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captioning sponsored by cbs >> pelley: diagnosis, pneumonia. lilness forces clinton off the campaign trail, raising questions about her health and her secrecy. >> in retrospect, we probably could have released more information more quickly. >> pelley: also tonight, trump on that clinton quote. >> you could put half of trump's supporters into what i call the basket of deplorables. >> you cannot run for president if you have such contempt in your heart for the american voter. >> pelley: a lot more soccer playing kids are winding up in the e.r. and, america's newest museum. >> it is the museum that says, "here is a balanced history of america that allows us to cry and smile."
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this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: this is our western edition. a spokesman for hillary clinton's campaign says today that she is expected to be back on the campaign trail later this week. in the meantime, she's following her doctor's advice and resting at home in chappaqua, new york as she battles pneumonia. clinton canceled a trip to the west coast. her husband will begin filling in for her tomorrow. the former secretary of state's campaign has been criticized for saying little about her illness. here's nancy cordes. >> reporter: as clinton rested at home today, republicans an even some democrats diagnosed her with a case of undue secrecy. obama campaign strategist david axelrod asked what is the cure for an unhealthy penchant for privacy?" >> in retrospect, we probably could have released more
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information more quickly. >> reporter: clinton press secretary brian falen. whose decision was it not to reveal the diagnosis of sieumonia on friday? >> she made the decision that she wanted to power through, keep her schedule and because nte didn't think it was going to affect any of her activities, she just wanted to keep going e d conducting business as usual. >> reporter: that approach led to a day of confusion sunday. clinton arrived at ground zero at about 8:20 a.m. by 9:30 reporters noticed she had left her spot at the 9/11 memorial, but the campaign would not say where she had gone. video from bystanders would later show that clinton had to be lifted into her van by multiple aides and agents, even as the reporters assigned to aick with her were left behind and in the dark. at 11:00 a.m., a campaign aide informed them that clinton felt cerheated so departed to go to her daughter's apartment. >> how are you feeling, secretary clinton? >> feeling great. >> reporter: but she emerged 45 minutes later with praise for the weather.
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>> it's a beautiful day in new york. >> reporter: five and a half orurs later, clinton's doctor revealed that she had actually been diagnosed with pneumonia on friday, the same day she did two fundraisers, held a national security meeting and answered questions about north korea. >> reporter: in a cable interview today, trump suggested americans aren't getting the full story. >> she was coughing very, very badly a week ago. and even before that, if you remember. this wasn't the first time. so it is very interesting to see what is going on. >> reporter: clinton aides say they are working with her doctor to release a more detailed set of medical records by the end of the week. records they say will show that this bout of pneumonia is not part of a larger, or lingering health problem. >> pelley: nancy cordes, thanks. dr. jon lapook is here, our chief cbs news medical correspondent. jon, pneumonia, is that a reasonable explanation for the unsteadiness we saw in clinton the other day? >> it is. pneumonia can cause weakness and dehydration.
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on top of that, she was standing outside in the hot weather ndaring long sleeves and pants. and that's a setup for further dehydration which could cause a drop in blood pressure and the .ind of wobbly gait we saw. >> pelley: how fast does somebody recover from pneumonia? >> scott, that all depends on a number of factors. a person's age, their general health, what is the size of the pneumonia, meaning how much of the lung is involved. we certainly don't know that at all. and then, what is the bug that is causing it? te is on antibiotics, that treats bacterial pneumonia but exactly what is being done to ttermine the organism that is causing it. in general, patients with mild pneumonia can be treated with antibiotics as an outpatient very successfully and fully recover. >> pelley: is it a good sign that she is at home? >> i think it is. arless they are bringing the hospital into her house, i think it is a very good sign that she is at home rather than in the hospital. the sickest patients generally are hospitalized. >> pelley: dr. jon lapook, thank you, jon. we learned more about clinton's condition from her husband. charlie rose spoke to the former president this afternoon. fi she is doing fine.
