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morning" is coming up next. enjoy your thursday, everybody. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com captioning funded by cbs good morning to our viewers in the west. it is thursday, april 3rd, 2014. welcome to "cbs this morning." the search for answers as ft. hood grieves after another deadly shooting. a delta plane skids off the tarmac. the hydraulic problem that forced an emergency landing. and an unhappy white house after president obama unknowingly smiles his way into a stealth ad campaign. we begin this morning with today's "eye-opener," your world in 90 seconds. [ sirens ] multiple gunshot victims, some people jumping from windows. >> another deadly rampage at ft. hood. >> the iraq war veteran opening
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fire on fellow troops killing three, before turning the gun on himself. 16 others wounded. >> we do not know a motive. we know the soldier had mental health issues. >> any shooting is troubling. obviously, this reopens the pain of what happened at ft. hood five years ago. >> a powerful 7.6-magnitude aftershock struck chile's coast just after a quake killed six people. >> officials say so far the damage is surprisingly light for a quake this size. another round of severe thunderstorms in the midwest. hail and gusty winds, more is expected today. >> senators accuse general motors of covering up a defect that has killed at least 13 people. >> really, as a woman to woman, i am very disappointed. >> a delta air lines jet ended up in the grass, making an emergency landing at new york's kennedy airport. >> i got no brakes. >> a new disaster in texas after a driver tries to beat a train.
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amazingly, no one seriously hurt. >> oh, that? >> queen elizabeth will have a private audience with pope francis at the vatican, the fifth time the queen has met with the pontiff. >> lady gaga invited everyone, including bill murray, to see her perform at a music venue that's closing down. [ cheers ] >> and all that matters. >> you take all of the keys off the ring except the ignition key, it is safe to drive. >> here's the problem with the car here. you have a house. [ laughter ] >> on "cbs this morning." >> fill in the blank. next election, my blank will run for blank. [ laughter ] >> this morning's "eye-opener" is presented by toyota. let's go places. welcome to "cbs this morning." good morning, norah. >> good morning to you, charlie. >> we begin with this -- once again, the army is asking
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why after a shooting at ft. hood texas. an iraq war veteran killed three people yesterday and then committed suicide. >> 16 other people were hurt. it is the second deadly attack by a ft. hood soldier in the last five years. anna westerner erwerner is at the fort with information on the attacker. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. good morning to our viewers in the west. sources identify the gunman at 34-year-old ivan lopez. military officials will not confirm that name, but they do say he served for four months in iraq in 2011 and had only recently been transferred here to ft. hood from another base. he also was being evaluated for post-traumatic stress disorder. [ sirens ] army officials say the gunman entered a medical building shortly after 4:00 p.m. carrying a .45-caliber smith & wesson. he opened fire. >> they have an active shooter currently on ft. hood. >> reporter: as police made their way to the scene lopez left the first building, got into a vehicle, and continued
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firing. he then walked into a second building and fired again. military police pursued lopez into a parking lot. as a female officer approached lopez came toward her, first putting his hands up, then reaching into his jacket for his gun, as she pulled out her weapon -- >> he put the weapon to his head, and he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. >> reporter: the 16 injured were taken to local hospitals, most with gunshot wounds. others with a range of injuries including lacerations from jumping through glass windows, sustained trying to escape the gunman. the shooting carried echoes of november 2009 when major nidal hasan opened fire in a medical building here at ft. hood, killing 13 people and injuring more than 30 others. >> the response was swift -- >> reporter: at a press conference wednesday night, lieutenant general mark milley praised the work of his team and the female officer who confronted the suspect. general, how would you describe what she did today? >> clearly heroic what she did.
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at that moment in time. and she did her job and she did exactly what we would expect of a united states army military police. >> reporter: president obama, who eulogized the victims of the 2009 shooting addressed the ft. hood community wednesday night. >> we're heartbroken that something like this might have happened again. >> reporter: lieutenant general milley says the community is resilient. >> we know the soldiers and the civilians and the families of this fort, who served so bravely in combat over the last 13 years in both iraq and afghanistan, are strong, and we will get through this. >> reporter: one big question authorities have not been able to address here is motive. why lopez committed the shooting? they do know the gun he used was purchased recently here locally, and it was not registered as required on base. >> anna thanks. army officials say they believe this attack is not
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terror-related. bob orr is in washington where investigators are trying to learn what set lopez off. bob, good morning. what do we know about ivan lopez? >> reporter: well, good morning, charlie. investigators now are focusing primarily on the service and medical history of specialist lopez. the army says he was suffering from behavioral and mental health issues, and he was being treated for depression and anxiety. lopez, we understand served in iraq for four months back in 2011. as far as we know, he was not injured or wounded in action. but when he came home, he told his military superiors that he'd suffered a traumatic brain injury, so he was being evaluated for post-traumatic stress syndrome. sources say a preliminary check of his background has revealed no significant criminal record a search of the criminal and terror databases has turned up no evidence so far that he was connected in any way to any kind of terrorist group. but nothing's been ruled out. investigators do tell us that lopez used a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol which was
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purchased recently during the attack yesterday and federal officials are now working to trace that weapon and also any recent purchases of ammunition he may have made. >> and, bob, what about motive? >> reporter: norah, this appears right now to be an incident of what they called soldier-on-soldier violence. we don't know yet if lopez was targeting specific soldiers or if hethe attack might turn out to be random. we do know the shootings took place in a medical facility and nearby command building, and those are areas on ft. hood familiar to lopez. investigators are going through his background talking to his family friends, fellow soldiers. and importantly, as they always do, looking through his e-mails, phone records, computer files. they're trying to find out primarily if he left any kind of clues or evidence of preplanning. what they really want to identify is any possible stressor, something that may have caused lopez recently to snap and then react with violence. >> all right, bob, thank you so much. and after the shooting, defense secretary chuck hagel said the military is not doing enough to identify and help
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personnel who are in trouble. >> anytime you lose any of your people to these kinds of tragedies, there's an issue, there's a problem. obviously, again, when we have these kinds of tragedies on our bases, something's not working. >> david martin is at the pentagon where the investigation is following a path that is all too familiar. david, good morning. >> reporter: well, there is a bitter bitter irony here. last month, no americans were killed in afghanistan, but this month begins with four americans killed as a result of another all-too-familiar threat -- the insider shooting. after major nidal hasan killed 13 people at ft. hood in 2009 the issue was, how did both the army and the fbi miss the signs that he had adopted a jihadist philosophy? the fbi knew parts and the army knew parts, but nobody brought it together.
