imagine? >> i can't imagine. >> pretty cool. >> pull out that glit ree jacket. >> enjoy your day today. . good morning to our virs in the west. it is monday, april 29th, 2013. welcome to "cbs this morning." did the boston bombing suspects have help? plus, tamerlan tsarnaev's boxing coach tells his story and we hear the suspect's voice in a new video. flash floods in texas and devastating weather on its way to the upper midwest. how it's shutting out americans ready to buy a new home. but we begin this morning with today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. there are still persons of interest in the united states that the fbi would like to have conversations with, and the big unknown is still that six months in russia.

>> investigators dig deeper into the boston bombing's trail of terror. >> we haven't heard anything at this point that they have found a time where there was training. >> the fbi says that russian intelligence had secretly recording tamerlan tsarnaev and his mother discussing jihad. >> i'm going to make sure this never happens again. water is just pouring into the streets. >> flash flooding causing misery in parts of texas. >> warnings in parts of mississippi, alabama, and now georgia. >> they're bracing for flooding in north dakota. the red river is expected to crest this week. he's charged with sending poison-laced letters to president obama. >> call for action over syria is growing in washington. here's what concerns me though. the world is watching. we've got 70,000 dead people. we as america have never let something like that happen before. today marks six months since superstorm sandy slammed into

the east coast causing massive damage in new jersey, new york. >> a trial over who is responsible for michael jackson's death. all that -- >> he's got his daughter in his lap feeding the camel. things seem remarkably calm. watch that. closing the gap. >> the flying squirrel. >> and all that matters. today the final of two spirals will be hoisted on top of the tower. it will be 1,776 feet. >> i have to admit, i'm not this strapping young muslim socialist i used to be. >> announcer: this morning's "eye opener" is presented by prudential. captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning." good morning, norah. we found out over the weekend

that the president has a sense of humor and comedic timing. >> yes. did you have a good weekend? >> i did. >> nice to be back this morning. we have a lot of news. >> we begin with two points in the boston marathon bombing investigation. what did the mother of the tsarnaev brothers know, and was someone else involved in the plot? >> and today marks two weeks since the deadly attack. don dahler is in boston. don, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, norah. good morning, charlie. the investigators continue to delve deeply into the lives of dzhokhar and tamerlan tsarnaev. they still believe that the brothers acted alone, but they now suspect that they had outside influences. as investigators work to reconstruct the lives of dzhokhar and tamerlan tsarnaev, investigators are requesting whether they got help. >> i think we all agree someone did train these two individuals. >> reporter: up until now there's no evidence suggesting

that these brothers were part of a larger terrorist group, still the house committee chairman mike rogers wants to interview anyone who may have knowledge about the alleged plot. >> we still have persons of interest we're working to identify and have conversations with. >> reporter: tsarnaevs' mother may hold the key to answering questions. the fbi says they only learned of the conversation days ago even though russian authorities asked them to look into tamerlan in 2011. >> the warning letters the fbi received in march of 2011 and the cia in november of 2011 included the mother as someone to be worried about. >> the mother has repeatedly denied that she or her sons had any involvement in terrorist organizations. for your now both parents have

put off plans to travel to the u.s. meanwhile their 19-year-old son and their lone surviving suspect dzhokhar remains at a federal detention center. he's locked by a 10 x 10 cell and a steel door and a slot for food. dzhokhar's father wants to travel to see him but he's too ill to do so. his mother says she's too afraid to step foot into the u.s. out of fear she will be arrested. >> john miller is a former assistant fbi director. john, good morning. >> good morning. what are the implications of this wiretapping other than the russians held more cards than we thought? >> i think the implications are that they didn't share everything they had, which is not a great surprise. when you're the fbi dealing with the russian fsb, there's more comfort on the cyber issues and terrorist issues. it's more comfortable but not very comfortable.

>> does it say investigators should have done more? >> i don't think so. i think the politicians in this story are doing what they do best, which is they've arrived at the field of battle a little bit late and bayonetted the wounded. in 2011, that somehow there's a magic formula where there will never be a terrorist attack here because someone's in your file with a 90-day assessment that was done at the request of a foreign government. so this is one of those cases where we're looking for the radicalizer, the bomb maker, and as the case unfolds, and i can always say this can change. we're coming into our third weekend of this. they've got a long way to go. so far it looks like these were the actions of tamerlan tsarnaev maybe egged on by his mother,

but there doesn't seem to be a giant organization behind it. >> you point out the role of the mother, and we heard from people over the weekend who said maybe she had a very strong role, they looked at the same internet websites, but what aboress says the bombs suggest they had some sort of training. >> i think it suggests what members of congress know about bomb making. if you look at the instructions for making the pressure cooker remote, they say the remote control action, they'd have to go somewhere else. scroll down the magazine and the very next picture is how to do a remote control. this can be done and it can be done by dummies. >> john miller, thank you. later we'll hear the voice of tamerlan tsarnaev, and we'll also have an interview with his former boxing coach. he believes he hit a road block in his boxing career that sent him down the wrong path. that's ahead on "cbs this morning." golf ball-sized hail and a half a foot of rain came pouring

down in houston. there was also a roof collapse and flash flood stranded drivers, swamping neighborhoods. in the upper midwest roads are already covered. the red river in fargo is expected to reach 19 feet above flood stage. jeff berardelli is watching it. what else can the midwest expect in the next few days. >> good morning, norah. looks like overnight tonight we're going to see a dose of rain in north dakota. could see around 1 to 2 inches of rainfall and that's going to add insult to injury there because of all the snowmelt and flooding we have in that area. then midweek a storm will dive south into the rockies and the plains and cut itself from the jet stream. that means it's going to move very slowly and cause heavy rain across the central mississippi valley. some places could see as much as four inches of rain toward the end of the week. more flooding is likely on the

way this week. >> jeff, thanks. the forecast is better for flyers. things are getting back to normal. the faa says sunday the air traffic controllers are back on the job. it comes after congress reversed a bill regarding furloughs. >> reporter: as congress is fixed to the nation's air traffic control system took effect this weekend, a wave of relief washed through the nation's airport. >> on time. i'm delighted. >> reporter: that's a dramatic change in tone from just a few days ago when airport delays were piling up due to furloughs of air traffic controllers. that put pressure on congress to act. >> do your job or lose your job, seriously. >> reporter: that message appeared to get through. both houses of congress moved quickly to give the federal aviation administration more flexibility in cutting their budget allowing them to bring back air traffic controllers to 100%.

