mark? >> strassmann: manny bojorquez, thanks. antigovernment protests in hong kong took a dangerous new turn anday. for the first time police lficer fired a live round. and in another first, a water cannon. ramy inocencio is in hong kong. >> reporter: aggressive antigovernment protesters broke the delicate peace of the past pek. building barricades and advancing on a police line in the residential district of tsuen wan sunday. all warnings were ignored. in a first for hong kong police tso deployed two water cannons firing at barricades and protestors but no one was hit. throughout the night protesters fanned out across kowloon in a cat and mouse chase with police. and in one worrying sign, officers being chased by an angry mob pulled their handguns and fired a warning shot before the group retreated. one greater looming fear, if hong kong becomes too violent, beijing might deploy troops to pacify the city. ramy inocencio, cbs news, hong kong. >> strassmann: a bleak moment? u.s. history is being marked this weekend. wday the washi

i'm mark strassmann. president trump heads back to washington today after wrapping up the g7 summit in france. the president was at odds with the world's other economic powerhouses over global warming, russia and his trade war with china. the president told reporters he had second thoughts abouts 4 tariffs on chinese goods and that left his aides scrambling to say the president really meant his tariffs should have been higher. ben tracy was with the president in france. >> we have horrible trade deals, and i'm straightening them out. the biggest one by far is china. >> reporter: president trump seemed to admit he's not entirely sure about his trade war with china. >> mr. president, are you having second thoughts on escalating the trade war with china? >> for sure, why not. might as well. might as well. >> you have second thoughts about escalating the war? >> i have second thoughts about everything. >> reporter: what the president meant is that he wishes he raised the tariffs on china even higher. >> if hi

mark strassmann went to an almond farm in california. >> reporter: california farmers grow more thands, and china, their third biggest customer, is walking away. >> we're very concerned as we roll into this harvest season. >> reporter: in northern california this man's third-generation family grows and processes 42 million pounds of almonds a year. their biggest worry, without china as customers, their prices will drop. >> as a grower and a farmer you feel rather powerless, so you're hoping your handler you've chosen opens up some kind of a pathway that opens up markets. >> reporter: for all california farmers, choo i na is the third biggest export market worth $2.27 billion in 2017. $500 million of that was almonds, second only to pistachios as a total cash crop. dave moore is with the farm bureau. >> here we are. farmers are right in the crosshairs. this was definitely a body blow when they made that announcement. >> reporter: president trump tweeted this morning our great american farmers know this china will not be able to hurt them. their president has stood with them. we reache

what is clear, norah, is the relief that it's over. >> o'donnell: mark strassmann, thank you.aking news as ice agents today carried out the largest statewide sweep of workplaces for undocumented immigrants in u.s. history. about 680 migrants were rounded up at seven food processing plants in six cities in mississippi. omar villafranca has that story. >> reporter: the sting was the largest single-state workplace raid in a single day. more than 650 special agents conducted raids at food processing plants, arresting the majority-latino workforce and several employers. before their hands were tied, migrants were told to place their personal belongings in plastic bags. they were then taken for processing to the mississippi national guard station near jackson. one of the locations targeted was pico foods, which has 3,600 employees in mississippi. pico is the eighth largest poultry producer in the country. at a press conference today, u.s. attorney michael hurst put businesses that break the law on notice. >> to those who use illegal aliens for a competitive advantage or to make a qu

mark strassmann, thank you.i morrison, the world- renowned author and champion of the oppressed, died last night at the age of 88. morrison once said, "if there is a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." but few could wield the power of language like toni morrison. here is michelle miller. >> reporter: toni morrison was more artist than author. for nearly than 50 years her words painted a portrait of black life. >> most of my writing of the black topic, the black family, the black community is part of my life, but a lot of it was inquiry. >> reporter: through 11 novels spanning more than four decades, from "the bluest eye" to "song of solomon" and her pulitzer prize-winning "beloved," morrison turned pain into poetry. she would become the first black woman to receive the nobel prize in literature. in 2012, barack obama awarded her the presidential medal of freedom. >> toni morrison's prose brings us that kind of moral and emotional intensity that few writers ever a

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from the broadcast center in new rk city, i'm mark strassmann. captioning funded by cbs >>> it's monday, august 26th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." >>> mixed messages. at the g7 summit president trump appears to take a softer tone in the trade war with china only to have his press secretary say he was misinterpreted. what the president is saying this morning. >> very big things are happening with china. >>> tropical storm dorian expected to strengthen in the caribbean, where it could make landfall as a hurricane. >>> the sniper assault was fabricated by our deputy. >> and sniper hoax. a stunning admission leads to the firing of a los angeles sheriff's deputy. >>> and good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters in new york. anne-marie green is off. i'm brook silva-braga. good to be with you. >>> president trump met with egypt's president a short time ago. so far tariffs and a trade war with china have dominated the headlines, and the president said there was progress in talks with china. >> china called last night, ou

