clemson is doing that. >> what -- i'm sure you track searching on your website.eople care about the most is it pure ranking of best school what do people look for when they're looking for a school >> i so appreciate that? >> best food >> they are looking for things outside the classroom. at the beginning they're looking for a couple things. they want to make sure it's a great environment academically, career services and financial aid. >> bowdoin does that well. >> they're giving out 48,000 -- >> what does it cost >> it's $65,000. it's more than that certainly. but this is free money that students don't have to pay back. >> they do a good job with that. best science labs, s.t.e.m. is important. lehigh, the former engineers now mountain hawks, maybe they should go back to being the engineers. >> lehigh is a special place they're combining those science makers with entrepreneurship majors lehigh has been leading the pack. >>> and the students that love their schools, i'm a little bitter, because i think virginia tech used to be up there, but vanderbilt the students

>>> up next, a clemson university history professor vernon burton on his experiences as an expert witness for plaintiffs in voting rights cases in south carolina and texas. professor burton also discussed the reconstruction era and constitution constitutional amendments that were intended to expand and protect voting rights. this talk was part of a symposium on reconstruction hosted by the u.s. capitol historical society. >>> for those of you who were not here at the beginning today, my name is paul finkelman. i'm a historian and i also have the honor of being the president of grats college in greater philadelphia and i am the symposium organizer for this symposium on reconstruction. we're about to begin our next session, and our next session deals with issues of public understanding in the modern period in reconstruction, and we have two speakers this morning. we have vernon burton who's from clemson university, and we have brooke thomas who is from the university of california at irvine. both of them are stunningly important scholars in this world. vernon burton is the judge matthew j.

clemson wins big, 52-14. test next week as texas a&m comes to down. >>> florida state is moving their game from jacksonville to tallahassee due to hurricane dorian. kick-off is also moved up to noon tomorrow. >>> the u.s. women's national team playing a friendly against portugal in front of a record crowd of more than 49,000 in philadelphia last night. car carli lloyd scoring in the second half. after celebrating with her teammates, lloyd giving the sign for making a field goal, also doing the fly, eagles, fly. lloyd says she's serious about trying to make it to the nfl as a kicker next season. >>> ever wonder how roomy the smart cars are? get this, shaq not only fits in one, he owns one, dave, and drives it around new york city. why he decides to do this, i don't know. i think he'd be a little more comfortable in a big suburban of some kind. i think it is great that shaq does this. >> i was wondering why he did that, if it was just a stunt in new york city. i didn't realize that was actually his car. kind of

clemson will face texas a and m next week. the time 10 minutes after the top of the hour and james comey set a dangerous precedent by leaking his memos. will not face, charges that is he really out of the woods? >> my word as a biden, i don't want the thing, do not put it on me, sir. heather: he defends himself after getting called out for fudging that war story on the campaign trail. tommy laren is fired up about this and more and she joins us live coming up. >> i asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with the reporter. i didn't do it but asked him to because i thought it might prompt appointment of a special counsel. >> that was two years ago, james comey admitting to using his memos to trigger a special counsel investigation. the doj inspector general says comey's actions had a dangerous example for the rest of the bureau. the doj is declined to press charges. what happens next? here with expert insight, we always enjoy having you with us. you've been with us from the beginning following this was what were

they fell to clemson but they have a young man back named tua tagovailoa who is an amazing quarterbacke been able to see from him almost won him a heisman a season ago so those are two teams i'm looking forward to watching all season long. >> you mentioned alabama and clemson. for those of us who are tired of seeing them dominate college football, is there any hope that someone else can come in and take the national championship this year? >> okay, eva, this is not self-serving, i promise you, but i got to say georgia. they are the number three team in the nation right now and kirby smart spent seven years under the tutelage of nick saban at alabama, and right now the dogs, they've had back-to-back almost top five recruiting classes, and they're one of those teams that they have to play really big games like notre dame and have to play alabama if they make it to the s.e.c. championship, and they're a team that could write their way into the top four and potentially a national championship and, eva, too, i got to give you a congratulations on your florida gators. they did win their open