but by fixing the other delays and high-profile sequester effects, some say less vocal slashing have been left out in the cold. >> we ought not be mitigating the sequester of one segment when children, the sick and others are left unhelped. >> reporter: also not getting much help, the budget for the military. >> i'm for giving the faa flexibility but i also want to give the military flexibility. i don't want the cuts to be as steep as they are on national defense. >> reporter: it has some chalking it up to congressional self-interest. >> yes, they will make it easier for members of congress to get through those lines and they will pat themselves on the back and say job well done. >> reporter: that leaves millions of americans harmed by the sequester wondering what

washington plans to do for them. for "cbs this morning," chip reid, washington. >> with us now, cbs news political director john dickerson. john, good morning. so what does it suggest that congress can fix something only when it affects their travel time? >> yeah. the squeaky wheel got the grease. like a crowded departure lounge but there was also members of congress. their air travel plans were affected. the sequestration with the across-the-board cuts have affected all kinds of things. kids getting a head start, meals for poor people, treatment for cancer patients. but another part of this was a relatively easy fix. the faa didn't get more money. they just got flexibility to move money around which is part of the reason this happened so quickly. >> so does that mean the republicans have a point when they say spending cuts can be

done wisely and better? and this is what irritates a lot of democrats and at the white house. the republicans say yes. we can just be smart about these cuts and we can shrink the budget. what the white house was hoping is the pain from the sequestration with the across-the-board cuts say we need a big fix to the cockeyed budget. instead the white house has a cure for that, a mix of spending and tax cuts. instead they got a band-aid fix and they're not going to look for a bigger fix. that's the worry from some democrats. >> what about the point that the military is facing across-the-board cuts. we had the general here who said that's ridiculous, why not give the military flexibility. >> the problem with giving them flexibility is it's a little more complicated. that's right. it's taking it back to the larger argument which is let's not talk about flexibility so much. let's talk about a bigger mix. a lot of people on the

democratic side worry. you're not going to get to the bigger questions that are still unresolved. syria reports that the prime minister was part of an assassination attack this morning. he escaped. last week the obama administration declared the syrian government had probably used sarin gas last month. on "face the nation" lindsey graham says the united states must intervene. >> if we keep this hands-off approach to syria, this indecisive action toward syria kind of not knowing what we're going to do next, we're going to have a war with iran because iran is going to take our inaction in syria as meaning we're not serious about their nuclear weapons program. we need to get involved in this. there's a growing consensus that there is. >> clarissa ward has covered this extensively since it began.

good morning. >> good morning. >> what do you think the people of syria before the rebels think of this debate in washington? >> obviously they're watching it very closely. they have a vested interest in it. but i think both sides don't expect to see any real difference in the u.s.'s policy in syria which has really favored a hands-off approach up until now. they don't see that there's going to be any real change in that even if intelligence reports do conclude that chemical weapons have been used. and that's because the u.s. doesn't want to get involved in the conflict. >> what about the makeup of the opposition of the rebels and are they becoming more radicalized and why? >> absolutely. there's no question. you're seeing a plethora of groups. many of them fall under the influence of more militant

groups. they would say that's probably because they reached out to the u.s. and the help was not there. and the rebels that we've identified say they have not been given any help on the ground. >> this is a group that has been labeled by the united states as a terrorist organization. >> that only made the opposition angrier toward the u.s. because they say, hey, these are the only people who were helping us and now you're working against them who are working against us. >> thank you for being here. >> thank you. this morning more than 380 are confirmed dead. it's the country's deadliest incident in the garment industry. elizabeth palmer reports crews have started to clear debris from the site of the disaster. >> reporter: until yesterday rescuers were still bringing occasional good news, here a

garment worker pulled alive from the ruins five days after the building collapsed. but he's probably among the very last. today the bangladeshi army has brought heavy equipment in to board tunnels to the wreckage. nonetheless, families of the missing surround the site clinging to hope. this girl explains she was rescued after three days but her mother is somewhere under the rubble. on sunday the police brought the building's owner back to the capital. they say he was trying to escape to india. workers and labor activists have been protesting all weekend against unsafe conditions at bangladeshi garment conditions. yesterday when the crowd learned that he was under arrest, they cheered. but that news brought no comfort at all to those who lost loved ones in this latest disaster. for cbs news this morning,

elizabeth palmer, london. more than 11 1/2 years since the trade center was brought down, a new milestone. the last pieces will be wrought brought to one world trade center. a few blocks away from that accomplishment there are new questions about what may be very grim reminders of the attack. terrell brown takes a look at a piece of an airplane found just blocks away. >> reporter: hidden away in this block in manhattan is a deadly piece of metal. officials have confirmed the wreckage is from a boeing 767, the same model as both of the hijacked planes that hit the towers nearly 12 years ago. >> the assumption is it's one of the landing gear. >> reporter: workers discovered wedged between two buildings at the site of a planned mosque that's been the source of

controversy in recent years. as investigators work to confirm the piece of wreckage is from 911 the medical examiner will begin a search for human remains, a reminder that many people have never been found. >> there are thousands who have never recovered anything, never had a funeral. >> jim richards lost his son and all these years later, he says officials still haven't done enough. >> when they're finding landing gear between buildings, mistakes were made. >> reporter: ray kelly says given how small the space is, it's not surprising nobody found it sooner. for "cbs this morning," terrell brown, new york. it's time to show you headlines from around the globe. "the new york times" says the

u.s. bought influence from them. karzai's aides say it was in the tens of millions. >> and one american official says the biggest source of corruption in afghanistan is the united states. the "washington post" wants to push pressure on websites like facebook and google. the fbi wants to put wiretaps to track conversations. >> "the charlotte observer" says president obama will nominate anthony foxx. >> and new york "post" says the jets release the tim tebow. he tery jacket. >> enjoy your day today. all right. looks like things are going to be heating up around the bay area today. a lot of sunshine already to the coastline. sunny skies now. nice out over the bay waters.

