time. your next local update is 7:26. "cbs this morning" is next. have a great day, everyone! ♪ good morning to our viewers in the west. it is wednesday, may 16th, 2018. welcome to "cbs this morning." deadly thunderstorms slam the northeast damaging homes, knocking out power and leaving commuters stranded. we're in one of the hard-hit towns still struggling to recover. a new massive plume of ash is putting officials on alert. officials issue a new warning for pilots to stay clear of the kilauea volcano. north korea threatens to call off next month's summit lashing out at comments by national security adviser john bolton. and the family of a hiker who died on mt. hood are suing emergency responders for taking five hours to reach him. you'll hear the 911 calls after the accident.

plus, meghan markle's father now says heart surgery will force him to miss saturday's royal wedding, but there will be two familiar faces walking down the aisle with her when she marries prince harry. but we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> hail that is gigantic. >> i've never, ever seen anything like this. >> a wave of storms turns deadly. >> the storm leaves behind trails of debris, trees on the roads. trees on cars. everything you can think of, we had it. a red warning is in effect for hawaii's kilauea volcano. it means an eruption is imminent or under way. >> south korea says military exercises with the united sta s states. no country would act with more restraint than israel has. police are investigating a

deadly explosion at a medical building in california. >> all that -- >> laurel or nanny what do you hear? >> laurel. i hear laurel too. >> no. i hear janne. >> i think your medicine just kicked in. >> and all that mattered -- >> american airlines has changed their pet rules. it will not allow goats or hedgehogs. >> luckily they still have the most support, gin and tonic. on "cbs this morning" -- >> note to self, it's just a matter of reflecting on your life. and if you could go back what would tell your younger self? >> it has inspired me to write a note for myself. >> would you think about doing it for us? >> yes. mine was 13, 26, 48, 75, 5, 3, which were the winning lottery numbers that i wish i used. >> okay. you got me with that. i'm like, what does that mean.

this morning's "eye opener" is presented by toyota. let's go places. welcome to "cbs this morning." gayle, i thought he was doing his locker combination first. >> i was trying to figure out because the audience started laughing right away. clearly he's got a very intelligent audience. good news, he'll willing to write a note to self. >> always be booking, gayle. for the next volume two. >> be working. >> always are. to all of you out there, hundreds of thousand os people in the northeast are starting the day without electricity after deadly storms slammed the region last night. rain, hail, and possible tornadoes caused heavy damage and killed at least five people. >> those storms battered major cities right around the evening rush hour causing big havoc for workers trying to get home. it was a mess. there were a series of rescues in maryland overnight because of flash flooding. >> the region faces the threat of more rain today that could

cause new flooding. don dahler is following the aftermath of the storms in chesire, connecticut. don, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. you can already hear the crescendo of chainsaws in the distance. this tree behind me probably stood for a hundred years but it was no match for last night's storm. the high winds blew it over and sliced into this two-story house. one town was getting so many 911 calls at one point they had to actually transfer them to their neighboring town for response. >> did you see his windshield? >> oh, man! >> reporter: powerful winds and baseball-size hail prompted several counties in new york to declare states of emergency. >> the wind is ridiculous. i don't know what's happening right now. >> absolutely pure whiteout. >> it's bigger than a golf ball. >> that's golf ball easy. >> reporter: from maryland to massachusetts, the storm took down hundreds of trees and power

lines, leaving roads and highways impassible. this fire line on a high in new york got dangerously close. >> all of a sudden i heard a big crash and the house shook. >> reporter: large trees crashed through homes. in newburgh, new york, an 11-year-old girl was killed when a tree crushed the car she was in just outside of her home. thousands of stranded commuters crowded grand central terminal after trains were suspended from debris from the storm. >> what happened this evening which couldn't have happened at a worse time, at the very, very beginning of rush hour. >> reporter: as day turned to night, the national weather service issued a flash flood emergency. water rushed over roads in frederick county, maryland, where first responders, prepared for water rescues following up to 6 inches of rains. >> we have trees down, trees into houses, people trapped between trees on the road, trees on cars. everything you can think of, we had it. >> reporter: cleanup in parts of

connecticut is expected to take days, maybe even longer for houses like this. unfortunately the forecast is calling for more rain throughout the week. gayle. >> wow, don. i feel bad for the people that live in that house, but that really tells quite a story. >> i was on the train through connecticut getting back. it was full on ghostbusters weather. i mean it was grim. >> it couldn't have happened at the worst possible time. thank you, don dahler. hawaii's kilauea volcano spewing ash and smoke thousands of feet into the air. the massive plume reportedly sent ashes as far as 18 miles from the volcano's crater. on the ground lava broke through two new fissures. david begnaud is in pohoa with the story.

good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we're in a town with a roadblock. it's been 13 days since the lava started flowing. the big headline is massive ash plumes that are rising from the volcano quietly and spreading for miles. it is a new phase of the eruption as kilauea spews out giant plumes of smoke and ash 12,000 feet high. geologists say it could be from rocks falling into the crater or lava interacting with groundwater. scientists say this is not the big one they were predicting but this was relieving pressure on kilauea. >> does that mean won't see a much bigger more explosive event? no, not necessarily. it could plug up and we could have yet the so-called big one. >> reporter: two new lava fissures broke open near the kilauea volcano monday through tuesday bringing the total to 21 now. >> we're monitoring them to see if they're going to grow in size. it's a lot of sulfur dioxide coming out of the fissures. >> it is so devastating.