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after ft. hood the pentagon instituted reforms designed to close the gaps hasan had fallen through. there were also reviews after last year's shooting at the navy yard when alexis who had severe mental problems killed 12 people. in that case there were episodes of violent, irrational behavior in his background that had been missed despite the fact he had been granted a security -- secret security clearance. in this latest insider shooting we know the shooter was receiving treatment for mental problems, but there is a notorious shortage of mental health workers in the military and one of the questions investigators will have to answer is, what kind of treatment was he receiving? norah? >> all right, david, thank you. now to an emergency landing for a delta air lines flight. the faa is investigating this morning flight 886 from atlanta, which was supposed to land at new york's la guardia airport last night. but the plane was diverted to a
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longer runway at nearby kennedy airport after problems with the hydraulics system that controls the brakes. the plane did land safely but then, air traffic control spotted trouble just before the jet went off the runway and got stuck in grassy area. well, no one was hurt. the 123 people on board were bussed to the terminal. the plane had to be towed in. malaysia's prime minister says this morning the work to solve the mystery of flight 370 won't stop until answers are found, and he says the new, refined search area gives him hope. teams from eight countries are using aircraft boats, and now submarine to search for the missing boeing 777. holly williams is at the base near perth australia, where the recovery effort is being coordinated. holly, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. on his visit here to ps air base this morning, the malaysian
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prime minister thanked the men and women involved in the search for wreckage flight 370. now, the government has repeatedly been accused of insensitivity towards the families of those who were on board the boeing 777. he didn't answer our questions about that today. but he did make a joint statement with the australian prime minister tony abbott. >> i know that until we find the plane, many families cannot start to grieve. i cannot imagine what they must be going through. but i can promise them that we will not give up. >> we cannot be certain of ultimate success in the search for mh-370, but we can be certain that we will spare no effort that we will not rest until we have done everything we humanly can. >> reporter: that suggestion that the wreckage may never be found is something we're hearing
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more and more from people involved in the search. charlie? >> holly, thanks. relatives of the 239 people on flight 370 have lived without a resolution to the tragedy since march 8th. ahead, holly williams talks to a woman whose husband was on the plane. she tells us about the moment she learned the jet disappeared. that's coming up. and another powerful earthquake shook northern chile overnight. it registered a 7.6 magnitude, making it almost as strong as tuesday's quake. thousands of people ran out of their homes and chile's president was visiting the area and had to leave her hotel. no major damage or casualties are reported. up to 40 million americans face a severe weather threat over the next few days. hail bigger than golf balls, fell in southern kansas overnight, and this morning storms are causing damage in
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missouri. chief meteorologist eric fisher is watching the rough weather. >> good morning to you. very busy out there. we had a tornado reported outside of st. louis. a lot of thunderstorms on the map. a lot of heavy rain. the threat will be ongoing throughout today. the biggest risk from st. louis to memphis little rock reaching down to northern parts of louisiana. tornadoes, large hail damaging wind gusts all included. this will go through the afternoon into the evening, and even into the overnight before the threat moves off to the east. on the north side of the storm, it's still wintertime. we've got a lot of snow coming done across minnesota, wisconsin, especially this evening, tonight, and into tomorrow morning. some impressive totals could lead to a top-ten biggest snowstorm in april history for some of the towns. 6 to 10 twin cities, norah. for some winter does not want to quit. >> all right eric thank you. general motors is on the defensive after two days of capitol hill testimony by its ceo. senators grilled mary barra wednesday about why a defect linked to 13 deaths was kept from the public for a decade.
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jeff glor has been covering the story for weeks and was at the hearing in ug was. jeff, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, norah. wednesday's senate hearing was more intense and focused than tuesday's hearing in the house. as lawmakers tried to advance the investigation, gm's leader insisted the company is on its own timetable. >> i don't have the complete facts to share with you today. >> repoter: mary barra started at gm in 1980 and held upper-level management positions for more than a decade before taking over as ceo in january. she says she learned about a defect linked to at least 13 deaths two months ago. >> within general motors, there were silos, and as information was known in one part of the business -- for instance the legal team -- it didn't necessarily get communicated as effectively as it should have been to other parts -- for instance, the engineering team. >> reporter: barra blamed an old gm focused on cost and lack of communication. >> if this is the new gm leadership, it's pretty lacking. >> a culture of cover-up that allowed an engineer at general motors to lie under oath. >> reporter: one issue.
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this memo shows that many employees were aware of the defect as early as 2005. when a key is inserted into the ignition, the problem was in the back of the ignition switch assembly. this part, called the detent plunger, was too short and did not fit snugly into its slots. the looseness means the key could spontaneously twist, turning the car off and disabling safety features. the replacement plunger is 15% longer than the defective one, snugly fitting into position and holding that key in place. >> we now know that the difference between this switch and one that would have worked was the difference between life and death. >> reporter: no recall came until nine years later. on wednesday, barra continued to plead ignorance. senator barbara boxer -- >> i am very disappointed really, as a woman to woman. i am very disappointed. because the culture that you are representing here today is a culture of the status quo.
