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civilians in syria. david martin at the pentagon has more on this. >> after meeting with senior military leaders, president trump canceled a weekend trip to south america to remain at the the white house. the u.s., britain, france, draw up plans for a high stakes air strike against syria. a year ago, the u.s. launched cruise missiles, in retaliation for syria's use of chemical weapons. and that strike was followed by an explicit warning from the secretary of defense, not to do it again. >> i just want to say very clearly. if they use chemical weapons, they are going to pay a very, very, stiff price. >> in that last strike. 59 cruise missiles hit the airfield. but the base was back in operation within days. next time, says sandy winifield. consultant to cbs news, the targets are likely to be more valuable. >> could be either syrian ministry of defense headquarters or potentially intelligence headquarters for syria.

>> a streak could also be designed to send a message to the syrian regime, two main backers. russia and iran. >> there are no doubt iranian facilities in syria that could be vulnerable to attack. >> like the warehouse at damascus airport. where iran flies in weapons. russia has a major air base in syria. but deliberate attacks against russian are unlikely or could lead to nuclear confrontation. still, says winifield. >> possible that russian advisers could be present at sites, that, that, u.s. military and allied forces potentially strike. >> more white house meetings are expected beaver eed before a fin is made. team of experts is traveling to syria to come up with blood or soil samples that would prove chemical weapons were once again used. jeff. >> david martin at the pentagon. thank you. >> south florida was hilt today by severe storms.

one funnel cloud buzzed through downtown fort lauderdale this afternoon. seen from a 42nd floor balcony. windows shook. debris flew. up the coast in saint augustine. hail fell. no reports of serious damage tonight. >> the defense blasted bill cosby's accuser in an opening statement in his sexual assault retrial. the jury deadlocked in the first time. michelle miller following the case tonight outside philadelphia. michelle. >> bill cosby just exited the courthouse moments ago. and the defense team wasted no time inside the courtroom. this morning. launching the an attack against his accuser. andrea constant. the lead attorney called her a con artist. tried to export famous client. her motivation was money, money, lots more money. in 2806, constant received $3.4 million in a civil suit settlement with cosby. and he underscored the point

repeatedly. he cast her, accusing cosby of drugging her and assaulting her 14rks years ago as the villain and cosby as the victim. cosby's defense says there was a relationship there, but it was consensual. late this afternoon, the prosecution called heidi thomas, one of the five additional accusers allowed to testify, thomas described flying out to cosby's reno area home, seeking his mentoring, and guidance with acting. now she claims, that he gave her a sip of wine, or glass of wine, she took a sip, and then fell unconscious. that point, she says, some time later she awoke, to him forcing himself on her. jeff. >> michelle miller with more on the cosby retrial. michelle, thanks. >> coming up next, the young father dies in a car with unrepaired defect. one of the 57 million vehicles recalled, but never fixed.

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new questions about a tragic accident in indiana. a young father drowned last month while rescuing his daughter from a car that was in a frigid pond. the model had been recalled for a dangerous defect. here is kris van cleave. >> reporter: though he couldn't swim. 24-year-old anthony burgess raced into the water and freed his 3-year-old daughter from the sinking 2008 pontiac g 6. burgess left the car running. >> the investigation is on going, but police are looking into the possibility the little girl somehow shifted the car out of park which should have required a foot on the brake.

department of transportation records show the car never received repairs called for in a 2014, for transmission shift cable fractures which could lead to the car not shifting into park properly creating a risk the vehicle will roll away. police are investigating to see if the unrepaired recall was a factor in this accident. but carfaxest mates more than 57 million vehicles on u.s. roads have open unfixed recalls. more than one in five. any of the things are only being recalled because one they're dangerous. or two violating a federal standard. >> jason levine runs center for auto safety. >> do you think car makers are doing enough to get recalls fixed? >> they could be doing more. more in terms of reaching out to people to make sure they're aware. that the recall is happening. and also, working harder, to, to report how successful they are. in terms of reaching those people. >> general motors says it did mail recall notices to religionstered owners. last update on the recall was

posted in 2016. of the roughly 1.1 million affected vehicles, only around 54% had been fixed. recall repairs are free. you can use your vehicles vin number to search online for open recalls. jeff. >> continuing issue. kris van cleave, thanks. still ahead the search for clues in a deadly plane crash in arizona ♪

