>> in those shoes? >> of course. >> no way. >> take care. good morning to our views in the west. it is thursday, may 8, 2014. welcome po "cbs this morning." "bring back our girls," the call to act in nigeria grows louder this morning. >> stos stronger than a freight train. plus tornadoes and extreme heat. millions face the threat of severe weather today. >> he gave up football for country, only on "cbs this morning," the decorated ranger getting a new chance at glory in the nfl. >> but we begin with today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> we want to report we have a tornado on the ground. >> we ran into golf-ball size

hail. >> severe storms hammer the heartland. >> tornadoes touching down in the eastern part of colorado. >> 80 to 90 mile-an-hour winds in kansas forcing this train right off the tracks. >> and today more severe weather on tap from texas to wisconsin. >> islamic militants who kidnapped 200 girls opened fire. >> and michelle obama joining the message of bring back our girls. >> vladimir putin insisting he's pulled his troops back from the border but u.s. intelligence reporting no signs of that approximately. >> donald sterling's wife wants ownership of the l.a. clippers if her estranged husband is forced to sell the team. >> a deadly fire at the mansion owned by blake. >> the fire was started intentionally. >> colorado lawmakers have approved the nation's first ever marijuana banking system. banks have long shunned growers and sellers.

>> chaos in houston where a man drives into a crowd of people. the driver tackled by police. no one was hurt. >> and the debate between journlists boiled over, as you can see. >> what a play by the ball boy! wow! >> he gets a raise. >> and all that matters. >> in australia -- >> the boat capsized. two of the grooms men in the wedding party ran down the beach and dove into the water to his aid. >> richard branson announced plans to develop a new type of plane that could fly from new york to tokyo in one hour. apparently the engines are powered by human screams. >> this morning's "eye opener" is sponsored by toyota, let's go places. welcome to "cbs this

morning." good morning, norah. >> good morning, charlie. new developments this morning. >> the white house is putting new pressure on the terrorists who stole more than 300 school girls in nigeria. >> first lady michelle obama is now part of the bring back our girls campaigns. that hash tag has 1.6 million tweets. and former secretary of state hillary clinton is blasting the terror group behind the kidnapping. >> the seizure of these young women by this radical extremist group, boko haram, is abominable, it's criminal, it's an act of terrorism and it really merits the fullest repossible, first and foremost from the government of nigeria. >> debora patta is in nigeria. good morning.

abuja, security is extremely tight where the world economic forum opened today. we passed through three heavily armed security check points in the space of just 20 minutes and well over 5,000 personnel have been deployed in the capital. the violence and kidnapping of over 200 school girls which took place in the boko haram stronghold has become the focus of international outrage, particularly after boko haram's leader threatened to sell them into forced marriages in a chilling internet video. the world economic forum opened here. >> i believe that the kidnap of these girls will be the beginning of the end of terror in nigeria. >> reporter: despite the nigerian's government attempts to cast itself as an economic powerhouse, the abductions have

become an embarrassment as they are accused by the parents of being slow and inept in their rescue attempts. >> over 200 girls are abducted. that is more important than mosting of the economic forum. >> nigerians take to the streets to voice their disgust. >> boko haram killed over 100 people in a remote village when they opened fire. >> thank you. over 4 million people can expect violence in the central northwest. at least two tornadoes touched down wednesday. no injuries or major damage are reported. >> meanwhile, large hail bombarded a stretch from ft. collins to denver and severe storms in denver blew over freight trains.

33 cars were forced off the tracks. no one was hurt. megan glaros is tracking today's storm threat. >> good morning to those of you in the west this morning. there is a risk for severe weather for texas all the way up to minnesota later today. and the core of the most intense activity will likely be centered in minnesota and in iowa where there's the greatest potential for tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds. there is also snow this morning from wyoming to south dakota and nebraska, as much as 6 inches of snowfall there. severe weather threat ramps up going into the afternoon today. and another storm system coming on shore making for rain in parts of the pacific northwest today. high temperatures in salt lake city will be about 61 degrees, 71 for boise and in los angeles today, 71. >> calls are growing on capitol hill this morning for veteran affairs secretary eric shinseki to accept down. critics say as many as 40

patients died while waiting for care. wyatt andrew spoke with the secretary, who is a retired army general. he's at the v.a. headquarters in washington. wyatt, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. for years the main complaint against the veterans administration has been the back log in disability claims, but now several investigations are pointing out lapses in v.a. health care. in our conversation, secretary shinseki defended the v.a.'s record and his record across the board. secretary shinseki says he has no plans to resign. he says he has a job to do. >> i want veterans to know that health care is something they earned and deserve, we're going to deliver it. it is high quality and i want them to believe that one day the facilities are safe. >> reporter: but pressure is rising, mostly because of an investigation at the v.a. hospital in phoenix. here there are claims that up to 40 veterans died while waiting

for critical tests or appointments and that the hospital kept a secret waiting list to hide the number of veterans not being seen on time. debbie allen believes at that her husband, mel, a veteran died of bladder cancer after his diagnosis was delayed for six months. >> they turned their back on him. they made up this secret list to lie and cover up what was happening. >> reporter: the secretary says he sent inspectors to phoenix immediately after he learned of the charges. is there any one thing that you are angry about that you most want to fix? >> all of this makes me angry. i mean, whenever we have allegations like this, even until they're founded, i didn't come here to watch things happen this way. i came here to make things better. >> reporter: but problems with medical care extend to at least five other v.a. hospitals accused of patient deaths that should have been prevented.

