good morning to our viewers in the west. it's tuesday, march 13th, 2018. welcome to cbs this morning. >> there is breaking news, secretary of state rex tillerson has been fired. president trump says he will replace the former exxon mobil ceo with cia director mike pompeo. we'll look at why the president made that move. >> a series of package bombings in austin killed two people at their homes. this morning, police are searching for suspects and fear the explosions may be racially motivated. >> a group of parents who lost children to alleged hazing take their fight for change to washington. only on cbs this morning, the parents of florida state student

andrew coffey tell us how they want hazing to become a federal crime. >> plus, disturbing evidence of a plot to use efforts on students and lead. >> we begin this morning with a look at today's eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. >> the president just tweeted this, mike pompeo, director of the cia, will become our new secretary of state. >> rex tillerson is out as secretary of state. >> i think he's going to be very happy. i think rex will be much happier now. but i really appreciate his service. >> texas officials are looking at whether race was a factor in three bombings they say are connected. >> it's not time to panic. it's time to pull together as a city and a community and solve this. >> a nor'easter is brushing the mid-atlantic coast and heading straight for eastern new england. >> this is a lot of snow, gang. >> the passenger's harness and

the deadly helicopter crash in new york city. >> prime minister theresa may is blaming russia for the attempted murder of a former spy. >> we will not tolerate such a brazen attempt to murder innocent civilians on our soil. >> stormy daniels says she'll give back the $130,000 so she can talk about her alleged affair with donald trump. >> all that. >> president trump welcomed the houston astros. >> you strived to be the best and you won really big. >> and all that matters. >> the patriots quarterback was on stephen colbert. >> sounds terrific. he's always competitive. >> are we chugging? >> i don't know if you're a competitive guy. >> let's try. >> on cbs this morning. >> the president revealed his next campaign slogan, for real. his slogan for 2020 is keep america great. with an exclamation point. if history has shown us anything, it's nothing propels a campaign to success quite like

an exclamation point. >> this morning's eye opener is presented by toyota, let's go places. >> welcome to cbs this morning. a lot happening this morning. as you wake up in the west. we have breaking news from washington. where president trump has fired secretary of state rex tillerson. a move that has been in the working since last year but a state department official says the president did not explain his decision to tillerson. in fact, tillerson only heard about his firing when it was made public. >> word is he heard it on twitter. the president tweeted this just over an hour ago. mike pompeo, director of the cia, will become our new secretary of state. he will do a fantastic job. thank you to rex tillerson for his service. >> the president says he will name gina haspel pompeo's deputy to head the cia. major garrett is at the white

house where the president spoke about his decision. major, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the estrangement between rex tillerson, secretary of state, and president trump, long known here in washington. they simply did not get along personally and they disagreed on significant foreign policy matters. north korea most recently, also russia, syria and the iran nuclear deal. as president trump left the white house earlier this morning heading for marine one and a trip to california, he talked to reporters and explained just how difficult his relationship with tillerson had become and that this had been an issue the two had been discussing for some time. let's take a listen. >> rex and i have been talking about this for a long time. we got along actually quite well. but we disagreed on things. when you look at the iran deal. i think it's terrible. i guess he felt it was okay. i wanted to either break it or do something. and he felt a little bit differently. so we were not really thinking the same.

>> i asked the president during that encounter with reporters if north korea was also an issue. help said he said he made the decision which surprised many here last week to agree with the meeting with the north korean dictator and rex tillerson wasn't part of the conversation. that kind of estrangement part of this difficult relationship. pompeii e you, the person who provides the president his daily intelligence briefing and has a close working relationship with him may be more empowered as secretary of state if he's confirmed. >> major, thanks. fascinating. " 60 minutes aired a wide-ranging interview with tillerson a month ago. margaret brennan asked him about the possibility he may be forced out. >> where do you think those reports came from that you are being fired? >> i have no idea where they come from, i really don't. i don't give it much thought. >> you walk into ministry meetinged an reportings are shouting sir, when are you

resigning. >> i never hear those questions. you know, the only person that knows whether i'm resigning or not is me. >> "face the nation" moderator margaret brennan joins us now. margaret, was there a specific situation here that caused this rift or was it the lis the president put forward? >> there has been a list of policy disagreements, but in the past month or more, the message coming from the state department, front the secretary of state himself, particularly to our allies around the world, was "i'm staying." that was certainly the takeaway from our "60 minutes" conversation. what i will say, there seems to have been a trigger for the president on friday. rex tillerson, i am told, by multiple sources, found out he was fired when the public did. i know there's reporting that says otherwise. while the two had policy disagreements, particularly when it comes to the u.s. breaking commitments and you heard the president mention one of those instances, he brought up the iran deal. it's interesting that the president brought that up

unprompted because we know he is facing a may 12th deadline to make a decision on waiving sanctions on iran and tillerson and his allies have been working behind the scenes diligently to try to get a package in place so that the nuclear deal with iran can continue to exist but perhaps get tougher. the president right now in those comments highlighted that as a major point of disagreement with the secretary of state. he didn't answer questions on north korea and, john, i think it's really interesting that in many ways this path towards diplomacy that the white house is now embracing with north korea was secretary of state rex tillerson's policy. however, he was not proposing that the president be the point man on that. he was saying he would do the leg work. >> as you know, foreign policy requires a lot of people working off the same song sheet. where do things stand now? rex tillerson and secretary of state mattis had worked very closely from the beginning. there are stories about mcmaster, the national security

