on sunday. >> you want to try once again collegiate. >> collegiate. [ laughter ] fun bs good morning to our viewers in the west. it is thursday, march 6th, 2014. welcome to "cbs this morning." president obama cracks down on russia as new violent clashes hit ukraine. elizabeth palmer is at the harbor blocked by an act of sabotage. rethinking the s.a.t.s. what a major overhaul of the college exam means for your kids. plus, we ride along as colorado cracks down on stoned drivers. we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye-opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> several people were injured in the clashes that went on overnight. certainly a very tense situation -- >> diplomacy on ukraine falls flat.

>> president obama slapped the first sanctions against those they decide are to blame for the crisis -- >> leaders are holding an emergency summit. >> an american anchor quit on air on wednesday. >> i cannot be part of a network funded by the russian government that whitewashes the actions of putin. >> a smoking american eagle plane forced to make an emergency landing in texas right after takeoff. none injured. >> high-ranking army general jeffrey sinclair plans to plead guilty to some charges. >> fireworks on capitol hill. >> let me say what i have to say. >> we're adjourned. close it down. >> chairman issa cutting off the microphone as elijah cummings tries to speak. >> i am a member of the congress of the united states of america! >> changes to s.a.t. they'll go back to 1,600 as the top score. no longer a penalty for a wrong answer. >> there's a number of ways to steal an atm. using a forklift. >> oh, that?

>> south africa/brazil soccer a little boy ran out on the pitch. >> everybody has a pet peeve. what really really annoys? >> strangers touching my hair. >> and all that matters. >> congress is rushing through a bill to guarantee up to $1 billion in loans for ukraine's new government. >> and detroit was, like, hey, can you go to war with us? [ laughter and applause ] >> on "cbs this morning." >> in a recent interview, pope francis said that women should play a bigger role in the catholic church. sounds like someone's girlfriend is starting to call the shots. [ laughter ] yeah. >> this morning's "eye-opener" is presented by toyota. let's go places. welcome to "cbs this morning." good morning, norah. >> good morning, charlie. big news out of ukraine. >> indeed. as you wake up in the west the obama administration is taking

action against russian officials. president obama is freezing the american assets and denying them visas to travel to the united states. the white house says the new sanctions target anyone directly involved in destabilizing ukraine. that includes russians and ukrainians. >> in rome this morning, secretary of state john kerry met briefly with russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov for the second time in two days. lavrov said it produced no agreement. he said the sanctions will not help solve the crisis. meanwhile, crimea's local government is planning a referendum in ten days on whether to become part of russia. crimea's legislature unanimously endorsed that move. elizabeth palmer is in the port city of crimea where there was a dramatic act of sabotage overnight. elizabeth, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie and norah. you can probably see behind me there's a sunken ship. well, the ukrainian navy tells us it was sunk on purpose at

midnight. they say by the russian military. and the whole point was to block this busy shipping channel, to stop ships coming in and out not only of the commercial port but the naval port. the ukrainian navy is remaining loyal to the government in kiev but, of course there is as you mentioned, norah, pro-russian sentiment all across not only crimea but all of eastern ukraine. in the eastern city of donetsk, some rushed the administration building, some saying "putin come." they despise the western-leaning government in kiev, afraid it will punish this part of the country by starving it of money and jobs. to the south in crimea the pro-russian population also insists on being heard. and seen. local pro-russia militias have put on uniforms and picked up guns to back up russian forces who invaded this strategic

peninsula last week. they found out from the huge base at sevastopol that russia leases from the ukraine. the black sea fleet has been based here in sevastopol for more than 200 years. it is central to russia's naval might in the world. and no matter what happens in negotiations, president putin is never going to give this up. but there is a fierce diplomatic war going on over what comes next. in a sinister incident last night, robert serry, a united nations envoy came to crimea on a fact-finding mission. as he prepared to leave, armed men confronted his team and serry had to take refuge in a cafe until he could get safe passage to the airport. the ukrainian sailors here said they did hear an explosion around midnight but they couldn't believe their eyes this morning when they woke up and saw that. it's going to be difficult and expensive for them now to reopen this shipping channel. for "cbs this morning," elizabeth palmer, crimea.

>> elizabeth, thank you so much. this morning, we have new details on the latest health care law delay we first reported yesterday. giving insurers a two-year extension for clauses that don't meet minimum standards. it means there won't be a repeat of last fall when millions of americans received cancellation notices from insurers. the court-martial of a top military officer is now under way at% brag in north carolina. brigadier general jeffrey sinclair faces eight charges, including sexual assault. last night, his lawyer said he will plead guilty to three lesser charges, among them adultery with his mistress and possessing pornography. jan crawford is in washington with the trial that's already full of drama. jan, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, norah and charlie. right, already, this case has had some highly unusual developments. the lead prosecutor abruptly quit. he had to be replaced. sinclair's lawyers said it was because he didn't believe in the case. and the defense is also attacking the credibility of the

general's main accuser, saying that she's just not telling the truth. now, all this is going to play out in a military courtroom in north carolina, proceedings, in fact, are under way right now at this moment. he's believed to be the highest-ranking military official to face a court-martial for sexual assault. the former deputy commander of u.s. forces in southern afghanistan, a brigadier general jeffrey sinclair was pulled off duty in 2012 after allegations he coerced a lower-ranking female officer into performing oral sex and threatened her when she tried to end their affair. >> here today to inform you that brigadier general jeffrey a. sinclair has been charged with multiple violations of the uniformed code of military justice. >> reporter: but just as the case was about to go to trial last month the lead prosecutor suddenly dropped out. sinclair's defense team was just questioned the credibility of the lead witness argued that the prosecutor quit because he disagreed with the case. in a statement last night,

sinclair's lead attorney says the army threw the prosecutor under the bus and pressed ahead. the pentagon is under increased pressure to aggressively prosecute sexual assault cases. president obama ordered a review after a defense report estimates that incidents of unwanted sexual contact jumped 37% between 2011 and 2012. congresswoman jackie spire is urging the military to change how it handles sexual assault by removing prosecutions from the chain of command. >> congress is not pressuring in individual cases. congress is pressuring about an issue that has not been addressed responsibly by the military. >> reporter: but rebecca sinclair, the general's wife says her husband is innocent of assault, and in a november 2012 interview, said she would stand by him despite his affairs. >> they're going to see this for what it is and they're going to drop the charges and let us go on with our lives.

