thank you for watching and spending some time with us as we continue to look at some of the great shots this morning. the next local update is at 7:26 good morning to our viewers in the west, it's thursday, march 15th, 2018. welcome to "cbs this morning." unprecedented turmoil inside the white house intensifies. more than 20 staffers have already left. now a shake-up that some in the west wing call a purge is coming. game over for a 70-year-old iconic american brand. ♪ i don't wanna grow up overnight, toys "r" us announced it is closing all of its u.s. stores, liquidating its inventory and laying off 30,000 people. in a rare television interview, saudi arabia's crown prince tells "60 minutes" without a doubt his country will

develop nuclear weapons if iran builds a nuclear bomb. united airlines makes another dog mistake. after the death of a pet that was forced to fly in an overhead bin. we'll hear from a family that flew to missouri while its german shepherd was sent to japan. we begin this morning with a look at today's eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. >> more heads could roll. >> we're told there could be a bloodbath. >> could this be too chaotic? >> white house staff brace for the purge. >> volatile couple of weeks. how is he doing personally? >> sounded great. he sounded great. >> jeff sessions is considering whether to fire the ex-deputy fbi director andrew mccabe before he's officially set to retire. >> two u.s. navy aviators are dead after their f/a-18 fighter jet crashed during a training flight near key west, florida. >> the florida school shooter appeared in court. >> his lawyer said he would plead guilty only if his life is spared. >> the white house has backed

britain's decision to expel 20 diplomats in response to a nerve agent attack. >> russia must account for its actions. >> it is game over for toys "r" us. >> the iconic retailer announced it will sell or close all of its stores. >> all that -- >> messi. >> messi's 100th goal in the champions league. >> and all that matters -- >> students standing in solidarity in a nationwide class walkout with a demand for action on gun violence. >> i'm proud of these kids. i have to say, at that age, all my accomplishments were wiffle ball related. >> on "cbs this morning." >> the president said he wants to create a new branch of the military that would patrol outer space. >> space is a war-fighting domain. we may even have a space force. >> space force. space force! look, look, as long as j.j. abrams directs and mark hamill

has a cameo, i'm in. >> this morn's eye opener is presented by toyota. let's go places. welcome back to "cbs this morning" where they say hits keep on coming at the white house. president trump is back in washington where he is expected to continue a shake-up of senior staffers and cabinet members. >> in the 14 months of his presidency, an unprecedented number, more than 20 top officials, have already left the administration. that number is likely to grow in the weeks ahead. >> national security adviser h.r. mcmaster, veterans affairs secretary david shulkin, housing secretary ben carson, and chief of staff john kelly, are considered most at risk. major garrett is at the white house with the newest information on the staff and cabinet changes. major, good morning. >> good morning. the purge could take on a chief of staff, a national security adviser and up to three cabinet

secretaries or some smaller combination of that. the sense of anxiety is pervasive. the unpredictable nature of this, without precedent. what ultimately happens depends on president trump's volatile mood and of course available willing replacement. >> we're coming back and doing it more so than we've ever done before. we're setting records. >> president trump touted what he called record setting economic progress in st. louis on wednesday. the turnover of top white house aides has also made history. so far, more than 20 senior administration staffers have either been fired, resigned or reassigned. the next to go could be national security adviser h.r. mcmaster, expected to be replaced by former bush administration official and frequent fox news analyst john bolton. bolton is a hawk on iran and north korea. like new secretary of state nominee mike pompeo. the veteran secretary david shulkin also be forced out. with energy secretary rick perry

ready to replace him. in february, the va inspector general determined shulkin used taxpayer dollars on a lavish trip to europe for his wife. mr. trump joked about firing shulkin last summer. >> it will be properly implemented. right, david? better be, david. we'll never have to use those words on our david. sources say secretary of housing ben carson is also in jeopardy after purchasing a $31,000 dining room set for his office. the order was eventually canceled. the man brought in last summer to impose order, chief of staff john kelly, may also be on the way out, according to coppi con and administration sources. president trump's new chief economist cnbc commentator larry kudlow gave an interview in which he disagreed with the president on tariffs and nafta. >> we mustn't shoot ourselves in the foot. >> reporter: kudlow, who will replace gary kcohn, last served

in the 1980s. >> i said, gary this is a really dumb question but look, what do you do, what's your day like, what do you do? >> reporter: there are conflicting interpretations of the job security of attorney general jeff sessions. some say that epa administrator scott pruitt could soon replace sessions. others tell us that sessions will stay on simply because the confirmation battle to replace him would be too exhausting even this white house. >> major, thanks. >> it's like a bloodbath over there, what's going on. >> and, you know, it's not -- this isn't just happening now, this has been happening since the very early days of the administration. this constant churn. it's interesting the president was elected in part because he would bring business experience to the white house. i don't think we've ever seen a company, other than the one that's gone through a buyout or restructuring, where you've had this staff turnover. >> he said he likes conflict,

