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running for their lives. australians locked in a hsotage standoff. >> happening inside a cafe in sydney's business district. unclear how many are inside. >> many of them holding up. a black sign with arabic writing. >> another system bringing more rain to the san francisco area. >> a tornado on the ground. >> in injuries or damage reported. >> in southern, pennsylvania, north of philly, five people killed, and police say the gunman is still at large. >> it's what the al qaeda did to americans on 9/11. >> cheney slamming the controversial senate terror report. >> you can't claim tying someone to the floor and having them freeze to death is not torture. >> james bond is the latest victim of the hack attack. on sony studios. an early version of the script for the next film was stolen. >> hackers are also hinting about a christmas surprise. >> bill cosby is breaking his silence.

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let's go places. welcome to "cbs this morning." as you wake up in the west, it is the middle of the night in sydney, australia. the city center there still shut down by hostage drama inside a coffee shop. during the day, at least five hostages managed to escape. now we're hearing from some of the people apparently still inside. >> they say the gunman is telling them it is an attack by isis. clarissa ward in london is monitoring the crisis in australia's largest city. clarissa, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. new videos are emerging online that appear to show several of the hostages giving the gunman's demands. the cafe where they are being held is located in a popular shopping plaza in the heart of sydney. at this time of year the cafes are packed with holiday shoppers

and morning commuters. at around 9:45 in the morning a hostage crisis began unfolding at the lindt chocolate cafe. >> this door was locked which is pretty weird because it's never locked. there was one guy walking around with a hat and a beard and then that's when the police showed up. >> these images show people with their arms raised pressed against the large glass windows. a black islamic flag was unravelled and held up against the glass by the people inside. as police surrounded the area the gunman was seen pacing in the cafe. he appeared to be middle aged and wore a bandanna with islamic writing saying we are your -- oh prophet muhammad. six hours into the ordeal several hostages finally emerged running from a back exit. videos have surfaced online in which four of them appeared to

ask for the gunman's demands to be met. cbs news con nuews cannot confi authenticity of the videos. thousands of office workers spilled on to city streets and parks as buildings near the cafe, including the u.s. consulate and the sydney opera house were evacuated. >> for those who have loved ones that may be caught up in this, for those that may be in that particular building, rest assured, we're doing all we can to set you free. >> police sources are telling australia media the gunman is an iranian refugee called man haran mones. allegedly known to them for sending hate letters to the families of australian soldiers killed overseas and he has reportedly been convicted of sexual assault. charlie. >> clarissa, thanks. cbs news senior contributor michael morrell join us from

washington. >> good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> following what clarissa said, what do you think of this incident? >> we don't know what is motivating this person but it does appear he is in some way motivated by isis. if that's the case, this is not surprising to me. isis has had a focus on australia for some time. some 300 australians have gone to the middle east to fight in that war. 70 or so are fighting for isis. just a couple of months ago the australians did a countrywide raid arresting a number of people after a senior isis leader called for individuals in australia to behead australians in public for isis. so there is this focus on australia. >> but it also is an example of the long reach or long ten tackles of isis, is it not, which gets more publicity for

them around the world. >> absolutely. absolutely, charlie. >> australia recently raised their terror threat to high, mike, and you just mentioned the connection to australia. can you just describe why you think australia would be a target? >> australia is seen by groups like isis as a partner of the west, which is certainly is. australia was a key ligs partner in the war in iraq, a coalition partner in the war in afghanistan and is now a coalition partner in the fight against isis so isis thesees th as an enemy. >> when other countries look at this perhaps as isis succeeding in some ways in encouraging lone wolves to carry out these types of attacks, what concerns you the most? >> what concerns me the most is we're going to see this kind of terrorism around the world, and we're going to see it here, norah. we're going to see this kind of attack here. and we need to be prepared for that. you know, it shouldn't surprise people when this happens here

sometime over the next year or so, guaranteed. >> how do we prepare for it? >> it's very difficult to stop something like this. you know, one way this happens is if isis leadership directs it, and intelligence agencies can often see that and prevent it. if people are vocal about what they're going to do on social media, you can often prevent it. but if they're quiet -- if they're quiet about it, it's very easy to carry something out like this, very difficult to prevent it. >> are you convinced, michael, that this is a lone wolf incident? >> we don't know. there's a couple of possibilities here. one is that this person has been directed by isis to do this. that would be kind of the worst case. the second is that this person went to fight in syria and has now come back. the third possibility is that this person has just been self-radicalized by the isis message. the fourth possibility is that

he's mentally ill, right, so it's one of those four and it goes from worst case to kind of like less worst case. >> all of the scenarios very chilling. thank you, michael morell, for joining us this morning. >> you're welcome. a cbs news poll out this morning shows americans are divided over the cia tactics exposed in a senate report. the poll shows 49% of americans feel aggressive interrogation techniques like waterboarding are sometimes justified. 36% say they're never justified. >> meanwhile, 52% believe the release of that senate report could pose a threat to u.s. security. on sunday, former vice president dick cheney says he regrets nothing the cia did after 9/11. bill plante is at the white house with cheney's criticism of the report. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. good morning to our viewers in the west. the former vice president has been the most ardent defender of the tactics used by the cia to interrogate suspected terrorists, and in a combative interview sunday,