>> reporter: now, if found guilty of the sexual assault charges, sinclair faces life in prison. his fate will be decided by a panel of higher-ranking generals. charlie and norah? >> all right, jan, thank you. and the court-martial comes as the senate debates a bill to strip military commanders of their authority to prosecute sexual assault cases although it could come as early as today. the murder trial of oscar pistorius saw the most emotional reaction yet by the man known as the blade runner. he was visibly overcome by emotion during testimony describing the moments after his girlfriend's death. correspondent and cbs news contributor deborah potter is at the courthouse in pistorius, south africa. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie and norah. the most dramatic testimony of the trial so far, the first witness to take us inside the house to the actual crime scene. up on the stand, his face not allowed to be shown, dr. johan step pistorius' neighbor and a military doctor he told the

court he was welcomed in the early hours of valentine's morning to large bangs and a woman screaming. he ran next door to pistorius' house, a mere 237 feet away, to offer medical assistance. he found a woman lying on the floor covered in bod. she'd been shot in the thigh, the arm, and the head. he checked her pupils, they were dilated. she was obviously dead. kneeling next to her, a distraught looking pistorius who cried, i shot her. i thought she was a burglar. he continued praying as he tried to resuscitate her, saying if only she'd win, he'd dedicate their lives to god. through much of this case, pistorius put his head in his hands, wiping away tears. at one point, he covered his ears as if to block out the words. throughout this testimony, his sister amy and one of reeva's cousins also sobbed. >> thank you. big changes are coming for the college admission exam taken by nearly 2 million people a

year. it is the s.a.t.'s second major overhaul in a decade. as jim axelrod reports, the organization behind the test admits the current s.a.t. isn't doing the job. jim, good morning. >> reporter: well good morning, norah. the s.a.t. redesign announced by the college board wednesday, reflects concerns the exam was not testing for the skills that would best predict college success. the change may also be the result of competition with the other major college entrance exam, the a.c.t. which topped the s.a.t. in numbers of students who took the test last year. 33 colleges and counting no longer require s.a.t. exams, with some finding little correlation between s.a.t. scores and academic success. >> admissions officers and counselors they're concerned that these exams have become disconnected from the work of high schools. >> reporter: 1,600 will once again be the perfect score. no more 2,400-point grading scale. there will be no more mandatory essay, and fancy vocabulary

words will be replaced by words students will actually use consistently in college, like synthesis and emper cal. calculates will now only be allowed on part of the math section, and a much revialed rule that deducts a quarter point for multiple choice questions will be gone. >> we've also been listening to students and their families for whom these tests often mysterious and fluster unproductive anxiety. >> reporter: the anxiety has created a $1 billion test prep industry and led to criticism that students's s.a.t. scores unfairly correlate to their family's incomes. reducing the chances for poorer students to get in more competitive colleges. >> so what should we do today? what should we work on? >> reporter: it's a system debbie steyer knows all to well. she looked for the perfect test regimen.

she even took the test herself seven times and wrote a book about it. >> let me read "the new york times" every day. when i hear vocabulary that they don't know i'll opponent it out to them. i correct their grammar. there's no shortcut to the practice. >> reporter: now, it is worth noting stier was able to improve her scores over time. the college board addresses the idea of privilege trumping merit by promising to provide online tutoring for students who cannot afford the tutors or high-priced prep. >> thank you. there are questions over a life threatening scare for a family at a florida beach. a pregnant south carolina mother drove a minivan with her children inside into the surf of the atlantic ocean. >> lifeguards and others rescued them. what is not clear this morning is how it all happened and why. that mother is now undergoing a mental health evaluation. police were warned about the woman. michelle, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie and norah, and to our

viewers in the west. unlike many west coast beaches, it's not unusual to see people driving down the stretch of daytona beach. what was unusual on tuesday was the way the 32-year-old ebony wilkerson was driving, and her sister didn't want her behind the wheel of a car. >> she got the kids in the car with her. >> reporter: hours before ebony wilkerson drove her car into the ocean with her three children still inside her sister feared something was wrong and called 911. >> talking about jesus and demons in my house and that i'm trying to control them but trying to -- she's getting a little bit better but she's still not all here. she's trying to drive and i'm trying to stop her, and she has her kids -- i tried to take her keys. >> reporter: wilkerson found another pair and left with the children. before making her way to the beach, local police spoke to her and filed a report saying quote, it was clear wilkerson

was suffering from some form of mental illness, but she was aware of her surroundings and that they had no reason to believe she intended to harm herself or her children. >> she had the right answers. she said she was heading for an abuse shelter, and so at that time they could not do anything with her but then two hours later, it had escalated to this. >> are they saying help? >> help! >> if they're saying help, that's different. >> that's tim running near the screams of the children as their car drifted deeper into the water. the kid in the back was just screaming, help us help us our mom is trying to kill us. >> stacy robinson rescued two of the children. >> at first we thought it was a joke until we saw a little boy hanging out the window and he was trying to flag someone down for help. in the right place at the right time. they needed the help, and i was able to lend a helping hand. >> reporter: florida's department of children and families says they have the children in protective custody,

that they are safe and that they're also investigating whether they were neglected or abused. wilkerson's sister told police that she was fleeing an abusive husband in south carolina. charlie, norah? >> michelle miller thank you. there is new hope this morning that an hiv infection can be cured. scientists revealed yesterday in an aids conference that a baby in los angeles born with hiv now shows no signs of the virus. the child was given aggressive drug treatment a few hours after birth. it is the second case of its kind. meanwhile, a new study focuses on a promising therapy called gene editing. researchers are using it to create immunity to aids. dr. agus is with us. explain how significant it is. >> it's a technological tour de force out of the university of pennsylvania. and it's based on the fact that an hiv virus enters a white cell and infects it a t-cell, by a

