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“Black Strat” played by legendary Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour heads to auction

“CBS This Morning” got a first look at the most essential guitar from Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, who Rolling Stone calls one of the greatest guitarists of all time. Gilmour is selling more than 120 of his personal guitars through Christie’s auction house. They include the iconic Fender Stratocaster known as the “Black Strat.” Gilmour bought it in 1970 and played it on Pink Floyd’s best-known albums of the ’70s and ’80s, from “Dark Side of the Moon” to “The Wall.” Source

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Steve Scalise on climate change: Earth’s temperature “goes up and down”

Two years ago House Minority Whip Steve Scalise suffered a life-threatening wound when a gunman opened fire during a practice for the congressional baseball game. His new book “Back in the Game: One Gunman, Countless Heroes, and the Fight for My Life” tells the story of the shooting. Rep. Scalise joins “CBS This Morning” to discuss whether climate change plays a role in Louisiana’s ongoing land loss, President Trump’s controversial comments about using foreign dirt and the escalating tensions in Iran. Source

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The disturbing, heartbreaking reality of Child Protective Services caseworkers

This April, 5-year-old AJ Freund was found dead in Illinois, and his parents were charged with murder. After Freund’s death, “CBS This Morning” started looking into how something like this could allegedly happen, despite previous interventions by police and child welfare workers. We discovered that hundreds of American children known to Child Protective Services die of maltreatment every year. To learn more, spent a day with a CPS caseworker in Outagamie County, Wisconsin – and learned the disturbing and heartbreaking reality of the profession. Jericka Duncan reports. Source

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