Service. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. So pray. God knows how this ends, not me. But i do know this this disease has never had a more worthy opponent. Senator john mccain diagnosed with aggressive brain cancer. Hes part of the family, so were thinking of him and praying for him. Hes really a national icon, national hero. I dont think theyre going to hold him down. I think hell be back here. Pruch gets aggressive with Senate Republicans, holding their feet to the fire to repeal obamacare. This is the one we were worried about. You werent there. But youre going to be. Youre going to be. He wants to remain a senator, doesnt he . President trump said he would never have appointed his attorney general had he known sessions would recuse himself from the russian investigation. A media circus expected in nevada as a parole board determines whether o. J. Simpson should walk free. Never seen it so close to town. Raging wildfire nerio semitee National Park. Residents in the area have been forced to evacuate. Here in this community you can actually see the smoke billowing. A massive fire ripped through a marina destroying everything in its path. Feel very helpless for sure. Tense moments when a pilot was forced to make an emergency landing. The plaep plane narrowly missing cars. Nobody hurt. Holy [ bleep ]. All that the open championship is under way. Jordan spieth came in here as one of the favorites. Whats that feel like . Horrible. And all that matters russias Consumer Protection agency says it will investigate fidget spinners after staterun news outlets report the toys could be an american plot to zombify young russians. I like that plot. On cbs this morning. Oh, sorry . What . Oh, yeah. Fidget spinners. I got distracted. Russia is banning fidget spinners and just like that there goes russias reputation as a fun country. Announcer this mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning. Welcome to cbs this morning. Gayle king is off. Bianna golodryga of yahoo news is with us. Welcome again. Good morning. Senator john mccain is fighting one of the more dangerous forms of brain cancer. He revealed the diagnosis less than a week after surgery to remove a blood clot. The doctors also removed a tumor known as a glioblastoma. Experts say this type of cancer is aggressive and tough to treat. President trump put out a statement of support saying senator john mccain has always been a fighter, get well soon. And former president barack obama who defeated mccain in the 2008 election called him an American Hero and tweeted, give it hell, john. Nancy cordes is on capitol hill with a show of solidarity for Mccains Senate colleagues, everyone rooting for the maveri ncy. Thats right. If you asked every senator up here who among them is the toughest, they would all say john mccain. But this is exactly what they had been dreading, that the clot that was removed on friday might be linked to something more serious. Its going to be a tough way forward but he says ive been through worse. Reporter gop senators were in a nighttime meeting about health care when they received news about mccains health. It was very emotional. Were giving him our best thoughts and wishes. It kind of puts things in perspective. South carolina senator Lindsey Graham is john mccains best friend in the senate. God knows how this end, not me. But i do know this this disease has never had a more worthy opponent. Reporter the diagnosis helps explain what graham noticed was some recent fatigue and forgetfulness. In the case of mr. Comey, you president comey case of President Trump reporter glioblastoma is the same type of brain cancer that felled another legend of the senate, ted kennedy, in 2009. And joe bidens son beau in 2015. Former Vice President joe biden tweeted, john and i have been friends for 40 years. Hes gotten through so much difficulty with so much grace. He is strong and he will beat this. Mccain has faced cancer scares before. He has had four melanomas or skin cancer lesions removed since 1993, the most recent in 2002. Youre okay. The Plastic Surgery you had. Yeah. Just fine. Absolutely. I go every three months to my determine tols. Reporter mccains colleagues insisted he can weather this too. Hes one tough guy. Reporter after all they say the 80yearold former navy pilot endured 5 1 2 years as a prisoner of war and 34 years in the u. S. Congress, not to mention two runs for tt. President. I get Straight Talk from my daughter. Like what . Anything i do wrong. Reporter Meghan Mccain wrote last night the tam lay hz endured the shock of the news and how we live with the anxiety about what comes next. I cannot and do not wish to be in a World Without him. Mccains doctors say his treatment could include chemotherapy and radiation, but we dont yet know, charlie, whether that would take place at home in phoenix or here in washington. Thanks, nancy. The 80yearold senator is said to be recovering amazingly well from fridays surgery. Doctors say the blood clot was removed from mccain above mccains left eye. It was associated with the blood clot. Glioblastomas account for about 15 of all primary brain tumors. The average patient survives about 15 months. Our chief medical correspondent dr. John lapook is with us this morning. Good morning, charlie. Tell us about this particular cancer and the Treatment Options. As you mentioned its a very deadly time of brain cancer and the statistics in the past have been grim. However, there are some new treatments. There is a standard first line which involves chemotherapy and radiation. As nancy said, the chemotherapy is a pill taken by mouth and generally tolerated pretty well. And Treatment Options other than that . Well, thats the first line. There are a bunch of other things in development. Remember scott