life in chaos. appears to be working for him. the justice department, speaking of firings, may former the fbi's former deputy director before he retires in just a few days. he's accused of a lack of candor about an investigation into the clinton foundation. and his contact with a reporter who wrote about it. paula reid is at the fbi headquarters in washington. paula, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. mccabe stepped down back in january, but he was expected to officially retire this weekend. but if attorney general jeff sessions fired him, he could lose his pension, which amounts to possibly millions of dollars in retirement. now, sources tell cbs news that ethics officials at the fbi have recommended that mccabe be fired because he was not fully forthcoming about whether he shared information with the media about the investigation into the clinton foundation. but those familiar with mccabe's side of the story say in his position he was authorized to talk to reporters. of course, president trump has been critical of the former

deputy director, back in december he tweeted, fbi deputy director andrew mccabe is racing the clock to retire with full benefits. 90 days to go? now, unlike the attorney general or the head of the fbi, mccabe doesn't serve at the pleasure of the president. he can't be fired without some evidence of wrongdoing. as we know, the attorney general is under scrutiny from the president. and this is an internal recommendation. so those familiar with the attorney general thinking believe that he will accept this recommendation and fire mccabe. >> wow. paula, thank you. the navy's investigating a fighter jet crash off the florida keys that killed a pilot and a weapons officer. the warplane went down yesterday during a training flight, just one mile east of the naval air station had boca chica field in key west. both crew members ejected and were recovered in the water. they were taken by ambulance to the hospital where they were later pronounced dead.

the navy has not released their names. america's most iconic toy store chain full of everything from bikes to trains to video games plans to start closing all of its u.s. stores. ♪ i don't wanna grow up because ♪ ♪ if i did i couldn't be a toys "r" us kid ♪ >> you're going to be singing that all day long. toys "r" us announced plans to liquidate overnight. over ov over 70 years in business. it will close its babies r us stores. the move means 30,000 employees will lose their jobs. cbs news business analyst jill schlesinger is here to look at the ripple effect. this one i think really hurts. because it was so fun as a kid to walk through toys "r" us stores looking at the aisles of staff you can't get but you want what to dream about. >> yes. >> so they filed for bankruptcy in september. take us through the time line.

what happened? >> they were really hoping for a very strong holiday season and the holiday season was quite disappointing. remember, the whole reason they went into bankruptcy was sort of a convergence of bad timing and bad decisions. they did a deal in 2005 with a private equity firm. it saddled the company with $5 billion worth of debt. at the same time, online sales growing and becoming a huge player in the toy market. and also we should note that the actual kids started to shift away from physical toys to technology. >> they're on their phones. >> as you said, about 33,000 employees looking at losing their jobs. this is all happening literally as we speak. they will begin the process. those folks will get paid for 60 days. we should also note if you have a toys "r" us gift card, try to use it online. we just went on the website. it's there. but it's going to become worthless if you don't use it quickly. >> what impact do you think it's going to have on entire toy

industry? >> i think the larger makers, so you look at sort of mattel hasbro, they're going to be hurt for a while because this was a big outlet for them. but they also have a unique opportunity because they may go out and start gobbling up smaller toymakers and beefing up their businesses. that may be a really good growth opportunity. because smaller retailers are going to have a harder time placing their products. this is, i know, a very sad time for a lot of people. gayle's nostalgic. i get that. jeffrey the giraffe gone from the endangered to the extinct list now. this was a lot about management. a lot of bad decisions. again, that debt crippled them. >> they've been an iconic american brands that have gone into bankruptcy and re-emerged later on. >> absolutely. >> jill schlesinger, thank you. saudi arabia's crown prince says his country will develop a nuclear bomb if iran builds nuclear weapons. mohammed bin sab made that

statement. it is the first television interview with the saudi leader since 2005. we asked the 32-year-old crown prince about the political, economic and social reforms unfolding in the kingdom. we also discussed foreign policy and saudi arabia's longtime foe iran. you've been rivals for centuries. at its heart what is this risk about? is it a battle for islam? >> translator: iran is not a rival toll saudi arabia. its army is not among the top five armies in the muslim world. the saudi economy is larger than the iranian economy. iran is far from being equal to saudi arabia. >> but i've seen that you called the ayatollah khomeini the new hitler of the middle east. >> translator: absolutely. >> why? >> translator: because he wants to expand. he wants to create his own project in the middle east, very much like hitler.

many countries around the world and in europe did not realize how dangerous hitler was until what happened happened. i don't want to see the same events happening in the middle east. >> does saudi arabia need nuclear weapons to counter iran? >> translator: saudi arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb but without a doubt if iran developed a nuclear bomb, we will follow suit as soon as possible. >> and you can see our full report with the saudi crown prince sunday night on "60 minutes" right here on cbs. >> the new hitler of the middle east, norah. >> i know. >> he did not back down from that statement. >> he did not back down. that's part of the reason he as defense minister launched this war in yemen which has become a deadly and costly catastrophe in many ways, a human cass ttastro. >> that's part of why the u.s. wants to be so tight with saudi arabia. they both see that common enemy in iran. >> remember, saudi arabia is our oldest ally in the middle east.

