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medicare. >> we'll have more on today's birthday with a look at why presiden presidents seem to age faster presiden presidents seem to age faster than the rest of us. captioning funded by cbs >> good thursday morning to you. i'm erica hill. nice to have you with us this morning. >> i'm chris wragge. nice to have you with us, everyone. a police some are calling robo cop. some people have different dna. he gets knocked down by a hit and run driver, gets up, gives chase, eventually caught the guy, caught him. we'll ask him what was going through his mind during all of that, after nearly being run over. >> the guy has a pretty good sense of humor about it so i hear. also ahead at home the heat that is relentless. 114 degrees in little rock, 109 in dallas. the death toll is also climbing around the country. this is dangerous stuff. marysol castro is in dallas this morning with the latest on the heat wave for us. we do want to get to this first, that massive nationwide recall of ground turkey meat. 18,000 tons of it, it is one of the biggest product recalls in hus history. the contaminated turkey is blamed for food poisoning that caused one death and made dozens others sick. kovr has the latest. >> reporter: the centers for disease control linked the deadly salmonella outbreak to a meat plant in arkansas, cargill, the can. that owns and operates the plant is now recalls 36 million pounds of ground turkey products. at least 76 people in 26 states have been sickened, the heaviest concentration occurring in michigan and ohio. one death here in california is believed connected to the contamination. >> these are very complex investigations. they sometimes take months to complete. >> reporter: the recall applies to ground turkey products dated february 20th to august 2nd and containing est p-962 on the label. they were sold under honeysuckle white, shady brook farms and riversigned, under giant eagle, heb, kroger, safeway and spartan. in a statement released by cargill, the company says suspending production until they can "determine the source of the salmonella and take corrective action is the right thing to do." >> they should know where it's coming from. >> reporter: the cdc estimates can die from it each year. >> it should be like the sole of a shoe. >> reporter: customers should return unopened packages to the store for a refund. steve lars for cbs news, sacramento. >> the first case of salmonella was reported back in march but it wasn't until yesterday that the recall was officially allowanced. a horrifying story about the largest international child pornography ring discovered. u.s. officials say more than 70 people face charmgz and could be hundreds more. bobber, good morning. >> this involves the sexual exploitation involving hundredof not hundreds in the u.s. and more. it was called dreamboard. beyond lurkd a private online club of mild millionesters dedicated to the sexual abuse of young children. >> some of the children featured in the images and videos were just infants and in many cases the children being victimized were in obvious and also intentional pain. >> reporter: the child porn cyber trading post shut down this spring, when immigration and customs enforcement agents began arresting dozens of dreamboard members. >> there were no dreams. just young defenseless children. >> reporter: police richard chandler and high school football coach matt wheeler. >> april has children. >> usually the people you think you can trust. >> reporter: using encrypted files and phony names to hide their identities. some of the aliases include pervesser, 14 years max. a reference to dreamboard's goal, sexual exploitation of kids 12 and younger. rules were strict, only people who contributed child sex videos could participate and the most prolific porn producers were rewarded. >> membership status was upgraded for those who produced and shared their own child porn and videos. >> more than 500 suspected dreamboard users are still out there somewhere but those in custody aren't going anywhere. nearly all are being held without bail. at the same time investigators say they're going through a huge amount of material, the equivalent we're told of some 16,000 dvds, trying desperately to identify who the young victims were. chris? >> cbs's bob orr in washington, thank you. we want to get you the latest on the deadly heat wave across the south, threatening to break all-time records for 100 degree records. 115 in ft. smith, arkansas, nearly as hot in dallas where we find marysol castro. probably nice the sun is not up for you. >> reporter: because the sun is not up it happens to be a little bit cooler. dallas is approaching its 34th consecutive day of triple-digit heat that could shatter a record set in 1980. it's been responsible for at least two dozen deaths. it's taxed energy grids across the region, exacerbated the drought here in northern texas but still we manage to find a few people that know how to thrive despite the scorching heat. >> hut. >> reporter: it's the soul of nearly every town in this state, high school football. but even pure souls are tested and these athletes know it well, every sprint, tackle and pass executed under 112-degree heat. there is no cloud cover, there is no