adviser, his job might change. so what's the state of the team that needs to be on the field when this important north korea issue gets resolved or not resolved? >> well, that's exactly right. you don't change teams, right, ahead of the big game, right? and you don't do it when the person laying the diplomatic groundwork is not in the office and people simply don't even know who to call. we had cia director pompeo on "face the nation" this sunday, repeatedly asked the question, who is leading charge the? who's laying the groundwork so when the president of the united states walks into that room with kim jong-un, he's armed with the best facts, the best policy and the best way to accomplish what he wants to get done? that is the job of diplomats. the cia director simply could not answer that question. repeatedly said it's going to be up to the president. he's the one calling all the shots here. so not only do you have an issue of thin ranks at the state department because there are people not being put into policymaking positions or not being confirmed into those

policymaking positions, but now you don't have someone at the head of that organization, and they're trying to right now scramble to figure out who's going to be taking the lead, particularly on iran, but also on north korea. it would seem to be that it's the national security establishment, one of the intelligence agencies that have the foot forward on the north korea path. but right now, the white house still can't answer basic questions that you raised. >> we'll learn more about the mike pompeo of course the new secretary of state, at his confirmation hearing, margaret, thank you. cia deputy director gina haspel is the president's choice to replace pompeo at the agency. she's a career intelligence officer who joined the cia in 1985. if she's confirmed by the senate, haspel will be the cia's first female director. jeff pegues, good morning. >> reporter: she is highly respected within the agency and has held leadership positions

overseas, serving as station chief at several of her posts. she's also held senior position, in the national clandestine service which runs covert operations and helps collect human intelligence around the globe. haspel does have a bit of a checkered past, though. she was directed to run one of the cia's secret prisons but did not devise the concept. her supporters say she was following orders. she also worked for the person who ordered the destruction of enhanced interrogation tapes but was not found to have done anything wrong. haspel will need to be confirmed by the senate before she can permanently take over the agency and that will take a majority of senators voting yes, gayle. >> all right, jeff pegues, thank you. president trump is heading to california right now. this will be his first visit since taking office. many state and local leaders there oppose his immigration policies. governor jerry brown wrote a letter to the president saying, quote, california thrives because we welcome immigrants. he adds, we are focusing on

bridges, not walls. during his visit, president trump will inspect eight different prototypes for his long promised wall on the mexico border. congress has yet to provide the estimated $15 billion to build it. republicans who control the house intelligence committee say they've finished investigating russia election medaling. president trump used capital letters to shout the committee's conclusion on twitter. he tweeted, no evidence of collusion or coordination between the trump campaign and russia. adam schiff, the top democrat on the committee, accused republican members of protecting the president. democrats on committee will see the report later today. >> voters near pittsburgh are heading to the polls today for a closely watched special election filling a congressional seat. president trump won the 18th district by almost 20 percentage points in 2016. but the newest mon mouth university poll shows democratic conor lamb leading republican rick saccone by six points. the close race led president

trump to campaign for saccone over the weekend and national republicans have poured $10 million into the race. it may have also prompted president trump to make last week's surprising announcement about steel and aluminum tariffs. we have breaking news from alabama where a bus carrying high school students plunged off a bridge on interstate 10 and fell 50 feet into a ravine. a local sheriff's department confirmed at least one person has been killed. helicopters and ambulances transported numerous injured passengers to hospitals. one is critically injured and five others are seriously hurt we're told. the bus was carrying about 45 band members home to channel view texas from disney world. police in austin, texas, are warning the public this morning to watch out for an apparent bomber on the loose. investigators now say three package bombs including two that exploded yesterday are connected. police say the case may be a hate crime. all the victims are black or hispanic. >> the explosions happened within 15 miles of each other.

early yesterday morning, one blast killed 17-year-old draylen mason and injured a woman. about five hours later, another blast injured a second woman. ten days year, the first atech killed anthony stephan house. david begnaud is at the home targeted in that bombing. david, good morning. >> reporter: john, good morning. this is the house residence. and we're here because the police chief said if you go, you'll get a sense of the damage done by this type of bomb. let me show you what we found. as you approach the front door, you'll see the damage to the side wall here. it's unclear if the door was blown out but it's boarded up now and neighbors tell us they pulled shrapnel out of this wall. the next door neighbor said there was shrapnel 10, 20, 30 feet from the house. this is where mr. house actually collapsed and a neighbor ran up to him and tried to save his life. >> he collapsed right there. >> three feet in front of his front door?

>> reporter: anthony stephan house was bleeding from his face, had shrapnel in his chest and both of his hands were nearly blown off according to his neighbor sean phillips who was the first to reach him and tried to save his life. was it is victim able to tell you anything? >> no, he wasn't even responding to his name. >> reporter: house's 8-year-old daughter was inside at the time. he died on march 2nd. yesterday, ten days after his death, police received reports of two more explosions. the first came at 6:44 a.m. monday. a teenager was killed when he picked up a package and brought the bomb inside his kitchen. the second call was at 11:50 a.m. a 75-year-old woman was critically injured by a blast that happened on her porch. >> this is not something we have seen happen in our country for quite some time and it's absolutely nothing that has ever happened in austin. >> reporter: brian manley, the interim police chief in austin, said the bombs were disguised as

packages left overnight near the front doors. did the packages explode when the persons picked them up? >> we have had packages that exploded when the victim picked that package up. we have also had one where the victim actually picked the package up, brought it into the residence and opened it up and it exploded. >> reporter: the police chief says these packages are not being mailed or coming from an official delivery service. >> i have not seen anything that gives me reason to believe this has links to terrorism. >> reporter: what about a hate crime? >> we're keeping our focus as wide as possible so we don't miss something by focusing too narrowly. >> reporter: so i asked the chief if there was any connection between the victims and he said there's nothing they know of at this point. let me tell you this, "the washington post" is reporting this morning that the stepfather of one of the victims is good friends with the grandfather of another victim. i know that sounds like a loose connect but it's the best we've got as of now. >> all right, david, what a