80 years. president trump chose that country as his first visit as president. the crown prince is coming here next week. so that's more to come. >> in a statement just released this morning, president trump joined the leaders of britain, france and germany for blaming russia on the nerve agent attack on a former spy and his daughter in england. russia's foreign minister claimed his country has no motive. russian president putin travelled to crimea for a massive campaign rally days before his country's election. russia took over crimea from ukraine four years ago and faced international condemnation. elizabeth palmer was at the rally and is in the port city. elizabe elizabeth, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the kremlin is pushing back hard against britain's accusations. here in russia, president putin supporters are solidly behind

their government, even though they know it means international condemnation. even as the crisis deepens, president putin did not skip a beat on the campaign trail. coming here to crimea to last big rally before the vote. it's a deeply symbolic gesture. crimea, he told the crowd, has come home to russia. he's referring to 2014. when russian soldiers seized the territory from ukraine. it was a land grab most russians approved of. the rest of the world declared it illegal. on his tour here, putin also visited the bridge russia is building from its mainland to crimea, literally cementing its claim. the message to the u.s. and the west, putin is never giving it back. this image of the strong man

standing up to his world goes well here. putin knows it. he also knows he's going to win on sunday. which may be the reason he gave the home crowd a rare glimpse of his warm and fuzzy side. i, he told them, would like to hug you all. outwardly, though, there's no warm and fuzzy. the kremlin is sticking to its tough line, threaten us all you like, we did not poison sergei skripal. gayle. >> all right, elizabeth palmer reporting from crimea, thank you. on the same day that survivors of the florida school massacre raised their voices in protest, the gunman returned to court and said not a word. the court accepted a not guilty plea from nicholas cruz yesterday but his lawyers say he is ready to spend the rest of his life in prison. manual bojorquez, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we're learning more details about the police response to the shooting here from new 911 calls

released yesterday. nicholas cruz faces 34 countries of premeditated and attempted murder and prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty. >> not guilty shall be enters -- >> reporter: even though the judge entered a not guilty plea, nicholas cruz's own public defenders left little doubt he was the gunman. >> mr. cruz is willing to enter a plea of guilty on all 34 counts consecutive life sentences in exchange for the waiver of the death penalty. >> reporter: prosecutors rejected that offer. at marjory stoneman douglas high school, some students say they want the 19-year-old killer to live rest of his life in prison. >> it's just too kind, a death penalty, it's too easy. he needs to suffer. >> reporter: on wednesday, the coral springs police department released 911 calls it received from inside the school. >> you still hear gunshots? >> it sounds like it's upstairs. >> reporter: dispatchers tried to keep survivors calm and safe. >> he's by your room, just

everyone, be quiet, okay. >> who's coming in, the police or the shooter? >> the fbi could have and shot have done more to investigate the information it was provided prior to the shooting. >> reporter: in washington, deputy fbi director admitted the agency mishandled tips about the gunman, including a call from a woman close to cruz who said, quote, he's going to explode. >> if the fbi had followed up on that tip, it would most likely have sent agents to interview the shoot effort. >> reporter: ryan petty lost his daughter alaina in the shooting. >> the senseless murder of so many, including my own beloved daughter alaina, test limits of faith and demands more endurance than we thought possible. >> reporter: later today, police may release body camera video from the shooting including footage from the former school resource officer scott peterson who authorities say did not go into the building during the attack. petersen has defended his

actions, saying he thought the shooting was happening outside. >> manuel, thanks. it's so difficult to hear from the parents. >> i keep thinking how hard it is for the parents to see how much authorities -- how much of a head's up that they knew this guy clearly had issues. >> yes. >> heartbreaking. the more you hear, the worst it is. >> the worst it is, i agree. united airlines is apologizing again this morning for another incident involving pets on its planes. ahead, how the airline mistakingly flew a passenger's german shepherd to japan instead good morning. impressive views this morning ahead of the sunrise. we are getting more cloud coverage coming through. we had clear night overnight, causing cool conditions. radar showing rain on the way. a chance of afternoon thunderstorms, which includes a chance for small hail. similar to yesterday. afternoon highs also similar to

yesterday, mid to upper 50s. the chance of rain lasting through saturday morning.

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should be in kansas city. he made his way to tokyo. >> i honestly don't know how it could happen. a great dane and shepherd are two completely different dogs. they look nothing alike. >> reporter: kara swindle's dog was supposed to fly to kansas city. instead he made a nearly 6,000-mile detour to tokyo. when irgo's owner came to pick him up, united gave her a great dane lincoln instead. >> instant tears. this is not my dog. how has this happened. this is not my dog. my son has been crying all day. >> reporter: united apologizes for the mistake. >> your pet is treated at cargo. >> reporter: cbs travel editor

peter greenberg -- >> if they injured it or kill it, your compensation is roughly the equivalent of a lost bag. >> there's no way to replace him. >> reporter: this girl and her mother are still mourning the death of their 10-month-old french bulldog kokito who died on monday after the flight attendant told her to put the carrier in the overhead bin. >> he was like a brother to my mom. >> reporter: the outrage has reached capitol hill. senator john kennedy will be presenting a bill today that prevents airlines from putting animals in overhead bins. >> what happened to this dog is disgraceful. we're going to get to the bottom of it. >> reporter: united has apologized taking full responsibility. the airline does say it now

