. but bird targeted. two letters containing a dea bloomberg targeted. two letters containing a deadly poison are sent to new york mayor michael bloomberg, one of them referring to the politician's efforts to curb gun violence. guilty plea. the united states soldier accused of murdered 16 afghan civilians planned to admit to the killing spree. elizabeth palmer takes us to the village where the atrocity occurred. more severe weather pounds the nation's heartland, and the midwest could be in for a new weather threat. and disney world danger. guests at the florida theme park find a loaded handgun left behind on one of the rides. captioning funded by cbs this is the "cbs morning news" for thursday, may 30th, 2013. good morning. good to be with you.

i'm anne-marie green. well, two anonymous letters sent to new york city mayor michael bloomberg contain the poison ricin and reference to his gun control efforts. one letter was opened at a mail center in new york city last friday, and the other was send to offices of bloomberg's gun control group in washington and opened sunday. federal and city officials are investigating, and bloomberg says he'll keep fighting to control guns. tara mergener is in washington. good morning, tara. >> good morning, anne-marie. in spite of those letters, bloomberg insists he will not be backing away from the gun control debate. now, police say both of those letters contained an oily pinkish orange substance and threats against the mayor. new york mayor michael bloomberg was the target of two letters contained the deadly poison ricin. the first letter was opened at a manhattan mail facility last friday. the second was sent to the

mayor's anti-gun lobbying office in washington, d.c., and opened sunday. sources tell us both letters contained a message paraphrased as this is a taste of what's to come if you come to take my gun. the mayor says he won't be intimidated. >> the letter obviously referred to our anti-gun efforts, but there are 12,000 people who are going to get killed with guns and 19,000 that are going to commit suicide with those guns, and we're not going to walk away from those efforts. i have enormous confidence in the nypd and the fbi and their procedures. >> cbs news has learned that the letters were sent anonymously but contain a louisiana postmark. no one in washington who came in contact with the letter were injured. however three police officers in new york showed symptoms of ricin poisoning that have since

gone away. mayor bloomberg's lobbying group "mayors against illegal guns" has spent millions on tv adds. and this is the latest in a string of ricin-laced letters. a washington state man is accused of targeting a federal judge. a mississippi man was just arrested for allegedly sending one to president obama, a u.s. senator, and a judge in that state. anne-marie? >> tara mergener in washington. thank you, tara. well, the national weather forecast sounds like a broken record. another day of potentially severe storms and potential tornadoes is forecast for the plains. this twister touched down yesterday in southeast nebraska west of lincoln. it was one of at least nine in nebraska reported to the national weather service. so far there are no reports of injuries or damage though. and another tornado touched down

at a campground in northwest wisconsin yesterday. several trailers were thrown on their side, a number of tents were damaged, and trees came down, and rain dampened recovery efforts, but there were no reports of injuries. before yesterday's game against arizona strong winds took control of the tarp. more dangerous weather is in store for the plains today from texas to the great lakes, and here in the northeast the issue will be the unusual heat. cbs news weather consultant david bernard has details. >> the severe weather reports were wide ranging across the nation on wednesday. we'll begin in the northeast. we had a lot of reports of hail and wind damage with strong to severe thunderstorms there, but, of course, the bulk of the severe weather reports were across the midwest. we had reports of tornados mainly in nebraska and kansas, but even a few reported as far north as wisconsin and also as far south as the texas panhandle. now, the other big story for today will be the heat into the northeast.

philadelphia can see a high of 93. 89 in boston. so a big change from the chilly weather that we experienced over the memorial day holiday. but, again, further west, that's where the bulk of the storm activity will be focused across the plains. thunderstorms are expected to be maybe a little bit further east than what we saw today. here's our severe weather outlook. but again, everywhere from texas, oklahoma, north to oklahoma, as far east as illinois could be under the gun. i'm david bernard, cbs news, miami. meanwhile parts of the midwest are bracing for more flooding. as the severe weather fires up, the national weather service says parts of iowa, missouri, and illinois could see up to six inches of rain by tomorrow. the mississippi and some of its tributaries are already above flood stage. st. louis, which sits where the mississippi and rivers meet could see its worst flooding since 1995. now, in western illinois, floodwaters overwhelmed the

campus of carl samburg college on tuesday. water rushed through the door of one building. no injuries were reported though. and relief efforts to help oklahoma victims are picking up steam. ♪ surrounded by a million people i still fill all alone i want to go home ♪ >> blake shelton, an oklahoma native, helped organize yesterday's "healing in the heartland" benefit concert. last week's storm killed 26 people and damaged or destroyed nearly 4,000 homes. serve people including children were killed in a crash in upstate new york. a tractor-trailer collided with a minivan yesterday in truxton. that's about 25 miles north of syracuse. the trailer became disconnected and crossed the center line hitting the van. seven people in the minivan were killed. two people in the truck were not injured. u.s. army staff sergeant