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poisoned along with her father released from a british hospital. she will continue treatment at a secure location. her father, ex-russian spy, sergei skripol is in the hospital. the putin government denies it. >> no survivors when a small plane carrying six people crashed and burned on a golf course in scottsdale, the piper pa 24 headed for las vegas. it went down 3/4 mile from the scottsdale airport. investigators have not yet said what went wrong. the chicago cubs hope loyola magic will roll off on them. sister jean, remember her, chaplain of the loyola basketball team. dropped the ceremonial first pitch at home opener. at 98. opted for the underhanded approach. her ramblers led the crowd in

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the president considers military action against syria. we end with the first u.s. service member killed there. because his family sacrificed and their service to america, did not end with his death. here is david martin. >> we can start here. >> kristen dayton and her children, caylee and cole are helping rebuild a home ruined by hurricane harvey in houston. that doesn't begin to tell what happened. while work swirls around her, kristen was lost in thought. writing a message on the wall to her husband of 1 years. scott dayton, killed a year and

a half ago in syria. the first american service man to die there. >> changed our world completely. being able to give back, you know, in his name, in his honor is really nice. >> there are 12 gold star families who lost loved ones in military service. now they're trying to help some one else put their life back together. they have all written messages to their loved ones on their kitchen wall. someday some one is going to remodel that kitchen. they're going to see that. >> i help they feel the honor that we feel. >> her family had been living in a hotel since harvey hit. >> you lost your home? a huge loss. and these people half lost so much more than a home. >> the grief is not the same in any way. but there is a connection because there is that loss. and the fact that their loss is helping give me my loss back. because the i can't give them theirs back. >> haley dayton is a junior in high school. this is her spring break.

>> you look like you know how to handle a purr saw? >> i do. i do. my dad, we would build things together. >> has the it hand with the loss of your dad? >> it has the. the initial connection is here. >> it took a while for kristen to finish her note to scott. but there it is. >> the kids and i miss you every day. this trip taught us we are more like you than we thought. he was a big builder. we didn't realize we had it in us. >> this team of gold star families was put together by the travis manyon foundation, named after a marine killed in iraq ten years ago. their motto is something he said to a friend before he left for iraq. if not me, then who? >> gold star families, that's who. david martin, cbs news, houston. >> that they the "overnight news" for this wednesday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for the morning news, cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city.

i'm jeff glor. welcome to the "overnight news." i'm meg oliver. facebook ceo mark zuckerberg faces a day of grueling testimony on capitol hill. congress is demanding answers about how the social media giant uses and abuses the personal data it collects. some of it was used to try and influence the 2016 presidential election. zuckerberg said the misuse of data "was my mistake and i'm sorry." nancy cordes begins our coverage. >> reporter: the man in the firestorm led off with a full mea culpa. >> we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility. that was a big mistake. it was my mistake.

i'm sorry. >> grilling him were dozens of skeptical senators. we have seen apology tours before. >> reporter: which said, face book has a history of jeopardizing user data. >> after more than a decade of promises too do better, how is today's aapproximateliy different. >> reporter: the mistake engulfing him now, harvesting of user information in 2015 by a third party app posing as a personality quiz. the data was sold to kim bridge analytica, a firm that worked for the trump campaign.

>> when you discovered that cambridge analytica fraudulently obtained all this information why didn't you inform those 87 million? >> we did take action. we took down the app. and we demanded that both the app developer and cambridge analytica delete and stop using any data that they had. they told thoughts they did this. in retrospect it was clearly a mistake to believe them. >> some senators argued the problem is facebook itself. >> your business model is to monetize user information, maximize profit over privacy. >> they said facebook doesn't make it clear to users. how their information its used. how to protect it. >> is facebook being safe? >> senator, i think facebook is safe. i use it. my family use it. i think everyone should have control over how their information its used. every single time they choose to share something, they're, they have a control right there about who they want to share it with. raided the home of his