>> reporter: scott wiggers lives in leilani estates. his home was spared. he ignored evacuation orders, for a mission, to document the devastation for his neighbors so they know if they have a home to come back to. >> what words would you use to describe what's happened to your neighborhood? >> it's awesome, powerful, beautiful, disgusting, devastating. it's any adjective that you can think of, that's what it is. >> reporter: if you live here like scott does or plan to travel here on vacation, two pieces of advice. this mask will protect you from the ash. the mask will help according to officials. it doesn't help with the sulfur dioxide gas that is toxic. the best advice there is just stay away. john. >> david begnaud. north korea now says it may call off kim jong-un's meeting with president trump. over u.s. demands to denuclearize the korean peninsula. north korea's first vice minister of foreign affairs said

in a statement overnight, quote, if the united states is trying to drive us into a corner to force our unilateral nuclear abandonment, this country would have to reconsider our proceeding to the north korea/u.s. summit. ben tracy is following developments from beijing. ben, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. so the summit is supposed to happen next month singapore, but now north korea says it may not happen at all if the u.s. doesn't stop insisting they completely denuclearize. north korea says there's a limit to what it calls its goodwill. north korea says the united states should not excuse its openness for getting rid of its nuclear weapons for a sign of weakness. president trump's national security adviser john bolton was singled out by the north koreans for suggesting on "face the nation" that north korea could be disarmed like libya 15 years ago. >> but is it a requirement that kim jong-un agree to give away those weapons before you give any kind of concession? >> i think that's right.

i think we're looking at the libya model of 2003/2004. >> reporter: north korea's first vice minister of foreign affairs says it's absolutely absurd to dare compare the dprk a nuclear weapon state to libya. we do not hide our feeling of repugnance toward him. >> they allow them into all the nuclear related sites. >> reporter: the north koreans don't appreciate the libyan example because eight years after dictator moammar gadhafi abandoned his weapons development he was overthrown and killed. but unlike libya, north korea already has a limited number of weapons and has threatened to use them. >> our ask is complete and total denuclearization. >> reporter: the administration's demand for irreversible denuclearization without direct economic aid from the u.s. has also suddenly appeared to irk the north

koreans who call the u.s.' ideas reckless and sinister. new satellite images show several buildings at the site have been torn down. now, north korea abruptly pulled out of a meeting with south korea today at the dmz saying it's upset about ongoing military exercises being conducted by the south koreans and the united states. now, all of this could be a negotiating ploy by the north koreans going into the summit with president trump, trying to remind the world that north korea is not going to be pushed around. >> thank you. major garrett is at the white house. major, what are you hearing from the administration officials? do they believe this is a negotiating ploy? >> good morning. we talked to sarah sanders about the summit and saying the administration is planning for it and in the meantime would

maintain diplomatic pressure on north korea. on the question, the so-called libya model the north koreans objected to and how much that was part of president trump's current thinking, bell, say awe sanders seems to suggest it wasn't. >> i don't see it as a specific thing. it's not a cookie cutter model on how this works? >> so, that's not an administration policy? >> look, this is the president trump model. he's going to run this as he sees fit. >> reporter: thatness suggests that talks with north korea are still evolving and that might create space for the north to re-evaluate its objections. the denuclearization is at the heart of the negotiations between north korea and united states. optimism that negotiation can be achieve is running into that struggle over the very definition of what that means to both countries. sanders also told us that the white house has been expecting some pushback from the north

koreans in anticipation of the summit. quote, if they want to meet, we'll be ready, but if not, that's okay. >> certainly more to come on that, thank you very much, major. first lady melania trump is said to be in good spirits reportedly after a kidney procedure. president trump visited his wife yesterday for about 90 minutes, earlier, he was upbeat about her condition. >> melania is in the hospital doing really well. she's watching us right now. i want to thank the incredible doctors, walter reed medical center. they did a fantastic job. so, thank you. and she sends her love. >> the white house has released few details about this procedure. mrs. trump is expected to leave the hospital in the next day or two. four white sheriff's deputies in suburban new orleans are under investigation after a

