captioning funded by cbs . good morning, it is march 17th, 2018, welcome to "cbs this morning saturday." breaking overnight, the deputy director of the fbi is fired. just hours before his retirement. andrew mccabe calls it revenge, president trump calls is a great day. and a possible missing in the deadly bridge collapse. why a voice mail about a crack in the structure wasn't discovered until after the collapse. and new trouble in the case of the porn star versus the president.

donald trump's lawyers are now seeking $20 million in damages from stormy daniels and that is not all. and it has finally happened. for the first time ever in march madness, a 16-seed men's team knocks out a number one seed. we'll have the story behind the victory now etched in sports history. but we gyp with a look at today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. andrew mccabe the form director at the fbi has been fired. >> president trump celebrates calling it a great day for democracy. >> president trump said to be watching this case very closely to see if his attorney general pulled the trigger in time to deprive mccabe of his federal pension. >> it is political. >> this could be the beginning of something really great for the country. >> new video tonight of the pedestrian bridge as it was collapsing. >> engineers say they reported cracks in the bridge just two days before the collapse. >> crack in a bridge does not mean it

i know the crews were out there inspecting it. >> the ultimate upset has happened? >> umbc taking down virginia. >> the first 16 seed in tournament history to beat a number one seed. >> united airlines has made a third mistake with a pet in less than a week. i flight from newark to st. louis was diverted after the dog was mistakenly on the plane. and a ski lift malfunctions in the country of georgia. >> all of that -- >> famous landmarks going green for st. patrick's day. >> the great wall of china. niagara falls and the coliseum. >> are you okay? >> and all that matters. >> shock and awe in college basketball. >> were you aware that a 16 seed had never won before but thanks for bringing that up again, but i was aware of it.

>> on "cbs this morning saturday." >> new accusations from the government that russia affects power plants. >> aviation special -- they say the russians could create utter chaos by calling all four boarding groups at once. and welcome to the weekend. i'm anthony mason with alex wagner and we begin with a firing of fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. >> he briefly led the agency after james comey was fired said his dismissal last night is the latest attack on his credibility by the trump administration. his firing comes less than two days before mccabe could retire with a full pension. and he said he is being singled out because of what he witnessed in the aftermath of the firing of james. >> in a tweet just midnight the president celebrated the firing writing, quote, it is a great

day for the hard working men and women of the fbi. he knew about the lies and corruption going on at the highest levels of the fbi. cbs news justice reporter paula reid is in our washington newsroom are the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. that was not the first time the president has turned his anger against andrew mccabe and it came just hours after jeff sessions fired the 21-year fbi veteran but mccabe is speaking out saying the administration is waging war on the fbi. despite spending much of the day on thursday trying to keep his job, andrew mccabe was fired after fbi ethics officials recommended his dismissal. his firing also comes before the release of an in spector general report that is expected to show mccabe shared information with the media about the fbi's investigation into the clinton foundation. in a statement, the attorney general said mccabe lacked candor, including under oath on

multiple occasions. all fbi employees know that lacking candor under oath result in dismissal. but mccabe pushed back hard saying his firing is the administration's attempt to undermine special counsel robert mueller's investigation. in a statement mccabe wrote, i'm being singled out and treated this way because of the role i played, the actions i took, and the events i witnessed in aftermath of the firing of james comey. >> i worked very, very closely with director comey. >> part of the probe is looking into whether president was trying to obstruct justice by firing comey. >> mccabe said the report was fast tracked after he told the house intelligence committee he would corroborate comey's account of conversations with the president. comey testified mr. trump asked if he would end an investigation of former national security adviser michael flynn. >> it is well documented he's had troubling behavior.

>> reporter: this weak sarah huckabee-sanders called mccabe a bad actor but said a decision on his firing was up to the justice department. however, in the past the president has been more direct about mccabe's fate. in des he said he is racing the clock to retire with full benefits. 90 days to go. instead he was fired with just 26 hours to go. in his statement mccabe said the attacks on his reputation were skags -- exacerbated by the tweets and saying he had the authority to share information with journalists for the clinton administration and answered truthfully in that inquiry. it is unclear how this decision will impact mccabe's pension but that issue is likely to wind up in court. alex. >> paula reid in washington. thanks. president trump's lawyer michael cohen wants a lawsuit brought by porn actress stormy daniels moved from a california state court to a federal court in los angeles. cohen claims daniels could owe

$20 million in damages for violating a nondisclosure agreement. daniels wants to nullify the agreement. she alleges she had an affair with mr. trump before he was president. mr. trump may be hoping to move the case to federal court to increase the chance of keeping the dispute in arbitration and out of public view. the white house is trying to dismiss speculation about another staff shake-up. but high level changes could be coming soon. sources tell cbs news the national security adviser hr mcmaster is likely to lose his job and chief of staff john kelly could be resigning in the coming days. errol barnett is in the white house with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this week president trump ominously told reporters he wants to see new ideas and that he thinks the american public wants to see things shaken up. yet another example that one of the only constant aspects of this white house is change. >> we don't have any personnel

changes at this time. >> reporter: press secretary sarah sanders tried to shut down rumors that a.h.r. mcmaster cou be on the way out. >> just spoke to a number of staff this morning, reassuring them that there were no immediate personnel changes at this time. and that people shouldn't be concerned. >> reporter: but sources tell cbs news mcmaster is very likely to be forced out. the three-star army general replaced michael flynn whom the president fired last february. still mcmaster is clashed with the president on key foreign policy issues. a reporter caught mcmaster briefly outside of the white house on friday. >> everybody is going to the white house sometime. >> and are you leaving sooner or later? >> i'm doing my job. >> reporter: multiple sources tell cbs news chief of staff john kelly could resign soon. he was brought in last summer from his post as head of homeland security to instill order within the west wing. joining him on thin ice, housing

