Adding hundreds of thousands of robots to its work force and training humans to control them. As Technology Changes work they have the opportunity to advance in their career and take advantage of those changes. You sound like your p. R. People. What do you need your employees to start doing with this training . Its thursday, july 11th, 2019. Heres todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. As we get closer to landfall, heavy bands of rain will move across the area. A potentially devastating storm threatens the gulf coast. Some areas like in new orleans have already seen well over half a foot of rain. This is what we have to deal with every time a hard rain comes. Labor secretary alex acosta is fighting to keep his job. He called a press conference to defend a plea deal for Jeffrey Epstein struck while he was u. S. Attorney. We did what we did because we wanted to see epstein go to jail. New tensions in the persian gulf. The British Government says three iranian vessels tried to block its ship in the strait of hormuz. A mother whose daughter died after being released from a texas Migrant Detention Center testified before congress. The acting director of citizenship and Immigration Services says i. C. E. Raids will happen. There are approximately a Million People in this country with removal orders. New york city celebrated the u. S. Womens National Soccer team. The biggest, best team in the world all that Roger Federer came back to the semifinals to face a familiar opponent. Oh, rafa. Looks ready for fridays showdown with federer. And all that matters. And the winner is the womens National Soccer team after winning every game enroute to a world cup title win the u. S. Womens National Team continuing their celebrations. They went to l. A. For the espys. Sorry but this is probably the second best trophy we won this week. On cbs this morning. You know what the espys are . A sports thing. It is not the sports you win for winning your sport is the award. Well, yeah. So what is that . Its a great question actually. Its clear who deserves awards in sports. The people who won. It is a really good point. That was a brilliant assessment. It is a really good point. Alex morgan making the same point. The second most important trophy. If you win the world cup Everything Else is gravy, right . Mayonnaise. What a celebration for them though here in new york and then at the espys. Really great. Welcome to cbs this morning. My old sidekick. I know. So glad to be here with you both. Great to have you both. We begin with the central gulf coast bracing for potentially devastating flooding from what could become hurricane barry. Part of the storm system dumped up to 9 inches of rain in three hours on parts of new orleans yesterday. Louisiana is already under a state of emergency. Hurricane watches are in effect along the coast up to 10,000 people having been ordered to evacuate. This morning Severe Weather watches stretch from louisiana to florida and at the moment on a levee along the swollen Mississippi River in new orleans. The question on everyones mind there i guess is are the levees expected to hold . Reporter well, they are, but they could over top. That is the potential here. Were talking about possibly up to 18 inches of rain coming into louisiana this weekend. You mentioned the already swollen Mississippi River behind me. That combined with the storm surge could send the river up to 20 feet this weekend. Thats the same height as some of the levees that protect the city, which was already hit by flash flooding. Lines of powerful thunderstorms dumped up to 9 inches of torrential rains over new orleans wednesday in just three hours. Turning the streets in louisianas biggest city into small rivers. So actually on the way home. Reporter trapping some people in businesses and homes along the historic french quarter. A possible tornado also touched down. I heard a big explosion like sound and the whole bedroom was blown out. My wife and dog were kind of under the rubble but they were fine. This is crazy. Reporter but the rain is the biggest worry going forward. This neighborhood is in one of the lowest points of new orleans, which is below sea level. So people are used to some flooding here but they say its becoming more and more frequent and they fear its their new normal. There is nowhere for it to go. Thats kind of the fear of living in the bowl that we live in. Reporter another major concern for many are the citys drainage pumps. You can look around and see they got Little Twisters but every now and then it stops twisting so the pump is notreal. Reporter many levees got a 14 billion overhaul after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. But some have started to settle and may not provide the intended protection if water levels on the Mississippi River reach historic levels. People need to keep constant vigilance through the next few days to keep an idea what is going on and from there we can all stay safe. Reporter the army corps of engineers says it is working to reinforce lowlying areas. The city says all but two of the drainage pumps are operational right now but a large amount of rain in a short period of time can overwhelm any system. Looks like youre on the west bank. Of all the years i lived there, nine of them, never seen the levees that high. Our chicago station, wbbm tv is tracking conditions in the gulf. How