♪ good morning to our viewers in the west. it is wednesday, february 15, 2017. welcome to "cbs this morning." the trump administration is in turmoil. a bombshell "new york times" report claims members of the trump campaign had repeated contact with senior russian intelligence officials before the election. what did president trump know about general flynn's conversations with the russian ambassador? >> an international mystery after police in malaysia say a half brother of the north korean dictator was murdered. police arrest a female suspect overnight and are looking for more. mark phillips continues his climate dive series from anti

article. a pen population they've studied for more than 50 years is disappearing. >> we begin with today's eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. >> general flynn's resignation is not the end of the story. >> the white house does damage control after michael flynn's resignation. >> when we have government employees that are entrusted with this and then leak it out, that undermines our national security. >> i think there is significant dysfunction in the national security apparatus of the trump administration. >> a russian spy ship off the u.s. coast as american officials say russia has secretly deployed a cruise missile. >> a female suspect arrested in connection with the suspected assassination of kim jong un's brother. >> it touched to the ground and there was debris flying. >> we are home! >> in californian evacuation order near the nation's tallest

dam is lifted. >> we're ready to go if something happens again. for now we're glad to be back. >> a scary moment for actor harrison ford after the single engine plane he was piloting nearly hit a boeing 737. >> hold on tight. >> in maine, men rush to rescue a girl after her snow mobile plunges into the lake. a texas patrol officer uses his patrol car away where from a restaurant. >> the westminster kennel club dog show. >> it wasn't an animal, but a human that stole the show. >> this bitch epitomizes -- >> my goodness. >> on "cbs this morning." >> amazing. it didn't occur to him apparently that u.s. spies might be spying on the fence of the russian ambassador to the u.s. >> turns out we listen in on every phone call to the russian

ambassador. who knew? evidently not the national security adviser, you dummy. >> this morning's eye opener is presented by toyota. let's go places. welcome to "cbs this morning." charlie rose is off. anthony mason is with us. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> after just 27 days in office, the trump administration which promised change has delivered chaos. this morning there are more serious questions about his connections to russia. intelligence sources tell "the new york times" that some trump campaign officials and other associates had repeated contact with russian intelligence before the election. >> sources tell cbs news the fbi has questioned people close to the president including general michael flynn who resigned as national security adviser, as you know, monday night. former trump campaign manager paul manafort and former manager

carter page also reportedly talked to russian officials last year. manafort called it absurd telling "the new york times," quote, i have never knowingly spoken to russian intelligence officers. jeff beg gaze is in washington. >> the pressure is growing on former and current trump campaign officials. officials are dig into whether trump associates were coordinating with the russian officials during the 2016 campaign just as the russians were carrying out a wave of cyberattacks. according to u.s. officials, the hacks were intended to meddle in the election. cbs news learned intercepted electronic communications between russian officials and trump associates are providing new information for investigators. so far there is no evidence of coordination. for several months now u.s. government officials have been insists to cbs news that there was frequent contact between the russian officials and trump associates during the campaign.

one source with knowledge of the development says, quote, i think it's worse than what we know. fbi agents have interviewed the now former national security adviser michael flynn in connection with the investigation. he was questioned within the first few days of the trump administration about whether as a private citizen he discussed u.s. sanctions with russian ambassador sergei kiss yack as the white house was levying sanctions. if true, flynn may have broken the law. if flynn lied to the fbi he could face charges under a 200-year-old law that bans private citizens from negotiating with foreign governments. that charge has never been yoused to prosecute someone. anthony? >> jeff pegues, thanks. the white house says a lack of trust led president trump to remove his national security adviser, but that happened long after the president found out that general michael flynn didn't tell the whole truth about talking with russian officials been the inauguration.

the president, apparently, did not share that information with his vice president. margaret brennan is at the white house. margaret, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it's still unclear if president trump authorized michael flynn to discuss sanctions with the russian ambassador. a conversation that the white house first denied and then later said flynn could not recall. >> came down to a matter of trust. the president concluded he no longer had the trust of his national security adviser. >> reporter: spokesman sean spicer admitted tuesday that president trump had known for weeks that national security adviser mike flynn had misled the white house about his contacts with the russian ambassador in late december. spicer said it wasn't until this monday that the president asked for his resignation. >> we got to a point not based on a legal issue, but based on a trust issue, with the level of trust between the president and general flynn had eroded to the point where he felt he had to make a change. >> reporter: on january 26th, then acting attorney general

sally yates told white house council donald mcgann that they had intercepted flynn's calls and had proof his public denials were false. the white house says that's when mcgann informed the president that the justice department was concerned the deception made flynn vulnerable to blackmail. >> the president asked for a review of whether there was a legal situation there. it was immediately determined there wasn't. >> reporter: spicer said the president's instinct is that flynn hadn't done anything wrong, but vice president mike pence did not find out he had been misled until a full two weeks after white house officials were briefed. that's around the same time that reports of flynn's intercepted calls with russia became public. >> i talked to general flynn about that conversation. >> reporter: that angered the vice president who vouched for flynn in a january appearance on "face the nation." that reaction forced mr. trump to reconsider.