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researcher morag mckay. >> what we know about child-resistant packaging, it's not childproof. it's actually intended to slow the child down. >> reporter: so just how long does it take for a child to get into a so-called child-resistant medication? mckay's organization set up this focus group for us at this maryland day care center with 11 children ranged in age from 3 to 5. it took the children just seconds. >> you already opened yours. >> i opened mine too. >> some of those kids literally got into the bottles in seconds. >> yes, i knew they would. >> reporter: she wasn't surprised but this mother was. >> i didn't know they could open the bottles and access the medicine like it's nothing.

now i know. >> eye-opening. >> yes, it is. >> reporter: some medications include flow indicators that limit the amount of medicine a child can ingest if they do open a bottle. but now this mother keeps her medicine in a lockbox. >> we thought we had presented everyone from getting to it. i would tell other parents they need to lock it up and make sure there is no way for them to get to it easily. >> well, isaac has made a full recovery. we should point out the kids in the test were instructed they used it as a learning test. the cdc found that packs like these, blister packs, cut the injection rate by 65% because it's a lot harder to get into this than a bottle. these are always called flow restricters, regulators. they're little devices that go

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>> faces 34 counts of premeditated and attempted murder and prosecutors will seek the death penalty. it was so fun as a kid to walk through toys "r" us stores looking at the aisles and stuff you can't get. >> gayle's nostalgic, jeffrey the jury raf to the extinct list now. >> united apologizing for the pet mistake. the german shepherd should be back in the u.s. tonight. >> this is a paddy waggen in boston that got an assist from the snow queen herself. >> elsa from frozen using her powers to push a police vehicle out of the snow. >> elsa did eventually get the thing going and watch this, finishes in royal style with a little courtesy at the end. >> it takes a village. i'm john dickerson with norah o'donnell and gayle king. more changes are said to be coming to a white house that's already seeing an extraordinary number of shakeups. the president's national

security adviser, v.a. secretary, housing and urban development secretary and even his chief of staff are considered most at risk of losing their jobs. >> more than 20 other top officials have left the administration since mr. trump took office. according to the brookings institution the trump administration's turnover rate is higher than the rate of each of the last four administrations by the end of year two. the president filled one vacancy yesterday adding cnbc commentator larry kudlow. documents show a trump organization lawyer helped with efforts to silence adult film star stormy daniels. daniels says that she was paid $130,000 by mr. trump's personal lawyer, michael cohen, to stay quiet about an alleged affair with the president. cohen said he paid the money without the knowledge of the president or the trump organization. chip reid is in washington about the document revealing the possible role of another lawyer in the story.

chip, good morning. >> good morning. here's that document you mentioned. it was given to us by the attorney for stormy daniels. it's a demand for arbitration filed by michael cohen's holding company three weeks ago and under nature of dispute it says breach of contract and here's the key thing. it lists jill martin as the attorney for cohen's company but jill martin has been with the trump organization since 2010 as a vice president and assistant general counsel. the trump organization said in a statement martin was working in an individual capacity and the company has had no involvement in the matter. but the fact that a lawyer for the trump organization is involved, raises questions about cohen's claim that he acted alone to pay daniels. the white house says president trump denies having an affair with daniels. >> all right. chip, thank you so much. in the middle of this white house turmoil, republicans are also dealing with the potential loss of a house seat in a strong gop district.

dan senor is a former adviser to republican house speaker paul ryan. good morning. >> good morning. >> looks like the democrat may have won in the pennsylvania district. >> yes. it's a bad sign. >> bad sign. >> bad sign. >> the seventh special election since president trump has been elected or since he's been sworn in, eight if you include the alabama race, and in each of the races only though a couple democrats have won you've seen massive shifts of votes. democrats shifted the vote 16, 18, 20 points on average. >> and the president himself went there to campaign himself. >> and looks like the race was tighter before he showed up. what it's looking like is the president is very good at motivating the opposition. not clear he's good at motivating his base in the congressional races. another sign republicans are facing headwinds into the election in november. >> after the tax cut bill was passed which was supposed to be by speaker is paul ryan and

others the great things that would get republicans to turn out and help republican candidates. >> which i think the tax cut message could be effective, but it has to be consistently deployed. i mean, what you have with this president is he's so dominant in every single news cycle, look what we've been talking about the past few days, staff shakeup, chaos, north korea. >> stormy daniels. >> i mean -- >> talk about that for a second. do you think people care -- it's hard to wrap my brain around a porn star and a president in the same sentence. do you think voters care about that story? >> i mean, it's so beyond anything we've had to deal with, there's very little recent precedent for it. if it supports and it's in service of a narrative of chaos and corruption, it's a problem. >> okay. >> that chaos you're talking about is a consistent message for those democratic voters. that's what gets them motivated is the president and they feel a rage there's nothing they can do about it, one way they can do something is elect democrats.