and urban development secretary ben carson and veteran affairs secretary david shulkin. sanders defended the president's right to make staffing changes. >> if the president wants to make a change because he feels like it is the right thing for the american people his hand shouldn't be died. >> reporter: two dozen top aides have resigned or been fired or reassigned in the trump administration. now one potential replacement for kelly as chief of staff is the current office of management and budget director mick mulvaney also the acting director of the consumer financial protection bureau and sources tell cbs news mulvaney is under serious consideration for kelly's job. >> errol barnett at the white house. let's sort out the developments with ben goldberger from "times" magazine. good morning. >> good morning. >> in a phone interview with cbs news mccabe said i strongly believe this is the latest chapter in a year-long attack on my credibility and service to

the country. what are the political ramifications of this? >> we don't yet know the extent of them. but the firing itself, certainly the timing and mccabe's response and the president's response to it last night ensure the scrutiny on the special counsel investigation is only going to intensify. >> the president seems to be pursuing a go it alone approach on hiring and firing. so what are the implications for robert mueller and his probe? >> i think we don't know directly what this will mean for the probe itself. it is not clear if the firing of mccabe will have a material affect but mccabe was very clear in no uncertain terms in statements with cbs and other reporters that he believes this was an attempt to side line him in part because he could corroborate james comey's testimony about mueller's investigation and potential obstruction. >> do you think it suggests that the president is open to firing robert mueller? >> does it suggest that? certainly. but we've always known he's

potentially open to it. trying to get inside of this president's head is something of a fool's errand. >> let's look at the shake-up in the white house which appears it may continue in the coming week. what is going on here do you think? >> in some ways the president is starting to settle into the job. this is the way he is run the trump organization. he is the only president we've ever had without any military or political experience. his only frame of reference is a private business he oversaw and the only constant was his position at the top and everybody else hovered around him and it is starting to resemble that more. >> it is easy to forget that earlier this week the president fired rex tillerson, mike pompeo is likely to take his place. what are the implications in terms of foreign policy given how many things the administration is juggling on that front. >> it is not a given that pompeo will be confirmed by the senate and which does need to happen and is very likely but he is far more hawkish than predecessor rex tillerson on the iran deal, which he's been very outspoken

about and in that way is consistent with the president. he would like to nullify it or essentially weaken it toir relevance and also most pressingly with north korea in which he has even floated the notion of preemptive war. >> does this delay the potential summit with kim jong-un? >> i think there is no doubt that it complicates it but the president's aides were walking back logistics about that as soon as he announced it. >> but the president said he wants that meeting to happen be the end of the may and he said that recently. >> and the one thing about this president if he says he wants something to happen, it will take a while but he'll get not way of that. >> and what does it mean for the 2018 democrats and republican election. >> we shouldn't read too much nationally into the race. paul ryan in the immediate wake of it tried to down play it. he said that conor lamb was a republican and played up the conservative trappings, privately however, he was

telling his aides to alert the rest of the caucus that this is a wake-up call. they needed to start fundraising immediately and hire staff and there are a lot of members who weren't ready for november and they needed to see this as a four-alarm fire. >> this also exposed some fishers within the democratic party because there were democrats complaining that conor lamb wasn't democratic enough. >> that is exact lie right. and one of the reasons he was able to sort of win as easily as he did there wasn't a primary. and that is not the case for a lot of other candidates. conar lamb was able to run just as he was without facing any ideological purity test from the left. >> ben golder with time, thanks for your time. >> tomorrow morning on face the nation here on cbs, margaret brennan's guest will include senator bob corker, senator rand paul of kentucky and senator angus king, independent of maine. there are new questions about the structure of that pedestrian bridge that collapsed

in south florida on thursday killing at least six people. david begnaud is in miami where one engineer noticed cracks in the bridge had been found days before it collapsed. david, good morning. >> reporter: anthony, good morning. the lead neuron this bridge project is a man named deny pate, he worked for fig bridge engineering. and he called the florida department of transportation to say there are cracks in the bridge. he seemed concerned enough to call but said there weren't issues from a safety perspective and called and left a voice mail on tuesday and the bridge collapsed on thursday but nobody listened to that voice mail until friday. here is the voice mail. >> calling to share with you some information about the fiu pedestrian bridge and some cracking that has been observed on the north end of the span, the pylon end of that span we moved this weekend. so we've taken a look at it a

obviously some repairs will have to be done but from a safety perspective we don't see there is any issue there so we are not concerned about it from that perspective, but the cracking is not good and something will have to be -- be done to repair that. >> despite the voice mail, the florida department of transportation said at no point did fig engineers or the university build team communicate that there was a life-safety issue. the department said had it been notified of stress testing it may have issued a permit for partial or full road closure if the university asked for it. in a statement released late last night, fig bridge engineers said they are carefully examining the steps that our team has taken in the interest of our overarching concern for public safety and the they did not indicate safety issues but working to find out what factors led to this tragic situation. meanwhile there is stunning new dash cam showing the bridge collapsing across eight lanes of moving traffic on thursday. >> the bridge fell. >> reporter: ntsb has been trying to figure out what went

wrong. on friday night the ntsb robert squire addressed reports there were trac-- cracks in the bridg >> i would say that a crack in a bridge does not necessarily mean it is unsafe. >> don't know if that was related to the cracks they discovered. that is still too early in the investigation for us to determine. >> reporter: the collapse killed at least six people, including 18-year-old alexa duran. on friday crews started to remove debris but several vehicles are still pinned this morning. after people saw the bridge crumble, some jumped out of cars and others ran out of offices to help. >> the moment i won't forget is just the look on people's facing. >> reporter: medical student and dr. rebecca martinez were one of the first on scene. >> one man said my chest hurts. the man bleeding from the face was holding her hand and saying please don't leave me. >> reporter: officials have been consistent in saying there are at least six fatalities leaving the possibility there could be

more once they are able to remove the rubble. process of getting victims out has been agonizingly slow and that is coming from a man whose 18-year-old daughter has been buried in her car underneath in rubble for nearly 48 hours. alex? >> david begnaud in miami with a heartbreaking story. russia is announcing this morning it will take action against the u.k. by expelling 23 british embassy staff from moscow. it is just the latest move in an escalating dispute from the two countries triggered by the poisoning of a former russian spy in britain. elizabeth palmer has more from moscow. liz, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. high level diplomatic rifts follow a predictable pattern and this one is no different. everybody knew this was coming. it was just a question of when. >> i just had a meeting -- >> reporter: late this morning the ambassador to russia was summoned to the foreign