office of lawyer michael cohen. looking for files related to payoff to mr. trump's alleged mistresses. paula reid at the white house >> cbs news learned that stormy daniels is cooperating in the federal investigation of the deal she struck with the president's personal attorney, michael cohen. struck with michael cohen. monday, fbi agents raided cohen's home and offices in search of evidence related to the agreement with daniels. and one playboy playmate. the raids were personally approved by rod rosenstein. >> are you thinking about firing deputy attorney general rod rosenstein? >> the president ignored questions following the cohen raids. and white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders decland -- declined to say. >> the president voice his frustration. >> following the aide, the president lashed out at the attorney general's decision to recuse himself in the russia probe. >> the attorney general made a

terrible mistake when he did this. we would have put a different attorney general. he made a terrible mistake for the country. >> mr. attorney general have you spoken with the president today. not today. >> jeff sessions visited the white house for an event with the university of alabama football team but did not speak with the president. >> mr. trump's furious reaction to the cohen raids prompted question as but whether the president will move to fire special counsel robert mueller. the white house believes the president has the authority to unilaterally fire him. >> i certainly believe he has power to do. >> renewed talks elicited new pleas. >> suicide for the president to want, to talk about, firing mueller. the president said on this whole thing, the better off he would be. president trump canceled a trip to south america this week amid the growing crisis in syria.

the president promised to take decisive acttion against those responsible for the chlorine gas attack that left dozens of civilians dead and injured. david martin is at the pentagon. >> after meeting with senior military leaders, president trump canceled the weekend trip to south america, to remain at the white house. u.s., britain, france, draw up plans for a high stakes air strike against syria. a year ago, the u.s. launched cruise missiles, in retaliation for syria's use of chemical weapons. and that strike was followed by an explicit warning from the secretary of defense, not to do it again. >> i just want to say very clearly. if they use chemical weapons, they are going to pay a very, very, stiff price. >> in that last strike. 59 cruise missiles hit the airfield. but the base was back in operation within days. next time, says sandy winifield. consultant to cbs news, the

targets are likely to be more valuable. >> could be either syrian ministry of defense headquarters or potentially intelligence headquarters for syria. >> a streak could also be designed to send a message to the syrian regime, two main backers. russia and iran. >> there are no doubt iranian facilities in syria that could be vulnerable to attack. >> like the warehouse at damascus airport. where iran flies in weapons. russia has a major air base in syria. but deliberate attacks against russian are unlikely or could lead to nuclear confrontation. still, says winifield. >> possible that russian advisers could be present at sites, that, that, u.s. military and allied forces potentially strike. >> there was a dramatic rescue in edge water, new jersey, where a building, housing a girls dance studio burst into flames. vladamir duthier has the story.

>> reporter: flames engulfed the building. girls from the dance studio could be seen dangling from the second floor balcony. >> bystanders rushed over, but they toppled over. forcing several girls to jump to escape the flames including the 12-year-old. >> soon as we opened the door, the balcony was covered in smoke. all trapped in that end of the balcony. only way out was to jump off. >> liquor store owner, tony nemmie one of the first persons on the scene. captured on video using a ladder to break the windows of the dance studio to save two girls trapped. >> my heart dropped. what i got to do to save the two girls. and get them out. all what i was thinking. >> reporter: even for seasoned first responders, the rescue was a major challenger. >> scariest moment of moo is career. to be honest. >> dance studio owner, maureen strab said all the girls are safe. >> yesterday was a dark day. we are show people.

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facebook ceo mark zuckerberg faces a day of interrogation on capitol hill. facebook release of user data to advertisers and political groups has a lot of people calling for federal regulation of social media outlets. tony dokoupil reports, some heavyweights from silicon valley agree. >> for most of the history facebook motto was move fast and break things. the same spirit has come to define silicon valley producing some of the richest companies in the world. but those unbridled days may be over not only for facebook. >> so people out here are going to we watching mark zuckerberg's testimony closely? >> 100%.

actually, i mean this is the hottest topic right now. >> he is the typical silicon valley success story. >> i will show you the apps we work on. >> 30 something ceo running one of america's top app developers. if you think he is here to tell, lawmakers to back off talk of regulating facebook. think again. >> you most think tech ceos believe facebook should be reg layed more regulation is necessary for silicon valley. >> i believe so. >> he is echoing sentiment heard more and more from ceos at tech companies like uber and sales force. rising earnings have made amazon, apple, facebook and google parent company alphabet among most valuable and powerful in the world. u.s. tech come pans have avoided government oversight and attempted to police themselves. >> why did we have to wait for a bad thing to happen before regulators woke up to the potential for harm here.