black man's death was classified as a homicide. keeven robinson died last thursday after an apparent struggle. the likely cause was most likely asphyxiation. manuel bojorquez has more. in louisiana where the deadly confrontation began. manuel, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. robinson's parents are stunned. his mother wants the officers arrested and charged. the 22-year-old had stopped at this gas station when undercover officers allegedly detailing him for drugs moved in. surveillance video shows robinson walking into a gas station to buy a lighter and then returning to his car. but before undercover detectives investigating a drug investigation can stop him, robinson speeds off. moments later police say robinson crashed his car and took off running before jefferson parish detectives caught him. >> there's no doubt they used

force. >> reporter: joseph lo pinto is the sheriff. they've not released the names of the four narcotics officers involved. they've since been reassigned to administrative duty. sheriff lopinto says asthma may have contributed to robinson's death. but on monday gerry cvitanovich revealed robinson suffered significant traumatic injuries to his neck. >> these findings are consistent with compressional asphyxiation. >> reporter: more than 100 protesters marched in his name. steven jackson marched in keeven's name. this announcement. >> i'm at a loss for words. >> reporter: robinson's mother kiwanda says he deserved better. >> nobody is perfect. >> reporter: hester hilliard is the robinson family's attorney. >> the people who caused keenan's death will be arrested, will be indicted and will be

prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. >> reporter: police say they found a firearm in robinson's car and a bg of suspected drugs. they also say the four detectives were not wearing a body camera because they were acting undercover. >> all right, manuel, thank you. investigators are searching for clues after a deadly explosion in a california medical office building. one woman was killed and three people were injured in the blast yesterday. in alisa viejo. about 45 miles south of los angeles. the explosion blew siding off the walls and shattered windows. dozens of kids were evacuated from a day care school and preschool across the street. they call the explosion suspicious. new reports say that health concerns will keep meghan markle's father away from the wedding this weekend. thomas markle reportedly says he wants to see her marry

prince harry but he needs heart surgery. roxana, we're counting the days. good morning to you. there's lots to get to before the big wedding. >> so much is happening a couple of days before the big wedding. gayle, good morning. thomas markle, sr., told tmz, he has scheduled surgery first thing this morning to clear a blockage from his heart. that may mean heartbreak for his daughter wishing he was here. >> reporter: meghan markle's father sells tmz he may not be able to walk his daughter down the aisle on saturday because he's having major surgery after a heart attack left significant damage. he told the celebrity site he wouldn't attend the wedding at all because he feels he embarrassed his daughter and the royal family by staging these photos. he received $1,500 for these pictures but did it to counter previous unflattering images. >> an extraordinary amount of drama days before the big day.

>> reporter: the royal correspondent says odds are meghan's mother doria reagan will walk her down the aisle instead. >> what's the precedent for a royal bride to be walked down the aisle by somebody other than her father? >> well, we do have one of the greatest moments queen victoria actually walked one of her daughters down the aisle for her wedding. >> reporter: for a monarchy that survived 1,000 years, resilience is crucial. >> very used to dealing with different kinds of drama. >> they're used to dealing with all sights of drama, media drama or any drama. >> reporter: while meghan may not have her father by her side on saturday, she'll have plenty of others around her. kensington palace has released the names of ten pageboys and bridesmaids including prince george, princess charlotte and meghan's two goddaughters. now, meghan will not have a maid of honor. the palace says she didn't want to choose from among her close

friends. norah. >> they're going to handle it very well. >> it's complicated. it's complicated. did a bungled emergency response cause a death on oregon's tallest mountain? ahead, why a climber's

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good morning. time now 7:27. we are tracking delays for south bay drivers especially along highway 17 right where it transitions to 880. we have an earlier problem right at -- just past the 280 junction. it's stevens creek boulevard blocking a lane. you can see speeds down to 15 miles per hour making your way through that stretch and again that connector ramp remains closed from 280 to 87 from flooding. on hi-def doppler noticing strong cells of rain heading right towards napa at this hour. so do be advised that there's a chance for some lightning and thunderstorms coming through the north bay this morning. we are already noticing instability in the skies and that's what's causing all of this. definitely saw a lot of lightning strikes in the east of us near sacramento county through stockton and the sierra. but it is working its way into parts of the bay area.

♪ some big news -- this week american airlines released a new set of guidelines stating emotional support animals will be taken on planes. american says they will not allow ferrets, goats, hedgehogs, insects, snakes, rodents, sugar gliders, nonhousehold birds or animals with tusks, hoofs and horns. now, this is actually good news for me. it means i can still take on my pet alligator. >> alligator doesn't have a tusk, hoof or a horn. >> i know. >> pretty good. >> they really had to clarify the rules.