. >> garrett: mark strassmann, thank you. there is breaking news in connection with a frightening episode at a wal-mart in springfield, missouri. 20-year-old dmitriy andreychenko sss just been charged with itking a terroristic threat. police say he walked into the wal-mart yesterday carrying a loaded rifle and wearing body armor. customers understandably panicked. an off-duty firefighter who had a firearm, held andreychenko for flice. at the white house today, the president expressed new hope that congress will strengthen background checks for gun purchases. but as weijia jiang tells us, not everyone shares that optimism. >> i don't care politically. i don't want to have crazy people having guns. >> reporter: before taking off for his summer vacation, president trump tried to explain, without details, how he plans to keep guns out of the wrong hands. >> but we have to have meaningful background checks. i am talking about meaningful-- add that word-- meaningful. te reporter: but his call to action may be meaningless tithout le

mark strassmann has more on the outbreak and the first lawsuit. >> reporter: this hotel is still closedn since mid-july when everyone had to be evacuated. since then, at least a dozen people have tested positive for legionnaires, but hundreds more may have been exposed. by the time guests arrived at the sheraton atlanta on july 15th, 49-year-old camille garrett was already dead. she had coronary issues and legionnaires disease. garrett went to a conference at the sheraton a week before she died. jeremy grier did, too. >> i didn't want to eat. couldn't drink because everything was horrible. i was delirious. >> did you know your own name? >> i got to the point i didn't. >> reporter: grier is a 67-year-old photographer hired to document the hotel conference. his fever hit 104.5. atlanta's piedmont hospital kept him for four days. >> the doctors said, we have had two other cases already before yours. >> reporter: legionnaires disease is a severe form of pneumonia. people get sick inhaling small microscopic water drops. >> this is one of those bugs that lives out in the environment amongst u

mark strassmann is in st. augustine with that part of the story. mark, good morning. >> good morning. it's labor day weekend, and yet deserted streets like this one are about to become routine with tourist destinations like st. augustine, america's oldest city. residents and tourists alike, everyone is tracking the storm in their own way. dorian makes its slow approach. there are long lines for gas and in some places plastic bags covering the pumps, a sign to drivers in need of fuel to look elsewhere. >> i do understand, however, no one saw this coming? >> reporter: the pain may just be beginning for air travelers. airlines are already sending out alerts to passengers traveling through florida, home to four of the nation's biggest airports. on friday the big carriers started offering waivers, allowing passengers to change their flights through florida airports without penalty. with dorian still a few days away, some flyers are making their getaway now. >> i was really, really worried about having to change my flights and all of my hotels being cance

. >> mark strassmann, thank you. breaking news as ice agents today carried out the largest statewide sweep of workplaces for undocumented immigrants in u.s. history. about 680 migrants were rounded up at seven food processing plants in six citisaes in mississippi. omar villafranca has that story. >> reporter: the sting was the largest single-state workplace raid in a single day. more than 650 special agents conducted raids at food processing plants, arresting the majority-latino workforce and several employers. before their hands were tied, migrants were told to place their personal belongings in plastic bags. they were then taken for processing to the mississippi national guard station near jackson. one of the locations targeted was pico foods, which has 3,600 employees in mississippi. pico is the eighth largest poultry producer in the country. at a press conference today, u.s. attorney michael hurst put businesses that break the law on notice. >> to those who use illegal aliens for a competitive advantage or to mak

mark strassmann is outside the hotel as the first lawsuit is set to be filed today. ark, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this hotel is still closed, as it has been since mid-july, when everyone had to be evacuated. since then at least a dozen people have tested positive for legionnaire's, but hundreds more may have been exposed. by the time guests arrived at the sheraton atlanta on july 15th, 49-year-old camille garrett was already dead. an autopsy showed she had coronary issues and legionnaire's disease. garrett went to a conference at the sheratonk before she died. jeremy greer did too. >> i couldn't sleep, didn't want to eat. couldn't drink because everything was horrible. i was delirious. >> did you know your own name? >> i got to the point that i didn't. >> reporter: greer is a 67-year-old photographer. he was hired to document the same hotel conference. his fever hit 104.5. atlanta's piedmont hospital kept him for four days. >> the doctor said we have had two other cases already before yours. >> reporter: legionnaire's disease is a severe form of pneumo

mark strassmann is here. how on earth did the suspect manage to steal a police car?od morning. for starters, witnesses say it appears the suspect was intoxicated. police say he crashed his truck after driving away from the site of the stabbing. but when he crashed, he jumped into a police cruiser somehow responding to the scene and the deadly drive continued. cell phone video shows a riverside police officer attempting to arrest a stabbing suspect. he manages to climb into the driver's seat of the police cruiser. the officer tased the man, who is trying to get away. john poston shot this video and watched it unfold. >> the officer tased him. the guy still got in the driver's seat, drove backwards up the street, turned a corner, and from there he drove into the other police officer. >> he stole the car. my car is out of service. >> reporter: the suspect barreled through busy streets of downtown dayton. >> just like crash, and car parts flying all over the street. >> reporter: leaving behind a path of mangled cars before crashing into a pole outside the dayton metro li

mark strassmann joins us from louisville. what did the family have to say? >> reporter: good morning. this is the residential street where her family believes andrea knabel was headed. she never made it. she disappeared. which is why you find this poster looking for her all over this area. her family goes door to door searching for hope. >> we really appreciate it. >> reporter: knabel a 37-year-old single mother of two disappeared august 13th. she left her sister's house upset and was last seen talking on her cell phone, walking toward her mother's house about a half mile away. >> my life is not the same right now without her. >> reporter: erin fecker is her sister and this is her father. they told us andrea reentsly lost her job and was going through a rough patch. >> reporter: no one has heard anything? >> nothing. >> randomly it hits you and you get really upset. >> reporter: i hope she didn't come out on a busy thoroughfare like this and take a ride to go to someone else's house and never made it, got into the wrong car. >> reporter: that's the worry. >>