cheney once again dismissed claims that what the cia did was tantamount to torture. >> torture is what they did to 3,000 americans on 9/11. >> reporter: the former vice president offered a passionate defense and results and said the jens agency should be praised and the agents decorated. >> we did capture bin laden, we did capture a lot of the senior guys of al qaeda who were responsible for the attack on 9/11. i'd do it again in a minute. >> and he rejected not only the conclusions drawn in the report, but also committee chairman dianne feinstein's chracteristic of it. >> it's a crock. it's not true. we were very careful to stop torture. the senate was committed to say it was torture but we remained short of it. >> reporter: he offered no apology that 25% of the prisoners subjected to harsh interrogation tactics were wrongfully detained.

>> i'm more concerned with bad guys who got out and got released than i am with a few that, in fact, were innocent. >> reporter: republican senator john mccain, who was captured and tortured during the vietnam war, supported the report's release. >> that's what america is all about. we do things wrong, we make mistakes, we review those and we vow never to do them again. >> reporter: and mccain pushed back. >> there were violations so that geneva's conventions treatment of prisoners. there were violations of the convention against torture. you can't claim that tying someone to the floor and having them freeze to death is not torture. >> reporter: cheney also took issue with reports that claim president bush wasn't fully briefed on the interrogation tactics until 2006. he calleded that a lie. he said that bush was fully supportive of everything the cia did. >> bill, thanks. this morning crude oil prices are at their lowest level in more than five years.

opec says production will not be cut. it relies on the market to set the price. since june the price of foreign oil has been slashed to nearly half, to less than $63 per barrel. domestic oil is even cheaper, under $59 per barrel. michelle miller is at a gas station in new jersey to show us why the good news for drivers is sending jitters through the markets. michelle, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. well, cheap oil means lower prices at the pump not just here but across the nation, and that could lead to less expensive flights, lower heating costs, and more money in consumers' pockets. normally that would be good news for the u.s. economy. not necessarily this time. cheaper gas leads to more than just pocket change for many drivers. >> it's in essence a raise. i get to spend more money on food, on necessities, put some money in the bank. >> reporter: the nationwide average for a gallon of gas has

dropped nearly a dollar in the last three months to $2.53 per gallon. greg iff is an editor at "the economist." >> a lower oil price is like a gigantic tax cut. you'll see it flow through to the price of gasoline. that's going to put several hundred dollars per year in the pockets of u.s. households. >> reporter: the last time oil prices were this low was in may of 2009, when the nation was still reeling from the global financial crisis. now the bad news. the u.s. has become the biggest oil producer in the world because of the shale oil boom. that's helped lead to a global oil glut and spiraling prices. >> we now have a lot of companies and a lot of folks working in the shale industry who are not going to be drilling as many wells as we thought we were because the prices dropped so much. >> reporter: even with historic low price, demand for oil in europe and asia remains flat suggesting the world economy is weakening. all these factors contributed to

the dow jones industrial average tumbling nearly 700 points last week, its worst drop in more than three years. >> one of the reasons we've seen prices decline sharply is because there are these unpredictable consequences when you see big convulsive moves in something like the price of oil. >> reporter: prices aside, this is a nice early christmas gift for the average american driver. consider this. they could save as much as $500 on gas this year and that has the potential to boost u.s. household spending power by about $70 billion. norah? >> that's a lot. thank you. president obama is expected to sign a bill this week, keeping most of the government running through next fall. the $1.1 trillion spending bill passed the senate 56-40 over the weekend. the department of homeland security is the only agency not

funded. that will allow the next congress to suggest the new immigration policy. comedian bill cosby is breaking his silence following the string of sexual assault allegations against him. in recent weeks, nearly two dozen women claimed he drugged or assaulted them. cosby told the "new york post" the other day, i only expect the, quote, black media to uphold the standards in journalism and when you do that you have to go in with a neutral mind. cosby was described as sound upbeat. he added his wife camille is holding up because of love and the strength of womanhood. sony's huge cyberattack. the hackers' latest leaks include an early version of the screenplay of the james bond movie. elaine quijano is here with news on how the studio is trying to control the damage. elaine, good morning. >> the new leaks include information that jennifer lawrence's salary in "hustle" was lower than her male co-stars. perhaps more damaging is the

top-secret scripp of the latest installment of one of their most lucrative franchises. >> the name is bond. james bond. >> even james bond is no match. for the cyber criminals who hacked sony and revealed the plot of the next bond film "spectre." they're vowing to take action against anyone with property that is known to be stolen. according to former executive assistant director of the fbi cyber division shaun henry, catching the hackers themselves could be a challenge. >> they're oftentimes located in multiple countries spanning the globe and the willingness is critical. >> along with release of confidential scripts and financial information, the hack has revealed a stream of embarrassing internal e-mails. "the new york times" reports that sony picture co-chair amy pascal felt pressure from her boss, company president and ceo, to tone down the violence