they were pushed and promoted by russian operatives, according to new research by cyber experts at clemson university. >> some of these stories would have never gone viral without the influence of russian disinformation. their ultimate goal is to divide this country. >> reporter: it was a russian account, researchers found, that came up with the nickname taco truck tammy for the texas woman. and more than just stirring the pot in a practice known as doxing, the russian trolls circulated the names, phone numbers and addresses and menacingly told users "you know what to do." >> the real goal is to get the conflict off twitter, to get into it the streets. >> so they want to get people killed? >> they want to get people out in the streets, angry and fighting. >> reporter: twitter suspended the accounts flagged by the clemson researchers, but expert says russia is stepping up its activities in the run-up to the 2020 elections. >> well, there you have it. richard engel with that report for us tonight. and that will do it for our thursday night broadcast. thank you so very much for being here wit

and clemson rolled georgia tech 52-14. >>> and jeopardy host alex trebek is back at work, five months after diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. in a video message promoting the show's 36th season, tre beck says he has completed his cancer treatment and it is going to be a good year. >> i've gone through a lot of chemotherapy. and thankfully, that is now over. i'm on the mend. and that's all i can hope for right now. >> trebek is now taping episodes for the new season of jeopardy which premieres september 9. >>> hurricane dorian intensifying again overnight with open seas and high tide ahead. danger is growing for the state of florida, the latest projections straight ahead. >>> be prepared. and so if you're anywhere on that east coast of florida, you want to have food, water, medicine, for up to seven days. >> state of emergency across florida. hurricane dorian gaining strength. could be the strongest storm to hit the east coast since 1992. >>> breaking overnight. the iowa caucus could be in for radical change. why it may no longer be the first state to vote. >> i've gone thro

we have vernon burton who's from clemson university, and we have brooke thomas who is from the university of california at irving. both of them are stunningly important scholars in this world. vernon burton is the judge matthew j. perry distinguished chair of history and a professor of panafrican studies, sociology and anthropology and computer science at clemson university, which is to say he's mostly the entire university at this point. his -- i could read all of his distinguished awards and honors, and then he wouldn't have time to talk. i can only say that he has written a number of very important books. he has given major lectures at many institutions, most recently the annual lecture in southern history at the university of arkansas, and he -- his books have been in the book of the month club, the history book club, and other clubs. i have always hoped that i could be in a club that vernon was a member of, and i'm delighted to introduce him to start this morning's program. >> thank you so much. [ applause ] thank you to everyone who made this possible. it is a wonderful group of peo

they were pushed and promoted by russian operatives according to new research by cyber experts at clemsonrsity. >> some of these stories would have never gone viral without the influence of russian disinformation. their ultimate goal is to divide this country. >> it was a russian account, researchers found, that came up with the nickname tacky truck tammy for the texas woman and more than just stirring the pot. in a practice known as doxing. they circulated the names, phone numbers and addresses and menacingly told users, you know what to do. >> the real goal is to get the conflict off twitter, to get it into the street. >> they want to get people killed. >> they want to get people out in the streets, angry and fighting. >> twitter suspended the accounts flagged by the clemson researchers. experts say russia is stepping up the activity in the run-up to the 2020 election. >> richard engel on that. thank you so much. we'll watch that. we've done so much reporting on what's happening on the lead up into 2020. this is just one step. >> we know they're meddling with the elections and possibly

dozen universities will now support the technology this school year, including georgetown, duke, clemsonjohn hopkins and tennessee. >>> and domino's is launch ago delivery program with electric bikes nationwide this year. they say in tests e-bikes have improved overall delivers and hiring, including those who don't have a car or driver's license. salt lake city, baltimore and houston in the coming months. domino's says the bikes can hold up to a dozen large pizza. quite a balancing act. >>> driver, alternates exercise. >> and maybe a big irtip. >>> we've got it all figured out. thank you. >>> coming up here on "today in the bay," our microclimate weather alert continues as triple digits moving into the bay area. kari, it's going to be a hot one. >> if you thought it was hot yesterday, unfortunately it will be even hotter today. martinez starts out with mid 60s. 91 degrees at noon. we'll talk more about that, coming up next. >>> we have some folks gathering at the bay bridge toll plaza, just the cash lanes that are open. we'll show you how much of a brees it is for the rest of the commute

they were pushed and promoted by russian operatives according to new research by cyber experts at clemsonniversity >> some of these stories would have never gone viral without the influence of russian disinformation their ultimate goal is to divide this country >> reporter: it was a russian account researchers found that came up with the nickname taco truck tammy for the re tn just pot, in a practice known as doxing, the russian trolls circulated the names, phone numbers, and addresses and menacingly told users "you know what to do." >> the real goal is to get the conflict off twitter, to get it into the streets so, they want to get people killed they want to get people in the counts angry and fight >> reporter: twitter suspended the accounts flagged by the researchers. experts say russia is stepping up its activity in the run up to the 2020 election. lester >> all right, richard engel, thank you. >>> there's an intense man hunt in tennessee for an inmate who escaped and suspect in the killing of a prison official kerry sanders is following that story. >> reporter: more than 24 hours into