robert bales is expected to plead guilty to killing 16 people next week. the attack was one of the worst atrocities of the afghan war. elizabeth palmer went back to that remote afghan village and she was surprised by what she found. >> reporter: from bell am buy base you can see co-zye village, the site of the worst american atrocity of the afghan war where sergeant robert bales is alleged to have started his killing spree. he's charged with sneaking off the base and shooting 16 afghan civilians including nine children. and you're still here in spite of the tragedy that happened. >> we're still here, roger. >> reporter: right after the shootings, the military thought it might have to pull out of bell am buy the local anger was so great, but captain shane oravsky tells us u.s. soldiers

were able to take over after the u.s. apologized and in accordance with afghan custom paid compensation to the family, which residents said came to a total of over $700,000. no worries about revenge? >> we haven't seen any indications of that whatsoever. you actually would think you would hear that all the time from the people. i know back home where i'm from, i would have a hard time forgetting. >> reporter: i find it hard to believe. >> honestly some things did fall in place that helped us out. >> reporter: one of them was this man, abdul adood, a tribal elder who decided he'd had enough of the taliban. the last straw for him, they threatened to kill his sons. i was the first one to make a stand, he told us, and then everyone else joined in. special forces took us on a tense patrol to visit the local police post. on the way, we could hear the war raging in the near distance.

wadood told us the farmers wanted the taliban driven out because they were sick of finding bombs in their fields. and as for bales' alleged massacre, wadood said, we can condemn what he did, but we're not going to blame the whole united states. in the compound where nine of the victims died, one of the survivors showed me where he ran to after his father was mowed down. now he's one of a group of village men trained by the americans to work as paid local police. i support the americans staying in our villages, their commander told us. they've done a lot to help us. a glimmer of hope and resistance emerging from one of the grimmest chapters of the afghan war. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, bell am buy, afghanistan.

president obama may be prepared to nominate james comey of the fbi. comey was the attorney general for president george w. bush's justice department, and he gained notoriety when he refused to authorize bush's wire tapping program. and coming up on the "cbs morning news," an alarming find at disney world. a loaded gun was found on a disney park ride. we'll find out how that happened. this is the "cbs morning news." ow that happened. this is the "cbs morning news." with the red, white, and blue.

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ibragim todashev was shot by the fbi agent in florida. the fbi was questioned him about the bombings. they say he may have pushed a table at the investigators which led to the deadly confrontation. >> we have confirmed through senior sources through fbi that ibragim was unarmed when he was shot seven times, one of what appears to be in the back of the head. >> the fbi says todashev was also being questioned about a triple murder in massachusetts two years ago. disney world is defending its security at a florida theme park after a gun was found on a ride. the loaded pistol was discovered on a seat at a dinosaur ride. the owner reported it missing minutes after the ride. he was not aware guns were not permitted in the park. security guards at disney only check bags. the man says the gun was in his

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here's a look at today's forecast in some cities toward country. new york, hot and humid, high of 90 degrees. miami, expect heavy thunderstorms. afternoon thunderstorms in chicago, and windy with thunderstorms in dallas. los angeles, a high of 79. in china, a newborn is back with his mother after he was rescued from a sewer. the baby was hospitalized with only minor injuries from the ordeal. the mother, who was unwed, gave birth to the child at a public restroom. she said the infant accidently slipped from a toilet and into a sewer pipe. she did not claim the baby until she was confronted by police two days later. police say she panicked and as a result will not be charged. on the "cbs moneywatch" now a chinese firm invests in a major pork project and

foreclosure sales dip. ashley morrison is here with that and more. good morning, ashley. >> good morning, anne-marie. a chinese company is buying schmidtfield group, a largest pork producer, for nearly $5 billion. smithfield ham is a well known product. if the deal's approved by the federal government and shareholders, it would be the largest takeover of a u.s. company by a chinese firm. another deal subject to approval by regulators and shareholders, nvenergy to mid-american energy for $5 million. it's part of warren buffett's umpire. they provide gas to over 1 million customers in nevada. asian markets saw big losses on concerns that the fed might scale back its stimulus program. tokyo's nikkei lost 5% to finish at a five-week low while hong kong's hang seng dropped half a percent. investors' love affair with high dividend stocks is fading

in favor of bonds that are paying higher rates. that pushed the dow jones industrial average down 106 points at wednesday's close. the nasdaq lost 21 points. >> nasdaq will pay $10 million to settle federal civil charges for disrupting facebook's public stock offering last year. computer problems delayed trading in facebook. dmakz will also pay $62 million to reimburse investment firms that lost money because of that problem. the exchange says new technical safeguards are now in place. and home foreclosure sales hit a five-year low during the first three months of this year. realty track says bank owned home sales were down 16% from october to december. they fell 23% from the first three months of last year. the data suggests new evidence that the u.s. housing market is improving. we've continued to see this trend over the last few months. everyone's happy about it. >> indeed, very good news.