mystery. thanks. federal investigators are looking at the safety harnesses passengers were wearing during sunday's deadly helicopter crash in new york city. the five people killed were part of an aerial photography tour. their pilot was the only survivor. wreckage from the crash was retrieved yesterday. kris van cleave is following the investigation. kris, good morning, and so many disturbing details we're learning. >> reporter: absolutely, norah. good morning. now, the pilot told police a tether from a passenger's safety harness wrapped around the helicopter's fuel shutoff lever. it looks like this one here. now it's on the floor of the helicopter near some of the flight controls. that accidentally cut off the fuel supply the pilot said. additionally, investigators also say they'll look at everything from the flotation devices to photos and videos taken during the flight. as the chopper took off, trevor shot this video from the front seat. the front passengers were all wearing safety harnesses. now the national transportation safety board has questions about

the function nallty of those harnesses. cbs news flew with that same harness system back in november. you can see how the harnesses connect people to the helicopter. a caribiner hooks into a metal ring on their backs so they can lean out for pictures. we took a flight over manhattan. about 1,300 feet over the hudson river right now. if there was a problem and we lost the engine, we're about four seconds from the water so there's not a lot of time to react. when the helicopter crashed into the east river sunday, none of the passengers could get out. divers had to cut through the harnesses. by then, it was too late. >> i can't even reach this part of my back, lait lo let alone f i can get off the helicopter. >> reporter: eric was on a different chopper during sunday's trip. he took these pictures of liberty charter during its final flight. adam says the group did receive a safety demonstration, but in light of the crash, he believes

essential details were missing, including the location of a knife like this one used to cut the harnesses tether. >> i couldn't tell you if it was on left side, the right side, high in the harness, in the middle. and they weren't talking to us about how to get out fast. >> reporter: those harnesses are not standard on that helicopter. they were added for photography flights. the two companies involved in sunday's flight say they are cooperating fully with the faa and the ntsb. the ntsb does plan to speak to the pilot about what went wrong. >> so tough to look at the video of those kids before -- those young people before they're taking off, so full of life. it doesn't feel like they had a chance. >> it really doesn't. upside down, in frigid water, in the dark with a complicated seat belt harness system. it's a recipe for disaster. >> very disturbing. thank you very much, kris. a secret recording captured officials discussing how to sabotage plans to keep toxic lead out of drinking water in nashville area schoolings. ahead, how some parents say filters they bought are not being used and the

rain drops certainly the story this morning and ponding on the roadways. it is wet and windy out there but also a pretty warm system is coming through. here is the radar showing all kinds of moisture coming in. not necessarily snowfall just yet but the cold front is expected to arrive this afternoon. we could see some thunderstorms this afternoon. snow levels will start high and drop to 4,000 feet tomorrow. two storms for today and tomorrow and then another one for thursday and friday.

parents of a florida college student who died after a night of drinking want to make hazing a federal crime. >> people -- in the past have gotten together and maybe my son would still be here if hazing wasn't a problem. somebody has to yell as loud as we can in order to get this to stop. >> ahead, the parents of andrew

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right on the roadways. slow dounds around nevada near ignasio boulevard. it is about a 35 minute ride from mullein to 580. there is an earlier accident before the golden gate bridge, that is no longer blocking lanes but there is still a slow ride into san francisco and a wet ride. look at the headlights making their way into the city. your ride along 101 near interstate 80 interchange is very busy. rain drops all over the place across the bay area this morning. visibility is also impacted. we are seeing the fog forming out there. and the rain is coming down strong through downtown san francisco and in the richmond district. and it is moving towards san mateo. and there is one moving towards walnut creek and nort bay is not -- north bay is not getting a break yet either. it is raining all over the place.

welcome back to "cbs this morning." here are three things to know -- the trump administration is blocking what could have been the largest tech deal in history over national security concerns. singapore-based broadcom had made a $117 billion bid to buy qualcomm, that's a leading u.s. chipmaker for >> the government move comes amid concern would have given china advantage in mobile communications. >> people out of their homes. they fear a big storm today could cause new mud slides. >> and if you want to live in

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tony, good morning. >> as you can imagine. the coffees are never really going move on but they are beginning to move forward. hazing has killed at least one person a year since 1961 and he was one of four victims in 2017. the family is seeking justice and accountability. the goal to help lead a new movement against hazing. one that might keep their son's memory alive by saving others. >> my son and the people in the past had gotten together maybe my son would still be here. if hazing wasn't a problem. so we have to yell as loud as we can in order to get this stopped. i don't want another family going through what we go through. cry ourselves to sleep. >> it's been just four months since tom and sandra coffee got

the message their 21 son andrew had died. >> when you send your son away it is the last thing you are thinking thinking of. >> this never crossed our mind. >> i remember driving, going this isn't happening us to. >> andrew had begin a high school athlete with dreams of joining the navy after college. >> great kid. you can count on. >> she hates my description of him. 6'2", swimmers body. handsome as the day's long and a smile that will light up a. >> i don't hate that. he told me 6 feet. and. >> 6'2". >> but, you know, having made the right decisions. >> becoming a brother was a goal even before he enrolled at the florida state. >> his friends belonged and he joined with them at functions and everything else and wanted

to belong. >> what did you think about him becoming a the brother. >> just told him we had a deal. if grades suffered because of the partying or something like that and then you are out. and he agreed to it. >> the idea of fraternity sounds like a good one. >> it does. support system. brother, friendships for life. >> according o a lawsuit filed by the coffees their fraternity had been hazing and having pledges abuse alcohol for years. on the night of his death andrew drank a bottle of 101 proof bourbon in a initiation ritual known as the bottle. his lips are purple. his body is stiff and i can't wake him up. and quite honestly don't feel a positive. >> why do you think nobody called for help for so long. >> that's what keeps us up in the middle of the night. >> exactly. there were a hundred people at the party.