. >> i'm mark clemson with bloomberg's "first word" news. dorian is now a hurricane.ational hurricane center says the storm has strengthened as it nears the west virgin island. it's unleashing damaging winds and torrential rain and threatens to cause flash flooding and mudslides. forecasters say by the weekend the storm could approach the southeast u.s. coast as a major hurricane. former defense secretary jim mattis is warning that bitter political divisions have pushed american society to the breaking point. in an excerpt from his upcoming book published by the "wall street journal" today, the retired marine general says he quit the trump administration in 2018 when he realized his advice to the president, quote, no longer resonated. he signed shortly after mr. trump announced he's pulling all u.s. troops from syria. western troops are combing through an apartment building after a gas explosion caused it to collapse. at least two people dead, seven others, including children, have been injured. the tennessee valley authority long respected for providing good jobs and

. >>> very strong winds in clemson, south carolina -- >>> very strong winds in clemson, south carolinayeah whoa, lifted the tent off the ground along with two restaurant workers who were holding on to it. one employee was dragged before going airborne right there, oh my goodness. the other was thrown into the side of the restaurant. both are recovering from minor injuries. the restaurant suffered minimal damage, but my goodness that wind. >> mary poppins makes it look so easy. they only had minori, that'se' e that je. >>> hundreds of delta pa >> that is because they had to endure a flight delay nightmare, including numerous boardings and reboardings. it stretched into 18 hours. here's abc's david kerley. >> reporter: those groaning complaints from nearly 200 passengers heading from new york to l.a. their 3:30 afternoon flight had already been out to the tarmac and back three times. this was 2:20 a.m. when they heard this. >> we're actually going to leave at 9:00 a.m. >> reporter: then more news, the flight wasn't canceled so the airline would not be offering hotel vouchers. >> there's

clemson opened its national title defense by absolutely destroying georgia tech. the tigers scored the game's first 35 points then held on to win, 52-14. >>> 15-year-old coco gauff has made it to the third round of her first u.s. open. it took her nearly 2 1/2 hours to win last night's three-set battle. up next a marquee match-up with world number one and defending champion naomi osaka. >> oh, that's going to be a good one. put the hat away. put the hat away. >> go, gamecocks. >>> up next in "the pulse," "jeopardy" host alex trebek is back on the job. >>> also ahead, a momma bear and cub hanging out at a dumpster. wait till you see what was inside. >>> plus, the youth football team all ready for the game until they hit one tough banner. >> come on. >> we'll be right back. >> we'll be right back. and your mother told me all her life that i should fix it. and now it reminds me of her. i'm just glad i never fixed it. listen, you don't need to go anywhere dad. meet christine, she's going to help you around the house. the best home to be in is your own. from personal c

strong gust lifted the tent into the air along with clemson restaurant workers who were trying to secureted in the air above the roof and hit the gutter on his way down. suffered cuts and bruises and had to get stitches above his left eye. one woman was hit by a flying table. both workers were able to walk away and will be okay. >>> the chair umpire who clashed with serena williams during last year's u.s. open will not work any matches involving serena or her sister venus williams at this year's tournament. the confrontation came during the woman's final. the umpire first gave williams a warning for getting a coaching signal from the stands. he gave her a point penalty for breaking her racket and a game penalty for verbal abuse when she called him a, quote, thief. osaka won the match but her first major victory was over shadowed by the controversy. boos rang out as she accepted her trophy. the draw for this year's u.s. open will begin and play effective on monday. >>> nascar legend dale earnhardt jr. plans to be back in the driver's seat despite having survived a fiery plane crash. the 4