jong-un. in the upcoming film "the interview." in an e-mail to seth rogen, she noted the rarity of this. i have never gotten one note on anything from our parent company in the entire 25 years i have worked for them. in one newly published leak pascal called leo dicaprio despicable after he pulled out of a project, and and george clooney was in a crisis of confidence. i haven't slept in 30 hours he writes to pascal. in another he said i fear i have let you all down. not my intention. i apologize. i've just lost touch. who knew? on sunday, sony warned news justlets not to use corporate data revealed by hackers. according to the hollywood reporter, the hackers are

sending out e-mails saying a christmas gift will be arriving soon that will, quote, put sony picture into the worst state. >> thank you. a manhunt is under way this morning, the suspect being described as a military veteran. officers say he has children with him. police found three separate crime scenes. the most recent in soudern to, north of philadelphia. police are looking for a motive this morning in the killing of an auburn university football player. the 18-year-old was shot multiple times sunday. near an off-campus apartment complex. police arrested a 22-year-old in connection with the freshman's death. the shooting happened at the same complex where two former auburn football players were killed in a 2012 shooting. adrian peterson has a new tactic this morning to quickly rejoin the nfl. the nfl players association will file a lawsuit today on behalf of the vikings star. last week an arbitrator held the nfl's decision to suspend peterson.

he can officially be reinstated april 15th. he pleaded no contest last month to a misdemeanor assault charge after disciplining his son with a wooden switch. california is bracing for more rain this morning as the west coast recovers from last week's soaker. remnants of that storm produced a rare december tornado in kansas. a resident captured it on video yesterday afternoon and you can see the massive twister touching down. but we're happy to report nobody was hurt here. scary stuff. >> very scary. it's 7:19. ahead on "cbs this morning," it is a disease typically found in kids but it's big enough to put nhl star sidney crosby on the bench. the new health threat to some o,

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this is the kpix 5 morning update. good morning, monday morning to you. it is a wet one. here is what's happening arounde bay area right now. a new earthquake system will exd in california. it is start on new year year's day. the system will give us a minute warning before the shaking is felt. we'll get the system next year, the state receives funding in the new federal budget compromised. the 49ers is dropped to 7-7 on the season with a lost with the seahawks yesterday. speculations poorly of the head coach jim harbaugh, he may leave the team at the end of the season. >> traffic and rain, when will

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two clinical psychologists were paid over a million dollar to brainstorm over torture. joining us tonight james mitchell. are you surprised? >> we are. it's upsetting. honestly we're afraid people will only jump us from our cia work. we're consultants for some of the top corporations in america. >> for example, are you familiar with time warner cable? >> you work with time warner. >> we do all their customer service. >> it was our idea that when you call on the phone you have to ask a robot to speak to a human. >> and when it starts with mar

-- >> that's pretty funny. >> they took it right from the beginning and used the sound of music in the show. it was great. >> he've got a purple tie right. the famous purple tie. >> the beauty is when they do charlie, you know it's not going to be something goofy, crazy. it's something well respected, top done. i saw it. top five. he's everywhere. >> he's everywhere. he. >> he's with us every day. we like that. coming up, the battle between old and new in colorado. one denver neighbor turns to pot and longtime businesses push back. barry pederson talks about the turf fight on antiques

injuries. we'll bring you any new developments about what happened with a full report at 8:00. "the boston globe" says heavy traffic is expected on the healthcare.gov website today. the deadline is midnight tonight for new users to pick a health plan. >> they also have a chance to shop for a better deal. >> "usa today" looks at new studies to find a big jump in teenagers using electronic cigarettes. pediatrics say 25% of students used e-cigarettes last year.

in hawaii, 29% used them. that's three times the natural rate. they blame it on the use of regular cigarettes, high advertising and the belief that e-cigarettes are safer. "new york times" is criticizing north american. he denounced north american policy and conditions. he said he entered north korea by illegally crossing the border through china. he plans to seek asylum. sidney crosby is the latest player in the national hockey league to get the mumps. many in the league are fighting the virus. vladimir duthiers is here to show us why the disease may be spreading. good morning. >> good morning. mumps is a contagious virus. it starts with symptoms like fever and headache and the salivary glands become swollen like we saw with sidney crosby,

one of the league's best players the latest to catch this disease. when the pittsburgh penguins took to the ice star forward sidney crosby wasn't on it. the two-time mvp has mumps. >> it came as a bit of a surprise to us is because every indication was he was well protected against the disease. >> after feeling six thursday he addressed the reporters the next day with a swollen face, a common sim thom. >> i'm feeling better. one of those things. trying to get some dozen other players including anaheim ducks, minnesota wild, new jersey devils, and new york rangers. on sunday the rangers sent home center derick brassard with a suspected case of the virus. crosby had been vaccinated as a

