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KYW CBS This Morning Saturday August 16, 2014

Police under fire again, this time for releasing a Surveillance Video of a robbery, allegedly showing thezk teen who was subsequently killed by a Police Officer a short time later. This family has never said that mike brown jr. Was a perfect kid. H of the country. Last night the u. S. Carried out further air strikes on i. S. Targets. Seaworld plans to build a bigger, better habitat for its killer whal. The move follows negative publicity about its treatment of the animals. Itx hours for a fisherman in the gulf of mexico to reel in an 809pound tiger ginormous. Ive never seen Something Like that. He donated 75 pounds of shark meat to a charity in Corpus Christi that feeds the homeless. This has got to embarrass some boy the first female pitcher ever to win a Little League world series game. Its over all that c. C. Rider a sea of candles surrounde graceland tonight. All that tnoo mpresleys death. Elvis presley died at age 42 august 16th, 1977. On cbs this morning saturday. We must be in heaven, man 45 years ago the woodstock music and art fair opened in upstate new york. Nearly 400,000 hippies enjoyed peace, love, lots of mud and some great music. We also have a great lineup of guests for you this morning including puss boots, a littleknown brooklyn bar band that features ninetime grammy winner norah jones. Plus the culinary innovator with restaurants from honolulu and San Francisco to chicago and orlando. Chef Roy Yamaguchi joins us in the dish. First, the new tensions overnight after last weekends shooting of a black teenager in a st. Louis suburb. This morning we know much more about the 18yearold who died and the officer who shot him. The new developments stoked further anger in ferguson last night. Police and about 200 protesters clashed again after a crowd broke into the Convenience Store that brown allegedly robbed the day he was killed. Lets get the latest now from vladimir dutier in st. Louis. Good morning. Reporter good morning. As you say, things are calm today and order has been restored to the streets of ferguson after dozens of looters ransacked several stores in the area including the one where Michael Brown was allegedly stealing a box of cigars just a week ago. Police in riot gear were on the scene, some with highpowered rifles trained on the crowd. Zpat the tense standoff there were no injuries and tear gas and rubber bullets were not used. All this anger comes after the release of the videotape which revealed more about the circumstances leading to the deadly incident. The videotape shows a man resembling Michael Brown at a Convenience Store committing a robbery. The man wearing a st. Louis cardinals cap reaches over the counter and grabs a 48 box of cigars. In the video, the suspect shoves a store clerk as he leaves. According to Police Dispatch transcripts, the suspects description was broadcast at 11 52. Ten minutes later an officer spotted Michael Brown. And a minute later, brown lay dying in the streets just three blocks away from the store. Every time they do something, they dont want to talk about it but everything we do get exposed reporter the video released reignited the anger of some local residents. And browns family criticized the tapes release. Brown family attorney anthony gray. The family feels that that was strategic. They think it was aimed at denigrating their son. It was a character assassination attempt. Reporter today police also released the name of the Police Officer who shot and killed brown. Something protesters had demanded. Hes Darren Wilson a fouryear veteran of the Ferguson Police department with no record of disciplinary action. At his home in suburban st. Louis county neighbor ron gorski described wilson as quiet and says they didnt know he was a Police Officer. I feel sorry for the family and for him and the situation as a whole across the country. Reporter after four days of violent protests the appointment of Missouri State patrol captain ron johnson to head up security seemed to bring calm to ferguson. All day friday the 27year state patrol veteran met with people on the streets where he grew up trying to calm and reassure residents angered by the shooting and the militarystyle reaction of local police. Were going to make a difference, but just like me and you are talking and youre listening to me ill tell you, weve got to start with me and weve got to start with you. So hey, you keep doing what youre doing were going to be all right. Were going to continue to talk. If somethings not right, im not going to tell you its right. If something is wrong, im going to tell you its wrong, okay . Okay. All right. Reporter vinita much of the frustration in the community stems from the conflicting information given by fergusons police chief. At a press conference yesterday, he said that officer wilson when he stopped Michael Brown, stopped him for walking in the middle of the street and that he was unaware that a robbery had taken place. Later he told local reporters that wilson in fact did know that cigars had been taken and thats why he stopped brown. So a lot of conflicting information there. Vladimir dutier thank you. What do these latest developments in ferguson mean . Rick rikki klieman, good morning. The officer was unaware of that video. How relevant is that and how will that play out . I think the video is relevant in a number of ways. Number one is we really dont know if the officer was totally unaware of the robbery because we dont have the radio transmissions as to why the officer left where he wa site. By one story, we do know that e told these young men to move then comes back because he allegedly sees the significantcigarillos. Lets assume he knew nothing. So then why would the tape be