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♪ good morning. it is election day, tuesday, november 4th, 2014. welcome to "cbs this morning." americans head to the polls with control of congress and the president's agenda at stake. cbs news cameras get an inside look at new training the government hopes will prevent another benghazi. and this, why is taylor swift breaking up with spotify? >> but we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. it looks like we're going down to the wire. >> new hampshire, north carolina, kansas, absolute must-wins. >> anything can happen. >> americans head to the polls with the senate at stake. >> republicans need to pick up six seats to rain control.
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>> let's go out there and sock it to 'em. >> the reality is, that the democrats, they're going to lose big time. >> i agree with the vice president. we're going to hold the senate. >> a shocking and brazen kidnapping on a philadelphia street. >> police are offering a $10,000 reward for information. >> the family is making a desperate plea for her return. >> just let her go. frightening moments on the tarmac at l.a.x., a fuel tank crashed into an american airlines plane. >> got trapped and had to be rescued. >> co-host of "car talk" co-host tom magliozzi has died. >> how do you know? >> president obama signs a disaster declaration for hawaii as lava continues to creep towards homes today. >> strangers rush to the rescue when the driver of a truck slams into a gas station. it happened in morgantown, north
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carolina. >> all that -- >> oh, my god. >> an african crane. that's what i would look like if i was a crane. >> touchdown, with style! >> historically bad night for the giants. >> and "all that mattered" -- >> taylor swift has ended her relationship with music streams service spotify. >> now if you want to hear taylor swift, you'll just have to listen to pandora, buy her album or walk into a store at anytime. >> on "cbs this morning" -- >> a record 4le billion spent. kansas now face their greatest challenge, getting americans to put on some pants [ laughter ] >> announcer: this morning's "eye opener" is presented by toyota. "eye opener" is presented by toyota. let's go places. captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning." this is election day. and voters are already going to the polls. the midterm elections will
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decide who who will represent the people in congress. republicans are poised to make gains in both the house and the senate. >> when it's over, president obama could face a congress controlled by republicans. this morning, the democrats hold a 55 to 45 majority in the senate but our cbs news/"new york times" battleground tracker indicates the gop is likely to add six senate seats. and that is just enough for a 51/49 majority. nancy cordes is here with more on the final day of campaign 2014. nancy, good morning. >> good morning, nobody can see that this is going to be anything but a good night for republicans. the question is how good. can democrats stop them just shy of the majority in the senate, or will republicans dominate both houses for the first time since 2006. >> thank you. >> reporter: across the country, candidates have made their closing pitches. >> bill cassidy -- >> on sunday, we change our
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clocks, and tomorrow, we change our senator. >> reporter: now, it's the voters turn to send a message. a third of the senate is up for re-election. but only nine of those 36 seats are considered toss-ups. republicans in those races have worked to tie their opponents to an unpopular president. >> anybody opposed to greg norman are voting for obama -- while democrats kept their distance. >> i'm not barack obama. i disagree with him. i'm done, cold and the epa. >> reporter: the white house argued monday the democrats' superior ground game will save them. >> i do think democrats will take the majority. >> reporter: mitch mcconnell will become the majority leader and push priorities like the keystone xl pipeline and changes to obamacare. >> obviously, the president is the only person that can sign something into law, so whether or not we can make progress in the next two years depends upon him. >> reporter: candidates and outside groups sent a record
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$3.67 billion on this election. the most expensive race, north carolina cost upwards of 100le million. are you worried that voy ed thi going to watch the ads and not liking either very much? >> if you believe -- >> reporter: incumbents have struggled to see how tangible achievements as this congress is poised to be the least productive ever. >> at the end of the day, they know washington is broken. >> and that is why many analysts believe not only is this election about either party's ideas, democrats or republicans, but more about the fact that republicans want to get rid of whoever is in there now and get somebody else in washington. >> john, good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> what are you looking at most importantly? >> well, earlier, i think north carolina, because it's one place democrats think they can do well. and it's one of those four
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battleground states, if you think of north carolina, iowa, colorado and new hampshire that are being fought over. the other batch we look at are kind of the red state where is we think republicans will do well. republicans that do well it will be electionive night for republicans. if democrats lose in colorado it's going to be a tough night. colorado that's another key battleground. we're going to talk a lot about that in 2016. the other thing torsion nancy's point is the electorate is angry and sour. what if they don't turn out. we've been saying is this a base election. it's the number of moderates. if the moderates are low, we'll know that people looked at it pgoing to do something else othr than vote. >> and nancy, women would make historic gains tonight? >> that's right. we won't know whether women have managed to pick up a couple seats in the senate or lose a couple seats.
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right now they control 20, about a fifth. you got a trio that are vulnerable. indicate hagan of north carolina, mary landrieu of louisiana, and jeanne shaheen of new hampshire. if either of them lose we could see the numbers decrease. but there are a trio of women who could enter the senate for the first time. joni ernst the republican from iowa, michelle north and the shoo-in tonight. >> john, you say voters are sick of everybody and the least productive congress. so if the republicans take over the senate, what is likely to change? >> well, this is going to be a lot of activity because republicans have said -- both the senate and the house have said, if we take power, the next session, okay, what are you going to do with it? the republican brand has taken some damage over the last several years. cbs approval rating with congress is about 20%. to approve that what republican leaders and strategists say we need to quickly show that we can
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get things done and also thinking about 2016. how do we appeal to women voters. they know even they do well in some races and have pushed back against democratic attacks with female voters they still know there's work to be done. they have a policy agenda to show things can be done. and also political electorate. they know it's different in 2016. >> one quick note, governors' races are up as well, significant? >> well, they are. you talk to voters and they say nothing's going to change in washington. but in the governors' offices that's where government operates the way it's supposed to. and that's where laws are passed education, health care, law and order. that really touches people's daily lives. there are about a dozen races that could change that. >> nancy and john, thank you so much. cbs news will have full coverage of the election starting tonight on the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. we'll bring you 2014 campaign updates. scott and i will anchor a prime
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time special, charlie and gayle, bob and more. and in turkey fighting rebels in northwest syria and winning the battle. this would mean more violence for the region. holly williams is in istanbul as the extremists advance. holly, good morning. >> good morning, the al nusra front were held by moderate rebel groups in syria's northwestern province. the moderate groups attacked by al nusra are both attacked from the west. al ne al nusra is with troops four miles south of bab al hawa on syria's border with turkey.