child and even received the booster shot before the sochi olympics but experts say vaccines can wear all over time and crowded grounds can make the perfect breeding ground. >> the players have a lot of prolonged close contact in practice, the games. they live together, practice togethern' togeth together, and they can spread it to other teams. >> in a statement they said -- >> it's obvious. i mean we're concerned about it. it's a disease that's going throughout the league, and you just don't know how far it can spread. >> the nhl and players' association have provided teams and players with informing on how fro text themselves against the mumps. as for crosby, he'll be

monitored daily and the penguins hope he can return to the ice next week. gayle? >> i hope so. thank you, vlad. some in the retail business are still getting used to their new neighbors. barry pederson shows us a rift between antique dealers and the pot shop next door. >> reporter: christmas is called the happiest time of the year, but there is plenty of unhappiness here this year. this is broadway's south of denver's skyscrapers, an area popular for its antique stores, but now home to 17 pop shops. explosive growth once recreational marijuana came legal this year. >> it's the highest. >> tim collin owns evergreen apock theiry. he faces opposition from antique

dealers. >> is there any feeling thb? >> oh, absolutely. reefer madness is still alive and well and still affects some people's decision. >> these are massive keys. >> deana and jim of heidelberg antiques are among almost a hundred antique dealers on south broadway. they go to europe three times a year for antiques and their customers include well healed designers. they're not at all happy with the new business they're getting. >> oftentimes i'll greet people when they come in and say may i help you, may i do anything for you and they'll say no, we're just waiting for the pot shot to open and we thought we'd kill a little time, and that's the kind of customer, quote/unquote, that we don't need and don't desire. >> this is really a battle of old versus new. the antique shops have been on these streets since world war ii. they're the upstarts except they're the ones bringing in a lot of new business.

>> it seems they're dieing a slow death here and i think more traffic on broadway, the high tide raises all the boats and they would benefit. >> you all do well. >> absolutely. no question about it. >> in denver with more pot shops than starbucks some counsel it's time to accept the reality of marijuana being for sale because it's here to stay. kelly brufr is president of the denver chamber of commerce. >> once it was approved by voters, i think like most coloradans you one doerr how do we implement it thoughtfully. >> sometimes it's tough especially here on south broadway. whether you call it antique row or the green mile, the identity of a neighborhood is at stake. this is truly a fight about what's in a name. for "cbs this morning," barry pederson, denver. >> i was thinking how many stories on pot has barry done.

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across the country one in nine bridges is considered structurally deficient but federal and state regulations are delaying much and some for several years. jeff peguys shows us projects tied up in red tape. >> reporter: when work on this bridge is done in 2016 supersized container ships from the panama canal will pass under its new higher deck. raising the deck by 64 feet was considered so crucial to the

u.s. economy that president obama signed an executive order to fast track the regulatory process. so it took four years to get to this point? >> it took four years but by infrastructure standards, that's very quick. more projects take five, six, seven, eight to get to construction. >> reporter: this is what fast track looks like. she says this is more than 10,000 pages of mandated archaeological, architectural, soil, flora, fauna, and sunlight reports. in all, nearly $2 million in consultant fees before the project even got started. >> the holdup is a series of regulations that have evolved over time from a very simple guideline into layers and layers of complex regulations. >> regulations that require the bridge's operator to study things like the impact of construction on native american tribes that pass through the area more than 100 years ago.

in all, more than 300 groups were consulted. the regulatory process took four years, the same amount of time construction on the 5,800-foot span is expected to take. industry observers say the overall review process is cumbersome and outdated and is putting the public at risk. >> there's got to be a way to work more effectively using the red tape to protect the public not to delay the project. i think it's being misused in some cases. >> reporter: it's not just the big problems facing the big bureaucratic hurdles. it's small projects like this, a small bridge 18 miles from new york. it's a project that's going to taken two years, but to get to this point, it's taken about a million dollars worth of reports in six years. >> in government everyone gets involved, and the legislate of a

project is ridiculously long. >> the westchester county executive whose office is funding the project says the whole process should be streamlined. >> there needs to be one agency that shepherds it through, monitors the cost. >> reporter: residents agree. >> it's supposed to take two years to finish and i think it might be around three. there's nothing going on here. >> can your business survive that? >> i don't think so. >> reporter: but it doesn't have to be that way. some projects are completed quickly and efficiently. we found that when this bridge north of seattle plunged. the government acted quickly to sidestep years of regulations. the new bridge was put in place in just four weeks. for "cbs this morning," jeff peguys. >> it's so frustrating. you hate for there to be an

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will speak at san francisc' mission high sch good monday morning everyone, it is 7:56. here is what's happening around the bay area. the father of michael brown will speak at san francisco mission high school later. michael brown senior is going city to city to talk about police brutality and police profiling. heavy rain this morning. dozens of flights have been cancelled at sfo. so call ahead if you are headed that way. a new earthquake system -- traffic and how about this