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>> reporter: barra said multiple times if gm deceived the government in 2009 by taking a bailout without revealing the problem. bankruptcy gave the company immunity from prior acts and claims. barra said the compensation issue has not been settled. that internal investigation will take 45 to 60 days. charlie? >> thank you, jeff. this morning a funeral is scheduled in boston for firefighter michael kennedy. he was one of two firefighters killed last week in the line of duty. they died after being trapped in the basement of a burning brownstone. elaine quijano is in boston where firefighters from around the country are gathering. elaine, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, charlie. well, just two weeks before the anniversary of the boston marathon bombing, the city is mourning two lost firefighters. in a somber procession the boston fire department and firefighters from across the country, have come together here in massachusetts to honor their sacrifice. ♪
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a striking sea of uniformed officers from across the country, and as far away as australia, descended on watertown, massachusetts, on wednesday, to pay their respects to boston firefighter lieutenant edward walsh. lieutenant walsh's sister, kathy malone, eulogized her brother. >> he had the voice of authority long before he earned the rank of lieutenant, and he lived more than 43 years than many of us will do in 80. >> reporter: inside the church, lieutenant walsh's widow, kristen, sat with her three children, all under age 10. but perhaps the most moving tribute to lieutenant walsh was done outside of public view. kristen walsh asked the boston fire department for one thing following her husband's death. to find his wedding ring. fire investigator patricia donovan was one of the firefighters sent to search the burned-out building. >> we started going through the debris, and i was going through it, and i saw something round, in the sister i had, and i picked it up cleaned it off,
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and i was, like, oh, my god, this is it. chills just went through my body. >> reporter: the members of lieutenant walsh's firehouse, station 33 arrived at his wake on tuesday to deliver the ring to his wife. when you saw her put the ring on her finger -- >> yeah it was -- you know, you get a big lump in your throat and we all gave her a big hug. >> reporter: today, the funeral mass for michael kennedy, the other firefighter killed, will take place here at holy name catholic church. kennedy was 33 years old, a marine corps veteran who served in iraq. charlie? >> elaine thanks. it's time to show you this morning's headlines. the "washington post" says the united states government secretly created the equivalent of a cuba twitter account, according to the ap. it was designed to undermine the government in cuba. it had more than 10,000 subscribers before disappearing in 2012. >> "the new york times" reports the federal government opened a
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criminal investigation into alleged fraud by citigroup that involves the bank's mexican unit. it stems from their recent disclosure they found $400 million in fraudulent loans. >> and our seattle affiliate says 29 people are confirmed dead in the oso landslide. 18 people are still missing after the disaster. new video shows a dramatic rescue on the day of the slide. a helicopter crew shoifthoisted two people to safety. they carried their sole possession, a painting. this morning, a first from the kpix 5 weather center, good morning, everybody. out the door, a combination of partly to mostly cloudy skies. air temperature pretty much in the 40s. a few 50s around san francisco stream through redwood city. later today increasing cloud cover in the 50s and the 60s. couple of degrees warmer than yesterday. but check this out. a slight chance of rain showers tomorrow, anything we see will be generally less than .10" of
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key figure in the corruption case against state senator leland yee good thursday morning. 7:26. i' frank mallicoat. a key figure in the corruption case against state senator leland yee appears in federal court. keith jackson accused of being a middleman between yee and criminals. jackson was one of 26 people arrested during last week's sweep. after only a month into his new job, oakland city administrator is stepping down. fred blackwell is taking the reins across the bay here in san francisco for the san francisco foundation. it's a group that grants money to community organizations across the region. the change could hurt mayor jean quan's re-election campaign. san jose police say they don't have enough recruits. the department says it received roughly half the applications
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a five-car chain reaction crash on southbound 101 near woodside road. everything clear to the shoulder. check this tweet showing some of the backups just moments ago approaching the accident scene. but again, things should start to recover, they just cleared everything out of lanes. traffic also very heavy 101 through san jose. that's traffic. here's roberta. >> let's head outside partly to mostly cloudy skies currently from san francisco looking out towards the bay into oakland where currently air temperatures are in the 40s and low 50s. today topping off in the 50s and 60s under mostly cloudy skies. about .10" of rain or less on friday and huge warmup beginning on saturday all the way through wednesday. enjoy your day.
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coming up in this half hour the white house is upset over another selfie, one taken by boston red sox star david ortiz during a visit to the white house. you'll see how the group behind this photo came into focus. plus jeff pe gaze is on the road in maryland. >> reporter: coming up the first campaign from the didn't of transportation targeting texting and driving in a very graphic way. we'll show you the ads. here's the latest on the deadly shooting at ft. hood, texas. it was the third attack in six months. army specialists say ivan lopez used a .45 caliber handgun to kill three. 16 others were hurt. officials say he had been evaluated for post traumatic stress disorder. the shooting happened less than five years after an army psychiatrist killed 3 13 people
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at ft. hood. it's been almost four weeks since flight 370 veered from its original route after takeoff into the unknown. relatives of the passenger and crew have endur tragedy. today we met with a woman whose husband paul was on flight 370. paul weeks was on his way to start a new job as a mechanical engineer in mongolia. the first dashe heard the plane was missing is when she was contacted by a journalist. >> i started screaming. i thought instantly, did the plane crash as anyone logically would.
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rain out to the backyard and i remember screaming, screaming, uncontrollably. >> reporter: they had two sons together, 3-year-old lincoln and baby jack. >> reporter: what are you telling your two boys? >> jack's too young. he's 11 months, so he doesn't understand, but lincoln -- lincoln understands. i've explained that dad's gone and we go out every night and pick out the brightest star and he says good night daddy. and then he says no i don't want dad up there forever. bring him back down here. i don't want him up there forever. what do you say to him? >> reporter: this is a painful question, but what if they never find the plane? >> i can't think about that at the moment. that's my biggest fear. i have nothing now and i want to find out the truth. i don't know where to begin.