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rebels used that border to smuggle weapons into the war zone. meanwhile, deadly fighting continues in the city of kobani, also on syria's border with turkey, where isis has been battling street by street, against local fighters for more than six weeks. the u.s. and its coalition partners have bombarded isis in and around kobani with more than 200 air strike. and kurdish fighters from iraq have now arrived in kobani to help defend it against the isis militants. but so far, it's still not clear who has the upper hand. charlie. >> holly, thanks. a collision between a fuel tank truck and a plane could have been much worse. the driver was hospitalized after being trapped inside his truck. there was no fire or fuel leak. no one was on board the plane. one of the world's biggest automakers is facing penalties of $350 million.
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the justice department says hyundai motor company and its kia brand misled drivers. they allegedly overstated fuel economy and understateded effect on the environment. jeff pegues sat a kia dealership near washington. he looks at what this means for the carmaker and drivers. jeff, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, more and more, gas mileage is becoming the most important factor for auto buyers. hyundai and kia are accused of taking car buyers for a ride. according to the justice department and the environmental protection agency, the automakers gave consumers inaccurate information about the fuel economy of 1.2 million different vehicles manufactured between 2011 and 2013. the companies will pay a $100 million. fine. $50 million to prevent future violations. and forfeit more than $200 million in greenhouse gas
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emissions credits. attorney general eric holder. >> this will send a strong message that cheating is not profitable. and that any company that defies the law will be held to account. >> reporter: the companies are accused of overstating the fuel economy by one to six miles per gallon and causing more pollution than the law allows. the epa administrator stopped short of saying the company's deliberately broke the law that called their testing systematically flawed. hyundai agreed to the settlement and is reimbursing affected customers. the company denies the allegations in the government's complaint maintaining it's been in compliance with the clean air act. and in a statement the president and ceo told us we are pleased to put this behind us. automotive analysis fred klein said this is not going to have
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much of an effect. hyundai and kia are not the only automakers to face this kind of scrutiny from the epa. but the agency says this is by far the most egregious case. mercedes, bmw and ford have all have their fuel economy ratings for some vehicles recently. gayle. this morning, we're learning more about the commercial spaceship that broke apart over the mojave desert. investigators say virgin galactic spaceship two broke up only 13 seconds after its rocket began firing. debris was found 35 miles from the main crash site. investigators want to know why the ship's braking system was unlocked prematurity. the pilot parachuted to safety and is recovering at a hospital. investigators have not been able to interview him yet. a final report could take months. hearing the audio that could signal the first breach by the
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ferguson police department. a report that audio was held in place. >> good morning. law enforcement claimed that the no-fly zone was to maintain safety, not to keep media out. but these recordings appear to contradict that. >> commander of st. louis county wanted 3,000 and 8,000 feet. i talked him down to 3 and 5. they finally admitted it really was to keep the media out. >> that was an faa official describing the no-fly zone that was negotiated between law enforcement and the faa, days after mikele brown was killed in ferguson missouri. more than 47,000 square miles of airspace was restricted for 12 days during the unrest. in another recording, an faa official can be heard asking a colleague whether flight restrictions were truly related to safety. >> are they protecting aircraft from small arms fire or
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something? or do they think they're going to keep the press out of there which they can't do? >> i believe -- i believe they are protecting aircraft from small arms fire. i apologize i wasn't here when it went into effect to win with. >> reporter: and whether the police used the government's no-fly zone as a tool to violate the first amendment rights of journalists. the st. louis county police insists that the restrictions were put in place to protect the public, not to keep media out. >> the faa started this because of the number of shots that were fired. this was reported. we have air crews to talk about seeing mobile flashes from the aground. >> reporter: on a press conference on monday, the chief was asked about a recording. >> i think they're taking on a contest. and i think probably they're informal conversations that happened between somebody there
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and somebody saying, well, i guess it's just the media. i can't explain that, to be honest with you, because i wasn't there. >> we contacted the faa for comment about this story and they gave us this statement. when local law enforcement reports a danger to aircraft including guns fired into the air that could impact low flying aircraft the faa will always err on the side of safety. the faa cannot and will never exclusively ban media from covering a national media event. a popular co-host died monday, tom magliozzi was the co-host of "car talk." the legacy of two grease monkeys from boston. >> good morning. tom magliozzi worked as an auto mechanic but he and his brother ray also toyed on the radio telling people simple truths about their cars. it was started in boston and picked up by national public
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radio in 1987. their unvarnished honesty made the show a car hit. >> with tire dealers, they sell nothing but tires. you go in and ask do i need tires? do you need tires! are you kidding me! >> reporter: tom magliozzi could transform any mundane car ride. together with his younger brother ray the pair hosted "car talk" and were known as click and clack. >> anytime when the car was malfunctioning, were you at all worried? >> yeah, actually, i did get a zit on top of my head. [ laughter ] >> when people were calling up for car advice, at some level, it's relationship advice. >> reporter: scott simon hosted npr's weekend edition and at the time taught tom to drive in boston. >> i'm not sure i learned how to
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drive because i spent so much time laugh willing behind the wheel. >> reporter: he took steve cross for a ride in his 1963 dodge dart convertible. although he test drives all the models he said he'd rather drive his dart. >> the mercedes costs $92,000. now could that possibly be $90,000 better than this? this is good. >> i have to say this car rides really well. >> sure, it's good stuff. >> why can't you figure out this problem, he said, if it's not broken, i can't fix it. i don't know what to do about it. >> he's lying. >> reporter: it was honest advice like that which pleased millions of listeners each week. simon said their radio sensation boiled down to something simple. >> i would tell thought success of "car talk" had almost nothing to do with cars and had everything to do with two brothers who loved each other. i think that's what people heard. ♪
