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it is wednesday, october 22nd, 2014. welcome to "cbs this morning." a passenger from west africa sparks new ebola fears after getting flagged at newark international airport. three teenaged girls from colorado trying to join isis in syria. and remembering watergate legend ben bradlee. bob woodward and george bernstein join us. >> but first a look at your "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> they send officials
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scrambling at two airports in. >> in chicago two passengers are being screened. >> at newark international they have a passenger. >> a passenger who is being treated for ebola will be allowed to return home today. the ohio man held in nort e korea is headed pack home. >> three teenaged girls from denver are back home after trying to travel to syria. >> they were picked up in germany. authoritied suspect they may have been trying to join isis. legendary "washington post" editor ben bradlee has died. >> he was a tough no-nonsense. >> you were born to be a newspaper man. >> i can't think of another thing i could do. i could start out with something, you know, that i wouldn't be happy at. apple posted a new warning
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for icloud users. >> caught on camera in pennsylvania. amazingly no one was injured. >> all that -- >> a group of hikers in south africa has had a frightening encounter with an angry elephant. >> well hit. gone. hunter pence with a two-run shot and the giants take game one. she doesn't just look different. she looks unrecognizable. >> and all that matters. >> i want one. >> the hover board is finally here. >> you can't do everything marty can do but we're a whole lot closer than we were. >> -- on "cbs this morning." >> in a new interview actor matthew mcconaughey says he does not want the washington redskins to change their names. when asked for comment the head of the native american tribe said, i guess that settles it. >> announcer: this morning's "eye opener" presented by toyota. let's go places.
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captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning." an american held prisoner in north korea arrived home this morning. a plane carried jeffrey fowle landed in ohio moments ago. he was greeted with a handshake and a hug. he was set free after, quote, repeetd requests of president obama. >> and secretary of state john kerry said they gave up nothing to secure his freedom. margaret brennan is covering the release. margaret, good morning. >> good morning. well, jeffrey fowle spent six months in a north korean prison for crimes against the state after he left a bible in a nightclub. his sudden release caught american officials by surprise and they're wondering what pyongyang will do next. 56-year-old jeffrey fowle was last seen this summer pleading for his freedom as north korean authorities paraded him in front of media and suddenly he was
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released on tuesday. >> we can confirm jeffrey fowle has been ok'd to be freed and return to his home. >> he was free to go. the pentagon scrambled this government jet to bring him home. fowl then called his wife for the first time in six months according to their tone. >> we were digging in and preparing for the long haul. that was the plan at this point in time. and when i say long haul, i mean years. we held out hope that it would happen souper than later, but we were preparing for the worst-case scenario. >> but there are two american millers. 24-year-old matthew miller and 46-year-old kenneth bayh, whose health is in decline after two years of hard labor. this is just the latest profile stunt by the secret of countries. kim jong-un has disappeared from
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the public for around a month. at the same time he sent top generals to meet with their south korean counterparts in three years. raising hope that fowle's release might be a diplomatic maneuver. they called for confidence-building measures and perhaps this is one. kerry has said this was not part of a trade but also that he hopes to restart nuclear talks soon. officially the obama administration says any prisoner released should not be linked to north korea's expanding nuclear program. charlie? >> margaret, thanks. this morning there are new fears of another ebola case on american soil. a patient is undergoing tests at a hospital at newark, new jersey. health screenings found the passenger may have been exposed to the virus. this morning all passengers from countries affected by ebola
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will start flying exclusively to just five u.s. airports. newark is one of them. newark, jfk, washington, dulles, atlanta and hartsfield-jackson are the others. they will screen those who returned from africa. freelance journalist ashuko mukpo could be returned home. his blood has no traces of the virus. he contracted ebola while working in liberia. meanwhile nurse nina pham, her condition is moved up to good. >> ron klain is overseeing the government's response to the crisis. major garrett is at the white house where klain will meet with the pretty today. major, good morning. >> good morning. first things first, klain will not be the public face of the ebola response.
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he'll be behind the scenes. his first job, cracking down. he'll brief president obama frequently and focus on where the government response to ebola is now and where it needs to be as it continues its marchafrica. government agencies have revised the tracking of ebola. new department of homeland security travel restrictions start today and that means additional airport screenings and protective medical procedures. all passengers arriving from the liberia hot zone, liberia, sierra leone, and new guinea must be screened. they'll work with foreign countries especially in europe to establish the new screening system.
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>> there's a lot of cord neigh that went into this and i'm pleased to see that being inemploy meanted. he's taken on a hollywood stile status. he'll work best if the public sees him least. officials say the young women were interested in meeting one fighters from the terror group. all three are home this morning and are unlikely to face criminal charges. bob orr is in washington where investigators say the girls' families tipped them off. bob, good morning. >> this began as you say with runaway reports on fridays when the families realized the three teenaged girls had skipped school and taken off with cash and passports. police and the fbi were notified and officials soon discovered the young women had flown from denver, through chicago, and onto germany. they were stopped at the frankfurt airport before they could fly on to turkey.