breeze and while it's only the third day of practice, residents of dallas, texas, have suffered through triple-digit heat for 33 days street, heat that's buckled roads and put energy companies on high alert throughout the region. for daniel perez and robert morales, 16 years old, the four-hour practice is a test in tenacity. >> i have the objective in my head and stay focused on what i have to do so i don't think about the heat. >> one, two, three! >> reporter: but this is just the beginning. for when everyone else walks off the field, it's the cool air of the field house, both daniel and robert don't get a break. instead they go to work outside. daniel swaps his cleats for a cooler, his helmet for a sled sledgehammer. the temperature holds steady at 112 degrees in the shade. he works for four hours straight just like he did in the morning, but there is no coach giving him a handtory rest or water break. you would prefer to work outside? >> yes, i would. >> reporter: why is that? >> it will help me during football. if i can do all of this, when i go on the football field i can work just as hard. without stopping, without thinking about the heat. >> reporter: across town, robert traded in his playbook for fliers and while they may not be as menacing as linebackers on the field the 1:00 p.m. sun is punishing enough. what do you get more excited about, your job or football? >> probably football. >> reporter: even in the heat? >> yep. >> reporter: why are they working so hard in the scorching sun? for every teenager's dream, a new car. and the heat continues across much of the southern plains. the other big weather story in the tropics, tropical storm emily. look at the satellite picture just off the coast of haiti packing 50-mile-per-hour winds moving slowly 7 miles an hour, hasn't strengthened in the last 24 hours and the most significant feature rain and flooding. here's the path, no watches or washings for the state of florida. it has it crossing haiti and cuba. we'll keep an eye on it for you for the next 24 hours. more on the forecast later on in the show. back to you. >> we'll check in with you in a few minutes. now jeff glor at the news kesi desk with the other headlines. president obama is calling on congress to get back to washington so they can end the partial faa shutdown. congress left for vacation without approving funding, so almost 75,000 people are out of work right now, more than 200 construction projects halted, transportation secretary ray lahood yesterday begged for action. >> i'm asking congress to come back and do for the american people what they've been talking about. put 75,000 people to back to work. >> the government could lose more than $1 billion taxes on airline tickets. in california, a dramatic beach rescue. amateur video caught a frantic struggle to save a teenage boy buried when the hole he was digging collapsed in on him, five feet of sand fell in him. took 25 minutes to pull him out, they got him, he was dragged out unconscious but alive. doctors say he will be fine. 11 minutes past the hour now to the latest on britain's tabloid scandal. paul mccartney's ex-wife claimed a london tabloid listened to her phone messages. charlie dagata has more. >> good morning to you, chris. the new allegations take britain's hacking scandal well beyond the realm of rupert murdoch's empire as more newspapers and high-profile names get dragged into the controversy. heather mills says a senior journalist called her up in 2001 with her then rocky relationship with paul mccartney. >> he said it was "evasive, the message was from my machine." she said if the paper went with the story she was going to the place. >> he said, "okay, okay yeah we did hear it on your voice messages i won't run it." >> she said it was from the "trinity mirror" group, it was piers morgan who built his career spilling celebrity beans with insider knowledge. she made clear the journalist was not morgan but the allegations seemed to echo morgan's own words in an article he wrote in 2006 in "the daily mail." at one stage i was played a tape of a message paul had left for heather on her mobile phone, it was heartwrebreaking. he sounded lonely, miserable and desperate and even sang "we can work it out" on the phone. it was a textbook tabloid story, the day-to-day sleaze and celebrity of their relationship made for irresistible fodder for morgan's diagnosis daily mirror." morgan insisted he never hacked phones or told anyone else to but his claim he never knowingly published the story of pay through hacking is becoming less convincing. >> they've really got to, he's really got to give an explanation for that. >> there have not been any formal requests for piers morgan to appear. >> charlie dagata in london. >> each day a little bit more. still ahead, a happy birthday bash for the president, barack obama turns 50 today, and boy, it is not easy when you are aging as a president. you can chalk a lot of that up to the stress and a few other things >> it we'll tell you what's in the cards for a-rod coming up here on "the early show" on krbs. cbs. lots of sun, some rain and that's how they get this big and beautiful. our fruit has to be perfectly ripe because it's delivered on the same day. for me? 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