ministry. starting with the expulsion of 23 british diplomatic personnel from russia. it is a tit for tat move that mirrors britain's expulsion of 23 russian diplomats from the u.k. after the british government accused moscow of poisoning the ex i'lled sergei skripal and his daughter with a nerve agent. >> this is a aresult in the united kingdom, the attempted murder of two people using a chemical weapon developed in russia. >> reporter: in london the britain foreign secretary went further pointing the finger directly at russia president. >> our quarrel is with putin's kremlin and with his decision and we think it overwhelmingly likely that it was his decision to direct the use of a nerve agent on the streets of the u.k. >> reporter: it has forced the police to reexamine the case of several russians who died or fell ill on u.k. soil amid

criticism that the britain government at the time shut down the original investigations for flit c-- political reasons and n a strange coincidence they say a former russian businessman was murdered last week outside of london. though they say there is no link to the skripal poisoning but for obvious reasons russian dissidents are spooked. it does look like as if relations between russia and the u.k. and the u.k. allies including the u.s. are going to get even worse. so this is a bad time for the thinning of the diplomatic ranks. just as they may most be needed to diffuse the situation. anthony. >> elizabeth palmer in moscow. they are dancing at the university of maryland baltimore county like no one has ever danced before. that is because last night umbc pulled off the biggest upset in the history of the ncaa tournament. the retrievers are the first

16-seed in the history of the tournament to knock off a one seed in the first round and it wasn't even close. umbc dominated uva on offense and offense coming away with ai 74-54 win. since the tournament field expanded in 1985, one seeds were 135-0 in the first round. that perfect record is no more. vaerm was the top overall seed in the entire field of 68 teams. umbc was playing in just second the tournament game in school history and the first since 200 #. they will face kansas state tomorrow. that is a great story and i'm very excited because we have more on that very story later on in this show. >> it was a stunner. it was an absolute stunner. >> cinderella story. >> which you look forward at the ncaa. >> it is what march madness is about. >> all right. time to show you the headlines. "the washington post" reports facebook is suspending the accounts of the data firm

president trump used during the campaign. they are taking action against cambridge analytica after discovering it failed to delete date -- tata taken from other facebook users. they used social media information to create voter personality profiles to used to find target specific political messages. came bridge analytica had no immediate comment to the suspension. the orlando sentinal reports prosecutors have released video of the pulse massacre in 2016 the video was shown to establish a time line for the rampage. the jury is considering terrorism charges against floor salman, the widow for her alleged role in the shooting spree. her attorney said her client had no idea of her husband's plans. unt . the new york daily news

reports two firefighters were among the 7 u.s. members killed when the helicopter crashed in iraq this week. the mayor bill de blasio described christopher raguso and christopher zanetis as among the bravest. the crash does not appear to be the result of the enemy fire. it is believed it hit a power line before going down near the syrian border. a formal investigation is underway. and usa today reports a russian cargo plane offered a new take on pennies from heaven. that is because the plane's hatch accidentally opened during take yov -- takeoff in eastern sign earus allowing two hundred gold bars to fall from the sky. the interior minister said the flight was carrying nine tons of gold and other precious metals and authorities didn't have to look too far. most landed on the runway and i'm glad because a gold bar dropping from the sky looks like it would hurt. right. >> make you rich. >> but at what price.

it is about 22 after the hour. now here is a look at the weather for your weekend. skiers can sometimes face steep plunges, but nothing like what happened in at this resort where people had to jump for their lives as a ski lift goes haywire tossing skiers like rag dolls. and later could space really be the next battlefield of war? we'll look at the implications of president trump's remark this is week floating the idea of a so-called american space force. you're watching "cbs this morning saturday."

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so you've been on this crusade to help people think it is not cool to get much sleep. how is that going. >> it is going really well. despite the latest results that were mentioned because when i collapsed from sleep deprivation, exhaustion and broke my cheek bone and launched a sleep section and on the huffington post people were wondering about sleep, who cares about sleep, successful people don't need sleep and that is all changing and you are just as likely to read about sleep in the sports pages because athletes talk about the connection between sleep and performance or in the business pages and on the media platform we have what can he call new world models, jeff bezos about why he gets eight hours sleep

because it improves his decision making or the ceo of microsoft because it is not becoming cool to talk about getting enough sleep. it shows you are prioritizing your performance. >> and the old roll models were the ceo's sending e-mails the all of the hours of the night and there was a survey that said 30% of employed adults show they care more. so that has to change too. >> everything is changing. sleep is just one part. but the whole connection between well-being and performance is changing. people now realize there is no tradeoff between them. on the contrary, when we take care of ourselves as we say on thrive, we put on our own oxygen mask first and then everything else is better. empathy increases, our decision-making improves. we are not as reactive and as a result, every aspect of our lives improves.

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terrified skiers tried to hang on as their chairlift spun out of control at a resort in the former soviet republican of georgia on friday. >> some skiers jumped for their lives as the lift whipped around in reverse throwing some riders from their seats. horrified onlookers shouted in panic. at least aim people were injured. welcome back to "cbs this morning: saturday." we begin this half hour with new calls for better pay in the classroom. one teacher decided to share her

frustration on social media, posting a photo of her pay stub. >> it reveals they're among the lowest paid in the country. their salaries are $13,000 less than the national average. carter evans has the story. >> i absolutely love seeing kids engaged and learning. >> reporter: elizabeth loves teaching but wanted people everywhere to see what a second grade teacher's salary looks like, so she posted hers on facebook writing this is my new pay after taking a view professional development classes. i need a college degree to make this? it was a raise of $130 for the year. her annual salary is now 35, $35,621. every two weeks after taxes, it adds up to -- >> -- $639, and that's not sustainable. >> reporter: earlier this week arizona teachers wore red to