>> i tell my republican friends running for office, the opposition's motivation and energy is not conditions based. it's not like if -- they say the economy is cranking and doing great and no national security crisis the world is basically stable, we have a good story to tell. the opposition their fears and their anger is not calmed by conditions. it's all focused on one man, the revulsion against the president. as long as he's in the frame they will turn out. >> what are you hearing about -- >> he says he likes working in chaos that people are lined up for these positions at the white house. a, do you think that's true? i wonder what it's like to work in a place where they say dan senor your job is on the line. john dickerson, norah o'donnell, where you get up in the morning and your name is in the headlines as possibly not having a job by the end of the day. >> it's difficult. there are like three profiles of people who go to serve the president. one are the loyalists who have been with the president forever, hope hicks, two the process

people, people that just want to serve the office and feel like it's a role of public service they come in and out of administrations, you know, jim mattis, john kelly and then the ideologues. people who care about a set of ideas and advance an agenda. if you look at all three of those categories they're all going. normally a president can hang on to the i logs but the loyalists get demoralized. here you see everybody. >> can you tell us about what changes are going to happen and who might replace general kelly if he's ousted. >> i think kelly will be around for a while. people i've spoken to who have spoken to the president, a lot of people speak to people who speaks to the president but there is a sense he has been frustrated with him, but he is an anchor and solid there. i worry about general mcmaster. i think he could very easily wind up in seoul, korea, taking over u.s. forces there if the general steps down, which sounds like he is. i would look out for mcmasters

the next one to go. >> thank you. >> all right. thank you, dan senor. >> smartphones and other devices can have a huge impact on our ability to pay attention. >> there it is. by itself in digital time-out for the whole day. my phone. i cannot touch it. >> so lonely. >> our cameras follow john for a couple days to look at his ability to focus one day with technology and one day without it. plus, some tips on how good morning. pretty impressive views across the skies ahead of the sunrise. we are getting more cloud coverage coming through, but we had a clear night overnight causing cool conditions. satellite and radar showing rain is on the way on-and-off showers on the way today. a chance for small hail and thunderstorms. very similar to yesterday. afternoon highs in the mid to upper 50s. the chance of rain lasts through saturday morning.

"star wars" star wars creator george lucas wants to tell the sister of society with 10,000 works of art and make sure to clear -- make sure it's clear what this new museum is not. >> everybody calls it a star wars museum, but it's not a star wars museum because people aren't going to come to a star wars museum. they can go to madam tudo's for that. >> how the groundbreaking for his narrative art museum in los angeles is a huge milestone on a billion dollar journey. >> it's cool looking. alifornia here we come, right back where we started from ♪ it was tough getting out there on stage. i wanted to be clear. i wanted it to last. so i kept on fighting. i found something that worked. and keeps on working.

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attention" looking at the role technology plays in our lives and the way it impacts on our ability to focus and we can recapture our attention from the technology that distracts us. for some, spending 76 days a year on electronics is wonderful, but they also shred our ability to focus. what do we need to do to keep this balance? to start our process, we wanted to establish a baseline, so our cameras followed me home to document a typical saturday where i use my phone and computer and a second saturday, which is not typical, where i use no technology. by the end of our series, we hope to find a happy medium between the two. >> my first interaction with mankind, with any other sentient life was with my phone. so now i'm using clear tune which allows me to tune my guitar. today i have a big piece of

writing to do so i need to find some time to be focused. after about 45 minutes, the normal itchiness of writing or working you can escape from those by -- well, let's check in with e-mail. detour and suddenly you're in albuquerque. then there's the digital siren call. the interruption online. you can go off down a rabbit hole that tells you -- and here i'm now getting another -- now this thing has gone off again. did you hear that? come on, come on, george, let's go for a walk. a notification on your phone or even the anticipation of one releases dopamine. somebody liked an instagram photos the chemical for the brain's pleasure center. let's see i'm sleeping eight hours a day and working eight hours a day, that leaves 16 hours, my phone has just interrupted me with a text.

so we keep coming back for more. on this saturday, i picked up the phone 86 times using it for more than four hours, that's in addition to a few hours on the computer. oh, hello again, come on in. there it is, by itself, in digital timeout for the whole day, my phone. i cannot touch it. it's 10:20 in the morning. i've wanted to send these messages or check things. this is probably about a dozen times. the idea behind this is no devices in here at all. dr. michael behme runs the mindfulness program. >> i'm a big proponent of mindfulness. it's a process that trains your attention to be more stable. >> he says when our attention is wobbly, we no longer make a choice to stay focused, we

automatically pick up our phones. today i've gone without technology and increasingly over the course of the day i've had this hunted feeling, this itchy feeling. what's happening to me? >> you're stepping in the way of a habit. it's hard. the thing that devices take from us is the ability to have a full, complete focus so when attention is drawn here and there over and over again, it becomes fragmented and our experience of the whole world becomes fragmented in that same way. >> dr. baime says there isn't a quick fix. to make a change we need to rewire how our brain works and that's what we'll be looking at in the rest of the series. with us now to help us take the first steps is catherine price, the author of "how to break up with your phone -- the 30 day plan to take back your life." welcome. first thing i want to do is while it's a part of the process to unplug, nobody can unplug. it's like saying take a diet and