soon could this system rr grng. Pical storm barry . We aatchinng system in the gulf of mexico likely destined to be a Tropical Storm by later today possibly a hurricane before landfall along the gulf coast. It is really intensifying. You can see it on our water vapor imagery expecting the storm system to be moving closer to making landfall probably into the weekend. Could put new orleans on the right side of circulation. They may be looking at a storm surge from 3 to 6 feet. So much warm water in front of this storm system. And because those temperatures in the sea surface are warmer than average we have a lot of available moisture to work with on this. In terms of where the storm will go these are our models. They are anywhere from houston to florida, but the National Hurricane center model does bring it onshore somewhere near louisiana. As we move into the weekend possibly as a category one hurricane. Again, working with all that warm water to strengthen. Now while we know wind could be an issue, rain is going to be the primary threat from this. We could be looking at upwards of 1 foot possible across parts of louisiana and into the gulf coast region. Anthony . Thank you. A nationwide operation targeting thousands of undocumented migrant families will reportedly begin sunday. The New York Times says raids are expected to take place in at least ten major cities. Theyll be conducted by immigration and customs enforcement. Omar vill franca is in dallas. What do we know about what is going to happen . Reporter good morning. I. C. E. Is reportedly targeting 2,000 immigrants in the country illegally and have been ordered deported. The agency says they traditionally focus on those with a criminal history but any immigrant violating u. S. Law could be arrested. Theyll be starting fairly soon. Reporter President Trump renewed his threat last friday to order mass deportations of undocumented migrant families. The raids were postponed in june after the president previewed the operations on twitter stating i. C. E. Would remove millions of illegal aliens. The raids have been a flash point in immigrant communities across the country. The socalled raids, it is interior enforcement. We do it every day. Reporter cbs news spoke with the acting commissioner mark morgan about the agencys plans last month. If you are a mother with a kid is that mother going to be handcuffed . No. But if youre a criminal alien and youve been convicted of murder, sexual assault, etcetera, are you going to be handcuffed . You bet. Reporter the possible raids come amid increasing scrutiny over conditions at Migrant Detention Centers. On wednesday reporters toured a new hhs facility for children in texas. Video shows clean rooms and children in classrooms, which contrast troubling images from a recent dhs inspector generals report that condemned unsanitary conditions and dangerous over crowding at some cbp facilities. In an emotional hearing wednesday, she said she blamed unsafe conditions and poor medical care at an i. C. E. Detention center in texas for the death of her 1yearold daughter. Lawmakers were visibly shaken by her testimony. Some were brought to tears. Its like they tore out a piece of my heart, she said, lierk th like they tore out my soul. One of the groups getting a lot of attention, unaccompanied migrant children. Yesterday the u. S. Government said there are about 200 in cbp custody down from about 2500 in may. Omar, thank you. Well stay on top of it. Right now breaking news from the middle east. Britain said overnight three iranian boats tried to intercept a british oil tanker. The confrontation took place in the strait of hormuz a vital shipping lane at the center of current tensions with iran. Were following developments from london. What happened . Reporter well, British Military officials confirmed to us this morning that iranian boats attempted to impede that british tanker overnight before a navy escort issued verbal warnings to get out of the way. British naviee figuresy officia news this war ship wedged itself between the cargo ship and three iranian parra military vessels demanding safe passage of this cargo ship the British Heritage registered to british petroleum. The iranian boats backed off. The scrap on the high seas comes a week to the day since british commandos seized an iranian super tanker off the coast of gibraltar over allegations it was breaking sanctions by transporting oil to syria. Accusations denied by iran. Just yesterday, the president of co andri reick te would be escort their ships. Tensions were already running high after a series of attacks on tankers in recent weeks blamed on iran. When we were last there u. S. Navy gun boats took us to see up close the damage Navy Investigators told us caused by the kind of mines used by irans revolutionary guard. This despite a significant u. S. Military buildup in the region including the u. S. S. Abraham lincoln Strike Carrier Group and b52 bombers. Irans revolutionary guard is denying it confronted any alien vessels especially british. They said if they had received the order to seize a ship, they would have done so immediately. Thank you. Labor secretary alex acosta says he will not resign over his role in Jeffrey Epsteins child sex abuse case. Acosta spoke to reporters controversial plea deal with the financeer in 2008. Epstein served 13 months in jail and registered as aafr he w