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KPIX CBS This Morning August 1, 2014

Prepping for the arrival of the first ebola patient to be treated in the u. S. The ceasefire was shattered. Gaza says dozens were killed when an israeli air strike pulverized this residential area. Suicide bomber blew himself up, killing two soldiers and they abducted one of our boys. Yesterday the markets had their worst oneday drop since february. The dow plunged, erasing all of the gains for the year. Tropical storm bertha its moving toward the caribbean. Storm watches in puerto rico and the u. S. Virgin islands. Former president bill clinton before the september 11th attacks admitting he had passed up a chance to kill Osama Bin Laden. I could have killed him, but i would have had to have destroyed a little town. In chicago, chaos erupts in a highrise Office Building when a disgruntled employee shoots his boss and kills himself. It doesnt seem real. A series of gas explosions ripped through the southern taiwanese city. At least 24 people were killed. Ray rice spoke out for the First Time Since he was suspended. I made the biggest mistake of my life. All that gets surrounded in a store, taken down by employees who caught him red handed trying to steal cell phones. A michigan mom winning big playing Mega Millions. Were going to take a shopping spree or two. And all that matters. I love you, obama. I love you back. President obama hosted a celebration honoring Special Olympics, packed with alist celebrities like katy perry. President s need some encouragement once in a while too. That felt really good. On cbs this morning. Another problem goes unchecked as all the pinheads in the house as both sides go on vacation. Stop it it is not failure. It is just you living up to our extremely low expectations. Congress is the sharknado 2 of government. This mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Lets go places. Captioning funded by cbs welcome to cbs this morning. Charlie rose is off so ben tracy is with us. Welcome. Good to be here. Good to have you here. As you wake up in the west the World Health Organization says an Ebola Outbreak is spreading faster than efforts to control the virus. The u. S. Is working to bring home two infected americans. The largest outbreak in history is suspected of killing at least 729 people. A medical charter plane is picking up the american patients in liberia. At least one of the victims will go to Emory University hospital in atlanta. Reporter good morning. Good morning to viewers in the west. Emory University Hospital here has a special ward designed to treat patients with dangerous communicable diseases, just like the two american missionaries now in a lifeordeath struggle with the ebola virus. Emorys Isolation Unit is on the ground floor, but physically separated from other wards. An ebola patient will arrive here within the next few days. The hospital declined to reveal that persons identity but on thursday the white house said government officials were working to get two americans with ebola out of liberia. These kind of medevacs that are performed by private entities, by private organizations, yet facilitated by the u. S. Government and Government Agencies is consistent with what has been done in similar situations in the past. Reporter dr. Kent brantly and Nancy Writebol are in stable but serious condition. In an effort to boost their ability to fight the virus, both were given antibodies from ebola survivors. Writebol received them from an experimental serum brantly from one of his patients. A 14yearold boy who lived. We dont know how effective the serum will be in this instance of ebola because it really hasnt been done very frequently before, if at all. Reporter on thursday the cdc issued a level 3 travel warning. Measures should avoid all nonessential travel to sierra leone, guinea and liberia, where more than 700 people have already died. Passengers arriving in the u. S. From west africa are currently not being screened but Public Health officials have put hospitals on alert. They say any outbreaks will quickly be brought under control. Emorys threebed Isolation Center has a highly trained staff and special equipment to keep these pathogens from getting out. There are only four centers like this in the entire country. All right, thank you. And the cdc is now trying to calm fears that the disease can spread here. Our chief medical correspondent dr. Jon lapook is with us. Good morning doctor. Good morning. Why bring the ebola virus here to the u. S. . Is it dangerous . Norah, it sounds like their condition is deteriorating and theres medical care that can be given here in the sophisticated Health Settings that just cant be done in africa. For example, one of the complications is the problems with clotting and you have bleeding. Here you could give fresh frozen plasma, other clotting factors. So thats something thats available here more sophisticated treatment. They are doing this to save these two Health Workers lives. Yeah. This is very dramatic. I know people are concerned. Is it safe to bring it here. Ive been told by the cdc that these are in very isolated pods that theyre transported in and theres very strict protocol that makes it safe. Lets talk about that, jon, because this unit inside this hospital is one of only four in the country. What is it like inside there . There are three beds and its isolated the air supply is isolated, the air is filtered. The staff is specially trained. So this is something that theyre prepared for and the idea is to keep them in this isolated area where its safe. It cant be spread anywhere else but where they can give it the best care possible. And what kind of experimental vaccine do we have here in the u. S. . There are things being worked on. The nih has a vaccine going into phase one. Thats the