ohn blackstone tells us... they will be turning their sights on passenger cars soon, as well. (vo) at 55 miles an hour, with no one behind the wheel, otto has for test runs like the one we took on a busy freeway (matt) (driver) now we are engaged. (john) with that, the truck is driving itself. (matt) currently driving itself. a safety driver sits behind the wheel just in case, lior ron is cofounder of otto. ( lior ron/"otto" co-founder) (jb) your goal here is to build equipment that can be put onto any truck, // to make any truck a self-driving truck? (lr) correct. the announcement otto for an estimated $680 million dollars gives the ride sharing giant access to otto's advanced technology. ( lior ron/"otto" co-founder) "that will allow us to really get to that future sooner than later." that future is arriving in pittsburg where uber is introducing a fleet of new cars equipped to drive themselves. for now those uber cars will have a safety driver. but millions of uber drivers around the world may be no longer needed. (karl brauer/senior analyst, kelley blue book) "i think self

john blackstone, sniffs out the story. >> angus. go over here. >> their sense of smell is a buff anything we can comprehend. >> reporter: with that springer spaniel on a mission to track down the most common kind of hospital superbug. it is known as c-diff and infection rates are on the rise. >> c-diff is a bacteria. forms spores. it can persist for long period of time. >> reporter: c-diff caused by antibiotic use or contact with contamina nainated surfaced and times deadly causing half a each year and killing 15,000 people. we can't see it with the naked eye. but angus can smell it. >> it will always be present in your hospital. what you are frying to do is control it. that's where angus comes into play. >> angus, ready to work. >> he is trained to detect it in the environment. the advantage for us is if he alerts on something, then, what we can dupeo is targeted cleani. going to couple with our ultraviolet disinfection machines. >> three years ago, theresa was training bomb and drug dogs when she contracted c-fiff and ne

john blackstone, sniffs out the story. go over here. >> their sense of smell is a buff anything we can comprehend. >> reporter: with that remarkable sense of smell, angus springer spaniel on a mission to track down the most common kind of hospital superbug. it is known as c-diff and infection rates are on the rise. >> c-diff is a bacteria. forms spores. it can persist for long period of time. >> reporter: c-diff caused by antibiotic use or contact with contaminated surfaced and some times deadly causing half a million infections in the u.s. each year and killing 15,000 people. we can't see it with the naked eye. but angus can smell it. >> it will always be present in your hospital. what you are frying to do is control it. that's where angus comes into >> he is trained to detect it in the environment. the advantage for us is if he alerts on something, then, what we can do is targeted cleaning. going to couple with our ultraviolet disinfection machines. >> three years ago, theresa was training bomb and drug dogs when she con

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here's john blackstone with some of those moments. >> give my creation life! >> reporter: with his wild hair and often manic persona, gene characters from the mad scientist in "young frankenstein." >> my name, it's pronounced frankenstein. >> reporter: to the neurotic would-be con man in "the producers." >> nothing, i-- my blue blanket, give me my blue blanket! >> reporter: that role earned him an oscar nomination for best supporting actor. >> you must be igor. >> no, it's pronounced igor. >> reporter: he was also nominated for writing the screenplay for "young frankenstein," along with his frequent collaborator director mel brooks. together they took "blazing saddles" where no western had gone before. [ gunfire ] he could be depended on to deliver the unexpected. wilder was not the first actor considered for the starring role in "willie wonka and the chocolate factory" in 1971. ? if you want to view paradise ? >> reporter: fred astaire was today it seems hard to imagine anyone else in what has become a children's classic. >> i didn't want to do hamlet or macb

as john blackstone reports, wilder left a legacy of ughter. >> reporter: with his wild hair and often manic persona gene lder gave life to a long list of hilarious and hysterical chacters from the mad scientist in "young frankenstein." >> my name is pronounced frankenstein. would-be con man in "the producer." >> my blanket! >> reporter: that earned h an oscar nomination for best supporting actor. >> you must be igor. >> it'pronounced igor. nominated for writing the screen play for "young frannetein." along with mel brooks together they took lazing saddles" where no western had gone before. he could be depended on to deliver the unexpected. wild not the first actor considered for the starring role in "willy wonka and the ? if you want to view 1971. paradise ? >> reporter: fred astaire s reportedly in the running, but today, it is hard to imagine anyone else in what has become a children's classic. >> i didn't wa to do him. i wanted to do comedy but i wanted it to be real. >> reporter: he had huge success in a series of collaborations with richard pryor. >> that's right, that's right, w

john blackstone took a test drive. >>>at 55 miles an hour, with no one behind the wheel, otto has tested its technology on closed roads. for test runs like the one we took on a busy freeway (matt) (driver) now we are engaged. (john) with that, the truck is driving itself. (matt) currently driving itself. a safety driver sits lior ron is cofounder of otto. (lior ron/"otto" co-founder) (jb) your goal here is to build equipment that can be put onto any truck, // to make any truck a self-driving truck? (lr) correct. the announcement last week that uber is buying otto for an estimated $680 million dollars gives the ride sharing giant access to otto's advanced technology. (lior ron/"otto" co-founder) "that will allow us to really get to that future sooner than in pittsburg where uber is introducing a fleet of new cars equipped to drive themselves. for now those uber cars will have a safety driver. but millions of uber drivers around the world may be seeing a future where they are no longer needed. (karl brauer/senior analyst

