disaster is avoided in georgia. all of the students are safe at an elementary school after a gunman opened fire on the campus. thrill killing. three teenagers are charged in the shooting death of a college baseball player, and prosecutors say they did it for fun. and a desperate search unfolding in a missouri town. a 12-year-old girl goes missing after witnesses say she took a ride with a family friend. captioning funded by cbs good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. well, it is still unclear why a gunman slipped into a georgia elementary school, fired at least a half dozen shots at police and then surrendered.

police say he had no obvious connection to the school in decatur. the school was evacuated and no one was injured. the gunman told one school employee he was sorry for what he was doing and was willing to die. tarika duncan has our report. >> reporter: elementary school children sprinted to safety after a gunman opened fire at the ronald e. mcnair discovery learning academy in decatur, georgia. >> what did they tell you? >> there was a lockdown because someone was in the building. >> mm-hmm? right? >> and it was scary. >> reporter: 800 students were evacuated. no one was injured. police say 20-year-old michael brandon hill snuck into the school with an assault rifle and ordered a secretary to call an atlanta tv station. station employee lacy lecor answered the call. >> the front desk called ahead to say i'm transferring someone and she says she's in a school office with a gunman. i asked her what he wanted and she said he wanted us to start

filming as police die. >> reporter: authorities say hill fired several shots at police outside. >> and when officers had a clear shot, they returned fire. fortunately, no one was injured. >> reporter: hill eventually surrendered and was taken into custody. the kids were bussed to a nearby shopping center and reunited with their parents. >> at the end of the day, that's all you want to do. all you want is your child to come home safe, so they're all home safe. >> reporter: authorities found the suspect's car in the school parking lot and searched it. they also went through his home located just blocks away. tarika duncan, cbs news. now to oklahoma, where the killing murder of a visiting australian baseball player has stunned a close-knit community. prosecutors say he was gunned down in cold blood, targeted randomly by three teenagers who say they were bored and committed murder for the fun of it. bigad shaban has details. >> reporter: the families of

three young suspects in the murder of an oklahoma college baseball player were distraught outside court. two of the teens, clancey luna and james edwards jr., face first-degree murder charges as adults. a third boy, michael jones, is charged as an accessory. >> after reading the charges, why are you so confident still that he's innocent? >> because he didn't pull the trigger, number one. he was just there. >> reporter: one of the suspects told police they were bored, so they decided to kill somebody. >> they witnessed the young man run by on the street, chose him as a target. >> reporter: that target was 22-year-old australian native christopher lane. last friday, he was jogging near his girlfriend's home in duncan, oklahoma, when he was shot in the back in broad daylight. he died on the side of the road. his girlfriend, sarah harper, says lane helped her discover who she really is. >> most people will go to college and try to find who they are on their own, like, away from parents and all that, but i

found it with chris, and he really helped me. >> reporter: lane's parents, peter and donna lane, spoke in melbourne, australia. >> there is not going to be any good come out of this, because it was just so senseless. it wasn't anything he did or could have done. he was an athlete going for a jog like he would do five or six days a week. >> reporter: a facebook page is set up in lane's memory, where perfect strangers have posted their condolences. >> he's such an amazing person and i'm going to miss him forever. >> reporter: harper said this was supposed to be a year of planning to decide what she and lane would do next. she says, sadly, that now means traveling to australia for her boyfriend's funeral. bigad shaban, cbs news. the national interagency fire center has increased the wildfire preparedness level to its highest for the first time in five years. this morning, there are more than 50 large wildfires burning

in 11 states, including 6 major fires in montana. another is burning on the outskirts of california's yosemite national park. more than 2,000 homes and other businesses are threatened. the out-of-control fire has burned more than 15 square miles. several camp sites have been evacuated, including one where 200 senior citizens were staying. a road on the west side of the park was shut down for four miles, blocking traffic to and from yosemite. idaho's beaver creek fire is 31% contained, and it's cost nearly $12 million so far. more than 1,200 homes have been evacuated, but firefighters say they should be helped by improving weather conditions. the national security agency reportedly has the ability to look at 75% of the internet communications in the united states. that's more coverage than was previously disclosed. the "wall street journal" says the nsa keeps the content of some e-mails between u.s. citizens and also filters domestic phone calls made over

the internet. the nsa can track almost anything that's online as long as it's covered by a broad court order. egyptian authorities have arrested more top islamists, including the spokesperson for the muslim brotherhood, this after the organization's supreme leader was taken into custody. in washington, the obama administration may be nearing a decision on whether to cut some of its annual financial aid to egypt. administrators met at the white house yesterday. charlie d'agata reports. >> reporter: it was a humiliating defeat for the top leader of the muslim brotherhood. just hours after his arrest, mohammed badie was shown on egyptian tv looking tired and intimidated. he's charged with inciting violence after the fiery speeches he made in the muslim brotherhood's main protest camp. but it's the violence in the government's crackdown to clear protests that's brought international condemnation and calls for the u.s. to suspend its billion-dollar aid package.

