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This Morning from CBS News, August 6, 2015

By Dan Woo

August 6, 2015 / 7:37 AM EDT / CBS News

Debate spin

Let's drown one cliché in the Ohio River right now. This re-imagined city is no longer the "mistake by lake" and hasn't been for the better part of two decades. But that doesn't mean Republican presidential candidates in Cleveland for the first prime-time debate of 2016 aren't fearful of becoming precisely that - a "mistake by lake" - when the lights go down and the spin room starts its deafening hum.

Tennessee movie theater attack

Investigators are trying to determine why a 29 year-old man with a history of mental illness viciously attacked a group of people inside a movie theater in Tennessee. Witnesses say Vincente Montano was armed with a hatchet, an airsoft pistol and pepper spray. Three people suffered minor injuries, and Montano was killed by a SWAT team. CBS News correspondent David Begnaud reports this comes just two weeks after two women were killed by a gunman inside a theater in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Bounty hunter raid

Police in Phoenix, Arizona, are investigating a botched bounty hunter raid -- at a home the bounty hunters surely didn't mean to hit. CBS News correspondent Don Dahler reports the armed team was apparently acting on an erroneous tip posted on its Facebook page.

Wildfires

Firefighters are making significant progress in their battle against the massive, destructive Rocky Fire in Northern California. It's been burning for a week about 100 miles north of San Francisco. The fire is now 30 percent contained after chewing ujp nearly 70,000 acres. But firefighters are very optimistic, reports CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy.

More debris

Malaysia's transport minister said today that a Malaysian team in the French territory of Reunion Island had collected other plane debris, including a window and some aluminum foil, reports CBS News Correspondent Seth Doane. But Liow Tiong Lai says he cannot confirm they belong to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which went missing on March 8, 2014 with 239 people on board. "I can only ascertain that it's plane debris." Malaysian officials have said a part of a wing found on the island did come from Flight 370.

Behind flight delays

There's a lot that airlines don't tell you about flight delays. Weather and mechanical problems are just some of the issues causing holdups and cancellations. CBS News correspondent Kris Van Cleave reports many of the problem-plagued routes have some things in common.

Trump

More than a few doubted Donald Trump would really enter the 2016 presidential race. The flamboyant billionaire flirted with the idea in 2012 before publicly concluding that business came first, and he would return to his television show, "Celebrity Apprentice." But in what appeared to be an unscripted, and certainly unfiltered speech in June, Trump announced in his famous Manhattan skyscraper, Trump Tower, that he was running for president, to "make America great again." Here are five things to know about Donald Trump.

Cruz right

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz kicked off his 2016 presidential bid in March with a fiery appeal to the Republican Party's Christian conservative base during a speech at Liberty University, an evangelical college in Virginia. Since then, he's staked out his terrain on the right wing of the GOP primary field, which has swelled to 17 candidates. As the GOP race continues to heat up, here are five things you should know about Ted Cruz.

Soldiering skin cancer

American military personnel who served in the blazing deserts of Iraq and Afghanistan returned home with an increased risk of skin cancer, according to a study published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology. Researchers found the strong Middle Eastern sun was not the only factor.

Language detectives

Digital communications such as texting, emails and posts on social media make it easier than ever to send anonymous messages. But when those messages turn threatening or criminal, forensic linguistics may hold a key to unveiling who's behind them, using the one thing the writers leave in the open: their words.

Lobster demand

Prices for lobster meat have hit record highs in the U.S. this year, thanks to surging demand from China and environmental factors such as the unseasonably cold winter. This comes two years after prices for the tasty shellfish hit a 20-year low because of a supply glut.

Egypt's gift

Egypt invited presidents and kings to the banks of the Suez Canal for the official unveiling today of the expansion of the waterway, which it is calling, "Egypt's gift to the world," CBS News' Alex Ortix reports. The $8 billion Suez Canal expansion adds an extra lane to one of the busiest waterways on Earth. It also widens and deepens 22 miles of it.

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