today general keith kellogg will advise president trump in his meetings with the israeli prime minister. so far the leading contenders to replace flynn are former cia director david petraeus who will be at the white house this week and retired admiral robert larwood who has close ties to general mattis and formally was at centcom. >> some republicans are joining democrats on capitol hill in a push to kpa ingeneral flynn's conduct. house and senate committees are already investigating russian influence on the election and now there's growing debate over whether congress should conduct a separate investigation. nancy cordes is on capitol hill with this spreading fallout. nancy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. both sides agree that flynn was right to resign and that the public deserves to know more, but democrats argue the gop which controls congress is holding back and needs to aggressively investigate any and all ties between this white

house and russia. >> general flynn's resignation is not the end of the story. it is merely the beginning. >> reporter: democrats renewed their calls tuesday for a watergate-style committee to investigate the administration's ties with russia. >> our committee held three or four hearings, emergency hearings on hillary clinton in a matter of a week or two. if there's any emergency at this moment in the history of this country, this is the moment. >> reporter: in the senate the republican chairs of the intelligence, foreign relations and armed services committee all said the flynn resignation should be examined. one of them, senator john mccain said this administration's foreign policy requires more oversight. >> the whole environment is one of dysfunction in the trump administration as far as national security is concerned. >> we're still gathering information. >> reporter: the house and senate intelligence committees are already examining russia's meddling in u.s. elections.

for now it looks like any probe of flynn's contacts with russia will be folded into those investigations. >> i think it's likely that general flynn will be at some point asked to come and talk to the committee about both post election activities and any other activities that he would be aware of. >> some republicans argue the real problem isn't flynn, it's the leaks about his phone calls. >> we're concerned any time intelligence is publicly talked about. >> reporter: a very candid rand paul of kentucky said in a radio interview that republicans in congress shouldn't waste too much time investigating republicans in the white house because it gets in the way of their shared agenda, norah, which includes repealing obamacare. >> nancy, thank you. cbs political director and "face the nation"'s john dickerson is in washington. good morning. >> good morning.

>> two questions center on this, foreign influence and u.s. government actions and the credibility of the white house. what concerns you the most? >> there are so many questions here. the two big ones, and the president is at the center of any question that needs to be asked, what did the president know and when did he know about it about michael flynn's contact with the russians. both after president trump was elected but also beforehand. remember president trump and michael flynn were getting briefed by the intelligence agencies about on going russian efforts to meddle in the u.s. election before the election had taken place. the nature of any contact between michael flynn and the russians while the election was going on had to be seen in that context. what did the president know about that? then when the information came to the white house, what did the president know? how did he handle it? is it that michael flynn did not tell the truth or he was simply caught not telling the truth and there's that question of the vice president. he went out on "face the nation" and defended michael flynn very

strongly, a series of questions, but he didn't apparently know when the white house knew and what was the reason for the delay? >> what are you hearing, john, about that, about why mike pence was kept out of the loop? >> one explanation i got was when the department of justice delivered the information to the white house that the lawyers were assessing that question of whether any laws were broken. it was strictly seen in the legal context. sean spicer said that question was quickly decided. if they were on the one hand checking out whether there was anything illegal with what michael flynn had done, at the center of that question, though, is the new revelation or presumably would have been new to some people in the white house that he had, in fact, had these conversations about sanctions with russia while president obama, then president obama was enacting those sanctions on the russians and somebody should have thought to tell the vice president given that he had gone out and made that very strong statement. so it seems a little confusing

that this wasn't done and that we still don't really know what the answer is. >> john, the president has tweeted about this this morning at 7:08 a.m. this russian connection nonsense, he writes, is mere ln an attempt to cover up the many mistakes made in hillary clinton's losing campaign. what do you make of that response? >> i think when your national security adviser has had to resign for not telling the truth to the vice president when he's been involved in conversations with russians he said he didn't have, you can't go back to the hillary clinton well. donald trump is the president of the united states and he has a serious issue here on his hands which is that he's trying to build the plane while he's flying it. president trump is dealing with a series of complicated international issues and he's just lost a crucial voice at his side. so that's really the central

questi question. the campaign that happened long ago happened long ago. >> is there any way republicans on capitol hill can avoid not investigating this? >> it seems difficult -- it would seem very hard for the republicans. is not a small deal. this is the center of truthfulness. there have been problems with truth, even in explaining what happened here. but it's also a crucial national security question that many republicans are wondering about. >> john, thank you. always good to see you. russia is denying it violated a treaty by deploying a banned missile capable of deploying a nuclear warhead. it has a range greater than 300 miles. that type of missile violates is 1987 treaty signed by russia and the u.s. the deployment is a test of president trump's goal for better relations with moscow. a russian spy ship is currently on patrol in international waters off the east coast near delaware.

the ship is expected to move up the coast before turn back south for cuba. president trump will welcome israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to the white house this morning. the meeting could signal a dramatic turn for u.s.-mid east policy. the administration suggesting it may move away from a two-state solution. president trump has called peace between israel and the palestinians an ultimate deal. a huge fireball in south texas. witnesses up to 60 miles away told our houston affiliate khou they felt the pipeline blow up. it happened in refugio, texas. so far no word of any injuries. people are assessing damage after at least six tornadoes swept through a coastal area southwest of houston, texas. the severe storms yesterday toppled trees and tore through homes, ripping off their roofs.

