seth doane has the report. >> reporter: as we were driving toward the site of the explosion, we couldee the windows of an apartment building blown open because of the power of the blast. that explosion took place before midnight here local time, lighting up the night sky with orange. the first explosion had the power of three tons of tnt, followed by a second explosion with the power of 21 tons of tnt. amateur video shows people blown back because of the power of the blast. we have seen people on the streets here bloodied, looking for medical attention. some people wearing the clothes they ran out with. they have not been allowed back into their homes. for a while firefighters had to stop fighting the blaze because authorities were concerned they didn't know what hazardous materials they were battling. many people telling us, they are too scared, still to go inside. seth doane, china. >>> jimmy carter will go through treatment for cancer that spread through his body. mr. carter, the 39th president of the united states is 90 years old. a statement from the carter center said the diseas

seth doane, cbs news, hiroshima, japan. >> pelley: turns out there is a reason some flights get delayed more than others. a stradivarius stolen decades ago is back with its rightful o owners, and 16 years of jon stewart. everyone was fair game. >> the only thing missing from this story in my kid fantasy is newsman scott pelley's non- futuristic sense of style. yeah!y: >> pelley: when the "cbs evening news" continues. >> pelley: well, this won't improve your mood next timeoo you're waiting to take off. it turns out the airlines often choose which planes get stuck at the gate. between january and may, more than 400,000 flights were delayed, and that's more than 19%. here's kris van cleave. >> reporter: the 90-minute flight from chicago's o'hare airport to knoxville, tennessee, was the worst-performing route last year, not surprising to traveler larsen jay. >> we take this flight a lot. we're always delayed and we're always behind. it's a crapshoot. >> reporter: the flight is a recipe for headaches. the route flies from an airline hub prone to delays. last year 15 of 20 of the least on-tim

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the capital taipei, is locked down, and that's where we signed seth doane tonight. seth. >> reporter: the wind is really whipping here as had this typhoon batters taiwan. the streets are mostly empty. sometimes we heard sirens from emergency vehicles. the mayor of taipei has encouraged people to stay indoors as we start to feel 60-mile-per-hour wind gusts from the outer bands of this scorm. the view from the international space station shows the size and strength of the typhoon. the storm equivalent to a category three hurricane, has sustained winds of more than 120 miles per hour with hurricane-force winds extending 50 miles from its center. huge waves pounded the coast as most powerful storm to threaten taiwan in years approached. police protectively blocked off ocean walkways and some roads and fishermen moved their boats into port. authorities evacuated hundreds from their homes. earlier this week, the typhoon left a trail of destruction in saipan, a u.s. territory. some residents there are still without water or electricity. at one point the storm intensified i

seth doane is in the capital city of taipei. >> reporter: heavy rains from the typhoon unleashed those landslides in this mountain village in taiwan, leaving homes rur sounded. in one area, cars were buried in rock and debris. there are still people up in the mountain, this local resident said. "i want to look for them." in new taipei city, emergency crews rescued a family trapped under debris from another mudslide. at the height of the storm, more than three million households lost electricity in taiwan as 100-mile-per-hour maximum-sustained winds downed tree and cut power. toppled trees cut roads, too, making travel difficult. before crashing into taiwan, typhoon soudelor pounded the u.s. territory of saipan leaving some resident without water and electricity for days. hundreds of u.s. troops have arrived in saipan to help with disaster relief. now the diminished storm has slammed into mainland china, its strong winds bringing a tidal surge. chinese authorities have encouraged people to get to shelters. they've closed harbors and shut road, snarling traffic. even though the storm has

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here's seth doane. >> reporter: this view from a high-rise in the industrial city of tianjin shows a ball of fire growing on the horizon. the flames quickly seemed to die down, then, a massive explosion lights up the night sky, ripping through area buildings. sending out powerful shock waves felt several miles away. authorities say it was equivalent to 21 tons of t.n.t. exploding. chinese officials say a warehouse filled with hazardous materials is the source of the blast. security camera video shows one person being tossed by the force of the blast. cell phone images show people running into the street, trying to take shelter from flying debris, shards of broken glass and stone. one eyewitness said that the ground was shaking fiercely. glass broke and everyone started running. hundreds of injured have streamed into local hospitals. officials say they are now monitoring local air quality. scott, tianjin is a major financial hub here in northern china with a population of about 15 million. >> pelley: seth doane in beijing this evening. seth, thank you. the investigation into hillary c