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amazon is starting to roll out discounts at whole food stores today for its more than 1 million amazon prime members. customers will get an additional 10% off hundreds of sale items and rotating weekly specials. perks are available in florida stores now, and will expand to all stores nationwide this summer. amazon recently hiked the cost of prime membership by 20%. a new study shows the importance of keeping your body clock in sync. researchers found people who are highly active at night or inactive during the day were up to 10% more likely to be diagnosed with mood disorders including major depression or bipolar disorder. abnormal sleep patterns are associated with greater loneliness, not good, less happiness, really not good, and decreased cognitive function. with that, looking at those guidelines, we should all be one big hot mess. >> not very encouraging when you work this kind of shift. >> some people in the audience

may be nodding their heads. >> i set that up, didn't i? >> the family of a climber who died in oregon's highest mountain says the delay in dispatching a rescue helicopter led to his death. john jenkins was near the summit of mt. hood last may when he fell about 600 feet. the chopper arrived nearly five hours later. ba bianna golodryga shows us more. >> there were several emergency calls. john jenkins' family filed a $10 million wrongful death lawsuit this week against the sheriff's department and 911 call center in oregon. they believe that those calls were handled properly, jenkins might still be alive. >> 911, what is the location of the emergency? >> reporter: the first call to 911 was at approximately 10:40 a.m. miles up mt. hood -- >> he seems to be busted up.

he's stable. i don't know if anything is broken. >> we don't know how bad the situation was. >> reporter: another climber, jesse cornett, made that 911 call. the dispatcher transferred him to a clackamas county deputy who told him to call the ski patrol at a nearby resort. >> 911 was unwilling to help. i'm suddenly googling to find out a number to call ski patrol. >> reporter: volunteers arrived to help. more than half an hour later, someone made a second 911 call. >> i would like to initiate a response for a fallen climber up here on mt. hood. >> yeah, they called us and then, um, didn't know if they need ed our assistance so they said they would call back if they did. >> reporter: the sheriff's department was called again at 12:11 p.m. this time for a helicopter. it arrived at 3:11 p.m., about four and a half hours after jenkins fell. >> at this point he's just obviously in pain. wailing. saying he can't breathe. we were part of something good

until we realized that a key link had failed us. >> reporter: a lawsuit filed by jenkins' family says his breathing and pulse stopped as he was lifted into the chopper. they accused the county, the sheriff's department and the 911 call center of not requesting the helicopter in time. and routing 911 callers to an improperly trained officer. >> it is a very stressful job, it is a very thankless job. >> reporter: rob mcmullen is president of nena, an organization of 911 professionals. he says dispatchers rarely get recognized for the good work they do. >> a lot of times the only work that you see of dispatchers is the negativity that happens on a call and gets broadcast over the media. >> a county spokesman says climbing mt. hood can be deadly and its employees responded appropriately. he told "cbs this morning" the county is very proud of the fine work of the women and men who

are involved in rescue efforts. they risk their lives to save the lives of others. and no doubt they do. but the family and, of course, even jesse cornett, the climber who found him, said he was in stable condition initially, he was talking about, oh, tomorrow will be bad for me, i'm going to be all roughed up and things deteriorated. >> that's what's so tragic. jenkins' girlfriend was there and other climbers and at first he seemed amazingly to be, you know, hurt, but not -- and then to have it go so wrong. absolutely. >> a lot of questions to be answered there. very tough story. thank you. ahead, jim axelrod investigates how some rural hospitals across the nation are involved in questionable billing practices to keep their doors open. >> how much money are we talking about? >> in a six-month period, the hospital funneled through about $92 million in revenue. to put that in perspective, the previous year, their total

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rural hospitals are closing at the highest in decades. since 2010, 83 have shut their doors. desperate to stay open, some hospitals got caught up in dubious billing schemes. in march we investigated questionable billing. ji jim axelrod. good morning. >> good morning. they boost their rates to help keep them in the communities. the higher rates make them attractive targets for schemes that have generated nearly half a billion dollars in billing

that's allegedly fraudulent. in 2016 missouri state auditor nicole galloway began examining the finances of several rural hospitals in her state. one was but nam memorial hospital in unionville, missouri, trying to keep its doors open. >> we noticed tens of millions of dollars were going through. i said we've got to dig deeper on this. >> reporter: her team discovered a management company hospital partners had swooped in weeks before putnam was about to close, promising to turn it around. they made deals with labs around the country to funnel billing for blood tests and drug screens throughput nam, which collected high reimbursement rates as a rural hospital. putnam kept about 15%. but most of the money was wired back to the labs and the

management company. >> essentially the hospital appeared to act as a shell company for these questionable lab billings. >> how much money are we talking about? >> in a six-month period the hospital funneled about $92 million in revenues. to put that in perspective, the previous year their total revenues were $7.5 million. >> reporter: and it wasn't just happening at putnam. insurance companies are now atelting to claw back nearly half a billion dollars they paid rural hospitals across the country with similar billing arrangements which they call fraudulent. they all declined our request for an interview. so we sat down with jason mehta, a former federal prosecutor who specialized in health care fraud. >> the question's going to be did the laboratories intend to

cheat, inted to trick and mislead the insurance companies. simply making extra money isn't a crime in and of itself. it's a question was someone tricked. one someone deceived. >> one way was paying kickbacks to health care providers for specimens they could then bill at the higher reimbursement rates. we obtained this voice. >> we would send about -- you know, you sent 300 samples. if you would send me $100,000 right then and there. >> if i had heard that message and we were talking about medicare money, i would be very, very concern and opening an investigation immediately. >> it really seems to skirt a line, doesn't it? >> in my experience some of the most sophisticated doctors. some that get the most amount of money in the health care programs are those that know exactly where the line is and skirt right up to the line.