calm there. temperature s will be warming up. already 60 in mountain view. 59 in san jose. by the afternoon, we are soaking up sunshine. 80s and low 90s inland. 70s and 80s. 60s toward the coast . couple days blustery tomorrow and warm weather on wednesday. >> announcer: this national weather report sponsored by kay jewelers. every kiss begins with kay.

a serial killer talks to "60 minutes." he may have murdered at least 40 people. >> i thought that people weren't suffering anymore, so in a sense i thought i was helping. >> more of steve kroft's interview. and in studio 57 the nurse who helped police catch the so-called angel of death. plus tamerlan tsarnaev is now dead but for the first time we're hearing his voice, and his boxing trainer knows what might have turned tsarnaev into a killer on "cbs this morning." >> announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by the u.s. postal service. schedule your free package pickup today. with free package pickup from the united states postal service a small

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there will be grief counselors today for third grade students in this is a kpix 5 news morning update. >> good morning, everyone. 7:26. i'm frank mallicoat. get you updated obey area headlines on this monday morning. there will be grief counselors today for third grade students. 8 year old was stabbed to death at her home. authorities have no suspects. the company has responded too slowly since replaced amr a year ago. 31 from seth curry last night and beat the nuggets 115-101. take a 3-1 lead in the playoff series. game number 5 set to go in denver tomorrow night. if they win they move on

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good morning. some folks are having a pretty rough commute this morning including westbound 580. another crash, yeah this one approaching north livermore avenue. the back ups are behind it. coming through the pass. almost 15 minutes. very slow going through the livermore valley. westbound 237 an accident is blocking one lane and slowing through milpitas. here's lawrence. >> a lot of sunshine around the bay area and it is going to heat up today. even hotter than yesterday. numbers outside bouncing around. mountain view 49 in pacifica. 80s and 90s by the afternoon.

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úq i know republicans are still sorting out what happened in 2012 but one thing they need do a better job at is reaching out to minorities. call me self-centered but i can thing of one minority they can start with. >> we were there. that was funny. >> he was on fire on saturday night as they say. welcome back to "cbs this morning." president obama had some fun saturday night at the white house correspondents' dinner. he also got revenge on his critics. later we'll take you to the dinner. plus the boxing coach says he knows what may have changed the course of tamerlan's life. the result may have led to the boston marathon attack. that's ahead. last night "60 minutes" did

something it's never done in its 45-year program. the program interviewed a serial killer. he's known as an angel of death. he's confessed to killing between 30 and 40 patients injecting them with drugs. >> how did you choose who you were going to give this medication to? >> it's hard for me to go back in time and think about what things were running through my mind at the time. >> was it personal? >> no, no. >> did you get pleasure out of it? satisfaction? >> no. i mean i -- i -- i had thought that -- that people weren't suffering anymore, so in a sense, i thought i was helping. >> cullen suggested several times that his actions were merciful but his evidence doesn't support it. 60-year-old ellen an asthma patient was recovering and in no

pain when he administered the drug. and he was recovering from what his parents call routine surgery to remove his spleen. >> it aches for my son. it bleeds for my son. >> we vividly remember charles cullen walking into the waiting room. he looked us right in the eye and stated how michael was gravely ill and people don't make it and my wife told cullen that's enough, you can leave now. we're haunted by the memory of charles cullen coming to the waiting room to get our reaction. >> there were people that you caused to die that were not near death and not suffering that much. >> i can't -- you know i -- michael isn't here to justify

it. i mean there's no justification. gist think that the only thing i can say is that i felt overwhelmed at the time. >> can you give the families anything? any explanation for how this happened and why this happened? >> like i said i can't. i just couldn't say. it was more or less you know i felt like i needed to do something, and i did, and it's not an answer to anything. >> with us now, two people who know charles cullen well. charles graver spent seven years. it's called "the good nurse." and amy ridgeway. she's a nurse, a close friend of

charles cullen. she helped police catch him. welcome. >> thank you. thank you so much. >> this is a disturbing story. >> it is disturbing. it is. >> let me begin. do you know why he did it? >> i don't think charlie cullen knows why he did it. it's impossible to say. until this steve kroft interview, i was the only journalist he ever spoke to in jail during a sentencing through prison and i asked myself that question over and over again. this may be as close as we get to a look inside a mind of someone who may be america's biggest serial killer. he wouldn't have speak to anyone else or profilers at quantico. a very complicated man. >> amy, you worked with him, side by side and you were friends with him. when did you suspect he was the killer? >> i didn't. i didn't. until danny baldwin who was the lead detective, lead investigator for the engine

prosecution. we were sitting across the table from each other and they were interviewing people. ing was going on but i didn't know what it was. he push thad piece of paper across the desk me privately and wanted to show me what was going on in the investigation, and i saw this pixis print out and i saw all of the medications. >> what is pixis? >> it's a dispensary for medication. so you punch in the medication that you want you type it in and a drawer opens and all these medications are available to you. >> so what did you think? because you were friends with him. >> it was -- it was the most devastating moment of my entire life, at not really so much knowing that one of my closest friends was murdering people because how do you process that but i had. protected these people. they were my patients.

