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KPIX CBS This Morning July 25, 2017

In our ongoing series, we call issues that matter, a closer look at americas longest war. Why were still in afghanistan. Conflict spanning three presidencies and where the u. S. Can go from here. We begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener your world in 90 seconds. Any senator who votes against starting debate is telling america that you are fine with the obamacare nightmare. Senator mccain returns for a crucial vote on health care. It shows how desperate they are not wanting to go home in august having accomplished absolutely nothing and frankly having to listen to donald trump beat them over the head with that. By the way, youre going to get the votes. He getter get em . Oh, otherwise ill say tom, youre fired a truck driver could get the Death Penalty if convicted in a deadly Human Trafficking case in texas. The driver told investigators he had no idea people were inside. Just devastating. Its like a war zone. Severe weather across the country. Tornado damage to extreme flooding. In the phoenix area streets flooded after a second round of storms. Im pretty much flooded in. A vintage military plane crashes after takeoff in las vegas, the pilot escaped unscathed. Several people in arkansas had to be rescued after a roller coaster got stuck for about an hour. Oh my god. All that a filmmaker got a bit too close to a volcano. He was setting up and the lava shot into the air. This cute baby minding hi own busy. A lie i dont want kept pawing at the glass. And all that matters. Former boy scouts lashing out. Comparing the speech to a political rally after opening with a pledge to put politics aside. Who the hell wants to speak about politics when im in front of the boy scouts . On cbs this morning. Anthony scaramucci is new White House Communications chief. When it comes to scaramucci, theres only one question everyones asking. Do the fandango yes. That. Captioning funded by cbs welcome to cbs this morning. The sevenyear republican vow to overturn obamacare comes down to one pivotal vote. The senate will decide this afternoon whether to move forward on legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. The vote is a gamble and its not clear if the Republican Leadership has enough support to move forward and theres confusion about what the senators will actually be voting on. Senator john mccain who is fighting brain cancer as you know is returning to washington. He has not revealed how he will vote though it could be very decisive. Nancy cordes is on capitol hill with the latest on this story. Nancy, good morning. Good morning. This is highly unusual. Senators are voting on whether to move forward with remaking onesixth of the nations economy but they still havent been told which plan or combination of plans theyre going to be voting on. Thats because Senate Republicans dont yet have enough support for any of the versions theyve put forth so far, and so it appears theyre going to put everything on the table and hope for the best. Why would i make a decision on the bill if they wont tell me whats in the bill . Reporter republicans and democrats expressed confusion monday about the vote theyre about to take. Considering a bill that has not been written, published, and disclosed to the American People is just wrong. Reporter technically the bill they are voting on today is the Health Care Bill the house passed by one vote in may. The ayes are 217, the nays 213. Reporter back then, the senate called it dead on arrival and the president called it mean. But now Senate Republicans are struggling to cement their own plan. So gop leaders want senators to vote to move to the house bill promising them they can then change it however they want. Any senator can introduce any amendment he or she wishes. Reporter some republicans are balking at the scattershot approach, leaving the white house to turn on the pressure. Vice president pence went on alaska tv to lean on one possible swing vote. Senator Lisa Murkowski. Now its time for congress to do their job and be as good as our word. Reporter in West Virginia last night, President Trump used a boy Scout Jamboree to send a message to another senator. Better get senator capito to rote for it. Reporter in front of 40,000 scouts ages 12 to 18 he also issued this morning to his secretary of health and human services, tom price, who has been working to sell the bill to his former congressional colleagues. By the way, you going to get the votes . He better get them. He better get them. Otherwise ill say, tom, youre fired. Ill get somebody. Reporter part of the reason that hard sell isnt working that well is because obamacares popularity is actually going up as President Trumps popularity goes down. He can only afford to lose two republican votes today. Nancy, thank you. President trump is taking aim again this morning at his own attorney general, Jeff Sessions. The president tweeted attorney general Jeff Sessions has taken a very weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes. Where are emails and dnc server and intel leaks . Margaret brennan is at the white house with more on this story. Margaret, good morning. Reporter good morning. Well, the president is publicly attacking attorney general Jeff Sessions as weak and accusing the deputy fbi director of corruption. Extraordinary charges that hes levelled in a stream of tweets. Mr. President , should Jeff Sessions resign . Reporter asked about sessions yesterday, the president did not answer. But the attorney general has been the focus of the president s ire ever since sessions recused himself from the