>> what mehta told us that could cross the line is the finding of nicole galloway audit. >> several months after the questionable lab buildings started. there was no lab billing in the hospital. >> how could they be billing for lab tests, lab work, if there was no lab in the hospital? >> that's exactly what we questioned. >> in march blue cross filed a $60 million lawsuit against hospital partners suggesting their arrangement with labs was a fraudulent scheme. hospital partners is suing galloway claim sheg had no right to audit putnam. >> it's clear that hospital partners did not like our audit. they did not like us shining a light on the issues they identified. >> they're suing you. >> they did. they're pushing back on us. that will not stop me from doing my job on behalf of taxpayers. >> reporter: in a statement hospital past nevers said putnam county memorial hospital is

assigned by law to assign and bill for clij cal laboratory testing provide at a reference lab. but just yesterday the attorney general told us it is actively investigating this matter. >> i have a question. that putnam hospital, is it still open. >> it is is for now, but we have seen where insurance cuts off payments and that creates the circle the andre situation. the hospitals have to close. those communities are left without health care. >> it will be interesting after they see your report what happens. >> very impressive, jim. thank you. coming up next, a look at this morning's other headlines including how the cast of people everywhere

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but his progressive record is solid gold. california law... that allows terminally ill patients to end their lives with a doctor's help. the judge ruled the way good morning, it's 7:56. i'm kenny choi. a judge has overturned the california law that allows terminally ill patients to end their lives with a doctor's help. the judge ruled that the way the state legislature passed the law was unconstitutional. state attorney general xavier becerra has been given five days to file an emergency appeal. police are searching for a suspect in an armed robbery in san francisco. it happened on saturday night and was recorded by surveillance cameras. the robber took off in a dark suv. police hope that the video will lead to an arrest. we'll have traffic and weather in just a moment.

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7:57. a motorcycle accident as you approach the macarthur maze along westbound 580. tying traffic up we have emergency crews on the scene. they do have some of those lanes blocked. and you can see that traffic completely backed up all along 580. it's about 35 minutes just to go 238 to the 980, highway 24 there. and speeds dipping as slow as 5 miles per hour. here's a live look 580 at grand lakeshore. definitely seeing those delays. give yourself some extra time. we are seeing some pop-up thunderstorms. through napa and the north bay a cell brought down heavy rain moments ago and some lightning strikes. i wouldn't be surprised if there's hail in the mix. same through fairfield and cordelia. a lot of instability in sacramento, heavy rain and lightning and hail all across northern california at this hour. so we are going to continue to watch this of course and bring you the latest coming up.

♪ good morning to our viewers in the west. it's wednesday, may 16th, 2018. welcome back to "cbs this morning." ahead, the newest threat from hawaii's kilauea volcano. officials warn people about toxic gas and pilots about massive ash clouds. plus, with the royal wedding approaching this saturday, see how prince harry has changed from a rebellious teenager to a well-mannered husband to be. first, today's eye open are at 8:00. hundreds of thousands of people in the northeast are without electricity after deadly storms slammed the region. >> this tree behind me probably stood for 100 years. but it was no match for last night's storm. high winds blew it over. >> it's been 13 days since all of the lava started flowing. but the big headline right now is massive ash plume.

>> the summit is supposed to happen next month in singapore but now north korea says it may not happen if the u.s. doesn't stop insiftsing that it completely denuclearize. >> we talked to press secretary sanders about the north korean summit and she said the administration still hopes it happens. >> he has scheduled surgery first thing this morning. that may mean heartbreak for the bride to be, wishing her father were here in windsor on saturday. >> the clothing store the gap has created an international uproar after being criticized by the chinese government. the company issued an apology and pulled a t-shirt featuring an incorrect map of china. i guess it's good that they apologized. now i'd like the gap to apologize to to me for what they consider a men's medium. sizing can be tricky.