and ninety-nine of them didn't help my son. andrew died in a room full of people that just didn't care. and he died alone. >> with the pending litigation a spokesperson says we are unable to provide comment. >> hazing is the by-product of the peer pressure. and that gets really good young people to do things they would otherwise never do. >> florida law in 2005 made hazing a felony and also blocks defendants from claiming the victim went along willingly. the legislation named after hazing victim chad merdite is one of the strictist in the nation.edith is one of the strictist in the nation. >> 17 years after their son chad's death they are still fighting for stronger laws elsewhere. >> every morning i see his picture and i'll talk to him

about it. saying they are still working on it. so i'll pray. >> there will be people who watch this interview and they will think to themselves, hazing has been happening for decades. what hope is there really that it is ever going to end? >> well if we don't do something it definitely is not going to end. you are just not supposed to bury your kids. >> they have joined with the coffees and more than a dozen other surviving families to form push. parents united to stop hazing, which includes the piazza family who's son tim died at penn state last winter. together they are rallying for justice. >> how do you break the cycle. >> a federal statute has to be written that goes from the top you know where the national fraternity is at risk as well as the local chapter. and then education to high school students. >> and if they succeed, their hope is that push never adds a new member. >> it is about legacy.

>> yeah. >> yeah. if we keep his spirit alive, then he's not dead. >> if this can go to washington d.c., it could be the andrew coffee law. is that something you would like to see? >> yes. >> can't be for nothing. >> yeah. it can't. can't have died for nothing. has to be purpose. >> and there is purpose. shortly after andrew's death florida state university acted swiftly in temporarily been aing greek life. but fsu's president tells us there is still room for improvement. >> i don't want it to happen again on our campus. and i hope others pay attention to what we're doing. because i think we are making progress. but i will say this. i think greek life, as we know it today has to change. has to change in order for us to move forward with the positive things that the greek community does. >> the coffees and the victim's

families say it is important for schools to step up and have stricter policies across the board on this. maybe a one and done rule. >> yeah the president is so right. it has to change. and just because it's been happening for decades doesn't make it right. >> i love whoever said hazing is a by-product of peer pressure. you feel their pain. when you go to school flgt you're going to bed bath and beyond. >> they remember reading the piazza story back in february. never thinking it would fly to their life and then months aerate. >> should be shown to every student going away. >> so much life. >> i think the message just like drunk driving. hazing is always risky. and always wrong. that is what the parents want people take away. >> and he was handsome as the day can is long. >> let dad exaggerate a little bit. >> he's not kpamgting. thank you. very important story. possible plans to the

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a school administrator in tennessee is on leave after a secret recording revealed that he suggested sabotaging plans to keep drinking water safe in nashville-area schools. our cbs affiliate, wtvf, has reported on the dangerous levels of lead in some of the district schools for nearly a year now in a new audio recording obtained by the station. dennis neal, executive director, discusses not using water filters. anna werner has more on how the district is responding. good morning. >> good morning. metro nashville public schools began voluntarily testing drinking water in 2016 after the water crisis in flint, michigan. around 30 schools installed hydration station that's filter out lead. a secret recording has parents worried their children's water is still not safe. >> it's just not acceptable.

>> reporter: chelle baldwin has two students in nashville's middle school. after high levels of lead were found in water, some parents bought water stations and filters. >> they're sitting in the school basement. there's no clear answer as to why they're not being installed. >> reporter: in a secret recording obtained by affiliate wtvf, dennis neal, executive director of schools, can be heard resisting use of the filters. >> they are adamant about them being filtered. i'm saying we cannot support it. >> reporter: in the recording, neal also responds to a suggestion to break the lights that show when the filters need to be changed. >> we've got the to figure out what we're going to do with these hundred or 97 filtered ones that we have out there. huh? do what? >> take the light bulb out. >> that's one thing. but we need to also probably, if we can, bypass the filter. >> the district is deeply

concerned about what we heard on the recording. >> reporter: the district spokeswoman said while they don't condone what was said on the recording, the filling stations are expensive. she says they're less effective at filtering out lower levels of lead. >> it's a huge cost to the district, hundreds of thousands of dollars. >> reporter: michaud says the 37 locations that had lead levels exceeding the epa's recommended 15 parts per billion have been fixed, but she does admit some locations still have lead levels below that number. something the american academy of pediatrics says is unacceptable for children. and parents like baldwin say more needs to be done. >> this is children's developing brains, and we cannot put money above their health and wellness. >> we reached out to dennis neal but did not hear back. he's on administrative leave pending investigation. michaud said the district is embarking on random water-quality testing.

if it finds any more levels that exceed the epa recommendation, it will remediate that. norah? >> this is so infuriating if you're a parent. the evidence is so clear about what lead does to your brain. there's no point of even going >> there is no point even going to school if you have lead poisoning. you are going to be ruchbd for life. >> especially after the problem in flint. i'm trying to figure why they were resistant? the cost, convenience? i don't get it. >> thank you anna. thank you. up next a look at this morning's other headlines. including newly released videos suggesting a navy fighter jet had one of the latest in a series of close encounters with across the south bay all the way up to the north bay, we are definitely seeing slick roads out there, rain drops and windy conditions. you can see all of the moisture across the bay area this morning. it is a warmer storm so

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this is a kpix 5 morning update. >> good morning. it is 7:56. murin residents will vote on a tax proposal. city officials estimate that the tax could bring in one million a year in additional revenue. ann colter will make a rare appearance in mountain view. she is expected to talk about her continued support of president trump and his administration. we will have traffic and weather in just a moment.

good morning. it is 7:57. and we are dealing with wet and slow roadways. we will begin along highway 24. there was an earlier crash in the estbound direction near oak

hill road. that is still causing some slow going. the really slow ride in the is in the westbound direction where speeds are dipping below 20 miles per hour. 31 minute ride from 680 to 580. the 580 approach towards the maze is looking okay this time around. along the east shore freeway, close to an hour commute for drivers from highway 4 in hercules over to the maze. there is one lane blocked near san pablo road. looking at the dark storm clouds and fog is forming in a lot of locations. visibility will be poor and it is wet and windy. let's get to the daubler and -- doppler and show you where the wet parts are. south of san francisco and most of this will move from the east and martinez right now is dealing with rain. look at richmond, it is coming down at a rate of about half an

inch an hour. no break in the north bay. a couple of storms on the way.