russia investigation back in march. Mr. Trump told the New York Times that move was quote, very unfair to the president. Yesterday on twitter he referred to sessions as the beleagued avmtd g. For failing to investigate Hillary Clinton. The russia investigation is also consuming mr. Trumps soninlaw. My name is Jared Kushner. Reporter during closed testimony to senate investigators, Jared Kushner detailed four encounters with russian contacts and said they had nothing to do with russias attempt to influence the 2016 election. I did not collude with russia nor do i know of anyone else in the campaign who did so. Reporter kushner spent more than two hours detailing face to face conversations with influential russians. According to kushner, Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak suggested he meet with russian banker sergei gorkov, a friend of putins who could give insight in into how putin was viewing the new administration and best ways to work together. At the middecember meeting with gorokhov, kushner said they had no discussion about sanctions. Kushner blamed inexperience in politics for some of the decisions while serving as a point of contact for Foreign Government officials. All of my actions were proper. Reporter on one point kushner was certain. His fatherinlaw won the election he said with no help from the russians. Suggesting otherwise ridicules those who voted for him. Reporter the white house has not clarified whether President Trump is trying to prompt sessions to resign, but the russia investigation is clearly on his mind in one of the ten tweets he sent today, the president even said that Jared Kushner proved he did not collude with russia. Of course thats up to fbi investigators to determine. All right. Thank you. The kremlin is closely following developments on the investigation. Charlie dagata is in moscow with reaction this morning to Jared Kushners statements about his contacts with the russians. Charlie, good morning. Reporter good morning. The kremlin said today that this russian banker in question Sergey Gorkov mentioned in margarets report there did not need or receive kremlin backing in order to meet with Jared Kushner. Once again, the kremlin backing away from any direct involvement in these meetings that took place. As far ambassador kislyak, former ambassador kislyak, hes essentially staying out of sight since returning to russia a few days ago, a much more pressing patter for the russians today is the question of sanctions, further sanctions and strengthening those already in place. Yesterday kremlin spokesman warned that talks aimed at imposing further sanctions would prove harmful and counterproductive, not just to russia but to the United States and European Partners involved in largescale projects primarily in the energy sector. As for president vladimir putin, hes now meeting with iraqi Vice President Nuri Al Maliki today. We may hear from him later. The main issue is focusing on the sanctions, the debates taking place in washington and the impact that they may have on the already strained relationship between the United States and russia. Gayle . Got it. Charlie dagata reporting from moscow. Thank you. This morning we are hearing from survivors who were packed inside a sweltering tractor trailer with no air conditioning and no water. They were in this 18wheeler as it traveled to san antonio, texas. One survivor linked a Mexican Drug Cartel to the smuggling operation. Ten immigrants have died. Dozens are in the hospital today. James bradley, the truck driver, faces charges that could result in the Death Penalty. Mark strassmann is in san antonio where the truck was found. Mark, good morning. Reporter good morning. Survivors have described their desperation and panic riding in the back of that pitch black overheated trailer. The special agent in charge i talked to did not want to get into details of the criminal investigation, but he did tell us the appalling way in which these people were transported is not uncommon. When six people climbed into the back of the trailer in laredo, texas, he says it was pitch black and already full. An hour into the trip, people started crying and asking for water. As the trailer got hotter, people fell into despair. Investigators investigate more than 100 people were packed inside the truck. Temperatures climbed well above 100 degrees. People shared a single breathing hole in the wall. In court papers another survivor says he traveled with a group of nearly 30 people rafting across the rio grande and paying more than 700 for protection to the mexican zetas drug cartel. Shane folden is the special agent in charge for Homeland Security investigations in san antonio. These organizations consider these people simply a commodity. They dont think of them as people. They look at them from a profit perspective. Reporter on monday the driver of the semitrailer, 60yearold James Matthew bradley, made his first appearance in federal court. He faces a charge of illegally transporting immigrants for financial gain resulting in death. Bradley told investigators he did not know anyone was in the back of the 18wheeler until he parked at the san Antonio Walmart to use the rest room and he heard noise coming from the trailer. He says when he opened the doors he was run over by spanish people and knocked to the ground. He then noticed bodies just lying on the floor like meat. Our goal isnt just to arrest the individual transporting these people. Our goal is really to dismantle the organization. Reporter bradley entered no plea in court. If convicted he could face the Death Penalty. Several dozen survives in the truck fled into the nearby