they were all of the patients at somerset medical center of the nurses i worked with and not only were we in charge of their medical safety we were in charge of them. they were completely vulnerable. we tied them down. we intubated them. we gave them medication. and they were completely at our disposal to do anything. and we were supposed to protect them, their bodies their souls, and i couldn't. i couldn't protect them. >> when you look back do you feel guilty about it? because you felt a little guilty in helping the police catch him. >> she was conflicted about it. >> i felt a lot of guilt. that's why i wanted to get it right. when i decided to help the prosecution, it was i need to do it for the families and the nurses and the victims and everyone i represented. >> what did you find about it in your book that he was able to operate for 15 years without

anyone suspecting what he was doing. >> it's like a real fix. >> it was an absolute failure. >> absolute failure. also it takes great deal of imagination to think that your nurses are killing people. >> you worry about lawsuits and things like that therefore, they did not do their duty. >> absolutely. they're concerned about liability liability. institutions are concerned about themselves. >> they're a business. >> that's right. and they have a higher calling at the hospital. >> what whatdid you like about him? he was a friend? >> he was -- he had such a sar donnic humor about him, self-deprecating in a very funny way. and also because he was very shy. i'm always very drawn to people like that, and he was great listener. >> did he ever say to you i'm

sorry? >> he did after i started seeing him, after we started collaborating on the book he did. he did say that he was sorry to me. but he's never that he's truly remorseful about what he did. i think he was sorry he was caught. >> what do you think? >> sorry for what he did? >> yes. >> no no. >> no. >> what does it say? >> it says everything about charlie cullen. he's sometimes mistaken as a mercy killer. the angel of death suggests mercy killer but it had nothing to do with that. >> thank you so much. charlie and i were saying it's like out of a story. >> it's just eerie. >> yeah. is there one thing that may have turned tamerlan tsarnaev into a killer? his boxing coach will speak.

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and if you take a look at boston we're hearing tamerlan tsarnaev's voice for the first time. it was uncovered by "entertainment tonight." the young man is shown in an unfinished documentary. >> would you like to state your name? >> tamerlan tsarnaev. >> the voice is relaxed. he looks into the camera, cocky ready to fight. >> he's a machine. knows what to do. >> allen was his trainer. he said tamerlan was the best of new england. but in 2010 he was disqualified

from competition for not being a u.s. citizen. also weighing heavily was his pending domestic violence charge. >> what do you know about it? >> he keep it from me. he gave me the impression that the reason he wasn't able go to the olympics was because of the mishandling of the paper work that it was done on purpose so that the guy that he beat could go the olympic trials. >> do you think this roadblock to his boxing career set him on the path to these bombings? >> absolutely. >> he says he was shocked that tamerlan was suspected of this but not everyone in the gym was. >> do you believe at any time you thought tamerlan could be a terrorist? >> no. but i will say there are a couple of members who thought he might be. >> what did they say. >> when he began to face the

mecca and pray you'd hear comments, is this guy a terrorist? i think this guy is a terrorist. >> what about that just because he was praying while he was boxing he's a terrorist. why were there suspicions? >> because he hadn't done it when he first started training there. so there was a notable difference. right around the time when he was disqualified from higher national competition in the boxing ring, that's when his fellow trainers and coach at the gym noticed the change in action, his praying in the gym. >> and the coach feels like the disqualification is clearly what set it off. >> he feels very strongly about that. he took his box very seriously, a dedicated fight incendiary and good. >> a good. very, very good. he was good and competing at a national level but when his citizenship was disallowed, he then couldn't compete nationally or globally and could gomt to the olympics and once his

olympic dreams were gob, then he drifted from boxing. >> the coach knew not just tamerlan but the whole family right? i mean he knew the brother, the mother, the father. >> at least met them all at one point. >> the wife? >> the wife. he met her only once. she was wearing a burka. his impressions of her are a little vague. he met the father. he described him a little bit of a character. would take his sons outside and train them. kind of a tough guy. his younger brother, met him when he was 16. he was a gangably boy but a talented wrestler. as a trainer coach allen wanted to train the young man but somewhat different than thiz f his brother. there was not a whole lot of idolizing. he did notice that. >> when he looks back what does he feel as far as guilt for not doing anything? >> he thinks about it every day and there's a lot of guys in the

gym do it. there's a lot of guys in the gym who say, i knew it. but hindsight is 20/20. he goes through the emotions every day, what could he have done. he's an emotional man -- unemotional, excuse me. he wasn't an angry man. in order to be a good fighter, you couldn't be emotional oar angry. to do what he did in boston, you can't have emotion as well, so he didn't see them. >> thank you so much. and all this week we'll be all right. we are heating things up around the bay area today. lots of sunshine already. looking toward mount diablo hot today. temperatures soaring in that area up near 90 degrees. around the bay area temperatures all over the map. 60 in mount view. 59 in san jose.

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♪ ♪ this is a kpix 5 news morning update. >> good morning. it's 7:56. i'm michelle griego. the search for a suspect continues after an 8 year old girl was stabbed to death in her home. leila fowler died saturday. her 12-year-old brother says he found her wounded. people in the town of valley springs are urged to be cautious and lock their doors. making the transit system safer for passengers and workers. front line officer will be outfitted with mobile video recorders. bart will issue emergency stay away orders to violent individuals. stay with us. traffic and weather in just a moment. so she sees her allergist who has a receptionist susan who sees that she's due for a mammogram. mary has one that day.

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plaza. it's a slow crawl because of an earlier crash. has been cleared now for ten minutes or so. still pretty backed up. eastbound looks okay heading towards hayward. let's go to our maps and other live cameras. westbound 237 busy as well. 6 car accident now on the shoulder. westbound 237 before 101. we're seeing delays. rough commute out there. let's check your sunshine. >> it's going to heat up and getting hot. as high pressure dominates our weather looking good. got fairly calm conditions there now and sunshine throughout the day. numbers already beginning to warmup. 63 in san jose. 53 in oakland. 54 in san francisco. this afternoon, 70s and 80s inside the bay. 80s and 90s inland.

it is 8:00 a.m. in the west. welcome back to "cbs this morning." huge storms threaten more flooding in the soggy midwest and parts of the south are cleaning up after a very wet weekend. plus, taking everything in a smartphone and putting it on your wrist. we'll try out some of the newest smart watches. and the man who invented frappuccino tells us the average cup of coffee is not worth drinking. but first here's a look at today's "eye opener at 8." >> they still believe that the brothers acted alone, but they now suspect that they had outside influences. >> two new points of focus in the marathon bombing investigation, what did the mother of the tsarnaev brothers know and was someone else involved in the plot? >> so far it looks like these

were the actions of tamerlan tsarnaev, maybe egged on by his mother, but there doesn't seem to be a giant organization behind it. severe storms hammered the houston area. flash floods stranded drivers, swamping entire neighborhoods. >> water is just pouring into the street! what do you think the syrian people think of this debate in washington? >> both sides don't really expect to see any real difference in the u.s.'s policy in syria. so what does this suggest that congress can fix something only when it affects their travel time? >> yeah well hell hath no fury like a crowded departure lounge. president obama did not hold back during the white house correspondents dinner, but did he outshine host conan o'brien? >> you recently appointed john kerry and chuck hagel, very smart move the only two people in the united states who look even more tired than you.

