing. and then toes like st. louis and new york as well, the manufacturing that took place in urban centers, near african-american neighborhoods or other minority neighborhoods, that was quite a bit. those factories, however, have -- st. louis has a general motors plant in north st. louis, a big employer. i said we're closing. we're going to move the factory operation only 80 miles to winceville, missouri. we will give -- we offer jobs in any of our factories to anyone who is -- who loses a job in the st. louis factory because of our move,

endel actually grew up near kansas city, and he tells "the kansas city star newspaper" that he wore thes buddies back home would see it. >> he knew it would be televised. >> yeah. >>> a bag of dust, if you can believe it, was sold at auction but a cool one. >> yeah, not just any dust. neil armstrong personally filled it on the moon 1969. a chicago woman bought it two years ago in a government auction for about a thousand dollars. it sold yesterday at sotheby's auction house for 1.8 million. not a bad return. >>> well, today we inhale the salty stuff. this is a really big day. >> bring it on. >> there you go. it is national junk food day, and we have plenty to go by. it is a day to forgo worries about calories and consuming anything healthy. >> yeah, so they're being urged to consume their favorite snacks and post on social media at the #nationaljunkfoodday. so get your snack on and enjoy the day with family and friends. we'll be over here eating popcorn that's already open. >> we actually got a start on this a little while ago, so, here, celebrate. have some junk food. more news after t

dangerous flash floods in kansas city, missouri, happening right now in kansas city, as i mentioned.ook at this, a live image here of a rescue that is going on this very minute. they're trying to save some of those folks trapped inside a bar and grill that's due to flooding. and this has been happening all morning long. different scenes. look at this. this is just from a few moments ago. a rescue where two firefighters forced the car door open to save that driver inside the red car. floodwaters were rising quickly. the hood of the car went underwater within just 20 minutes. rescue crews pulled the driver and firefighters on a rope to safety, and the car, as you saw, just kind of floated away. isn't that an incredible image? nearly seven inches of rain fell in kansas city early this morning leading to the flooding problems that are obviously still going on at this very minute. >>> new this morning, the we're learning the title of hillary clinton's tell-all book, you see it there. "what happened." that's the name of it, and the newly released cover. the former presidential nominee is l

they were concentrated in the building in kansas city. there was a building collapse and some of them were killed. so there was personal revenge desired by the guerrillas. there was definitely a personal aspect. wkerlane was a strong jayha and was a u.s. senator. he was also a leader of raids into kansas. he was pursued. with ann responded action that they had considered beforehand -- the brother-in-law of sherman, a general who was commanding in western missouri -- they carried out an action number 11,ral order which made the civilians of accurate their farms and leave. it led to a famous painting owned the state historical society in missouri which is 11.led order # it has a strong element of truth but also a propaganda aspect. it shows an area where crops and forms are being burned. the attempt to drain the place of civilians who were supporting guerrilla warfare. the jamese finally to family. his father had remarried. this was a family that was not poor. they owned seven slaves in 1860, more black faces on that farm than white ones. t

firefighters and police used boats to rescue stranded motorists and homeowners in the kansas city area. in some areas there was five feet of water where there shouldn't be. >>> police released body cam video from the deadly car crash last month involving venus williams. williams entered the intersection but stopped when a car turned in front of her. police tell her she has the right-of-way but lost it and just got stuck in a bad situation. the passenger in the car that hit williams, a 78-year-old man died two weeks after the crash. >>> coming up on the morning news, early football retirement. abandonment ravens john urschel quits the game at 26. >>> this is the "cbs morning news". ooh. sushi. ugh. being in the know is a good thing. sign up online for free. discover social security alerts. intrzero alcohol™.ine® it delivers a whole mouth clean with a less intense taste. so it has the bad breath germ-killing power of this... with the lighter feel... of this. try listerine® zero alcohol™. pepsoriasis does that. it was tough getting out there on stage. i wanted to be clear. i wanted it to

. >>> heavy rain has led to scenes like this one in kansas city, missouri. look at that all the way up to the door. four to seven inches of rain in just a few hours overnight caused widespread flooding. this wombing she drove into a flooded area. it's what every meteorologist says not to do and got stuck. she was in that water for 20 minutes before rescuers got to her. she was shaken obviously, but she's okay. >>> kansas city firefighters had to rescue the co-owners of a bar and grill. they were trapped inside their water by rising floodwaters. the only way rescuers could get to them was to cut through the roof. >> it just happened so quickly. the front walls caved in and water gushed in on us. is about, you know, four feet high. and we quickly realized that wasn't going to be enough. >> so we hopped on a piece of a beer cooler. realized that wasn't going to do it. so we got the ceiling tiles out of the way and we were in the ceiling. we were scared in there. i have never been in something like that. it was stupid. that's for sure. trying to save the propert

. >> scary flash flooding in and around kansas city this morning. seven inches of rain overnight. i just put my finger right here. you can see the storms are just regenerating right over the top of this area just to the southeast of kansas city here in missouri. we'll watch and see how bad that is at day break. i'm sure there is water rescues ongoing, and a lot of roads are going to be impassable out here. these storms continue through st. louis. there's a lot of moisture available, and this all has to slide to the east over the next two days, and even maybe into saturday, unfortunately. this is the rain we're dealing with now here in missouri. then tomorrow we take it into areas of the east, and we start to add these bright colors on here. that means heavy rain. we get to the reddish color and the pink, that's two to three inches of rain. northern maryland all of southern pennsylvania, northern d.c. that's on your get-away friday heading into the weekend. keep that in mind for your travel. let's time it out for you. this is friday again. today is n

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it shouldn't be done by dating kansas city to pay factory mortar locating kansas city rather than st. louis. it should be done with the national industrial policy that distributes the subsidies in some coherent way. i'm afraid -- well, i'll stop there. >> i'd love to get to that because we need to get to your proposals for restoring at least to some extent manufacturing bulimic of activists of rights issue which is very provocative. especially urban blacks lost the possibility to get decent jobs with only a high school education. what made trump's election made very clear is that whites also lost, and we have known in the data, we've been talking about it a long time. whites also lost the opportunity to get good jobs with pensions that were sustainable and permanent for the same reason, and they are angry as heck. >> yes. >> so i think one of the great errors, and i am surely among the last to know this because a lot of people, one of the errors of the clinton campaign was not to recognize the white component of this decline and address the needs of the white people in the rust belt.

also high humidity and heat with advisories for kansas city and st. louis. and to let you know when's ahead for tomorrow, philadelphia is under an excessive heat wave. that's a big look at the weather story. now here's a a look all the the day ahead. temperatures are heating up in omaha. 92 degrees t will be 95 in kansas city. 90 in indianapolis. very hot and humid along the gulf coast and across the deep south. those temperatures are really heating up across the country. the muggy, hot and humid across the south and the midwest and even the mid-atlantic. >>> plenty more ahead including e details on the four missing pennsylvania teens. plus exciting moments at last noigt's major league baseball all-star game. style. it's no longer the most watched yao tube video of all time. a a new record belongs to "see you again" with over 2.9 billion views. ahh. where are mom and dad? 'saved money on motorcycle insurance with geico! goin' up the country. love mom and dad' i'm takin' a nap. dude, you just woke up! ♪ ♪ i'm goin' up the country, baby don't you wan