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they were briefly questioned and put on a return flight that brought them back to the u.s. now law enforcement sources say there are indications the girls ages 15 to 17 were planning on to syria where they hoped to link up with radical fighters. sources say two of the girls might have been greatly influenced by terrorist propaganda. they appeared to be acting out some kind of jihad fantasy. the fbi says it continues to investigate the case but the girls have not been charged with any crime and it's a pretty good example of how they can work to stop overseas terror groups if they reach out to authorities with timely inform snoogs thanks . >> an alleged isis militant shows off krats filled with hand
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grenades and small rockets. they say dozens of bundles of rockets were dropped. they were intended for kurdish fighters who were trying to keep them from taking over the border town. cbs news has not determined if the video is authentic. >> we're getting a rare inside look this morning at a people who fight for isis. holly williams spoke to some isis suspects in captivity in syria. >> reporter: good morning. after weeks of negotiation, we were escorted into syria by a kurdish group. they're holding alleged isis terrorists. in the placement of the prison, the men were led in one by one. the guards are worried about retribution from isis and don't want to be identified but one of the prisoners were terrified.
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why are you so frightened? >> because i thought i was going to be beaten who's accused of detonating a car bomb for isis. he denies it. so does this man. he's alleged an accomplish who was brought in next to tell his story, but kareem, who's just 15 years old admits that he fought with isis. he told us when isis captured his village, they gave him a terrible choice, join them or be beheaded. as its gone on the rampage across syria and iraq, they've carried out massacre, public res executions and ore atros its. he claims he was drugged with an anti-anxiety medication, zoe lamb, before he went into battle. that drug makes you lose your mind, he said. if they give you a suicide belt and tell you to blow yourself
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up, you do it. after it, he showed us his battle wounds caused by three bull its to his stomach during a fire fight nine months ago. the kurdish fighters who captured him also saved his life. his story is not the first we've heard of isis compelling men to fight. he told us the group holding him believed his account and he hopes he'll soon be released and sent home to his family. charlie? >> holly, thanks. ben bradlee, one of the most important and celebrated journalists in american history died on tuesday. the retired "washington post" editor was 93 years old. bradlee led his paper's coverage of a scandal that brought down a president. he also shaped a generation of reporters. bill plante is outside the "post" headquarters in washington. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. ben bradlee was famous and respected for a reason.
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he stood up to the u.s. government and doggedly pursued one of the biggest stories of the last century, the watergate scandal. >> i just do not believe the first version of events in the city. i don't believe it. >> as executive editor of the "washington post," ben bradlee brought skepticism to the paper's daily reporting. >> people don't tell the truth. they don't tell the truth in a hundred different ways, and it's become so easy to lie. >> a harvard graduate and world war ii navy veteran, bradlee worked at the u.s. embassy in paris and later "newsweek." later he became neighbors with the senator john f. kennedy. under his leadership they published a government classified study known as the pentagon papers, a risk ratified by a supreme court decision. >> five men were arrested.
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>> reporter: but it was the post coverage of the watergate scandal which led to president's nixon's resignation that made him a public figure. he was portrayed by jason robards in "all the president's men." >> i have to do it which means i have to trust them. i don't trust anybody. >> turned to bob woodward and carl bernstein. bob woodward. >> he had the touch, ability to encourage people, stimulate the& but not run over them. >> reporter: he knew that their main source known as deep throat was absolutely fbi associate brett feldt.
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>> he said, i just want to make sure you've done enough. >> reporter: despite one major retraction, bradlee's tenure was marked by accolades for the paper including 17 pulitzer prizes. last year president obama awarded him the medal of freedom. and through it all ben bradlee had the last word in washington. >> it isn't all straight-laced and serious and all on the brink of war. >> reporter: ben bradlee was an editor who didn't do things is same old way. he set the standards for journalism and said of his own life, i had a good time. >> there was no one like him. most impressive was he believed
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in reporters and viewed the most important thing he could do as every editor does is hire the best reporters you can find. >> he was friends with many of the people he covered includingly famously jfk but he didn't trust everything they said and he still questioned them. i remember the first time i met been bradl ben bradlee who wanted to teach a class on newspapers. i think he's such a great man, a great journalist. >> not only woodward and bernstein but with kaye graham. >> our thoughts are with sally. >> ben bradlee will ta. we'll talk with bob woodward and carl bernstein on "cbs this morning." they're high lighting what congress and federal agencies are doing. one program spent $199,000 to study compost digested by worms.