i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell. the stormy weather won't stop in the south and midwest. thunderstorms with strong winds damaged homes and cars yesterday in georgia. it is the same system that flooded parts of houston on saturday. that storm dumped more than six inches of rain. >> and more rain is in today's forecast for the upper midwest. fargo, north dakota, is hoping to miss this storm. floodwaters are still rising on the red river. authorities predict the river will crest below expectations if there is no new rain. boston bombing investigators are now tracking anyone who may have influenced the two suspects. that may include their mother. she talked with tamerlan tsarnaev about jihad in a phone call that was recorded two years ago. the mother insists her sons were not involved with terrorists, and investigators are now talking to a mystery man named mischa. senior correspondent john miller is with us. he's a former fbi assistant

director. so the fbi has located mischa. what do we know about him? >> well, they've questioned him. he's been cooperative according to the people i've spoken to. they asked him for all the stuff they ask for in these things. can we have your computer? can we go over your phone? they're going to want to mirror his hard drive and see what his contacts were. and they say he handed everything over, explained the relationship, said he wasn't a radicalizer. >> who is he? >> well he is a guy who is now from rhode island who was up in boston at the time knew the family, but he doesn't emerge as any fiery preacher or anybody of significance. so it's interesting to hear the family version of this svengali who came in and to use their words, took over our son's brain, and this guy who said you know i gave him some perspectives on life but that was about it. >> you know what interests me is one, whether there is a radicalizer here whether he had any kind of training at all to do this, and third, what is his

motive? >> well the motive is one of the things that, you know we have to look at these things in the context of how different is a terrorist from somebody else who acts in violence. and if you look at the serial killer or the school shooter, what the profilers say is you look for that stressor in life. what was the thing that pushed them over the edge? and i think, you know a couple of segments ago we heard about the interview with the boxing trainer who said once tamerlan realized, i'm not going to represent the united states in the olympics, you know on the boxing team -- >> the united states he's going to represent and then he ends up attacking the united states wow. >> that's a concept of you know, what you can't have you turn against. so, you know they're going to look at what were the stressors? if there wasn't some individual who guided them this way. >> it was fascinating to hear his voice for the first time and "e.t.," no dummies, they've got more. we'll get to hear more of his

voice. do you know what they're saying about him in russia? what are they saying? >> beth noble, our former russian bureau chief, has been scouring the reporting over there which has been fascinating. and what emerges from that is a couple of interesting figures. one, there's a boxer from canada who went there to radicalize become a fighter against the russians and you know tamerlan was in toronto at the same time he was in dagestan at the same time. was there a connection there? but basically what the russian papers in the region are saying is he tried to join the fighters. he washed out and had to come back. >> thank you john. good to see you. a mississippi man goes to court today. he's accused of mail poison to president obama. a judge reports the suspect was arrested after police brought charges against his longtime enemy. >> reporter: on saturday morning, federal agents arrested james everett dutchke at his home in tupelo mississippi. last week officials searched his home and martial arts studio.

at the time, the 41-year-old karate teacher said he had nothing to do with the poisoned letters. >> my family knows i don't have anything to do with this. the people that actually know me know i don't have anything to do with this. and quite frankly, the people that don't know that this is just crazy. this is just insane. >> reporter: the letters were sent on april 8th to president obama and mississippi senator roger wicker. both letters tested positive for ricin but were intercepted before they reached their targets. another letter was sent to mississippi judge sadie holland whose family dutchke had reportedly clashed with in the past. ♪ charges were originally filed against 45-year-old elvis impersonator paul kevin curtis but those charges were dropped after investigators were unable to link curtis to the crime. curtis says that somebody may have tried to set him up. >> when you've been charged with something you've never heard of

ricin or whatever i thought they said rice. i said i don't even eat rice. >> reporter: curtis reportedly told investigators he had been framed which led them to ccording to curtis, the two men had been feuding for years. >> i would like to move on with my life and find out what normal is again. >> reporter: at the time of his arrest, dutchke was out on bond facing two charges of molestation. if he's found guilty of sending the ricin-tainted letters, he could face life in prison. for "cbs this morning," elaine quijano, new york. the michael jackson saga continues this morning in a los angeles courtroom. a jury of six men and six women will hear opening statements in a $40 billion wrongful death lawsuit. carter evans reports on an all-star cast of celebrities is set to testify. >> reporter: michael jackson's "this is it" tour was supposed to earn the pop star an estimated $400 million. now lawyers for jackson's mother and children will try to

convince a jury that aeg, the company behind the 2009 comeback concert, put profit ahead of the pop star's health. among the famous faces expected to take the stand, diana ross quincy jones, spike lee, and both of jackson's ex-wives lisa marie presley and debbie rowe. the suit alleges aeg hired dr. conrad murray to control the singer and ensure he showed up ready to work. one e-mail states we want to remind murray that it is aeg, not mj who is paying his salary. but defense attorneys will argue there was never a signed contract between aeg and murray. ♪ if this town ♪ >> reporter: and executives had no idea the doctor was treating the king of pop with the powerful anesthetic propofol. they will also try to prove that jackson had a long history of substance abuse. murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in

jackson's death. he recently gave a phone interview to cnn's anderson cooper. >> yes indeed i did order propofol to his home, but i was not the one that brought propofol into his home. it was his own stash. >> reporter: the king of pop was supposed to perform 50 shows in london. and even though he was deeply in debt at the time of his death, his family claims that aeg's negligence deprived them of future earnings. that could have been worth tens of billions of dollars. for "cbs this morning," carter evans, los angeles. >> it stillstill remains just a sad story all the way around. no matter how you look at it it's just painful and sad. >> people keep fighting over it. >> yeah. so here's an interesting story. a few hundred people rolling stones fans got the thrill of a lifetime for just $20. it happened saturday. the show at a los angeles club was announced on twitter that morning. well, tickets sold out in a minute, and the stones begin

their upcoming "50 and counting" tour on friday at the staples center in l.a. tickets for that show start at $250. >> i know people who would give two arms two legs and a from smartphones to smartwatches. we'll show you how wearable technology is the next big thing. that's ahead. and all that mattered in