pelley did a piece on 60 minutes down at duke where they injected polio virus into a tumor to get some immune reaction to that. Theres an electrical cap that people put on to create disrupting electrical fields. One of the things that cancer does which makes it so deadly is it hides itself from your immune system. It cloaks itself. A lot of these new therapies are to strip that cloak away and say, oh, there it is, im going to go out and kill you kill it. The thing about glioblastoma is it makes fingerlike projects through the brain and thats what makes it difficult to treat, right . Thats right. They say they were able to remove anything that was visible. The problem with glioblastoma is by the time its there, there are tiny microscopic ones that have spread elsewhere which is why you always need other treatment. He has been treated three times, believe, for malignant melanoma, but it was stage zero and noninvasive. Could this be related . I dont think it is related. A few days ago on friday when they said were sending the clotd out for pathology and wait on Treatment Options, i thought its a benign little blood clot, if its benign, why wait for the pathology report . I was thinking it could be ma anything lant melanol noanom metastasized to the brain. So did some neurologists i spoke to. But its a different type of tumor. It hasnt spread from somewhere else to the brain. It started in the brain. Let me ask this. They probably werent looking for this . They were trying to find out what was behind the blood clot . We dont know a lot of the details about the symptoms. They did a routine scan, they found a clot there and said lets find out what it is. Whats interesting is you remember during the testimony with james comey there was a moment or two where we sort of had some confusion, difficulty getting words out. You think about the frontal lobe where the clot is and the tumor is, the front of the brain is involved with communication, language, so you can imagine if theres a problem there, that could have given him those symptoms. Lindsey graham said he had been feeling tired too. Thats one of the symptoms. Any part of the brain thats affected it can cause a headache, cause weakness, it can cause little tiny seizures. All sorts of problems. Im going to tell you something. Hes a strong guy and hes going to be putting up his dukes. He is a fighter. I said this online, faith in my father, one of the greatest books and really details one of the toughest fights he fought already as a p. O. W. And worthy of another reed. Dr. John lapook, thank you. President trump is expressing his regret about his choice of attorney general. Speaking to the New York Times the president denounced Jeff Sessions, his own attorney general, for withdrawing from the investigation of Russian Election meddling. He said sessions should not have taken the job if he felt he couldnt be involved in the case. Major garrett is at the white house where the president also discussed the man who took over the russia probe. Major, good morning. An extraordinary interview. Reporter good morning. Through nonstop denials and various theme weeks the white house has tried relentlessly to turn its attention away from the russia investigation. But President Trumps criticism of his own attorney general keeps the story alive. Attorney general sessions is scheduled that the hour to have a press conference on unrelated matter. I am pleased to endorse donald trump for the president of the United States. Reporter candidate donald trump was captivated by Jeff SessionsEarly Campaign endorsement and after victory i, Jeff Sessions rewarded him with the slot of attorney general. I have now decided to recuse myself. Reporter but when sessions recused himself from the russian investigation, sources say the president saw weakness and divided loyalties. Those sentiments boiled over into interviews with the New York Times. Sessions should have never recused himself, and if he was going to recue himself, he should have told me before he took the job and i would have picked somebody else. Its extremely unfair, and thats a mild word, to the president. I did not have communications with the russians. Reporter mr. Trump also criticized sessions for giving, quote, bad answers during the the Senate Confirmation hearings. Sessions testified he had not met with any russians even though he had met at least twice with Russian Ambassador sergey kisly kislyak. They should have been simple answers, but they werent, mr. Trump said. The president spoke about the special counsel investigating Trump Campaign ties to russia, robert mueller. He said mueller should not investigate his familys financial dealings and was asked if questions about his finances would cross a, quote, red line. Somebody from russia buys a condo, who knows. I dont make money from russia. Reporter the president also addressed his previously undisclosed conversation with russian president Vladimir Putin at the g20 summit. It was not a long conversation, but, you know, 15, to minutes. Just talked about things. I actually talked about russian adoption with him, which is interesting because that was part of a conversation that don had. Reporter donald trump jr. Will be asked to clarify what was discussed in that meeting with the kremlinlinked attorney and other russian figures when hes called to testify before the Senate Judiciary committee in open session next wednesday. A remarkable interview. Major, thank you. In just hours o. J. Simpson could learn if hell be released from prison. A nevada parole board is expected to decide today whether they should free the former football star. John black stostone is outside Correctional Center where simpson is being held. Good morning. Reporter good morning. O. J. Simpson will appear by videoconference