at least seven people were hurt in van blek including a mother who shielded her children when their mobile home flipped over. today parts of the gulf coast and southeast could see more stormy weather. nearly 200,000 people are finally able to return home in northern california after they were forced to evacuate on sunday. billions of gallons of water continue to pour down a damaged spillway from lake oroville. if repairs don't hold, everyone may be forced to evacuate again. john blackstone has more on how crews are working to keep the nation's tallest dam stable. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. so much water is being released from the oroville dam, the feather river is running over its banks, people living here under an evacuation warning. meaning they can come back but should be ready to leave at a moment's notice. water continues to surge out of lake oroville. california officials are

confident the damaged spillways will hold. >> it is safe to reduce the immediate evacuation order currently in place to an evacuation warning. >> reporter: officials say the main spillway is damaged but stable. when the lake overflows into the emergency backup spillway, it washed away the land next to the reservoir's wall. this is how the hillside looked prior to sunday. more than 125 construction crews are now working around the clock to reinforce that hillside. they're loading the spillway with 1,200 tons of heavy rocks and woulders every hour using rocks and construction equipment. even with the evacuation order lifted for the more than 200,000 people living below the dam, the threat remains. >> they have to be vigilant. they have to pay attention to what's going on, and there is the prospect that we could issue

another evacuation order if the circumstances change and the >> reporter: for pastor dennis day, returning home is a mixed blessing. >> do you think there will be some people who are now uneasy about living under the highest dam in the country? >> absolutely. i think you would be not authentic or sincere to say this somehow doesn't impact you. >> reporter: so far the coming rains are not expected to be severe and officials say the dam will weather the storm. on tuesday, president trump declared a state of emergency which clears the way for this region to begin receiving some help from fema. >> that's good news there. thank you very much, john. a german shepherd named rumor came out of retirement to win best in show. >> best in show at the 141st annual westminster kennel club dog show, the german shepherd. >> rumor best in show!

>> a beautiful girl. the cloud bursting into loud cheers and applause. she was a favorite after finishing second last year. she was named after adele's hit song "rumor has it." only the second german shepherd to win best in show since the dog show began back in 1877. you're going to hear that adele song a lot tonight. i heard her trainers an owners saying they almost didn't bring her out. >> great looking dog. actor harrison ford came very close to flying into a passenger plane carrying more than 100 people. ahead, the mistake he made that led to the near,,,,

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tomorrow in studio. >> i love them. >> me, too. novato. they are trying to install bigger drainage pipes.. and raise the level of the roa good morning. i'm michelle griego. crews are rushing to finish emergency repairs on highway 37 in novato. they are trying to install bigger drainage pipes and raise the level of the road to prevent it from flooding again. for now, there's a detour for about three miles from 101 to atherton avenue. caltrans crews are getting an early start this morning repairing a mudslide on highway 17. the storm damage has left just one lane available in each direction. today crews plan to remove trees at the top of the unstable hill. stay with us, traffic and weather in just a moment. ,, ,,,,,,

good morning, everyone. it's 7:27. let's take a look at mass transit. we have a lot of updates for you right now starting with bart. we have a delay of 10 minutes between the west dublin- pleasanton station and the castro valley statement on trains heading in both directions. also ace train is canceled today due to weather and flood- related issues. capitol corridor train number 522, 26 minutes late. if you are heading out for the oakland or alameda ferry to san francisco, they are using smaller boats. i'll send it to you. >> all right, roqui. thank you. smaller boats? we need a bigger boat with the rain coming in! [ laughter ] >> good morning, everyone. it's our live hi-def doppler radar picking up light precipitation off the north bay coast. a lot of is virga but you in santa rosa if you start to see some raindrops please let me know. oh, look at that. that's what i call a deck of clouds. that's gorgeous over the mount vaca area. currently in the 40s and 50s. mostly cloudy skies today. temperatures into the 60s still mild due to a south wind 10 to

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michael flynn resigned from his position after income there for 24 hours. bad when the national visor cant last longer than the bachelor. >> admiral joseph t. fruitfly. >> i think it's only appropriate that we take a few minutes to look back on as many highlights as america's national security adviser. >> good afternoon, everyone. >> all i can think sf a "saturday night live" writers are taking all this in. not the way you want to start a new administration.

welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up, who's behind the parent assassination of a close relative of north korea's dictator? the half brother of king jong unwas targetted inside one of the world's busiest airports. ahead yshgs his death may be a sign of the regime's vulnerability. >> plus, harrison ford's close call at a southern california airport. the actor, an experienced pilot, narrowly missed hitting a passenger jet that was ready for takeoff. could have been a huge disaster. ahead, we'll talk about what led to the confusion. >> time to show you the headlines. "the washington post" reports on a call for disciplinary action against kellyanne conway. her allegedly breaking ethics rules. last week during a tv interview, president trump's counsellor told people to buy ivanka trump's fashion line. the office of government ethics says it is vie lafgs a federal rule. and a republican and a democrat

both support the opinion. white house officials did not respond to requests for comment. usa today reports there is an analysisst nation's bridges. 56,000 bridges are structurally deficiency. vehicles cross them 185 million times a day. more than a quarter of the bridges are 50 years old. the deficient spans need repair but they may not be unsafe. >> in "the new york times" reports a former store clerk n prison and he would have been 44 years old. i remember this story. >> everybody in new york remember that's case. >> because his parents that was the first time his parents had allowed him to walk to school by

himself because he kept saying i can do it. i can do it. i'll never forget it. >> police in malaysia say a woman with vietnamese travel papers is in custody with connection of the assassination of a close relative of north kor korea's leader. kim judge-nam died after an tack at the busy airport. he is the half brother of north korean dictator kim jong-un. he was considered the heir apparent. now the killing follows a footage. police are looking for five other suspects in this growing investigation. kim jong-nam, the estranged half