>> and it varies depending on where you go. >> don't get me started on dress shirts. >> i'm norah o'donnell with gayle king and john dickerson. there's a red alert for aviation over hawaii. people are reporting ash as far as 18 miles from the volcano's crater. the ash can cause eye and lung irritations and cause problems for planes around the ligisland. scientists say it's not the big explosion they've been expecting but warn that could still come. >> there are now 21 fissures near this volcano. the latest one started spewing lava and toxic gas. >> white house press secretary sarah sanders said this morning president trump is still ready to meet with north korean leader kim jong-un. in a statement, the first vice minister of foreign affairs said the country may pull out of the summit saying, quote, if the united states is trying to drive us into a corner to force our unilateral nuclear abandonment,

we will no longer be interested in such a dialogue. sanders also said the white house will continue its maximum pressure campaign if talks fail. >> the north korean statement slammed national security adviser john bolton for suggesting pyongyang should do what libya did, give up nuclear weapons in exchange for sanctions relief. >> one thing that libya did that led us to overcome our skepticism was they allowed american and british observers into all their nuclear related sites. so it wasn't a question of relying on international mechanisms. we saw them in ways we had never seen before. >> that sounds like you want inspections before any sanctions relief. >> i think it would be a manifestation. doesn't have to be the same as libya but has to be something concrete and tangible. >> but seven years after that agreement, libyan leader moammar gadhafi was overthrown and killed. the overnight statement said

north korea has a feeling of repugnant toward bolton. 15 years ago the north called him human scum for criticizing then leader kim jong-il. pennsylvania's all-male congressional delegation will change when voters go to the polls in november. women won eight congressional nominations in last night's primary vote. two women will face each other in the fifth district in the fall. suzanne wild in a toss-up district says she's proud to be part of the movement where more women are running for office. >> one of my proudest moments was when a 90-year-old woman called me and asked me for a yard sign. and she's just been a terrific supporter and so this isn't just for me. this isn't just for the next generation. this is for women who have been waiting a long time to have an equal voice in our government. and i want to be part of the group that does that. >> pennsylvania's congressional map was recently redrawn after the state supreme court ruled

republicans had unconstitutional gerrymandered the districts. this year's primaries had the largest number of congressional candidates in more than 30 years. and it is stunning still to think they had an all-male congressional delegation. when you think about trying to have some equal representation. >> it's 2018, people. >> yeah. >> times are changing. the worlds of literature and journalism are mourning the loss of writer tom wolfe. the author considered a magician with words died of an infection monday in a new york hospital. he was 88 years old. the bonfire of the vanities was his first novel. wolfe satiral flare jumped off the pages as he shared things from hippies to astronauts. vladimir duthiers looks at his ground-breaking style. >> his influence extended beyond his fellow writers.

astronaut scott kelly said as a teen he was inspired by one of wolfe's books, "the right stuff." he was original with a voice that rang out from the page. to see tom wolfe was to recognize his iconic white suit. the uniform he wore for much of his professional life. to read tom wolfe was to absorb what author william f. buckley once called probably the most skillful writer in america. a man who can do more things with words than anyone else. with his words, wolfe helped define a style of writing call new journalism. letting the techniques of a novelist with those of a reporter as he explained to jeff glor in 2016. >> exciting stuff. i assumed when i first started working at the newspaper, well, i'll be a novelist one day. but i lost total interest in being a novelist because nonfiction was so exciting. >> reporter: he would regain that interest. in 1987, his first novel "the

bonfire of the vanities" a satirical takedown of the excesses of the 1980s became a best seller and was made into a movie. it was the second of his books to be adapted to the screen. >> best pilot i ever saw. >> well, you're looking at him. >> reporter: "the right stuff" detailing the early years of the u.s. space program was also a best seller and an oscar-winning film. >> that view is tremendous. >> i didn't find as many astronauts as i could and talked to them. i did as much reporting as was possible. >> reporter: cutting his teeth as a reporter, he would write 17 books in all, including scathing critiques of art and architecture and essay collections, works of journalism and four novels. a collection of works as iconic as the man himself. wolfe last work was "the kingdom of speech." he told cbs news in 2016 he had

five more books planned. he leaves behind his wife of 40 years and his two adult children. i was writing some of the phrases that have entered into our lexicon. >> i love what michael lewis wrote. what i hope people know about him is he was a sweet and generous man. not just a great writer but a great soul. he did it with pleasure. >> and he made three-piece white suits look very cool. >> literary flare and sartorial flare. three-piece suits are not a bad thing. >> message delivered. >> thank you, vlad. should social media companies be regulated like the tobacco business? mark benioff will be here with

when he was growing up, prince harry had a reputation for being a rebel. ahead, how serving ten years in the british army and losing his mother princess diana shaped who he is today. you're watching "cbs this morning." ♪

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prince harry will marry american actress meghan markle in england in just three days. he's the youngest child of prince charles and princess diana and sixth in line to the throne. prince harry served in the british army and is known for his philanthropic work. when he was growing up, he had a reputation for being a royal rebel. this saturday, millions will tune in to watch the wedding just like on the day he was born. deft destined for a life in the spotlight, crowds gathered to celebrate the arrival of prince harry. >> such tremendous excitement when prince harry was born. >> amanda foreman is a royal historian. >> you can say that prince harry was born under a lucky star. a happy star. people were genuinely thrilled