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she was even better last night sfore she went to sleep. hae had a good night's sleep. she just got dehydrated yesterday. >> is that what happened? she got dehydrated? >> yeah. >> because when you look at that apllapse, that video that was taken, you wonder if it's not more serious, than dehydration. >> she's been-- well, if it is it is a mystery to me and her doctors. n rely but on more than one occasion over the last many, many years, the same sort of thing has happened to her where she got severely dehydrated. and she has worked like a demon, as you know, as secretary of state, and as a senator, and in the years since. >> but more importantly she's on a grueling campaign. >> yeah. >> and you know what that is o.ke. >> i do. >> and she is older than you ndre when you ran. >> and she had two and a half hard days before the day when she got dizzy. today she made a decision, which i think was correct, to cancel
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her campaign day. >> right. >> to take one more day to rest. >> is it possible that she will be away for weeks from the mpmpaign trail? >> no, not a shot. i don't think can i hold her back another day. el pelley: you can see charlie's interview tonight on "the charlie rose show" on pbs and tomorrow on "cbs this morning." donald trump said he hoped that clinton would be back on the campaign soon. in baltimore today, he fired back against her attack of his supporters. rere's major garrett. >> just to be grossly generalistic, you could put half of trump's supporters into what i call the basket of deplorables. the racists, sexists, ulmophobic, xenophobic, islamophobic, you name it. >> reporter: hillary clinton named it all right, gross generalizations and all, aovoking the wrath of donald inump today in baltimore. .> she divides people into
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baskets as though they were objects, not human beings. >> reporter: and adding a new layer of division to the already divisive trump-clinton debate. one trump sought to exploit with this new tv ad. >> you know what is deplorable? hillary clinton viciously demonizing hard-working people like you. r: reporter: trump called clinton arrogant and said she has lost political legitimacy. >> you cannot run for president if you have such contempt in your heart for the american voter. >> reporter: trump, of course, has his own history on the subject. >> when mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. they're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, their rapists. n total and complete shutdown of teslims entering the united states. look at my african-american, over here. look at him. >> reporter: when it comes to trump and his base of support, south carolina republican senator lindsey graham said this
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in march: >> 35% of my party believe obama is a muslim born in kenya, he's t cked that crowd down. now 65% of us just think he's a bad president. >> reporter: trump tonight accused clinton of waging a hate-filled campaign lacking vision and without the prospect of change, scott. trump also invited supporters, white and black, on stage to testify. they are neither racists nor deplorable. >> pelley: major garrett for us tonight, major, thanks. now with some insight into all of this let's bring in john dickerson, our cbs news political director and of course the moderator of "face the otion." rahn, this lack of information around hillary clinton's health, it goes to a broader issue of transparency. >> that's right. these kinds of moments give you some sense of the habits of openness of a campaign. and that's important because it eclls you how open they might be in the white house. hillary clinton already had a strike against her with the email server. outside of the state department system, not transparent, then eme deleted some email, not transparent either.
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but campaigns offer other ways in which transparency is tested. there are certain demands of the xampaign. di you turn over your tax returns, your medical records. hillary clinton has done that. she has done more on the medical records than donald trump and turned over her tax returns. he has done nothing with tax returns and very little on health. in the question with him is if he is not transparent in the campaign, how transparent will he be as president? >> pelley: now we just saw major garrett's story, what happens going forward with this deplorable comment of hers? >> it is a tug of war. right now hillary clinton too is on the defensive. donald trump would like that comment to mean all of his supporters, suggesting that she is disdainful of working people and it's an unappealing thing to be tagged with. hillary clinton would like that comment to really be about donald trump and point out that he said derogatory things about women, that even paul ryan called him out for making racist comments that his temporary ban on muslim is islamophobic. depending who wins that tug of war will determine whether those comments hurt or help hillary clinton. >> pelley: john dickerson, thank leu.
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one of the most serious challenges facing the next president will be syria. but today, a temporary cease- fire worked out by the united states in russia went into ssfect. the syrian government is now supposed to allow food and medicine into towns that have been shattered by five and a half years of civil war. but already, the syrian dictator is raising doubts that the cease-fire will hold. elizabeth palmer is in damascus. >> reporter: in a rare appearance, president assad toured daraya today, and vowed to take back every inch of syria from what he calls the terrorists. it was a staged victory lap complete with musical soundtrack. three weeks ago this damascus suburb was in opposition hands. now the regime is back in charge after surrounding it and after pounding it from the air with barrel bombs for four years.