stop eating forever. so this is about balance, right? >> it's not -- i want to make a point. it's not a diet. it's a gift to yourself. it's about finding a balance and a way of living that gives you -- it's not about less time on your phone, it's about more time in your life, basically. >> one of the things that was powerful to me in learning about this over the years is the physical reaction. the need to reach into your pocket which is quite power ffu >> the reason it makes you twitchy not to have your phone is it's causing your brain to go into a reward cycle similar to a slot machine when you pull the lever and you want to keep doing it compulsively. that's what you're doing on your phone. even to the degree of swiping down to see what will be waiting for you. the fact that it's unpredictable makes us want to do it more. >> you have a 30 day challenge. what's week one? >> it's about taking a step back, assessing where you are now and deciding where you want to go. one thing people do that messes up when they try to change their relationship with their phone is they jump into making changes like turning it to gray scale without having a broader vision

of what they want out of their relationship and also what they want to spend their newfound time on. >> you suggest deleting social media apps, why? >> social media apps are pernicious because they're designed to suck you in and keep you using them for as long as possible. >> does that i believe collude instagram. >> i'm so sorry, yes. >> you lost me. >> gayle is the instagram queen. >> it's not about throwing away your phone, it's about your relationship with your phone. >> exactly. >> week two. >> week two, once you've gotten your framework in place, that's where you start to make concrete changes. for example getting a real alarm clock instead of sleeping with your phone next to your bed. if your phone is your alarm clock, you'll touch it first thing in the morning so it's about practical steps. >> and the reward is that you recapture something, right? and that once you figure out what it is you want to recapture, you're recapturing a more placid life, you don't end

the day feeling this rshredded thin. >> if you take a break like you did you will start to notice after the twitchiness fades, which it will, you start to feel rejuvenated and restored in a way that can be surprising. you find out you were stressed in a way that you didn't realize you were. >> you do a digital detox and you said it's a hangover that makes you feel good. >> after you take a break, you will find yourself wanting ini check it less for a few days afterwards and it's interesting to notice how good that feels. >> week three? >> that's what michael baime was talking about, retraining your muscles. our phones are inhibiting our ability to focus, form new memories, concentrate. they're undoing the hard work we put in to sustain astoengs with things like meditation and mindfulness, those are exercises that can help you regain those abilities and undo those effects. >> last is week four, as quick as you can. >> quick as you can, it's an assessment of what you've done so far and making a plan to go forward to make your new habits stick. >> how did it feel, john? you didn't tell us.

>> it was tough. but at the end having that focus back was nice and unexpected in certain ways. >> george looked good, too. that's the dog. >> dog looked great. >> and you can hear more from catherine on today's cbs "this morning" podcast. she explains how some alps apps design too old keep your attention and gives you tips on how to unplug. and see more of our conversation with mindfulness expert dr. baime, including the impact technology has on our kids' brains. visit cbs "this morning".com. >> new research reveals why physically fit women are less likely to develop dementia. dr. tara narula has some advice coming up. narula with advi vice. you're watching "cbs this morning."

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good morning. emergency crews this morning have pulled two from lake merritt. police say woman was pronounced dead at the scene in oakland and was a man was taken to the hospital where he later died. the search began this morning when a caller reported seeing a man and a woman in the water in an apparent altercation. the family of a pregnant teenager shot and killed by fremont police one year ago has filed a federal lawsuit over her death. the da investigation found that officers acted lawfully. they say alina mondragon was not the intended target. traffic and weather in just a moment.

good morning. we are tracking some slowdowns for drivers heading along 101. here is a live look as you make your way through san mateo near hillsdale boulevard. traffic looks okay here, but for the north near highway 92 you will be tapping on the brakes. we have an accident blocking one lane right here third avenue. speeds dip below 20 miles an hour once you are passing 92. it will be slow heading into burlingame. things start to back up. here is a live look at the right across the san mateo bridge. in the westbound direction we still see some slowdowns. it might get a little slower with all of the traffic backing up along 101 and may start to back up on 92. just under a 20 minute commute out of hayward heading into foster city. as you make your way in and out of san francisco the usual crowds along 101. this is

making your way towards bayshore boulevard. we are seeing some good amount of rain entering the north bay at this time. let me zoom in to some of the spots getting some rain. picking up in mill valley. same with log needed. san rafael likely next. richman and berkeley probably getting a drizzle soon. much of the moisture is up there near santa rosa, petaluma with a little rain moving through. heading toward novato. same with maday go bay. glen allen, caliente, all of that area sing raindrops. there is more to come. it is all to the north and you can see plenty of was drawn away. we will see on and off showers for this thursday. that will be the story again tomorrow as well. thunderstorms this afternoon with small hail. we won't see dry conditions until saturday afternoon and sunday.