at two of those in pittsburgh and atlanta, v.a. executives received big bonus checks just after the deaths were revealed. the american legion called on shinseki to resign, echoed by several on capitol hill. most veteran service organizations say they still support shinseki. the president has expressed his confidence. but right now in congress this committee, house veterans affairs, is considering its own investigation, including possible subpoenas, to take a look at the deaths in phoenix. >> we'll continue to follow the story. >> rebel forces in syria say they blew up a hotel and other buildings used by government troops this morning. cbs news has not verified this video. this is in the northern city of aleppo. rebels claimed they killed 50 soldiers. >> a house committee will investigate the deadly attack on

the american embassy in benghazi, libya. nancy cordes is on capitol hill. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this committee's only responsibility is going to be look into the benghazi attacks and the obama's administration's response to them. republicans say that's the only way to get to the truth. but democrats are considering boycotting the committee with some of them calling it a kangaroo court. >> there's not going to be a side show, there's not going to be a circus. >> reporter: house speaker john boehner says the white house brought this on themselves by withholding some e-mails about benghazi for months until it was forced to release them in a recent lawsuit. >> the white house played a more significant role in the developments of how they were going to describe this, certainly more than anything that had been disclosed thus far. >> reporter: the new select committee will be chaired by south carolina republican trey gowdy. he'll be joined by six other

republicans and five democrats, if that party participate at all. democrats argue benghazi has already been investigated by four separate house committees. >> we've exhaustively examined this issue and the truth is incidental, frankly, to their enterprise. >> reporter: why do you think they're doing it? >> for political reasons. to keep the base fired up between now and mid-term elections. >> reporter: but goudy says he wants to know why the administration described the terrorist attack as a response to an anti-muslim video. he says he wants to interview the former secretary of state, hillary clinton, who was asked about it on wednesday. >> some continue to not be satisfied and move forward. that's their choice. i do not believe there is any reason for it to continue in this way but they get to call the shots in the congress.

>> reporter: democrats feel that if they participate in this committee, they will essentially be condoning the investigation. but if they don't, they'll have no control over who gets called to testify, norah and how long this probe goes on. >> nancy, thank you. this morning pro-russian rebels in eastern ukraine are vowing to go ahead with a referendum on independence. russian president vladimir putin is asking them not to hold that vote on sunday. putin also claims that he is moving russian troops away from ukraine's border. but u.s. and nato officials say they're not seeing any evidence of troop withdrawals. clarissa ward is in donetsk, ukraine, one of the cities that will be voting this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. pro-russian separatists here say they have decided to ignore president putin's request. at a press conference just now, they announced a unanimous vote to go ahead with the referendum as planned.

outside the pro-russian rebel controlled donetsk city hall today, the mood was somber but resolved, in a request from president putin that a referendum from sunday should be delayed. do you want the referendum to happen on sunday? >> of course. >> reporter: ballots have already been printed for the vote, which would determine whether this region becomes an independent republic, potentially paving the way for secession to russia, as in crimea. many here chose to see putin's shift as a recommendation and not a command. i deeply respect the man, this pro-russian separatist told us, but he's just giving us advice. holding a referendum would not be easy. things have deteriorated in towns across the east. while hostility is common in

this region, a new poll found that 77% of ukrainians want their country to maintain its current borders. among russian speak exthe percentage drops to 58, still over half. this is the ballot that will be out there on sunday. there's just one question -- do you support the independence of the people's republic of donetsk, yes or no. it's not clear yet how the ukrainian government will respond to this referendum. previously they said such a vote would be illegal. certainly people here are bracing themselves for the worst. >> now to a nationwide crackdown on federal drugs. jan crawford is in washington where authorities suspect a link between the drugs and terror groups. jan, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the drug bust yesterday targeted what are called synthetic drugs. a lot of them are being sold in the west at retail stores, online and they're very dangerous. in 2011 there were nearly 29,000

e.r. visits related to synthetic drugs that are laced with chemicals, most of them made in china. the nationwide sweep involved more than 45 d.e.a. officers. >> stand right there. >> reporter: going door to door in 29 states, confiscating thousands of packaged synthetic drugs. agents arrested more than 150 people and seized more than $20 million in cash and assets. >> we have already found at least one packet of happy hour spice. >> reporter: their main target is synthetic marijuana, sometimes known as spice, it's made from dry leaves laced with toxic chemicals, which a user then smokes. it's popular with teen-agers and young adults. and because it's shown in convenient stores and gas

stations, many think it's legal. >> spice is one of those drugs that if we don't get ahead of, it could cause devastating effects, much like heroin and much like meth. >> reporter: edouardo chavez oversaw raids in new mexico. >> this spice that is being completely morphed into a variety of chemicals is just taking youth by storm. >> reporter: in one smoke shot in birmingham, alabama, they discovered more than $38,000 in wires to yemen. this bust will now give federal agents a chance to follow the money trail. >> i wadon't want to say 100% definitively that this is financing terror but we have a pretty good idea where this is going. this should alarm people.