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another $856,000 went to train mountain lions to walk on treadmills. nancy cordes is here with several more examples of what the senator calls waste. good morning. >> good morning. this senate is on course to be called the least productive in all of history. $10,000 for an oregon children's theater production of "zombie in love." $46,000 for a snowmobile competition in michigan. and $414,000 to update an army video game meant to spur recruitment, a project already $25 million overbudget. all this plus rabbit massages at ohio state university. butterfly farms on oklahoma tribal lands and an iron man suit under development at the
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didn't of defense. these expenses are all part of oklahoma senator's tom coburn's annual ranking book, the top 100 worst examples of government waste including out-of-this-world spending on research projects designed by grade school students to be is sent to the international space station. plus -- >> laughing classes. we're peaing people to teach people how to laugh. there's a lot of serious problems in this country. maybe the reason the people aren't laughing is because the government is so incept. >> coburn has been producing the book for five years. he said it's making a difference. >> we should be ashamed the. if we're watching and hold people accountable, we'll get better pay. >> the rest was approved by
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individual agencies. it all adds up to $25 billion at a time, charlie, when our national debt sits at $17 trillion. >> thank you, nancy. automakers say close to 8 million cars could have deektive air bags. that's double the original number. it can send shrapnel at drivers or passengers if they deploy. meanwhile the national highway traffic safety administration is under fire this morning. the list of recalls on monday included some cars not affected by the flaw. the agency has updated their list. you can find it by going to our website, cbsnews.com. it is 7:19. ahead on "cbs this morning." a lot more. they're accused of
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good morning, everyone i'm ukee washington. we have pretty wet conditions around the region. lets check with katie. >> we do it is coming in the form of soaking rain for some of you but others who may see glimmer of sunlight. so often this is case where it is very much a localized forecast at this hour, we are tracking some steadier rain basically out through trenton, mercer county and shore point and then southbound traveling on i-95. so here's what is up, guys. we are watching low pressure develop through the day so there will be rain that comes through and the clouds otherwise just limit the temperatures. we are only up to 60 today. we will drop down in the 40's later on tonight. tomorrow is chilliest day and it is still damp but by friday we are clearing things out and that means that we have a
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decent weekend on tap on this point. vittoria. good morning, everyone. as far as your commute i wouldn't say it is december even, it is pretty slow. we have a few incident. this is i-95 north bound at academy we have an accident here, primarily on the shoulder, but you will experience just a touch of slow down as you move beside it. now lets talk about slow downs. roosevelt boulevard southbound jammed approaching broad down to the schuylkill expressway. your delayed on 76 itself where you drop down to 5 miles an hour around city avenue. lieutenant of role in the western suburbs. chase on 95. we are traveling 12 miles an hour. nineteen is are average on 476. watch out for two hour delays at the airport, u ukee? >> thanks, variety tore y next update 7:55. up next on cb
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in wisconsin the navy launched its newest convoy ship. that's normal. they say the modular design allows it to be reconfigured in a few days. it can be adapted for different situations. >> it looks like it wasn't going to turn out well but it turns out okay. welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up this half hour, drug abuse, violence, and fake results. cbs news evaluates information against job training programs that you're paying for. anna werner talks with them. they claim they saw the wrongdoing firsthand. plus, halloween candy that really is scary.
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kids swallowing marijuana products. we'll show you how the police are getting those stories out. that's ahead. hackers targeted users of apple's i cloud. they may have had their passwords stolen and they're being spied on. experts believe the chinese government is involved. google, yahoo! and microsoft have seen similar attacks. they call the secret service conduct problematic. three years ago workers were pulled from the white house to settle a dispute. a man who ran into the white house undergoes testing behalf a court appearance. this man released his book but he clashed with the cia review back court about some of its contents.
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panetta threatened to release it without approval. fortune lost $4 billion with a "b" in just two days. ibm fell more than 7% of monday and coca-cola plunged 6%. >> that's a lost to loose. $2 billion. >> but he's got a lot. the federal government job kofrcorps has been around for 50 years it's the largest program in the country but a cbs news investigation raises serious question about how well some job kofrps se corps centers are doing. an in westerner has more. >> they say they turn outside substitutes with bright futures but we raised questions about whether some senators are really
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accomplishing their core mission preparing these young people for jobs. job corps promises a new job for young teens and adults. a way to earn a degree. >> this was a good choice. >> the $1.7 billion federal program funds 125 centers across the country, most run by private companies. 19-year-old hunter donaghy enrolled at the north texas job corps last year. with only an eight grade ed karks he saw the program as his last chance. >> a new opportunity. doors opening up for me, a chance to getmy education and become someone who can be proud. >> but he says when he got to the center, there were lots of fights. he said he was even attacked by another student. >> he put his hand around my neck and then it got to the
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point where i was starting to go unconscious. >> but donaghy's attacker was not expelled. instead he graduated from the program. and mike jamison, a former chicago police department who was chief of security said he saw other unlawful activity. >> marijuana. cocaine. heroin. >> this video obtained by cbs news appears to show a student cutting white powder on his desk in a classroom. jamison says instead of stops the drugs and violence he was pressured not to report it despite a zero tolerance poll sichl sources told us expelling students can hurt a center's performance ranking. >> if a kid was caught in a dormitory or on campus with drugs, what i saw is they did not want that to be reported. >> and former career adviser dean terrell told us there was
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pressure to get job placements. no matter the method. what percentage was fake? >> overall, 75%. >> as this document shows would pay bonuses of as much as $1,150 each month for hitting those tar gels. but tonnell said often they couldn't do it so they put down names. >> you say you would put down a dpaep, claim it was true, and nobody would check up on it. >> correct. i felt like it wasn't right but what do you do when you have upper management telling you to do it. if not, you know, we'll find somebody that lil. >> he was inspired for it. they have since brought their allegations to the fbi. cbs news heard similar allegations about violence and