protest low wages. >> laura is another teacher who loves her job. >> it's nice to be around all that energy. >> reporter: but in order to is up meant her income, she works a second job at crate & barrel. >> things would be really tight if i were just living on my salary. >> reporter: across the state inflation is declining. during that same period incomes for all other college graduates rose by almost $6,500. >> if you were a single person trying to make it on what we make, you couldn't do it. >> reporter: in arizona 42% of teachers left their profession within a three-year period. experts say it's a nationwide problem. >> turnover is closely related to salaries. the most recent data shows that 8% of teachers are leaving each

year. >> reporter: in a radio interview, doug says he wants to pay them more, but until additional funding comes tlurks times will continue to be tough for teachers. >> most of my teacher friends who don't have a husband support or spousal supported income have two and three jobs that they work just to pay bills, and that's not right. >> for "cbs this morning: saturday," carter evans, los angeles. >> i hate to see this. there is nothing more important than your kids' life than their teach teacher. ahead, we'll speak with acclaimed writer jonathan franzen about his other fascination, the world of birds as we mark the anniversary of a landmark conservation. but first here's a look at the weather for your weekend.

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time now for our "morning rounds," a look at medical news o the week. cigarette smoking takes the lives of more than 480,000 americans every year. trying to prevent people from taking up the habit is a key focus in public health. >> on thursday the food and drug administration said the agency will continue to explore one potential solution, regulating

nicotine levels in cigarettes to make them less addictive, though we're a long way from that beinging policy. joining us from our washington bureau to discuss this, cbs news medical contributor dr. david agus. >> good morning. >> what are the implications if it does become policy. >> you always say the word "if." in 2009 they were given the authority to control tobacco. that's lowering the nicotine level in tobacco. it's been going up over decades. the idea is if you can lower the nicotine level in tobacco, there would be less addiction and people would smoke less. there was a study several years ago showing if you lower the nicotine level, people smoke fewer cigarettes. >> that was a study out of new england, david, i think you were referring to. how significant o reduction do you get? >> it's a significant reduction.

in the current "new england journal of medicine," if you lower nicotine and tobacco, in about a year, you're going to get 5 million fewer smokers. that's a staggering number. and so if we take away the addictive component, people are going to want to smoke less, especially young people. once they get hooked, they keep on it. if we keep that low, we can have an impact on public health. >> doc, some are using e-cigarettes to help them get off regular cigarettes. what does the research say? >> i think this the research says the jury is still out. they're a vehicle for nicotine. nicotine goes on a carrier molecule which gets it into the lung. the effect of that carrier molecule really sjt known yet, so alternatives, i like the concept, but we still need the data to show cigarettes are safe. >> the next topic deals with the financial burden of cancer.

it was addressed this week in a new report by the president's cancer panel. it was focused on cancer drugs, especially recently developed medications. in part, the letter to the president trump wrote the challenge at hand is complex. innovative drugs offer new hope for patients to achieve long-term remission, even cures. but virtually all new cancer drugs enter the market with a price tag that exceed $1/00,000 per year. what were some of the key recommendations here, dr. agus? >> this is a problem. every new cancer drug is $100,000 to $200,000 a year. it's predatory practice. and so this committee said, listen, we have to stop this. it's nonsustainable. let's figure out a way to price drugs based on value, so the drugs that have few side effects and work really well probably deserve a higher price tag, where as the ones that cause side effects don't work as well. let's think of the value for the

patient and the system where we can have a logical pricing of the drugs. >> that's really interesting. the report also showed some interesting data when it comes to the launch of new cancer drugs in comparison to income. what exactly did it show? >> that was a somewhat depressing figure in the paper. where they had income totally flat and the price of cancer drugs go up like this. so when income's not changing and every year drugs are getting more expensive, you know it's not going to be sustainable going forward. it's not right. >> doc, there is also news about overpayment for prescription drugs. what can you tell us about that. >> that's the widest city coming out of the university of southern california. what they show is let's say you go to get a medicine for your asthma, and they say your co-pay is $20. many times in the study, 23% of the time, the copeay was more than the drug cost on a generic

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my new national strategy for space recognizes that space is a warfying domain just like the

land, air, and sea. we may even have a space force. >> that was president trump speaking to members of the u.s. marine corps and other servicemembers at an air base in san diego this week. mr. trump went on to say he's considering a so-called space force that would be the equivalent of the army, air force, and navy. here to discuss the idea and its implications is "time" magazine editor at large jeffrey kluger. good morning, jeffrey. >> good morning. thanks for having me. >> how feasible is this? >> there are certain hurdles to overcome. first of all there are national treaties that limit military in space. the 1967 treyee e y -- treaty f that. what does that mean?

shooting down other countries' satellites is an act of war. you're certainly not going to have star wars-type dog fights in orbit. ground surveillance, every country does that. going kl do that, for goodness sake. i'm not sure what there is to this. >> president reagan proposed the initiative in 1983. that never panned out. last year there was a proposal to start a military corps service. what happened? >> sec of defense general mattis was opposed to it. he did not want the idea of a space force tucked into the air force. he said it's bureaucratically complicated. we really don't need it. it really can't work. reagan's plan was defensive. it was all about using defensive weapons in low earth orbit to deflect nuclear weapons, but the soviets at that time said, yes, but once you do that, you

destabilize the nuclear balance. this abrogates the s.a.l.t. treaty and others and we're back off to the arms races. >> nasa's budget, i think, is currently 0.4% of the budget. back in the 1960s when we were the golden age, it was 4%. >> it cost reagan $30 billion over ten years and never got anywhere. if you want to build the hardware, if you want the ambitious programs that got us from a standing start in 1961 to the surface of the moon in 1969, you have got to allocate the money. back in 1965 in the midst of that program, nasa's budget was the equivalent in 2000 of $60 billion a year, three times what it is now. if you want to build the machine, allocate the money. >> jeffrey, i want to talk about your latest article in "time,"