interim foreign minister nabil fahmy told us egypt is fighting a war against what he calls terrorism. >> our national security decisions will be determined by our national security perspectives. they will not be determined by whether we get aid from one country to another. >> reporter: can you understand why americans have reluctance? they have looked at the events of the last week and say we can no longer back this interim government. >> i can understand why you would be worried and concerned about the loss of life. i can't understand how you can be silent about the terrorism, because i know your values. i have lived in america. and your silence is abhorrent in comparison to what you stand up for in your own country. >> reporter: he said the government intends to investigate whether its security forces used excessive force in the past week, but he insisted protesters have attacked government buildings, churches and hospitals. >> we can debate whether there

was restraint or not, and we will differ, but do you really want to stand up and say burning hospitals isn't terrorism? >> reporter: at the same time, are you willing to accept the security forces fired into crowds? >> fired into targets into crowds, i'm sure they did, fired into targets in crowded areas, i'm sure they did, but they were targeting particular issues and people, particular threats. >> reporter: and that the other people in the crowd were collateral damage? >> there was also shooting from inside the crowd. >> reporter: every night on egyptian television, you see nothing but videos allegedly showing people carrying guns in these muslim brotherhood demonstrations, but the real problem the government has is in the numbers. the civilian death toll overwhelmingly outnumbers that of security forces. charlie d'agata, cbs news, cairo. a military judge at ft. meade, maryland, says she will sentence army private bradley manning later this morning. he faces up to 90 years in prison for leaking classified

military and diplomatic documents to wikileaks. his defense has asked for a 25-year sentence. and testimony continues this morning in the sentencing of army staff sergeant robert bales at a military base in washington state. he has pleaded guilty in the march 2012 massacre of 16 civilians in afghanistan. on tuesday, an afghan farmer shot by bales cursed him on the witness stand before breaking down. the jury will decide whether bales should be given the possibility of parole with his life sentence. and coming up on the "morning news," a missing missouri girl. hundreds search for 12-year-old adrianna horton as authorities arrest the suspect in her disappearance. this is the "cbs morning news." so there i was again, explaining my moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasis to another new stylist. it was a total embarrassment. and not the kind of attention i wanted. so i had a serious talk with my dermatologist about my treatment options.

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losing part of her leg. it happened near rockefeller center. several bystanders rushed to help the victims. among them was tv's own dr. oz, who spoke to the driver. >> he was very emotional. very lost. >> but he hadn't had a stroke? >> that i can tell, he hasn't had a major medical problem, but it is difficult. >> dr. oz later posted a photo on his facebook page with david justino, one of the good samaritans who helped out. and the search will resume later this morning for a 12-year-old girl missing in the southern missouri town of golden city since monday evening. a suspect is in custody, but authorities won't say if he's talking. susan mcginnis reports. >> reporter: hundreds of law enforcement personnel and volunteers are scouring the woods and creeks near golden city, missouri, looking for 12-year-old adrianna horton. >> the longer she's gone, i know how it's going to turn out. >> reporter: horton was playing monday evening about half a block from her home when

witnesses say she got into a truck owned by this man, 34-year-old bobby born. an hour later, police found born on the other side of town and pulled him over, but horton was nowhere to be found. >> this is the worst feeling i've ever had in my life, a missing child. i don't know whether she's safe, if she's okay, you know, if she's here. >> reporter: born knows the family, having worked for adrianna's father on a construction project. >> what upsets me the most is she knew this fella. she played with this guy's kids. >> reporter: born has been charged with kidnapping and is being held on a $1 million bond. >> that was susan mcginnis reporting. now, straight ahead, your wednesday morning weather. and high anxiety. firefighters try to rescue a boy dangling from a window guard eight stories up. ard eight stories up. [ male announcer ] staying warm and dry has never been our priority. ♪

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climbed into a high-rise window cage slipped through and became stuck on monday. his parents were at work. he dangled eight stories above the ground while firefighters worked to free him. it took them 20 minutes to cut a hole in the cage, but they finally pulled the boy to safety. on the "cbs money watch" now, investors turned the page on barnes & noble stock, and a bag of chips worth big bucks. marlie hall is here in new york with that and more. good morning, marlie. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. asian stocks were mixed ahead of the fed's policy meeting in july. tokyo's nikkei gained 0.25% and hong kong's hang seng lost 0.5%. stocks in this country are on track to have their worst month since may of 2012. the dow posted its fifth straight loss yesterday, losing seven. the nasdaq rose modestly, up 24. shares of struggling bookseller barnes & noble dropped 12% after the bookseller announced it was abandoning plans to try to keep its retail stores. barnes & noble plans to keep

making its nook electronic readers and will focus on offering content to customers. netflix is expanding its movie licensing deal with the weinstein company. the multiyear deal will add more films to its internet video service beginning in 2016. netflix has the right to show all movies released by weinstein and its subsidiary dimension films before they appear on paid tv channels. and anne-marie, here's something to munch on. remember the bags of doritos the seattle police handed out at this weekend's pot festival? well, they're fetching big bucks on ebay. one bag is selling for $58. another bag listed as used was fetching 50 bucks. seattle police handed out 1,000 bags of doritos along with stickers about the state's legal pot law. anne-marie? >> one way to cash in your chips. marlie hall here in new york. thanks a lot. coming up in sports, a white house salute for the only perfect team in nfl history. and one minor league baseball team's unique giveaway. history.