>> reporter: drug makers are regularly tweaking formulas and creating new brand names just to try to skirt the rules and avoid prosecution. norah and charlie? >> scary. thank you so much. this morning it's being called a major scientific breakthrough. research say they created the first microbes containing artificial dna and it could alter our fundamental dna code. >> and it could also lead to new treatments. doctor, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie. >> what did they do and what did they accomplish? >> throughout history there have been four building blocks in every organism on earth, that's humans, mice and bacteria. for the first time they made two new letters, four letters to six letters to actually make dna. so it changes our code. it changes everything that's

possible. there are 20 amino acids in nature made up by these letters. now we could go to potentially 150 or 17 0. potential is limitless. science is going to take off. >> what about this man-made dna. what does it mean for treating disease? >> we can make organisms that make new proteins. seven years ago it cost $10,000 to make malaria treatment for a year. if you manufacture the enzymes to make the drugs, it now costs $10. where we have the new codes, we can make lots of new drugs and vaccines. it opens a new window of how we treat disease, diagnose disease and prevent disease. >> what risk are they ethically and potentially enough grounds that we have not explored yet? >> in 1953 when the double helix

of dna came out, everyone was afraid we would misuse dna. then came insulin and we radically improved human life. but with the god particle, this is the god complex and i'm certainly worried that we need to establish boundaries. >> dr. agus, thank you so. >> coming up, we'll look at headlines around the nation. plus a deadly mystery after a fire tears through a,,,,

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good morning. we're watching an accident at the macarthur maze. it's eastbound 580 approaching 80. there's the right lane blocked but you can expect the delays coming off the bridge. you can see slowdowns already on the sensors. westbound, it's stacked up for a good 25-minute wait at least. here's a live look at sensors and travel times. clouds now moving into the bay area. there's a slight chance we could see a couple of sprinkles outside as the weak weather system moves on through. you can see not a lot with this one but news update less we're going to see the clouds on and off throughout the day today. temperatures will be cooler, highs game in the 50s and 60s -- generally in the 50s and 60s. more sunshine on the way, a little breezy friday. off-shore winds and much warmer weather for mothers' day. ,,,,,,,,,,

off the coast of south africa a great white shark attacked a boat being used by a film crew. look at this. the shark took several bites out of the pontoon, an inflatable boat, deflating the air right out. fuchlt no one was hurt and fortunately the boat did not sink. many questions in a deadly fire at a tampa mansion. the home belongs to a former tennis star. why investigators are looking at the possibility of murder. plus, only on "cbs this morning," he fought for our country and earned a bronze star. now he's tackling another dream, football. don dahler with a new

philadelphia eagles rookie, alejandro villanueva. he's huge. i'm talking about don dahler. >> we'll have more commentary it's time to show you this morning's headlines. the "washington post" says high school seniors are showing no improvement in some of the most basic parts of their education. the numbers haven't moved for five years. in last year's testing only 38% have scored is at or above proficient level in reading. in math only 26% made the grade. 92,000 students in public and private schools took the test. "the new york times" says the u.s. issued a safety alert for oil trains. they must now notify local responders whenever large shipments travel through their state.

this occurred after the train that went through lynchburg, virginia. 30,000 gallons went into the james river. nascar racing in 2012. the nascar marketing campaign brought in nearly 25,000 prospects but not one of them ended up enlisting. the senate is holding a here hearing today on that recruitment program. >> "the wall street journal" is looking at a price geologist for online shoppers. fedex is changing the way it charges for delivering packages. instead of by weight alone they'll charge according to size. that means a price increase on a third of the ground fedex shipments. the "los angeles times" says shelly sterling, the owner of the l.a. clippers intends to keep ownership of the team. her husband, as you know, donald sterling is banned for life for his racist comments. shelly says the punishment is

against her husband and not her. florida investigators are working to learn who deliberately set a fire to the mansion of former tennis star james blake. he was renting the home to a family. the sheriff's department is calling the massive fire unusual. >> reporter: good morning. the house is in the exclusive gated community behind me, a place other high-profile athletes like derek jeter and mariano rivera have called home. this morning people here are dealing with the news that arson and murder may have taken place inside its walls. >> the fire's in the house. i was walking my dog and as i walked by, the house exploded. >> reporter: the fire department received frantic calls from neighbors around 5:45 wednesday morning. >> oh, my god. it's just so horrible. the house just blew up in

flames, ma'am. >> reporter: the bodies of four people, two adults and two teenagers, were found inside their bedroom. investigators are looking at other factors as causing their deaths, not the fire. >> we're still going to have to wait for the medical examiner to determine the exact cause of death and what those particular injuries were. >> reporter: the nearly 6,000-square-foot home was being rented to darren campbell, a vice president at an insurance company. his wife and teenage son and daughter. >> the son, i was really good friends with him. he hasn't done anything wrong ever. and the dart, she was beautiful and the parents were great people. >> reporter: james blake, a former professional tennis player once ranked fourth in the world owns the million-dollar mansion. he was not in the house at the time of the fire and is not commenting at this time. firefighters battled the inferno for several hours.