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>> tom and ray retired in 2012. but the show's still on the air and on podcast. it's produced from 25 years of their archives. npr says there will be no interruption and the show will continue as it has been. they're preparing a special tribute show for this saturday. >> wow, a really nice story. >> yeah, a chemistry and a great story can do. you're on the radio talk about cars. >> i know. my favorite one was a caller said my ghosts are destroying my girlfriend's convertible top whenever she comes to visit. and tom said, well, i suggest you meet at the motel 6. it's 7:19. ahead on "cbs s th
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>> good morning, everyone, i'm ukee washington, little bit more on reelection day forecast, here's kate. >> i really, i have to say, ukee, headline will go to the elections here today. weather headline is quiet, tranquil, sunny, nice, whatever you want to call t just nice start to our day. and the whole day looks much like this. now, storm scan3, might look a little active in the last few hours, but really just little moisture that's been building up in the atmosphere, it is produced few clouds granted but any clouds that we do have will thin out, right on q, couple of walks their dog on the shore line, live neighborhood network. enjoy t67 degrees with sunshine, if you have clouds, they'll thin out. mid 60s tomorrow, more clouds, than sunshine, then thursday is the day for the umbrella
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over to you. >> good morning, everyone, i'm sure you can see behind me, traffic will not be easy feat today. commuting westbound site of the schuylkill expressway, basically at stands still. westbound 76 jam approaching the area of the roosevelt boulevard. then making your way out toward gladwynn, also, dealing with very serious accident, in new jersey mercer county, federal city road, involving overturned school buck. no kids were on that bus. but still try it avoid that intersection if you k also expect delays on 95 headed into center city, ukee? >> vet tore yack thank you, let's do it again at 7:55, up next, why taylor swift is pulling all of her albumns off spotify. for more local news weather traffic and sports we're keeping it live, keeping it local on these channels on the "cw ♪ this flu season... remember this.
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♪ it's time now for our beloved holiday tradition. jimmy kimmel i told my kids i ate all the halloween candy. >> okay, i'm going to eat it all. yeah. >> every single bite? >> yeah. >> you mus have a belly ache. [ laughter ] >> i felt hungry last night. >> ate all the candy. i'll get you more next time. >> mommy and daddy ate all your halloween candy. [ bleep ]. >> oh! >> that's my kids. >> as mother, you'd say, calm down. charlie, you heard what they
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said? >> i think i did. >> bleep you. >> my kids know the whole jimmy kimmel joke about eating all your candy. >> they still wouldn't do that. >> that's right. >> they still wouldn't do that. >> they'd do something interesting. welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up in this half hour -- she's a live wire -- in a good way. coming up in this half hour in the line of fire, elite agents to protect diplomats are feeling the heat. only on "cbs this morning" see how they're learning lessons from the benghazi attack. nearly 15 million customers played a taylor swift song on spotify last month. we'll see why it doesn't add up for this music mega star. "the wall street journal" said oil prices fell to the lowest point in more than two years that's after saudi arabia cut prices of crude sold to the
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united states yesterday. oil on the united states mercantile exchange amid booming production. and a $10,000 for the search of a kidnapped woman. her violent abduction was caught on surveillance video. you can see the man dragging her down the street and into a car on sunday. witnesses say she was screaming for help and the man had a knife. very scary. the los angeles times said federal officials want to to close air bag problem. honda says it's cooperating with government investigators. the automaker could face a $300 million fine. and our partners at cnet say a movie streaming app from disney now works on your android
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device. the service called disney movies anywhere used to only work on apple but now it allows to you see all the movies you own or download them or stream them over the internet. after president obama visited the cdc sharing his story. kenneth tate was armed when he rode an elevator with the president. the secret service said he was never authorized to be there. mark strassmann is at the cdc headquarters in a search for answers. >> good morning. kenneth fay worked here for many years. but when president obama visited here last month, tate says he was fired for just doing his job. >> reporter: president obama visited cdc headquarters in september 16th. with the growing ebola epidemic. >> i want to thank dr. frieden
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and everybody here at the centers for disease control for welcoming me here today. >> reporter: kenneth tate an employee with the firm professional security corporation said he was assigned to accompany the president and assist secret service agents. he unknowingly violated secret service protocol by carrying his cdc-issued.40 caliber handgun with the president and the agent. >> when the president entered the elevator, he asked me my name. he extended my hand be shook my hand. everything was fine. i was waiting on the rest to get on and proceed up to the 12th floor. >> reporter: as the president was leaving the cdc, tate took photos with his cell phone. agents reprimanded him. they made him had delete the photo. his supervisors were angry and pulled his cdc badge, one week later he was fired without explanation. >> he was authorized and eercht appointed to be on the elevator with the president that day. >> reporter: his attorney believes his client say victim
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of circumstance. >> we need this security company to answer for it. you can't terminate someone for not doing anything wrong. he didn't do anything wrong. >> reporter: cz reached out to the professional security corporation, the cdc and the secret service, no one would comment. the fact tate was armed so close to the fred wasn't revealed for two weeks. on september 30th, a congressional committee questioned julia pierson, the secret service director, about other security gaffs, including the most recent white house jumper. >> it's clear our security plan was not properly executed. >> reporter: she failed to mention the cdc incident. she also did not tell the white house about it. >> you didn't know about it until yesterday? >> reporter: tate is also angry initial reports indicated he was a convicted felon. he said he has no criminal conviction. >> i always try to do the right thing. i know this is not right what's been happening to me.
