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WUSA CBS Overnight News October 31, 2016

Congress, and, in that long, press conference that he gave, john, that, that literally Hillary Clinton had classified information on a private server, that she said she didnt have that she emailed classified information she said she didnt do, all of these things misrepresented, mishandling classified inf mags then to cnclude she was extremely careless an there would be no recommending of charges. That to me is the kind of double standard the American People are weary of. But i think people are very week. Let me ask you. By the fbi to say we have a large volume, as ig being reported in the press, large volume of new information, we are going to investigate it in a thorough and timely way. 21 Million People have vote is there any real evidence that the election is being stolen, ayou are watching what the voting is going under way. I dont think there has been a suggestion about it being stolen. Trump said if he lost pennsylvania it would only be if let me say when donald trump and i have talked about a rigged system, i mean, the docknt overwhelming bias pie by many in the National Media, lot of respect for you, john. A lot of people in the National Media with overwhelming negative coverage of donald trump, gives the American People the feeling that the National Media gets up every day and does half of Hillary Clintons work for her. We also know voter fraud has happened in polling places and precincts around the country. Just calling on every american to find a we participate in their local election process to ensure that when we, when we achieve that victory on november 8 also a victory for american democracy. While most people have a casual relationship with social media, others are becoming professionals at using platforms like facebook and snapchat. The socalled influencers are leading a new trend in advertising. While their posts are often funny or silly, Major Companies are paying them serious money. Bill whitaker takes a closer look in a story for 60 minute . . If you find yourself dumbfounded by the notion that 21yearold logan paul could become a millionaire with goofy online videos look this, then, you are probably not a millenial. It is easy, just dance. Reporter his no budget low 30 million followers on all his platform. More than either donald trump or Hillary Clinton. Theyre drawn to his boyish charm and slapstick humor. Slapstick with a sense of wit, fun, high energy. Reporter that is your schtick. Yeah. Reporter and he has turned it into advertising gold. Promoting products to his online followers. Bick it up. By mining online data, advertisers know he is reaching their most coveted demographic. Young people. He has been such a successful pitchman, he was featured on the cover of ad week. The Biggest Companies in the world and brands have come to me to help sell their products to the younger generation. When i speak the language of millenials and they respond to my content. Reporter they pay you well for this . Yeah. Hello my people of the internet. Reporter he is now in such demand, he has earned the makes his videos. Off the cuff. We watched him making a Dunkin Donuts ad in central park. All adlibbed, all his idea and style. Just make this up on the fly . Yeah, if someone has an idea. Yeah, see, run with it. You know. Reporter when he posted the ad it was viewed more than 7 million times. And Dunkin Donuts told us the spot had the same reach as a pram time tv ad. For one days work, logan paul whoo . . Reporter so youre worth all the money the Companies Pay you . Do be honest, im worth three times the amount i am getting paid. Reporter you are a bargain. Any one on the internet with eyeballs at this time and place is a bargain. Because the it is so new. No one really knows what theyre worth. Make. Successful ones are an eclectic bunch. Most in their mid 20s who started it just for fun. Like zach king. Kind of call myself a digital magician. Whoa. He built a following of 25 million with video illusion that are easy to binge watch. Amanda searn ycht, former model turned comedian has more than 20 million followers. All right. . . I posted my snapchat video i just shot, five minutes ago. Now i have 35,000 views. Reporter one of the most successful is andrew bachelor. Known as king batch who has more than 37 million followers. About half of his following is from one platform called vine. Videos on vine are just 6 teachup to cook something. In six seconds. Reporter make me laugh in six seconds . I can make you laugh in six second. I can make you cry in six seconds. Six seconds . I can do it in four. Show me what you do. Show me how six second can make a star . All right, so the movie batman versus superman came out. Right . 90 minutes movie. I am showing if you batman versus superman was real . Did that get a lot of views . Yeah, how many . Couple million. Advertisers pay batch just to place their product in the clips. He made a handful of videos earning a jimmy john video and earned 300,000. Youre making money . I could retire if i wanted to. Yeah. Haha. You hate me i laugh of hate. I chose the wrong line of work. Haha. Social Media Influencers are a small slice of what the Advertising Industry spend overall on ad. But it was enough to catch the eye of hollywood. Paul kasers an agent with caa one of the biggest talent firms in town. Do they take too much for what they do . Absolutely not. Theyre the new rock stars with hollywood ever had a chance to access. When they take a video, or a picture and paush a button on their phone, immediately disseminated to millions across the planet. That level of access is unprecedented. Caa made its name representing stars of the big screen. But kasers represents emerging stars of the tiny screen we carrien our pockets. Like logan paul. When logan does a branded they are and demo. Furthermore, more than just the views you. Can seep their