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fraud from current and former peas who worked at 15 other centers around the country over the past ten years. houm many of you were told not to call the police. >> reporter: former albuquerque teacher told us some didn't show up for classes but they still passed in their trade. >> they'll go out and they don't know what they're doing. any never stepped foot in a shop. >> the scepter told us any problems were isolated. >> you can have people say things, but there's not proof that this program is subject to systemic cheating. >> he says job corps pays off for any who enroll. that 82% who graduate go on to
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jobs or work in the military. >> the whole plan is to give them skills training and report. good jobs. we think these placement rates show we're achieving that. >> but three years ago the labor department general found they overstate fourth degree 2% of plapsmentes and some wound up in fast food jobs that could have eventually been obtained without job training. >> i think the question is clear. >> reporter: mason bishop oversaw the job training programs for six years as a deputy assistant secretary at the department of labor. >> if there is fraud in the reporting of the numbers, then that framework putting whom program into question. that is a very, very serious problem. >> as for donaghy, he's not at
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the center. >> i'm nowhere. all i own is a suitcase and that's about all i've got. >> now, when we requested comment from career opportunities incorporated, the one that ran the north texas job corps and another referred us to the department of labor. during the course of our investigation the department of labor announced it would not renew the contract due to what it calls students. >> these are some really serious allegations. were there any stories of good outcomes that came from that program? >> that ice a good point to make. some of the employees felt like their centers were doing a good job and preparing some of these students for the future. some of the contractors said
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they take safety seriously. the didn't of labor denied us access to any site and declined to do any kind of an interview to talk about these allegations. >> wow. even though this is a government funded project. >> that's right. reasked repeatly. >> all right. thank you. many colorado parents will comb through the candy on halloween. we'll show you what they're worried about and it's certainly more than a sugar high. that's next on "cbs this morning." frbladder medicine not working? ...can't handle the side effects? botox® treats symptoms of leaking, going too often, and the strong sudden need to go. ask your urologist if botox® can help calm your bladder. ...and reduce your daily leakage episodes. the effects of botox® may spread hours to weeks after injection, causing serious symptoms.
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>> with a capital "a." i love zoe's little voice. it's a great halloween for zoe and everyone else under the age of 14. i was trick or treating at 13. not good. next week washington state will celebrate halloween for the first time since mann became widely available in the stores. police are warning parents to check kids' bags with candy for pot. as reported, it can be very hard to pick them out. >> at the rock creek pull kidnap farm patch in denver, this 2-year-old is on the prowl for the perfect pumpkin. nearby whitney ross is concerned about max getting candy infused with marijuana. >> i don't know who would do that to children but i think it's definitely something we should watch out for. >> reporter: concerning enough to make this video. pot shops have walls lined with
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edibles, mostly candy. they make uit. it could become a year or more before the state labels them or dyes them a different color. here's the problem. you can't tell the difference. they've seen child overdose cases go from 19 to 13. there is a long-term risk for children. >> do you worry about this because a child's brain is still forming. >> of course, yes. acutely wi understand what's going on with the child but long-term down the road we don't understand what the effects are. >> she knows the best defense is still kbhon sense. >> if it's not a name brand i
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recognize like milky or snicker's, it goes in the trash. >> when in doubt -- >> -- throw it out. >> so they'll have the kind of halloween that kids deserve. do you get lots of candy? >> yes. >> is it lots of fun? >> yes. >> are you going to eat it? >> yes. >> okay. thank you, bella. for "cbs this morning," barry petersen, denver. >> very nice. i remember when i was little you wanted to avoid the house with the ams and the raisins. now it's not the problem. >> or toothbrushes. >> avoid that house. >> you know the ones that give out the full-size candy bars. mo'ne davis is back. she stands
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good morning, i'm erika von tiehl. let's check with katie. we have milk weather out there, good morning. >> we absolutely do. good way to put it. we have some spots where we are seeing glimmer on have sunshine but we have a lot of activity and obvious here over my shoulder on storm scan three i want to take you full screen and show you is what up here. it is almost as if somebody took a can of paint and splattered it on storm scan here. some off have rain, some off have the cloud, some of you have have a little peak of sunshine but you know, it will be one of those days wherever one is fair game for the rain to roll through. it will be rotating through, as an area have low pressure does the same, gathering strength and then pull off to the northeast. it will take sometime to get out of here. cloudy skies outside the
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elementary school some spots dealing with rain. others a little brighter but we are only going to climb to 60 today. cooler day by comparison. tomorrow is the chill yes, sir day and then we are in for a nice weekend, vittoria, something to look forward to, thanks katie. good morning. you are in the looking forward to traveling on the ben franklin bridge. if you are traveling on the been in the westbound direction, good news is it is a construction project that has been compromising two lanes has opened up, for four lanes for this morning but this afternoon it will flip flop. you will be back to three lanes on the westbound side, eastbound you will be opened to four. watch out for rush hour delays on 95, schuylkill and vine, erika. >> next update 8:25. next up on cbs this morning a modernrn medical miracle a man once paralyzed walks again. we will se it is wednesday,
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october 22 pd, 2014. chris licht's birthday. when you see him, you know what you need to do. welcome to "cbs this morning." the amazing self-transplant that has never been done before but first here's a look at today's "eye opener" at 8:00. >> jeffrey fowle was held in north korea for six months. this morning he is released. first things firnt, ron klain will not be the public face of the white house.