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and it has to be reconciled. >> tate told us he has still never been told exactly why he was fired. he also says, norah, that he's considering a wrongful termination suit against his former employer. >> mark, thank you. you never know all the details in the case. it seems like he lost his job over -- >> you don't know the details, but the details we're hearing don't sound good. >> simply trying to do his job. >> that's right. >> to be continued. there is growing concern inside the intelligence community that extremist groups may launch new attacks against american embassies and other facilities. now the agents charged with protecting them are getting special training. margaret brennan is there eye way story you'll onlile see on "cbs this morning." an elite team of about 100 agents ready to deploy within hours if the post is at risk.
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now they're learning how to control the most lethal weapons in the field. >> reporter: with an ambassador trapped in a burning building this elite team of diplomatic security agents rushed in to get him out. >> clear! >> reporter: navigating smoke and evading flames. >> we're ready. >> reporter: they secured the ambassador. >> sir, go in here. >> reporter: -- and brought him to safety. >> smoke is the biggest issue. >> reporter: this training exercise led by the new york fire department was initiated after the 2012 attack in benghazi, libya. that night, ambassador chris stevens died from apparent smoke inhalation. now agents are taught how to search and rescue while fires rage around them with temperatures peaking at 500 degrees. flames can surge a room in four minutes. the toxic smoke can make a victim pass out instantly. >> most important thing is moving the patients to a
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sanitized area. >> reporter: he's now the team medic responsible for resuscitating those injured and keeping it's team alive. >> if we're going into a fire and going into black smoke, the chance of upper respiratory burns is very, very high. that's what's going to kill us first. >> reporter: al qaeda has endorsed using fire as a weapon, yet another threat these agents must train against. >> we're training to take on the worst that you can imagine. all-out guerilla warfare. >> reporter: mark hipp the assistant director of training said there have been 700 assaults since benghazi. >> they're some of the most dangerous group it's in world. >> reporter: in just the last year, these agents have deployed to 23 hot spots around the world, including libya, where they evacuated the u.s. embassy in july. before arms militia seized part of the compound. >> i thought it was something that taught us earlier this week
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about being disoriented. >> reporter: the agent said the toughest part is completing the mission while keeping the team safe. what makes you nervous? >> when you have uncertainty. when you have the unknown out there. anywhere where we go, places where we go, that's what makes me nervous. but just makes it a lot more dangerous sometimes. >> now, this team is not in benghazi on the night of the 2012 attacks, but the hope is that this training could make a difference in future assaults. and with more extremist groups like isis targeting americans, the threat level is constant. gayle. >> all right, thank you, margaret. not all players going to play, play, play, play -- those are the lyrics of taylor swift, if you know that, she's shaking it off. she's pulled all the albums from a pop there are streaming service. the fight to hear one of america's hottest stars next on "cbs this morning." yes, i love her. ♪ never ever ever get back
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a battle between taylor swift and spotify may be hitting a sour note with some of her fans. they pulled the entire library from the service without any warning. anthony mason with what's behind this decision. anthony, good morning. >> good morning, gayle. spotify is an online service where you can browse and play the sounds of your favorite artist and there's practically no artist more favored these days than taylor swift. her ziedecision to pull out of spotify puts the spot light on the big effort arts trying to figure out how to maximize their earnings. the music industry is having a hard time shaking this off. they told spotify it can no longer stream her music even though she's one of the site's most popular artists. the numbers are staggering. spotify says nearly 16 million of their 40 million users have played her songs in the last 30
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days. ♪ that's what people say ♪ >> reporter: swift's number one hit "shake it off" was the service's most popular track when her music was abruptly pulled on monday. but it's not a mean-spirited breakup. it's more about economics. swift's on the brink of selling 1 million copies of her latest album "1989." if she reaches that mark she'll become the first musical act in history to sell at least a amillion copies of the last three studio albums in the last week of release. ♪ we are never ever ever getting back together ♪ >> reporter: although spotify says it shares nearly 70% of its profits with the music community, artists' earnings from the service are a fraction generated by album sales. for swift, 2013's album sales were nearly $78 million.
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the 24-year-old is arguably the music industry's most popular artist right now. and she has the power and desire to make her own rules. in an editorial she wrote four months ago for "the wall street journal," swift said, quote, piracy, file sharing and streaming have shrunk the numbers of paid album sales drastically. valuable things should be paid for. and last week on "cbs this morning," the singer said this -- >> i'm imaginative, i'm smart, and i'm hard-working. and those things not necessarily prioritized in pop culture. >> reporter: taylor swift has been a marketing machine promoting her new album, and there are reports of another reason her record company might want to boost album sales now. >> it's been suggested that her label, big machine, is up for sale. and selling all the copies they can will increase their bottom line. and increase their value. >> reporter: big machine denies
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reports the company's for sale. ♪ the company's president sells "cbs this morning," they're only protecting taylor's fans. they say it's unfair that some people would buy taylor's music, while others would get it for free on spotify. the move comes as the industry settle struggles to deal with declining album sales. u2 gauge ive its album away for last week. and swift could have the best opening week for an album since 2002. >> how many more do i need buy? > exactly. >> they want you buy more, gayle. >> and eminem. but the record was britney spears which is what she's trying to beat here maybe. still to come, they lost
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>> this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news". good morning, i'm erika von tiehl. it is reelection day 2014. we want to get your forecast with katie. good news headed to the polls, right? >> absolutely, real now matter what your plans entail here today, whether you are hitting the polls, and we hope you do, but otherwise, if you're maybe going out for long dog walk, something like that, what a great excuse for it. storm scan3, may look active, with more clouds building in, and couple of speckles of green, but folks, just had warmfront lift through other than couple every clouds which will thin for more sunshine. do you have great start. sixty-seven for our expected high. for november 4th standards, not bad news, it is cool, it is quiet, today just nice quiet day. tomorrow, more clouds than sun, county of very weak cold front crossing through, but
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thursday goes dramatically downhill, tracking rounds every rain, probably thunderstorm as well along the way, then friday we clear out, and the chill returns. vittoria? >> thank you so much, katie. good morning, everyone, so what we're dealing with right now, overturned school bus situation. , finally uprighted the school bus, in mercer county, 2-mile back up to scotch road. give yourself more time. only two lanes getting by. we continue to keep you updated on the "cw philly", erika? >> torrey, thank you next update 8:25, next on cbs this morning, two people who lost a combined 400 pounds findsds love in a unexpected place. your local news weather and traffic continues with us on the "cw philly".