engagement. You can, people are continuing to talk about a video afterward. And shetheyre sharing. I dont know how you could put a price on that. Because of the internet. Paul has a worldwide reach. We got a glimpse of his star power when we went for a stroll on hollywood boulevard. Huh are you, what is your name . Juliet. Are you french . Yes. You know who you are in france . Superstar in france. A star in france . Yes. All right. In just 20 minutes. Visitors from kuwait, israel, mexico, and sweden, also told us they follow paul. Where are you from . Mongolia. Mongolia. Yeah. I like, i dont know where that is. I have no idea. There may be no more recognizable face on social media than Kim Kardashians. Million followers. By exposing her life seemingly minute by minute online. This month her visibility became a liability when thieves in paris tracked her and robbed her at gun point of a reported 10 million in jewelry. Jewelry she had shown on instagram, just a few days earlier. The incident is still being investigated, and she hasnt posted since. Before the robbery, she told that being so public is what helped make her so popular. And wealthy. There are pitfalls. Lack of privacy. Loss of privacy. And that might, thats not for everyone. A pitfall. Yeah. For me i can handle it. Reporter you are famous worldwi worldwide, would that famous Kim Kardashian exist without social media . Not in this way. Social media. Reporter i have read that you have figured out how to monetize just the act of living. I guess so, yeah. Hahaha. The reality is she is a savvy business woman. On e of the first to turn the millions of eyeballs watching her online into millions of dollars. She posts pictures and gets paid for clothes she wears, products she uses, brands she endorses. Reporter we have been talking to a number of y influencers, many of them have different talents. They, they do comedy. They dance. They sing. Yes. Whats your talent . It is a talent to have a brand thats really successful off of getting people to like you. For you. To watch the full report go to cbsnews. Com. And click on 60 minutes. Sometimes we use ky ultragel to enhance my bodys natural moisture so i can get into it a bit quicker. On this halloween, we get up close with an animal known for its scary reputation. While the raven has long been a symbol of fright, there is more to the black bird than just its sinister look. Jan crawford explains in a story for sunday morning. Once upon a midnight dreary, while i pondered, weak and weary so begins Edgar Allen Poes the halloween. A dark tale of death. About a grieving lover haunted, taunted, by the hovering presence of this guy. Such a nasty reputation, for an animal that is actually wicked. Smart. How intelligent . I would say, as intelligent as great apes or dolphins. Rebecca is a curator at Smithsonians National zoo in ravens, like iris and showgun get a bad rap. Raven has a big brain . Big brain, relative to their size. Use it to think for things. Solve puzzles. Use tight communicate with each other. To, you know assess what is going on in their environment. And into their environment is where we went. So in we go. In we go. Theyre waiting for us. Oh, my god. Not a black cat in here too is there. Reporter ravens are crafty. Hiding food. Manipulating a string to eat a mouse. Now that he can reach it. Pull it out and eat it. Iris even know house to paint. Thats good. Again. Thats good. Some can mimic human voice. Hello. Hi. Hi. Often confused with crows, ravens are larger, have a wedgeshaped tail with a low, throaty cough. We see them in the wild. In captivity and in popular culture. Alfred hitchcocks the birds. In game of thrones, comic books and folklore. Why do we associate them with evil. Deep black of feathers. Eyes always seem like theyre watching they never blink. Things, right. Because theyre scavengers and pick at corpses. This professor special is in the horror genre at georgetown. She says mythology goes back centuries. So ravens are ominous birds in literature going back to shakespeare. They come up in macbeth. Come up in othello, and in midsummer nights dream, asks, would anyone not trade a raven for a dove . Referencing the book of it is important that we remember ravens have conoted death and supernatural for hundreds of years. It is really weird to be so close to something that you have heard so many terrible frightening things about. Yeah. Reporter beauty, brains, maligned and misunderstood. Will i fear them from now on . More. . . . Ahh. Still sick, huh . Ill take it from here. Im good. I just took new mucinex clear and cool. Ah whats this sudden cooooling thing happening . Its got a menthol burst. You can feel it right away. Wow, that sort of blindsided me. Ahh this is awkward. New Mucinex Fastmax clear cool. Feel the menthol burst. And clear your worst cold symptoms. Start the relief. What better night than halloween eve to look at this years president ial mask index. It is a poll put out by retail chain, Spirit Halloween, which tracks the sales of its president ial candidate masks. Over the past 20 years, the poll has correctly predicted every president ial election winner based on the top selling mask. This ye donald trump ahead of Hillary Clinton. 