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KPIX CBS This Morning June 29, 2017

The announcement sending shock waves through the Catholic Church in australia, also around the world. A top vatican cardinal faces sexual abuse charges. Im innocent of these charges. Im looking forward to finally having my day n court. Homeland Security Department now issuing new rules for International Flights coming into the country. Its time we raise the global baseline of aviation security. We cannot play international whackamole with each new threat. I challenge you to invite all hundred of us, republican and democrat, to discuss a new bipartisan way forward on health care. Would you be willing to negotiate with all of them . Got to find out if hes serious. He hasnt been serious. Parts of the midwest are assessing the damage following a string of severe storms including tornadoes. Holy [ bleep ]. That thing was forming right above us. Wildfires rage across the west. High temps and strong winds making it tough for crews. One person is injured after an explosion at a college dorm in kentucky. Investigators are now blaming a gas leak. In philadelphia, customers with a big scare. Thats a uhaul truck slamming through the store front. Luckily it wasnt more crowded. All that. A Colorado Springs mom discovering an unusual visitor in her garage. Freaking bear. Get out of my garage the iphone turns ten year old today. I remember when you were just a baby. Happy birthday, iphone. All that mattered. Doing okay but youre going to do great starting now. The World Champion chicago cubs. This was the cubs second trip to the white house. They were actually here but they wanted to be here with trump. On cbs this morning. Weird. Been on plenty of magazine covers. Dont need fake ones. How did you figure out it was a fake time cover in the first place . I happened to be at a trump club and walked by and saw it. Come on, mr. President. If youre going to fake a magazine cover, put yourself on the cover of o. Announcer this mornings toyota. Lets go places. Captioning funded by cbs thank you, Stephen Colbert for the shoutout to o, the magazine. Looking good on that cover. Welcome to cbs this morning. Charlie rose is on assignment, so david westin, the coanchor of bloomberg daybreak, welcome back. Arent i fortunate. Back a second day. What more could you want . Were glad youre here. A Catholic Church scandal reached the highest levels of the vat kahn the other night with charges against a top official. Cardinal pell faces charges in australia for an alleged Sexual Assault committed decades ago. Hes the top adviser to pope francis who has promised zero tolerance of sexual abuse. Hell take a leave of absence while he fights the charges. Cardinal pell says he is innocent. Seth doane has the allegations rocking the vatican today. Reporter in the elite group, Cardinal Pell is considered close to the top. These charges this morning are sending shock waves through the Catholic Church. The 76yearold was reflective this morning railing against what he said was two years of relentless character assassination. Im innocent of these charges. They are false. The whole idea of sexual abuse is abhorrent to me. Reporter Australian Police did not provide any specific details of the multiple charges of Sexual Assault. Cardinal george pell has been in charge of reforming church finances but for years has faced allegations that he did not properly deal with clergy sex abuse in australia. He was questioned by a Commission Investigating the churchs response to abuse via video link from rome. With the experience 40 years later, i certainly agree i should have done more. Why do you need the experience at 40 years later . Wasnt it a serious matter then . Yes, but people had different attitudes then. Reporter pell told reporters this morning hes been in regular contact with pope francis. I keep the holy father regularly informed. Reporter he was granted a leave to return to australia for a day in court in midjuly. How big of a blow are these charges to the Catholic Church . This is a major blow. Reporter Robert Mickens with a catholic publication has been covering the vat van for 25 years. You have to understand theyre going to be much more conciliatory. Cardinal pell said the pope was giving him a leave of absence. Its very likely that the pope stood him down. Reporter the vatican said the leave of absence is effective immediately. A leave of absence is quite significant for a priest. For a cardinal it is even more serious. But for such a close adviser to pope francis, it is a shock. Norah . Seth doane, thank you. More than two dozen tornados ripped through the midwest. The strong winds tore roofs off homes and scattered debris. At least two people were hurt, more Severe Weather is headed for the region today. Powerful thunderstorms are expected to bring large hail and possibly more tornados. Adriana diaz is in prairieburg, iowa, where people are cleaning up this morning. Good morning. Reporter good morning. To give you a sense of how powerful these winds were, do you see those silos teetering about 100 yards back . Up with of them was whipped all the way down here and is this big pile of mangled metal. The tornado made its way across town on an angle. The sheriffs deputies told us if it had gone straight north, residents would have taken a direct hit. Large wedge tornado. Reporter severe storms spawned tornadoes across the midwest wednesday. A funnel cloud crossed this highway in stuart, iowa. Another touched down in the city, whipping up debris. An hour east in pleasantville, a tornado shredded part of the roof on this home, tossing it across this yard and on top of cars. Storms in lynd county, iowa, toppled this truck and uprooted