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♪ have you heard, it's election day, tuesday november 4th, 2014. welcome back to "cbs this morning." there is more real news ahead, including the 54s who could force president obama to change the way he does business. john dickerson and frank luntz are he to talk about that. but first, here's a look at today's "eye opener" at 8. >> no disputes that this is going to be anything but a good night for republicans, the question is how good. >> is there going to be a lot of activity because republicans have said, we have power, the next question is okay, what are you going to do with it? >> al qaeda affiliates held by moderate rebel groups.
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more and more gas mileage is becoming the most important factor for car buyers. the justice department has accused kia and hyundai of fudging the numbers to sell more cars. when president obama visited her last month, tate said he was fired for just doing his job. >> i always try to do the right thing. >> this team was not in benghazi, but the hope is that this train cog make a difference in future assaults. >> my favorite one is the caller said my goats are destroying my girlfriend's convertible top whenever she comes to visit. and tom said, i suggest you meet at the motel 6. >> this is the high water mark of show business, as far as i'm concerned. are you going to prepare for the last show or just wing it like the last 6,000? [ laughter ] >> announcer: this morning's "eye opener" is presented by benefiber. americans get a chance to
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elect 36 governor 36 senators and 435 members of congress. pollsters say only a few people will vote with great enthusiasm. a majority of them will not bother to show up at all. >> and republicans expect to pick up seats in the midterm election. the party not in the white house usually does. nine battleground states are likely to determine if the gop takes control of the senate for the first time in six years. cbs news political director john dickerson is here. along with cbs news contributor and republican strategic frank luntz. good morning, happy election day. john, let's talk about tonight. how likely is it that republicans will win the senate? >> well, it looks like it's likely, but we're all used to surprises. and i feel dangerous to even say that. every republican, every democrat i'm talking to, i got an e-mail back this morning that said, i would be lying if i said it looks awful.
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>> go ahead. >> but, frank, so it looks likely, but you say you shouldn't take it as a mandate. why? >> cbs did a poll and they asked questions this election about barack obama, for him or against him. and they said it's not about obama at all. the work that we've done is actually anti-washington votes. it's an anti-incumbent vote. one of the things that they're talking about is the governors' races. that sets 2016. that's how you determine the future. local and state, republicans are in danger of losing several major gubernatorial races today. so while i'm convinced that they will win the senate, at least florida, for example. >> but the point is will the people who are elected in coming to the senate and house have a mand state based on this election? >> that was my point. >> we all have -- >> thank you, charlie.
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frank. >> to norah's point, to get to what we actually want to. >> that's right. >> the problem is, that -- they states say they have a mandate. but do you have a mandate -- let's say you get to 52 seat it's in senate. that's only 52. is that really a mandate? i think the public is saying, that more democratic incumbents will lose tonight in the senate than anytime since 1994. that's going back 20 years. in the end, it's whether they will make the commitment to work with the president. and in the end, that's what the american people want. they want to get things done. there's two actuals mr. in our polling that matter more than anything else, accountability and get things done. >> the interesting thing, norah and i talked about this, the interesting thing is the dynamics after the election between the president and the congress. >> he's going to have to grab
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it. >> who makes the olive branch -- takes the olive branch moment -- you can be terribly cynical about this saying you want to be seen as extending the olive branch. because in the end it's going to be a fight. but there will be an interesting thing, if the how the majority leader and the president interact for that first time. >> isn't it likely, though, that the president will come out with a series of executive action that's may anger the republican-controlled senate and house especially on the issue of immigration? >> well, he said he would. >> what kind of olive branch is that? >> right. well, it's an olive branch to the eye. >> never good. >> which is not a good way to start the conversation. >> does one side need to extend the olive branch more than the other? as you say, frank, everybody looks bad. >> more things got accomplished with bill clinton in office and the republican in majority with the house and senate than any
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two-year period. they were able to cooperate and get things done. >> but also they had a mandate based on the contract with america at that time. >> and i saw it. i was involved in it. did we mention the house? the other story that's not being told, republicans are nine seats away from having the biggest majority since 1946. >> in the house. >> in the house. >> so this is something. >> how likely is it we will not know until december or january? >> well, we'll know -- i think -- it's possible. i mean if there's a runoff -- >> more than just possible? >> charlie, you're pressing me too hard. i don't know. i don't know. we've got all of these races clattering around. >> we could know around 9:00, 10, depending on new hampshire and north carolina if it's a big republican wave, we know we don't have to wait. if it's tight. >> right, but these races have their
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>> when you come tomorrow at 7:00 a.m., i believe at 7:00 a.m. tomorrow when you go back on the air i do not think it will be declared because of the key states that you mentioned? >> how likely is it that the pollsters are wrong, hello, eric cantor? >> i'll tell you one thing, don't trust the poll ters. >> coming from a pollster. >> coming from a pollster. >> i've been trying to make that for a long time. frank luntz, john dickerson, thank you. our campaign 2013 coverage begins tonight on the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. we'll have updates on the evening plus a prime time special with nancy, bob, bill whitaker, anthony mason and more. that's tonight on cbs news. >> i'm looking forward to it,
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aren't you? >> oh, yeah. >> just the way charlie started the show last hour. it is election day. >> gayle's doing the exit polls which i think is interesting, we will really know why people are voting. coming up on "cbs this morning" -- do >> announcer: this morning's "eye opener" at 8:00 sponsored by benefiber.