relevant well, its relevant what Michael Brown, this poor young man who is the victim of a dead what Michael Brown know at the time that he was stopped by the police . That is if he were involved in a robbery, which certainly the lawyers alleges that it on the tape, so does he have a forthat hes being s the store c then howe officer . How, in your estimation ise police chief handling this . Well, i think that the police chief has made a number of mistakes simply because hes made factual errors. And when were looking at factual errors if he says well, the officer didnt know something and then later says he did know something, it muddies the waters in this type of a case. What are they doing right now to figure out exactly what happened in the middle of that street . Well, what hap exactly in the middle of that street since there was no lapel camera of evidence in thats whats going to prove the case one way or the other. Trajectory of bullets in this case . Was there a bullet that went off in the car . S there a soff in the street . Have to also l8earn about fingernts or dna. Version michsomewhere in the car we need forensicevidence. All, made more answers very events in be a main topic tomorrow morning on face the nation right here bobs guests will include missouri governor jay nixon and Cornell William now what may change the face of the 2016 election. A grand jury has indicted rick perry on two felony counts for abuse of power. The charges s perry alletrying to pressure the dist step d to cut off state funding for her office. For more on the story, we turn to Shawn Sullivan political reporter with the Washington Post, and he is in our Washington Bureau. Shawn, good usly a huge story a lot of people are centudicted. How did has really did obse8rvt f3that govedicted as you said you do no s thime a mt the 5 shawn, what does this mean for ht now . Its certainly not good news for governor perry. Been trying to rehabilitate his image. Hes been traveling the country. Hes been talking about the states economy. Hes been going to iowa. Hes been going to the early states, and hes trying to reboot after what really was a disastrous 2012 campaign. Clearly a pretty big blow to that right now as he rehab his image ahead of the potential 2016 president ial campaign. Lets talk about punishment here, though. What could he be facing if hesxw be theres a lot in you know republicans i talked to in the state yesterday say, you know this is a political thing. They dont expect him to you know if hes nly very very good any time anyone is jury does face potentially serious consequences for this. Fr but shawn, in fairness to that point, this is political, rit is. Well i mean thats going to be at the center of this case is that, you know you have this democratic District Attorney that perry asked to step down. She didnt step down. This it. You know, youre talking about the Travis County District Attorneys office. Its one of the most liberal, if not the most liberal county in texas. And so certainly theres going to be political accusations lobbed from both sides. And perif perry can make it through okay, he might be able to survive because he can say there was a political thing, a witch hunt, and this is not something that character or my record as governor. Lets get to what perry himself is saying. His counsel issued a statement saying theyre outraged and appalled. They say this is clearly representative of political abuse of the court system, and theres no legal basis in this decision. When you hear those words, what do you think that analysts are going to think about his statement . Yre going to think that you know here is a guy whos reacting to a situation by immediately casting, you know under a political lens. Like i said, republicans i the state yesterday say hey, look. Governor perry used his executive powers. That is not an offense that should be prosecuted. This is the same kind of thing that president obama does when he vetoes stuff. Its the same kind of thing president bush did. So they view this different kind of thing. This is not some big scandal in their view. Its the president using the oj executive office to exercise his authority. Shawn sullivan thank you so much for joining us this morning. Appreciate it. A couple in new york state have been charged in the kidnapping of two amish girls. The suspects have been arraigned on charges that they intended to physically harm or sexually abuse the girls. Steven howells and nicole vasy are being held without bond. The sisters are 7 and 12. They were be aducted from a roadside farm stand wednesday evening. They turned up safe thursday night 15 miles away. Last night the sheriff said the girls provided crucial information that led to the arrests. The reason we were able to make arrests tonight is because just how strong they are and things they are able to remember. Lets remember that weve got a couple of victims here. The suspects are due back in court next week. Both girls are said to be unharmed. In iraq this morning there is a battle in progress over a key dam in mosul, and kurdish officials in Northern Iraq report that fighters of isis have carried out a massacre killing dozens of ethnic yazidi civilians. And there are reports this morning of a significant offensive against isis forces in Northern Iraq supported by u. S. Air strikes. Charlie dagata has more from erbil in Northern Iraq. Reporter Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers told us there is currently a battle under way to retake that dam from isis militants. Theyre taking on mortar fire and u. S. Warplanes are conducting air strikes area. Isis took this dam just more than a week ago. It is iraqs biggest, if it were destroyed or opened it could cause catastrophic flooding. Meanwhile, u. S. Military Officials Say that drones