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he'll work behind the scenes. >> there are indications the girls ultimately hoped to link up with radical fighters. >> we were invited to a kurdish group where they're holding an alleged isis terrorist. >> bren brad llee was respected for a reason. he stoold up to the government and doggedly withstood the biggest story of the last century. >> i think of him almost every day when i read the newspaper. >> what percentage of placements would you say were fake? >> i would say 85%. >> there's a new fitness trend finally and that trend is crying while you work out. if i want to see a bunch of women in yoga pants crying, i'll go to a farmer's mark and buy all the keen roy. >> reporter: this morning ice "eye opener" at 8:00 is presented by walgreens.
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>> i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell. an airline passenger in west africa is in newark, new jersey, this morning getting tested for ebola. the cdc was flagged after screening after arriving at newark's airport on tuesday. freelance mukpo has been released and nina pham is doing better. she was the first to be diagnosed with ebola in the united states. >> ben bradlee brought down the president through watergate. he died yesterday. he talked about the post 1971 decision to print a secret government history of the vietnam war.
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>> first real test with the pentagon papers? >> yeah. that was -- yeah. we were -- we were -- you know, "the new york times" had gotten it. it was their story and they had published it for three days. we were just sucking air. we didn't have it. we had to do the most denigrating of all newspapers. we had to quote the other paper. blah, blah, blah. terrible. i wanted to be considered in the same breath as "the new york times," i really did. that was -- you know, i didn't like people to say, well, "the new york times". i wanted "the new york times" and the post. that helped. it was a step a long the way. >> a lovely man. he was working for the campaign at the watergate hotel.
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the break-in was part of a wider program of political saab tochlkt "washington post" reporters bob woodward and carl bernstein reported on it. they join us from washington. good morning. >> good morning. >> remember for us what was for you the essence of the man. >> we saw -- you saw everything in that video, you saw the wonderful command, the use of language, the way he carried himself and hi love for the profession. he wanted to take this institution which he took over was kind of war-bound and he turned it into a great, great institution. >> bob? >> yeah. well, he was the -- i mean as you said, really a lovely, lovely person. he was always our friend. but he was the guy who would sit down with us and say do you
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really have this story? what did people say. listen to the white house spokesman. he said, wait minute. what really happened. go find the people who handled the money, the bookkeeper, the treasurer of the nixon re-election campaign. and he would guide us through that step by step. and then he was the one who would say, okay, it's ready, let's go with this story. >> what did sally add to his life? >> totally different life once he married sally quinn. she changed his clothes. that was the first things. he became one of the best dressed men you have ever seen. bradlee had an incredible elam. he had it before sally. but after sally, it took on new
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polish. it took on a joy that was visible and palpable and that was bradlee. he lives a wonderful life. never a moment when he wasn't looking forward but he also looked at it from the level of a reporter which he had been a young reporter and everything he learned when he was a young reporter is what he preached and how he led his troops. he would say, i can't there to get the story. you be there to get the f'ing story and it had better be right. >> how old were you and take us behind the scenes on how tough he was when the two of you were on the verge of covering a game-changing history-making story. how old were you back then? >> 29 and 30. >> 28 and 29 actually. >> okay. i think sometimes we felt like
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we were 11 and 12. >> that's more like it. >> you know, it was all about the detail. it was all about the facts. last night after he passed away, carl and i went over to sally quinn now widow's house and we sad there with the family members for hours telling stories about his energy, the way he impacted with even. in the newsroom when we were working on the story but at all time he had this glass office so you could see what was going on and who was in there and them he would get out and there would be 100 pair of eyes in the newsroom following him around. where's he going, what's the action. and if two people were sitting around or talking or something, he'd come up and say what's happening. and there was that sense we're
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not digging deep enough, there's a mist out there, go get it. >> i heard he always wanted to be first but never wanted to be wronging. >> that's right. there were numerous times. he would say, huh-uh, boys, you ain't i got it yet. >> the "washington post" is just a beautiful read today. it's just wonderful. i keep thinking as i read it that ben wanted even during watergate a paper that had impact. i think about that. what stories today are real tube rippers, the idea that you wanted to pull the newspaper out of the mailbox because you couldn't wait to find it. >> we talk about this all the time. we step back and we don't know enough about what's going on,