first phase of testing, in september. There are other things. There are cocktails of drugs. For example, two drugs that treat the virus and then combine that with a vaccine. This would be given after somebody is exposed. But these are all not available for primetime any time really soon. Jon, thank you. I know youll be back in the next hour with some of the myths about contracting ebola. Thank you so much. And people have many important questions about the ebola virus. You can find answers this morning on cbsnews. Com where there is uptodate information from the cdc and the World Health Organization. This morning the latest effort to ending the conflict in gaza exploded in new violence. One israeli soldier is reported kidnapped. A 72hour humanitarian ceasefire held for less than two hours. Palestinian Officials Say israeli tanks killed dozens in Southern Gaza but a white house spokesman condemned hamas this morning, calling an attack on israeli troops barbaric. Barry petersen is tracking developments in gaza city. Barry, good morning. Reporter well people woke here at 8 00 in the morning to an unusual sound. The sound of silence. But now the war is back on with a vengeance. There was an artillery hit just over there and were hearing a lot of small arms fire out in that direction. Hamas says its killed Israeli Soldiers and also claims it has captured one alive. The palestinians say israeli strikes have overwhelmed their hospitals. 35, 40 dead. Maybe 300 injured. Mostly women and children. It was a brutal end to the brief hope for peace. The familiar deadly explosions of artillery meant both sides were at it again. But for a few hours while the ceasefire lasted people hurried out to shop finding store shelves increasingly bare. At markets, there is fruit and vegetables. The prices for some items have doubled. People can look but many can not afford to buy. This shop had chickens when it opened for the first time in two weeks. It was sold out in two hours. How are people in gaza going to eat if farmers like you are not able to raise food . It is hard to make a meal says shop owner hussein. We only have simple things cheese, bread and vegetables. A lot of the shops are closed, sometimes because owners are still afraid to drive across the city. Other times because the owner or a member of the family has been killed and they are still in mourning. And there are other shortages, like water. As for power, there is none at all. The israelis hit the power plant earlier this week destroying fuel tanks and one of the four turbine generators. Some people have generators at home they can run when they can get gas. Many do not. No power means no lights. This is a city now driven back to a kind of dark ages. There was hope that a long ceasefire would let palestinians resupply buying food and humanitarian aid from the israeli side. Now that is not going to happen. Life here norah, is just going to get harder. All right barry, thank you. And the failure of this mornings ceasefire is a major setback for secretary of state john kerry. Margaret brennan is at the state department. Margaret, good morning. What does this mean now . Reporter good morning. Once again, it appears that diplomats want a ceasefire more than israel or hamas. Secretary kerry is flying back from india to d. C. Now. Hes making calls from on board his plane and has already spoken with the israeli Prime Minister the u. N. And the qataris who are negotiating on behalf of hamas. Hes trying to save this ceasefire, but right now the First Priority is securing the release of that israeli soldier reportedly captured by hamas. The white house spokesman said this morning that if these hostage reports are true its a barbaric violation of the truce agreement. But u. S. Diplomats have long acknowledged that events on the ground trump words at the negotiating table and that any truce is a test of whether hamass fighters will honor what their political leaders order them to do. So new questions may be raised about that given the events that have happened overnight. Many of the american negotiators have already landed in cairo to begin what were supposed to be talks about a longer term deal. Now it is just not clear whether any of that will happen. Margaret thank you. There is devastation in taiwan this morning after a series of deadly underground gas explosions. Cameras caught the blast last night. They were so powerful they tossed cars into the air. At least 25 people were killed and nearly 270 injured. This morning several streets are deep trenches of debris and dirt. This happened in taiwans second largest city in a neighborhood that is near some oil companies. Wall street stocks are down this morning despite a positive monthly job report. The Labor Department says employers added 20 9,000 jobs in july. Its the First Time Since 1997 that the economy gained 200,000 jobs for six straight months. The Unemployment Rate rose to 6. 2 as more people started looking for work. On thursday the Dow Jones Industrial average fell 317 points to 16,563. That wiped out nearly all of the indexs gains for the year. This morning the white house says president obama still has confidence in cia director john brennan. He was forced to admit thursday that the agency spied on senate staff members. Nancy cordes is on capitol hill where brennan denies those charges for months. Nancy, good morning. Reporter good morning. Well, as you can imagine, senators who are on the Intelligence Committee, like californias dianne feinstein, are furious. They say they were lied to and they say this points to a problem with the culture at the cia. We really dont have anything to say at this point. Reporter senators got the full story for the first time in a closed door briefing on capitol hill. The cias Inspector General told them his investigation found five agency employees, two