have been conducting air strikes in response to a reported massacre. Kurdish Officials Say that as many as 80 ethnic yazidi men were executed. They were told to convert to islam or die. Peshmerga soldiers have gone on the attack in recent d trying to retakeerritory that was lost to isis but they tell us theyre simply outgunned. They dont have the weapons to match the ones that isis stole from the Iraqi Military in terms of heavy equipment and heavy weapons. Theyre asking for more help from the United States and european allies. And they are heavily reliant on u. S. Air power in terms of surveillance and air strikes. For cbs this morning saturday, im Charlie Dagata in erbil, Northern Iraq. Now to the ongoing confrontation between ukraine and russia. A convoy of 240 russian trucks supposedly carrying relief supplies for civilians in Eastern Ukraine remains on the russian side of the border this morning. British journalists photographed a different russian convoy crossing the border. Ukraines president said that column of trucks was destroyed. The russian government denies its forces crossed into ukraine. Nascar is introducing a new rule intended to prevent physical confrontations between drivers on the racetrack. As chip reid reports it comes to response to last weekends tragedy on a dirt track in new york state. Reporter after crashing into a wall last weekend, kevin ward jr. , in a video shot by a fan, was seen climbing out of his car and charging onto the track, dodging cars and pointing at tony stewart, a threetime nascar champion. Moments later, stewarts car hit the 20yearold ward. He was declared dead an hour later. The nascar rule orders drivers involved in accidents that dont involve fire to stay in their cars until told by track personnel to get out. Robin pemberton is a top nascar official. This rule is really put in place for the safety of all of our competitors, and its safety first right now. Reporter at prerace meetings, nascar drivers are already routinely told to remain in their cars after an accident. In spite of that its not unusual for drivers to angrily approach moving cars. Two years ago it was tony stewart who walked onto a track and threw his helmet at a car. In another incident he threw safety pads and appeared to reach for the driver. Jeff burton will replace stewart in this weekends nascar race in michigan. Im proud that they want safety to be on the forefront. And thats what this rule is all about. Reporter but the rule has no specific penalties. Nascar plans to enforce it only on a casebycase basis. Some drivers are skeptical including Brad Keselowski who said i dont know how you can enforce a rule like that unless you had a robot on the track to grab the person and put them back in the car. The rule applies only to official nascar races which means it does not apply to the kind of minor league dirt track race where kevin ward jr. Was killed although many of those tracks could choose to follow nascars lead. Chip reid, cbs news, washington. He joins us this morning from the Michigan International speedway in brooklyn michigan the site of this weekends nascar 400. Bob, good morning to you. Reporter good morning. Is nascar doing this because they felt they had to do something, or is this something that actually does make a difference . I think they did it because they have to do something. This is obviously was a huge tragedy, and they had to respond to show leadership in the motor sports world. And probably from a legal standpoint as well. How do they actually punish this, though . They could fine a driver. They could dock a driver points. Those are probably the two biggest penalties. They could suspend a driver but i would be very surprised if they actually did suspend a driver over Something Like this. Unless it was like a multipletime occurrence. So a lot of focus on where you are right now, not just because of the race but also because tony stewart is not racing once again this weekend. When do you expect well see him back on the racetrack . I dont know. His camp says that hes grieving, and theres just no timetable for him to come back. And theres no real pressure i would say, from a competition standpoint for him to get back. He wasnt having a great season. He most likely wasnt going to make nascars version of the playoffs called the chase for the sprint cup. So i think hell take all the time he needs before he comes back because youve got to be mentally into the game to race these vehicles. How big of a setback is this for nascar . Fans say they want to see the interaction. They want to see people get out of the cars. They sometimes want to see people get mad. Does this put a negative light on the sport . Well the clip you played by Robin Pemberton was in response to a question he was asked about do they feel maybe theyre cushing a little bit of the show, a little bit of the attraction of nascar . And nascar says that right now, you know theyve got to look at the safety implications of a driver, you know approaching cars while theyre still going around the track under caution. You know i think well see whether it impacts nascars popularity, you know once we see what the penalties are for a driver who, you know eventually does get out of his car and wants to point a finger or wave a finger at another driver. Its going to happen. We just dont know whether its going to be in the next month or the next year. Bob with the new changes, thank you. It is time now to show you some of this mornings headlines. The Washington Post reports germanys Foreign Intelligence Agency was listening in on calls made by secretary of state john kerry and his predecessor, hillary clinton. The revelations first appeared in the german news magazine. The report says the eavesdropping

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