here's john blackstone with some of those moments. >> give my creation life! >> reporter: with his wild hair and often manic persona gene wilder gave life to a long list of hilarious and hysterical characters from the mad scientist in young frankenstein. >> my name, it's pronounced frankenstein. >> reporter: to the neur otic would-be conman in the producers. >> nothing, i-- my blue blanket, give me my blue blanket. >> reporter: that role earned him an oscar nomination for best >> you must be igor. >> no, it's pronounced igor. >> he was also nominated for writing the screenplay for young frankenstein, along with his frequent could labbitier director mel brooks. together they took blazing saddles where no western had gone before. he could be depended on to deliver the unexpected. wilder was not the first actor considered for the starring role in willie wonka and the chocolate factory in if you want to view paradise. ?. >> fred astaire was reportedly in the running but today it seems hard to imagine anyone else in what has become a children's classic. >> i didn't

i don't want to change anything. >> reporter: john blackstone, cbs news, san francisco. >> you heard wilder say he had a simple rule for comedy. don't try to make it funny, try to make it real. that's the cbs evening news, for scott pelley, i'm norah o'donnell am i will see you first thing tomorrown cbs this morning. good captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh from washington, d.c., this is the "jeopardy!" teachers tournament. here is our first group of semi-finalists -- an 11th-grade english and creative writing teacher from williamsburg, virginia... an elementary bilingual teacher from joliet, illinois... and language arts teacher from minneapolis, minnesota... and now, from dar constitution hall, here is the host of "jeopardy!" -- alex trebek! [ cheers and applause ] thank you, johnny gilbert. and thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for that warm welcome. you are most kind. that we are absolutely thrilled that we get to spend the next two weeks in this marvelous venue in the heart of our nation's capital. it's going to be an exciting time. first of all, t

i don't want to change anything: >> reporter: john blackstone,sa cbs news, san francisco. >> o'donnell: you heard wilder say he had a simple rule for comedy. don't try to make it funny, try to make it real. that's the "cbs evening news," for scott pelley, i'm norah o'donnell and i will see you first thing tomorrow on "cbs this morning." goodnight. captioning sponsored by cbs captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by week- old child... to the floor. why the infant didn't receive the proper medical care... for weeks after the incident. ((denise valdez)) >>> students head back to the classroom... but not all rooms are created equal: we know that a portable is not the ideal situation what the school district is doing to address the overcrowding problem... on this first day of school. ((dave courvoisier)) >>> figuring out how to fund a nearly two- billion-l stadium: that's the most lucrative single tourism district in the united states." the creative ways experts are hoping to take advantage of local tourism dollars... to bring the raiders to las vegas./// (((>>>hot first day of school. but

talk about blackstone and talk about this idea of this being every aspect of our lives. >> it reallys every aspect of our lives. some of those are not critical to your life. the clock on your wall, the computer makes the clock has been backed byrivate equity, he probably won't affect you very much at all. in this case, blackstone is one of the largest private landlords and has comen where banks have set back from mortgage practices. what we have seen is there making some of the same mistakes that the banks made during the financial crisis were of -- in the run-up to the financial crisis. juan: and a key aspect of private equities is it is not required have a lot of the same transparency is a publicly traded company would have in tes of its regular reports and its trading and who is investing what in it? >> absolutely true. a public company would have to make more regular reports, the fcc. they also don't save -- face a lot of the same regulations as banks as well. it is just a newer concept in some ways. in the case of fire and ambulance, private equity companies are regulated, but a

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. >> vanessa: drivers dealing with street flooding in blackstone. >> mark: john monahan continues our weather coverage right now from milford and john, it began ranking interest a short -- there a short time ago. >> the reporter: five or ten minutes ago. it's coming down really hard. we're on route 16, route 109 in milford. we drove here from walpole about 25 minutes ago, and i'll tell you right now, on the 15 minutes, this rain started to become torrential. this intersection busy at rush hour, it's slowed down and backed up even more so because of the heavy rain and we're just out in the area that kevin was talking about up in holden, but the storms, you can see the clouds in the distance, where we are is very dark and ominous. this rain is starting to get heavier by the minute, since we've been here in the last 10 to 15 minutes. we'll watch the storms as we move through the area and keep you posted on everything as the you. reporting live in milford this afternoon, john monahan, fox 25 news. >> mark: with a chance for showers and thunderstorms tomorrow, be sure to download the fox 2