hot spots continued to flare up throughout the day, preventing the investigators from going inside until they deemed it was safe. they now hope key evidence has not been lost. >> we're continuing to process the scene and it probably will take several days to complete this investigation. >> reporter: small commercial fireworks were found throughout the house, but so far no weapons. investigators are looking at all possibilities here, including murder/suicide. james blake moving to tampa in the late '90s to train but no longer lives in florida. >> manuel, thanks. an fbi agent arrested in pakistan is friel on bail this morning. joel cox was detained monday at the karachi airport. police say he tried to get on the plane with a knife and bullets in his plane. cox was part of the task force fighting corruption inside pakistan.

a couple rode across the atlantic. their trip started in morocco. vicente arenas takes us through their long journey. >> i really wanted to see new york. >> reporter: that simple desire to see new york forged the journey of a lifetime for riaan and his longtime girlfriend, a five-month, 5,000-mile journey across the atlantic ocean in a small but high-tech rowboat. >> you have to be willing to give everything and that even includes your life. >> after that first day of rowing, i thought, i can't do this. this is too tough. >> reporter: with no support staff and no rescue crew, the couple set off from morocco in december. three weeks later they reached the canary islands. from there it was nothing but the vast blue sea for the next two and a half months until docking in the bahamas, the last stop before miami. >> nearly a million strokes we

took to get over there. >> reporter: blog entries along the way detailed what they say was the scariest moment of the trip and their lives. >> it capsized on the 20th of february was undoubtedly the wakeup call. she got stuck under the boat and i got thrown out. >> but they say the bulk of the journey was less harrowing and more life-changing. >> you get the quietness and the sun and pink and blue and white fluffy clouds and it's just so quiet. >> reporter: in the final stretch the couple of 4 years shared a hug and a kiss before landing in the record books as the first couple to row from mainland africa to mainland north america. >> if she wasn't with me, i wouldn't have been able to have this moment. >> reporter: after a few days in miami, the couple will load back in their boat and set sail for their final destination. the big apple.

for "cbs this morning," vicente arenas. >> we found something i wouldn't do. >> finally. what about you, norah? an amazing story. >> i don't know that i would do that but i applaud them. that takes quite the experience. >> and they've had an experience of a lifetime. you know you're never supposed to upstage a bride and her wedding. two in the party did just that. joanne and d >> you okay, mate? the fisherman's boat capsized. two groomsmen stripped down to their underwear and ran out to stave him. they were able to pull the man and his boat to shore. afterward they posed for more wedding pictures. the couple met seven years ago

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when villanueva graduated from college he was a possible draft pick headed to the nfl but instead he went to serve his country. now after five years, he's getting another shot to play at football's highest level. meet the newest member of the philadelphia eagles. he's a towering 6'9", 277 pounds. but the last time he played football was in college at west point five years ago. you see, alejandro villanueva has been busy. what made you join the army? >> you turn on the news and watch young 18-year-old, 19-year-old soldiers that are doing great things and they're doing something the men have been doing for centuries. i just couldn't stand by the sidelines and watch other people do the work. >> reporter: after he graduated, villanueva led a platoon in afghanistan where in three tours he earned numerous accommodations including a bronze star for honor.

as an army ranger he can't talk about his experiences but he said his first fire fight was almost his last. >> i made a pretty tough call one day. there was a very long dried riverbed that had pretty high ground on both sides and we were waiting for an insurgent to return to his house, but as soon as we got probably 25 to 30 feet into this walk, all hell broke loose and we started receiving fire from 360, you know, all around us. turned around. ran as fast as i could to cover. >> reporter: now all the 25-year-old worries about is running down quarterbacks as a defensive en, that is if he ultimately makes the team. so how do you feel about your chances? >> pretty tough. i haven't played football in a long time. i'm just taking a shot just so when i'm 80 and i'm looking back at my life, could say it was a chance they could have, you know, made a team in the nfl and played at the highest level.

villanueva says any comparisons to pat tillman who joined the army and was killed by friendly fire is unfair. >> pat tillman was somebody who already had the glory and was at the highest loevl f the nfl and stepped down. that's sacrifice. i'm not a hero. i did what i loved to do. i got a lot out of it. the army has given me more than what i was able to give to it. >> makes me look like a hobbit. the army put him on active reserve so he could accept the rookie contract. he has until september to win a position. >> where do we need to send our letters. >> i know. right. >> handsome, kind, modest, compassionate, talented. wow. >> i love the way he defined why he had to do it. he didn't want to be 80 years old and say i should have tried. >> 6'9", 277 pounds. don, that's why you look eed li