brother of kim jong-un was waiting for a flight at the airport monday morning. when police say an unidentified woman and an accomplish threw a cloth laced with liquid on his face. 46-year-old kim was rushed to this hospital but died on the way. even more sinister version of events is being reported in south korean media. the female assassin sent by kim jong-un attacked his brother with poisoned needles. if the north korean dictator is behind this, it would play into his pattern of purges. since taking power in 2011, kim jong-un executed dozens of his officials including his uncle though all were on north korean soil. >> to do there in a foreign kun r country is quite unusual. >> georgetown university professor victor cha says the purges may point to kim jong-un's growing vulnerability. >> the high frequent of purging over a long period of time

suggests that there continues to be some sort of challenges internally. >> kim jong-nam was thought to be the country's heir apparent but fell out of favor with his father after reportedly trying to visit disneyland in japan with a forged dominican republic passport. cha says his murder coupled with the missile launch on sunday suggests increased instability. >> this is a sequence of events that lead you to think that we're going see more and why. >> wow, what a case. >> the faa has launched an investigation after actor harrison ford was involved in a close call at a california

airport. ford's plane flew right over an american airlines passenger jet. ben tracy is at the john wayne

ilot's license revoked. >> wow. everybody knows his passion for flying and how much he loves it. some are saying maybe he should just take a little break. >> stay on the ground for a little while. >> just for a second. that could have been really disastrous. ben, we thank you. scientists at a u.s. research base in anlt arctica are seeing a dramatic change in the area's penguin population. our climate series continues from the bottom of the world. >> i'm mark phillips in anlt arctica, a place often thought of as froze non time. not really. it's changing fast. that story coming up on cbs this morning.

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in our climate diaries sear ridz, mark phillips continuing reporting from antarctica. it's one of the most remote place on earth. dinlt try to match a penguin this morning. i do think that is funny. he shows us the dramatic shift happening around a half century old research base. >> good morning. antarctica, it can seem like a landscape froze non time. it's anything but. and we have been to a place they have been keeping the records of the changes for 50 years. >> this is palmer station for about 40 people work at a u.s. research base that have clung to this rocky outcrop on theant 5:00 tick coast since the mid 196 o's. he has run the station for the past 18 years. if anybody knows hoe things have been changing here tshgsz bob.

>> palmer was put here because it was a great place to study antarctic wildlife. it sat in the middle of the perfect habitat for the hen gwynn who nest here in the tens of thousands. these are the bird that brought you "happy feet." they don't seem so happy anymore. >> we're counting them every year. >> they call shawn the bird man. lately, he's had a lot fewer birds to study. >> these look for 43 years now the decline by 85%. >> 85%? >> on this island, at the peak there were 9,000. this year there was about 1200. >> the penguins need one essential condition to thrive, they need sea ice to hunt from and there is less of that around now. >> in the last several decade, the ice has declined by about -- well, three months of sea ice. >> it is three months shorter?

>> correct. >> at first it was hoped the penguins moved further south in search of the ice they love. sadly, it seems not. >> we do workplaces looking for them. >> not just the sea ice is retreating in palmer. the base is next door to a spectacular glacier that is less spectacular than it used to be. they have a photograph showing the extent of the glacier ice in 1975 and where it had retreated to by 2013. then a funny thing happened. >> normally in places like this you talk about things moving at glacier speed taking their time much not here. here they know exactly when that glacier split off from this place. march 14th, 2014. this became the trick island. >> they thought the island was part of the mainland until the glacier linking it to the shore

collapsed and disappeared. remember bob, the old anlt arctic hand? the speed of change has shocked even him. >> when you come back here after a year and you see, wow, the glasher is quite a bit further back or you have people coming back who hadn't been here for quite a while, they're shocked by it. yeah, it's really remarkable. >> they've got a little bet going on at palmer station where they thought the base was on the mainland. now they think it may actually be on an island. they may not have to wait long to find out. >> you heard the little penguin. >> that's a dramatic image. >> and when you think of the numbers, 9,000 and 1200, the pictures are amazing from there. >> yeah. incredible reporting. mark phillips and the team down there in antarctica. >> cold therapy helps breast cancer patients remain a important part of the identity. the chilly procedure, how it helps many women on chemotherapy

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good morning to our viewers in the west. it is wednesday, february 15th, 2017. chaos in the trump white house. with no national security adviser. far-reaching fallout. first here's today's eye opener at 8:00. >> intelligence agencies are digging into whether trump associates were coordinating with russian officials during the campaign. >> still unclear if president trump authorized michael flynn to discuss sanctions with the russian ambassador. >> democrats argue that gop needs to aggressively

investigate ties between this white house and russia. >> foreign influence and credibility of the white house, what concerns you the most? >> when the information came to the white house, what did the president know? how did he handle it? was it that michael flynn didn't tell the truth or he was simply caught not telling the truth? can they come back or be ready to leave at a moment's notice? arrested at the same terminal where kim jung-nam was attacked. police are searching for five other suspects. landed on a nearby taxiway where a passenger plane was about to take off. russian spy ship was spotted off the east coast of the united states. yeah. it was here to give former michael flynn a ride back home. i'm gayle king with norah o'donnell, anthony mason.