protein on the surface of that cell, okay? without that protein, it cannot get into the cell. it's locked out. and what these researchers did was they took the white cells, grew somebody with hiv, brought them outside the body, and imagine this out of 20,000 genes that are in a cell they found the one that controls that protein on the cell surface. they disabled it. they put them back into the person, and now the person had the hiv virus circulating, but couldn't get into the cells to infect them. >> this is fascinating, right, because this is the future of medicine. it's gene therapy and genetics and in this specific case with hiv, it was this mutation called ccr5. and if you inherited that from both parents it's very rare you wouldn't get hiv, so scientists found that and said let's make this happen. how successful is it? does it cure you of hiv? >> well they're not using the word cure, but this is a small safety study, okay? and it was 12 patients six they could really look at if they could stop the medication and

see what happened. in four of those, the hiv levels went down. one of the four, it actually was undetectable. >> all right, thank you. >> i agree with her, extraordinary stuff, and the fact it was only one gene makes it easier. thank you, john. time to show you some of the morning headlines from around the globe. politico said several democrats joined republicans to vote against, 47-52, against advancing him towards confirmation. the nomination needed 51 votes to advance. under new rules put in place in november. britain's telegraph says a launch by north korea narrowly missed a sevillecivilian flight. it happened before a commercial chinese airliner blew by. south korea says it came within six miles. >> alzheimer's kills more americans than far more reported. it's ranked as the third leading cause of death. it's much higher than the

government's current ranking. the government says the role of alzheimer's is vastly underestimated. >> facebook's new rules for gun sales. the company will delete posts from users trying to buy or sell weapons illegally or without a background check. facebook has been under pressure from gun control advocates. they say it's become the black market for firearms. it's 7:19. and ahead a few thunderstorms overnight and some heavy rainfall. that is now beginning to slide a little further to the east. still a chance we could see some scattered showers around the bay area but the rain line moving a little further to the north. over russian hill looking toward the golden gate bridge low clouds and fog. that cold front moving through bringing rain to the sierra nevada and snow in the high country. we are going to see our clouds parting by the afternoon. highs to 67 in san jose, 63 in san francisco, maybe more rain late this weekend.

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your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. good morning, it's 7:26. i'm michelle griego. a teacher in richmond is in jail this morning accused of sexually abusing four students at a middle school. ronald guinto has been hired at another school. no one there knew he was uninvestigation for the alleged abuse. a woman spent 15 hours clinging to a raft after her boat sank off the monterey coast. two fishermen spotted the 45- year-old woman. she was rescued and taken to the hospital in time. the mysterious google barge slipped out of the bay under the cover of night. google isn't saying where the barge is headed. there has been talk of docking it in stockton. stay with us. traffic and weather in just a moment.

bay bridge toll plaza is stacked up well into the macarthur maze and that eastshore freeway drive time still pretty heavy from richmond straight on into berkeley. we had one earlier fender- bender approaching powell street but it was involving up to eight cars. and as you can see what it's done to the morning commute, traffic very slow very heavy unusually heavy in fact out of sunol heading into berkeley. and here's a live look at oakland. the nimitz freeway moving okay. we are starting to see a few slowdowns so approaching the downtown oakland exits. that's your latest traffic. here's lawrence. it was very exciting overnight. we had thunderstorms heavy rainfall that's beginning to move out though and looks like things settling down somewhat. overlooking sfo we are clearing out your skies nicely there although still a lot of clouds lingering in parts of the bay area and a chance we could see some widely scattered showers. hi-def doppler radar showing you some of the rain moving on by. temperatures by the afternoon should be up into the 60s in most spots. more sun and warmer weather on friday and saturday. showers sunday night into monday.

personally i cannot be part of network funded by the russian government that whitewashes the actions of putin. >> i'm proud to be an american and believe in sis similar nath the truth and that is why after this newscast i'm resigning. >> that is the american anchore for the russian network rt. she resigned yesterday on the air as you can see. she was broadcasting from washington. the network funded by the crimea calls her resignation a self promotional spot. rex ration nal marijuana is now legal in colorado but that doesn't mean that police have less work to do. we'll show you how the officers are learning to fight the

behavior against the law, stone driving. >> hillary clinton is responding to fallout. she said she didn't mean to compare russia's government to the nazis. but she insists that president vladimir putin is making a huge mistake in ukraine. nancy, good morning. >> clinton has a unique perspective on putin. she dealt with him in his administration for four years as secretary of state. she originally spoke about him at a private fund-raiser but once they became public she quickly moved to clarify them. >> she's squandering the potential of such a great nation, the nation of russia. >> in a speech at ucla clinton commented publicly for the first time on 0 the kbroug crisis in the ukraine. she also tried to clarify comments she made on tuesday where she likened putin's action to an early adolf hitler.

>> if this sounds familiar, it's what hitler did back in the '30s. she that's what got everybody so nervous. >> after a tape of those remarks surfaced clinton said she had only been trying to provide historical contrast. >> i'm not making a comparison but i'm recommending that we perhaps with can learn from this tactic that has been used before. >> and she joked about putin's personality. >> i know we are dealing with a tougher guy with a thin skin. i've had a lot of experience well on not only with him but people like that. but in particular president putin. >> most republicans didn't quibble with clinton's comments but they are focusing fresh scrutiny on the possible pedestrian dental contender as secretary of state and questioning one of her first mayor issues in 2009 an attempt to repair relations with the