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we want to have a memorial for him. when do i do that and will i ever get the chance to make that decision? >> reporter: like other family members of those on board, she's angry that she was notified the plane had been lost via a text message. >> they texted me. why would j you pick up the phone? >> reporter: malaysian officials have been criticized for their insensitivity. the prime minister was in perth today thanking those involved in the search. she was invited to a private meeting with his wife. >> reporter: there's 239 stories out there all heartbreaking. i've gone through anger, i've gone through frustration i've about gone through, you know, the emotions of losing my husband. you know i can't begin -- i can't begin
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devastating for her and the other families. gayle? >> it is just too hard to think about. i think about those families all of the time. i don't know how they're doing it. >> and what do you tell your son? i mean you don't know that he's totally gone. you don't know about where the plane is. and children need certainty. you can't leave open questions with children. you have to give them some certainty. oh i feel for her. >> those are beautiful words. please bring him back from the stars. >> yeah. i don't want him up there all the time. and the decision to release by text, aisle never understand that. you know everybody's sitting by the phone. >> this is, in fact, the human dimension of why we get so kaupt in the search. >> yeah. exactly roof. moving on samsung is advertising another coup. they managed to turn a white
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house visit to a product placement but now the company is being questioned about its tactics. bill plante is at the white house with its reaction. bill, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. that right. everybody who visits the white house wants a picture with the president. when big papi ortiz gave the president a jersey and snap add selfie with his cellphone, it didn't seem at all out of the ordinary until it turned out the selfie was an orchestrated stunt. the white house said the president had no idea when he posed for what seemed like a spontaneous snap was orchestrated by samsung but ortiz did know and so did apparently some of his teammates. samsung named ortiz a social media insider and coached him prior to his white house visit. in the statement the company said it was an honor to help him capture such an incredible and
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genuine moment of joy and excitement, and they tweeted it to more than 5 million followers, noting that it was taken with the galaxy note 3. samsung was behind the record-setting photo ellen degeneres took at the academy awards. ortiz said he had a contract with the tech giant but the photo with the president was spontaneous. >> who knows they're going take a selfie with the president? who can guarantee that? >> reporter: of course it's not the first time the president posed for a selfie. in february he squeezed in with bill nye the science guy and nelson. and there was the memorial service when he raised some eyebrows by posing during the ceremony with the prime ministerings of britain and denmark. but it's one thing to snap a souvenir photo and something else to use it as a commercial. when a garment manufacturers put
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a billboard in time square of the president wearing one of its jackets, the white house asked them to take it down. >> you have to realize it's not really an ad. it's just a photo. >> reporter: she covers ads for "the wall street journal." show homes samsung can become synonymous with a selfie and take a bite out of the apple's share. >> i think it's risky and they're on a tear and they'll pull any lever they can to attack apple. >> reporter: well the white house is not happy about this but they're another making any public requests the take down the tweets. they don't want to appear heavy-handed. norah? >> well look. everybody loves big papi, especially people that are part of red sox nation. >> big papi let me down. he doesn't know me but i just think -- >> unfortunately the coaching of him and if it's disclosed how much he got paid to take that picture. >> in the world of a lot of
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crossing gate. bad news. the light rail train slammed into the vehicle with four people including two kids. the good news is everyone is expected to be okay. wow. the department of transportation is launching a haunting ad campaign next week but you're about to see it first this morning. jeff pegues is along 270 in maryland with a look. >> reporter: good morning. it's the first national ad campaign targeting texting and describing in a very graphic way. it show as what can happen when you take your eyes off the road. according to the department of transportation texting and driving is a growing threat to motorists. >> how many letters? >> 18. >> reporter: this is one of the ads that is set to air next week. >> reporter: it is part of the department of transportation's national campaign to combat texting while driving. there's no mistaking the message that this is trying to send.
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in 43 states texting while driving is against the law, but that hasn't stopped people from using their phones behind the wheel in large number whether it's texting or talking, taking your eyes off the road is all distracted driving. >> it's particularly dangerous road. >> reporter: in westchester county, new york we took a ride with a state trooper. >> see that right there, right hand with the original piece >> reporter: in this unmarked suv it took a matter of minutes to pull over several drivers. the national highway traffic safety administration estimated in 2012 more than 3,300 nationwide were kill and about 420,000 were injured in distracted driving-related crashes. the secretary of transportation thoernlt fox believes the ad blitz is a way of changing a mindset. why do you think it's important
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for this to come from the federal sflevl. >> it's important because there's so many variances. we want folks to know that if they text while they're driving, it is a safety hazard. >> reporter: you're not concerned that there may be a little too much to show on tv? >> sometimes we have to be shocked into recognizing the reality, and the reality is that distracted driving is not safe. >> this is the text my daughter was reading when she drove into traffic. >> reporter: this is just one approach. last year the four major mobile carriers in the u.s. worked together to create a series of public service announcements featuring stories from accident victims. but the government's 8 prcht 5 million dollar campaign will by accompanyied by penalties and fines. they'll accelerate efforts to track down and ticket texting drivers. >> how many percentage-wise you do think are teenagers? >> maybe approximately 70% of
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your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. good morning. it's 7:56. i'm michelle griego. police in east san jose are investigating a deadly shooting at dinali way and lanai avenue. no suspect information right now from the san jose police. this is san jose's 11th homicide this year. today a key figure in the corruption case against state senator leland yee appears in court. keith jackson is accused of acting as a middleman between yee and a group of criminals. jackson was one of 26 people arrested during last week's sweep. chp is making a special effort to crackdown on distracted driving today. it's part of a nationwide campaign. more than 426,000 california drivers were convicted last year for texting or using hand- held phones. stay with us. traffic and weather in just a moment.