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syrian soldiers celebrated the retaking of daraya, but it wasn't a decisive win. yae rebel fighters only agreed to withdraw if they got safe passage to an opposition- controlled area 200 miles away in idlib, to carry on fighting. in the past few days, there has been an 11th hour surge in violence before the cease-fire deadline. syrian and russian planes bombed idlib. whe target was a market where people were shopping for food. and civilian neighborhoods in aleppo were hit too. monitoring groups estimate that at least 91 people have been killed since the truce was announced. and scores more have been injured, including children. if the cease-fire does hold, it will bring a respite from this kind of carnage, but it won't end a war that grinds on because no side is strong enough to win, or weak enough to have to surrender.
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scott, none of the major opposition groups has actually signed on to this cease-fire, and one of them, the free syrian army, has just announced that they are actually rejecting it. no two ways about it, this is a very fragile deal. >> pelley: liz palmer in the syrian capital tonight, liz, thank you. early today, someone set fire to the mosque where the orlando nightclub shooter once worshipped. surveillance video showed someone fleeing the islamic center of fort pierce, florida. there was extensive damage. no one was injured. in june, omar mateen murdered 49 people at the pulse nightclub before police killed him. he claimed to have been motivated by isis. coming up next on the "cbs evening news," the type of battery that sparked a worldwide recall is in just about every s ectronic device. and later, the inside story about america's new museum.
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>> pelley: >> pelley: the next few months will be busy for samsung, as it replaces 2.5 million brand new smartphones that were recalled last week because their batteries can catch fire. the same type of battery is used in all kinds of devices. here's kris van cleave. >> reporter: the f.a.a. has been concerned about the fire danger posed by lithium-ion batteries for years. eois video shows the impact of a fire in a simulated cargo hold. the agency and airlines are now warning flyers not to use or charge the recalled samsung galaxy note7 onboard aircraft because of a fire risk linked to its batteries. lithium-ion batteries power as many as 95% of rechargeable electronic devices, cell phones, tablets, laptops, children's toys even electric cars.
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>> the more energy you put into ersmall amount of space, the e,re likely something bad will happen if it is operated incorrectly. >> reporter: princeton ntiversity assistant professor arn steingart studies lithium- he says the danger comes if they are overcharged or overheat. >> it is causing a fire cracker to go off in the battery, if you have one fire cracker surrounded te many other fire crackers, it will trigger the other ones to go off, pop, pop, pop. >> reporter: most are made in asia and the vast majority work pothout an issue. unless there is a manufacturing tyaw as was the case in the samsung recall. recalled hoverboards often included cheaply made batteries that weren't designed for that kind of use, which greatly increase the use of overheating. george crabtree is with the srgonne laboratory. >> the only warning sign is it will get too hot. if you hold the phone in your hand or in your pocket you may outice that and the right thing to do is turn the phone off. n reporter: some perspective,
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in 2015, 3.5 billion passengers slew. the f.a.a. received reports of 11 smoke or fire incidents involving a lithium-ion battery. many of those were in checked bags. scott, as of april of this year, lithium-ion batteries are no longer allowed to be checked or carried as cargo on commercial d ights. >> pelley: if it heats up, turn it off. kris van cleave, thanks. coming up next, emergency rooms filling up with soccer injuries. reduce my risk of progression. and everywhere i look... i'm reminded to stick to my plan. including preservision areds 2. my doctor said preservision areds 2 has the exact nutrient formula that the national eye institute recommends to help reduce the risk of progression of moderate to advanced amd... after 15 years of clinical studies. preservision areds 2. because my eyes are everything.