that although president trump claims america is going to mars, it's not going to happen any time soon. >> that's right. >> why not? >> here's the thing. we're always going to mars. we just never get there. in '69 we were supposed to get there. in '75. by the first bush administration, it was 2019. now president obama said we could do it by 2035. elon musk says he can do it by 2024 because elon, and the fact is it is a very hard thing to do and it takes an enormous amount of money. >> but doesn't elon musk stand sort of a better chance than most? >> look. he can do these things on his own and elon is a force of nature. he may not be from earth, but i think he is. he has the will to do these things. he has, if he wants, the wherewithal to do it. he does have to show more patience. elon himself admits that he tends to overpromise. he tends to get a little giddy

on his own ideas. but he's ambitious. >> you've got to reach for the stars, right? >> exactly. >> you know, if anyone might do it -- we'll see, we'll see. >> i'd love to see it. >> jeffrey kluger, as always, a treat to have you. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. it's an award that shows you moved the needle with fans. the recording industry is marking the 60th anniversary of the first gold record. a look back at the history of the honor, how many have been handed out and just who's gotten them. you're watching "cbs this morning: saturday." great, another dead end. sarge, i just got a tip that'll crack this case wide open! turns out the prints at the crime scene- awwwww...did mcgruffy wuffy get a tippy wippy? i'm serious! we gotta move fast before- who's a good boy? is him a good boy? erg...i'm just gonna go. oh, you wanna go outside?

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went out in georgia ♪ >> reporter: when "the night the lights went out in georgia" received gold status in 1965, vicki was on "the carol burnett show." >> vicki, you got a gold record. >> reporter: the awards cost about $63 a piece and they're not actual gold. but to the afrt whoer and them, the gold record is a milestone on their musical journey. >> that is big. >> they've gotten a lot bigger and a lot more elaborate over the years. >> but carol burnett should still hand them out. >> wouldn't that be great. amazing. a world-famous author has another feather in his cap. jonathan franzen is a bird lover and he is a conservationist. and we'll talk to him about his passion as we mark the anniversary of a key

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there will be stops along the way that you could not imagine. did you know, mick, you'll be the first in your family to go to college. did you know that your father, the elevator operator, and your mother with the eighth grade education who cleans office floors at night, both children of polish immigrants, did you know they're doing those things to ensure opportunities for you and your brother? you will become a cadet and a basketball player at one of the greatest institutions for leadership in the world. their encouragement will send you to west point. and when you grow up, when you become a head coach first at

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welcome to "cbs this morning" saturday. i'm anthony mason. >> and i'm alex saturday. i'm anthony mason. >> university of maryland surprised virginia and the ncaa basketball tournament. vi nt. first time a number 16 seed beat the first seed in men's nournament history. >> hand painted custom murals shat are advertising for companies also improve the beauty of the neighborhood. a will take a look at how art rtets business. >> and more than 50 years after taking america as part of the british invasion, anthony will talk with the foungd members of the zombies and they will

perform two of their classics in our saturday session. > buts ahead. lf first the top story, the deadly lorida bridge collapse. fromers were moving the first six vehicle where six people ndre kill and there are new festions about the foot bridge. >> trait transportation officials were warping about six days before it collapsed. they are not sure the cracks contributed to the tragedy. >> a crack in a bridge does not necessarily mean it's unsafe. the crews were out there inspecting it and applying tension. i don't know if that was related to the cracks they discovered. that's for ustill too early in the termine. tion for us to determine. >> that are engineer said in the voice mail he didn't believe the cracking posed a safety issue. next we turn to the dismissal of dismissccabe. ccabe's firing was announced by

attorney general jeff sessions that comes after ethics officials made unauthorized disclosures to the media and r when iandor of the clinton foundation investigation. firing id the firing is an ration.on his credibility by the administration. s said i am being singled out and treated this way because of , theole i played, the actions i vents ind the events i witnessed he fir aftermath of the firing t james comey. firin tweet, the president selebrated mccabe's firing writing it is a great day for the hardworking men and women of the fbi. andnew all about the lies and corruption going at the highest levels of the fbi. st times an upset for the ages. d to ae first time since the ncaa tournament expanded to a field of 64 or more teernlgs the number one seed lost in the first round. it happened when the university

of virginia was blown out by the university of maryland, baltimore county. in a sporting event known for heart stopping finishes, this was an ending unlike any other. umbc retrievers playing in just the second ncaa game in school history, they did the unthinkable. they dominated the top team, the university of virginia. with the score tied at halftime, the retrievers outscored virginia by 20 points in the second half, frustrating uva and pouring it on on offense. enough to make history. >> we kind of all wanted to be in the one shining moment video. in the locker room we were singing the first line because that's all we know. >> one shining moment almost didn't happen. a week ago they were tied with vermont in the america east

championship with a few seconds left. the buzzer beater sent them to the first ncaa tournament in 10 years. >> to have two back to back moments with the america east championship with our backs against the wall down nine and come back and win that game and sdwrouft go toe to toe with the number one team in the country is unbelievable. >> on campus in baltimore, they never stopped believing. >> i can barely breathe. i can barely breathe. believing.ve words. >> what a cinderella story. t havetion 56 up again this afternoon when number one seed villanova faces alabama. that game kicks off at 12:10 eastern right here. >> wonder how many people had their pools. >> someone won big last night. >> a lot of brackets. al we have news of our own this as y eorning. calledst here, alex, has an

us"iting new assignment with a story called the circus. twork od news is she will remain a correspondent here at cbs news, but the sad news especially for me is this is her rdayl saturday morning with us. > anthony mason -- w we are going to miss you so much. >> anthony mason is the classiest and most generous orkedn in television news and i tovery sad to leave you and especially our breakfast caulk tals. >> i hope they will be especially strong this morning. >> i am so excited for what you alldoing. >> thankbest. it's about five minutes after ae hour now. ook at the weather for your weekend.

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billboards and >> billboards and other outdoor advertising can be an eyesore, but one company found a way to blend creativity with commerce. they put up custom murals one hand painted stroke at a time. putting up a message and beautifying a neighborhood.