. good morning to our viewers in the west. it's tuesday march 13th 2018. welcome back to "cbs this morning." president trump just replaced his secretary of state, rex tillerson is out. he'll be replaced by the director of the cia mike pompeo. plus a government warning about the newest tax scam. but first, ears today's "eye opener" at 8:00. president trump has fired secretary of state rex tillerson. a move has been in the works since last year. >> they simply did not get along. personally and they disagreed on significant foreign policy matters. the message coming from the state department particularly through allies around the world,

i'm safe. cia officer who became deputy director last february, highly respected within the agency. president trump is heading to california right now. many state and local leaders oppose his immigration policies. next door neighbors said there were shrapnel, ten, 20, 30 feet from the house and this is mr. house actually collapsed. a pilot told police a tether from a safety harness wrapped around the helicopter's fuel shutoff lever -- >> marvel announced that there will be a "black panther" sequel. yeah. very cool, yeah. marvel ceo said it was a difficult decision but ultimately we decided to make another billion dollars. they thought it over. i'm gayle king with john dickerson and norah o'donnell.

we have breaking news from washington where president trump fired rex tillerson this morning. tillerson learned he was out at the same time the public did, a little more than two hours ago on twitter. >> the cia director mike pompeo will be nominated to take tillerson's place at the state department. as he left the white house this morning, president trump said he had disagreements with tillerson on some issues and talked about about why he chose pompeo. >> i respect his intellect. i respect the process that we've all gone through together. we have a very good relationship for whatever reason, chemistry, whatever it is, why do people get along? i've always right from the beginning from day one, i've gotten along well with mike pompeo. >> the president chose mike pompeo director gina haspel to lead the agency. president trump's trip to california this morning is his first since taking office. the president is at odds with

many leaders in the democratic strong hold on issues like his planned border wall. a new poll shows 60% of americans oppose the wall but 77% of republicans favor it. 88% of democrats are opposed. we're in san diego near the current border fence. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. mr. trump waited more than a year to visit california as president. the last president that waited that long was iedsen hour back in 1953. mexico is right behind me and the current wall, the current border fence is lined with lights and we're about seven miles away from the prototypes officials have restricted that area for now expecting protesters and supporters of president trump and his policy. anti-trump protesters clash with police in san diego late monday ahead of president trump's planned trip. >> he's not welcome in california. he's definitely going to feel

it. >> reporter: the president is visiting california to inspect these eight prototypes just days after calling out state lawmakers for being soft on illegal immigration. >> they don't care about crime. they don't care about death and killings. >> reporter: mr. trump's relationship with california has long been a rocky one. he hasn't visited the state since campaigning here nearly two years ago. those visits were met by protests including one in san francisco that forced mr. trump to ditch at vehicle since trump became president california has passed numerous laws protecting immigrants' rights specifically designed to thwart his administration's policy. >> federal law is the supreme law of the land. >> reporter: just last week attorney general jeff sessions announced a lawsuit against the state to block some of those laws. the california governor jerry brown lashed out. >> this is basically going to

war against the state of california. >> reporter: but the president isn't backing down. >> the state of california is sheltering dangerous criminals in a brazen and lawless attack on our constitutional system of government. >> reporter: a rally in support of the border wall is expected tor later this morning but there are protests planned throughout this state today. law enforcement is getting prepared for that. the president is expected to take a look at the prototypes and give a speech to the military afterwards. then he will fly to los angeles for a fund raiser in beverly hills. seats are going for as high as $250,000. >> thank you. students at schools and universities across the country will leave their classrooms as part of the national school walkout tomorrow morning. the 17 minute action will honor the 17 victims of the marjory stoneman douglas high school shooting last month. participants are protesting existing gun laws and demanding change.

in our latest "the new york times" article, psychologist and cbs news contributor lisa demore explains why activism could be good for kids. lisa, good morning. >> good morning. >> tell us what the studies show about activism. >> this new study that came out not that long ago shows that teenagers who participate in activism go on to higher levels of education and higher incomes than teenagers who don't and the really remarkable thing about the study is that this was true even when they accounted for those teenagers early grades in school and their parents educational levels which are usually the factors that drive later success. so it doesn't prove that activism actually, you know, leads to high achievement but it makes a very strong case for it. >> why do you think that's true? >> here's what the researchers thought. they thought that kids who get engaged in activism do three things. they may develop professional skills. it may plug them into social networks and it also may develop their beliefs in their own capacities. >> i also love this idea of it

encourages them to see possibilities in the future. talk about that more broadly with adolescence, because when you think about the it gets better campaign and other things, isn't it about teaching them, hey, it's not all what's happening today, life is long. >> people are thinking so what does it mean to walk out of school for 17 minutes, what difference is that going to make? the way we want to think about it is, if it plugs them in to ongoing engagement, that's good for teenagers. another way we think about it is, we're always complaining that they're on their phones, they're obsessed with themselves, they're disconnected from the world -- >> that's also true. >> that is sometimes true. but i think that when they're saying we want to be engaged, we want to be connected to students around the country, i think that that's something we need to think carefully about the implications. >> the study showed how voting and voluntary effects differently than activism. that's interesting. >> this is interesting. they looked at three forms of civic engagement, voting, volunteering and activism.