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here's a look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. washington, d.c., thunderstorms today. atlanta, partly sunny. and sunny in st. louis. partly sunny in denver with a high of 88. sunny in seattle, high of 81. in sports, the pitcher who nailed alex rodriguez with a pitch this week bought himself some time on the pine. major league baseball suspended red sox righty ryan dempster five games for hitting rodriguez on sunday. dempster says he accepts the punishment and won't appeal. yankees manager joe girardi said if dempster wasn't punished, it would make rodriguez a target for more pitchers. well, the yankees trying to make up ground in the a.l. wild card race, playing two against the blue jays. in the afternoon game, robinson cano and chris stewart each hit

three-run homers to erase a four-run deficit. the yankees win the top half of the doubleheader 8-4. and in the nightcap, alex rodriguez strikes out three times, but new york wins anyway 3-2. they are the only team in modern nfl history to finish a season without a loss. and on tuesday, they got their due. the 1972 miami dolphins were honored at the white house 40 years after capping a 17-0 season with a win in super bowl vii. president obama, who's used to welcoming much younger athletes, took a jab at the dolphins' advancing age. >> i know that some people may be asking why we're doing this after all these years, and my answer is simple, i wanted to be the young guy up here for once. [ laughter ] >> when the dolphins completed their historic season, welcoming championship sports teams to the white house really wasn't a tradition. three members of the team opted not to make the trip, citing political differences with the

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time travel is only science fiction, but a new poll by "the economist" asks which decade of the 20th century would you most like to go back to? 18% of american voters said the 1950s. it's the decade of economic boom following world war ii. 15% preferred the '60s. only 1% wanted to go back to 1910. for americans over the age of 65, more than half wanted to revisit the '50s and '60s when they were in their youth. understandable. now to a lost-and-found story that began nearly seven decades ago. last week, a ring that belonged to a former p.o.w. was returned to his son in north carolina. kevin holmes of our raleigh affiliate wral has the incredible story of how it made it back home.

>> reporter: it's taken nearly 70 years for this story to come full circle, and it starts with a diary. >> it's a stock diary. >> reporter: belonging to 2nd lieutenant david cox, now in the hands of david cox jr. >> and he took it all the way through several of his missions. he kept a pretty good record of it up until he was shot down. >> you get to the end and it just stops one day, because obviously, he is shot down and it's left behind at the barracks. >> reporter: during world war ii, cox became a prisoner of war, held in a german camp, and the journal entries stopped. some of what's recorded was retold in norwood mcdowell's master thesis from nc state. >> i don't think you could make this up. >> reporter: you can't, especially since junior says his dad didn't speak much about his time as a p.o.w., but mentioned a ring received by his parents during his commission. but in 1945, while in camp -- >> they were not getting much food then and he had lost 30 or 40 pounds. >> reporter: as the last resort -- >> he got very hungry.

he traded his flight ring to an italian p.o.w. through a fence for chocolate bars, and he regretted that when he got home and had another ring made, which he wore up until shortly before his death. >> reporter: it's believed the original ring went through the italian p.o.w. and later to a russian soldier who sold it to a hungarian family in exchange for room and board. that woman's grandson would later move to germany with the ring. curious about the original owner, neighbors helped him research. >> you read strange stories all the time and this one ranks right up there. >> reporter: while researching online, they found mcdowell's thesis as well as the family this ring belongs to. >> when we got our hands on it, that's when it really became emotional. i just wish my dad were here to have seen all this happen. >> that was wral's kevin holmes. now, coming up after your local news on "cbs this

morning," the latest on the investigation into the decatur, georgia, school shooting. we'll go live to the scene. plus, we'll take you inside the tesla motor company, which is getting high marks for its electric cars. and we'll sit down with defending u.s. open champion andy murray. that's the "cbs morning news" for this wednesday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

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that means we have a chance of more thunderstorms again for today, cool to start the day in the 50s and 60s. more on the weather coming up. >> nice and light cruising into san francisco, approaching the toll plaza we have roadwork this morning on the upper and lower decks and all around the rest of the bay area. we'll break it down in traffic coming up. there's some developing news in san francisco where protestors have been arrested at city hall this morning. [ chanting ] the protestors say the sit-in outside mayor lee's office for several hours, police removed them this morning. the issue is the loss of accreditation for city college of san francisco. the protestors want the mayor to call for sanctions to be lifted and a special trustee to be fired. city college has until next summer to turn things around or likely be closed. and fire danger continues in northern california with a red flag