charlie rose is recovering nicely. thank you for asking. we've gotten a lot of requests about how he's doing. he's doing okay. the trump administration is in turmoil and facing new allegations about connections to russian officials. intelligence officials tell "the new york times" that in the year before the election, trump campaign officials and other associates had repeated contact with russian intelligence officials. >> so far there is no evidence that the two sides coordinated. sources tell "the times" that sources were surprised by the frequency of the contacts. former national security adviser michael flynn. the president tweet this had morning information is being illegally given to the failing new york times and washington post by the intelligence community, just like russia. >> this is how the events surrounding general michael flynn and his communications with the russian ambassador developed. december 25th and 28th, flynn communicated with russia's u.s. ambassador, ser gechlt y

kislyak. the white house originally said those discussions were not about sanctions. on december 29th, sanctions against russia were announced in retaliation to allegations of cyber attacks. hours later, on december 30th, russia said they would not attack. that prompted the tweet by president-elect trump great move by v. putin. >> on january 15th, vice president pence said that they had not discussed sanctions. but on january 26th, the doj told the white house that they had proof. the white house was briefed that day but pence did not find out until two weeks after white house officials were briefed. that's around the same time that reports of flynn's intercepted calls with russia became public in the press. february 10th, the president was asked about the reports on

flynn. >> reports that general flynn had conversations with the russians about sanctions before you were sworn in? >> i don't know about it. i haven't seen it. what report is that? >> white house press secretary sean spicer said yesterday that the president did not lie, he was only referring to the specific report in the washington post. at 4:00 on monday afternoon, white house counselor kellyanne conway insisted that flynn still enjoyed the full confidence of the president, but the president forced flynn to resign four hours later. spicer said yesterday the level of trust between the president and general flynn eroded to the point where he felt he had to make a change. senior adviser to the romney/ryan presidential campaign in 2012 and joins us at the table, where there is much to discuss. >> good morning. >> i've seen some people say hog hotmess at the white house. i'm interested in your characterization. sean spicer said it was a matter of eroding trust. why did the trustee rode this

week when the president has known about it? >> there are several threads to pull on. it's not a simple crisis or simple scandal where it's cause and effect. it seems this is very layered and there are more questions that need to be answered. what we do know is clearly flynn had to go. clearly, this is an inflection point for this white house in terms of reorganization. not just bringing in potentially new personnel but reorganizing the structure. i don't think the president should rush to replace flynn. he should take a step back and think about what he needs. a serious set of decisions in terms of who he wants. these three, four weeks we've just gone through can either be the beginning of a pattern, which we could be living with for some time or we may look back at it three, four years ago and say do you remember that crazy month that at the time seemed like a big deal but was a moment at which the white house got reorganized? sort of like reagan's first year. national security adviser lasted

less than a year, seemed like a crisis in washington. >> sometimes crisis can -- >> that's because nancy reagan said he needed to go. who is the nancy reagan inside the white house? >> leon panetta said calm -- >> we still have a lot of information we don't know. reports of repeated contacts with russia, but we don't know how extensive they are, how deep it was and who knew what when exactly. where do you see this leading? >> three tracks, if you think about t one is the congressional committees will clearly be look at t it's going to take time. that's my point. this is not a simple scandal. >> it's a slow bleed. >> slow bleed with many layers and many threads the different players will be pulling on. that's one track. the next track is what the administration does. not only with regard to its own hiring but also getting a handle on what appears to be -- and i'm not absolving flynn or anyone

else from responsibility here. there seems to be a bureaucratic insurrection going on. these intercepts, these transcripts -- when i was in government, the notion that transcripts of intercepts of conversations of private u.s. citizens, which flynn was at the time, were treated with the utmost sensitive. these are now being leaked. it could be episodic or part of some campaign to isolate flynn. >> shouldn't he have known he was being recorded? >> any time a u.s. official is talking to an official from a foreign government they should assume so or nonu.s. official. but, look, i'm not absolving him. i'm just saying, the white house needs to get a handle on internal staffing issues and the federal government at large where this stuff is being leaked out. >> i said this at the top of the show. president trump has promised change and so far he has delivered chaos. what about tax reform? there was a promise by repealing obamacare by march. where is that? >> what worries me most is the

ability of the white house to work with congress. congress will work with the administration to get big things done if they believe that the white house is organized and has its act together. if it seems chaotic, congress will be less incentivized to work with the white house. so, there's unbelievable things that can get done over the next year. tax reform, health care reform, supreme court justice confirmed. every possible second. >> and split on how to handle it. >> thank you very much. >> good to be here. mike pompeo met with palestinian president mahmoud abbas a day before israeli prime minister netanyahu's white house meeting today with president trump. first visit for years after frosty relations with president obama. how the president and his son-in-law, jared kushner, is playing a key role.

>> jared kushner has really emerged as a quiet force, main conduit with contacts in mexico, china, canada and others. when it comes to israel and the middle east, the stakes are especially high. for kushner, it's also personal. >> if you can't produce peace in the middle east, nobody can. >> reporter: president trump declared that his son-in-law, jared kushner could broker the toughest deal in the world, lasting peace between israelis and palestinians. >> jared's agenda is not confused. it's perfectly aligned with the president's. >> reporter: the 36-year-old businessman and husband of ivanka trump has no government or foreign policy experience. the trump family friend and real estate mogul thomas barrick says that's an asset. >> you take his mind, his ability to dedication, focus and fresh basis without preconceived notion is better than having somebody in foreign policy for 60 years. >> reporter: foreign leaders initially were skeptical of