trees. Doris bemis saw it. It happened so quick. They always say it makes a roar sound. There was no sound. It was just upon us, and that was it. Reporter emergency Officials Say more than 25 buildings were damaged in pierce county, wisconsin, when a tornado tore through. At least one person was hurt. Dee was on her front porch with her two young grandchildren near far agut, iowa, when tornado sirens started wailing they ran to their storm cellar. It was like this. The wind was it was hard to keep the boys down. Thats what was so scary. I thought they were going to blow away. Reporter part of her roof is gone. But she says shes just thankful everyones okay. Never been so scared but life is good. Were okay. All of this can be fixed. Reporter the system that brought the tornadoes has passed through, but were still not in the clear. There is a tornado threat again today for parts of iowa, northern missouri, and northeastern kansas. Gayle . Thank you, adriana. More people are being forced to leave their homes as wildfires burn across the west. Hundreds of firefighters battled flames overnight in san cleme e clemente, california. A state of emergency in prescott, arizona. A fire in prescott has burned more than 20,000 acre. This morning there are at least 35 wildfires burning across the west. My yuccas is in burbank, california, where hundreds of people were evacuated yesterday. Jamie, good morning. Reporter good morning. The people in this neighborhood were so lucky. If you take a look where i am, just 15 steps from where this home eeners backyard starts and where the fire stopped. Whats happened in california is after years of drought, theres new vegetation on top of all this dry brush. If this starts on fire and firefighters dont make it quickly enough, everything in it path will be engulfed with flames. This firefight very active and these homes under extreme danger. Reporter intense flames and thick smoke surrounded homes in burr bank, california, wednesday afternoon. The fire shot up the hills, igniting dry grass and burning brush. Those firefighters in those back yards, theyre dealing with that heavy smoke and that wind being created from this fire. Reporter firefighting helicopters flew close to the ground, dropping gallons of water in an attempt to corral the flames. Even though it had been a wet winter here in the los angeles area, they were in a drought for the last five years, so you have new vegetation because it was wet on top of dry vegetation. It started coming up the hill pretty quick. Were going to have to back up. Reporter gavin carusos grandparents have lived in burbank for the last 30 years. I ran back here and started fighting it with the hose. Reporter how soon until the firefighters got here . The fire was actually about ten feet wa they before they came up and told us to leave. Oh, god, its coming fast. Reporter its been a tough year for a hot and dry western u. S. That is prone to wildfires. In arizona more than 32 miles are burning north of phoenix forcing thousands from their homes. We moved here about three years ago and bought a beautiful home. Reporter patricia sue lambeau had 30 minutes to grab what she could and get out. Im very worried about it. Extremely. I had to leave a lot of possessions behind. Reporter firefighters left hoses in the back yards as well as along the hillside. You can see how much has burned. We have heard and seen some hotspots. We know at least two engines are on scene to put those out if they familiar back up. The problem for the weekend is wind are going to pick up making fire danger go from high to very high. David . Jamie, thank you. President trumps revived travel ban goes into effect at 5 00 p. M. Pacific time tonight. Its going affect six mostly muslim countries for 90 days. There will be some exceptions. But visa applicants and refugees from those countries must have a close family or business tie to the United States. Jan crawford has the fine print from the new rules that the Supreme Court allowed to go into effect just this week. Jan, good morning. Good morning, david. They say the devils in details, so what exactly is a close relationship . Weve now got guy dance from the state department. They say it includes a parent, spouse, child, sibling already in the United States. But grandparents, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, other, thats not considered Close Relationships and thats where i think we may see some litigation if for example a grandchild is denied a visa. When it comes to business ties, the Department Says it must be formal, documented, and formed in the ordinary course rather than for the purpose of evading the ban. The ban may also not apply to people who have previously established or significant business contacts with the u. S. That means journalists, students, employees, lecturers who have valid invitations or work contracts in the u. S. Would be allowed as well as people who are traveling with a recognized international organization. Now, visas that had already been approved, those will not be revoked and the guidelines make other exceptions for infants, adopted kids, and people who need Urgent Medical care. The justices, they will hear arguments on this ban in the fall to consider whether its constitutional. Norah . Jan, thank you so much. The department of Homeland Security is demanding airlines and airports tighten their security so terrorists cannot smuggle bombs onto planes. Those changes will force more than 300,000 passengers a day to deal with new security measures and screening technology. Officials say the alternative would be to widen the ban on carryon electronics that now affects eight countries in africa and the middle east. Kris van cleave is at Reagan National