a new battle for iraq rage this morning. al qaeda-inspired militants take control of cities once held by push for baghdad. it was the trial of the century that began with a brutal crime 20 years after the murders that turned o.j. simpson from a football star into a criminal defendant. and the verdict that tore at the nation. one of the anticipated world events is kicking off. the world cup begins in brazil today but is the host nation ready for global spotlight. captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs this is the "cbs morning news" for thursday, june 12th, 2014. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green.

this morning al qaeda-inspired militants are pushing deep into southern iraq headed toward baghdad. in about 48 hours the insurgent blitzkrieg has overrun cities once controlled by u.s. forces during the nearly nine-year iraq war. first to fall, iraq's second largest city, mozul, then tikrit and this morning militants have reached the outskirts of samara, just 70 miles from baghdad. iraq's u.s.-trained forces are offering little or no resistance. many are laying down their arms and hundreds of thousands of iraqi citizens are on the run. susan mcginnis is in washington where the obama administration is plotting its next move. susan, good morning. >> anne-marie, good morning. the white house says the situation in iraq has deteriorated over the last 24 hours or so and is quickly becoming a humanitarian issue. now the white house is considering sending help. some iraqi troops abandoned their posts and were seen walking in civilian clothes near the city.

of kirkuk. the retreat comes as the obama administration is moving closer to sending aid to battle al qaeda-inspired militants across iraq. in a statement the white house acknowledged the ongoing violence and quote, will continue to provide and as required increase assistance to the government of iraq. wednesday the insurgents took over saddam hussein's hometown of tikrit, seizing the post. they seized iraq's second biggest city and took over the turkish consul land and took dozens of diplomats, police, and children as hostage. a u.s. official says iraq wants the u.s. to consider air strikes including the use of drones to help the country fight the insurgents. the white house has signaling it is not considering that option. >> we're focused right now on how we can assist the government at this point in time during what is a very challenging

security situation on the ground. >> the u.n. estimates hundreds of thousands i iraqis in mosul have fled their homes amid the attacks. at this point it does not look like baghdad is in any imminent danger. government and shiite forces would give the militants a much stronger fight, anne-marie, if they tried to take the capitol. >> all right. susan mcginnis in washington. thank you, susan. cbs news correspondent holly williams is in iraq this morning. she joins us on the phone from er erbil. what is the situation on the ground now? >> good morning, anne-marie. they're celebrating stunning victories in northern iraq. here in erbil, hundreds have fled and have come to the region where i am which is relatively free from violence. now, we were talking to some those refugees this morning.

one was a soldier in the iraqi army who tried to defend mosul against the militants and he told us that his commanding officers had just dropped their weapons and ran away. and that matches up with other reports we've heard. the iraqi government has not put up much of a fight against the extrem hardly anyone else we spoke to had anything bad to say at all against the islamist militants. they say no civilians had been harmed by the extremists and they were fleeing because they fearle retribution. they feared shelling by iraqi government forces. now these militants want to establish a state based on is lachlic law and they now control a suede of territory extending from syria into iraq and their fighters are moving swiftly across the border.

what this really shows is their increasing strength and in comparison the weakness of iraq government forces despite millions of dollars in u.s. military aid. anne-marie? >> thank you very much. now to domestic politics and the fallout of house majority leader eric cantor. president obama says cantor's defeat doesn't mean immigration reform is dead. speaking in massachusetts last night the president said he rejects the conventional wisdom that immigration reform isn't going anywhere, and he will tell house speaker john boehner to do the same. cantor was labeled a supporter of tea party candidates. yesterday cantor said he was stepping down as majority leader at the end of july and rejected the notion that he was too often absent from his district. >> i was in my district every week, so, you know, there's a balance between holding a leadership position and serving constituents at home, but never was there a day did i not put the constituents of the seventh district of virginia first, and i will continue to do so. >> cantor says he'll support

kevin mccarthy of california to succeed him. and the fbi opened a criminal investigation into the wrongdoings of the phoenix department of veterans affairs. it is ground zero for a widespread scandal involving allegations of false record-keeping and long waits for treatment. the senate passed the bill yesterday to make it easier for veterans to get health care outside the v.a. system. it must be reconciled with a similar bill passed by the house tuesday. one of the las vegas police officers gunned down by a married couple will be buried today. surveillance video shows jared and amanda miller as they battled police in a walmart store. he was fatally wounded by gunfire. amanda miller killed herself. now, the couple killed two police officers and a person who confronted them. las vegas police say they had talked to the millers three times earlier this year when jared miller made threats after losing his driver's license. oregon police identified the