>> in cities around the country street art looks for the perfect self backdrop. they are grand and intricate, colorful and sometimes controversial and increasingly, they are selling something. >> you don't often think of advertising as art. >> you don't. what's unique about what we did is it's art. >> the cofounder of colossal media. the brooklyn-based company may be the largest hand participated advertisement firm with clients from samsung, delta, comedy central and nintendo. >> what is the allure to these companies hiring you to do these? >> the allure is they get access to the neighborhoods we work in. we really know about brooklyn and the district in los angeles. if you are a brand, it's about

getting kekconnected and we do t in a truthful way. >> me and his crew have been getting people's attention since 2004. it took a while to change the perception as outdate and time consuming and worth the additional cost. but now colossal media leases 120 walls in a hundred cities and raked in $24 million in sales last year. >> how much is social media in this? >> being able to put out a message, somebody across the world might be able to see your work. >> he said it's important to see the pain staking process that leads to the final product. outdoor art is not easy to do. >> we were working through the bomb cyclone. we put something up on social greed that showed the guys going while the wind was rushing 60

miles an hour. >> this is the room where we mix our colors. every job we have to take the artwork and literally dissect it. we have to isolate colors. at the end of the day when we leave, the result needs to look like a banner. you shouldn't be able to tell it's a painting. it has to be as good if not better. >> murals can be a big draw for tourists like in miami where art breathes now life into a dying neighborhood. >> as the neighborhood grows you will see people like this. >> golden property ceo curates the street art museum. >> it's a pure expression of creativities to do what they do. >> me and her late father opened the winwood walls transforming concrete into canvas and light into light. >> we have from no visitors to over a million visitors a year

coming through the winwood walls. you hear every language. so that to me is what makes for a really vibrant beautiful neighborhood. i think the winwood walls has done a great job of democratizing and making it accessible to everybody. >> with an estimated 44 murals in these walls, this area has the highest consecentration of street art in the country. >> this created a tourist industry. it created retail. it created a neighborhood. >> it's pretty extraordinary how one idea can have effects around the world. i think you will see so much more beautiful artwork, so much more public art. so much more art integrated into brandts and products and why not? it makes life so much more

exciting and interesting. >> for once starving artists like paul, it makes for good business. >> most artists i know have to have a second job. >> how are these guys doing? >> to me i found something that was really important. i really fell in love with it. i wanted to build sustainability around it and i wanted to know where i was going to be at when i woke up the next day. >> trying to make a living? >> yeah, i wanted to make a living. that was the objective. i thought to myself, if i can do this for the rest of my life, i'm lucky. you have 401(k) plans and dental plans. we are as corporate as you wouldn't believe. there is 80 people with families that have their own reasons for being in it and it's something in its own. that i think is worth fighting for. >> for cbs this morning saturday, new york.

>> they do amazing work and i love seeing artists make a living. >> yes. i want to intern for them in my next life. it seems so relaxing and rewarding. >> it would be great to look up. >> standing on a scaffold. at any rate, he is teaching us why birds matter. up next, we will go bird watching with jonathan franzen. hear about his long time fascination with the savian world and why this is declared the year of the bird. you are watching cbs this morning saturday. >> announcer: this portion sponsored by toyota. proud partner of team usa. the technology-loaded corolla... pr fin

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it's one that makes his home in the sea. so if you're wondering what he's doing up here on the ice, well, that's part of our story. >> that's a clip from the oscar-winning 2005 documentary, march of the penguins. the film brought worldwide attention to the extraordinary migration these unique birds make across antarctica each year showcasing the vastness of the birds species. >> exactly 100 years ago the u.s. government passed a groundbreaking law to protect migratory birds that fly across the atlantic. to mark the anniversary "national geographic" magazine helped declare 2018 the year of the bird and it kicked off the observance with an essay from acclaimed author jonathan fran zenz who's always a bird lover

and a conservationalist. in the middle of the country's biggest metropolis is an ur back oasis for bird lovers even o an chilly late winter morning. it was a similar experience 18 years ago that changed author jonathan franzen's life forever. >> there was a warbler sitting in the tree i passed 500 times. the scale fell from my eyes. it was like a different world, like being introduced to sex. >> reporter: in the two decades since then, franzen has traveled to see as many of the world's nearly 10,000 bird species as soon as possible. >>'ve actually birded on all seven continents. >> which has been the best. >> there is a bad kind of birder who only cares about increasing the length of his or her list of birds seen. >> you're that kind of birder. >> i have a little bit of that. but there's another part of me that is a good birder which is

-- this is a way to have an experience. >> do you need vat amounts of patience? we met up with franzen at his home in santa cruz, california. it wasn't long before franzen found a songbird. >> that is the chest nuft-backed chickadee there, related to the black-capped you have in new york, but with that beautiful chestnut back. >> it's not as easy as it looks. >> it's tricky. >> it's worth the wait. >> rigthat's the downs end's warbler. right out in the open. right there. you might be able to see that, alex. >> there i go, there i go. oh, look. isn't that spectacular? oh, look at the colors. that's a good one. >> reporter: in his january essay "why birds matter and are worth protecting," franzen

compares birds to humans, writing, they build intricate homes and raise families in them. they take long winter vacations in warm places. cockatoos are shrewd thinkers, solving puzzles that would challenge a chimpanzee, and crows like to play. >> we live on an extraordinarily weird and wonderful planet. >> yes, yes. >> birds show us how weird the planet is in a lot of ways too. >> to the extent that there is still a gnarl world, the birds are the best ambassadors for it because you can't go anywhere on this planet without running into birds. you can be 90 miles inland in antarctica, tlanld are the emperor penguins. you can be in the most bleak south pacific ocean and there are the albatrosses. there are seagulls nesting in the desert. i receive great birds outside my window on the upper side in manhattan. they're everywhere and also not really caring very much about

us. that i oar just being themselves. >> reporter: but that doesn't mean that humans aren't affected by birds. franzen remembers one experience in east india when he was approached by two grade hornbills. >> they flew in. it sounded like some meteorological event. their wings are so huge. it's like woof, woof. they were eating fruit and i became aware that somebody was shouting and i realized i'm shouting. that is spontaneous joy that i'm emitting. >> the joy is con tanks as when we came upon a pair of owls. >> the owl is sleeping as far as i can tell. >> that is so awesome. oh, my god, this is so awesome. this is the best valentine's day ever. >> did everyone hear that? >> i mean what's better than seeing two owls in a tree. i mean there are some birds that everybody wants to see, but they