all three conferred these later benefits to achievement in income. activism alone actually was also connected to higher levels of risky behavior. so that one was interesting. the researchers in explaining that, they had a couple of ideas. one was they said historically activists have belonged to counter culture groups where risky behavior is typical. that may be less true when the students are expressing in many ways a widely held view. they also said that activism is frustrating. people who are heavily engaged in activism may become frustrated and turn to smoking or drinking. >> activism is a backlash as well. >> activism is about disagreement and we need to prepare teenagers for that. >> how do parents help without ruining the way we do everything? >> that's right. i think there can be the sense if your parent is cheering you on is it still activism? we make it about connecting to other teenagers, connecting to a

broader cause, connecting to something the teenagers engaged in. >> and prepare them for the backlash but let them know too, this is a good thing. >> they also have to disagree in ways that are respectful and constructive. >> thank you. two fertility clinics face growing legal questions over their botched handling. our doctor is back in our toyota green room to share a look inside a fertility lab. how the facilities try to keep embryos rain drops are the story this morning and ponding on the roadways. it is wet and windy out there with a warm system coming through. the satellite radar is showing all kinds of moisture coming in. not seeing snowfall just yet but the cold front is expected to arrive and this afternoon we could see thunderstorms and tomorrow afternoon as well. snow levels will start high and

drop to 4,000 feet tomorrow. two storms for today and tomorrow. there will be another for friday and saturday.

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♪ a new lawsuit is expected this week against a california fertility clinic that admits it may have accidentally destroyed thousands of frozen embryos. and at least one more lawsuit has been filed against university hospitals, a medical

center near cleveland. an equipment malfunction there may have damaged thousands of eggs or embryos. to find out how these types of labs operate, "cbs this morning" went inside a different clinic in california. dr. tara narula is here with more. good morning, tara. >> good morning, norah. maintaining these eggs is difficult. several procedures are in place to notify doctors if and when something goes wrong. we visited a fertility clinic in california to see how this process works and what can be done to prevent devastating incidents like what we've seen. >> so these are our liquid nitrogen tanks where we maintain the embryos and eggs. >> reporter: he showed us how the clinic keepsis e its eggs a embryos safe. >> if the levels were to drop too low, it would send an alert. >> reporter: that alert would set off this alarm. if no one is at the lab to answer it, a second alert is

sent to several doctors' cellphones. >> you can see it's at an adequate level here. >> reporter: his clinic maintains backup tanks. while his clinic is different, news of two clinic failures on the same day has rattled the fertility industry. this woman is one of about 500 people who received a letter saying a march 4th malfunction may have affected her embryos. >> i get the chills reading it. there are so many questions at this point. and, you know, hopefully there will be some good news. but at the same time, i know there have to be people who have already received very devastating news. >> this is a tragic loss for anybody. >> reporter: attorney adam wolf tells cbs news he plans to file a class action lawsuit against the san francisco clinic this

week on behalf of the patients. he also filed a second lawsuit against the ahuja medical center outside cleveland. >> what the past week has shown us is there needs to be greater regulation. there needs to be some more controls so that something like this never happens again. >> dr. allen did tell us he must have licenses from the fda for tissue donation and handling tissues and eggs. he told us there is no regulation on the tanks themselves, leaving doctors to maintain safety precautions on their own. those affected told us they are investigating the incident. >> so upsetting, the whole thing. >> every time i think about it and think about the women who thought this could be their only hope, it's devastating. >> such an investment, financially, emotionally, physically. >> thank you, tara. thieves could still $1.5 billion in tax refunds this

year. there's mellody hobson in our green room. she has tips to protect yourself from identity theft this season. we'll be right back.

federal trade commission is warning taxpayers about a new and growing tax scam pay attention. identity thieves stole at least $1.6 billion in tax refunds in 2016. as cbs news previously reported, scammers typically pocket your refund before you file. the irs calls this latest scheme a new twist on that scam. after filing a fraudulent tax return, criminals deposit the bogus tax refund in the victim's real bank account. financial contributor mellody hobson is here to explain. all the sudden money turns up in my bank account, and i'm thinking, yay. you go, no -- >> it's not -- >> not gotten

so sophisticated it is nuts. first of all, they file a bogus tax return using real information from you. keep in mind the equifax breach put tens of millions of people's informaion out there including real social security numbers in certain situations. so they file this bogus return. but the twist is the money ends up in your account. then they call you pretending to be the irs, badger you, so they're going to file criminal charges, say that your social security number's going to be blacklisted unless you send the money back to the "irs" which is them. >> and the bogus return that they file is bogus, but the irs thinks it's real? >> that's right. this is really important because this means the irs only sends one tax return per social security number. so if you've gotten a return, if you are owed a real one, it's tied up now. you are not going to see your real return until this whole thing gets sorted out which is a nightmare. >> as they file the bogus return in your name --

>> yes. they file it as you. they pretend they are you. they might use your real social security number, likely do. they spy on this return, and you get a tax refunds refund, but -- tax refund, but this isn't your return. call the bank if the money ends up in your bank and tell the bank to send the money back to the irs, the ach department, automated clearinghouse. that goes back first. the next thing you want to do, immediately call the irs. explain that you have received this money in your account, and that you are not -- it is not supposed to be there. that's where you start because once that money hits your account, you are legally on the hook for it from the irs. >> it's amazing how complex, they're not just stealing your number and charging up a bunch of clothes and having a great weekend. this requires lots and lots of steps to -- >> it requires vigilance now on the part of all of us. my big rule of thumb, no incoming -- nothing, if someone

calls you, sends an e-mail, the irs does not operate that way. they send regular letters first. snail mail. the old-fashioned way. if you're getting anything like calls or emails, you want to hang up the phone, do not respond to some tax preparation service that sends you a link, bad idea. >> these phone scams must be working because they're up over 1,000%. >> it's not just phone, it's e-mail, as well, as i said. you might think you're going to an actual tax preparation website. it might be a bogus one. so you want to hover over the links to make sure the site is real. operate on secure sites only. >> all right. mellody hobson keeping us safe. >> always good advice. thank you. ahead, the new book that claims to have the inside story of russian president putin's assault on our democracy. learn about a russian general's strategy for information warfare. your local news is next.

the "u-s immigration and stoms'" bay area office has this is a kpix 5 morning update. >> good morning. it is 8:25. a spokesperson for the immigration bay area office has resigned. james swab said he could not pass along fals statements made by the trump administration and ice officials regarding a recent warning about raids. the city of free mont is the happiest city in the united states according to a new survey by wallet hub. san jose is close behind at number 3. san francisco, oakland and santa rosa were also in the top cities. they would put these signs on the door to let the teacher know you didn't cut off the light. the teachers, they would call us the energy patrol.