lawyers and three computer experts, improperly accessed the Intelligence Committees computer files reviewing some of the emails of Committee Staff members. And the key issues are who authorized this and why they thought it was legal. Reporter the breaches happened in 2010 and again in 2014, as the Intelligence Committee reviewed thousands of cia documents as part of its investigation into past interrogation tactics. Staffers suspected they were being spied on after some of their files disappeared. Cia director john brennan denied it earlier this year. We wouldnt do that. I mean thats thats just beyond the scope of reason. Reporter on thursday the cia said brennan had apologized to the committee. But that wasnt good enough for colorado democrat mark udall who called for brennans resignation. Saxby chambliss wouldnt go that far but did say this is very very serious, and i will tell you as a member of the committee, someone who has Great Respect for the cia, i am extremely disappointed. Reporter the White House Press secretary says the president does still have confidence in the cia director and pointed out that brennan has created an internal accountability board to see if anyone should be punished at the agency. Nancy thats a big story, thank you. Two executives and longtime friends got into a lifeanddeath strug nell chicago. This morning one is fighting for his life after he was shot in a highrise Office Building. Steven lavoie and anthony defrancis built their business from the ground up. Dean reynolds shows us what triggered yesterdays violence. Reporter what began as a routine work day at aerostream a chicagobased Technology Firm rapidly disintegrated into chaos. People were crying and stuff. It was nuts. There were helicopters flying overhead. Reporter the incident began less than a week after tony defrancis learned he was being demoted as the companys chief technology officer. On thursday morning defrancis entered the 17th floor of this building for a private meeting with the companys founder and ceo, steven lavoie. At just before 10 00 a. M. Police say shots were fired. During that oneonone he produced a firearm. There was apparently a struggle over the firearm. The ceo was struck twice. Reporter s. W. A. T. Teams immediately rushed in to secure the area. Its like they were going in for war. It was almost like an army. Reporter defrancis was pronounced dead at the scene from a selfinflicted gunshot wound. Lavoie was taken to chicagos northwestern hospital for emergency surgery. The ceo is in grave condition. He was struck once in the stomach and once in the head. Reporter the two men had worked together since the company was founded 14 years ago and were known to be friends. In a statement, lavoies family said our thoughts are also with stevens extended family the employees of arrowstream, and our prayers are with the other family affected by this tragedy. Both families have asked for privacy, as investigators and colleagues search for answers in the citys latest round of gun violence. For cbs this morning, dean reynolds, chicago. In new york this morning a criminal defense Attorney Says hes been hired by governor Andrew Cuomos office. The u. S. Attorney in manhattan reportedly warned cuomo and his aides that he may pursue obstruction of justice or witness tampering charges. The dispute involves the socalled Moreland Commission the governor created last year. That 25member panel was supposed to spend 18 months routing out political corruption in new york state but cuomo shut down the commission in march, saying its work was done. The New York Times reported last week that cuomos top aides repeatedly blocked investigators. Cuomo denies any wrongdoing. Rikki klieman is here this morning. We reached out to the Governors Office, all the members of his commission, no one responded. Why is the u. S. Attorney involved here . Well the u. S. Attorney originally became involved because of the abrupt end of this commission. So the u. S. Attorney says were going to finish the commissions work. Were looking at corruption which was perfectly permissible for him to do. But thats months ago. So now this has escalated. Why has it escalated . Governor cuomo got his surrogates out there, the people who were on the commission to say, hey, this commission was fine. The governor the governors people, they never bothered us we were independent. And the u. S. Attorney said oh well isnt this intriguing. Suddenly we have this onslaught of the governors people saying this everything is fine so he took the bull by the horns. So does not suggest criminal witness tampering . Well it certainly suggests the possibility of investigating criminal witness tampering as well as obstruction of justice. The u. S. Attorneys office says hey, governor and governors staff, layoff my witnesses. And if you persist, even by telling them to go forward to say that everything is just great, were in this. Were looking at you and we are not letting go. And the New York Times is reporting that the cochair of this commission has changed his story. Privately he had expressed frustration about meddling from the Governors Office in this investigation. Yes that is correct. At least as we understand it. That mr. Fitzpatrick originally not only expressed it orally but perhaps has expressed it through emails and said he wanted the governor out of this that it was independent. Now hes saying its just all fine. Rikki klieman, thank you so much. It is 7 19. Ahead, ray rice says his wife can do no wrong. Well get reaction after the nfl star breaks his silence about we are starting out with a few clouds outside this morning. Low clouds and fog just a thin layer has moved in along the coastline and over San Francisco. This is from the cam you see the fog making its way over the

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