55 to 45 . Now, adriana diaz takes us inside a factory in china that makes some of these masks. Beyond the zombies and the ghouls, this halloweens most popular masks are two people you probably recognize. Do you think this looks like him . Yeah, little. Sales manager at the party time latex art and crafts factory in china. Where workers carefully design, stretch, spin, and spray tan americas president ial candidates. Was it difficult designing his hair . Yeah, its not easy. But i pull up experience. Reporter some people think his hair is fake . Also we can make a wig, yeah. Maybe buy wigs from us. Reporter every four years, political masks become a halloween musthave. Theyre largely made in china and co u. S. Where voters get to try on our candidates. Who do you like more . Donald trump. Reporter why . Because he is funny. He is funny. I think most of chinese like him better than hillary. Reporter both candidates have attacked china on the campaign trail. China is a currency manipulator. One of the biggest problems with china is the Illegal Dumping of steel and aluminum reporter we took the masks to the streets of beijing to get peoples reactions. Some recognized them instantly. Trump and clinton. Others not so much . I would have recognized woman. While a majority of the Chinese Support a clinton presidency. This man is backing trump. He is a bit crazy, he said. But i support him because he has better ideas and logic. Reporter for forbes, a tru so you want him to run again . Run again in four years. Good for us. Yeah, of course. So next time. Reporter and a Second Opportunity to scare up some votes. Adriana diaz, cbs news, china. Thats the overnight news for this monday. For some of you, the news continues. For others, check back with us a little later for the morning news and cbs this morning. From the Broadcast Center in new he is reopening the clinton email investigation. Polling shows the political impact in key battleground states. For that we turn to Errol Barnett and cbs News Elections she has enough of a led to win in november, but it buys no means certain. The big news right now is the possibility there are more clinton server emails that could be investigated. Lets quickly hear how the runningmates are characterizing this today. No one is a buff the law. The fbi director stepped forward. Kept his word to the congress and American People. And told us there is more information and an investigaon i think it is clear the fbi director doesnt know there is, anything, these could be duplicates of what is being analyzed. They could be things that dont have anything to do with Hillary Clinton. But there is still a lot of Unanswered Questions here. What impact might it have on peoples vote . The bulk of voters said it wouldnt change. Thats because partisans have largely already decided. There are very few unsure voters out there. However what may happen is that, pull in voters who had been unsuhure or on the fence rather than costing her support that she has. Donald trump struggled to galvanize republican support in reliably red states. What is new on that front . In arizona be find him in a tight race, narrow lead with Hillary Clinton. A state that usually does go republican. The story is similar in many other states. Donald trump has the a lot of republican support. But not quite enough so thats one of his but not quite enough, so thats one of this challenges in the last week. His other challenge is winning over his mustwin battleground states like north carolina. Here we see in north carolina, Hillary Clinton with a slight lead. This one, will be about turnout. When we look at the early vote, and many voters have already cast their ballots here as in many other states. We see that among registrants, democrats are tracking ahead of republicans. Donald trump does have some work to do. More than 20 Million People have cast their ballots already. We dont know who they voted democrat in many places look like they are on pace with what they want their targets to be. However, the election day vote, that might put more pressure on organizing for the trump campaign. Not over yet. Our cbs News Elections director, anthony, thank you for your time. Elaine, back to you. Thank you. Errol, anthony, thank you. This weekend we learned fbi director james comey informed congress about the reopen investigation into clintons emails against the wishes of his boss. Attorney general loretta lynch. Stand tonight. Here is justice reporter paula reid. Reporter after obtaining a warrant tonight fbi investigators are now looking at newly discovered emails related to Hillary Clintons private server. Emails on a laptop belonging to clintons top aide, huma abedin and estranged husband anthony weiner. Today i am announcing my resignation from congress. Former congressman weiner has we are moving forward. His most recent allegedly sexting with an underaged girl prompted an investigation. The fbi discovered emails between abedin and clinton aide during its sexting probe. Abedin had an email address linked to clintons private server and was previously interviewed by the fbi sources tell cbs news, that abedin had no knowledge of her emails being on that device. It is not clear if new emails contain classified information or copies of things the fbi has already seen. Announce this development, he acknowledges may not be significant, ignited a political firestorm. We never thought we were going ayto snk tha t youo anthony weiner. Donald trump praised comeys decision at an event in los angeles. The fbi is reopening their investigation into the criminal and illegal conduct of Hillary Clinton. Trump previously criticized the fbi and decision not to bring charges. Claiming the system is rigged. A rally la night she demanded more information from the fbi. Voters deserve to get full and complete facts. And so, we have called on director comey to explain everything right away, put it all out on the table. Reporter unlikely that investigators will be able to review the thousands of emails and make determination about their relevance to the investigation, before election day. Paula reed, cbs news, washington. Were also following the republicanled senate. Democrats need to gain five seats or just four if clinton wins and tim kaine becomes the tiebreaking president of the senate. John blackstone looks at the race in arizona. Touring a high school this week, john mccain met the winning candidate in a student election. The election wasnt rigged. Mccain has been trying hard not to talk about donald trump. Is it a nontrump question . Polls show mccain has a solid double digit lead over ann k

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