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good morning, a rough commute right now getting across san mateo bridge. you can see cars are jammed up there on the westbound. it is about a 40 minute drive time between 880 and 101. once you get on 101, the road ways through san mateo, it is backing up the ride through hayward. 580 is slow to the livermore valley. that's kpix traffic and your wet wet forecast, here is roberta. >> good morning everyone, the precipitation is to the south and to the east. right now, look at that big glob out

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♪ good morning to our viewers in the west. it is monday, december 15th, 2014. welcome back to cbs this morning. more real news ahead including the dramatic effort in the last half hour to end the hostage crisis in australia's largest city. first here's a look at today's eye opener at 8:00. >> hostage drama appears to have ended. police conduct a series of explosions. police sources are telling us the gunman is an iranian refugee. >> what concerns me the most is we are going to see this kind of attack here some time over the next year or so. guaranteed. >> once again dismissed claims by senate democrats.

>> according to the hollywood reporter, the hackers are sending out e-mails saying a christmas gift will be arriving so >> california is bracing for more rain. remnant producer rare december tornado in kansas. >> this is really a battle of old versus new. the marijuana dealers are the upstarts. they're the ones dringing in a lot of business. >> now normally that would be good news for the u.s. economy. >> the price of oil fell below $60 a barrel. that's also a pretty good deal on barrels. >> i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell. in the last hour we've seen police take action to end a hostage standoff at an australian cafe. heavily armed officers stormed the business. >> we've been watching the

police help the hostages get out. clarissa, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. police are saying the hostage crisis in that cafe in sidney is now over. just about an hour ago we saw five hostages fleeing the building. some of them with their hands up in the the air, and then 15 or 20 minutes later we heard several loud explosions. those explosions were followed by a very intense burst of rapid and sustained heavy gunfire. that lasted for about 20 to 30 seconds. and then we saw saw at least four injured people being brought out of the cafe on stretchers. it's still not clear what happened inside the building. there are bomb disposal personnel outside the cafe. the siege began more than 17 hours ago, and five hostages were actually able to escape about six hours into it.

but we are now still awaiting official word on whether there were any casualties. norah sf h. >> clarissa, thank you. the suspect is an iranian refugee well known to iranian police. bob orr is live with more. what do we know about this man? >> well, we're told he came from iran to australia about 1996. it gets confusing. we believe he was originally a shiite from iran, and now he turns up in this chocolate shop in australia, kind of extolling the virtues of a sunni terrorist organization, isis. he asked for the isis flag. he seemed to be acting out in the name of the terror group. all that still needs to be sorted out. we know he had an extensive criminal record. he was allegedly involved in a plot against his ex-wife. by extension, since the australians knew about him, the

u.s. authorities also knew about him, but i'm told, according to sources, he is not connected to any known trouble here. there is no plot in the pipeline, as far as we know that connects this man to anything here in the u.s. and as far as we can tell, he right now appears to be that classic lone wolf. somebody who was inspired by the radical ideology. someone who sought to act out without accomplices in the name of a terror group and whatever he was trying to achieve. and the authorities still early on want to go through all of his background, all of his communications, his online profile to figure out if he had any help, or more importantly f he was working under the direction of others. this is like a classic lone wolf. someone motivated in his own mind. >> at this moment, we do not know whether he was killed or not. >> we don't know that. that's very important to the investigation. the police, if they can, would like to tuk to him to find out more about what made him tick. these are the questions that still have to wait to be

answered. >> do you happen to know why the police stormed the cafe when they did? >> it's only a guess. they felt the situation was deteriorating or they had an opportunity. this was a lone gunman trying to hold too many hostages in a confined place with plate glass windows. snipers had a view of this guy. clearly they didn't want anyone to get hurt. usually they act with overwhelming force or grenades when one of two things happen. either they have the opportunity to rush the man or they see it going south in a hurry and they have to end it before it gets worse. >> still many questions in the the story, but it is over. thank you very much. an accused killer is under arrest again this morning after breaking free from an alabama prison. demarcus woodard else caped saturday morning from a prison in butler. he attacked a guard, stole his keys and ran out of the jail. the other two were recaptured. this morning ten victim

families from the sandy hook shooting filed a lawsuit against the maker, drint tor and seller of the assault rifle. the man who killed 20 children and six adults suffered from severe mental illness. in the past two years, ten states decreased funding for mental health treatment. patrick kennedy is here. he wrote the mental parody law. he's no the cofounder of one mind advocacy group. last night he interviewed a woman named ashley who suffered from bipolar disorder. she fought the insurance company to pay for treatment after ashley attempted suicide. >> in 2012 ashley was in the hospital for the fourth time that year. they thought they had taken away everything that could hurt her, but she smashed her cell phone and cut her wrist with the glass. >> what did that tell you in terms o f the treatment that she needed? >> it told that she needed

long-term treatment to survive. >> maria says that anthem recommended treatment at timberline knolls, a residential facility. a doctor said ashley needed 90 days. but after sending her to illinois from california, anthem denied payment after six days. saying that ashley could be safely treated without patient services. >> did the people of timberline knolls believe that? >> no, they slul didn't believe it. they gave us the option of paying $22,000 to complete the 30 days. and that -- there wasn't a chance that we could do that. >> now look at how ashley's care was denied. this log shows doctor tim jack, a psychiatrist working on behalf of anthem called ashley's doctor three times in 32 minutes. one call was disconnecteded. he left two messages.

