for this monday. for some, the news continues. for others, check back a little later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm ela e quijano. it's monday, august 12th, 2019. this is the cbs morning news. death investigation. one day after he's found dead in his jail cell from an apparent suicide, an autopsy is completed on the body of accused sex trafficker jeffrey epstein. fugitive captured, an escaped inmate suspected in a brutal murder on prison grounds is caught. the tip that led to his arrest. ice raid protests after massive workplace immigration sweeps in mississippi, demonstrators across the country

push back. and good morning from studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters in new york. ann marie green is off. good to be with you. an autopsy for disgraced financier jeffrey epstein is complete. the new york medical examiner's office says more information is needed to determine the cause of death. epstein was found dead over the weekend in his jail cell in an apparent suicide that is raising some big questions and the justice department and the fbi are investigating. we have this report. >> the bureau of prisons says 66-year-old jeffrey epstein was found unresponsive in his cell. staff tried to revive him according to the associated press. attorney general william barr said epstein's death raises serious questions. just two weeks ago epstein was

found semiconscious on the noor of his jail cell there. sources tell cbs news that following his apparent suicide attempt epstein told authorities he feared powerful people might be trying to prevent him from cooperating with the authorities. "the new york times" reported sunday epstein had been taken off suicide watch and was supposed to have been checked by guards every 30 minutes but that procedure was not being followed the night before he was found. sources at the jail tell cbs news they often rely on certain inmates to assist guards in monitoring other inmates due to a lack of manpower. arrested on july 6th, epstein pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he enticed, recruited, and molested dozens of young girls at his homes in new york and florida. one of epstein's attorneys said there is plenty of blame to go around for this unthinkable tragedy. furnish blamed overzealous prosecutors, pandering missions, judges, bailiffs and reporters also have blood on their hands in epstein's death. a trial date had been set for june 2020.

epstein raped this woman in her mansion in the early 2000s when she was 15. we have to live with the scars of his actions for the rest of our hifz while ee will never face the consequences. with epstein dead, the criminal case against him ends but prosecutors have let the door open to charge co-conspirators involved in his alleged sex x trafficking operation. >> my clients were shocked, distraught. having a hard time processing this. >> lisa bloom represents several victims of epstein. bloom says her clients still plan to get justice. >> now that he's gone, the criminal case dies with him and we are going to file civil claims, civil litigation against jeffrey epstein's estate. cbs news learned that victims are still coming forward as investigators ctinue to gather evidence including perhaps from epstein's properties like this town house in manhattan upper east side which will likely be the target in the civil case against epstein's estate.

the civil cases will be allowed to move forward despite epstein's death. cbs news, new york. coming up later on cbs this morning, epstein's death is raising questions about the future of the legal cases against him. cbs news legal analyst will answer some of the questions including what happens with his assets. an escaped convict is back behind bars this morning. curtis ray watson was arrested yesterday in tennessee as he came out of a soy bean field. he escaped last wednesday from a work detail at the west tennessee state penitentiary. his arrest came hours after authorities released surveillance video from a homeowner who spotted watson on his property. >> he was, like, he was like this. we couldn't see his face. and when he finally backed out of here, he closed this door, my wife recognized him. that's him, he has that goatee. >> he was serving a 15-year prison sentence for aggravated

kidnapping. now to a very tough story. we could learn as early as today the identities of five children killed in a fire at a daycare in pennsylvania. the fire started yesterday morning in erie, pennsylvania. the grandmother of four of the children said the kids were staying at the daycacare becaus their parents were working overnight. a neighbor who heard screams tried to get into the burning home to save the children. >> oh, my god. i tried to go inside. i made it into the open living room. i couldn't go any further. >> the victims range in ages from just 8 months to 7 years old. the cause of the fire is under investigation. the trump administration is expressing regret for the timing of immigration raids that led to the arrest of hundreds of workers at food processing plants in mississippi. the raids were long planned for the acting secretary of department of home land security. he said the timing was unfortunate coming days after

the mass shooting in el paso, texas, targeting mexicans. the comments come as children and community members marched in support of the parents who were arrested in those raids. we have more here in new york. >> good morning. protests happened across the country. here in new york city, demonstrators took over an amazon bookstore. amazon has come under fire for offering its tech services including facial recognition to ice. children in canton, mississippi came out to protest. >> i'm here because their parents couldn't. the kids came over alone because they want to speak for their parents. >> many of their parents were arrested during last week's immigration raids. >> keep my hands up. >> juan had just finished his shift on wednesday when immigration and customs enforcement agents came in and took his father, an undocumented immigrant. >> i cried. i told him, i know my dad don't want to see me crying. he wants to see me smiling. without us, the plant ain't going to run.