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that the message managers are real skillful and it's a new era of patience and speed and with benne ben, it was kind of slow down, slow down, go talk to people. did that person have app ax to sign? he made sure it made it into the paper and sometimes we did maim may stain. he was kind about it and said, let's move on. >> thank you both. we were really excited you were going do bon on. >> thank you. >> los angeles police responded
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to a report of inappropriate sexual behavior in car. she then claimed to be a target of racial profiling. this exchange was reported. >> somebody calls which gives me the right to be here. >> do you know how many times the cops have been called just because i'm black and he's being white. >> who brought up a race card? >> i'm bringing it up. >> i have every right to ask for your it. d. >> and i have every right to say no. >> it could bring a 6 moment jail sentence and a $5 hup fine. >> target is starting free shipping this morning. analysts say how hard retailers are working to attract shoppers. >> christmas shopping already. all right. ahead of "cbs this morning," the
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in our "morning rounds," reversing paralysis. a bulgarian man is expecting to
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walk again. vinita nair is here with the breakthrough the doctors say is the first of its kind. good morning. for most of them it means facing a life of it. now there's break through in the quest to treat paralysis. a knife attack in 2010 left firefighter darroo daren fydika paralyzed. now he's making history. >> you're making history now. to me this is more impressive than a man walking on the moon. >> reporter: dr. jeffrey raisman led a team of european and
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polish doctors. he began receiving the treatment almost two years ago as a polish hospital. the technique involves ol' factory celling. they're chosen because they regenerate when damaged. they were transplanted into his severed spine. three months after surgery, fydika's thigh muscles began growing. after extensive rehab tarks he regained feeling in his leg. just six months after his surgery and with only the aid of leg braces, fydika began walking. >> it's an incredible feeling. you can't feel almost half of your body. it's like you're helpless. but when it comes back, you feel
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like you're born again. >> i believe this is the moment paralysis can be reversed. >> dr. dalton dietrich is a scientif scientific doctor on the team to cure paralysis. >> cell therapy, bridging strategy. it's only one patient and we have to do much more patients to actually figure out is this is going to work. he's making progress each week and now huh can drive. it's incredible to see him walking. they did a great job of looking at the variables, making sure it was related to the surgery. >> thank you. a bolder plan for president obama.
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>> warning for president obama. he was in chicago monday morning for early voting at the ballot minding his own business. that's when the girlfriend's boyfriend playfully gave the commander in chief some advise, to keep his distance. she went on to tell her friend as what happened. >> i'd love to be in the car on the ride home with him. what did you just do. clearly her boyfriend has a sense of humor. >> what dhid he say at the end?
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give me a kiss s the the football coaching staff at sayreville war memorial high school in middlesex county new jersey is suspended by the school game. team's head coach and four assistant were suspended indefinitely with pay. seven sayreville football players were charged october 10th with crimes range ranging from haze to go sexual assault. school's football season has also been canceled. katie has your forecast from the weather center. good morning. >> pretty dreary one, unfortunately ukee. today will be one of these days where you will likely want to keep rain gear on stand by because these round of rain will roll through and rotate through and just looking at last three hours you can tell a very well defined, rotation, taking place here, so, some of you
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have very steady rain and others, you just have some clouds overhead. it is one of these days where it is off and on, occasional good word to describe this. 60 degrees. dropping down to 48. still with round of rain and i do think we will have some showers at minimum a damp day tomorrow and chilly raw day too. high of only five 56789 come friday and weekend though temperatures rebound, high pressure settles in. saturday and sunday looking very nice. so timing definitely on your side this time around, vittoria. >> you know you'll to have give yourself more time commuting this morning because any major that we have is flooded with traffic. traveling on i-95 in the southbound direction this shot approaching vine street expressway is delayed throughout far northeast, philadelphia down through the the vine. find delays on the schuylkill, vine once you get there making your way towards broad street and 76, so just in short your average speed sensor basically all over the map is traveling in the 20's and in the teens. also expect delays from the northbound side of 42 as well as 55 approaching 42, in
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delays on 295 and nothing major for mass transit, ukee. up next, at 8:55, and on cbs this morning treating your cup of coffee like a fine wine we're cw philly on these
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welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up in this half hour, the next evolution in coffee making. a new wave of small roasters is turning customers into aficionados. we'll show you how one company is trying to grow without losing its special flavor. >> the best selling author shares her inspiration and we get a rare peek behind her. that's ahead. the philadelphia inquirer looks at malala yousafzai. she called on them to pay for schools, not wars.