russians. >> we want to reset our relationship -- >> let's do it together shlths we'll do it together. >> part of that reset involved pulling a plug on a bush initiative. the republican chairman of the house foreign affairs committee said the word sebt putin the wrong signal. >> that may have emboldened him a little bit. that wasn't something he had to take tate. >> he is holding a hearing on the crisis in ukraine right now which will be followed by a vote in the house committee on a bipartisan resolution that calls for sanctions on russia and other forms of pressure. we're told the senate foreign relations committee is planning its own vote on a similar resolution next week. a congressional investigation into the irs may be stalled this morning. on wednesday a former irs head

lois lerner refused to answer questions about targeting conservative groups. >> ms. learner, you're released. you may -- >> but first i would like to use any time to make some brief points. for the past year the central republican accusation in this investigation -- >> we're ajoushed. close it down. thank you. >> but if you will sit down and allow me to ask the questions, i am a member of the congress of the united states of america. i am tired of this. >> well -- >> we have members up here each who represent 700,000 people. you cannot just have a one-sided investigation. it is absolutely something wrong with that and it's absolutely un-american. >> the justice department and

two other congressional committees are investigating the scandal. colorado is going to send out a series of advertisements aimed at stoned driving. barry peterson joins us with more. >> in clod the law legalizing reck national marijuana says that state must regulate marijuana like alcohol and like alcohol it can have dangerous kons kwebss behind the while. unlike drunk drives, it can be hard to identify a stoend driver. so authorities are launching an offensive and colorado police are learning to take a harder look. >> drugs and cannabis -- >> it starts with training right here in the denver classroom where the material sounds more like science than police

protocol. spotting impaired drivers might not be new, but learning to identify stoend drivers is a work in progress. these state troopers are part of a nine-day course specifically training to spot drivers under the influence of marijuana. in the end, 25 police officers were certified as drug recognition experts armed with knowledge on how to administer a range of tests at a highway stop. >> we're kind of learning along as it goes as far as how much it's affecting people. >> blake white is a sergeant with the colorado state patrol. he says he encounters high drivers at all times of day. >> there's people that get up in the moerng and part of their routine is they smoke marijuana. so that's something they -- a thing i look to look forward is

varying speed. people speeding up slowing down. driving is a multiple task and marijuana kind of stops that. >> an officer can do a roadside assessment if he suspects marijuana. but unlike alcohol it can't be detected with a bethizer test. there is a legal liemt here. 5 nanograms of active thc in the blood. but the only way to measure if somebody has reached or passed that limit is in the hospital with a blood test. perhaps the biggest challenge for authorities might be overcoming the stoend driver stereotype, slow by harmless. >> i think we're parked man. >> on the contrary marijuana was cited as a factor in 15 pores of impaired driving citations so far this year. the first year colorado authorities have kept track. but marijuana is not new to

kord.kord colorado. residents have been using it medicinally for four years. now the number of users have exploded. keeping his state safe in this new era is a top priority for the governor. >> i want to be able to say we did everything we could to try and make sure this transition to recreational legalized marijuana was done effectively and fairly and still didn't work. then the voters should look at it again. >> and a hard look is the program from police drive high get a dui. even wh all of this preparation there's still a lot of we don't knows about marijuana's effects. there are numerous stands of cannabis that can produce different highs. and people ma tappize thc at different rates. so in the end individuals may not be aware of their levels of

intoxication. >> it's a possibility that other states may follow colorado because of their experiment. >> i think the other states are going to see one key factor money m-o-n-e-y. the state is going to make $140 million in taxes. a so far it's been a calm experience. so why not have a calm experience and put hundreds of millions of dollars in your bank account. >> barry peterson great to have you here. thank you so much. what would you call a man who takes pictures underneath women's skirts? at least in one state this morning you cannot call him a criminal. we look at the outrage over a legal ruling that could lead thousands of women feeling exposed. that's next on "cbs this morning." ♪

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this morning lawmakers in massachusetts are looking for their own solution after the state's highest court caused outrage. the justices ruled unanimously yesterday that a man accused of taking pictures underneath a woman's skirt on a commuter train did not, i repeat not break the law. >> the practice is known as upskirting. cbs news legal analyst rikki klieman is a massachusetts trial attorney. good morning. >> good morning. >> how is this not illegal? >> well it's dreadful. it's creepy. it's something that none of us want to happen to ourselves or to others. but if you look at the language of the law in massachusetts, it's not illegal. >> why not? >> well, the why not is because the way the legislature had

drafted this law says that a woman has to be nude or partially nude and that she has to be in a place with a reasonable expectation of privacy. the law was about peeping toms. you're in your bedroom, you're in your bathroom you're in the locker room at the gym. that was who the law was designed to protect and to criminalize. that's not what this law says about keeping up with the times. we're not dealing with technology. >> go ahead. >> does it ever frustrate you that the letter of the law does not have common sense? >> well the letter of this law actually once upon a time and long ago in a land far, far away did have common sense. >> but i'm talking about for now it does not. >> it doesn't because, of course, cell phones of ubiquitous. and we know someone who goes up to boston massachusetts, on a regular basis, i'm not wearing this dress on the subway on the mta, until this law is changed. so there will be a rush to the

legislature to say come on come with the times and get it right. >> so do you think boston is likely to respond? >> i would think pretty quick. i would think women in boston as well as around the country are outraged. you know, charlie, this has been a similar situation both in indiana and in washington i'm sure other states. indiana at some point had a case where they looked up the skirt of an 11-year-old girl and immediately there was an upskirting ban. that's what has to happen here. and i do want to add one thing about the supreme judicial court of massachusetts, because the reaction is oh my god, who are these stupid judges. well these judges are not stupid people. these judges are some of the great judges in america. these judges are saying look this law, we should have a reasonable expectation that women do not want cameras up their skirt on the mta riding around boston. but we cannot give a broader interpretation to the law than