dr. jack waited 22 minutes for a call back and then denied coverage rchlt from the first call to denial, 54 minutes, speaking to no one. >> patrick kennedy, welcome. >> thank you, charlie. >> what's your reaction to scott's piece? >> it's all too familiar tragedy that mental health is not treated like the rest of physical health. the notion that there was 95% to 100% denial rate for mental illness, where as you would never expect that for cancer, diabetes or cardiovascular disease. the objective was to simply treat brain illnesses like the rest of physical health. it's not complicated. what is complicated is getting to the details of how medical utilization review, medical necessity determinations are made. i invite the insurance companies to really come forward now that this new law is in place and outline how they will make these medical utilization review decisions. because what's most frustrating

is the lack of transparency in how they make these decisions. as you saw in your report. this doctor never saw ashley, and was making a decision really on the fly, and of course was reimbursed basically to deny. so we need to clear this up and there's still going to be medical management. but what we want to do is make sure there's no more adverse decisions against the mentally ill, as there would be against cancer. that is the operative point. >> you say we have to see mental illness in a new way. so what do you think it will take that people do not see them as morally flawed? if it didn't happen in newtown, which is one of the most graphic cases, what will it take? >> we need more brain research. is we also need to apply what we already know. most people don't think you can treat mental illness. that's part of the stigma.

we have in u tools to treat the illnesses unlike ever before. i think people's attitudes will shift once they know that their loved one can successfully be treated. >> let me read anthem insurance. throughout the care the behavioral experts explored the numerous care options that went beyond their covered benefits. so what steps do you think patients' families can take to get the right kind of care? how do you manage the insurance companies? >> right now in the second court, united hlt is being sued for a similar set of circumstances. this is applied to many insurance companies across the field. what we need from the administration, the the department of regulation regulates these. they need to set forth strong compliance networks to get disclosure. disclosure will allow us to

determine whether they're making decisions overtly against the mentally ill, where they wouldn't do so if it were against cancer, cardiovascular disease or diabetes. >> congressman patrick kennedy, so good to see you. thanks for your continued work. >> thank you. >> thank you for coming in. >> and ahead on cbs this morning, oprah winfrey returns to the big screen. she's here in studio 57 with david oyelowo. the two star in "selma" about martin luther king jr.'s historic march for

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sidney kaiser may be the youngest fashion star in the world, she's from ohio. i'm going to start that over. sidney kaiser is the youngest fax designer in the world, that's what we think. the 4-year-old from milford, ohio, recently signed a deal with j. crew to help design a line of clothing for kids. jericka duncan has the story you'll only see on "cbs this morning." >> let's get to work. >> reporter: to understand how sidney kaiser works -- >> is that how you watch it? >> oh, yeah. >> you have to watch her in action. every morning the 4-year-old fashion phenom creates whatever comes to mind using paper, tape, and scissors. >> you got it? becareful with this. >> reporter: on this day she decided to first make something

for her imaginary sister, a mannequin she called ma ken za. >> it looks good on her anyway. >> reporter: then she modeled off the dress she made for herself. where do you get these ideas? >> my head. >> do you practice a lot? >> a lot. >> how many hours a day do you practice? >> about ten. >> that's a long time. >> yep. >> do you realize you have a gift? >> i do? >> you do. those gifts were brought to life by sidney's mom angie who started a blog called fashion by mayhem, sidney's nickname. angie had more than 400,000 followers eagle to see sidney's original creations as well as some red carpet recreations. last february j. crew's head

designer showed a serious interest in teaming up with the 4-year-old. >> that first e-mail you got from j. crew, you thought what? >> i didn't think it was real. seriously to know the volume of e-mail coming in at the time it was incredibly overwhelming, but that particular e-mail definitely kind of stopped me in my tracks and i thought is this really real? >> j. crew flu the family to new york where sidney was treated like a rock star, and last week they made it official. fashion by mayhem would work with j. crew on a 2015 summer collection for kids. >> some people will look at the intricacies of the dresses that she has created and described and they'll say, did she really do that? what do you say to those people? >> i would say she did not come out of the womb with little scissors and packing tape and starting off and putting these things together on her own.