really don't disappoint, do they? wow. oh, my god, this is so awesome. >> they're going to be there for a while, so i want you to look at the red shouldered hawk. >> okay. >> with the beautiful red chest and the white stripes and the tail. are you on it? look at the thing and bring the binoculars up. >> yep, i see it. it's so great to be able to see them. oh, i saw the stripes. that was amazing. >> they also have beautiful black and white ones on the back winds. >> reporter: it's moments like this that made jonathan franzen fall in love with birds. >> and because i had fallen in love with them, i wanted to help them. >> reporter: bids may have the gift of flight, yet franzen points out they're unable to master their own environments. humans are responsible for the climate changing too quickly for birds to adapt and franzen wonders if birds are valued enough for us to make the effort to protect them. >> part of my mission has become to try to remind people that

there are other things to think about if you care about nature than just climate change. >> climate change often feels abstra abstract. >> exactly. >> it feels like something that will eventually possibly happen, and it sounds like your interest in birds and conservationism has to do with the here and now. >> that's exactly right. >> reporter: this month "national geographic" is highlighting how birds are able to migrate thousands of miles every year and how a changing landscape is making it harder for them. >> the contrast that is interesting to me is between a kind of fire and brimstone christianity. you are damned unless you change your ways, which is kind of the climate conversation. and then on the other hand, you have this older catholic particularly franciscan from saint francis who is all about, hey, birds, i love the birds, i'm going to write to the emperor and ask him to put grain out in the fields on christmas

day to feed my friends the larks. his approach to the world was love, love, love, love, love, and i thinkwebsite, cbsthismorning.com for web extra and you can follow "national geographic's" year-long series. i have to say i didn't understand birding until i did it and it was the best ever. >> my favorite alex wagner quote, what's better than seeing two owls in a tree. >> nothing. it was amazinging. >> irish cuisine has undergone a revolution in recent years, trading tradition for creative invention. up next on "the dish" chef noel mcmeel, one of the emerald isle's finest joins us for a

modern st. patrick's day feast. you're watching "cbs this morning: saturday." and i red that you said, i don't know if i want to do another tv show, that you had some reluctance in taking this part. >> yes. it was good it came to an end. i'm very sanguine. i think things should end. in america we try to keep things going and going and going. >> holding on. >> yeah. so i was -- i thought it was a nice ending, and then i thought, oh, this is nice,'ll now go back to being a peripatetic actor. >> on stage? >> on stage and doing films, blah, blah. i did that. i was working in eden breaux. i thought, this is too good a thing to pass up on. >> why was it too good? >> it was so many different facets of character. it was sort of -- i mean he's got so many different

characteristics. i think when you go into a potentially long-running show, you want to make sure you don't get bored. >> explain who he is. >> when you meet him, he's a college professor, rather idiosyncratic one, a bit of a dandy, and he's written a book that is a bestseller about abnormal behavior, and whoopi goldberg plays my long suffering editor, but he's also a former cia spy naturally, as one is, and he's a musical child prodigy. he has photographic memory. >> and he can throw a manhole cover -- >> that's the least of the things for him. >> that was it. two things about the gay thing. one, i thought, this is the first ever network drama to have gay character as the lead. and i -- i almost swore -- i thought about blooming time.

this morning on a special st. patrick's day edition of "the dish," all the way from northern ireland, acclaimed chef noel mcmeel. he grew up on the family dairy farm and his mother's traditional home cook was his first culinary inspiration. he trained in northern ireland and the u.s. working in some of this country's most renowned restaurants, including le cirque in new york and chez panisse in berkeley, california. >> he's now executive head chef

at the award winning lock-airn resort. he's also the author of the bike "irish pantry." >> top of the morning. >> top of the morning. >> what do we have here, chef? >> we've got to beautiful lamb. we understand where it comes from. it's changed dramatically from the corn beef and cabbage. >> you have a big hand in that. >> i this i one of the great things is the resort itself supports very much where our local artisan purchasers are and we buy all of our food. there's nothing as nice as when you arrive in ireland, wherever it may be, and be able to get a beautiful fresh crop and scallops. >> oh, yes. >> that can be from either a pub, cafe, beautiful restaurants. obviously our great cooking

skills. >> and we have some traditional potatoes, carrots, i see, cabbage. >> it's st. patrick's day. we have to have cabbage and bacon and the potato. i think that's one of the exciting things. we have such an array. it's very much about natural. >> yeah. >> we have a very natural beverage here too. >> yes. this is our traditional drink. cheers. >> cheers. >> tell us about the dessert. >> this is an important dessert. >> oh, wow. >> this goes back to family history. >> that was one of the recipes in my book is that the orange cake itself was the first cake i ever made and i was so fascinated with it. my mother let me eat it all. so one of the great lessons in life is always share. i suffered so much with pains that night because i ate everything, so i think that's one of the great things about life itself. we can share the greatness.

what better way. >> what a bounty. >> chef, you grew up on a dairy farm. it sounds like an incredibly idyllic childhood. tell us about that a little bit. >> like so many chefs in ireland, i smelled the great food every morning as i woke up and i would run down the stairs, and when i would come into the kitchen, there was such an array of smells, of so many of the great cakes already. we celebrated a lot. i came from a big family. >> and you had big family meals. >> we had big family meals. we sat around the table. i think that was one of the great secrets of life. that we sat around with great company, but the food that came out, the full array of great food that came from the garden and especially from milks the cows that morning. >> yeah. i mean the cream on top of the milk, right? >> beautiful. >> chef, as i ask you to sign

this dish, if you could share this incredible irish bounty on st. patrick's day, no less, with anyone past or present, who would it be? >> first of all, i think the key thing is i would have to say my family without doubt. but if it was to do with maybe a chef, i think it would have to be alice wallers. >> who you worked with at the restaura restaurant. >> after four days working there, i under what simplicity was, about taking the best of local products, cooking as little as possible with great skill and that's what we do best. >> do you miss cooking in america now that you're in ireland? was it always plan to go back to ireland? >> i have to say i love the people of america. >> and we love the people of ireland. >> i really do. and i think that's one of the great things. so it's always such a pleasure to come back and do a taste of

ireland. >> you don't mind. and you're wearing the green pants. true spirit of the day. chef, thank you for bringing this on a very important day for irish american relations. for more on chef mcmeel and "the dish," head to cbsnews.com. now here's a look at the weather for your weekend. they hit it big alongside the beatles in the british invasion and then had a breakup that last 30d years. up next on our "saturday sessions," the legendary band the zombies. we'll talk to them about their