while at mississippi state theca first african-american was enrolled there and from clemson universityorked in race relations division with memphis tennessee and then created the office to address and a subject that has always been near and dear to me but i can see what ought not to be there. but i personally supervise at the museum to say i saw this andsa that see a plaque on the wall the two men that were lynched and i found the connection to from back in the twenties. but i kept saying to myself as i came back the second time i sat down in so many ways. that is history. i did miss some of them. sure. but it is history. i can't have a say i don't want to get political but this is a very troublesome time in the state of mississippi with the election of the next governor so i pray there are enough open-minded white people who can join hands and nott look back but to look to today because they brought the opportunity to vote. now is the time to see if we will float. because we can change this by changing one person at a time. but there are key positions that are here now that if we can

nobody should really be surprised by these findings from clemson university.hether or not there was russian interference of the 2016 election. the mueller report confirmed things like the troll farm of the internet research agency and other russians were creating all these fake accounts to be able to promote disinformation campaigns, propaganda campaigns. now when it came to the 2016 election, he dealt with twitter, facebook, insta, youtube and what are hey doing to monitor and detect? are they creating and implement ing the kind of rhythms that can pick up on bot like activity which is being promoted by the russians. so there should be laws. there should be the burden of those types of platforms to make sure that we don't have russian and other foreign interference in our elections because now we know for a fact it exists and it happens. >> in our elections or just kind of sewing this sort of discord in america and creating sort o f f a civil war among many people. but speaking from the campaign standpoint, as you know, early on, kamala harris has been one of

clemson went out west seeking his fortune but eventually cultivates a writing career. hey, maybe you can talk a little bit more about what takes him out of his hometown, and eventually they both converge and meet each other in new york city, post-civil war new york city. the media capital of the print revolution in america. if you can flesh out a little bit about those young bachelor journalists enjoying their days together in new york and how that would have contributed to their friendship. he had a great fortune of reading law just from abraham lincoln, and he ended up in his white house. europe as aly in young diplomat, came back to the states then landed at the new york tribune about the time clemens came to new york, very much on the make. this was a guy who was out to make a name for himself and a little money, and the new york city media world was full of young men like ja john hay, like henry waterson. they were all around the city together, having as much fun as they had work. edwin booth used to hang out with them. it was almost a nightly round of fun and goo

they were preparing for a clemson university event when a storm hit the area.o employees. you can see it there. just incredible to watch. one of the employees was slammed into the gutter on the roof. he had to get stitches and suffered several cuts and bruises. >>> a very good morning to you. i'm jim sciutto in washington. poppy harlow is off today. if you're trying to pin down president trump's positions on issues such as gun control, tax cuts, good luck to you. over the last 24 erratic hours he's claimed to be open to stricter background checks, but sometimes in the very same breath claims the u.s. already has them. that's just the beginning. a small sliver of the back and forth and the taking of both sides of a host of issues from this president. "the new york times" reporting this morning, quote, some former trump administration officials in recent days said they were increasingly worried about the president's behavior, saying it stems from rising pressure on mr. trump as the economy seems more worrisome and next year's election approaches. just the other d

cohen and you has had a clemson feel funny thing in the us for one second. there's a funny thing in this. bob. i'd lizard say in who the hell i wish to mind who. now there is question why after a little hi mary. i've been in the mid seventies days where they waited 79 killing . and there are some political reasons and explanations for that you must understand that during 79 that was also the earth back in as a prime minister in israel and that was after the end big embarrassment of. that after that embarrassment israel could not operate freely in the same. way that he did before in europe. for years the israeli were not really afraid of the city but the black september make a change that made them you change because because of the. folk that was. covering the old a parisian because of the big question mark that stands behind most stands behind the operation and put the things we sponsored them who work for them. in that was one of the reasons that made looks at them before the israeli public opinion more dangerous and unique and that it was and saddam is one

these machines go in a certain direction and push fluid with it. eporter: kostya kornev a his team at clemsonso looking at nature's means of moving flui they are focus on the mouth, or proboscis, of butterflies to inspire a breath-through in materials science. kornev and his team want to make synthetic fibers with similar properties. eventually, they want to build"" micro" siphon that would suck up or dispense tiny drops of fluid. such a device would have wide- dinging applications, like new l tools. >> so you can think about, even poking the single cell, taking a little droplet from, say, the nucleus. or if you can go to the brain and do the surgery on the brain. >> reporter: roboticist sarah bergbreiter is thinking along the same lines. she and her team build tiny robots inspired by insects, which can be impressive jumpers. fleas can leap 200 times their body length. >> swhat we can do is compre this and store energy in the rubber bands and release them for a jump. >> reporter: bergbreiter sees a day when micro-bots could carry cameras and sensors intomall geaces for surveillance, perform m