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wedding, estimated 2 billion people around the world watched prince william and kate middleton as they tied the knot at westminster abbey. i love that moment when he said "you look pretty." during the ceremony viewers could make out telling her she looked beautiful. a million lined the streets of london to witness history. >> kate is taking up the charity mantel much like the late princess diana. kate is touring a children's hospice in southeast england. she makes an appeal for the charity in her first-ever recorded message. >> i've been fortunate to see at firsthand remarkable work that they do for children and young people with life-limiting conditions and their families. it is simply transformational. >> her voice sounds so much older and more sophisticated than i would think. >> she is very popular, right? >> yes. she seems to be. listen, i got up the a -- this was before we were doing the show -- i got up to watch that wedding. did you, charlie?

>> no. >> norah, did you? >> i did get up early, yes. with record-low mortgages, it should be a perfect time to buy a home but some buyers say the hunt for their dream house is turning into a nightmare. we'll show you the new competition in real estate. that's ahead on "cbs this morning." this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by biomet. visit oxfordme.com. oxfordknee.com to learn more about the partial biomet.

this would be a good time for the housing industry. it's up 12% over the last year and buyers can take advantage of record-low interest rates but ben tracy shows us why it may be much harder to snag the home of your dreams. >> yeah. when you organize stuff -- >> when michael and keith moved

to las vegas last fall they were flushed with financing in a city still down on its luck. what did you think the home search was going to be like here in las vegas? >> we thought we'd have a great chance of picking out our dream home here. >> we thought we'd find our forever home one we could move in, not have to change anything retire in. >> what they found instead was fierce competition. they made offers on ten different homes and lost them all. >> so what's it like to be back here and see this house? >> bitter swooetdsweetbittersweet. >> bittersweet. >> heavy on the bitter. >> they were competing with all cash buyers in the formidable markets. investment firms and hedge funds snapping up houses and renting them out. wall street helped creating the meltdown and is now aimed to profit off the rebound. >> they're just too much work and there's not enough profit

but with housing price this low and investment this hot, it now looks like a smart investment. investment companies have invested to buy homes. the blackstone group is one of the biggest players. they have 20,000 rental homes worth $4 billion. in an online video the company says it's fueling the housing market. >> it's right not only for our invef investor investors. >> it's helped drive up prices in places such as las vegas, phoenix, and oakland. now investors are turned to other underpriced markets such as atlanta charlotte, and tampa. >> at this juncture in the market people buying up these homes and repurposes them and putting rernlts or homers is

benner than a vacant property. >> but he worry as what an influx of renters will do to neighborhoods where owning a home is a point of pride. the investors are also making it much tougher for middle-class buyers to compete when trying to buy a house. >> they get left out. the idea was to increase homeownership and the american dream. that idea seems to have faded. >> michael and keith finally settled on a newly built home in las vegas. >> we have this beautiful home but it wasn't picked one, two, three, four. >> given the competition, it was simply the house they could get. for "cbs this morning," ben tracy, las vegas. and now this story. i know you like this. we like new technology. the future could be as close as your wrist. we'll show you the new generation of smartwatches.

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this is a kpix 5 news morning update. >> good morning it's 8:25. i'm frank mallicoat. time for news headlines. grief counselors will be available today to help third graders deal with the death of a fellow classmate. 8 year old leila fowler was stabbed in her home on saturday afternoon. it was her 12-year-old brother who found her. there are no suspects but investigators are checking on leads. an off-duty police officer is expected to survive. the attack happened yesterday. police have not released many details but do say that off-duty police officer is from berkeley. today bart set to announce new measures to make the system more safe for passengers and workers alike. front line officers will be outfitted with

mobile video recorders. bart will issue emergency stay away orders to violent individuals from 30 days to a year. traffic and a lot of warm weather coming our way. the forecast and much more when we come back. [ indistinct conversations ] [ pizza dodging man's mouth ] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ camera shutter clicks ] [ male announcer ] fight pepperoni heartburn and pepperoni breath fast with tums freshers. concentrated relief that

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as well. approaching 101. so pretty backed up . westbound 580 word of another crash approaching north greenville. super busy coming through the pass. and the livermore valley. quick look outside. 880 at oakland where things just started to slow up towards downtown. that's a check of traffic in the forecast. here's lawrence. >> starting out sunny side up today all the way to the coastline. high pressure builds in. temperatures probably going to be hotter than yesterday. we were up in the 90s in some of the valleys. as you look outside, clear skies. as far as you can see looks like it's going to stay that way. the temperatures already beginning to warmup. 63 in san jose. and 59 in san francisco . this afternoon, 70s and a few 80s around the bay. 80s and 90s in the valley. 60s out toward the coast.

welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up in this half hour few people know coffee better than george howell. he drinks it like a fine wine and now he's on a mission to make your cup of coffee taste even better. honest heartbreaking and unbelieve fwli fun. that's what he says about mark marin's new show. right now let's show you some headlines from around the globe. britain's guardian says they're banning al jazeera and its television channels. they say they promote a sectarian agenda touting violence. al jazeera says it covers all

sides of the story. the network is calling on iraq to uphold freedom for the media. the "washington post" looks at the rising cost for disaster relief. it says an increase in extreme weather put as strain on the federal budget. congress spent at least $136 bill in the past two years on disaster relief. they predict the costs are likely to rise due to climate changes. >> "usa today" says the restaurant chain hooters is looking to reinvent itself. it plans to redesign its i cobbic uniforms so the shirts and shorts worn by the waitresses will have a new cut but the same cutter that. i plan to serve entree salads and they're looking for new designs of the uniforms. anything to contribute? >> no. >> norah? >> i hope it's let low cut.