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of the bay under the cover of night. google isn't saying where the good morning, everyone. 7:56 on your thursday. i'm frank mallicoat. get you updated on some headlines around the bay area. the google barge slipped out of the bay under the cover of night. google isn't saying where the mysterious vessel is headed but this is working its way up the delta. that's a live picture from chopper 5 right there. the barge reportedly would showcase google's latest technology once it's open to the public. it could be stockton, but we'll see. a bay area teacher is in jail this morning accused of sexually abusing four at making waves middle school in richmond. he was hired at another richmond school. no one there knew he was under investigation at the other school. a woman spent 15 hours clinging to a raft after her boat sank off the monterey

coast. two fishermen spotted the 45- year-old and rescued her. she went to the hospital in time. she had a life jacket on. stay with us. traffic and weather in just a moment.

good morning? >> the no major accidents but it's still going to be a slow crawl traveling northbound 101. the delays look like they begin beyond capitol expressway and continue straight up northbound 101. 280 also jammed up. these are typical drive times for this time of the morning through downtown. so you can see that 101 is probably the heaviest, 23 minutes between 280 and 237. 237 sluggish out of milpitas to zanker road. that is your latest "kcbs traffic." here's lawrence. >> storm clouds moving through overnight. we have had some heavy rain even some thunderstorms outside but now the skies are parting, looking good over san jose right now. still a chance of scattered light showers mainly to the north. storm clouds pulling out of town. by the afternoon, temperatures up into the 60s. next two days dry weather and warmer through saturday.

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♪ it's 8:00 a.m. in the west. welcome back to "cbs this morning." president obama takes action in the russian sea of crimea. we will get reaction from former national security adviser and general, jim jones. some passengers say they still have nightmares about their vacation cruise. see how carnival is fighting back in court. and then a fund-raising milestone, how it raised $1 billion one click at a time. but first, on this march 6th 2014 here is a look at

today's "eye-opener." >> the obama administration is taking action against russian officials in destabilizeing ukraine. much of the testimony, the story he put his head in his hands and wiping away tears. >> out of 20,000 genes, they found the one that controls that protein, and now the person that had the hiv circulating, they couldn't get it in the cells. >> i think it's fascinating. this is the future of medicine. clinton has a unique perspective, once those comments became public, she quickly moved to clarify them. unlike drunk drivers, it's hard to identify a stoned driver. >> part of the their routine in the morning is they smoke marijuana. opening up to reporters about his marijuana addiction, and doctors told him he could

have ended up winning the academy award for best actor if he continued on. i am charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell. and president obama's executive order targets anybody, quote, responsible for activities undermining democratic processes or institutions in ukraine." john kerry talked with russia's foreign minister and one port city in crimea is facing sabotage. somebody sank a large ship overnight in the middle of a shipping lane. retired general, good morning. >> thank you. >> what are we not doing with the situation with ukraine that

we think we should be doing? >> we're doing a lot of things. this is a situation taking place in a very rapid fire time. i think certainly one of the things we should be thinking about is how this might affect the revitalization of nato as a viable 20th century institution, and we should reassure our eastern european and central european allies. and secondly i think the energy -- the strategic use of energy down the road could certainly affect the russian behavior in the future. >> that's a great point. russia is the world's largest exporter of natural grass. ukraine needs that natural gas, and the u.s. replaced russia as the natural producer of natural gas. >> mr. putin has no qualms about using energy as a weapon.

we see it as a vehicle to peace and prosperity. the europeans are dependent to the tune of 30% of russian gas and oil, and we have technology that is transforming our own economy for oil and gas. we can work with the europeans to make them less dependant on russian energy, which is what they want, by the way, and i think this is a long term strategic tool that we can use to diswade future russian action. >> what kind of deal do you think would work? >> that is a -- that's a question that will be unfolding before our eyes. i would say this is a moment now where actions are required and words should be chosen very

carefully. >> do you think at least a threat of military intervention to be on the table? >> i think everything should be on the table, not talk about it too much because you could lose your individualabilitycredibility. >> do you think putin should have a capacity to with draw woul feeting he has been insulted? >> there is no question that mr. putin is playing out his role as he sees his own history, as he understands his history, which is quite different from the way we look at history books. and i think that you do have to allow for the fact that he may conclude that he might have overreached and you have to give him an opportunity to back out. >> what mistakes have we made so

far by not anticipating this or overreacting? >> i am quite sure our intelligence networks probably had some advanced warning of something like this. >> so they did not fail us? >> i would be surprised if we didn't given all the other things we are capable of finding out around the world, that would surprise me. i don't know -- you know i think one of the things that we can shore up now, and what needs to be shored up is the support and mr. putin has manipulated anti-fracking legislation. and they occupied two ports for the ukraine, and shell oil and gases is plentiful in ukraine,

but not in russia. >> one criticism is that we could have somehow got the european union to accelerate the relationship with ukraine and that would have helped avoid this? >> well, today nato is meeting with the russian council and nato membership for ukraine is something that might be accelerated in the future. >> thank you. an egyptian-born reporter says he would never betroy his country. he is one of three journalists on trial in cairo. the canadian citizen spoke to the court yesterday. this case is sparking protest from prodemocracy groups around the world. this morning, passengers aboard the ill-fated cruise

ship. passengers claim conditions were bad enough to resemble a, quote, petri dish. carnival is pushing back. >> its passengers have already been compensated and those asking for more are trying to take advantage of the situation. two women we spoke with say the trip was like a nightmare that wouldn't end. it has been a year since the engine fire left the cruise liner still. >> it was getting very dense very quickly in the rooms. >> you didn't know if you were going to make it off that boat alive. >> barbara anderson and michelle maddux are among the dozens of passengers suing after they say they were forced to live for

days without bathrooms -- >> i felt like i was a third world country. >> you couldn't get to our room because you had to walk around bags and bags of rotting garbage to get to our room. >> the passengers suing want carnival to pay damages for physical and mental problems they claim resulted from the trip. >> when i got off the boat i had bacterial bronchitis, and my lower extremities were swollen due to dehydration. >> i had a severe kidney infection infection. >> i have been seeing a psychiatrist for the last year every week. >> carnival says there is no connection to the cruise. >> we are not being

opportunistic. at what point do you stand your ground and say that is not right? that is not what i signed up for. >> carnival offered all the passengers a full refound and $5000 and a voucher for a new crews. meantime, other lawsuits over the cruise are still pending. pope francis tells an italian newspaper that it's offensive for people to think of him as a superhero. the pope has a 85% favorability rating and 81% say he is doing a good job of spreading the faith. >> and no change reported of people that attend mass.

nobody has done more than members of the church to address issues. >> it's interesting to see the pope said there could be women in the hierarchy -- >> some peo

more than 230,000 men in this country will be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year. one of the world's leading cancer experts is looking at the aggressive treatment next on "cbs this morning."