there are definitely dresses that i help with a lot more. but she still really has most of the creative control. >> editor in chief of yahoo style says technology played a big role in sidney's success. >> the very sort of elaborate arts and craft of anything we did when we were kids except none of us had instagram to post it when we were younger. >> when sidney's not having fun making dresses she's busy helping her parents alt their photography studio or just being a typical 4-year-old having a blast at the park. >> if you're walking down the street and you see someone your age wearing your design, what you do think you're going to do? >> just tell my mom and dad. >> just tell your mom and dad. >> mm-hmm. >> sidney's work has also been featured on vogue magazine's

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up in this half hour, oprah. there's only one oprah winfrey here live and in color in studio 57. feeling under the weather but you look great along with actor david oyelowo. say it right. although people last night said we should call you davidoyelo-wow. >> i'll take that. >> they're bringing "selma" to the big screen. we'll talk about the movie that may resonate now more than ever. that's ahead. time to show you this morn's headlines from around the globe. the world of the year is

culture. that's according to merriam-webster. culture had a 15% increase in lookups on the dictionary website last year. awarding are up. they include nostalgia, insidious, and legacy. "the guardian" has posted new pictures of prince george. the duke and duchess have released three photos. his sweater vest has already sold out. "new york" magazine reports on a high school student who made $72 million trading stocks during his lunch break. 17-year-old started with pennies. today he's worth big figures. he bought a bmw but doesn't have a license. he links with his parents. >> i want to talk to him. march 1st marks the 50th

anniversary. i eventually led to lyndon johnson to sign the voting rights act. now the film "selma" recounts that march. oprah plays annie lee cooper who was repeatedly denied the right to vote and david oyelowo plays dr. martin luther king jr. >> those who go forward say no more, no more. that means protest, that means march, that means disturb the peace, that means jail, that means risk, and that is hard. we will not wait any longer. give us the vote. that's right. no more. we're not asking. we're demanding, give us the vote. >> on thursday "selma" earned four golden globe nominations.

they include best dramatic picture, best actor, oyelowo, best picture and best original song. oprah winfrey and david oyelowo join us at the table and we're pleased to have them. how did this show bring you together? >> "the butler" brought us together and mother and son. i showed my passion and oprah said i'll hello you do this. >> you said i want to do this and you're british. how in the world did you think you could play martin luther king jr. because this project was dead. >> trust me. i feel the same way as even, really, he's british? when i read this script i had a deep spiritual knowing i was going to do this with my life and it took seven years to get here, but i'm so proud and happy that we got it done. >> i was going say, two years

ago oprah said to me, watch david oyelowoyelowo. you have such a bond which is unusual because she doesn't get friends easily. she knows it's true. when he told me she invited him and his family to hawaii, i thought, oh, she likes him and his wife. but you predicted it two years ago. what did you see? >> i saw in david what i felt and saw in myself at this age. i mean i think he has a calling and he obviously is a brilliant actor, but he is one of those people who also wants to honor that calling in a bigger way. so his choices for the kind of work that he does. look at you, baby. his choices are really reflective of who he is as a human being. so i saw that thing. there's a hummelsness and a drive and a passion for life that i felt in myself. >> describe that moment and that thought process when david said i've been trying to get this movie made, it's so important,

and you said, we've got to to do this. >> well, actually he showed me a tape of himself, remember? he showed me a tape of himself and he said, i want you to know, what do you think of this. >> oh, gosh. with the oliver twist voice again. >> what do you think of this. i said, i know -- it was an audition that he had done. i think your wife jessica had shot it, right? >> yeah. >> it's him at the podium and he's doing the mountaintop speech and what i noticed immediately is there's an uncanny resemblance to martin luther kij which i never noticed before. i thought, oh, you do look like him. i said the speech is good but you need to go deeper. >> let's talk about "selma." you play annie lee cooper who lived to over 100 years old and what a strong woman she was. she was denied how many times the right to vote? >> that was her fifth time. that was her fifth time going to register to vote. that's why the movie and all

that it represents means so much to me and one of the reasons why i said yes to the role. i didn't want to but avis sent me a clip of a story about annie lee cooper when she turn 100, and in the story, every day she watched t ""the oprah show"" at0 and had a tuna fish sandwich. you can't deny that. all those ancestors who are part of our legacy, my legacy, kept getting up and trying. the fact you go and you're denied and then growler home an then you study the constitution and you go again and you know that going you could risk your life or have your life burned down. >> i'm old enough to have heard dr. martin king live and know john lewis and med josea williams. what's amazing about this is it reminds us that every step has

been a strug >> yeah. >> and it continues today. but we see here, you know, that you really cannot give up and you have to push. we see it today in other kinds of incidents taking place in the country. >> you know what's remarkable to me about the parallels is that there was such a strategic rigorous discipline and that there was a definite plan for this is what we want, we want the right to vote, and this is our intention in going about getting it that and there were divisions within the community. >> there were divisions within the community how to do it. >> but they also knew -- and they were so young too -- they could lose their life. >> today if you peacefully protest you would not lose your life. they knew they could lose their life and they diddet anyway. >> yes. and you see the high price paid for the privilege including the right to vote which we take for granted. you see here that's something