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>> people's magazine says renee zellweger is dismissing her appearance. they did not recognize her on monday. now, there is speculation that the 45-year-old actress has had plastic surgery. she told the magazine she said, i am glad people think i look different. i am thrilled that perhaps it shows. students at a rural nebraska high school says they can't pose with guns for the high school yearbook. >> they can. >> they can, sorry. to allow the photos the pictures must be tasteful. >> that's the keyboard, tasteful. this problem is a multi-med multi-media documentation of how americans identify with being white. 21 caucasians from buffalo, new york, talk candidly about their race. the result is provocative and sometimes just a little
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uncomfortable. >> what does your whiteness mean to you? what does it mean to be white in our country. >> there's probably a little guilt there. >> there's been things that white people of our race has done that maybe we're not proud of. >> it's my honest opinion that today the white race is the one that's discriminated against. >> there should be more white people speaking up and talking about white people. >> i liked him. the whiteness project was just released online. whitney dow is the producer and director. i found it so fascinating. then i look at you. a white guy talking about white people about what it means to be white. what was your intention? what were you looking for, mr. white man. >> white man, yes, whitney dow. i've been making films for about eight years. i have a black producer, marko
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williams. i've always been interested with the way they're known as victim perpetrator which allows white people to look at it and say, that's not me. that's some racist white person doing something and perhaps i could do something that i could have normal regular white people who aren't racist look at it and process how their whiteness affects their lives. >> there is this too. you released this online and that stirred up some emotions and a lot of people are white talking about what it means to be white, but there are also african-americans talking about it. take a look at this. >> for some reason some black people hold onto the back in the day the slave thing or they feel they're not being treated right. shouldn't slavery be something that because it happened we owe black people something more? absolutely not. >> i know.
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whitney, the point you were making that was interesting to me is that most white people don't believe that there's a race problem and they don't think that being white is even an issue for them. that was fascinating. >> if you look at the pieces and you look at the statistics, people see -- if you short clip it after each clip, we do a lot of research on how white people view race in america, so the things they're saying are hopefully representational of all a large portion of white people feel. >> shouldn't we be trying to get away from identifying ourselves by the color of our skin? >> i think that's actually one thing i'm going right after. >> i mean should that be a defining characteristic? >> it is a defining characteristic and that's just the reality of it. i think wheat people would like to think it's not a defining characteristic. they're saying it's a passive component of our life and i would argue it impacts every
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moment of every day. >> what's the reaction you've gotten? >> it's been all over the lot. it's been easy. a lot of people have gone through and pulled some of the negative things, the twitter. people go to the website, take a screen shot and put up something about it. but i would say that 80% to 85% of the feedback i've gotten has been incredibly, incredibly positive from all sides of the political spectrum from both blacks and white people and i kind of made it as something for white people in a sense, but i've been incredibly -- it's been really nice -- >> are you giving the platform for people to reinforce negative stereotypes? >> i don't think so. i think i'm giving people the platform to look at the reality of how wheat people are actually living in the country right now and i tlink's a disconnection with how people perceive their place in this society and actually the objective
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quantitative reality. >> and if we don't talk about it, whitney, things don't change. i think it's great you embraced it. how did you set it up for them to talk so candidly and are you worried about backlash against them? >> i am. and i'm incredibly graceful to these people for going on the air -- talking honestly about something that's a very, very hot topic, and if you want to attack somebody, attack me for putting it out there. don't attack them. i sat people down and i asked them very, very simple questions such as what is it that makes you white, can you describe any benefits that you got from being right. not radical questions. things that white people don't get asked for off about. >> you can see the project on pbs's website. americans spin. a new generation of roasters wants to share that market,
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focusing on quality over quantity. john blackstone visited one quality company trying to make the perfect cup. >> reporter: in the shadow of the golden gate bridge at this small craft brewery, there's something unusual going on and it has absolutely nothing to do with beer. >> some weeks we brew more coffee than beer. >> reporter: mike is using his 700 gallon beer vats to mass produce iced coffee. it's part of the blue bottle coffee. >> to have something that's so delicious you can go to whole foods and buy, why not. >> reporter: blue bottle's ce o'james freeman is not just serious about iced coffee but all coffee. that's why he opened the first blue bottle shop in the san francisco bay area more than a decade ago.
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>> i was tired of not finding the coffee that i wanted to drink basically. >> reporter: how did you discover coffee? >> my parents drank mjb koef in the supreme can. it smells so good but it was just horrible. so that attention between how it smelled and how it tasted, that lodged very deeply. >> reporter: for decades he believes mediocrity. and in the 1980s, starbucks raised the bar introducing terms like espresso and latte. >> did they lose their way somewhere along the line? >> that's not for me to say. >> did they lose their way with regard too coffee? >> that's jsubjective. >> if they started the first and second ways, he started the
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third way. where it's from, how the beans are roasted, how it's brooved and when it's served. >> to grind something, put it in a cone, get it in the right temperature, pour it in the right werek it's a skill, a kravgts something you can get a tiny better at every sickle time you do that. >> much more attention to the details. >> yes. >> it sounds like wine. >> there's a lot of parallels. we envy that cachet. more of us are thinking of it. >> every batch of beans they roast is tested and evaluated. >> it's got that beautiful peachy acidity almost like a cookie with hon' in it. beautiful like gram cracker and new get and a litter more like
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hey. would you call that more complicated or less complicated than this one? >> i call you more complicated. some folks would say, come on. it's coffee. >> it's a substance that has basically transformed western civilization. it's allowed people to gather in places where they don't have to get drunk. saying itz's just coffee is like saying it e it's just civilianization. the next product, iced coffee for retail stores which comes with a challenge. going big without going bad i want to see how grade we can be and how much we can accomplish that greatness in. >> with 15 stores open across the country and another dozen open along the way next year, freeman is on a mission to convince americans can be a lots more than just a latte.