>> and, that's a really good question, tony. facebook was made aware of this in, 2015, 2016, and they, they, pretty much never made it public. >> you think we will look back on thee days as kind of the end of the wild west era? >> really? >> i think it has the the makings of that for sure. >> aaron levee founder and ceo of box, the company he started while in college. he thinks facebook's data controversy could change silicon valley forever. and force oversight of the tech industry. >> there are so many examples where we don't have modern ways of, either regulating control r og, or putting the right protections in place in the internet age. this is a fundamental issue that we have to grapple with as an industry for the decade. >> he will be rooting for regulations strike a balance between consumer protection and regulation. >> if you overregulate the

industry. potentially make it really, really difficult to start new companies or be able to try out new ideas. you might prevent the next facebook or next google or list from ever getting starred in the first place. in prepared testimony. zuckerberg said protecting the facebook community is more important than maximizing profit. do you believe him? >> i believe him because, over the long run, if you don't protect the community there will be no profit to, to have. >> if washington decides to regulate facebook and silicon valley do you think this age of innovation will be over? >> well if wash wash decides to regulate face book, i think that would be a good thing. i feel it will be good for facebook as well. like, a lot of people, who do not have the trust, in face book, who probably have more trust if facebook is regulated. >> connor nighten continues island hopping tour in the rough waters between iceland and norway. in the island he found one of

the finest restaurants in the world. >> the island bill themselves as europe's best kept secret. so secret in fact that, many people don't know they're in europe. >> in some cases they think we are egy egypt some where. it is not faroe, 18 tiny island between iceland and norway. officially part of the kingdom of denmark. and yet, not quite danish. >> we have our own language. another thing that surprises people. >> he works for the faroese tourism bureau in the small capital city. the rugged remote faroe islands have 50,000 citizens total. spread out among a patchwork of tiny picturesque towns and villages. they're connected and by an impressive net work of roads. tunnels, ferries. far removed from the rest of the world. >> we realize we live in a

remote place. we some times have this, this, feeling of being, like, you know, david goliath. >> in the world of restaurant reviews, the goliath, 800 pound gorilla is an inflatable man made out of tires. every year the guide hands out prized stars to the best in the world. >> from the faroe island. >> congratulations. >> last year for the first time ever, a faroese restaurant brought one home to a small house in a small village on the side of the him. >> it was so unexpected. i did not think they would come here. this early on. >> paul is the head chef at koks, 23 seat restaurant with one heck of a view. >> right now. we are going to grab this seaweed right here. use it for a sauce. >> many ingredient he cooks with are found on the rocky shores

below his dining room. >> he grew up in the faroe island. he knows which weeds and grasses are most delicious. >> whoa. silt russ. >> what he scrapes off the rocks one by one are washed and transformed into one of 19 courses served as part of a typical meal at koks. in the faroe island, he was determined to stay as local as possible. >> you become much more aware of your surroundings when you have to kind of source the ingredients from around. >> the volcanic treeless landscape and harsh weather makes it difficult for much to grow here. outside of the sheep which are everywhere. there isn't much live? stock. but there also isn't a place in the faroe island more than three miles away from the ocean. >> so they rely heavily on the sea. each day, the team collects

urchins and clams. fresh ingredients turned into beautiful creations. we might serve lamb on rocks with it around. you get the full expression where the special product comes from. >> after the announcement, foodies have started coming from across the world just to taste his cuisine. >> there are people that will book a table at koks before they book their flight to the faroe island. definitely something had a great effect on tourism in the faroe island. >> the faroe island may not stay secret much longer. and where the scenery is still the biggest selling point. hard to imagine a better ambassador than his food. it reflects the land he loves. each dish, a little postcard, on each dish, a little postcard, on a plate.