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pointing out lapses in va health care. pro-russian separatists decided to ignore president putin's request. this is the ballot that will be out there on sunday. there's just one question. people here are dealing with the news arson and murder may have taken place inside its walls. >> up the coast of south africa, a great white shark attacked a boat being used by a film crew. look at this. >>villeville has a year left in his commitment but the army put him on rookie reserve. how do you feel about your chances? >> pretty tough you. i haven't played football in a long time. >> it's huge. prince william was spotted flying coach. times must be tough for the royal family. the queen was seen getting around town using uber. >> announcer: today's "eye opener" at 8:00 is presented by allergan. i'm charlie rose with gayle

king and norah o'donnell. nigerian's president is vowing this morning to bring terrorism to an end in his kcountry. he is under worldwide pressure to find nearly 300 school girls kidnapped by an islamist terror organization. >> the boco haram group is blamed for a massacre. debora patta is in abuja, nigeria's capital. debora, good morning. >> reporter: extremely tight secure here in abuja today. to give you an idea we passed through three heavily armed che checkpoints in the space of just 20 minutes. now the forum was immediately used as a platform to talk about the abducted school girls. nigerian president goodluck jonathan in his opening address tha thanked the international community. the united states, britain, france, and china have all pledged to send delegations and financial assistance to help in the search for the stolen schoolchildren. and the president also said he

believed the kidnappings would be the beginning of the end of terror in his country. but nigerians are furious. they have criticized the government for being slow to act. they continue to take to the streets to express their anger saying that the world economic forum is overshadowing the rescue efforts and diverting much-needed money and security personnel from the north where it is most needed to combat these attacks by boco haram, anot norah. >> debora, thank you. in the massive online awareness campaign calle called #bringbackourgirls includes michelle obama. she tweeted this and posted it on instagram. more support can be found from some of the biggest names in washington, pakistan, and hollywood. >> it's extremely important something is done immediately to try to find these girls, to try to bring them home. and god forbid we can't, we have to still bring these men to justice. >> when i heard about the nigerian girls, that they were

being abducted, i found that my sisters were in prison. and i think that we should not he remain silent. and it this is my feeling that if we remain silent this will spread this will happen more and more and more. if you want to stop it, then you have to speak. >> this is a perfect storm of all the issues that are of concerning matters to those of us who follow women and girls around the world. this is a problem not just in nigeria but nigeria has more resources and more capacity to do more, and they should be expected to. >> this morning th the #bringbackourgirls has been tweeted more than 1.6 million times. president obama says the nigerian kidnapping proved that, quote, we have not stopped man's darkest impulses. film director steven spielberg and a holocaust museum fundra e

fund-raiser. the president stopped to see tornado damage in arkansas. tornadoes north of little rock killed 15 people last week. and there is new tornado dang they are morning for millions of people in the middle of the country. meteorologist megan glaros of our cbs station wbbm is tracking those storms as they head east. megan, good morning. good morning and, yes, at least 40 million people at risk for severe weather today from minnesota to the heart of texas and the core of the most intense activity will likely be centered in minnesota and iowa today where there is the highest potential for tornadoes, for large hail, and for damaging winds. what we see on the future cast model is that those storms will rev up in the latter half of the day today and then continue to progress on and off into the east the. into our friday then i see concern about the potential for flooding again in the southeast as the real heavy rain begins to fall in that area of the country again and, by the way, winter is not over everywhere.

there are winter weather advisories up across parts of south dakota and nebraska where they could see today as much as 6 inches of snow. norah? >> megan, thank you. and the business of pot is about to take another step toward legitimacy. colorado's governor is expected to sign a bill creating the world's first banking system for marijuana sellers. pot dispensaries would pool money into cooperatives that helps them avoid dealing with large amounts of cash. the co-ops would make it easier for the state to track marijuana sales and collect taxes. they have blocked the industry from opening accounts over fears of breaking federal law. houston police are trying to determine this morning why a man drove his car into a crowd. a driver plowed through about 100 people who had gathered as police investigated a deadly shooting yesterday. people ran and dove for safety. the driver eventually got out of the car. he was tackled by police. no one was hurt. this summer michael douglas

co-stars in the new movie called "and so it goes." he plays a which hidower forced take care of his young granddaught granddaughter. in an interview for "entertainment tonight" we talked about the film and his life with wife catherine zeta-jones. they remain close despite taking a break from their 13-year marriage back in august. >> when we talk about love, it's no secret everybody always wants to know, michael and catherine, how are they doing? are they getting back together? are they happy? you go out in public, click, click, click, click, click. >> right. >> i know you are both in the process of working it out. have you worked -- are you still working it out or have you worked it out? >> i think you're always working it out. >> i'm divorced, michael. it didn't work out. but i agree. >> two people choose to want to work it out. yeah, we're doing great, thank you. we're very close and everything is going great. but you don't take love, you know, for granted.

sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than the person that's closest to us. and you just have to remember to not take for granted the person that is close to you. >> michael douglas is saying he and catherine will be okay. we don't need to worry about them no matter what they decide to do. the movie shows a love story between people 60 and older. and you don't see that much anymore. i asked him about that because he looks great. he says he feels great. i said do you feel as good as you look the. he said i do. i feel even better. go, michael douglas. you can see more on "entertainment tonight." please check your local listings. it is now 8:08. ahead on "cbs this morning," "48 hours" looks at a woman murdered

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[ speaking foreign language ] >> this is no crossfire. two jordanian journalists got into an argument. you can see they started pushing the desk away. when it fell apart, they continued struggling with the desktop until members of the crew came in to break up the brawl. there's the kick under the table. >> there grow. as was pointed out, cheap set, not union made. what were they saying in jordanian, charlie? >> or arabic. >> or arabic. i didn't get it. >> i don't know, gayle. >> that would never happen here. never happen here. a weight watchers executive is found beaten and strangled to don't in her new york city apartment. the prime suspect is her boyfriend, an ivy league grad with a job on wall street. jurors hear an unusual defense.

here's a preview of troy robertson's saturday edition of "48 hours." >> i received a call from a possible doa at this location. >> reporter: it was early summer 2012 when detective dennis frauly rushed to this apartment in queens. here in the bathtub he came across the lifeless battered body of a young woman. >> i notice shed had terrible injuries on her head. this was murder and it was vicious. >> reporter: 27-year-old danielle thomas was a successful executive with weight watchers. detectives quickly honed in on her boyfriend jason hone. >> there was no hiding this crime. >> reporter: he admits to killing danielle, says his laurks but he's not a cold blooded killer. >> there's dmout he's suffering from a mental illness.