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>> they wanted to do a taste test. you two are the coffee tasters. one is the blue bottle and one is starbucks. >> your mission is to decide which is the difference. >> very tasty. >> one is starbucks, one is blue bottle. >> norah? >> this is blue bottle and this the is -- >> i think this is the blue bottle. >> nope. >> nope. >> which is? >> the bottle. both of you got it wrong. >> got it wrong. >> i don't drink iced coffee. i don't either. i like it hat. even in the summer. >> i don't drink iced coffee, ahead, a look at charlie d'agata. >> when it comes to shopaholics,
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cool it is to be a fan. she has her newest book "sh "shopaholic to the stars." the secrets of her true life. >> reporter: in confessions of a shopaholic, isla fisher plays becky bloomwood, a young journalist head over heels with shops and way over her head in decline. she's a character straight out of sophie kinsella's world, the author who brought her to life. >> reporter: this to me looks really loud. >> to me this is fabulous. >> i thought, hang on a minute. why hasn't anyone done this? >> her instinct was on the money. the best-selling author has written 22 novels published in 39 languages in 4 the countries
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selling tens of millions of books worldwide. she tapped into that one thing that can make a woman go weak at the knees. shopping. >> it's a feeling, a kind of lust really. >> a lust. >> it's a lust. i admit it. >> reporter: getting swept up in that lust is a lot of what shopping is about. >> you know how you feel when you bought something and it's just you and the shopping. >> reporter: in the new noshl "shopaholic to the stars," becky land as hollywood dream job, celebrity stylist paid to shop with other people's money, a job kinsella says she would save herself. >> when i come to a new book, i say, hi, becky, let's have fun together. i step in her shoes and look through her eyes and go. >> in real life her name is.
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>> maddie, sophie, darling invited us to her london townhouse to give us a rare glimpse of the home she shares with husband henry and admits there's sometimes blurred lines between her fictional and family life. >> the only disadvantage is i'm sometimes away when i should be focused them. >> whyou have five children. >> when you say that, that sounds like a lot. >> it is a lot. >> it's a perfectly normal amount. >> how do you find time? how do you juggle it? >> i've dub it over a long span of time, so i have children ranging from 18 down to 2. i have every size in stock. >> reporter: 2-year-old sabella and 4-year-old rex are two of the smaller sizes in stock. she has her share of critics, too, who dismissed her books as
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chicklet, especially given her background. >> oxford educated. should you be something more exciting? >> when you're sitting alone in your room and typing away and you hope people enjoy your book and off it goes and then you meet somebody, i read your book in the middle of the night when i was recovering from an operation an it got me through. how could you do anything better in life than that. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning" i'm charlie d'agata in london. >> the best line happened off camera. >> she tapped into one thing that can make women go weak in the knees. shopping does not make me go weak in the knees. >> and i said the women i care about, that's not what makes them go weak in the knees. >> would you like to share?
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good morning, new this morning a fast moving fire forced dozens out on of their homes in hunting park. passerby is called a hero, after banging on their doors and alerting residents to had fire. two people were injured, including one man who jumped from a second story window. fire gutted five homes in the 3800 block of north park avenue, and red cross is assisting the displaced family. lets get your forecast with katie in the weather center, good morning. >> good morning, today will be the wetest day of our forecast because we have going to be seeing some of the heaviest moisture rolling through, courtesy of our latest area have of low pressure which continues to develop and strengthen and as a result we have a little lull in some
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spots here but it is obviously a lot of activity on the outskirts of our viewing area here. so if you you are perhaps traveling up toward new york city, something like thaw will run into some rain we will call it occasional rain. anyone is fair game to see round of rain rel rel through throughout the the day. dame time high just 60. we will drop it down to 48 tonight. tomorrow residual showers and it will be coolest day of the forecast at just 55. looking ahead to friday and weekend though, nice weather will make a come back and we're talking mid 60's with sunshine both saturday and sunday. such a good excuse to make plans outside, vittoria. >> right now if you are traveling outside on any of our majors we will find a lot of volume, 11 on the schuylkill, westbound delay affecting southbound roosevelt boulevard. traveling southbound on i-95 delayed out of the northeast down through the vine. look at 476, jammed, not only in delaware county but moving your way out to the mid county toll plaza, that is also affecting westbound side of the pennsylvania turnpike so expect heavy delays out of
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bucks county through mid county tolls again. also still dealing with the closure of city avenue between 54th and 59th as a result of the very serious accident, woodbine avenue youres bet, no delays for mass transit. >> that is "eyewitness news" for now talk philly coming up at noon and ukee is on the talk on
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