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♪ in our "morning rounds" the couple that weighs together stays together it seems. one michigan couple is putting that into practice. their wedding came last week after these two shed a combined nearly 400 pounds.
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elan quijano sat down with a happy and significantly thinner pair. elaine good morning. >> bill and crysta anderson used to weigh more than 800 pounds combined. worried about their health and motivated by their families they each decided to get bear yat tick surgery that would reduce the size of their item pick. bill in 2008, crysta in 2009. this morning, they leave for their honeymoon, a moment they thought would never happen. for bill and crysta anderson, losing weight was a necessity. >> i knew i would get heart disease. i knew i would get diabetes. the road i was headed down i would meet those obstacles. >> i lived a life where i was very tired all the time. sleep apnea and high blood pressure. it was really the constant, like, fight to feel rested. >> were you always heavy? or was this something that developed as you became older? >> as a youth, i actually played
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basketball through high school and junior college. >> reporter: they met at a local hospital in 2008 where they attended a support group for people who had or were considering bariatric surgery. it was not love at first sight. >> tell me, bill, what do you mean about meeting crysta. >> and i remember her coming to a local bar where we were dancing and crysta actually told me i was too old for her. >> what was your recollection. >> did you know at that time that she was going to be your wife. >> no. friendship blossomed into romance. >> november 1st is our anniversary, what we consider it, sometime around then, we started seeing each other more -- you know, not a friendship level. >> november 1st? >> right. 2011. i was actually about to run my first new york city marathon. and they had come in to see me
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off before i left for new york for me to run on november 3rd. >> what did you think when he said he was going to run a marathon? >> he did it. and he's done it again. and he will do it again. >> do you think you're in a bit of awe? running and the city of new york again played a key role in their relationship. before last year's marathon, bill proposed to crysta in central park. >> i got down on one knee, and she grabbed me and squeezed me tight. and i said, babe, are you going to let me go, i want to ask you. she let me go, i asked her to marry me, and she said yes. >> reporter: they got married on saturday in the same room where they met six years ago, the hospital conference room, this time packed with friends and family, including crysta's daughter through a previous relationship. >> having gone through the same
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experience, how much has that affected you in terms of your relationship? >> it's actually really great to have someone who understands where you were, how you got there. we support each other. >> oh, yeah, for sure. she's the love of my life and she's close family crazy. >> how has your life changed since the surgery and since you had bill in your life? >> we eat to live. we don't eat to live. food isn't the center of our lives anymore. we find so many other things to fill it with. >> the andersons say for anyone considering surgery to help lose weight, it is a tool but not a solution. they said that changing your lifestyle and habits are the most important things a person can do. >> wow, elaine, how much did he weigh? >> he used to weigh 459 pounds. >> and she weighed? >> 330 pound. >> that is so hard to do. my hat's off to them. >> and when you do it with someone else, particularly when
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americans are big tippers but a new article in "new york" magazine looks at whether we should be sojourn russ. we are were the 20% most feel pressured to pay up. even after getting mediocre service. the chief restaurant critic is at our table now. how are you sir? what did you findout. >> well, i found out first of all that americans are addicted to tipping. we tip way more than anybody else, any other country, and we do it for several reasons. i think we want to be getting better service. that doesn't always happen. but mostly we do it because we're in a zombie-like haze. and everybody else is doing it and we're going to do it like, too. >> and you're working a job where you need tips and you rely on tips, you recognize that it's
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important to tip? >> yeah. with restaurants, the system is the byzantine system which is legally designed for you to tip and put -- people who survive on tips just angle for your tip. and there's really no escape from it. >> the better known you are, the more likely you're to tip more? >> i think well, actors are huge tippers. not because they're generous or maybe they are. but because they are very visible. and they don't want to be known as a low tipper. i followed this, the biggest tipper was matt damon who left $650 on a relatively small bill. >> well, he's just a really nice guy. >> you did an experiment, what did you do? and where did you go? >> i went to singapore to eat. what i noticed in singapore, similar in new york, they're
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quite similar they're obsessed about food. people eat, they don't really cook. i noticed -- the tip, the cab drivers, they accept it gracefully. so i come back and i go i'm going to try to go for a day and -- >> not tip? >> no, i would tip but based on merritt and friendliness and genuine cheer. i tipped i gave my barista -- my favorite barista got a buck. i went through the day. i took my cab to the restaurant. okay, what happens is, the cabbie, i didn't tip he got mad. i went to the restaurant, and i was seated the a bad table with noisy. and i said, okay -- they said, you better
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>> rewards has grown over night to $15,000 for information on a young woman's abduction this weekend. surveillance video shows the attack on two it year old cash lera freeland-gaither t took place sunday about 9:40 p.m. along coulter street in germantown. gator was forced into a vehicle, and she kicked out windows in her struggle to get free. you can see the full video by the way on our website cbsphilly.com. >> right now the forecast from katie in the weather center. good morning. >> good morning, yes, nice day on tap already. seen a lot of this morning's cloud cover, thin out, for bright sunshine, beautiful blue skies, looks as that's our theme for the day. storm scan three basically quiet over the last few hours, see the speckles evergreen that come and go, just an
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indication that there is a little bit more moisture out there in the upper levels the atmosphere, doesn't verify as raindrops. we do still have quiet day on top. and mild day, at that, your high hitting 67. we drop down to the 40's tonight. granted cool. but it is actually a little bit milder than it has been in recent nights. so, little less harsh for you. the next new days, start that trend downhill, once again, tomorrow, still dry, but more clouds, and thursday, you'll need the umbrella put it that way. vet tore crashes over to you. >> thank you so much, katie. right now you'll need little patience, because you're going to be stuck in a lot of volume on few different majors. talking first about 476, traveling on the blue route, in either direction both northbound and southbound this shot here right around route one you will be a little bit slow. speed censors are averaging in the 20's, 21, 476, 24 on the schuylkill, high pocket of eastbound and westbound traffic on 476 around the boulevard, that's affecting southbound side of the boulevard as well. thirteen traveling on 95, and that earlier accident, 59 northbound, involving over turn school bus at federal
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♪ ♪ bright light city . welcome back to "cbs this morning." we're all in our places with bright shiny faces, aren't we, charlie? >> why would they worry? >> i don't know. >> coming up in this half hour, the future of las vegas, sin city, gets a makeover to attract a new generation of visitors. we'll show you how the casinos turned inside out. plus in our toyota green room, jim boeheim, he gives us a courtside view of the elite. that's ahead. the new york post says a freak accident killed a construction worker in new jersey. he was delivering sheet rock to
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a high-rise under construction yesterday. a tape measure fell from the 50th floor and hit him on the head. it slips from the belt of a worker on the top floor. the 58-year-old victim died at the hospital. >> that's so sad. got to wear your helmet on those construction sites. reports that sean rad out of tinder, a popular dating app. tinder has grown 600% in the past 12 months. it's estimated to be worth $1 billion 0 to $1.5 billion. "b" as in dollars. rad got the news last month. people spotted green and blue fireballs in the eastern part of the united states. the american meteor society got more than 2,000 reports. it's part of the meteor shower expected to peak tomorrow.