the blast erupted at the seaport in a warehouse for hazardous materials, and seth doane made it there today. >> reporter: this stunning video, taken by a drone, gives el aerial view of the aftermath. the skeleton of burned buildings, shipping containers smoldering, acrid smoke belching moto the sky. , re than 1,000 firefighters were sent in, but they were cheped as authorities tried to figure out which chemicals were lrning and their risk. take a look at this building. this is the side facing the blast. every single window is blown out. the second explosion had the power of more than 20 tons of t.n.t. >> reporter: kelly wang and nathan liu didn't have time to collect their belongings. can you describe the explosion? "everybody just ran out," she said. "we saw fire in a mushroom cloud. it's terrifying, very terrifying." victims filled hospitals, many had wounds from flying glass. the blasts were so powerful they registered as earthquakes. and produced fireballs so big, they were seen in outer space, pictured as a growing green mass in a sea of white clouds. the explosions burned hundre

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seth doane is in the area in tianjin south of beijing. seth, good morning. >> reporter: among the dead are at least a dozen firefighters. many more still missing. the fire is still burning behind me. they had the power of three tons and 21 tons of tnt. and they ripped through this industrial zone where toxic gases and chemicals are stored. the explosions turned the night sky a vivid orange. first one ball of fire and then another, even bigger blast. shockwaves knocked people off their feet. surveillance video shows doors blowing back into this man. hospitals were inundated with hundreds of wounded. some staggering around, stunned. i was actually quite far from the explosion site this heavily bandaged security guard said. they were sparked from a warehouse for hazardous materials. hundreds of cars in this parking lot were left charred shells and windows were shattered in buildings more than a mile away. where is your house? pointing to his apartment, this man told us he was petrified. your windows were blown out. can you describe the explo

for "cbs this morning," seth doane, tokyo. >> you guys like? >> i like it.ntucket sound and go home and make fish tacos. >> i don't want to eat my food. i don't want to meet my food before i eat it. i don't. i just don't. it's amazing you two are very much in sync on many things. gayle, there's something we want to tell you. >> yep, i want that interview. >>> coffee lovers in britain are seeing red this morning. charlie's, like, what just happened? meet the small business owner. she was implying that there was something between the two of you, but everybody knows charlie's mine. back off, norah. >> lenny kravitz is all mine! >> you could say phoning it in. that's next on "cbs this morning." gotta go! ♪ >>> some of britain's iconic red telephone booths are getting a new lease on life you could say. this morning jack created one of the country's smallest coffee shops just like in the u.s., most people aren't using the booths for calls anymore, so jake opened his shop on monday. he tells "cbs this morning" that making the most out of the small space might even

for "cbs this morning," seth doane, tokyo. >> you guys like? >> i like it. i think it's a great idea. yeah. i've done that here in the united states. you catch a fish off the nantucket sound and go home and make fish tacos. >> i don't want to eat my food. i don't want to meet my food before i eat it. i don't. i just don't. it's amazing you two are very much in sync on many things. gayle, there's something we want to tell you. >> yep, i want that interview. >>> coffee lovers in britain are seeing red this morning. charlie's, like, what just happened? meet the small business owner. she was implying that there was something between the two of you, but everybody knows charlie's mine. back off, norah. >> lenny kravitz is all mine! >> you could say phoning it in. that's next on "cbs this morning." gotta go! in brooklyn in 1907, four courageous ladies saw the despair of the poor, old, and sick and founded what would become mjhs. today mjhs provides quality home care, rehabilitation and skilled nursing, and advanced hospice and palliative care for adults and childre

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our first interview is with doan, who is 66.e war, north vietnamese authorities assigned him to act as an interpreter. two interpreters were assigned full time to the office. we asked him to view the film. it seems he hasn't seen it before. and he can't recall going on the shoot. but he thinks he knows who did. >> translator: it might have been qui who went on the shoot. qui was older. for that reason, people in the military listened to him. we younger guys didn't have his level of access to get permission for this kind of coverage. >> he's referring to interpreter qui. he had been assigned to indien since the office first opened as the most senior interpreter, it's likely he worked on the village shoot, but he died in 1999. >> translator: cameramen faced tight restrictions during the war. the military had secrets to keep. that meant no filming of place names or clues to locations. no sounds could be recorded either. >> but as he watched the film, he spotted something. >> translator: that's hi hong province. >> hanging on the wa

seth doane is near the disaster.: good morning, you can see police kblocked off thi area. it has been completely destroyed. look at the buses in the parking lot, the windows blown out by the powerful blast. 21 tons of tnt. you can see the fire is still burning, smoke billowing here in the distance. about 1,000 firefighters were brought in to fight this fire. the government stopped them because they were concerned about the hazardous material inside that warehouse. around 6,000 people have been displaced by these blasts. >> seth doane in china, thank you. >>> jimmy carter is facing a health crisis. the 90-year-old will soon start cancer treatments. mr. carter sent in a statement that recent liver surgery revealed the disease. he said, quote, i have cancer that is now in other parts of my body. i will be rearranging my schedule as necessary to undergo treatment. they did not mention the prognosis. more information will come out next week. >>> this morning, the fbi reportedly has a private e-mail server of hillary clint