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good morning. we're going to focus in on the lower deck of the bay bridge trying to get out of san francisco. there was a big rig and it was stuck at that treasure island off-ramp. twitter suddenly is blowing up with tweets about it. right now the big rig was just cleared. so they got the big rig unstuck. unfortunately, there were muni delays for a while on 108 and you can still see traffic is still very heavy on that san francisco side of the bay bridge trying to get into oakland. and a quick look richmond/san rafael bridge also slow approaching the toll plaza. that's traffic. here's roberta. >> elizabeth, we're already noticing increasing cloud cover. good morning, everybody. stepping outside looking out towards coit tower mostly cloudy skies. air temperature in the 40s and low 50s. later today, 50s and 60s under mostly cloudy skies. we will see generally less than .10" of rain if any at all on friday. high pressure builds in and we have a warming trend saturday through wednesday. near or record warmth on tuesday.
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good morning to our viewers in the west. it's thursday april 3rd 2014. welcome back to "cbs this morning." a second deadly shooting at ft. hood. but first a look at today's "eye-opener at 8:00.." motive? why lopez committed the shooting. >> seek shelter immediately. >> and the army says he was suffering from behavioral and mental health issues and he was being treated for depression and anxiety. delta airlines had a flight divert after a problem with the
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system that controls the brakes. a lot of heavy rain and the threat will be going throughout the day. the human face of this tragedy -- >> the first national ad campaign in a graphic way. >> ortiz snapped a selfie with his cell phone, it didn't seem out of the ordinary until it turned out the selfie was an orchestrated stunt. >> he doesn't know me. let me down. i just think --. >> it's beet lemonade. nted by panera bread. i am charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell. the motive of an iraq war veteran who shot and killed
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three shoulderseld soldiers is a mystery today. >> anna is at ft. hood where people are shaken after the second shooting there in five years. good morning. >> reporter: good morning and good morning to the viewers in the west. there are 50,000 people here in the ft. hood community and all of them were on lockdown yesterday at 4:00. that's when the gunman locked into a medical building and opened fire. as police made their way to the scene, lopez left the first building, got into a vehicle and continued firing. he then walked into a second building and fired again. military police pursued lopez into a parking lot. as a female officer approached lopez came towards her first putting her hands up. >> she pulled out her weapon and she engaged and he put the
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weapon to his head. >> how would you describe what she did? >> heroic. at that moment in time she did her job and exactly what she would expect of a united states army military police. >> reporter: something interesting to note back in 2009 during the other major shooting it was also a female police officer who played a key role in stopping the shooter there, too. >> doctors evaluated signs fz post traumatic stress disorder. he was making medication for depression and anxiety and claimed to be suffering from a traumatic brain injury. he served in iraq in 2011, but there was no evidence he was wounded there at this point, and it's not clear where he was assigned after iraq and he arrived in ft. hood in february.
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the nasa says it is cutting most of its ties with nasa at least on earth. nasa employees cannot communicate with the russian counterparts counterparts, but the policy did not affect the space station. the most recent mission lifted off last week. and then a week after pope francis welcomed president obama to the vatican, now he has another high-profile visitor, queen elizabeth. >> reporter: in fact this business between the queen and the pope is a bit of a happy accident. it was scheduled to take place sometime ago before francis was elected but had to be postponed, so instead now we get the encounter between the two very popular iconic figures, each the head of their own vulnerable
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institution. >> she is about to turn 88, and prince phillip who is 92 has had a series of mental issues lately but officially this is a visit with the italian president, he is a friend of the queen, and enticed her to drop by saying she could also squeeze in a chat with the new pope. queen elizabeth, now in the sixth deck identify of her reign, has met five popes. this is being billed as an informal meeting but in a meeting room elsewhere in the vatican. pope francis still seems to prefer less looked at venues. and president obama was here last week and russian president, vladimir putin, was
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here last year. it could be useful for a politician of whatever stripe with the pope to be seen with-- >> it's a key position for all leaders all over the west to come and greet the pope. >> reporter: by coincidence, this meeting between the queen and the pope takes place on the anniversary of the 1982 war between britain and argentina over the foulklin islands, but that's not considered to be the proper stuff to be discussed over a get-to-know-you cup of tea. >> what does one discuss after a
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that leads to the question if your sniffles are allergies or a cold. good morning. it feels like yesterday it was still cold out, so how do you know if it's a lingering cold or the on set of allergies? >> one of the biggest things are duration. colds last for at the most 7 to 10 days, and if you have allergies you will see the symptoms coming up for weeks, and getting a little better and coming back next week and it is chronic and goes on for a season. >> we keep saying this is the worst ever allergy season and that is said every year. >> we are saying that this year. and it's because there was so
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much snowfall because of the moisture for the trees and it's optimum optimum storm for pollen growth. you can do something about yourle you are gees colds you have to wait out and treat the symptoms, and allergies, you can so go and see an algergist. >> what are the other symptoms other than what we have said in terms of tearing or -- >> well, nasal congestion and sore throats, which could be a confusing thing, so itching could be something, and itchy
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throat -- >> i heard something gross, that the color of your mucous matters, and i heard it's important information? >> yeah people with colds often complain of yellow mucous out of their nose and allergies, you see a lot of clear stuff. >> clear stuff is always good. >> thank you for clarifying that, gayle. >> you are welcome. helpful information. now you know what to do. if you see a color, you need to go and see somebody. >> yeah, if you see a color, you need to go and see somebody. and the pros and cons of changing pot laws ahead on "cbs this morning." nd cons. >> announcer: presented by nasacort.