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the morning rounds morning rounds treating prostate cancer one in seven men will be diagnosed at some point. new england journal of medicine suggests a more aggressive response, like surgery, could

save lives. dr. david agus heads the university in southern california. >> follow now for over 23 years, it showed a dramatic reduction in the death rate of cancer and of all diseases in all comers and in people under 65 and even more dramatic effect. people over 65 it still benefited them in that they didn't get disease metastatic or spread throughout the body. both had significant benefits. >> the screening for prostate cancer, should men get the psa test? >> gayle, you're right. there's a lot of controversy. and so this controversy goes to the fact should we screen? should we not? i say definitively at least my opinion is yes, we should

screen. >> at what age? >> well starting at age 60 we should start to take a psa test. if it goes up we do a biopsy. that doesn't mean everybody you need to treat. one of the interesting things is that people who were followed with low grades low risk cancer had no problem, 30% of the people. not all people need to be treated. if you have a more aggressive cancer surgery will save lives. >> doctor, i thought one of the most interesting things about this study was that the benefits of surgery were most pronounced in men who were diagnosed under 35 with prostate cancer. but what if you're a man in your 70s? there are a lot of risks associated, and side effects from surgery. right? >> no question about it. it was under 65. but, yes. clearly can have side effects. at the same time metastatic cancer has a side effect which is death, which certainly ain't that good. we need to get surgery better. it's a call to arms let's do more research. a baby boomer turns 60 every seven seconds.

that's when prostate cancer starts to show up. >> alternative kinds of treatment, how would you evaluate them? >> well we don't know that these alternative treatments make you live longer. radiation is an effective treatment but it hasn't been studied like surgery has now. in certain people we do certain different things. radiation, surgery, hormonal treatment. we need to get treatment better. >> dr. david agus thank you so much. good to see you. >> and you. two men are going through the rat race of life in a giant hamster wheel. that's right. we'll take a whirl at showing you how they're meeting every basic need and walking a very fine line. and all that mattered on this day in 2000. yep, 2000 is now back in the day. one of the music greats breaks a record of the do you remember who it was? >> announcer: cbs morning round

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it's my honor, my pride, my honor, my pride, my joy to conduct eric clapton into the hall of fame. >> music is really all you need. >> love and music, all that matters 14 careers ago, eric clapton, british guitarist, was inducted into the rock 'n' roll

hall of fame for an unprecedented third time. honored as a solo artist after being honored for his work with the yard birds. a 17-time grammy winner was joined in the class of 2000 by other legends like bonnie rait and earth, wind and fire. >> that's great. >> one of my favorites. >> i could see. i could see that. i like when he says love and music is all you need and good food. let's add that to the list. >> and good work. >> and good work. a new movie is taking a swing at traditional hollywood. >> don't you think that's gotten a bit old? >> original enough for you? >> crowd funding brought veronica mars back to life on the big screen this time. the ceo of kick starter will join us in studio 57. we'll take a look at their project going all the way. there he is all the way to space. that's ahead. hi, yancey.

that's ahead on a te ond is in jail good morning. teacher in richmond is now in jail this morning accused of sexually abusing four students at a middle school. ronald guinto was then hired at another school. no one there knew he was under investigation for that alleged abuse at another school. a woman spent 15 hours clinging to a raft after her boat sank off the monterey coast. two fishermen rescued her. they got her to the hospital in time. she should be just fine. very lucky. and that mysterious google barge slipped out of the bay under the cover of night. google isn't saying where it's headed but it is on its way up the delta. we can tell you that much. and we hear the rumor is it could be the city of stockton. stay with us. traffic and weather in just a moment.

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no major accidents in the area but a lot of slow traffic. especially on 880, i looked at the sensors, it's jammed from 238 just past embarcadero as you head closer to downtown oakland. so right now the drive time is more than a half hour between 238 and the macarthur maze. mass transit on time bart systemwide reporting no delays. ferries, caltrain and ace everything else is looking good. here's a live look the westbound 580 commute finally

cleared out between the livermore valley and the dublin- pleasanton area down to 16 minutes between the altamont pass and 680. and a quick look at the south bay where it's still sluggish on 101 coming into san jose. that's your latest "kcbs traffic." here's lawrence. storm clouds rolling through overnight. we had some lightning strikes and heavy rainfall. now chopper 5 up over the berkeley hills cruising around the bay area and the skies beginning to break up a little bit now. and it's quieted down quite a bit as we are seeing partly cloudy skies now. still a slight chance of some showers. another wave of moisture about to make its way into northern california that may clip parts of the north bay so still a chance of scattered showers there. the temperatures will be very mild in the afternoon again muggy outside. 67 in san jose. 66 in oakland. about 65 degrees in san rafael. and 64 degrees and possible showers into santa rosa. more sunshine on the way on friday and saturday. maybe some mid-70s the warmer spots on saturday. chance of rain again late sunday night and into monday.

welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up in this half hour he's a political mastermind eli gold, on cbs's "the good wife." it's coming back on sunday night. alan cumming talked about his character's twisted sense of morality and how he's now teaming up with michelle williams for a very familiar role. plus if you think you're having a long week imagine spending it on a hamster wheel. two men are living on a 25-foot tall ring for ten days. we'll take you there to learn why exactly they're doing this. that's ahead. right now it's time to show you some of the headlines from around the globe. "usa today" says pothole season is worse than usual this year. the extreme weather is beating up the nation's roads and

highways. for drivers, damage can run into the hundreds of dollars. state governments are blowing through their repair budgets filling the potholes. britain's telegraph says prince harry is launching an international sporting event for wounded service members. he said they are inspired by the west. >> why bring it to the u.k.? well, it was such a great concept by the americans that it, quite simple as that really. >> go harry. basketball, indoor rowing and sitting volleyball are part of the events. "the new york post" looks at the battle between a new jersey teenager and her parents is expanding to facebook. 18-year-old rachel canning is suing her mom and dad. she wants them to pay her college tuition. yesterday she launched education for rachel. a supporter for her parents set up another page called support for shawn and elizabeth canning.

and "the huffington post" looks at the newest dessert. the chef is now introducing chocolate chip cookie milk shots. the chef says if you're going to drink milk with cookies you might as welcomel combine the two. >> that's awesome. how do you dip the cookie in the milk? peel pieces off the cup? it's a good idea. >> indeed. in 2009 kickstarter had its first successful project. the total amount raised $35. the money paid to create a small piece of art called drawing for dollars. as of this morning, users have pledged over $1 billion. they fund things like music and oscar-winning film and the first telescope headed for space that donors can use. yancey strickler is the ceo and co-founder. welcome. >> thanks for having me. >> what kind of ideas do you really believe work best and

that funding will deliver for? >> well it's a site of very diverse ideas. it's everything from movies to video games to restaurants to quilts to pieces of design. anything that springs from the human imagination. we've seen things all across the board come to life. to date there's been about six million people have supported project that say do just about anything you can imagine. >> is it often a first course or a last resort for people seeking funding? >> i think it's a mix. i think at this point now kickstarter has become such a household word especially in the creative communities, that people are looking to use it. it's a great opportunity to get an idea out there in the world and broadcast it across the internet and get people around the world to be a part of it. when you put up a project, you're building a community of people who are helping to make it happen. >> i guess one of the most fascinating things about this is that people are giving without any financial return or reward expected. i mean this is just giving your money. very small amounts by people who don't have a lot of money.

why can't there be or why didn't you want it to have any sort of financial return if that business takes off? >> the way we normally think about ideas now, especially the past 30 40 years is that only ideas that have the potential to make someone else money are the ones that tend to get funded. if you just have something that you're excited about that you think would be cool and would like to exist, there hasn't been an option available. we want it kickstarter to be a place where ideas happen just because people want them to. you don't want the component of is this a good business model. many of these projects do go on to become working businesses or make money or a restaurant that will survive for years. but the initial inspiration is just simply to make something. so we see something very beautiful in that. >> psychic income. >> yeah sure. just wanting it to exist should be reason enough. it shouldn't have a need to make money for somebody else. >> that's what's so cool about what you do because the imagination can take you so many places. i can't believe now that veronica mars is going to be a movie on the big screen because of kickstarter. i think that's amazing.

>> that's right. next friday it will open in theaters. it's available on itunes. this is something they have been wanting to do for years. for six years they have been told no, people don't care. >> how do you guys make money because kickstarter is a business. how do you make money? >> we are a for-profit money. it raises the amount of money it needs. we charge 5% of what they raise and that is our own source of revenue. we've been in the black for about three years. >> i was reading that you like your job so much that it doesn't even feel like work. you go to work and are energized every single day. is it really true you really feel that? >> it is true. it is very genuine. all of us there's 79 of us who work at kick starter. >> a small group. >> but we have the privilege of helping people with their ideas. getting to talk to people about something they're excited about is an amazing honor and it's the greatest job in the world. >> one of your favorite projects

is this public space telescope. tell us about this. >> there's this project that's from a group of former nasa scientists, people who worked on the curiosity rover. they had this idea that they were going to try to make a telescope that would be owned and controlled by the public. it got funded on kickstarter for a couple million dollars and people will decide where this gets pointed once it's up in space. this is putting all of us out in orbit and allowing us to be a part of this so that's definitely one of my favorite things. >> what don't you fund? >> really the only thing you don't see on kickstarter are charitable projects. so the site is reserved for people making creative things. that's pretty much anything you can imagine. so we are a for-profit company so i think it would be wrong for us to make money out of someone's medical expenses or something like that. so we are focused just on that but really anything creative and anything that might come from your imagination. >> sounds like venture capital? >> no we have some constraints and also we like the idea that

there's a place in the world focused just on creativity and the human imagination and those sorts of inspiring things. >> i'm trying to think of a good idea to send your way. thank you, yancey. really good to see you. i ain't got nothing yet. "the good wife's" alan cumming is in our toyota green room. we'll look at what's ahead -- >> no. >> yes you're there. >> what's ahead for eli gold and how life is about to become a cabaret yet again.

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good evening marilyn. >> eli. >> it's just the two of us today. peter asked me to take this meeting. what? >> he's avoiding me. >> no. he has a scheduling conflict. >> for our last three meetings? >> he's been busy. maybe you haven't heard. he's governor. >> you have a great talent for turning friends into enemies. >> issue a report supporting the governor. >> and i'll be back in his good graces? no. >> wow. >> oh he's deliciously manipulative. that's a sneak peek from this sunday's episode of the hit cbs drama "the good wife." alan cumming plays eli gold the ruthless campaign manager. he's a writer director actor

whose career has taken him from broadway to tv. hello, you. >> hello, kid. >> listen, this is what's so funny about the character that you play because he's so nasty, but every now and again you show us a tender side. but when you first went to the show alan you were just supposed to be just a minute. >> yeah. well, it was just supposed to be for one episode. >> so this is my question to you. did you say i'm going to be so -- i don't want to say damn good, i'm going to be so good that they're going to have to keep me? >> no i didn't. >> you didn't? >> no i didn't actually. i just thought crikey i have no idea what the heck i'm doing. >> but after one episode were you hooked and thought i want to stay here? >> the next they said oh we want you to do the next episode. and then the next one till the end of the season. so it was based on rahm emanuel so i had some sort of who.