. >>> mast doan yas havmacedoniang some people through their borders. >>> doctors without borders are talking to yemen's fighting forces. it's become the focus of fighting in recent weeks as anti-houthi fighters try to retake, pushing north towards sanaa. this was the aftermath of sporadic fightin fighting frida, killings hundreds of children and adults. >>> dissolution of parliament in gross, they're sick of power cuts, food shortages and violence. prime minister haider al-abadi recently announced an 18th-corruption push. >>> prices of commodities are on the rise and that along with a series of corruption scanlts co. dilma rousseff is the most unpopular president in decades. >> ever since this woman's husband lost his job, this woman has become the sole breadwinner. even at countied prices, few of her clients are buying these days and she can barrel make ends meet. >> translator: i constantly have a headache, there is no jobs, no future, no end in sight. we need to choose which bill to pay every month. we also had to negotiate a discount at school. >> the brazilian middle class, flou

this new statement by the security council really doans address that. there'doesn't address that. there is still divide where assad falls into that. syria has said pretty much all along that no agreement should include assad necessarily leaving power, that that should be something left up to the syrians themselves and the u.n. should not prejudge that to to speak. it has been difficult oreach this point and just to show you how difficult, aside from the russians and the americans to agree on this, you have the venezuelans who are temporary members of the u.n. security council and big supporters of bashar al-assad, they came in last week and said they had some problems with this document and that's why it was pushed back to this week. we're expecting to hear from the venezuelaianvenezuelans who wilt why they have some reservations about this. it is a very contedge contentio. one step further on trying to get the security council to come together with one voice trying oget this peacto get this peacen track. >> gabriel elizondo, thank you. >>> the rafa border opened for four days all

. >> doan in a, thank you very much, from the greek side of the border with macedonia, thank you so much. now we can look at some pictures, live pictures of people who have been rescued by the italian coast guard. this is the italian island of sicily, where as you can see, people are disembarking, having been part of 22 separate rescue operations on saturday in which up to 4,400 refugees migrants were safely picked up from the mediterranean. many have died, making this the most dangerous crossing in the world, the mediterranean sea. that's the latest from southern italy. meanwhile, in germany, right wing protestors fight, police are protesting in the town for a second night, because they are saying that too many asylum seekers are being let into germany. they are angry about this development. germany expects the number of people claiming asylum this year to quadruple to 800,000. >> leonard dahl is spokesman for the international organization for migration. i asked him whether enough measures were being taken to protect refugees. >> i fear there are not enough. we saw when 900 people died

>> reporter: dana, our correspondent seth doane managed to get to ground zero at that explosion site today. what i saw in the daylight was amazing. the death toll still rising rapidly. many people are missing. we'll have the very latest on the catastrophe in china and the rest of the world news all coming up on the "cbs evening news" at 6:30. >>> new video slowing the moments after two tractor- trailers crashed on the new jersey turnpike last night. you can see the truck driver's pants on fire as he jumped out of his rig. he was injured in the explosion. this is in east brunswick. there you see the man in the top of your screen. an australian tourist saw it and ran to help. >> how he got out of the cabin, not completely on fire, is a miracle because there was nothing left of that truck within seconds. >> it's right in front of you. you're 20 feet from it. what do you do? you know? it's into the like -- you can't just sit there. >> the truck driver is in serious condition tonight at st. barnabas medical center. >>> a new jersey man is helping parents scare their underaged daughters in

. >> pelley: seth doane in the gathering storm this evening. setion, thank you. in troy, alabama last night, a tornado tore the roof off a walmart. merchandise flew everywhere. six injuries, none serious. more employers are hanging out the "help wanted" sign. 215,000 jobs were created in july the unemployment rate held at 5.3%. steady job growth is encouraging the federal reserve to inch up interest rates, make as soon as next month. but we also noticed this-- the unemployment rate for black teenager males is more than 30%, nearly twice as high as for white teens. michelle miller tells us that relieving black unemployment is part of the healing process in ferguson, missouri, one year now ampt fatal shooting of a black teenager by a white police officer reignited an enduring national debate. >> what do you think worth ethic means? >> reporter: adrian shropshire had no formal experience teaching young people how to find work. >> dependability, accountability, and trustworthiness. >> reporter: but after seeing his town torn apart in the wake of michael brown's death