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>> honest answer okay? and i'll raise my hand. how many of you have smoked pot? raise your hands. okay. you've all broken the law. you've broken the law. so, you did something that was against the law. why? >> just wanted to see how it was, you know, trying it the first time. >> you know, you sound like you're still on it now. >> not at all. i've been clean for many many years. >> have you tried it? >> i tried it. it was in the privacy of a group where we knew we weren't going to get caught. i tried it and didn't do anything to me. >> colorado's legalized it. and they're going to make money from it. they're going to tax it. isn't that the best approach those who don't want to use it don't have to and those who do pay a tax on it. >> alcohol was il local at one point, too. we were able to make money from it and now as you read the papers and you see that there are more drunk driving accidents
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that happen more. i mean you don't hear as much about marijuana and accidents that happen like that. >> who supports it? raise your hands. most of you. who opposes it? do you feel old fashioned by opposing it? >> to a certain degree because most of my peers would say we should legalize it. >> you don't? >> i don't think so. i think there's enough problems problems problems out there with drunk driving and i could see a lot of problems emanating from legalizing marijuana. >> he he equates it with alcohol. do you? >> no. it has medicinal purposes and people are doing it. may as well make it legal. >> is colorado a state to emanate or state to avoid? >> either/or, depending who you are. i believe in free choice. if you want to go there and visit, go ahead. >> it seems to me that you're judging it by people's free
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will. >> free will can be taken to extremes. what next, legalize heroin? >> is that the same thing? >> no it's not. but if you're applying logic of people should be allowed to do what they want to do that can logically be extended to taking heroin taking cocaine or any other drug and legalizing that. >> do you have kids? >> yeah. >> when they're 18, official adults and they say mom, i want to smoke, would you yell at them? >> i would feel worse if they were smoking cigarettes. i think cigarettes have caused so many health problems in our country. ramifications are deadly for years and years. i don't think that people smoking recreationally are going to be smoking constantly like people do with cigarettes. >> frank luntz, good morning. what was the most surprising thing you learned ? >> first off that so many people were prepared to acknowledge on national television that they smoked pot. >> including you. >> including me.
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have you? >> i'm not part of your focus group. >> have you, charlie? >> have i? >> yes. >> yes. >> have you? >> no. >> never? >> never. >> it has now reached the point where we actually look at people differently who say no. >> really? >> it's become so excessive. >> i don't think you're different, gayle. >> my surprise is that younger people -- >> i want to. >> i can make that happen when this segment is over. >> i just want to try t i just want to try it. go ahead. >> my favorite polling question of all time, paper, pipe or bong? the best answer, all three. younger people are changing the culture. in the 1960s, we all focused on that divide between the teens and the parents. now actually young people are making a difference. they've changed gay marriage they've changed here on drug use and our whole society is changing because they're driving it. >> were there big generational differences? >> i think there are more political differences, republicans tend to be more
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against it democrats tend to be for it. it's also regional differences. if you're out west your attitude is leave me alone, government. it's almost libertarian. i want to do what i want to do. as long as it's not hurting anybody, it's okay. >> in the states that were yellow, it's medicinal and approved ? >> it's almost all west. the south will be the last region of the country to respond to it as well as the northeast. but we're all changing. >> thank you frank. when we come back, charlie rose goes one on one with bryan cranston and the demand he faces with eight shows a week. >> i don't speak on mondays. good thing it's not a monday. >> it would be a bad interview. questions and no answers. oh, no. >> i bet charlie could make that work. we'll hear more from bryan cranston on "cbs this morning."
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your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. good morning. i'm frank mallicoat. here's what's happening. later today a key figure in the corruption case against state senator leland yee appears in federal court. this man keith jackson accused of being a middleman between yee and criminals. jackson was one of 26 people arrested during the fbi sweep last week. after a month on the job, the oakland city administrator is stepping down. fred blackwell is going to the san francisco foundation. it's a group that grants money to community organizations across the region. the change could hurt mayor jean quan's re-election campaign. and san jose police say they just don't have enough recruits. the department says they received roughly half the applications it normally gets. hundreds passed basic physicals but after background checks and
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good morning. people are waiting in an unusually long backup now in san francisco on northbound 101. it's all because of that earlier stalled big rig. it was stuck actually on the off-ramp to treasure island. so we are starting to see the delays right around candlestick and continuing now on to the lower deck of the bay bridge. if you are traveling in the commute direction, westbound 80 backed up into the macarthur maze right now. but everything is pretty typical. the metering lights are turned
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on right around 6:00. and if you are traveling in the south bay it's in a northbound 101 commute through san jose backed up from beyond capitol expressway all the way past your trimble exit. that's your latest "kcbs traffic." your forecast now, here's roberta. >> thanks, elizabeth. good morning, everybody. we have mostly cloudy skies towards coit tower temperatures in the 40s still and in the low 50s. meanwhile, later today, this is what you need to know. the clouds continue to increase. we do have a chance of rain showers on friday. generally less than .10" and then sunny and warm from the weekend all the way through tuesday. meanwhile, today's highs under that cloud cover in the 50s and the 60s. southwest breeze five to ten miles per hour. once we get rid of the little bump in the road on friday, we have high pressure on saturday resulting in warmer conditions on sunday, near or record warmth for your tuesday. enjoy your day. [ grunting ] i'm taking off but, uh, don't worry.
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please welcome the 42nd president of the united states, bill clinton. >> first thing i would do after putting my hand on that bible and taking the oath to serve the country, i wouldn't probably even finish the oath. i would run to the white house,'d demand to see all the classified files on the ufos. would you do that? >> sort of. >> oh, you're trying to give me a hint that there are ail yens. >> no. i'm trying to tell you i don't know. i just hope that it's not like independence day. that may be the only way to unite this incredibly divisive world of ours. >> you and bill o'reilly would be hiding in a bunker together.