when he arrived. >> according to princess diana, her youngest son set his own path early on. >> whether he copies william, we'll wait and see, but he's certainly a different character altogether. >> as the world watched william and harry grow up, the images were often of the boys enjoying time with their mother. >> i brought the picture of you, of course. >> okay. all those years ago. >> harry looked back on his first visit to the united states when he spoke with us in 2016. >> you know, we had happy memories. it was absolutely fantastic. >> a year after her marriage to prince charles came to an end, diana, known as the most photographed woman in the world, was killed in a car crash after a high-speed chase with paparazzi in paris. >> he and his brother think the media killed their mother, just to be clear. >> tom bradby is a british

broadcaster and a friend of william and harry. >> i didn't mean mess forically. i mean literally. >> let's talk about the boys being told that they had to walk behind their mother's funeral procession. >> the british have always had a sentimental side to them. and throughout history, they've really loved long, torturous funeral processions. the two young boys were forced to take part in this charade. both were saying how terrible, how painful it was to be forced to walk past thousands, hundreds of thousands of people all staring at their faces, wanting to drink their emotions like vam pine pires drinking blood. >> cameras caught prince harry in several scandals as he grew older. >> and that came to a terrible head when he was a teenager. he went to a party dressed as a

nazi officer. and there's no doubt in anyone's minds that prince harry was not a nazi sympathizer. he was just being an idiot. but you can't afford to be an idiot when you're the next in line to the throne after your elder brother. >> the discipline of a soldier came when harry joined the british army in 2005. as an officer, he did two tours in afghanistan. and became the first royal to see combat in a quarter century. >> very nice to be out of touch from everything. probably the nicest bit about this place. >> reporter: after a decade of service, he left the army but continued to fight for the injured men and women of the army by creating the invictus games. >> you are all winners. >> i have seen the way prince harry interacts with veterans.

it's so incredibly genuine. he has a real connection. >> wear your pink shirt. >> it's amazing because you can't make up a sense of connection. one can say his mother also had a connection with the wounded, with the vulnerable, with people who don't -- haven't yet developed the defenses of this world. >> what do you think your mother, princess diana, would think about what you've done here for veterans? >> i -- i hope she'd be incredibly proud. i would love it if she was here, and i'm sure she would be running around causing chaos like i intend to. >> what's really ironic about princess diana is she came from the top echelons of society, yet she, herself, was in many ways increasingly a social rebel. so for her son to carry on that tradition would no doubt make her exceptionally proud. >> his marriage to meghan markle may be a sign the rebellious

prince is settling down. something not even harry was willing to predict two years ago. >> do you want to have kids some day? >> i love it, from that question to that. of course. who doesn't? time will tell. and i'm looking forward to the opportunity. pretty busy at the moment. kids can wait. >> kids can wait. that was before meghan markle. >> that was. >> we all remember that video. so sad to see them walking behind their mother's casket and to see how he's turned out is very exciting. he seems very much like his mom. >> interesting to hear the historian talking about him being rebellious like his mother. we meet a lot of people doing this show. he is one of the most authentic and charming and relaxed people given that he grew up in front of the cameras the way he did and to have his mother pass the way she did. >> you think about, we're celebrating here this family. these people. also a stretch of lineage. you think of prince hal.

the story of a prince who grows up a rebel and then becomes more serious is as old as english literature. a lot of tradition. >> now that he's a rebel, i'm starting to think he may have his beard, gayle. >> i have a bet on that. >> i know we have a bet. >> i think he's going to have it. you say doesn't. >> it was a crack in my confidence. >> one charity is going to benefit. >> that's right. meghan markle faces a steep learning curve on her new family and country. tomorrow, the demands of etiquette, protocol and english culture on her way to becoming a british royal. >> she's 36 years old. that's the age princess diana was when she died, 36. so interesting to see that. and we'll bring you live coverage of the wedding this saturday, may 19th. and that night, gayle will host a two-hour primetime special "royal romance -- the marriage of prince harry and meghan markle." it's what night, gayle?

>> saturday night at 8:00, 7:00 central here on cbs. >> we're looking forward to that. >> leaving today. getting on a jet plane today and heading to england. people all over the world are listening to this and arguing about it. do you hear yanny or laurel? >> laurel? laurel. >> how does anybody hear laurel out of that. >> what? >> why the answer is so important to so many of us. you are watching cbs. >> sounds like laurel. >> you hear laurel? >> yes. >> no, no, no. ♪you've got a friend in me.

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laurel, laurel, laurel. >> i okay. you hear laurel. i hear yanny. >> i hear laurel. >> you hear laurel? >> i hear laurel so much. >> i'm so personally offended by this. >> what's the explanation? >> it has to do with your hearing pitch.