to is for his freedom. With Networks Planning live coverage and crowds expecting to tune in, its clear this wont be your typical parole hearing. Orenthal james simpson, not guilty of the crime of murder. Reporter more than 20 years after o. J. Simpson became a tv obsession, his fate is once again captivating the nation. Today inside the hearing room in carson city, four parole Board Members will decide whether simpson should be hett seth free. Count one, conspiracy to commit a crime. Guilty. Reporter he spent more than eight years behind bars for Armed Robbery and kidnapping in las vegas after trying to steal Sports Memorabilia he claimed was his. But even the prosecutor who convicted simpson thinks the former football star will get parole. I cant imagine him doing another robbery at age 70. I suspect hell be on parole for a period of time and if he messes up hell go back to prison. Reporter his vegas conviction was considered a stunning fall from grace from a man who couldnt seem to escape the limelight. I think i saw o. J. On the 5 freeway. We need to find him, we need to apprehend him, we need to bring him to justice. Reporter from the moment his name was linked to murders of his exwife, Nicole Simpson and her friend, ron goldman, the country followed his every move, as did hundreds of reporters, myself includeded. It is not only o. J. Simpsons life that is coming under the media microsoft scope. In an effort to minimize media frenzy they plan to take the unusual step of issuing its ruling within minutes rather than days. As soon as the hearing is completed, they will go straight into deliberations, complete the pdeliberations, and return righ straight back and deliver those. Reporter the board will consider simpsons behavior inside this prison, his employment history, age, and testimony on his behalf. If hes granted parole hell be eligible for release as early as october 1st. Rikki klieman is with us. o. J. Simpson will appear Via Video Conference. What does he need to demonstrate to the parole board . Remorse, of course. Youll have four Board Members, mr. Simpson, and theyll have a questionandanswer session. He must show not only why he is sorry for what he did but he must show that he is rehabilitated from what he did. How can he do that . Yes, he can do that. No. How do you do that . He can do that by taking responsibility, which he did in 2013. In addition, you have other witnesses. You have a victim in this case who is prepared to testify in favor of simpsons parole. He also needs to show what are his plans for the future. They dont let them out willy nilly. Where are you going to live . How are you going to support yourself . Whos going to be there for you . And he has the ability to do that with the person who is coming to say hell live with him and his family. Plus, hes ban model prisoner, they say. Model prisoner indeed. There is a graph. This is done by status and by dynamic factors. There are 11 factors a board considers. Its a grid. And by all estimation, the lower your score, the lower your risk. Any person in his situation, the percentages are that 82 of people in nevada will get paroled toward their minimum sentence his is a minimum of 9 to a maximum of 33 were they were in his situation. How long will it take a decision . Very fast. Theyll have a hearing, recess very briefly, and come back with a decision. Thank you very much for being here. Well bring you the live coverage in a cbs special news report. It is scheduled to begin at 10 00 a. M. Pacific time. Thousands of firefighters are trying to stop a quickly growing wildfire nerio semitee National Park in california. The fire has burned more than 38,000 acres. Thats larger area than washington, d. C. , to put that in perspective. The fire has destroyed 29 buildings and threatened 1,500 more. Its only 7 contained. This is just one of dozens of wildfires burning across the west. Mireya villarreal is in mariposa, california, with more. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Officials are calling this fire extreme and aggressive. It hollowed out this home, leaving behind just the metal frame. In two days it doubled in size and forced the evacuations of thousands of homes in this area. More than 3,000 firefighters across california are racing to battle the Detwiler Fire where towering flames and thick smoke are consuming the gold country. Its try at night. Almost during the day. So when you have to same burning conditions all the way 24 hours a day, its really hard to get in front of it. Reporter from the air, nearly two dozen air tankers and helicopters are shuttling water and retardant over the fierce flames. Dry shifting winds have made them difficult to predict. On the ground crews are hiking through steep rugged terrain to build fire lines to try and control the fastmoving blaze. One way theyre fighting these fires is creating this line of vegetation right here with bulldozers. Its a way to keep it from the road and peoples properties. Almost 5,000 people are under an evacuation order. Including the entire town of mariposa. The fire came within less than a mile of turning Anthony Scoggins home into ash. There were hotspot crews behind my Property Line cutting anything they can to keep the fire from coming in. Reporter Yosemite Park nearby is open right now, although a number of power lines were taken down by the fire during peak tourism season. There are roughly 6,000 firefighters battling about a dozen blazes around the state of california right now. Mireya, thank you. For the first time friends of the yoga teacher killed by a Minneapolis Police officer are speaking out. Ahead, they express their disbelief that someone known for always trying to help could be seen as a announcer this portion of cbs this morning sponsored by toyota. Lets go