michael jordan got married saturday in palm beach, florida. he tied the not with ex-model yvette prieto. it's the second for 53-year-old jordan and first for prieto. among the guests tiger woods and spike lee. reports say the reception was held at a private golf club designed by jack nicklaus. and it's one of the hottest tickets in washington the white house correspondents' dinner. conan o'brien was the headliner but i think president obama got in a couple of jabs of his own. bill plante is at the white house and he joins us. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie, norah, gayle. you noaa takes itself pretty seriously, but as we all saw saturday, it sometimes steps back and allows itself to crack a smile. it's an annual ritual to an audience of reporters, rituals, and hollywood stars, the

president makes fun of his opponents and himself. >> these days i look in the mirror and i have to admit i'm not the strapping young muslim socialist i used to be. >> he took a shot at republicans in congress. >> one thing they all agree on is they need to do a better job reeting out to minorities. and, look call me self-centered, but i can think of one minority they could start with. some folks still think i don't spend enough time with congress. why don't you get a drink with mitch mcconnell, they ask. really? why don't you get a drink with mitch mcconnell. >> reporter: he didn't spare his liberal critics. >> maureen dowd says i could solve all my problems if i was more like michael douglas in "the american president." i know michael's here tonight. michael, what's your secret man?

could it be that you were an actor in an aaron sorkin liberal fantasy? >> thank you. thank you. >> reporter: comedian conan o'brien followed with his own jabs at poll tish yaps. >> when you think about it the president and i are a lot aloorks we both went to harvard, both have two chirp and both told joe biden we znlt have extra tickets for tonight's event. >> reporter: well the jokes may steng a little but the dinner also has been criticized for becoming a celebrity event, but the proceeds do go to fund more than 15 journalism scholarships at a number of universities. charlie, norah, gayle? >> bill plante no idea what the president's next chapter will be with this term? they consult with me about nothing but some say he h could be a standup comedianial if he so chooses.

the funny part to me was about michelle obama's bangs on barack obama's face. what kind of feedback has the event been getting down there in washington? >> reporter: lots of feedback. some of the feedback came from sarah palin, oddly enough. she said it was pathetic. she said those d.c.ass clowns throw themselves a nerd clown. no need for that she says we get the joke. maybe the joke's on her. she's been to the nerd prom and not only that i saw her at the french embassy after party a couple of years ago. >> there's more to that story. thank you, bill plante. dick clark was ahead of his time. >> look, kid if you don't have a home with a mother or a father you go the-to-the orphanage. it's the law. hey, mike do you got some ice cream? bring the kid some ice cream.

come in sam. >> something's going on. you'd better get down here. >> i'm on my way. >> tracy had a watch phone. now you may be able to wear your smartphone. senior editor scott stein is was and has the new wearable technology technology. good morning. >> good morning. >> is it here now, ready? >> it is here now. whether it's ready, not exactly. everyone's trying to figure this out. for years smartphones were developing as technology. it wasn't till the smartphone, i think, that a lot of the people in the mass market thought they needed one. people come up with solutions, trying to think on the fly. a lot of these work like wearable pagers. some of them do like the martian watch allows you to make phone calls fair paired through your phone. they're more an accessory than a standalone computer. >> what's the attraction? >> i think people like the idea

if you're into geek techs, it puts into a niche, that you can check notifications on them dwroirjts have to take your watch out -- your phoneout. some are thinking your phone gets really distracting. it actually could be one more distraction because you're now staring at your watch all the time. >> so you reviewed many of these watch phones. the pebble the martian, very interesting name. which one's better? which one do you like better? >> i like the pebble watch because it's water-resistant. you can wear it in the shower. a lot of these you would have to manage with the care you do a phone. >> what does it do? i think it's great that it's waterproof? >> it lets you know if you're getting incoming texts, phone calls, and buzzers. health apps. they're not all here. there's a software developing kit that came out. most of it it's a fancy watch

face. >> the next one? >> the next one is a marchand and has a speakerphone in it. much leak a headset, you can pressure a button. >> why do i want a speaker phone on my watch? >> you don't. the nice thing is it looks more like a regular watch. it's not so nerdy, to to speak. but i like it for your the fact that it's a little discreet. >> the price range is pretty big, $130 to $500. who are they going after? >> the doctors and those who like to show off new tech stuff. it's leading to the question if apple gets into this market or something like that motte, you know microsoft, there's still a big hurdle. in fact, of all the watches, the one that i think is the most appealing is the ipod nano from 2011 with a wrist band. >> yeah. that's what i use. >> it's nice looking. >> and that's not even a smart watch. >> what does it do?

it's kind of a sensor? >> apple has a pedometer built in and a radio and you connect it and synch it with ituneses. but the idea is it's been copied into other smart watch developers' concepts. if apple's going go in a direction like that, i think you can see bluetooth technology. i think health tracking is great dekz but you're seeing that in the nike fuel bands. even then it's not really doing that much in terms of health tracking. it's more of a coaching tool and pedometer. it's not that smart yet. >> got it. swatch watches still available at your favorite store. thank you, scott stein. >> thank you. your morning cup of coffee may be getting a big wakeup call. >> you may be getting your morning cup of coffee but are you really tasting it? a whole new perspective. that's coming up on "cbs this morning."

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if you're like most americans you drink three couple of coffee today. jeff glor met the high priest of java. he's out to make the best cup of coffee better. good morning. >> he's traveled all over the world and trying to improve the quality of coffee. he did so the first time. starbucks couldn't resist. now he's hardly finished. george howell legendary coffee connection in harvard square was a gathering spot and a gourmet oasis. in the 1980s he became the first to source his beans from a single farm, not a regional blend, and to boost summer sails, howell and a colleague invested the frappuccino. but 20 years ago he sold both

his invention and his 23 cafes to starbucks. now at 68 howell has a new mission. >> i think we're another step beyond what starbucks is doing really. that's an older time an older generation. >> rough estimate what percentage of the coffee shops in america are serving coffee that you think is worth drinking? >> oh, boy. i would say under 1%. >> under 1%. >> the difference? careful cultivation, how quickly the bean is pulled from the cherry and how the beans are roasted. >> when a lot of people think of good coffee, they think of dark roast. >> yes. >> you thank're making a mistake. >> big time. dark roast really is a very aggressive flavor. it's bitter. >> is starbucks bad coffee? >> starbucks does a very good job with the kind of coffee they do. >> what does that mean? >> the dark roast experience to