>> my mother was in the process of giving us up. >> at the age of 9 his own mother abandoned him. that leaves a psychological m k mark. >> reporter: jason's traumatic childhood caused this ill ens mental illness caused y. by bouts of loss of control and anger and violence. >> reporter: now the defense's star witness, bardey says that's what led jason to snap and lose control and kill the woman he loved. >> based on mental illness, i believe that jason bohn should not be held responsible for murder. >> reporter: but prosecutors will argue that jason's difficult childhood is no excuse for murder. >> it's absolutely ridiculous

that because his mommy didn't treat jiminezly as well as she should have that somehow 15 years later he's not response for the torture and murder of his girlfriend. >> reporter: what's more. prosecutors uncovered startling evidence, evidence they believe will prove jason was not in the throes of mental illness when he brutally beat danielle thomas to death. >> he was caught virtual ly. >> in five seconds i'm going to let you up and let you answer quickly or else you're going to die. >> it's thought that during the struggle she pocket dialed her girlfriend and it went to voice mail. it's the most chilling thing, i have to say this. >> the entire mail was on tape, it was on voice mail?

>> four minutes of it. we know an hour before the pocket dial she called 911. she couldn't spit out the address but she called 911. so this attack went on for at least an hour. >> i would imagine the tape's crucial to their case. >> it is because, you know, their defense is that he was out of control. he had no control over what he was doing but prosecutors are saying listen to this. there was organized behavior. he's talking to her saying how does this feel? you have five seconds before you die. and he strangles her and he stops strangling her and he strangles her again. it's really difficult. i want to urge anyone who's trapped in an abusive relationship to watch this broadcast. this could be the wakeup call you need to get out. >> boy, troy. thank you. you can see his full report, troy roberts' full report "a raging son" saturday on "48 hours" alt 10:00 right here on cbs. she's sold over 20 million

dead after a mobile home fin sunnyvale. the fire started at cape cod it's 8:25, time for some news headlines. two people are dead after a mobile home fire in sunny vale. police have not identified the victims but we're told it was likely a couple living in the home ac transit is ordered to pay $15 million to a bus passenger who broke her back. the bus hit a speed bump in san pablo and the woman was tossed out of her seat. her lawyer said the bus was going twice the speed limit. president obama arrives in the bay area this area. the president will attend a democratic fundraiser. his only public appearance is tomorrow at a mountain view wal- mart. stay with us. traffic and weather in just a moment.

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traffic right now in the east bay, especially down the east shore freeway jammed from richmond into emeryville, westbound 580 back to the 24 and the bay bridge still pretty busy, you're stacked up into the mcarthur maze. the metering lights are on. a lot of clouds move into our sky today, elizabeth, as we have a weak cold front that's sliding into the state. we see the clouds on and off throughout the day. overlooking the financial district, mostly cloudy skies there today. things will be a little unsettled today before it gets a whole lot nicer for friday and the weekend. 68 degrees, below average for this time of year, 69 in livermore, about 62 degrees and breezy in san francisco and 59 in pacifica. next couple days, sunshine returns, a little breezy tomorrow afternoon. but then those winds turning offshore as we head in toward mother's day. some temperatures will be in the mid-80s on sunday, 60s and 70s near the coast.

this is a newly released individual yellow of a tornado in tupelo, mississippi. it caused damage to the chu. itself with almost half the building gone. everyone survived. >> welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up in this half hour, her pictures are worth a thousand ahs. photographer anne geddes shows us how she captures those peaceful sleeping baby moments. >> plus, you may not know the name gugu mbatha a buy

racial ariis to carat in this incredible movie. that story is straight ahead. but this morning it's time to show you some of this morning's headlines. "the wall street journal" studies the best way of using frequent flyer miles. they looked at how easy it is to get seats. for the third year in a row southwest came in tops among u.s. carriers and delta showed big improvement. >> "usa today" says "jet" magazine is going digital. they're giving up print after 63 years. "jet" will return to a weekly format when a switchover takes place at the end of next month. the national journal says the next time you write an online review, be careful. that's what happened to a florida man. he wrote a negative kre teak of an internet router he bought from amazon. they sent him a letter threatening to sue, for, quote,