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good morning. it is 8:27 and we are tracking an accident that has two lanes blocked along eastbound 580 as you approach marina bay parkway. it looks like emergency crews just reopened some of the delays. we have been tracking the delays for those making their way to the east shore freeway. you have about 10 minutes and if you are making your way over to 101. the east shore freeway has been a mess this morning. this is 80 at carlson, just under a 50 minute ride from 80 to the maze. an additional 36 minutes heading into san francisco across the

bay bridge. in the south bay, highway 17 is dealing with a couple of problem. one at hamilton, southbound but the big delays in the northbound direction as you approach the 280 interchange. let's check on the forecast. >> the bay bridge is now hiding under neath this layer of fog in the bay. we are noticing the visibility go down. the fog is forming and it is wet and windy out there. you can see the rain picking up out there. in freemont, it has not been easing up for the last 30 minutes. downtown san francisco is getting just a slight drizzle, coming down a lot stronger through richmond and ken zngten. and in the napa area. we are looking at the next several days of rain coming through. no drying until sunday and

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study that suggests one in five deaths in the u.s. can be linked to lead pollution. researchers estimate that 18% of deaths each year were hastened by past exposure to lead, and that's about ten times higher than previous estimates. people exposed to high levels were 70% more likely to die of heart disease and twice as likely to die from blocked arteries. "the verge" reports that p ale is buying texter. that's the netflix of magazines for an undisclosed amount of more than. it lets readers access magazines for a monthly fee. apple says it's committed to "quality journalism from trusted sources." the new hampshire union leader has an update on a powerball jackpot winner's battle to keep her identity a mystery after she won $560 million. the woman had asked to keep her identity a secret. yesterday a judge ruled in her favor saying revealing her name would be an invasion of privacy, but the judge said she did have to reveal her hometown of

merrimack, new hampshire. tomorrow's powerball jackpot is $420 million. in an interview with usa today deputy attorney general rod rosenstein offered support for special counsel robert mueller saying he is not an unguided missile. rosenstein oversees the special counsel. he says he does not believe there is any justification at this points for terminating mueller, who is looking into russia's election interference. rosenstein's remarks are among the first to address mueller's status since he was recently disclosed that president trump sought to have the special counsel dismissed last summer. the full scope of russia's interference in the 2016 election remains unclear. a new book out today provides oneourussia's assault on democracy. it's called russian ruoulette. it looks atmos cow's attack from many angles, including the trump campaign, the obama administration, and the independent investigators who warned about what was happening.

it's written by yahoo news chief investigative correspondent michael isikopf and david cornyn. welcome, gentlemen. >> thanks for having us. >> let's start with the house intelligence committee. they have found that the russians were not interference in the election and weren't out to help donald trump. >> well, they have closed their investigation without conducting all the interviews the democrats wanted, without calling people back in for interviews, without subpoenaing a lot of information, and we've skord just in the last day that we have things in our book which kind of is our own version of a report that they have not even bothered to look at. >> like what? >> for instance, they do not talk to george popanopoulous. he is a campaign aide that has pled guilty to lying who was trying to make contacts with russians to set up a meeting between trump and putin and later on just a back channel communication. we've learned for this book, for

the first time that he has told mueller's investigators that trump, as he believes it, encouraged him. he was at a meeting with trump, and when he said i could do this, i can set up something with putin, trump said to him interesting. go do it. now, we don't know if that's the full truth, but we do know the house investigative committee hasn't even bothered to talk to him, so how can they know what trump's attitude was to these context from the campaign and moscow. they don't even talk to the guy who was doing it. >> you say both about popadopolus and carter page, not well known in this country, but well known in moscow because they're doing a lot of wheeling and dealing on trump's behalf there. >> and it's pretty clear that once they became members of trump's foreign policy advisory team, that the russians targeted them.

they set up a meeting, and inform him, this is popadopoluss that the kremlin has dirt in the form of thousands of emails on this was -- when you look at the totally of it, it's clear that there was a penetration campaign by the russians to get their hooks into the trump campaign, that they were targeted, and trump sort of dismissed all of this, was oblivious to it, and -- >> it's about an a mystery to some for some time about why donald trump has refused to criticize vladimir putin or say anything really negative about him, and in your book you make it very clear why that is. he has been courting vladimir putinin since december 2013. >> he has always wanted to have a big tower with his name on it and moscow. it goes back to 1987, actually. spent decades trying to do this.