kushner. >> they assumed he's in over his head, might be a spoiled kid of the president and yet he has been very impressive to them. >> reporter: pivotal in shaping the u.s.'s relationship with mexico. >> jared kushner led the mexican foreign minister into the oval office where they talked to president trump and advised him to tone down his rhetoric about mexico. >> president trump did just that in a speech. >> and we also understand that a strong and healthy economy in mexico is very good for the united states. >> reporter: but kushner's counsel was short lived. >> the next day that he got on twitter and got into a feud and the whole thing blew up. >> reporter: lies in his ability to listen and distill information without an agenda. >> he understands the way the president thinks probably more than anybody. and most importantly to the president, he's trustworthy. >> reporter: kushner, an

orthodox jew, is pushing a more hardline stance on israel. no president over the course of four decades have been able to solve the israeli/palestinian conflict. with a new set of leader notice arab world wanting a solution, the timing is right. >> israel aligned with tolerant islam is the answer. and i think that's what jared is pushing towards, trying to use those relationships with his influence on the president to say, have a soft hand. be culturally sensitive. this will be an opportunity for you, mr. president, to maybe do something along the lines of what president reagan and maggie thatcher did in bringing down the wall. >> in advance of today's white house meeting, kushner had dinner with netanyahu and secretary of state rex tillerson. we don't expect any policy pronouncements out of today's meeting, though. iran will be at the top of the agenda. gayle? >> thank you, jan. we've shown you how cold cap therapy is helping women with

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in our morning rounldz, hair loss is one of the most devastating side effects of chemotherapy. a pair of new studies on cold cap therapy in the "journal of the american medical association" gives hope to breast cancer patients. the emerging treatment gives some women on chemotherapy the option to keep most of their hair. barry peterson who has been following this story shows us the new research. >> reporter: this machine called a dignacap sends cool noonlt a patient's head. for many women on cheem owe for breast cancer and facing baldness, it is a gift because of it helped them keep their hair. clair lindsey just finished her

chemo. >> what was it like wearing this thing? >> sticking your head in a snowdrift for five hours. >> but just released study shows it does work. half the women who got scalp cooling kept at least 50% of their hair. while every woman without the cooling lost all her hair. a second study found scalp cooling helped two-thirdsst women keep their hair. clair feared that going bald would frighten her 11-year-old son and her 9-year-old daughter and draw stares. >> what would have been done in terms of how other people looked at you? >> i think everyone would know you're sick. and people look at you differently in the grocery store and people are not comfortable with that. >> dr. virginia borges is director of breast cancer research at the university of colorado hospital. she sees not just a physical but a psychological effect. >> they have more energy. they really feel like a return

to themselves and their sense of self. much faster because they don't have to wait for their hair to regrow. >> experts think either the cold freezing the hair follicles, keeping the chemo out, or the cold may keep the chemo away. more research has been urged to make sure keeping chemo away from the scalp will not allow cancer to develop there which most doctors consider a minimal risk. the fda has cleared the caps for use. the university of colorado hospital has one of only a handful in the nation. >> it feels good, yes. >> far more popular are these cold caps that my wife used last summer. chilled to well below freezing and n. dry ice and changed every 20 to 30 minutes. it is a grueling eight hour day. fast forward to this day. she kept about 70% of her hair. >> i used to have stick straight hair and now it's curly and wavy. it's sort of fun. >> for women on certain types of

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to work on clearing a mudslide in the santa cruz mountains, ay good morning, it's 8:25. i'm michelle griego. crews continue to work on clearing a mudslide in the santa cruz mountains which has a stretch of highway 17 down to one lane in each direction. it's been a real problem for regular commuters of highway 17. it's the main route between san jose and santa cruz. there's no timetable on when the lanes will re-open, and more wet weather is on the way. in upstate california, folks living near the oroville dam are allowed back home but prepared to evacuate again with more rain in the forecast. authorities lifted the mandatory evacuation order yesterday saying water levels at the dam have dropped and repair work is moving along faster than expected. stay with us, traffic and weather in just a moment. ,,,,,,,,,,,,

good morning. happy "hump day." it's 8:27. bay area roads out the door, starting with mass transit we have another bart delay west oakland station to daly city, they are experiencing a 10- minute delay due to police activity. no ace train due to weather. muni is on time. alameda or oakland ferries to san francisco, they are using smaller boats.

and also here's a look at the bay bridge toll plaza. spiders, as well! the maze to downtown will take you about 20 minutes. and then if you are heading into the peninsula, expect a slow one between 880 and 101. that's a 30-minute commute. wow. i'll send it to you. >> all right, roqui. thank you. icky the spider has babies. those were baby spiders. good morning, everybody. very rarely do we shift gathers and change the forecast during the day -- very rarely do bee shift gears and change the forecast during the day. that's what we're doing. a leading edge system to the west of us. increasing cloud cover 40s and 50s. as you look at this area of low pressure on approach we'll have mostly cloudy skies and i am putting rain showers in the north bay, the san francisco peninsula coastline just during the morning hours. dry during the afternoon, we do have rain and wind this time tomorrow morning with a fast- moving front leaving with us afternoon rain and wind friday a lull on saturday with a lingering shower more rain on sunday through the holiday on monday. ,,,,,,,,

there's a word that appeared in the "new york times" cross word puzzle more than 1400 time. ahead, find out what it is as the paper celebrates a major