selth doane is in taipei with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning.you can see the storm has now passed through taipei, that is giving residents here a chance to dry out and assess the damage. heavy rains from tiefoon soudelor sent water through taipei city. rescue workers used ropes to help the stranded and unsteady caught in this flash flood. in the mountain village rain triggered mudslides. surrounding homes downhill. across taiwan thousands were evacuated. the maximum sustained winds around 100 miles per hour churned currents. an 8-year-old and her mother killed when they were swept out to sea. here in the capital city, the powerful storm made driving dangerous. some streets flooded, others strewn with overturned scooters and debris. these heavy wind gusts are knocking down trees. can see early up and down this street in taipei. these trees are not only blocking roads, but they are knocking out power. at the height of the storm, around 3 million households lost electricity. before barreling into taiwan this typhoon devastated the u.s. territory of

. >>> hundreds of refugees have rushed at maz doan ya border fences to enter the country from greece. the u.n. is urging both countries to being at thatle a deteriorating situation. >>> 15 people ville killed in earian government air-raids over eastern aleppo. >>> this video post odd twitter shows the man detained by police on the platform and they were taken by a passenger on board of the plane. they say the man opened fire on the train around 1600 gmf on friday. three people were injured. it's not clear what his motive was. france's anti-terror police are investigating the incident. >>> other stories. doctors without borders are reporting 65 people including 17 from the same have been killed in a suddenly air strike tarlthing houthi position but hit civilian areas by accident. the city has been shelled by pro-houthi forces for several days. this footage is from an attack on thursday in which 23 people were killed. pro-government forces backed by the sawudsaudi-led coalitionle. >>> the white house confirming that isil's second in command mataz gl was killed in a strike a couple of da

you were doan%ed by matt cartwright the representative from easton. who else can you count on in this campaign? >> people. i think endorsements are great. i was very proud that matt cartwright did what he did, but i also know this, that the establishment, the party machines on both sides have let us down. walk across that state with me 422 miles. i didn't meet anyone who said what's the machine saying? they know washington, d.c., is broken, and so, therefore, they're looking for someone who will walk in their shoes and be willing when he goes to washington to walk in the people's shoes of pennsylvania and be willing to lose their job over doing what's right for them. >> do you worry at all, former governor ed rendell endorsed mcginty. does that worry you? >> ed is a good guy but no. ed rendell and the whole party establishment supported senator specter. i had been asked to run against him. i said no a couple times, then i did and they asked me sto step ahead when he switched parties. i did a 67 county tour. it wasn't 422 miles foot by foot but i went

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seth doane spoke with one of those family members. seths, good morning. >> reporter: malaysia's prime minister was definitive. the french authorities less so. and nearly 17 months after misplane disappeared, they are wondering who to believe. relatives gathered in protest outside malaysia airlines office in beijing today. please tell us the truth, she demanded. some call it a conspiracy. others say it's incompetence. victims' families have been waiting confirmation this flaperon is part of mh-370 and they are confused. first this from malaysia's prime minister. >> i must tell you that an international team of experts has conclusively confirmed that the aircraft debris found on reunion island is indeed from mh-370. >> reporter: but then this. not exactly conclusive from a french prosecutor. there is a very strong probability at the flap fond on the beach does belong to mh-370. australia's deputy prime minister acknowledged the confusion. >> i noted the comment from the malaysian prime minister. the french have made a somewhat more qual

seth doane is in beijing. good morning. >> reporter: devaluing the currency here means it's considerably cheaper to produce goods here in china. that's good for the export market which has been struggling. down more than 8% last month. overall the chinese economy has been struggling. on the flip side, it means the yuan, the currency here is not as strong. chinese consumers can't buy as much. that to tough for companies like apple which depend on sales to the chinese market for growth. china's central bank has noted the yuan has been stable over the last several months as other global currencies have dropped. so they say this is a natural correction. but in the u.s., there's cry from lawmakers who say this is an unfair advantage because you've made chinese products so much cheaper than u.s. products. china's government has been saying along that it wants the yuan to be a global currency so this move could signal that it's willing to tie its currency more to global market forces. regardless, this is likely to be