in terms of blackstone another area that's lagged this market is financials.u wlook at the catalyst set for blackstone it's actually pretty robust. i think we'll have a stronger ipo and m&a calendar as we get into the fall. management teams are starting to feel a little bit more optimistic again as markets are hovering around all-time highs. so i think what you really needed is a catalyst. again, the ipo calendar opening up likely in the fall should drive blackstone's stock from here. >> bill, you like sort of what i would call everybody's favorite blue chip and that's johnson & johnson and mohawk which is in the building and flooring segment. >> yeah. i think johnson & johnson social security great, you know, rock solid balance sheet. probably going to -- always grown dividend, will likely continue. nice diversified health care so going to give you that stability. mohawk's definitely the more cyclical. the interesting thing about that is i think there are a lot of people out there that aren't yet believers that the u.s. housing market is continuing to recover

otto self-driving trucks are designed to operate only on freeway. >> reporter: john blackstone cbs news. >>> uber is not the only one developing self-driving cars lyft, google, ford major car companies are pursuing technology. >>> all right. check out this video. a nanny camera caught an armed intruder in the action. the thief grabbed a tv, safe, lap top and jewelry. police into multiple homes and hit one house with the homeowner still there. this is from the atlanta area. police are hoping this video will lead to his arrest. >>> new research is out. it may help breast cancer patients. >> that's right. it claims your attitude may impact the success of hormone therapy. researchers in germany found women with higher expectations of suffering bad side effects before any treatment actually did experience twice as many women with more positive expectations had better outcomes. the research found counseling could help women with more expectations and stay with their treatments longer. >> and a reminder to everyone who wants to help the cleveland 19 team beat cancer. the coleman race for the c

john blackstone shows us a big i will the technology stop truckers from the long haul? >>> a syrian leader calls the largest city the apex of horror. more than 125,000 people in aleppo are cut off from food and water. he told the security council, it's likely to be the worst humanitarian catastrophe of the reports on a federal judge temporarily blocking president obama's directive on bathrooms in public schools and transgender students. the directive allows transgender students to use the bathroom of the gender they identify with. 13 states are challenging it. the judge said the directive contradicted other regulation. >>> the republican of springfield massachusetts reports on a former high school star athlete sentenced to probation in a sexual assault case. 18-year-old david becker was charged with sexually assaulting a party in april. last week, a judge gave him two years' probation after he pled to a reduced charge. becker's attorney said we all made mistakes as teenagers and, quote, we shouldn't be branded for life with a felony offense. >>> the los angeles tile t m

john blackstone took a test drive. >>> at 50 wife -- at 55 miles per hour -- >> reporter: at 55 miles per hour with no one behind the wheel, they have tested on close roads. we took a test drive on the freeway.>>> we are engaged and the truck is driving itself.>> reporter: a safety driver is behind the wheel just in case.>>> the goal here is to build equipment that complete make it self driving.>> reporter: uber is driving -- is buying auto for an estimated $680 billion. it gives the ridesharing giant access to the technology. >> it allows us to get to the ticket -- to the future sooner rather than later. >> reporter: uber is introducing a fleet of new cars that are equip for now, the uber cars will have a safety driver. with more than 1 million uber driver's around the world, there is a future where they are no longer needed. show up quickly and change things dramatically (on cam: john blackstone/cbs news/san francisco)truck drivers may have more job security.otto's self-driving trucks are designed to operate only on highways.truckers will still meaning that it will show up quickly a

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street flooding from blackstone earlier. but this storm moving northeast at -- in mendon and holliston by 6:00 this evening. watching the storm on the back end, just had a turn to it, that's the beginning of a hook echo. what we're watching is for rotation in these storms. this one had rotation, briefly, tight rotation m the november grover dale area, in thompson, i actually had a summer job there at one point in time. this area bright red, that's the area i'm watching for any when you have rotation in a storm. that's not to say you can have a tornado definitely. but it says ha the risk of a tornado is still there. that's what i'm monitoring for the this evening. i'll keep track of this and other storms around the area and show you the latest update in just a few minutes. >> eric: breaking news into our newsroom. state health officials say they've discovered the first human case of west nile virus in massachusetts this year. the patient is a resident of middlesex county in her 70s. west fever and flu like illness. last year

john blackstone tells us why hospitals are turning to human instinct. >> angus, over here. go in there. their sense of smell is above and beyond anything we can even comprehend. >> reporter: with that remarkable sense of smell, angus, the springer spaniel, was on a mission to track down the most common kind of hospital super bug. it's known as c-dipd and it's on the rise. >> it's a bacteria. it forms sports so it can exist in our environment for a long time. >> reporter: it is caused by antibiotic use or contact with contaminated surfaces and highly contagious and killing 15,000 people. we can't see it with the naked your hospital so what you're trying to do is control it. that is where angus comes into play. >> angus. ready to work? >> he is trained to detect the bacteria in the environment. >> alert. >> the advantage for us is if he alerts on something, then what we can do is additional targeted cleaning and we are going to couple it with our ultraviolet disinfection machines. >> reporter: three years ago teresa was training bomb and drug dogs when c-dip and nearly died.

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