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>> although i don't care what mean thing he said about that. i'd say, look at that. >> you can bond very quickly in crisis. coming up this half hour, sam's club ceo rosalind brewer in our toyota green room first on "cbs this morning." she'll tell us how the members warehouse store is changing its business mod toll compete with online giants like amazon. plus a conversation with "breaking bad's" bryan cranston. his new role of playing lbj and how it compares with drug lord walter white. that's ahead. first it's time to show you this morning's headlines from around the world. "the hollywood reporter" remembers sports tv director sandy grossman who died after battling cancer for a long time. he covered sports with cbs and fox sports.
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sandy grossman was 78 years old. "the wall street journal" says the supreme court sided with the airlines. they ruled on wednesday that northwest airlines had the right to remove a passenger from its world perks program. that traveler a raby claimed he got the boot for complaining too much. >> reporter: the toronto sun looks at mayor rob ford. he says he pushed the wrong button when he made two controversial votes. on wednesday the mayor of north america's fourth largest city voted against proposals to honor nelson mandela and paraolympic athletes. ford asked for do-over. he was denied. the "new york daily news" looks at an attack on baseball's paternity policy. on cbs's radio, he slammed dan yeah murphy for two games to be with his wife and newborn son. >> ten days. that's ridiculous. ten days. what do you need ten days for?
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what are you doing, vacations? one day, i understand. go see your baby be born. come back. you're major league baseball player. come back. you can hire a nurse. >> it allows players one to three days off when a baby is born. i think they went a little further, too, and criticized his wife for having a c-section and the timing of it with beats apologies later. maybe they may rethink that one. >> just thinking. andthe financial times says the fallout sanctions of russia against crime mia is now impacting pop music. miley cyrus is said to perform in june. lawyers are reviewing whether or not that show can go on. >> reporter: and one more thing russian president vladimir putin is dealing with this morning. he's officially single. the kremlin confirmed his divorce thursday. they revealed his split on live tv. we showed that picture for fun
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but it is known they have been apart for a while and he has other friends. >> reporter: bill murray used this story to fulfill a lifelong wish on david letterman last night. >> i have something here. it's called a bucket list. i would like to take over for one joke. >> oh, just a joke. >> yes. >> oh sure. tony do, we have extras? >> i have one. >> okay. >> you know that evil russian president vladimir putin, he and his wife got divorced and they've been married -- married for over 30 years, but they split up last summer after she caught him invadeing georgia.
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rosalind brewer one of the world's 100 most powerful women in 2013. she's with us again in studio 57. we saw her last you about this time. welcome back. >> thank you for having me. >> you said your goal was to grow it into a $100 billion company. are you on tracksome. >> we are. we're on track. we're excited about where we are. what we're focusing on right now is to make sure we get this digital transformation to happen with our business. and so our online business is growing nicely and so we're looking forward to the $100 billion mark for snus you know
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it's incredible if you think about the changing landscape of the grocery business et cetera because as you mentioned, amazon prime is getting into that. what do you mean when you say you're refocussing your digital? >> for us, we've always had a samsclub.com. we've always sold on line. but we think with the units, we think there's a business that combines both. currently you can buy online and pick up in club and have your delivery ready for you when you're there. we tlink's many work to be done in that space where we combine what happens online and what happens in our club really making it easier for our members to access goods the way they want to access goods i i'm sure online will take an increasing share of your revenue. >> yes. >> how will the balance end up between in store and online. >> we're seeing both. really our members love to come in and shop. they love the thrill of the hunt
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and the excitement of finding something new in the club. you'll never take that away from the average consumer but there's still growth to be had online. >> the blass between online and in store will be 20% online or 50% online? >> you know, it could be 20% online and we would enjoy that. we would enjoy that. >> tell us about the pole pohl you did with gallop and sam's club looking at women in business and smaller businesses. >> yes. so we just initiated work with the gallop industries and we're conducting a stup that helps us. this is an area that's not looked at very often. these are businesses that have five or fewer employees. it is growing. right now it's up to 50% of these micro businesses are run by women and the exciting thing that we're seeing with this is that women are so excited about this. they're maintaining their day job, but they're plowing a lot of their personal cash into getting something started.
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these are the businesses we all enjoy, the cupcake shops on the corner, pizza shops that really are the areas we want. >> i bet you women have greats instinct for entrepreneurial activities. >> they do. >> why is sam's club interested in these micro businesses? >> we're interested because when we started 30 years ago, we started to really -- we began our company just to focus on small businesses. and so this was our core for a good number of years. and so we maintain relationships with small business owners. >> can i ask you about mary barra. you were both on the forbes list. i would like to know how you think she's doing and do you ever feel the pressure? forbes did an article yesterday that women executives face double bind pressure. do you know how she's feeling about it? >> i've been impressed with the way she's handling the crisis. she's doing a phenomenal job with the way she's dealing with it. i've been impressed.
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>> apologizing and making a commitment to the future. >> she's criticized as a women and praised as a woman. >> i'm empathetic with that. >> good to see you. >> thank you very much. onward to $100 billion. let us know when you hit that number. >> i will, thank you. and from a meth king ping to the president of the united states.