. >> seth doane in taipei thanks. >>> the final judgment for the colorado movie theater killer is in it is life not death. the jury had earlier convicted james holmes of 12 counts of murder. but the jury could not agree on a death sentence. so he'll spend the rest of his life in prison. the result was something of a surprise since the same jurors had rejected holmes' insanity defense in the 2012 attack. mark strasman has late details from centennial colorado. >> would the defendant please stand? >> 15 weeks of trial brought james holmes to the jury's judgment. >> the court will impose a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. >> no one denied that holmes was responsible for the killing spree inside theater 9. a jury had already decided the 27-year-old diagnosed schizophrenic knew the difference between right and wrong. defense lawyers argued holmes murdered in the grips of a psychosis. lawyer tamara brady. >> the death penalty does not bring anyone back. it doesn't make anyone feel better. it just adds to the death count. >> prosecutor george brockler argued hom

seth doane in beijing spoke with one of those family members. seth, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. malaysia's prime minister was definitive, the french authorities were less so, and family members nearly 17 months after this plane disappeared are left wondering who to believe. frustrated and angry, relatives gathered in protest outside malaysia airlines office in beijing today. "please tell us the truth," she demanded. some here call it a conspiracy. others say it's incompetence. victims' families have been awaiting confirmation that this flaperon is indeed part of mh370 and quite simply they're confused. first this from malaysia's prime minister. >> a very heavy heart that i must tell you that an international team of experts have conclusively confirmed that debris found on reunion island is indeed from mh370. >> reporter: but then this. not exactly conclusive from a french prosecutor. there's a very strong probability that the flap found on the beach does belong to mh370, he said. australia's deputy prime minister acknowledged the co

seth doane is in taipei. seth, good morning. >> reporter: good morning.he winds are picking up, and we're beginning to feel the outer bands of this powerful storm. the strongest threat in taiwan in years. we've seen windows taped up here as taiwan braces for the impact of typhoon soudelor which has left a path of destruction through several islands in the pacific. here we have seen authorities evacuating some residents. fishermen have returned to port with their boats. and the coast guard is not only patrolling the coastline but also offering lessons on saving lives at sea. this as tens of thousands of soldiers are on standby for disaster relief because typhoons are known to trigger landslides on this mountainous island. norah? >> all right, seth doane in taipei, thank you. >>> this morning jon stewart is waking up without a tv show. his final episode of "the daily show" last night was a star-studded blowout. familiar faces dropped by for the emotional celebration. they honored stewart's run as america's satirical voice. an thon mason is here and shows us

one egg donor's recent post is drawing national attention to some of the possible donsides to doan augsreilly volunteered to be an egg donor. she suffered serious side effects from the fertility drugs. she said that was just the beginning. >> i've had such panful periods, and i had endomeetrial scar tissue and endometriosis has gotten worse sense. >> it can impact fertility but there's no evidence that egg donation causes it. >>> in other health news, the latest form of bullying has some children skipping lunch. >> scientists are one step closer to a universal flu vaccine. >> teens have been tinkering with the flu vaccine to teach immune systems to fight whole grops of viruses. that would greatly increase the chances much the vaccine prot t protecting people from getting the flu. >>> an alarming trend is kids facing pressure to not each lunch or to eat much less than what theyment at school. they see girls avoiding eating or throwing out food for fear they'll be rejected by clicks. teasing kids about weight is nothing new but methods of teasing and bullying have gotten more subtle. >>>

many will try to head north through mass doan wra and seek asiel lum in austria, germany, britain orweden. the international community is accused of not doing enough to bring it to an end. two years ago there was outrage when 1500 people were killed in a saren gas attack. they're still waiting for justice. you may find some images in her report upsetting. >> reporter: the dead and the dies. there was to blood on their bodies, no visible injuries. the attack was different than what syrians had seen before. rockets carrying chemicals landed in guta in the morning of august 21, 2013. >> translator: it took seconds before i lost my ability to breathe. i wasn't able to scream or breathe to alert my friends, so i have to pound my chest really hard just to try to take a single breath. i felt like somebody was tearing up my chest with a knife. >> reporter: this 29-year-old survived, hundreds of others did not. two years later he has a you noo life in the united states, but he remembers that day clearly. >> it was a scene from judgment day. dozens of people, men, women, children running and f

seth doane has spotted calves made of sand in japan. and more. first let's to go kristen johnson in the newsroom nor our condition day morning headlines. >> good morning. it is august 23, 2014. an american wounded taking down a gunman on a train in france is now out of the hospital and reunited with his friends. charlie d'agata has the latest. >> the suspected gunman face down and hog tied and near him one of the men who brought him down. u.s. airman spencer stone, national guardsman alek skarlatos and their friend anthony sad her overpowered the gunman and beat him unconscious with the butt of his rifle. >> i think spencer the real hero. he was the first one to jump on him. he's the one who got cut up. he just had no fear. >> stone was cut to the bone after the gunman sliced into him with a box cutter. the alleged attacker has been identified as moroccan national ayob el khazzani. he found the weapons in the park only wanted to rob passengers. but he'd already been flagged for having links to radical islam. and french investigators are treating