he brought the miss universe pageant to moscow in 2013. in 2015 while he is running for president, he is running for are president. he is the leading republican in the pact. he has a secret deal, which he doesn't tell the public about, to try to build another tower again in moscow with a former felon named felix, and while he is doing this, he is going on air and shows off his country and praising putin. now, he knows he can't build a tower in moscow without putin's approval, that's one reason. >> then people could take what does it have to do with our election? okay, so he is not going to build a tower it in moscow. he is wheeling and dealing. what does that have to do with our election? >> because the people he was trying to do business in moscow

were the same people who are meddling in our election and trying to to discord and according to the u.s. intelligence community tilt the scale in favor of donald trump. it's hard to divorce those two events going on virtually simultaneously. >> go ahead. >> assess the obama administration's handling of this. did they drop the ball here? >> look, that is something we delve into deeply in the book. we have a lot of new information about what was going on inside the obama white house to try to kurnt what the russians were doing, and there are people on the white house staff, the chief cyber policy coordinator who was trying to develop aggressive options to go after the russians, to counter what they were doing, cyber attacks on russian news sites, exposing information about putin's corruption, and they get told by

susan rice, the national security advisor, to stand down, knock it off. you don't want to box the president in. >> because? >> because -- because the president was not prepared to go there. he was worried that too aggressive a response would escalate, create a cyber war with the russians and could actually in some ways blow up the election, could create more chaos and, therefore, serve putinin's needs. the problem is that the people on the white house staff were saying, no, if you don't respond in real-time, if you don't punch back when you have been hit, you know, it's sending a signal to the other side. >> it was president obama's reluctance. >> there was a real strong debate, and in that debate james clapper, who is the director of national intelligence said if we get into the cyber tit for tat, russia could conceivably strike down our electric grid. we are more wired and plugged in and dependent on infrastructure

than russia. there were some real concerns that if you took this step, it might indeed make things worse. it's really my favorite chapter of the book. it's sort of like what would you do, john dickerson, if you were in the -- would you protect the election? what would you do? i think, you know, each side believes they took the right approach. obviously i think it's fascinating for a policy perspective. >> there's lots more to read in the book. thank you for giving us a preview here. >> thank you. >> the name of the book is called russian reulet, and it's on sale now. actor alan come sg breaking down barriers on primetime tv in his new show "instinct" and guess what, he is in our toyota greenroom. >> it's a great across the south bay all the way up to the north bay, we are seeing slick roads out there,

rain drops and windy conditions. you can see all orphthe moisture -- all of the moisture across the bay area. temperatures are not as cold as they are about to get. there is a cold front behind this system and it will bring the snow levels down to about 4,000 feet. we could get a dusting of snow early tomorrow and on thursday.

♪ ♪ >> look how good he is on the stage. that's actor alan coming. he won a tony awashed for the 1998 performance in the hit

broadway show "cabaret." he has portrayed many characters over the decades-long career. his roles include a james bond villain in golden eye, a mute ant in "x-men" 2, and a political operative in "the good wife." now he is taking on a new role in the cbs drama "instinct." he plays dr. dillon rhinehart who epds up helping new york police after a killer starts committing crimes based on his book. >> i have a feeling there will be more murders, which is why i'm here. the killer sent your book to the homicide division. as the famous criminal psycho-pathology, i was hoping you might have some ideas. don't they call you professor psychopath. >> i may have i afascination with psychopaths, but that does not mean i am one. >> judging by the way you eat your pizza i'm not so sure. >> it allows you to focus more on the pizza itself. >> i'm not talking about focussing onna. >> you should try it sometimes. >> after i catch who killed this kid. >> alan coming is also an

executive producer of the show. we welcome you back to the table. everyone knows you don't even pizza with a knife and a fork. this is what is so cool about you. we were talking about you in the makeup room this morning. people said, oh, i remember him from "spy kids." i remember him from "cabaret." >> it's because i'm old. >> it's because you are so prolific. >> i head that you said i don't know if i want to do another tv show. you had some reluctance into taking this part. >> zwro i did that for like a year, and i was in eddinburg when i got the initial sort of salvo about this job, and i actually -- just thought this is the thing to pass up on.

you know -- >> why was it too good? >> just that it was so many different facets of a character. >> a bit of a dandy. he -- and then he is writing a book that is a big best seller, but of normal behavior, and she's my long suffering editor, and then he is also a former cia spy, and -- naturally. >> as one is. >> and he is a former musical child prodigy, and he has a photographic memory. >> then he can throw -- >> that's like the least of the things for him, though. >> that's what i liked about that. i mean, two things about the gay thing. one, i thought this is the first ever network drama on american

television to have gay character as the lead, and i thought about time. about blooming time. i want to be a part of that. also, the gay thing is like exactly. the fourth or fifth thing we see about the character. that's a big step. >> it's so funny because i didn't know -- it's kind of like a mystery. i had a lovely chat with him, unbenons to me that was him. manual dripging involved. then i got this book, the

first -- the book to see about interests, and i was, like, oh, not my normal thing, but i was really when i was an invalid, and i said who wrote this? my manager said the person who sells one in every 17 books that are sold in america. >> i think it's interesting. you didn't know who he was and hadn't read his book, but you said, hey, this guy is pretty good. zoo recently opened up club coming, and you said that's your greatest achievement. >> it's my greatest artistic achievement. >> everybody would feel welcome, and all ages, all jernds, and all sexuality. performance. dancing. it actually has happened. it's worked. >> mission accomplished. >> thank you. thank you. >> congratulations. i think you got another hit on your hands. you can watch series premier of "instinct" sunday night at 8:00, 7:00 central here on cbs.

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system wide delays for capital corridor trains due to an accident with a train that struck a vehicle. this involves train 529 at daves and fairfield. also bart is experiencing 10 minute system wide delay due to

the wet weather. some police activity and some problems with equipment are also causing delays. folks headed into san francisco and the bay area this morning along the east shore freeway, about 51 minutes from highway 4 to the maze. an accident just before the waldo tunnel. you can see the traffic backing up as you approach the tunnel there. this is a live look of san francisco right now. it is foggy out there and rain drops are on the camera lens. there is some wind out there and the gusts are starting to get a little calmer now. there are areas of lighter green on the radar, not as intense as the rain was hours ago. it is a little lighter across mel valley. and yauntville is still dealing with pretty strong rain showers. here is look at what is to come. the next several days, rain in

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