and we are a company that understands them. >> reporter: portnoy quit his desk job to start the company. >> the early days content was all fantasy football, poker, gambling. that was 95% of it. >> reporter: at first a niche newspaper, barstool grew into a website. >> it moved away from the gambling roots to a lifestyle magazine, newspaper, whatever you want to call it. we talk about anything where a guy might be interested. >> reporter: attracting big-time football players manziel. >> it's putting a microphone, sitting in front of your friends, talking about sports. what's so different here than at networks, i can walk into our ceo's office and talk to erika about any concern. other networks you can't get to those people. >> reporter: smith left her job as an anchor for nbc sports boston to join barstool. >> when i was presented the opportunity to come where you can be whoever you want to be, say whatever you want to say, for better or worse. it was an opportunity i couldn't pass up. >> reporter: the barstool community has also rallied around important causes. giving back to victims of

and every time he finished a book after portnoy, he would take out the same folder and handle the same0 pages of notes and false starts. and i said to him, so, what did you do? he said i would just sit in my study -- or stand later because of his back. in my study sometimes for six weeks, eight weeks, six months at a time trying to write "american pastoral" and i couldn't get it off the ground. and i said what allowed you to crack that open? i think it was after his bypass surgery where he thought he might die, he said i took the pages out and i held the folder and i opened it, and i said to myself, now don't panic. i think the idea of phillip roth who wrote 30 novels, some of the greatest american novels ever written, panicking about having to face the blankness of a page, for me that was -- it tells you how deep he had to dig and what a torment the work was. >> that was remarkable story considering that was the book that got him the pulitzer prize. i want to move on to the politics of both of them. in a way, tom wolfe's "bonfire of the vanities" was a precurser to the excesses, the a

steven portnoy, cbs news, the white house. >>> a great white shark only feet from a kayaker, coming up the incredible video of sharks closing in on the santa cruz county shore. >> a headache after touchdown, the ride share pickup changes confusing travelers at sfo. >> and sky drone 5 takes us over a silicon valley estate with an ice hockey rink, a pizza room and jaw dropping price tag. near santa cruz. at's not >>> so imagine you're out on the water and you see this. keep looking closely. a great white shark circling a kayaker. that's near santa cruz. that's not the only shark lurking in the water right now. kpix5's maria medina reports nearly two dozen of them have been spotted close to shore. maria? >> reporter: well, there are warning signs all along the beach, but it is not stopping pool from going into the water including one local marine biologist. a massive great white just feet from a kayaker, it likely would have scared the average beachgoer. >> it's amazing and exhilerating. >> reporter: but not john carlo tomet, a local marine biologist who studied great whites the last four

steven portnoy, cbs news, the white house. >>> a california man is suing the giant chemical company monsantolaims its best selling herbicide roundup caused his cancer. >> reporter: duane johnson is dying of non-hodgkins lymphoma with less than two years to live. his lawsuit against chemical giant monsanto has been expedited in a california courtroom >> mr. johnson's cancer is caused by his continued exposure to the chemicals within the weed killer roundup pro and ranger pro. frequely ung the popular oldasa weed killers a worker indi. mon the jury pool to separate sympathy for johnson's situation and the science they plan to present. >> you're going to hear a lot of evidence about how it does not cause kaerps, and it did not cause mr. johnson's cans sneer johnson's suit is one of 4,000 filed against monsanto and its use of the main ingredient in roundup and other monsanto weed killers. while epa and other hundreds of health organizations have deemed it safe to use, a 2015 report by the world health organization toys it's probably carcinogenic. >> monsanto says the science is junk science. >>

former whitewater independent counsel, prosecutor and thompson&night partner robert ray and dave portnoy, so much coming up in the next three hours, you don't want to miss it. but first to our top story this hour, fresh trade tensions are weighing on the markets, we were just showing you the futures, let's look at them again. actually we are seeing more of a selloff in premarket, the dow down 155, s&p is down by 13, nasdaq is down by 18 points. u.s. futures taking a hit this morning. there are reports that president trump has now approved tariffs on $50 billion worth of chinese goods and official announcement is expected today from the white house, the president's approval coming after a meeting yesterday with top economic officials including treasury secretary steve mnuchin, commerce secretary wilbur ross and trade representative robert lighthizer, affected import would face 25% tariffs. joining us melissa armo of stock bush.com. let get your take first on the response first market response, we are seeing quite a selloff this morning. >> i was surprised when we got up this morning, i th

cbs news radio correspondent steven portnoy asked homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen about that. >> are you intending to separate parents from their children, intending to send a message? >> i find that offensive. why would i ever create a policy that purposely does that? >> perhaps a deterrent. >> no. >> just last month, white house chief of staff john kelly said family separation could be a tough t.rrende r mireya villarael talked about that. >> despite the policy of separating children from their families, it has not led to a decrease of illegal border crossings. when we went into mexico just past this border wall in juarez, we spoke with a number of families who say the policy is deterring them. you don't have any more family here? we met this mexican grandmother monday on the outskirts of ciudad juarez. she says she wants to cross the border to join her daughters in the u.s. but is scared she'll be separate from her granddaughter if she gets caught. you're asking that the president change his heart. she's been staying act a place in juarez known as casa migrante, a saf