woods. The feds hope to coax those people out of hiding to get needed medical treatment and also need their help building this criminal case. Thank you. An 18yearold girl is in jail after Live Streaming her california car crash on instagram. We have blurred some of the video, but the images are graphic. The drive, abdulia sanchez, survived the crash. Her sister was killed and her sisters girlfriend was badly hurt. How this tragedy unfolded in real time online. Good morning. Reporter that accident happened about 100 miles southeast of San Francisco. Sanchez is behind bars charged with driving under the influence and gross vehicular manslaughter. Investigators are using that video she posted online as evidence she was distracted, Live Streaming on her drive. Early in the video shes seen driving without holding the steering wheel, gesturing with one hand. The other holding her phone which shes using to live stream her drive on instagram. Her car then veers off the road and crashes with two 14yearold girls in the backseat, one of them her sister. Jacqueline, please wake up reporter the chp says sanchez was driving west on a twolane road when her car veered onto the shoulder. She overcorrected and crossed through opposing traffic. She crashed through a fence and her car flipped. While sanchez was wearing a safety belt both her passengers were not and they were ejected from the vehicle. Through it all sanchez kept her camera rolling and her video streaming. Wake up, baby [ bleep ]. Im sorry, baby. I did not mean to kill you, sweetie. Her sister was killed and her sisters friend was injured. The girl is gone. Reporter she suffered cuts to her leg, arm, and back. She recorded this video in the back seat just before the accident occurred. I still believe shell call me. Yes, i do cry because i think about her, but i do my best to stay strong for her. Reporter sanchez was arrested at the scene after police determined she was driving under the influence. Her video remained on instagram at least 19 hours before the company took it down because of its graphic nature. These incidents have been on the rise for the past ten years. Its a disturbing problem because Everybody Knows how dangerous distracted driving is. Everybody, if i go to jail for life, you already know why. Reporter this is what a live stream looks like on instagram. The Company Urges any of its users to use this button down here, the report button, to give them any sort of information on behavior or content thats being posted that might put peoples safety at risk. Instagram says they try to intercept those videos as they are having, as live stream is going on, like they did in the sanchez video, and subsequent videos that were reported to the company. Terrible story. Thank you so much. A search warrant reveals what happened just before a minneapolis officer shot and killed a yoga teacher. It said a woman slapped the back of a police car shortly before Office Mohamed Noor shot justin damo damond. The warrant did not say if that woman was da monday. She called 911 to report a possible sexual assault. Officer noor was hired as cadet in 2015 and was eligible to become an officer that september. He attended multiple training sessions including one for an active shooter and passed his annual weapons qualmifications. He is now on paid leave. An Abortion Group has dropped a restraining orlando theyre keeps them from protesting in front of kentuckys only abortion clinic. Protesters gathered there yesterday outside the emw womens surgical center. A judge granted a temporary restraining order last week to keep them from blocking the clinics entrance. The restraining order expires this saturday. A judge will hear arguments in september about whether the center can stay open under state licensing rules. Pope francis is calling for prayers for charlie gard. His parents are in court again. They want to bring home the 11monthold for his final days. Chris and connie say a London Hospital is putting obstacles in their way. They gave up a fivemonth legal fight yesterday to get their son experimental medical treatment in the u. S. He had a rare genetic disease that left him unable to breathe or move on his own. His father says time to save his son has run out and he should be home. New tests show the infant has irreversible brain damage. Our son is an absolute warrior and we could not be prouder of him and we will miss him terribly. Sleep tight, our beautiful little boy. We love you. Charlies first birthday is in two weeks but his family does not expect him to live that long. They plan to start a foundation so that charlies story might help others. I hope so. That story is very tough. Newly released video contradicts initial counts of a deadly firefight between a jordanian soldier and three American Green berets. The video shows a u. S. Convoy approaching a jordan yan base last november when a guard opens fire. Two green berets leave their trucks, take cover and return the fire. The shooting was described as a split second mistake, but the video shows the green berets waved their hands and tried to surrender. The jordanian kept firing. Staff sergeants matthew llewellyn, kevin mcenroe, and James Moriarty were killed. A Jordanian Court last week sentenced the guard to life in prison. Flash flooding is a major concern for people in utah, nevada, and colorado. Heavy rain slammed into parts of arizona yesterday causing severe flooding. Water rushed through Apache Junction turning roads into rivers. As much as 3 inches of rain fell an hour. Emergency crews rescued drivers like this one who suddenly became stranded in the ri

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