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." "variety" reports on a broadway adap tapgs "to kill a mockingbird" was hit by a lawsuit by the estate of harper lee. the lawsuit claims that in sorkin's version, it says it says it ooh as faithful adaptation. >> deaths continue to soar despite pledges by cities to cut it to zero. last year 6,000 pedestrians were killed by vehicles. that's up 50% from 2009. and for a second straight year, overall deaths top 40,000.

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there's new evidence that keeping your body fis lick i fit can keep you mentally fit. they were 88% less likely to develop dementia later in life. dr. tara narula is a cardiologist here in new york. good morning. >> good morning. >> i know this study was small but it tracked women over a long period of time, right? >> that's what's unique about this. it suggests that fitness particularly in mid-life may trance light into your risk of dementia down the road. by fitness, we're talking about things you cannot control like face, body type, gender, and your activity. they gave them an exercise test. they had them ride a stationary bike for six minutes and grouped them into low, medium, oer high fitness. they followed them for four years. they found those in the highest fitness group, 5% of them

developed dementia. in addition it seemed to delay the onsaid on set. for those in the highest, 11 years at the age of 90. >> this is exciting. no 63-year-old black woman. >> no. >> why just swedish? >> this was a swedish study. >> gayle's right. we need more studies on women of color. >> we do. it was only women, only swedish women. it was a small study. not a cause and effect study. >> what do you think it is? can it work for all of us? >> and no woman dementia, no matter what color or where you live. >> i think they want to tease out what is it. so one of the theories. blood sugar, obesity risk.

you may be changing the circletry, the wiring. connectivity of the brain, brain structure. there are actually two things going on. >> you said the fitness was the exercise and all the other things you can't control. >> exactly. it is both but you say i amgen itticly blessed. the physicalivity is part of it. we're not talking about running a marathon. they said basically we're talking about a mod real level of aerobic exercise. >> what can we tell if anything about men? >> nothing. >> there are enough studies. >> although they say this would translate into the same effect for men. yes, this was only a study of women. >> very good. thanks, doctor. >> thank you. >> the newest saga from legendary filmmaker george lucas is a departure from his film franchise. he broke ground at a new museum

with his wife, financial contributor, mellody hobson. the couple contributed a billion dollar to build the futuristic building. when the museum is finished in three years, it will house much of their art collection of 10,000 pieces. they spoke about the project's ten-year journey. >> reporter: a long time ago on planet earth a movie called "star wars" inspired generations and made george lucas one of the most successful filmmakers ever. >> i created it. i lived with it for 40 years. >> reporter: in 2012 lucas sold the rights to "star wars" to disney for more than $4 billion. >> there is the point. same thing with my kids. there's a point where they get old enough and you say you have to go out on your own. you can't live at home anymore,

which is basically what was going on. >> with "star wars" gone, he's been pursuing another passion, the lucas museum of narrative arts. at a groundbreaking in los angeles, lucas and his wife mellody hobson launched the buildion-dollar prince george. when it opens in three years, it will hover over a part. it may resemble a "star wars" spaceship, but don't let that fool you. >> everybody calls it a "star wars" museum, but it's not a "star wars" museum. people aren't going to come to a "star wars" museum. they can go to madame tussauds's for that. >> he shows what it takes from sketch designs to costumes. the museum will display

paintings, all from lucas's private collection. >> i think more people will come in for rockwell than will come in for "star wars." norman rockwell can tell a whole story in one picture. >> when were you captivated by rockwell? >> when i was eight years old. i wanted to be an illustrator. i wanted to be able do that. that have a moej that appeals the a lot of people. >> art that tells a story inspired him to tell stories, that nair active art is what lucas will share in his museum. >> it is telling the story of society. the history of the wars, the history of the hero, the history of the kings. narrative art is always about the mythology of the society. >> while lucas is a storyteller, hobson is a businesswoman and cbs news financial contributor. >> did you say at one time, george, a billion dollars is a lot of money, what's the return

on investment in this? >> i knew the return on investment was not about a profit for it. it was about society, the money that we vchlt it is for others, not for us to have more. >> a gift that's hard to give away. >> who knew it would be hard to give away a museum. >> reporter: it's a saga that's continued for more than a decade. it was to be built near the golden gate bridge but local officials shut it down. her city is in chicago but activists stopped it. "star wars" fans protested as only they could. >> after chicago did not work out, i did go to george and i said, george, come on, let's just do something else. let's give up on this one. and he literally looked at me and said i want my museum, i want this. and i said, okay.

onward. >> onward to los angeles. >> and on behalf of this city of angels, i want to thank you two angels for coming here. >> reporter: what were your instructions to the architect? >> iconic is what we said. we want an iconic building, something that has never been done before, never been seen before. >> i want you to have a bigger view of the world. i want you to be able imagine things that don't exist. >> reporter: it's a talent that launched his career and built his empire and inspired a generation of storytellers along the way. for "cbs this morning," john blackstone, skywalker ranch, california. >> i want to go. >> i do too. they're the ultimate power company, using their slibt and all that comes with it with a force for good. i know they're so excited. >> imagine something you hadn't imagined before. that is powerful. >> i love mellody saying onward, we're going to get this don the sneaker brand, you have