. >>> next, clemson university professor vernon burton on experiences as an expert witness for plaintiffs in voting rights cases in south carolina and texas. professor discussed the reconstruction era and constitutional

." >>> next, clemson university history professor vernon burton on his experiences as an expert witness for plaintiffs in voting rights cases in south carolina and texas. professor burton also discussed the reconstruction era and constitutional amendments that were intended to expand and protect voting rights. this talk was part of a symposium on reconstruction hosted by the u.s. capitol h historical society. >>> for those of you who were not here at the beginning today, my name is paul finkelman. i also have the honor of being the president of gratz college in greater philadelphia and i'm the symposium organize r fr fors symposium on reconstruction. we're about to begin our next session, and our next session deals with issues of public understanding in the modern period in reconstruction, and we

. >> he ties a school record for the longest score in clemson history. >> touchdown 90 yards? >> on "cbs this morning." >> 1-year-old ella of ohio, she could be the jonas brothers' youngest. ♪ >> french fry in hand and shaking it and shimmying. ♪ i've been dancing ♪ you're the medicine in the pain theia worse dancer than a baby. >> that baby is so cute. you know who likes that video? the jonas brothers. well done, little baby. welcome to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king with tony dokoupil. anthony mason is off. adriana diaz is here with us. we begin with hurricane dorian. now a category 2 storm getting scarier every hour. it is still on track to make landfall in florida as a catastrophic category 4. that would make it the strongest to hit the state's east coast since andrew in 1992. >> a state of emergency is in place for all of florida and part of georgia because there's no way to know where dorian will end up. chief weather caster lonnie quinn is here. a lot of uncertainty. what are you seeing right now? >> the storm has just strengthened. all right? still a category 2 sto

men walked up to me as we were standing there watching this amazing historic moment and they were clemson's victory. i said how? they said because we're all capable of big mistakes but we're also all afforded the opportunity of redemption. >> one final one, dale earnhardt jr. a quick story. >> great friend. he told me to shut up one day. told me to shut up and listen like a great friend would and completely changed my professional approach. i realized that in order to really make someone vulnerable and learn their story and let them tell it, you have to listen and you have to let them be vulnerable. it was an amazing moment. that's what real friends do. >> we love listen to you. can't wait to listen or read the book because it is out now. "never settle" is available. we'll be right back. >> thank you. alright, so this is how you are going to say... you'll get the best deal of the year on xfinity tv and internet. and you even get this. mike, you're on balloons. sarah, you're gonna high five everybody. ben, you're gonna be wowing them with your dance moves. don't miss the xfinity best deal

tent from the ground, sending two men flying through the air it happened outside a sports bar in clemsons that strong gust of wind uproots the tent. the two people attempting to hold it down tossed into the air. one of them flew about 15 feet up, almost landed on the roof of a building fell just short and hit the gutter on the way down amazingly, he walked away with no broken bones. did need some stitches though above his left eye >>> now a custody case making headlines around the world an american mother who lives i saudi arabia was ruled too western to raise her daughter. bill neely joins us with that story. >> reporter: good morning, everyone it is the mother of all custody battles unfolding in what is the most male-dominated society on earth. an american mom in saudi arabia faces losing her daughter, and she says, a ten-year travel ban and arrest, all because she was just too western to raise her child there. bethany vierra raised her 4-year-old daughter as a single mom since she divorced her saudi husband. reportedly described in court as abusive. now, the court has decided zaina sh

brian: senator lindsey graham joins from us clemson.esident of iran, rouhani, said, quote, if i possibly meeting with the president, said in televised speech, if i knew there would be a meeting, visiting a person would help my count very's development solve problems of the people, i would not miss it. that is major difference i will never meet with president trump he said a month ago. do you believe the president should follow through what macron is trying to broker that is a meeting with rouhani of iran? >> i really don't care if they meet. i appreciate what president trump has done to crush the iranian economy. they are trying to build a nuclear weapon, dismember the mid-east. the question is, what will they talk about? there is no good deal that will allow iran to enrich, processing uranium and plutonium. that is how awe make a bomb. the only good deal is have their nuclear program. they get their fuel from other sources. that is how you make a bomb. ainsley: what reaction to the states, there are 19 states, d.c. suing the administra