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actress angelina jolie opens up to "vanity fair" about what it's like being married to brad pitt. our partners at cnet show us the results of a scientific study revealing the 20 catchiest songs of all time. survivor's classic hit "eye of the tiger" takes the number three spot. and one hit wander lou "mambo number 5" but the catchiest song is -- in the a little rita is all i need ♪ >> that's mambo. do we have the hits? ♪ i'll tell you what i really really want tell me what you want what you really really want ♪ >> you should see charlie rocking to that.
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the spice girls 1996 hit. the british museum collected data from an online data which songs the brain most easily recognizes. >> we get to see that. >> little do people know what it's like here in the morning when we're off camera. >> lady gaga's poker face. "usa today" alex a pin case you never heard of ale, he's a star someone snapped his picture and posted it on twitter. alex is the topic of a million tweets one shows how you can red shirt watch and target shopping bag. >> i don't get the yooooo. i don't get it. >> we will do some research. and a tribute to apple's steve jobs is missing. it came down one day after the company's current ceo announced
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he's gay. elizabeth, good morning. >> good morning, gayle. well, this tribute was actually a monument, a six-foot tall sculpture of an iphone. it was put up by a corporate consortium known as zzff. it took only four men a few minutes to take the memorial down and cart it from a square in st. petersburg. the reason? well, the company says it prohibits propaganda of homosexuality among minors. tim cook is publicly called for sodomy. except he did nothing of the kind. last week, he confirmed what had long been an open secret. let me be clear he wrote in an open letter for bloomberg business week, i'm proud to be gay. the statement was bound to make waves in russia which in spite of its hip urban appearance has
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very conservative roots. last june, parliament outlawed the promotion of nontraditional sexual relationships, that's code for homosexual. inside, russia protests were quickly suppressed. but elsewhere, the gay community went on the offensive. especially on the runup to the sochi olympics. the u.s. made a point of putting two openly gay athletes in its delegation. and the media made a point of putin shown hugging a gay dutch speed skater. this is just the latest. the giant jobs memorial put up only last year may have been short-lived but russia will continue their long-term lover affair both with the company he founded and its product. and in fact, charlie, many of president putin's inner circle including russia's own prime minister are known to be devoted to their apple gadgets.
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gambling on the las vegas strip is no longer guaranteed jackpot for casinos. revenues dropped for the second month in a row in september. it fell 12% from the month earlier. and ben tracy shows us how the city is once winning big. >> reporter: this construction site on the las vegas strip is not for a casino. it's for a new 20,000 seat concert arena and a multimillion-dollar park, a place to take a stroll when you're no longer on a roll. these indoor spaces are really the future of las vegas, that's what we're accomplishing here. >> reporter: jim mullen is the ceo of mgm resorts. they turned the front of their casinos into pedestrian-friendly hangouts. when you started your career here, did you think you'd ever be this focused on outdoor dining and parks? >> it's -- no. the answer is no.