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songs have remained iconic long after they hit the top of the charts. >> we'll hear some of those legendary hits in just a moment, but first i sat down with the band members for a trip through their rock and roll history. ♪ nobody told me about her >> reporter: the zombies washed ashore in 1964 in the british invasion with their smash single "she's not there." >> we were taking influences from all this wide spectrum of music which gave the zombies a unique sound. love us or loathe us, it did make us different. >> reporter: the groom came together in hertfordsure, england. >> we met outside the black myth arms, a pub. >> how old were you? >> 15. >> we were 15. >> rod argent was putting

together a band, colin blunstone arrived for his audition with a rugby injury that and he's broken his nose and he had two black eyes. >> i was strapped right across the face like this. >> you looked like a ram kuhn. >> i looked like a zombie. >> reporter: the zombies became known for blunstone's stirring vocals and argent's searing keyboard solos. >> and i would go up and down the keyboard like that and my thumb would be absolutely covered in blood. >> i used to gauge how well a gig had gone by how much blood there was on the ivory. >> reporter: they had a run of influential hits here in the u.s. but in 1967, just after completing their album, "odyssey & oracle," they split. >> you broke up because you

weren't making enough money. >> we weren't making any money. >> reporter: blunstone went looking for another job. >> you had a brief interlude in the insuran you h insurance business? >> i did. i worked in the burglar larry department which is just hysteric hysterical. >> reporter: then un, pektedly their single "time of the season kts soared to number one in the states and blunstone was coaxed back into the music business. >> did you guys think of trying to reform or was it too late? >> we never, ever discussed. >> we always wanted to look forward and move on honestly. >> reporter: argent was having success with his own new band. >> reporter: and he and fellow

zombie chris white co-produced blunstone's early solo records. it would be 30 years before they played together again in 1999 when blunstone needed a keyboard player. >> called him out of the blue and i said, look, i've about got six dates. what do you think? and the magic was still there. >> reporter: the zombies have been together ever since, releasing three more albums, while "odyssey & oracle" is now ranked by "rolling stone" as one of the greatest rock albums ever record recorded. >> it's incredible. it was totally ignored at the time. >> it sells more now more every year than it ever did in its first incarnation. >> i've heard a lot of musicians from that time say they didn't

think it was going to last. >> i remember saying to rod, we were walking along the road once, you know, if we can keep this going for two years and we can come out of this with 500 pounds each -- >> i wouldn't talk to him after that. >> you know, talk about ambition. >> no one thought it would last for 50 years. i mean it's just crazy. >> the zombies' most recent album is "still got that hunger." now here to form their classic hit "she's not there" here are the zombies. ♪ well no one told me about her the way she lied ♪ ♪ no one told me about her how many people cried ♪ ♪ but it's too late to say you're sorry how would i know, why should i care ♪ ♪ please don't bother trying to find her she's not there ♪ ♪ well let me tell you about the

way she looked the way she acts and the color of her hair ♪ ♪ her voice was soft and cool hello her eyes were clear and bright but she's not there ♪ ♪ ♪ well no one told me about her what could i do ♪ ♪ well no with untold me about her though they all knew ♪ ♪ but it's too late to say you're sorry how would i know why should i care ♪ ♪ please don't bother trying to find her she's not there ♪ ♪ well let me tell you about the way she looked the way she acts and the color of her hair ♪ ♪ her voice was soft and cool her eyes were clear and bright

but she's not there ♪ ♪ ♪ but it's too late to say you're sorry how would i know why should i care ♪ ♪ please don't bother trying to find her she's not there ♪ ♪ well let me tell you about the way she looked the way she acts and the color of her hair ♪ heher voice was soft and cool s eye wshe's not there ♪ don't go away. we'll be right back with another classic from the zombies. "time of the season" is next. you're watching "cbs this morning: saturday."

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next week on "cbs this morning: saturday" we'll meet the muppet master. actor/director and puppeteer frank oz is here to talk about his documentary "muppet guys talking." >> have a great weekend, evan. >> good luck with "the circus." we'll be watching. we leave you now with more music from the zombies. this is another one of their classics, "time of the season." ♪ ♪ it's the time of the season

when loves run high ♪ ♪ and this time give it to me easy and let me try with pleasured hands ♪ ♪ to take you in the sun to promised lands to show you every one ♪ ♪ it's the time of the season for loving ♪ ♪ ♪ what's your name who's your daddy ♪ ♪ is he rich like me ♪ has he taken any time to show you what you need to live ♪ ♪ tell it to me slowly

tell me what i really want to know ♪ ♪ it's the time of the season for loving ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ what's your name who's your daddy is he rich like me ♪ ♪ has he taken any time

to show you what he need to live ♪ ♪ tell it to me slowly tell me what i really want to know ♪ ♪ it's the time of the season for loving ♪ ♪ ♪

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♪ it's the time of the season for loving ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> for those of you still with us, we have more music from the zomb zombies. >> this is a cut from their most recent album "still got that hunger." here is "edge of the rainbow. ♪ ♪ sometimes when you're walking that long lonely road seems like nothing is able to lighten the load ♪ ♪ from the edge of the rainbow you can see the light coming

through ♪ ♪ ♪ and sometimes when you're feeling just heartache and pain and it seems there's nothing outsiede except the rain ♪ ♪ from the edge of the rainbow you can see the light coming through ♪ ♪ 'cause into each life some rain must fall ♪ ♪ i just know there's too much in mine ♪ ♪ you've got

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