>> another one of the seven plants raided, coke foods, is holding a job fair today. more than 240 of his workers were arrested. >> these employers are exploiting undocumented workers. >> on sunday, the trump administration defended the raid. >> targeting work site enforcement, companies that knowingly and willfully hire illegal aliens so that in most cases they can pay them reduced wages, exploit them feather or bottom line. >> i want my dad to be free. >> democrats say ice needs to focus on dangerous criminals. >> for them to invade a workplace divides families just really undermines the character of america. >> the acting homeland security says the plants are being investigated. and despite the fact hundreds of employees at the seven work sites across mississippi are now in the custody of ice, the

owners of those food plants have yet to be charged with a crime. brook? >> thank you for that in new york. overseas, massive protests erupted across hong kong where the tenth consecutive weekend. yesterday meese stormed the streets firing tear gas to disperse protesters. the front line was mostly made up of students. several people including the police officers were injured in the clashes. pro-democracy demonstrations started more than two months ago. sparked by a controversial and now suspended extradition film. coming up, investigators search for the cause of a deadly house explosion in wisconsin. and an apparent act of sabotage sends 30 cable cars crashing to the ground. this this "cbs morning news." crashing to the ground. this this "cbs morning news." in bulk. boom! what a beefsteak.

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themselves after two ambulances collided with one another. it happened saturday in new york city. they were responding to the same call. the dramatic moment captured on video shows one ambulance, there it is, slamming into the other coming on to the sidewalk. two ems workers were trapped inside. but within just seconds, good samaritans and police rushed in to help. four ems workers were injured and taken to the hospital. all are expected to be okay. could sabotage be to blame for causing 30 cable cars to come crashing to the ground? and the shooting in norway investigated as a possible act of terror. those are the headlines. a shooting at a norwegian moss mosque is being investigated as a possible terror act. a man around 20 years old opened fire on an islamic senter in oslo on saturday. one person overpowered the gunman and injured in the process.

he is a norwegian citizen charged with murdering his 17-year-old stepsister. she was found dead in a separate location. the gunman appeared to hold anti-immigrant views. our green bay, wisconsin, affiliate wfrb reports one person died when a house exploded. the home was completely demolished by the blast. a field of debris could be seen surrounding the resident. the man who died was the homeowner and neighbors report that the children and grandmother who lived there were at church when the explosion happened. it was yesterday morning. the cause is now under investigation. britain's independence reports a canada cable card cord was severed in a hikely act of sabotage. the cable car remains closed after a severed rope caused all 30 of the cars to crash to the ground. the operator says the cable cars were not operating, luckily,

saturday at the time of the incident. no ne was injured. canadian police are treating the collapse as an apparent act of vandalism. they think the cables were cut. the ride was operating smoothly just the day before. >> ropes in good condition. nothing hit it. no planes ran into it. you know, there is no evidence of anything like that. >> the attraction offers views of the area's rocks from 3,000 feet above sea level. luckily no one was on there. "the wall street journal" reports universal pictures canceled the release of the movie "the hunt." president trump and other republicans called the film inappropriate in the wake of the two recent mass shootings in el paso and dayton and the plot involving americans shooting fellow americans could insight violence. it was scheduled for release in september. universal said now is the no the right time to release the movie and no future release date has