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15 years after his death, unpublished lyrics of johnny cash are coming to light. anthony mason paid a visit to the cash homestead. >> they built the cash cabin here, just a place, to rest. relax. >> johnny cash's cabin is nestled at the back of the

family property in hendersonville, tennessee. >> this is kind of refuge for your family. your dad. >>this. >> johnny cash built a studio. here, john carter cash has put some of his father's poems to music with help from artists like brad paisley. and casey mussgrave and rustin kelly. and johnny's daughter, roseanne cash. ♪ we are the walking we are the walking wounded ♪ >> what made you want to put his poetry to music? >> word called out on the page. >> johnny cash wrote constantly. letters. lyrics. poetry. the family found hundreds of pages after his death.

>> he kept all this. >> well, yeah. i mean he was, he was a pack rat. my father was. word meant the world to my dad if you look add the 200 pieces by an artist. cast aside. you are going to fiend geeen fi. within these. after publishing forever word. unknown poems in 2016. cash began looking for musical collaborators. >> how does it feel to be asked? >> well, i was thrilled to be asked. hoping i would be asked. i heard about the project. i am like, me. country artist allison krausse won 27 grammys worked with songwriter, robert lee castleman to finish, cash's the captain's daughter. >> it's like, holy ground.

but it is. like you are like, you really want to do it. but you really don't. you are afraid. >> spent comes with it. >> huge one. the biggest one is to be honorable. >> cash also reached out to chris cornell. before his tragic death, last may. he told me then that dad was one of his greatest influences. johnny recorded rusty cage in 1996. the sound garden front man picked cash's you never knew my mind. >> my father wrote you never knew my mind in 1967 when he was going through a breakup with his first wife, vivian. and chris connected intimately with his experience to finish

the sing my father started. >> it would be one of cornell's last recordings. >> i never really knew your mind. >> reporter: the songs span johnny cash's life. from his teenage years, to just before his death, in 2003. when he was mourning the recent loss of his wife, june. >> my father was persistent. people say did your dad die of a broken heart. i know he died with one. i've don't think it killed him. i think he would still be making music with us today, if his body h hadn't given out. >> you tell me i must perish. >> the song forever comes from one of the last poems, johnny cash wrote. performed by chris christopherson and willie nelson.

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environmentalists say climate change is a disaster and take toll on some of the world's coffee crops. mark phillips went to uganda for this morning's climate diary. >> to man it is the other dark liquid that powers the world. coffee. but because of the damage being done to the planet by the primary dark liquid, oil along with fossil fuels, coffee is in trouble. and so are the farmers who grow it. is this a good harvest year or not so good. >> not so good. >> up here in the mountains of uganda, coffee is the most important thing they grow. anthony and vincent's family have been growing it on their farms, about 4,000 feet up the

slopes for generations. lately though been having problems they never had before. it turns out, coffee is as fussy as the people who drink it. it likes the right altitude, the right temperature, and the right amount of rain and sunshine in the right order. it is the goldilocks of crops that likes things just right. not enough rain. too much sunshine. bad fruit. >> yes. >> too much rain. produces bad fruit. >> another farmer, another farm, another problem. this fine white powder produced by the stem bore beatle which he says is one of the pests and diseases which has come up from the vallies as weather has warmed. coffee yields have been dropping, prices are up by as much as 30% in some areas, since

2015. more than just a consumer's morning pick me up is threatened. the farmers are caffeine dependent for another reason. from picking the berries to processing them, to drawing and sorting the beans, and getting them to market, this is a family business. where every member of the family contributes. and where the cash from selling the coffee provides the only income to pay for schools for the kids and for medical care. there is actually an imbalance in the cworld. retail controlled by the big brand, distributors. the production comes from little family, almost vegetable sized farms like this. production sales here, the big boys can go some where else. the people can't go anywhere. the for the people who consume coffee, about a drink. for the people who produce it, and depend on it, it's about life. mark phillips, krcbs news, ugan.

>> that's the "overnight news" for wednesday. captioning funded by cbs it's wednesday, april 11th, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." the world is watching. president trump is getting close to making a decision about a military response to the suspected chemical attack on civilians in syria. will the president attempt to fire special counsel robert mueller after the fbi raided his lawyer's office?