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this is not meth. >> bryan cranston is best known for playing the indelible character walter white on "breaking bad," but now he's tapping the role of lyndon b. johnson on broadway "all the way." he told us performing in front of a live audience is demanding, challenging, and a dream come true. >> it's wonderful to be able to feel the immediate response even subtle gasps, you know or pushbacks in their seat when they're offended by something. you can feel it, you know. here, we have some prop over here i want to show you. >> oh yeah. cranston rose to flame portraying fictional characters
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on television. >> i'm so full of bacon. >> reporter: there was goofy and enduring hal. >> unfortunately if the boy is our from our family. >> reporter: -- from "malcolm in the middle" and of course walter white, the complex meth lord from "breaking bad." but cranston says playing a real life u.s. president is different. >> fight for every single vote. >> you know, put him with a little glue. >> reporter: the preparation required a few adjustments. >> it gives me an extra -- >> reporter: and details research. >> give me an answer that i can let out there. >> reporter: including listening to hours of recorded phone conversations like this. >> reporter: when i came a little late, they cut me on there, so believe me you never have much margin there. let's see if you can't
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. >> this is the president of the united states that talking to his tailor. >> mr. hager. you can tell he's eating and drinking. he's chewing, doing three, four, five things at one time which he always did and he's just -- but he got involved in every little detail. and here's also a telling of the time. so my pocketknife doesn't fall out. here's the president caring a pocketknife. you never know when i have to whittle. i'm going to have to cut this budget. here's what we're going to do. yeah. >> but there was this. he's my height. he's 6'3" 6'4". you are less than that. >> yes, that's true. i'm just at 6. probably a little less than now. >> everybody talks about how
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they don't sense it. they sense the towering presence of him. how did you come up with the idea of being able to suggest that lyndon johnson physically towered over these people? >> three-inch lifts. that's how i do it. i have shoes that i have lifts in. and i want to tell you a secret. last night i had another conversation with our -- the head of wardrobe jessica and i said i want you to go into everyone's wardrobe grab share shoes and take their heels down another inch. don't even tell them. i'm serious. the johnson treatment, that was a big part of it. he used his size and his girth to be able to intimidate. he invaded their space. >> he's an interesting guy. i know a lot of people think he's the most interesting president of the last you know after roosevelt, probably the most interesting guy to inhabit the office.
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>> i think so. >> just the largeness of the personality. >> unbelievable. he is the full spectrum of emotion. you cannot assign any one adjective to lyndon johnson. you have to use all of them. he is mercurial and passionate and interesting and wallowing in self-pity and brazen and funny and embracing and threatening and ferocious. i mean he's -- and you never knew what part of lyndon johnson you were going to receive when you walked into his office. >> now, is there any link here between walter white and lyndon johnson and just strains of personality, one real one fictional? >> yeah, there are similarities. i think both had created and allowed the incredible drive and ambition to be unleashed.
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>> the end justifies the means. >> it's for my family. it's for my family. and lyndon johnson is for the betterment of the company. i'm cutting your [ bleep ] off for the betterment of the country. so you're gilded now, but just think what you accomplished. >> as a southerner i've had to bite my tongue on this issue. >> so here you are on this stage where you enchant people every night with this look of lyndon johnson. "breaking bad" bull all that it was, where was your ambition after this? what is your ambition that bryan cranston wants to do or needs to do? >> rest. i do. >> you do remember? >> i need to rest yeah. i go pretty hard at it. >> you want to get something done in the real world, hubert? you're going to have to get your hands wet. demanding thing. it's an emotionally demanding thing. i love putting it all out there. but i just think i want to rae
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lax for a while and just let it rest and see what happens next. >> wow. that's an intense schedule that he has. >> he's great in it. god, he's good. >> and lyndon johnson is so interesting. this is -- you know this is a great gift in his hands to bring out all the multiple dimensions of his personality. i think someone who was close to johnson, he was 11 of the most interesting people i've ever met, the power, and to go from threatening to charming and seducing and all of that which enabled him to create legislative victories, you know. there's some people that we talk about that as well believe that president obama, while he had a different congress might have done more of that charming and threatening.
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ingredients for life. anncr: at jennie-o we heard of a place in iowa where every thursday people ride 10 miles for tacos. we thought we'd show up and surprise them with a better kind of taco made with jennie-o ground turkey cooked thoroughly to 165. i feed my kids turkey tacos over regular tacos any day. i think they are light and they are just fresh tasting. yeah. when i eat well, i feel well. anncr: it's time for a better taco. the tacos tonight were pretty much perfect. make the switch.
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san jose are i hi, everyone. good morning, 8:55. i'm frank mallicoat. time for some news headlines. here's what's happening. police in east san jose are investigating a deadly shooting at dinali way and lanai avenue. san jose police have no suspects at this time. it is san jose's 11th homicide this year. today a key figure in the corruption case against state senator leland yee appears in court. keith jackson accused of acting as a mailed man between yee and a group of criminals. jackson was one of 26 people arrested during last week's fbi sweep. and chp is making a special effort to crackdown on distracted driving today. it's all part of a nationwide campaign. more than 426,000 california drivers were convicted last year of texting or using hand- held phones. weather-wise, got a little speed bump tomorrow but it looks like a great weekend, right? >> that's right. good morning, everybody. the morning started off with
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some sunshine. but we're already noticing increasing cloud cover from the north heading south. this is the scene looking towards mount diablo under mostly cloudy skies. currently air temperature 48 degrees in pacifica, 40s and 50s across the central bay, 40s inland. later today the numbers stacking up like this. just a couple of degrees warmer than yesterday and boy it felt cool yesterday 50s at the beaches, 60s bayside to the mid- 60s inland. slightly below normal. southwest breeze 10 to 15 miles per hour. this is interesting. area of low pressure producing .10" of rain or less on friday. sunny and record warmth expected by tuesday. that's a look at your forecast. traffic with elizabeth up next.
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good morning. checking conditions right now across the san mateo bridge. you will notice cms signs are activated warning of a new accident. it's westbound 92 approaching the high-rise. traffic looks okay right now on the flat section of the bridge but again one lane is blocked so traffic just beginning to back up now. the accident was only reported in the last 10 minutes so likely we'll see some delays here continuing to grow. here's a live look at the nimitz. 880 in oakland, everything is a little sluggish just the usual delays right now near the oakland coliseum and continuing up by the embarcadero exit. if you're heading to the bay bridge, the traffic jammed to the foot of the maze slow from berkeley into emeryville.
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