airport outside washington. Kris, good morning. Reporter good morning. These heightened security measures will affect 180 Airlines Flying about 2,100 flights a day to the u. S. And comes amid growing concern about terrorists targeting aviation, especially with laptopbased bombs that may be able to get past some airport screening. We cannot play international whackamole with each new threat. Reporter the department of Homeland Security told airlines basically everywhere u. S. Airliners from to ratchet up security or face a potential electronics ban. That means flyers coming to the United States should expect to see increased scrutiny including canines an potentially secondary screening, especially of laptops. Let me be clear. Security is my number one concern. Our enemies are adaptive, and we have to be adaptive as well. Reporter the new security burden will largely fall on airlines. The Group Representing u. S. Carriers supports increased security but complained this decision should have been subject to a greater degree of collaboration and coordination. As to not inconvenience the traveling public. You can make a secure aviation system, but nobodys flying if you do that. Reporter the former tsa administrator. It doesnt surprise me that weve gotten to the point where we say, you know, we think weve got to do something different, particularly given that certain groups have been working on developing devices to put putt into laptops. Reporter dhs has called for improving detection equipment to combat bombs in laptops. This month the agency started testing highdefinition 3d scanners at the phoenix airport. The bag guy is very agile and always changing where we need to be that agile. Reporter that test is expected to expand to boston by the end of the month and likely other cities in the coming weeks. Dhs did not disclose what these new measures are but the airlines say theyll be implementing some of them within the next three weeks. They are expecting some disruptions and delays for flyers. Gayle . Thats not good. Thanks a lot, kris. Senate republicans are changing their obamacare replacement bill to win over critics before the july 4th break, which begins tomorrow. What do we want . Health care when do we want it . Now President Trump ran into protests outside a 10 million fundraiser outside the Trump International hotel in washington last night. Sources tell cbs news that theyre adding 45 billion to bill to address the opioid crisis. Two gop holdouts says thats one of the issues thats kept them from supporting the bill. Sources say the measure will also be changed to let people use Health Savings accounts to pay insurance premiums. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell wants the Congressional Budget Office to study the revised bill next week setting up a vote after the recess. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer says its time to bring democrats into this process. President trump, i challenge you to invite us, all 100 of us, to discuss a new bipartisan way forward on health care in front of all the american people. The president said schumer, quote, doesnt seem like a serious person. U. S. Backed Iraqi Forces Say theyve taken an iconic mosque in the heart of mosul that was destroyed by isis. Its recapture comes three years to the day after isis declared it its socalled caliphate. The landmark was heavily damaged by isis a week ago. The Extremist Group is also facing setbacks in raqqah, its stronghold in syria. Holly williams is in Northern Syria where she met with the american commander in the fight against isis in syria and iraq. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Lieutenant general Steven Townsend is the commander of the u. S. Led coalition to fight isis. We met with him yesterday here at a u. S. Military Logistics Base here in Northern Syria. General townsend came straight from a Forward Command post in raqqah, the city isis calls its capital where u. S. Backed fighters launched an assault this month assisted by american air strikes. I think were in actually the first 25 or 30 campaign in raqqah. Were just Getting Started good in raqqah. Reporter american troops have been welcomed in this corner of syria. This Logistics Base, its airstrip carved out of the desert, has Storage Space for over 100 tons of munitions. But a surge this year in civilian casualties by u. S. Air strikes bringing the official total to around 500 deaths has drawn criticism. Is the u. S. Coalition doing something differently in the way it carries out air strikes . No, were not. Youre seeing a convergence of the fight in mosul and raqqah, a condensing of the fight into a very small space. And you have armies slugging it out with high explosives in close quarters. Reporter as u. S. Backed fighters chose in on isis from the north, theyve also clashed with Syrian Regime forces rooting up from the south. The u. S. Shot down a Syrian Regime jet this month after it dropped bombs near u. S. Backed forces. Were not here to fight the sere yap regime. Were not here to fight the russians or the iranians. Were here to fight isis. But we will defend our forces against anyone who threatens us. General townsend has told us the u. S. Has agreed with a demarcation line with the regime and its ally russia. He downplayed fears that the u. S. An russia could be drawn into a direct conflict here. Norah . Incredible reporting. Thank you so much. Video captured after a man was threatened to be taken to jail for jaywalking. Were going to hear from a 21yearold man and how he believes he was singled out. But first its 7 19. Time to check your local weather. Would you trust a newly minted doctor who has been awake 24 hours . 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