gunman who killed a fellow student tuesday. they don't have a motive, and there's no apparent link between the shooter and his victim, but police say he was heavily armed. danielle nottingham reports. >> reporter: police say 15-year-old jared michael padgett rode the bus to reynolds high school tuesday morning carrying a guitar and a duffel bag. a few friends say it was unusual. >> a few asked him what was in the bags. he said it was a stand for his uniform and in the duffel bag, he said he had sports gear. >> reporter: when he arrived on campus, police say padgett entered the locker room and shot and killed the freshman, 14-year-old emilio hoffman. investigators say padgett also had a large knife and a semiautomatic handgun. >> he had nine magazines capable of holding several hundred rounds. >> reporter: teacher todd ritz

ler met him in the loomer room. >> he made his way to the office initiating the lockdown. >> reporter: the teen exchange gunfire with police in the hallway before he slipped into a bathroom. >> we need a robot inside. we've got a suspect down on the toilet but we cannot see him. >> reporter: police found padgett dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. investigators say the teen was somehow able to get the secured weapons from his family's home. danielle nottingham, cbs news. coming up on the "morning news," air bag safety concerns. we will tell you which cars are involved. and stripper scam. a gang of women accused of drugging wealthy men and stealing from them. this is the "cbs morning news." >> announcer: this portion of "cbs morning news" sponsored by vagisil, the experts in intimate health. vagisil, the experts in intimate health. [ woman ] i could see it in their faces.

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hagel says the u.s. had to act quickly to free sergeant bowe bergdahl. hagel told the house committee that the deal had to be kept quiet to free the only american soldier held captive in afghanistan, but he admitted they could have done a better job of informing congress. meanwhile we're learning more about bergdahl. margaret brennan reports on journals and e-mails from the former p.o.w. >> reporter: we spoke to the woman who said she's a friend of bergdahl and received these messages just days after his disappearance. she's sharing them now, she told us, in order to protect him. according to the "washington post" in a handwritten journal entry the same month he headed to army basic training, bergdahl wrote, i spent a lot of my life thinking blackness was all i have in front of me. i know this is not right. i know there is light in this darkness and i can reach it if i keep walking, keep moving to it. once he arrived in afghanistan in 2009, bergdahl reportedly wrote, i want to change so much,

and all the time, but then my mind just locks down as if there was someone else in my mind shutting the door in my face. a year later in an e-mail to a friend, bergdahl said he was looking at a map of afghan and asked if he could wire money to her to protect my money in the bank just in case things go bad. then just three days before unit members said bergdahl walked off post he sent an e-mail to a friend saying this life is too short to compromise values and ethics. i'm done compromising. we did learn that bergdahl enlisted just two years after the coast guard discharged him just 26 days after boot camp. the army was aware but they issued him a waiver. this was at the same time as the surge in afghanistan when they were trying to get more soldiers to serve. margaret brennan, cbs news, the pentagon. pope francis gave a rare television interview to an

israeli journalist. speaking in his native spanish he does not use the glass enclosed popemobile because he's not going to greet the people and tell them that he loves them from inside a sardine can. and francis said he never expected to be elected and has no personal agenda as pope. now, the pope says he's staying neutral when it comes to his native argentina and brazil in the world cup, but the host nation has a bigger problem than a super fan to worry about. and in game four of the stanley cup finals, it's on the line when this happened in final minutes.