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more than 90 million americans buy athletic shoes every year, and allbirds is working to increase its share in the market, and they have sold more than 1 million pairs of shoes in two years. it's committed to using sustainable environmental practices to make what it calls the world's most comfortable shoe. today, starting today, the company is launching a new line of shoes with materials sourced from eucalyptus. the co-founders, welcome to the table. i said it's like walking on marshmallows, and tony, our resident cranky yankee said

gayle, who wants to walk on marshmallows because they would get stuck in between your toes. cut to the resident, cranky yankee tony. we are going to give you a pair of allbirds. your wives were college roommates and introduced the two of you and said what? >> don't mess up our friendship, but you guys, potentially there's a business and you should do it together. >> you were a former soccer player. >> yeah th. >> and you were a engineer. >> yeah, and you invited him over to a romantic dinner. >> well, he was in london, and he had been doing a fantastic job in what is now allbirds and what has been a fantastic two years, as you mentioned. i think we just wanted to explore together if there was something big we could do, and

he flew out from landon and my family was gone, and i did cook a lamb stew, and we enjoyed the food and the irony of doing a shoe with wool. there was a trend where everything was adding more, and more, flashy logos and more seams, everything that was not doing something for comfort so if we could strip everything down to the simplest form, we thought we could make something beautiful from the simplicity and derive the amazing comfort from the wool and this fabric we were in the process of co-developing with a mill outside of italy, and we thought we could do really comfortable shoes. >> they have been incredibly popular. why are you moving beyond wool? >> the wool is fantastic, and

incredibly comfortable. when it gets really hot it's not as good, and we tried to find a new material that worked when the weather was warm. >> eucalyptus? how did you hit on that? >> well, it has cooling properties. it was perfect for the problem we identified, and so we set out to try and solve it. it took two years to work it out and we launched it today. >> you call it tree material. >> yeah, doesn't sound cuddly, but the eucalyptus tree doesn't sound cuddly, but they have amazing properties where you touch it and it has a nice cooling sensation, and a silky soft hand feel, and we left notes on the inside of the top of the heel. >> what takes two years? are you trying out other materials? what are you having to tweak along the way? >> once we found the fiber, we knew we had the experience of

that would cool your feet. we took the fiber and made it into a yarn that was perfect for shoes and tough enough for the challenges of being on your feet all day, and then we had to figure out the knitting technology because we want to accentuate the knitting process, and it gives you just the perfect amount of breathability where you need it, and durability where you need the durability on the sides. >> i think you should buy the shoes and try them. >> 100%. >> i think what you guys do together is very cool. you are always asking is there a better way to do things? in your office you insist everybody work as a receptionist, including yourselves. why do you think that's important? >> we have 100 people that know largely nothing about shoes, and we are a business that is very old fashion in the way it does things. we have an incredibly talented

group of people that are pulling together and trying to take this complicated problem to bring sustainable materials in, and we tried to roll our sleeves up and that's what it's about. >> when i saw your names on the grid that you were coming i was so excited, because my son gave me a pair two years ago. i just gave oprah a pair for her birthday. >> what does she think? >> she likes them. she has them in london right now. she loves them. >> the next time we will have your receptionist. >> all right. we invite you to subscribe to our cbs morning podcast. ♪ ♪ with the chase mobile app, michaela deprince could pay practically anyone, at any bank, all while performing a grand jeté between two grand pianos.

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have pulled two people from lake merritt. police say a woman w good morning. when a 9- 1-1 caller reported seeing a man and a woman in the water in an apparent altercation . emergency crews this morning have pulled two people from lake merritt. police say woman was pronounced dead at the scene. the man was taken to the hospital where he later died. the search began this morning when 911 caller reported seeing a man and a woman in the water in an apparent altercation. palo alto based their nose in two executives charged with brought accused of misleading investors about the performance of the company blood testing technology. a high-speed police chase ended in a nasty crash in richmond. officer say the chase started in oakland around 3:30 a.m. and reached speeds over 100 miles an hour. the driver was taken to the hospital with major injuries. we will have weather and traffic after this quick break.

good morning i'm _ _. good morning. we are tracking delays for drivers heading in and throughout oakland this morning. here is 880, the northbound direction, 33 minute ride. stuck in red from 238 towards the maze. the ride continues to be slow in the southbound direction due to a car blocking one lane. we are tracking a 37 minute drive from broadway to near the coliseum. here is the alternate route for 580. if you're heading westbound it is slowing down. 37 minute ride from 238 up towards 98.

san mateo bridge looking much better. back to the green. that is a check of the traffic. moving closer to the city. san francisco right now starting to get a light drizzle in some areas. it is going towards the south be as well. right now across downtown and sunset district very light rainfall. mill valleyth some drizzle as well. picking up in san rafael towards richmond and dillon beach. you guys are all getting rain. it has arrived in the north bay. getting drenched in santa rosa. strong rainfall. there is more to come. that is headed our way so we will continue to see on-and-off showers throughout the day today and heavy sierra snowfall will also impact us. we are looking at wet weather all the way through saturday morning. a chance of isolated thunderstorms today.

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