an illegal campaign to damage, discaret it, defame, and liable. he has three days to pull the review. and in a new ad campaign diet coke hoped to get america excited about diet soda. >> you're on. >> great. let's go. >> when it's time to be on, it's time for diet coke. you're on. >> but the slogan got the wrong kind of buzz. online parodies quickly mocked what appeared to be a drug reference. ignore the word die yit and it reads you're on coke. they dropped the headline and brought back an older one. abbey klaasen is with us. good morning. >> good morning. >> is this the young people making buzz about something silly or will it create some long-term damage to the diet coke brand? >> it's funny. i'm not convinced that there was any intentional kind of drug reference in these drug ads even if they were sly. inu when doe or not, it wasn't a

good campaign. they skrar scrapping it, going with something safe, more tried and trurks harkening back to a former campaign. will it hurt diet coke? i think they pulled this campaign relatively quickly. there you can see one of the spots. it feels very contrived. it feels light's speaking millennial and not doing it in a strong way, but the challenge is not going to help diet coke at a time when they really need the help. they are the number two soda brand by share. >> what's number one? >> coke. >> yeah. >> okay. >> but diet coke actually passed pepsi a couple of years ago. it's big news. and, yeah, if you look at 2013, diet coke lost more shares than any other soda brand in the top ten. >> don't they test this stuff out first before they roll it out? >> that's right.

>> that's a relevant question. i don't know if they tested this campaign or not. it's interesting because the industry that introduced the campaign is a very good agency, strong agency, so i'm a little b big sur prieds. drugs and spanish is drogas. it's the guy's last name. but, you know, they're a good agency. >> what are they saying? that they didn't realize it? >> it's corporate speak is what you're hearing from coca-cola. it's "our brand campaigns are dynamic." i think the bigger question here is what's happening with the creative generally at coca-cola and north america. you know, one of the things that we've been following is coke is known as being one of the world's best advertisers for decades. you think back to i'd like to buy the world a coke.

one of the world's most iconic ads every. what we're seeing now is some of our best tiezing is coming outside of north america, outside the u.s. in fact, a couple super bowls ago they even repurposed the spot from argentina for super bowl which was a big u.s. media event. we'll see if they can translate some of that advertising happening outside of our borders into north america. >> stick we have a coke and a smile. no controversy there. >> that's right. >> thank you, ab abbey. just in time for mother's day, anne geddes has a new book out. lee woodruff takes us inside her world. >> reporter: few fundraiser have a body of work as identifiable as anne geddes. >> i am in a good position where people don't recognize me on the street. they recognize the name.

when i meet people, they invariably say, oh, my god, i didn't think you'd look like that. i'm like, what did you expect, you know. i thank kind of expected a cross between mother teresa and laura ashley something, you know. >> reporter: get dees has been the baby photography fehr tr last two decades creating a big name for herself by working with some very tiny subjects. >> when did you begin to come up with these amazing outfits and sort of settings? they're such nurturing pictures of these babies. >> well, people go, oh, you're ann get des and flower pots. i'm like look at what i have hanging around my neck. the very first flower pot image i created was a total accident. you know, look, i'm one of these people that does not have a green thumb. i had a flower pot in my studio. a mother came in with her

6-month-old baby and she had a woollen hat. i saw the flower pot and i thought she'd look like a lovely cactus. we sat her in the flower pot and that was that. >> reporter: that led to anne's first coffee table book. today get dees has sold more than 92 million books in 84 countries. a mother herself she started her baby photography with her own daughter snapping this photo of stephanie to use as the family's christmas card. now 30 years old stephanie is also a photographer as is her sister kelly, and both often work with their mom helping with social media and business management. >> as the girls were getting older, i thought it would be lovely to get the opportunity to have them appreciate what's actually involved in doing what i do. it's really nice that they can actually contribute so much to what i'm doing too. it's incredibly meaningful for me to be able to work with my

daughters. >> reporter: geddes' favorite book is iconic with its quotes. >> every single moe will be able to identify with it. you know, it just gets to the heart of who you are. >> these days geddes focuses most of her work on giving back. through her own fill an troughic trust which she started in 1992 to help prevent child abuse and in partnership with the u.n. and march of dimes. but whether it's smiling chin or sleeping baby, she still has the magic touch. >> you have the one little baby in the pod with just his head coming out. it's right behind you. it's almost like a pod with little feathers on it. and i opened that in the book and i said i would pay money to be that person right now, to have you put me in that little pod and put me to sleep like that. >> only babies sleep like

babies, you know. people thing, oh, a baby shoot needs to be chaotic and noisy. it's never like that. if everything revolves around them and they have the ultimate ego in the room everything tends to go that fine. i don't want anyone calling me at 3:00 a.m. and say get over here and sort this out if you're joan cleaver. >> the baby whisperer. >> yeah. i don't think there's any such thing. >> for "cbs this morning," lee woodruff, new york. >> they are the most iconic images. >> yes. yeah. the first time i saw it you can't help but go ah swroo her name means "our pride." gugu mbatha raw. we'll look at her. she's in our groom room. gugu.