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the car's driver said he was in drive assistance mode and holding the steering wheel when the accident happened. on the cbs money watch, owners of ford and lincoln vehicles could soon have money coming their way following the class action lawsuit and a sobering economic forecast from one of wall street's biggest players. dianne king-hall has that and more. >> good morning, brook. goldman sachs is warning the u.s.-china trade war is having a greater impact on the u.s. economy than expected and it says the risk of a recession are increasing. the investment banking giant announced it no longer expects a trade deal between the world's two largest economies before the 2020 election. now earlier this month president trum april announced a 10% tariff on $300 billion worth of chinese imports. data being released could provide insight into the state of the economy. the consumer price index for july will be released tomorrow. july retail sales data due out

thursday. stocks stumbled again on friday over fears the u.s. trade war with china may be getting worse. the dow fell 90 points. the s&p 500 lost 19 and the nasdaq dropped 80 points. thousands of people in detroit are using a city program to apply for jobs at a new fiat chrysler assembly plant. they gave people who live there an exclusive 30 day window to ami for 4900 jobs. it's part of an agreement with the city. detroit's unemployment rate is more than twice the national average. people could receive a payout following a class action lawsuit. owners of ford and lincoln vehicles have complained about defective touch multimedia systems for several years. according to the website top class action, ford set aside $17 million to settle the lawsuit. the money will reportedly go to the owners of 360,000 ford and lincoln vehicles purchased or leased between 2010 and august of 2013. and raised to a second weekend win at the box office.

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our top story, an autopsy has been perform on accused sex trafficker jeffrey epstein. the multimillionaire was found dead saturday inside his jail cell in an apparent suicide. details of the autopsy have not yet been released. epstein was accused of sexually abusing underaged girls. one of the main topics of focus on the campaign trail is how to deal with gun violence. the democratic candidates were out in force assuring voters they have a plan. but despite last weekend's deadly mass shootings, new gun policy remains a tough sell. ed o'keefe reports from des moines, iowa.

>> we should have a national licensing program in this country. >> i'm prepared by executive action to ban the importation of assault weapons into our country. >> we need far more bolder action to make our nation safe. >> democratic presidential candidates spent yet another day on the campaign trail focused on gun control policy. about a week since mass shootings in texas and ohio. >> what we really need to do is also pass a ban on assault weapons, particularly the military style weapons. >> they're pushing to reconvene the republican controlled senate to pass a background check bill that passed earlier this year in the house. >> it would pass in my judgement. the president would sign it. and we would take giant step forward. >> the president says he would support meaningful changes to the gun background check system. but louisiana republican survived an assassination attempt doubts the proposed changes would help. >> the shooters in both el paso and in dayton passed background checks.

we need to make sure the fbi and department of home land security have the tools they need to root out whether it's white supremacists or whether it's radicals from the left that are committing some of the crimes. >> here in the first of the nation caucus state of iowa, voters agree the nation's gun laws need changes. but they also want to hear about other topics. >> the small legislation that the democrats are asking for is not much. just background checks. >> you can talk about red flags. you can talk about background checks. the bottom line is we have weapons are war in people's hands that don't need them. >> i don't like the mudslinging. that can easily turn me off. here we have iowa nice. >> many voters in iowa and across the country agree there needs to be changes to the background system. but they also want to hear about health care, economy, and climate change too. we'll see if candidates shift off gun control in the coming days. ed o'keefe, cbs news, des moines, iowa. coming up a bit later on cbs

this morning, dealing with and confronting racism in the wake of the el paso mass shooting. we'll talk with a college professor on a mission to put america on a path towards anti-racism and what the country can do to change its views. and the star and executive producer of the new film "brittany runs a marathon" is in the studio. julian bell on how making the movie transformed her physically and emotionally. that's the cbs morning news for this monday. thank you so much for watching. i'm brook and ann marie green is back tomorrow. have a great day.

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exclusive sales force tower. it is monday morning already august 12th. back to work, back to school for some, too. i'm michelle griego. >> and i'm kenny choi. it looks like it's going to continue. >> we're going to keep that weather going with a warmup today and through the middle part of the week. those temperatures will be soaring, especially as we head through the afternoon inland. here's a live look with our future cam looking at the golden gate, and starting off in the 60s. we have the oakland unified school district that kicks off today for the first day of school and as we head through the afternoon in oakland we'll see plenty of sunshine and warming up into the 70s in oakland. some other locations as we head through the day. 95 in concord, 88 for livermore, and 72