anniversary for the puzzle. >> do you know what it is? >> i don't. >> do you know? >> it's coming. stay right here. >> okay. twint know what is the word. >> right now, time to check in on this morning's headlines from around the globe. "the new york times" reports on how human gene has won the support of an influential scientific panel. the process involves altering sperms, eggs, or embryos so babies don't inherit a disease that runs in the family. the panel says it is open to gene modification under strict oversight. critics say it would lead to designer babies. >> story in usa today reports that milania trump says tours will continue the 27th. she is excited to reopt white house to hundreds of thousands of visitors that come every year. mrs. trump is not scheduled to move until june. >> the "wall street journal" says the biggest star on youtube had the show canceled under anti-sa mettic jokes. they canceled the second

pew-tie-pie. they said he showed nazi imagery in nine videos since august. he says it was a joke and he denies he is anti-semitic. he can sfil post videos to his own channel. and fortune reveals the newest american girl is a boy. logan is the first boy in the doll maker's 31-year history. mattel, owner of american girl, has been trying to make toys more gender neutral. britain's independent reports on the discovery of dozens more planets up to 114 planets were spotted during a 20-year study. one of them is a hot super earth called glese the world's best

known cross word. >> why is a man whose job description is to frustrate people to tears for a quarter century being hounded for autographs? because if you love cross word puzzles, will shorts is a rock star. >> thank you so much. >> there is something about this puzzle that grabs people. what is it? >> well, first of all, if you're a puzzle person and you look at

an empty cross word grid, you naturally fill compelled to fill in the squares. that's part of the appeal. partly the testing of yourself, solve ag cross word is one way to affirm that you can still think. keeps from you, you know, losing your mind. >> the cross word gets progressively more difficult through the week. >> a million and a half people each month try to pack will the times cross word. >> i love it. it's the best there is out there. >> and yet, the times is a curious home for the gold standard of cross words. >> so the cross word puzzle became a national and then a worldwide craze in the 1924 and '25. "the new york times" ran an editorial saying that cross words were a waste of time and predicting their swift demise. >> literally, having to eat their words. >> the time was the last major metropolitan daily newspaper to start a cross word. >> the united states of america was suddenly and deliberately

attacked. >> "the times" debuts it two months after pearl harbor. the first cross word had a world war ii theme. to play off the day's headlines. >> seems crazy. the cross word really should divert you from the harsher parts of life. it's really cross words are escapism. >> reporter: there are v. only been four puzzle editors at the paper in the last 75 years. shorts took over in 1993. the most common answer in the history of the "times" puzzle is arian, having appeared more than 1400 times. but in the will short's era, the most common answer has been -- well, era. >> the nice thing is there is lots of ways to clue it. it's the historical period. it is the earned run average in baseball. it is a name of a laundry deterge enlt. there are lots -- equal rights amendment. >> in november of 1996, "the new york times" published one of the

most memorable puzzles. >> you have an all time favorite. >> yeah. >> which was election day of 199 6? >> right, the country was decided between bob dole and bill clinton. >> and some so were the puzzles. >> the answer could be clinton elected or bob dole elected. either one worked with the crossings. for example, the first down answer across that was black halloween animal. and you could fill in cat forming the c of clinton or bat forming the first b of bop dole. each of the answers did double duty just like. that it was the first time a cross word ever was schizophrenic like. that first time a cross word ever had two answers. >> the puzzles thrive on short words with plenty of vowels. that's why cross word's favorite cookie is the oreo. the favorite music producer is brian eno and the favorite skater is appall low ono or ma dory. tichlt o.

the cross word's future like every part of the paper is a matter after dapting to tdigita age of a world moving faster and attention spans growing shorter. the latest innovation is the mini. one-third the size of a regular puzzle and available only online. >> the thing that excites me about the mini is uncharted territory. >> this 24-year-old is the editor of the mini. >> there are ways to experiment with a diblgital cross word. >> for instance? >> i put in an emoji as a clue. there is what excites bhe about the digitsal era. >> it's so millennial. >> it might be, yeah. it may be a little millennial thing. >> crass word traditionalists not worey. at least that's what will shorts is telling us. >> cross word is the best variety of puzzle ever devised. it's just a very versatile puzzle that appeals to people. >> "the new york times" cross word puzzle going to be around

in another 75 years? >> i it this cross word is here to stay. >> so today we have a movie star to mark the big day. but yesterday's puss will author might have been even more impressive. his name is daniel larson. and at 13 years, 4 months old, he's the youngest person in the history of the times cross word to create one. >> so anybody can submit a puz snl. >> anyone can submit one. not anyone did get it accepted. >> do you get paid? what do you get snad. >> $300 for $360. if you want big money, the sunday cross word, $1,200. >> there is nothing that can humble me more quickly and feel more stupid than a cross word puzzle. >> that is nice, jim. >> now you know the word that's been used many times. >> area. >> the spinoff of cbs drama the good wife and the actress is here to talk about "the good ,, ,, (vo) maybe it was here,