>> the current mayor of chicago and of course former chief of staff to president barack obama. what sort of research did you do? >> not very much. i mean i think, you know rahm emanuel is such a strong personality. i've never met him, but i -- you know, i read up about him. he's got great taste, like he's a coiled spring he's ruthless. he's also got a certain interesting side he was a belly dancer so there's a fascinating dichotomy there. so those are the sort of things i focused on. >> you're going back to broadway? >> actually, yes. in about half an hour i'm going to rehearsals to do "cabaret" again after 16 years. i'm going back to the -- >> how do you feel about that? >> i feel exhausted, gayle. there's kristen. >> let me show you this. this is a clip when you and i appeared together.

>> 1998. >> you didn't want to do it because? >> well i had a very -- you know i'm kind of prejudiced against -- i was prejudiced against musicals really. i can't -- i really can't do that -- >> where did this come from? >> irg noernsgnorance really. i don't like these modern musicals where everyone is singing and it's all about something important and the songs are just glorified pop songs. i think that's a bit crass. this is not like this at all. another thing i can't do is i can't do speaking and then suddenly singing. i just can't do that. >> oh yes, i can. >> how times have changed. >> are you nervous about going back after 16 years? >> well you'd think i should be being an ancient old hag doing something that was difficult even then. no, i've actually been enjoying it. it's such fun. and the good thing about muscle memory is that it actually exists, it's not just a concept. like it comes back into your body in a way which is very

heartening. dance steps are hard. i'm not a dancer and yet, you know -- so i'm really looking >> i'm looking forward to it. >> alan cumming tweeted you this morning, somebody said watch you on "cbs this morning." you said i'm a hoot at 7:30 in the morning. >> i'm shooting "the good wife" this morning. >> it's called multitasking. >> i know all about that gale. >> it's good for you. >> thanks for wearing those pants this morning. >> these pants were my father in law's. i'm wearing them in his honor today. >> you wear them well. >> thanks. >> good to see you. see allen on "the good wife" sunday nights at 9:00 8:00 central on cbs. and jamie wax, the incredible story of

living in new york city can be very expensive. so it's common for people to bring costs down by sharing a place. but this morning, a pair of temporary roommates aren't staying together to split the rent. terrell brown is in brooklyn with a circle of life. good morning. >> hey, charlie, nora gayle, good morning. >> two men living on this giant wooden wheel, the only way to make this work they have to constantly be in perfect balance. >> tucked away on an industrial block in the trendy williamsburg section of brooklyn the performance artist ward shelly and alex are hard at work on their latest project. let's talk about the wheel tangibly, this, is it called a

hamster wheel? >> no. i wouldn't call it a hamster wheel. it's not dissimilar to one. i think that people map what they know on to what they don't know. >> alex is always at the bottom of the wheel, ward at the top. they're six days into their ten-long day performance art piece. during this time the duo never leaves the wheel. they will sleep, eat and take phone calls, all from their temporary home. >> if you had to give a message for the person that walks in and sees you doing this, what does this mean? >> first we shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us. we could actually use the shape of the building that we were in to demonstrate the interrelatedness of the people involved. >> reporter: the insulation called in orbit is free of charge and open to the public. and the gallery has had up to 100 visitors a day. joe amrhine is the owner of the

art space. >> you put yourself on display, you need an audience to sort of have a dialogue with. >> reporter: the wheel was running water, toilets and electricity. if one person walks, the other walks. they do everything in tandem. give me an idea where this idea came from. >> it's really about how a structure will kind of influence who we become. we're kind of communicating through the building, the nature of the building itself is influencing the relationship that we have. >> reporter: the men told us ten days was the right amount of time to fully experience the lessons of living on the wheel. ten days on a wheel. you call it fun. >> i don't call it fun every moment. you wouldn't challenge that idea if a mountain climber told you it was fun. and this is a little bit like that. it may seem pointless on some level but one definition of art is do a dumb thing in a

difficult way. and when you do you take away the tangible and material benefits and you are left only with what it means and what it means to you. >> reporter: the wheel, take a look, on the move right now. the morning routine under way. alex as you can see, moving very slowly but he is heading to the kitchen for breakfast. and this is the routine we see day in and day out, 24 hours a day. >> i wonder what he's eating this morning. thank you, terrell. >> yes. >> that's cool looking. i like what he said deaf nis of art, do a dumb thing in a difficult way. when you look at it you think, why? but all right. it's a very subjective thing. i get it. >> very creative. >> that does it for us. be sure to tune in the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. tonight you'll meet two moms fighting the heroin epidemic. we'll see you them on "cbs this morning." >> take it easy.

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your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. good morning. in the headlines, the google barge is slipping out of the bay under the cover of night. google isn't saying where the mysterious vessel is headed. we can tell you this much, it's on the delta heading east. there has been talk of docking in stockton but nothing has been confirmed. the barge would reportedly showcase google's latest technology once they open it up to the public. a bay area teacher is in jail this morning accused of sexually abusing four students at making waves middle school in richmond. he was then hired at another richmond school. no one there knew he was under investigation for the alleged sexual abuse at the other school. and a woman spent 15 hours clinging to a raft after her boat sank ofthe monterey coast. the 45-year-old was rescued and

got to the hospital in time. she should be okay. got a wet start today but the next two days look fabulous. right? >> yeah. looking very good. but what a crazy night. we had some thunderstorms out there. so the heavy rainfall, that is settled down somewhat those thunderstorms now making their way to the central parts of the state. and our skies beginning to clear out around the bay area just a bit. more clouds to come, slide chance of showers, that next wave of moisture moving into far northern california so unsettled north of the golden gate bridge. temperatures today it will be muggy and mild. 65 degrees in fremont. 67 in mountain view. and 65 degrees in san rafael. looking out over the next couple of days, speaking of fabulous, some 70s showing up maybe even some mid-70s on saturday chance of rain sunday night and into monday. we're going to check your "kcbs traffic" when we come back.

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