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griego. ,,,, here's a look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. sports fans on every continent are turning their eyes to brazil today for the start of soccer's world cup, but as the

games are about to kick off, the host nation is still struggling to get ready. elaine quijano reports. >> reporter: these days many soccer mad brazilians are just plain mad, mad over the $11 billion the government here has spent, making this the most expensive world cup ever, money they claim should have been spent on education and housing. at protests like this one residents fumed over what they called the government's broken promises. this man says average brazilians won't benefit from the cup and says they've been priced out of seeing their team play. >> so many people are losing their houses, losing their life, and in the end we're not even able to watch the game. so think the message is this is not for you. >> reporter: with hours to go, many stadiums resemble construction sites. other projects weren't completed at all. roads unpaved and airport finished. a recent government audit claims

that price gouging by contractors tripled the cost. chris gaffney is an american professor and soccer fanatic who lives in rio de janeiro. where does that leave brazilians? >> it leave brass stillians holding the bag and that bag is empty at the bottom and a lot of money is flowing out of it. >> reporter: uncertainty is still ahead of the games. transit workers are planning to strike. protesters plan to march to the stadium and in rio de janeiro at least six activists were taken into custody by police. elaine quijano, cbs news, sal paolo, brazil. it was do or die for the new york rangers in the stanley cup finals. the rangers score the game's first two goals and clinging to a one-goal lead in the final minutes, new york gets a stroke of luck. the puck gets past goalie henrik lundqvist but it doesn't make it across the goal line. the rangers win 2-1 with game

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they are the newest tools for mexican drug traffickers to move their product into this country, cloned vehicles. as anna werner reports, that i make it hard to tell who the bad guys are. >> reporter: when tucson border patrol agents seized this truck last week, the decals from the fish and wildlife service looked spot on. in the flatbed they found marijuana in bundles worth $1.6 million. it's what they call a clone or faked vehicle and while it may seem unusual, what cbs news found may surprise you. the story starts back in 2007 as a police officer in the little town of george west, texas, attempted to pull over what looked like a texas department

of transportation or txdot truck. what did this truck look like to the casual observer? >> just like a typical txdot truck from the exempt plates to the stickers, the insignia. >> reporter: but the license plate belonged to a school district, so sergeant jorge medina stopped it. >> as i walked up to the truck, it took off. >> reporter: he gave chase until the driver lost control and the truck spun out. >> it flipped over and there were black bundles scattered all over. >> reporter: that was the drugs. >> that was the drugs. >> reporter: nearly a ton of marijuana. since then law enforcement officials in south texas like sheriff t. michael o'connor of victoria county have been on the lookout. what kinds of vehicles have you seen? >> if you can think of it and name it, we have stopped it. >> reporter: traffickers will seemingly fake any vehicle to transport their drugs from a

cloned at&t service truck to a ups semi. this halliburton tanker didn't contain oil at all. and if you're planning for wide distribution of your product, why not go for walmart. how good are these fakes? >> some of them are excellent. >> reporter: they've cloned directv trucks, fedex trucks, even police cars, and would you believe a school bus? >> what's really interesting is they took dummies so if you passed by, you would see it passing and you would see it was occupied. >> reporter: police cannot say how many cloned vehicles are on the road, but correct spelling is essential for those who don't want to be caught. this truck was labeled border patron. >> that's a common vehicle in our area except for wait says, "border patron." so someone's got a sense of humor on the other side too. >> anna werner, cbs news, dallas. well, coming up after your local news on "cbs this

morning," more on the insurgent push in iraq. holly williams is in erbil with the latest. plus why health experts are saying it's okay to eat butter again. and we sit down with tv writer and producer chuck lorre, the man behind the hit shows the big bang theory" and ""two and a half men."" that's the "cbs morning news" for this thursday. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com "cbs morning news."morning i'm anne-marie green. have a great -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

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because you will be a ball dude. >> do you notice the colors? the giants. we are going to be working for the giants just after noon today as ball dudes. i'm ready to go. >> he didn't go to bed last night. >> could hardly sleep. i'm excited! lots of sunshine coming our way toward the afternoon. fog though to start out and those winds are kicking up all around the bay area today. likely the coolest day of the week. we'll have more on that coming up. >> there is a chp-issued high wind advisory for the benicia bridge and there is already a traffic alert for the carquinez bridge. they are doing emergency road one lane is going to be blocked until 8 a.m. on westbound 80. so all the details -- it's already been busy, a couple of accidents, as well. not sure what's going on today, but -- >> i know. >> so be extra careful. maybe it's the wind. >> there you go. >> all right, liz. thanks. we begin at 4:30 now. fremont police have powerful new weapon to fight crime working in their city. here's the proof. burglaries are down a stunning 30% in their city. kpix 5's betty yu