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>> love you christine. "the big bang theory" is among manufacture your credits. she entertained audiences for four decades with roles like in the movies like "chicago," "the bird cage," and "momma mia." >> she starred adds an attorney in the drama oit good wife." she returns to that role in a spinoff called "the good fight." it picks up one year after the events of the good wife finale and the preview of the season premier. her characters gives advice to her god daughter and new associate at the law firm. >> can i ask something? >> sure, go ahead. >> are we on the right side on this one? >> we are on a necessary side. people have thought with all my heart were guilty turned out to be innocent. and people i thought were

saints, they weren't. that's why you don't go on instinct. you wait. you listen. and watch. eventually everyone reveals them self. >> welcome. >> thank you. >> seven great seasons. a hugely successful show. what did you think when they offered you a sequel? >> i said bring it on. you know? seven great seasons we -- so many of us did not want it to end because so many people, the audience, the viewing audience such intelligent writing, how wonderful to see female characters who were in authority positions, educated, articulate, in the work space. i didn't want it to end. we all understood why "the good wife" had to come to a conclusion and julianna was due for a rest after carrying the show on her back for seven years. but when they approached me about continuing this character and continuing, you know, a year

later after "the good wife" what happens to diane and her world? i thought, yeah. we have the same -- many of the same crew members. >> was it a difficult decision for you to make at that time? >> it was. i got another very big offer. i had to make a decision on a weekend. and it kind of forced everybody to really decide. are we going to do this? >> so what tipped it for you? >> the writing. and knowing that i would continue playing this character. because, you know, at this point in my career, it's as good as it goats play a woman like diane lockheart. >> but the platform is so different. were you worried about that? we have never done this before. >> i had just done seven years of 22 episodes a year. and that is a grind. and this new way of showing television is 10 or 12 episodes that liberates you to maybe do plays or maybe do other thins with your career or just enjoy your life. that was very appealing.

i also -- >> enjoy your life. >> enjoy my life. and also a ten episode arc is possibly more in line, dramatically more -- you can stay within a certain narrative for ten episodes. 22 you have to really almost keep generating new story lines and crisis. so i'm really excited about the venue. it's the first time cbs has launched all access. and they will watch it like they do netflix show. and that really is kind of the future. >> yeah. >> people stay home and they binge watch and for people who love "the good wife" this is going to be, you know, more of that same great writing, great ensemble acting and can you look forward to seeing sox the guest actors who the audience loves. it's great theater actors. >> there's no doubt it's going to be a huge success. "the good wife" had such a loyal following. so smart. "the good wife," "the good

fight." so where is diane? she is considering retiring and moving to france. then what happens? >> about a third of the way in, after she announces, you know, i'm retiring, she's got the house in south of france. i'm out of here, i've done it all. she is in a dengs and gets a phone call and the accountant just has to talk to her. i say well tell him i'll call him back. i go into my office and find out that all of my money has been lost in a ponzi scheme like madoff. and that's when i -- that's when you are diane lockheart on cable dropped the f word. >> there are f bombs. >> you then try to go back to your firm and they're like, no thanks. so you go around. >> yes. i actually have to look for work. i'm in my 60s. i think so many women will relate to. this it's how "the good wife" began with her having to go back to work. the fact that diane after announcing her retirement has to look for work is xwust so

harrowing. >> and nobody wants you. >> nobody wants you except the head of an african-american law firm. he says you'll be our minority hire. >> i cracked out loud at that one. i cracked up. >> and so the sister girls don't want through either. >> no. >> such great dynamic. >> so the second episode is about my entry into, you know, and there's just african-american -- you know sh i'm one of the only. >> you're an island. >> indeed. so that is a brilliant jumping point. so you'll recognize the good wife but then by half way in it's a whole new thing. >> is that something you took in being the only one at the table? >> i love it. yesterday i was shooting with lou gospit and frankie fason. i thought how lucky am i? i'm with thez great black actors. >> it's a great cast. >> bravo. >> thank you. >> very, very good.

it's called "the good fight." it premiers on cbs all access on sunday. go to cbs.com to sign up for a special broadcast which will air. this is what i think is genius too. simultaneously right here on cbs so you can see it on cbs first and at the same time and then after the premier, all the new episodes will be available weekly on cbs all access. if you don't have it, you need to get it before sunday. you're watching "cbs this morning." ,,,,,,,,

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i'm hoping that got people excited to watch "the good fight". >> it's a very loyal audience. such a great character. >> she has a built if following. that will do it for us. we hope we have a built in following, too. we invite you to tune in to cbs evening news tonight and we'll see you tomorrow on "cbs this morning." take it easy.

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commission is recommending the city reject a plan, that would tear down the ice rink at bridgepointe shopping ce good morning, it's 8:55. i'm michelle griego. the san mateo planning commission is recommending the city reject a plan that would tear down the ice rink at bridgepointe shopping center. a san francisco developer wants to put retail shops in the space, which has been vacant since 2013 but hockey and ice skating fans hold out hope that the rink could re-open or be relocated. a search is under way for two men who led police on a wild chase. it started in berkeley when officers got a call about a robbery attempt. the two suspects sped off towards oakland. they were last seen when they ditched the car near grove and forest streets. stay with us, traffic and weather in just a moment. ,,,,,,,,,,,,

it's 8:57. let's take a look at the roads throughout the bay area. starting with mass transit, first here ace train all trains have no service this afternoon but we are hoping that they will be back in service by tomorrow. capitol corridor number 527 is delayed 25 minutes. muni is on time. bart is on time. now to your roadways here.

new crash on southbound 101 in mountain view before rangesdorf avenue a two-car crash blocking the left lane and that backup along 101. highway 17 one lane in each direction because of the mudslide last week. you're moving at 4 miles an hour. so give yourself extra time. consider an alternate with branciforte to vine hill road and that will get you past the slower traffic here. moving over now the bay bridge toll plaza, if you are heading into downtown san francisco, here's a live look. the maze to downtown will now take up to 30 minutes. live weather camera mostly cloudy skies right now we have a little bit of light rain on the approach this early-morning hours. rain through tuesday. ,,

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