acc more than two dozen under age teenagers. Well go to the white house. Ben, why did acosta hold the News Conference in the first place . Reporter well, weve learned President Trump called acosta on tuesday and urged him to defend himself publicly. Now, that is the same day the president defended acosta basically saying sometimes judges and prosecutors look back and wish they had done things differently in hindsight. But acosta says he did nothing wrong. We did what we did because we wanted to see epstein go to jail. Reporter labor secretary alex acosta says his only choice when he was a u. S. Attorney was to either prosecute Jeffrey Epstein at trial or offer p deal that guaranteed at least some jail time. How do you weigh those two . If going to trial is viewed as the roll of a dice . Reporter acosta blamed Florida State officials whom he said were not eager to prosecute and said epstein would not have served any jail time if not for him but former palm beach state attorney Barry Krischer said in a statement mr. Acostas recollection is completely wrong. He said if there acosta were truly concerned with the states case and felt he had to rescue the matter he would have moved forward with a 53page indictment his own office drafted. Since epstein pleaded not guilty to new federal charges of sex trafficking dozens of under age girls, more women have come forward this week saying epstein abused them. Jennifer arose told nbc news she was 15 when assaulted by epstein in the early 2000s. He raped me. What hurts even more so is if i wasnt afraid to come forward sooner then maybe he wouldnt have done it to other girls. Reporter she plans to file a civil suit against epstein. On wednesday acosta expressed sympathy for the victims but repeatedly refused to apologize regrets . We believe that we proceeded appropriately. Look, no regrets is a very y wa interviews, its very obvious that the victims feel that this was not a sufficient outcome. Reporter Many Democrats are still calling on acosta to resign in part because as labor secretary he is in charge of combatting human trafficking. Of course, President Trump is really the only one who can decide his fate and at his News Conference acosta says they still have a great relationship. Tony . Thank you very much. Cbs news legal analyst is with us. You prosecuted sex crime cases with adults and children. Headlines out of the Acosta Press Conference seem to be no apology and also he says he proceeded appropriately. Given the context back then. Do you agree . Not a bit. Nothing he said changed my mind. When he talks about the fact that the environment for women was different in 2007 than it is in 2019, these are children, for heavens sake. There is no way that we treated as prosecutors children differently in 2007 than in 2019. Our job was to protect them. Our job was to get them raelead for trial. I not only prosecuted these cases, in 2007 im serving on the board of the Rape Treatment Center in california in los angeles. We made sure that child victims felt supported. We didnt just send an fbi agent or a cop out to see the go through with this and then just say, okay. And thats what happened here. I want to look reporting the miami herald did about this secret plea deal that acosta negotiated with epsteins lawyer who is a former colleague of acostas and they reported acosta allowed epsteins lawyers unusual freedom in dictating the terms of the nonprosecution agreement. How unusual do you think it is . I think it is unusual because he was intimidated by the strength of these lawyers. You have to remember there was ken starr, Alan Dershowitz there. These are hard cases. I agree. That may be the one thing i agree with acosta about. Theyre hard cases. Well, when i was a young prosecutor and i mean young, we rel ish relished the idea the best and the toughest and the ones with the great reputations, defense lawyers were coming in because we wanted to try cases against them. We were not intimidated. Acosta called it a roll of a dice but there was a 53page indictment prepared. All trials are a roll of the dice. You can never guarantee a jurors verdict but the time is that is your job. There was no statute of limitations here at sex trafficking at that time so what he did is he takes a nonprosecution agreement and shuts it down. For heavens sake, Jeffrey Berman now in the Southern District of new york, talk about the opposite, he is calling for victims to come forward. There was no urgency. They didnt have to do a nonprosecution agreement. You have dozens of victims here. You have a constant delay in telling them about this plea deal. And then them seeking restitution. What do you make of that . Well, the judge in florida has declared that was illegal. The judge in florida is trying to find a sanction against the government. So i dont think we can take mr. Acostas word for this. And im very glad that the palm beach states attorney came out and said, look. He wasnt superman. This is my words not his. He didnt get on his cape and fly over and save the day to be a hero. He tried to portray himself as a hero. On the contrary it sounds like youre saying he was not up to the job. I think he was not up to the job. Thank you so much for being with us. First on cbs this morning amazon unveils an ambitious plan to help employees keep up with Artificial Intelligence. 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