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it's a casino design of 20 years is all inward spacing. you wanted to suck people in and keep them in. and that is the opposite of what we're doing now. >> reporter: on the other end of the strip, caesars spent $500 million building link, an outdoor space to the tallest observation tower in the world. it's called the high roller. all of this is to keep vegas relevant, especially with the millennial generation. you're more likely to find them dancing in state of the art nightclubs or singing at a music festival rather than playing the same old craps. you're at a point where you don't care if a customer comes here for a weekend and doesn't gamble a dollar and doing these other things? >> i'm completely agnostic. a dollar is a dollar. >> reporter: unlike atlantic city's abandoned board walk, vegas is on a hot streak. the city is on pace to welcome a record 40 million visitor this
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year. their average age has dropped from 50 in 2009 to 45.8 last year. new smaller hotels catering to the young crowd are opening on the strip. each hoping their club scene is the hot new thing. even the famed fountains of bellagio are now dancing to the beat of deejay he said millennials are more likely to spend money on booze than bets. >> they went from las vegas going to see frank sinatra and playing craps as you're watching the show. to going into a nightclub, taking a selfie, putting up it up on twitter and instagram and you being the show. >> reporter: in 1990, las vegas made 58% of its revenue from
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gambling. last year it accounted for just 37%. slot machines are being rebrand with popular tv and movie titles. and what was once video poker now looks more like a video game. >> so it's a video game you that can bet on essentially? >> yeah. >> reporter: david chang is chief marketing officer for gambling, a gaming company focused on millennials. he said young people are used to playing games for free on their phones so gambling is not the draw. >> being entertaining in and of itself. the gambling part of is the entertainment but not the main focus. >> everyone is saying millennials don't like slot machines. what do they have against slot machines? >> slot machines are great for a different demographics. >> older people. >> older people. >> reporter: vegas is betting the news the younger generation will continue to flock to sin city. for "cbs this morning," ben
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tracy, las vegas. >> it's not your granddad's vegas anymore. that's nice. are we going anytime soon? it looks fun, it does. >> you can see that happening especially with the nightclubs. >> yeah. >> they're on to something. he's made 30 trips to the big dance. that's a lot of trips. syracuse coach jim boeheim is in the toyota green room
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tom wolf, he'd bring a fresh start to pennsylvania. ♪ jim boeheim is starting his 39th season as syracuse basketball coach. the hall of famer began at syracuse a as a player more than 50 years ago. >> wow. >> he has won 948 games as a head coach. he's number two on the division i all-time list. coach boeheim has won -- see, your name doesn't look the way it's spelled. >> i know. >> and i practiced, i'm so sorry. boeheim has won ncaa championships, two olympic gold medals and 14 big east titles. >> this is his second year of coaching in the acc. and the new memoir "bleeding
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orange" whatever that means, he looks back at half a century. coach boeheim it's good to have you here. >> i almost lost the first year, because he ate my lunch every day. my mother said, don't worry about it, just play better than the other guys and you'll make it. >> you went on to be a great basketball player and great businessman. >> and you were known as the right hand of dave bing. you didn't know who marvin gaye was. you must have a favorite marvin gaye song "sexual healing"". >> no, every year we play the championship game, we play marvin gaye after the national
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anthem which is the best i've ever heard. >> you get better when you have good players. at least good players, try to get them to be better. you can't win without players. you just can't. >> it's about recruiting? >> it's about recruiting and getting the right type of player, somebody that can play in your system and understanding what you want to do. so i have three assistant coaches who all played for me. they know what i want. they help me with those guys. it's hard to be here because we got maryland, duke, georgetown, come on. there's a lot of blood there. it's not always good. >> you bled a lot of orange, right? >> you got it. >> in submission a few time, trust me. >> the success that you have despite that, you say every day you still have a fear of failing every day. i didn't believe it when you said that? >> it's true. i was 17. i was a walk-on, i didn't know if i'd make it. i was worried i'd even make the
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team, luckily, i did. the search committee, two of the fo people didn't want me to be the head coach. after being there as an assistant coach. >> but you'd proven yourself time and time again? >> well, i think you prove yourself every day. you do this show. you do it well. i've watched you ---i try to not be up that early, you do it well, you might not be doing it next week. if i don't win games this year, i might not be there next year. >> what's happening at ncaa? troubling? >> we had a problem with the ncaa with tutoring, some things, that can happen. you try to correct it, but sometimes, you can't. obviously, it's troubling. whenever you see that. a good friend of mine, he would not condone that. can it happen? yes, it can happen. and it's scary. >> how did it happen? >> you know, somebody's going to have to figure that out. i don't know the answer to that.
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you know, i've been in education my whole life and, really, i'm a teacher. and if i'm not a good teacher with my guys, i'm not going to be there long. i know i'm in a great university. i think north carolina is a great university. how it happens, they've got to look at it, they've got to figure it out and see that something like that can't happen again. >> you've been doing that for 39 years, coaching. how much of it is about teaching? and how much is about leadership and inspiring? >> i think it's a combination. i know one thing from working with nba player, mike krzyzewski is the best i've seen in inspiring players and working with players. it's really that part of it. in college, you got to teach. i mean, you got to teach -- we had a guy that couldn't catch the ball when he came in, i mean, that's not easy, you know. >> we have trouble reading the teleprompter sometimes. >> yeah, i'm sure the producers
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have their issues, too, but you're veterans. >> but you provided some of your greatest moments and some of your i can't i did that and the jacket. >> well, the jacket -- i wasn't athletic enough to get it off i wanted to show my lining. we had instant rivalry with duke. one year as good as a georgetown rivalry was, i'm sure you were one of the people painting your face at georgetown. yelling at me. >> jumping up and
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>> good morning, i'm erika von tiehl. today election day, folks across our area are open right now. voters in lan horn, bucks county cast their val et cetera within the past hour. polls in pennsylvania, new jersey, and delaware, are all open until 8:00 tonight. among the offices up for grabs, today, governor of pennsylvania, and senate seats in new jersey, and delaware. >> and as soon as those polls close, we'll have hourly updates for you on cbs-3, then, cbs news will have special election coverage starting at 10:00 we'll update the local races on cbs-3 "eyewitness news" at 11:00. right now, want to get you're election day forecast, looking pretty nice? >> absolutely s doesn't get much better than this for early november standards, we
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continue to see the sun shining brightly, beautiful blue skies across most of the board right now, you can see couple of clouds, starting to move in across central pa. but generally expecting nice sunny afternoon. also, miler one, too. 67 degrees our expected afternoon high. later tonight we drop down to miler by comparison, but little on the cool side. if you plan to head out, maybe one of the evening voters, still dress in layers here today. mid 60s tomorrow. more clouds than sun. it is dry. and then you'll want to have your umbrella on stand by hereby thursday. vittoria? >> thank you, katie. good morning, everyone, still dealing with rush hour out there. ninety-five southbound, still a squeeze, as you make your way approaching the vine st. expressway out of the northeast, so keep that in mine. as we continue we are going to move you elsewhere. if you are traveling on the schuylkill expressway the vine st. expressway still going to experience some of those rush hour delays, if you are traveling mass transit wise, or traveling the philadelphia international airport, that is the good news, no delays but keep in mind we do have sun glare out there with all of
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the gorgeous wet their katie was talking about, letted's head back to the desk. >> thank you, that's eyewitness fuse for now, talk philly coming up a noon on cbs-3 once again reelection day so get out and vote. i'm erika von tiehl. have a great day.
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