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here's a lacknoth here's a look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. washington, mostly sunny and humid, 92 the high. atlanta, mostly sunny, a chance of thunderstorms in st. louis. windy in denver, and occasional showers in seattle. and here's another look at this morning's top stories. the fbi is investigating two anonymous letters sent to mayor bloomberg containing the deadly poison ricin. the letters also contain references to boomberg's gun control efforts. and this is at least one of nine tornadoes that tumbled down in nebraska yesterday. more severe weather including heavy rain is forecast for the plains today.

in sports now, controversy to end game seven of the series. with less than two minutes to play, it appears chicago scores the go-ahead goal but it's waved off because of a chicago penalty that happened just behind the play. the game goes into overtime and blackhawks fans get some relief. brent seabrook scores the game winner four minutes in. chicago wins, 2-1, and takes the series. in baseball it was a career night at the plate for washington's third baseman ryan zimmerman. in the third inning against baltimore zimmerman hits a solo home run. well, he follows it up with a second homer of the game in the fourth inning. and then in the fifth inning he goes deep for a third time. that makes the score, 6-2, nationals, but he was not alone. baltimore's chris davis gets into the home run frenzy as

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space probes launched in 1977 are still going strong. as bill whitaker reports, they've been doing their job despite some less than cutting-edge technology. >> reporter: voyager 1 has been hurtling through space for 35 years. now 11 billion miles from the sun, it's approaching the outer limit of our solar system. >> we're on the edge of the bubble that it creates for itself outside in interstellar space. >> reporter: lead scientist ed stone signed on for a mission planned for five years. over the decades he's run nasa's jut propulsion laboratory, taught for cal tech, but he

never left voyager behind. >> reporter: you still seem excited about this mission. >> you bet. it's great mission. i've been very fortunate to be on it right from the beginning. >> reporter: voyager 1 and its sister craft voyager 2 were launched in 1977. the mission, to get a close-up look at our solar system. the technology decidedly old. each craft carries a gold disk with the sights and sounds of earth. the protective plate instructs intelligent aliens who might find it to play it like a '70s record album. incoming data is recorded on at 8-track tape. today's smallest ipods have 100,000 times more memory. the old technology made many new discoveries. >> before voyager, the only known active volcano was right here on earth, and then there were some found on jupiter. >> reporter: voyager found that the big red spot was just one of

massive storms on the giant planet. the one dress rings of saturn are also thousands of particles of tiny debris. he then turned the camera around and showed us what we look like millions of miles from space. where does voyager fall in the pantheon on space marvels? >> this mission has discovered more because it's seen so many different worlds. >> reporter: the functions are slowly being shut down. >> by 2025, we'll have to turn off the last instrument, than will be the end of the science mission, and the two spacecraft will then forever orbit the center of our galaxy silently. >> reporter: every day voyager extends man's reach farther than ever before. bill whitaker, cbs news, pasadena. well, coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," the investigation into letters containing ricin sent to new york city mayor michael bloomberg.

john miller have an update. plus a close look at so-called nonprofit hospitals and questions about how they're able to make large profits. and ann romney stops by the studio for her first solo interview since the election. that's the "cbs morning news" for this thursday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

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some things have to stay on the desk, by golly. we have a big heatup coming our way. it's going to start today and begin warming up temperatures outside. some of these numbers soaring well into the 90s. coming up we'll talk about that. >> and traffic-wise this morning we have your usual roadwork up and down 880, you see flashing lights near high street towards hegenberger. much more traffic coming up. >> thank you, liz. >> all right. thanks so much. new this morning, a man is struck on the caltrain tracks in san francisco. it happened just before midnight last night. a northbound train hit a pedestrian at mission bay drive. he is at the hospital and the extent of his injuries are unclear. about 50 people were on board at the time of the accident and none of those were hurt. add another investigation of caltrans. the governor ordered an independent review of the agency now. this could be another distraction as caltrans deals with breaking bolts on the new bay bridge span. and kpix 5 reporter anne mako