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>> pelley: three million american kids play soccer, but a study today in the journal "pediatrics" found that injuries have more than doubled between 1990 and 2014. ben tracy is keeping the score. >> reporter: every day more than 300 kids end up in the emergency room with soccer-related injuries. this new study spanning 25 years found the most common injuries are sprains, strains and fractures. reys are more likely to get
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broken bones and cuts, while girls have more knee and ankle oksues. tracy mehan is a researcher at nationwide children's hospital. >> kids are playing more frequently now than they used to, they are playing year-round and in more leagues than they ever have before. >> reporter: one of the biggest concerns is protecting young players still developing brains. there has been a nearly 1,600% increase in the rate of soccer- related head injuries including concussions. 15-year-old josh suffered a concussion last year after colliding with another player. >> he apparently kneed me in the head. i don't think i ever passed out but i don't really remember ruch. >> reporter: the u.s. soccer federation prohibits kids under 11 from using their heads to strike the ball. dy well, i think everybody is talking about concussions. >> reporter: former women's national team star brandi inastain wants u.s. soccer to go even further, and not allow kids to head the ball until they turn 14. >> no, i think the toughest thing to do as a young person is to advocate for yourself. oish
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spike in emergency room visits. scott, when a kid takes a hit to the head on a soccer field like this one, there is a protocol they go through to check for concussions. >> pelley: ben tracy for us, thank you. up next, the new museum of the african-american experience. >> this portion of the "cbs evening news has been sponsored by: >> this portion of the "cbs evening news has been sponsored by: ♪ like a human fingerprint, no two whale flukes are the same.
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>> pelley: today, "cbs this morning" gave us our first look inside the national museum of african-american history and culture. the $540 million smithsonian project opens next week on the national mall. "60 minutes" has been following the museum for two years. it was then that we met lonnie isnch, the visionary founding director. when all of this is finally complete, what will america have? >> america will have a place that allows them to remember, to remember how much we as a thuntry have been improved, changed, challenged and made better by the african-american experience. >> pelley: today the museum is an eight story journey through time from slavery on the bottom boor up through jim crow and civil rights, to the heights of achievement. some artifacts like this e thegated rail car were so r rge, the museum had to be
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toilt around them. others emerged from a box in the ttic. >> oh my goodness. now did somebody already look at some of those things? >> no. >> pelley: smithsonian experts asked americans for their treasures and 3,000 people came to 16 events. mary elliott and nancy bercaw are curators. how do you convince someone to give up a priceless family heirloom? >> our museum pitches itself. people in america have been waiting for this moment. and so, literally, they just hand us things. >> mr. jessie was an enslaved man and he was charged with rgtertaining the slave holder and his guests. >> pelley: a smithsonian warehouse collected the story. use these are some of the lines. received by grigsby e. thomas, the sum of $350 in full payment for a negro boy by the name of jim, about ten years old.
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jim might have known these, shackles dating before 1860. tndage that the owner of this bible tried to break with a bloody rebellion. nat turner said he was commanded by god. his bible was taken before his execution. this is not the american museum of slavery. >> this is not the museum of tragedy. e is not the museum of difficult moments. mu is the museum that says here is a balanced history of america that allows us to cry and smile. >> pelley: the museum, which opens on the 24th, was authorized by congress in 1929. its realization, 87 years later, at affi the museum which opens on the 29th was opened by congress in 1929. it affirm it is motto of the struggle itself, make ago way out of no way. and that's cbs evening news for
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all of us all around the world, good night. live from the cbs bay area studios, which is kpix 5 news. >> breaking new information in the deputy's wife arrested in a dui crash that killed a 3-year-old boy. we have learned exclusively she was involved in another dui crash with a child less than three weeks ago. good evening. i'm elizabeth cook in for reron ka. >> let's get to ken in the news room. >> reporter: alan, liz, we are learning the woman in friday night's deadly crash was driving on a provisional license because of another alleged dui that happened just three weeks ago. she had been identified as 39 years old of pleasanton. she happens to be the wife of an
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alameta sheriff's deputy. just three weeks later she was arrested again on friday night after being arrested for another dui. one of her children was in the car at the time. charges including dui and child cruelty are pending against her. sources tell us that authorities are still waiting on the blood work to come back, as it has not yet been 30 days. now in this latest crash, she was accused of slamming into a car that had pulled over on the side of 680 in san ramon and killed a 3 years old boy inside. the mother had fractured ribbed. two children will be okay. still no formal charges against her in this latest crash, her family has