not to be taken lightly. >> i had someone come to the event last weekend with the legends, with the civil rights leaders and showing the film and i got a lovely note from someone who was pretty prominent who saidly never not vote again after seeing that movie. >> mark evans, a paramount producer, a young girl, 17 came with her grandmother, and she thought selma was going to be about a girl. her grandmother told her nothing about it. take us behind the scenes. i love the scene whatwhere you have the extras and they have to say the "n" word. i love this story. >> ava who's making history with this nomination because she's the first african-american ever will to be nominated as a director, she had prior to this done a small film called "middle of nowhere" with a budget of like $200,000. this is the first time she's had major cast members and 500 extras and you have all these people on set who are asked to

play racist. i love the white lady from "selma" who comes up and says, now, do you want me to use the "n" word or say the actual word. ava said, no i want you to say the word. she said, do you want me to say the actually word or -- >> it wouldn't have quite the same power. >> david, your dad didn't want you to be an actor. >> no. i'm from nigerian parents so the idea of the arts and all that, when i would tell him i want to be an actor, he's like, why do you want to be with actor, all those promiscue us lady boys. >> now he says you're a scholar? stoo tell the story about when you got the scholarship. >> so that was his opinion about acting but then i got a scholarship to go to the lawn

academy. >> all right. a scholar. we can tell everyone back home you're a scholar. >> not a lady boy. >> is it amazing there's not been a major film made about martin luther king? >> it is amazing. except for such a time as this that this would be the film? what's really incredible about the film is we did not intend to do a biopic. you need a mini series for that. it's really focused on those three months where he was negotiating with president johnson. >> but the timing, oprah, would be now. >> isn't it. >> the timing is great. >> the parallel between selma and ferguson are indisputable. as i look at it, ferguson became an american problem yochl view the same thing with sema. voting rights, denial of voting rights. the minute it became bloody

sunday it bake an american problem. >> 25,000 people in new york city marching. >> 25 people marching across the bridge and martin poster.

look that fat roll on your neck. >> gone now. >> the shooting for you was the first day that miya died and when i got the news, i thought there's no way oprah is going to be able to do it. >> ava said you don't have do it. it was the theme where i walked into the registrar's office. i saidly use it and give it to maya. >> she said, take it all the way. >> take it all the way. >> that day tip employ feed you to me because you were dealing with miya's loss, shooting that scene where you got hit by the sheriff and you said, i'm trying to negotiate getting clippers on that same day. day in the life. >> literally i got punched taking down and running up to the fax machine and trying to put in a bid for the clippers. >> what? what? no, no. that price point is not fun.

>> we know oprah knows how to deliver a punch. >> yes, i know that first hand. >> the hardest thing in the film for me was you knew what was going to happen when you saw the kids in the church. >> yes. ava felt that that was a really important as marker for the times because that actually -- the bombing had occurred the year before. so that was a part of the essence of why the need to vote, the need to have black people experience their sense of freedom. >> one of the things is that ginn the voting rights act, 1965, i went back and looked. 13 states have passed more restrictive voter i.d. laws in the last three years, that states are trying to make it harder to vote. >> yeah. this very act that was passed, that was fought with blood, it was dysman telled as of last year, the notion being that the country has changed enough that we no longer need the broken

rights act. one of the things the film does is you see the parallels two between selma and ferguson and you see the country hasn't changed that much. so the notion that we no longer need the voting rights act, i think, is criminal. >> it hasn't changed enough but yet david speaks of being from another country and marveling at the -- at what we've accomplished in the short amount of time since, you know, civil rights. >> that's amazing about what you symbolize in the film. you could have been annie lee cooper, and here you are. >> i'm so happy for you both really. i'm so, so excited about it. >> it is the best movie. is the best movie. >> thank you. thank you for watching it. for finding the time to watch it. listen. i saw it -- i mean i've seen it as a producer over and over. so i saw it for the sixth time last night in the theater with other people. i still cry every time. every time. particularly when the old

footage is mixed with the actual film, when you see black people and white people joining together across that bridge, you know. a lot of that footage was cbs. >> yes. they say "turn on cbs! turn on cbs!" . thank you, oprah and david o good morning. let's head outdoors. mostly cloudy skies. we have areas areas of rain. it is from the east bay. pretty moderate to heavy downpours. highs today between about 54 and 60 degrees. in and out of the showers this week through the weekend.

lucky families to remember the exact time their new babies arrive this weekend. in cleveland hazel grace zimmerman was born at 10:11 a.m. on december 13th, 2014. so that makes the moment she was born 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and that's also when baby quincy kessler arrived. she surprised her siblings and parents. that's the last time for this sequential date for at least 20 years. congratulations. you're watching "cbs this morning." we'll be right back.,,,,

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