me is extremely limited and very narrow. there's only so much it can express. >> to find his beans howell travels all over the world with his daughter jen, but he does much of his tasting here in acton, massachusetts, and we joined him for an intricate process called cupping. >> i'm going to put my nose down as far as i can and stir it three to four times. stir in here do another one. >> your nose is in that coffee. >> just as close as i can get. and if i have a little bit of -- that's fine. >> it's the process. >> yep. >> it's a ritual complete with george howell's signature slurp. >> you say the coffee's reaching the proper temperature. >> yes. >> what is that? >> 130 1rks 35. >> that's cooler than most

people are used to drinking their coffee. >> that's exactly right. >> most people drink their coffee way too hot. >> absolutely. they can't taste very much of anything. we really look for sweetness in the coffee. a really perfectly produced grown coffee has a natural sweetness. not sugary but like a really perfect nut or something you would have. >> the coffee palette is only now being seriously studied but it has 400 flavored chemicals. to compare wine has more than a thousand. howell says he wants coffee drinkers to be open to a 30-minute pleasure trip with their morning cup. >> what does that mean being open to your cup of coffee? >> you sip it and you go wow, i didn't taste that before. >> you want this to be an experience. >> yes, absolutely. it develops much like a flower that's slowly opening before your eyes. >> and a vast majority don't get

it gus people slug it down. >> i that gulp it down. i catch myself doing that. >> he has less time on his hands and this coffee pioneer tries to rebuild a business he once sold. >> if you had to go back and change one thing, what would it be? >> in the coffee world, overall, i can't think of anything off the top of my head. i feel extremely privileged by the people i've met and i'm very happy with the choices i've made. >> just in case you didn't think you could get emotional about coffee, right? but a fascinating, fascinating job. traveling all over the world with his daughter jen and finding the best beans. by the way, the best coffee is --? >> kenyan. >> i was a little grossed out by his tasting process, but it seems to work for him. >> it does work for him. >> his nose in the coffee. >> and he can't get enough. george is 68 years old. i said to him, you sold this

business. why not sit back and enjoy that coffee a little longer. he said to me life is meant to >> now we know where to get coffee. >> you're right. thank you. thank you for the gift baskets with the coffee. we prove yat it. >> sure thing. comedian mark marin is in studio 57. he'll tell why he's taking on more traditional entertainment. and tomorrow on "cbs this morning," dr. phil we'll ask him about teaching life class with oprah. that's tomorrow on "cbs this morning."

standup comedian for nearly three decades but the podcast he records in his garage has given him newfound success.

m maron's self-taught sitcom makes its debut. it comes out tomorrow. today, hi mark maron. >> how are you? >> good. i read your book on the train all the way to d.c. >> all at once. >> all the way. by the time it was over i didn't know if i should rock you to my bosom or shake you. >> i'd take either one. >> i'd take the former. >> maybe the latter and then the former. >> what's wrong with you. you say comedy wrecked and destroyed your life. you say your mom is boundariless and draining and your dafl is emotional -- >> i love you, mom. >> but comedy wrecked and destroyed your life. >> sure. it saved my life and destroyed my life. you spend 20 years doing standup and beat your head against a wall and things might not always

work out. 20 years in 22 years out it wasn't working out. when it fell apart, i ended up talking into my microphone in my garage. thank god i could have them in my garage. but the podcast changed my life. it changed my comedy. i've never been doing better comedy. we're in the second half maybe. >> the podcast is called wtf, charlie, which stands for what you think. >> what changed? >> when what? >> when you got to the garage and started doing the podcast and hitting it out of the park. >> the difference was i lucked into a medium that was sort of beginning to blow up. there were certainly podcasters before me. i think the fact that i did it so intimately and so candidly and i brought a lot of my own baggage to the interviews which is good. >> you made it more unique and authentic. >> i can't do it any other way. sometimes it works.

sometimes it makes people shake me and bring me to their bosom. >> why do you have your cat on the cover? >> i like to make the cat my own. i woumt say i'm a cat guy but i own a cat. i rescued cats from astoria. that's not my cat. cats are very hard to work with. that's a professional cat. >> you do well on interviews. tell me what you're trying to accomplish. >> all i'm looking for is at least a few minutes as long as possible of aweuthenticity in the conversation. if we can get away with feeling like we're talking on mikes in a garage cluttered with stuff, i'm more into the conversation. >> the title is "attempting normal." >> yes, ma'am. >> unfortunately i have to say good-bye and thank you very much. >> okay. >> that does it for us. up next your local news. we'll see you

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this is a kpix 5 news morning update. >> good morning, everyone. 8:55. i'm frank mallicoat with your kpix 5 headlines on this monday morning. new concerns about the bolts on the bay bridge. the chronicle reports more than 1200 bolts are made from a type of galvanized steal similar to the one banned on the use bridges now. that type of steal could potentially crack overtime. this news comes weeks after inspectors discovered 32 other bolts on the bridge snapped. jury selection begins today in the trial of alleged serial killer. modeling photographer is accused of killing four women between the late 70s and early 90s. his trial has been postponed twice already because he has decided to represent himself.

if convicted of multiple murders he will face the death pen alley. weather wise it's going to be hot. >> yeah, hottest temperatures of the year. hotter than yesterday in spots. moving back into the 90s and many of the valleys. our cam looking nice and clear and all day long all the way to the coastline. the dominant feature through the better part of this week. may see winds and cooler temperatures for tomorrow. today, we're planning on 80s and low 90s. 70s and 80s around the bay. tomorrow the winds kick up. and warm right back up on wednesday and thursday. mid 90s and hot eft spots. time saver traffic coming up next.

good morning. let's get a check of the freeway. in oak langd northbound there was an accident approaching 23rd. it is now cleared out of lanes. still seeing slow and go conditions from 238. over at the bay bridge it's been a busy morning in a lot of spots. metering lights are on stacked up toward the foot of the maze. pretty tight squeeze there. kind of remains that way past the metering lights. here's a couple other slow spots. westbound 580. the east shore freeway still 40 minutes to the maze.

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