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us. >> of course. but i may join after dinner, may i not? >> yes. such are the rules and you know them well. >> you know them well. gu gu mbatha raw joins us at the table. bravo to you. i thought you just jumped off the screen. let's set the stage for people. you're the daughter of a british sold your,ure mother was an african slave and you went sent to be raised by the white side of family. i never heard of story like this where a mixed race child was sent to the white side of family, have you? >> no. i never heard about belle's story. i first heard of the painting inspired by the director. it's a beautiful painting of her and her cousin elizabeth. the two of them are represented relatively equally and to me that was incredibly refreshing because i think normally in that period you'd imagine by racial member of the family to be con

servant or something. it was very refreshing that she was entered into the family. >> she and the cousin are friends. >> yeah. >> you're not good enough to eat with family, but too good to eat with the servants. a little bit of an insider/outsider role. >> the position was so ambiguous and thichg that ee's what we really deal with in the film, how does she negotiate the two roles. and people are not sure how to respond to her because she's the daughter of a slave but also part of an aristocracy and she has an inheritance, so she's financially secure. >> was there anything difficult about playing this role? >> oh, a lot of challenges. you know, it's my first lead role in the fill so schedule-wise it was quite intense and also emotionally, you know, we really take her on this journey from a girl to a woman and working with the director. it was kind of an epic journey

dealing with the policy and race and gender issues at the time as well. >> what drew you to acting? what's your own story? >> i've always loved acting. first started as a defensor. my mom took me to ballet when i was about four years old and then i got into sort of tap and jazz and then i went into musical theater. it was my hobby and then it sort became my life and i went to drama school at reda when i was 18. so it's been the nice for me. >> how exciting to take your hobby and get paid for it. >> exactly. my mom was a nurse and worked so hard and i knew she didn't enjoy her job. i remember when i was particularly 11 thinking, wow, if i could do a job that i enjoy, that would be incredible. >> your mom is british, your father is south african. you're a mixed race too. >> yes. >> are there times you could relate to being an outsidner your own world too?

>> oh, certainly. i had a wonderful childhood but i think i was drawn to the art because of that slight outsider perspective. i kind of embraced that because i think as an actress it gives you that heightened observational skill if you're kind of on the edge of it all. >> do you feel like this is a moment of your life and you're being swept forward by a whole range of forces? >> it's been incredible. just this week i got to go to the met ball and that was all with belle coming out and my parents were here. >> the people in this town would kill to go to the met ball. there you are on the red carpet. >> yes. >> they're saying she's the next lupita. what do you say about that? >> i love lupita. we got to hang out at the ball. i admire her work, a stylish lady. >> tlink's only one lupita and one gugu. that's what i think. >> right, exactly.

that's very nice, but, you know, we're all individuals and hopefully it's me. >> what's next? >> i just finished a film called blackbird which is with gia. th gina later in thee. very different. ice singing and dancing and working with the music. it's been an incredible contrast. >> i saw something interesting about you. i saw her cell phone and on the back of it, guys, it says smile and there's a story that i heard about you that you had been mugged at gunpoint. we won't go into the details of that, you said after it happened to you, you said it made your fearless which is fascinating to me. >> not to twel on the negativity on that experience but it really did put things into perspective for me. it was in the middle of shooting blackbird and i had an incredibly busy schedule. when i got the new phone i thought, i'm going to get one that says smile on the camera.

i want that positive energy. when you do have those moments where you have a moment of, oh, wow, this is my life and i've got to really live it now, it really made me appreciate and do foolish things an don't take anything for granted. >> we're cheering you on on "cbs this morning." i have a feeling this is not the last we will see and hear of you sitting at this table. >> yes. >> don't forget us, gugu mbatha raw. >> thank you. >> more big things are ahead for you. gugu, pleasure to see you. "belle" is in theaters now and opens in more cities tomorrow. you're watching "cbs this morning." ,,,,,,,,,,

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emergency order from the t says good morning, it's 8:55. new this morning, an emergency order from the transportation department says railroads have to let state emergency officials know when large shipments of crude oil are on the tracks. earlier this year, kpix 5 found trains loaded with bakken crude oil were moving through richmond. two people are dead after a mobile home fire in sunnyvale. police have not identified the victims but we're told it was likely a couple living in the home. one person walked out of the burning home but was not hurt. let's check in with lawrence now with a look at the forecast. >> all right. a lot of clouds moving into our skies. there's a slight chance we could see some sprinkles. headed out the door right now?

we're looking at mostly cloudy skies toward the golden gate bridge, over russian hill. those clouds going to be on and off throughout the day today, and well, the temperatures are going to be cooler as a result of that cloud cover. but mostly energy from -- most of the energy from this system headed to the north. that means clouds and cooler, 68, one of the warm are spots in san jose, 62 degrees in san francisco and 59 in pacifica. tomorrow, we're starting out with some clouds early on but lots of sunshine by the afternoon. a little breezy, too, but as we get in toward the weekend, woontd you know it? -- wouldn't you know it? just for mother's day, some temperatures in the inland, 70s in the bay and along the coastline we could see some very nice 60s and 70s. we're going to check out your traffic when we come back.

checking conditions right now at the san mateo bridge, things are better. we've seen some improvement and improvement in the drive time. 23 minutes between 880 and 101. speaking of 880, here is a live look unfortunately still pretty jammed up to the oakland coliseum. the delays begin in oakland and continue to your downtown oakland exit. we've been watching a crash, it was approaching eden canyon and you can see the delays through the castro valley. here's a live look at the golden gate bridge and southbound traffic still flows nicely in san francisco. drive carefully.

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