>> okay. >> if you have a high hearing pitch or low hearing pitch. but it's definite councilman dominic caserta resigned and also announced he was suspending his run for county supervisor amid sexual hara good morning, it's 8:25. i'm michelle griego. santa clara city councilman dominic caserta resigned and also announced he was suspending his run for county supervisor amid sexual harassment claims. caserta maintains the allegations are false and he is still employed as a teacher at santa clara high school. a federal judge struck down oakland's ban on large coal shipments. the judge ruled that the city council did not provide enough evidence that the coal operations would pose a substantial health or safety danger. city officials say they will appeal the ruling. stay with us, traffic and weather in just a moment.

good morning. time now 8:27. we are tracking a traffic alert that has 880 all tied up in that southbound direction. we are still tracking a couple of lanes blocked due to this crash. it's right at 66th. so just near the coliseum there on the left side of your screen. that's the southbound side and we are seeing delays build. 37 minutes just to go from broadway down to 66th. once you got past that things start to pick up. now, that northbound side dealing with the usual slowdowns for folks making their way up towards the maze. it's 41 minutes from 238. so give yourself some extra time if you want to avoid 880. this is what 580 looks like. a little slow in that

westbound direction. but at least all lanes are open. and 80 at carlson, we are still dealing with a busy ride for drivers along the eastshore freeway, an earlier accident you can see some of the crews out on the scene. let's check in with neda now on the forecast. >> okay. hi-def doppler had a few moments of lightning strikes through fairfield, cordelia, showing them popping up in napa. right now, a lot of that rain is dissipated through napa but look what's just to the east of vacaville right now. heavy line of rain and lightning strikes also coming through and you can definitely tell there's a lot of activity going on east of us through sacramento, the sierra foothills and the tahoe area. a lot of that not expected to reach us but we did see moments of lightning strikes. this is our mount vaca view. you can see a lot of the darker clouds out there. so we do have unstable air where temperatures are in the 50s right now. we are sitting under this low pressure system and that's what's bringing us that instability so there is a chance of thunderstorms now in your forecast for today. now things should calm down by tomorrow. warming up through the end of the week.

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welcome back to "cbs this morning" where the yanny/laurel debate continues. we're going to take it into the green room. guys, you do hear yanny or laurel. marc benioff, you go first? >> i hear yaney. what dow you hear? >> laurel. >> dr. sampson davis? >> obviously yaney yi. >> they say people under 25 hear yanny. if you're older, you hear

laurel. there you. >> you guys are so young. >> i like it, i like it, i like it. >> yanny. >> more on that coming up. this morning it's time to look at the morning headlines. the top official in novartis is stepping down. they had a $2 million contract with michael skoe hcohen. cbs station kpix in san francisco reports that tesla's model s is so strong it earned a record for toeing. it pulled a 287,000-pound boeing dreamliner nearly 1,000 feet at an airport in australia. this is a massive feat for the suv, which is rated to toe about 5.5,000 pounds. a couple discovered a safe buried in the backyard filled with cash, gold, and diamonds worth $52,000.

finders keepers? the couple unarchitected a hidden treasure. according to a police report, the safe was taken from a home during a burg rlary in 2011. the couple had returned the safe. they do not believe this couple stole it from the neighbor. >> i hope they give them flowers or something or shovel the walk. new york times says a facebook report shows they delighted 865 million posts, mostly spam. they removed 2.5 million pieces of hate speech in the first quarter. it was discovered by artificial technology. the rest was flagged by users. >> facebook says this shoals the artificial intelligence programs it wants to monitor the social network are still years away from being effective. it's what marc benioff calls a

crisis of trust in the tech industry. benioff is with customer relationship management. it has 30,000 employees and more than 150,000 customers worldwide. good morning. >> good morning. thank you for having me again. >> thank you for weighing on our laurel test here. >> i definitely hear yanny. i just want to know what it means. >> you've got young ears. >> a crisis of trust. >> you can see our industry is going through a very serious crisis of trust. you've seen it with uber, facebook, and other companies. in some ways you can say facebook has become the new cigarette in our industry. that is, it's a technology that is addictive. it may not be that great for you and it might be something you want to go back to. so maybe this is a time where the government has to step in and regulate not just that

product but the industry. really at that point with technology. even facebook has said it now. >> people talk about regulations. what do you really mean? do you want to ban ads? give us specifics about what regulation would really mean? >> we need in this country a national privacy law. you can see it's going in effect in europe. it's called gdpr. in europe that means your data belongs to you, but in the united states your data belongs to all the companies collecting it and they can do with it basically whatever they want. that's a shift we have to make. you can see that's about to happen in california where i'm from. there is a statewide privacy law that is moving its way to voters, but what we need is a national privacy law and that will really not just protect the tech industry but all the tech consumers. ultimately it's going protect our kids which this is really all about. we know all these companies are looking to bring kids into their

social networks as well. >> isn't their business model built on the personal data and marketing it? >> it's so rare for somebody in your position to be calling for regulation. >> look. i'm trying to protect our industry. i'm seeing the huge advancements happening every day. you see what happened laftz week with google duplex. that's the most amazing technology i've seen. it's indistinguishable. many people in the computer industry felt it passed the touring test. that means, wow, is that a human or is that a computer, so if we're at that point, we need to start to have better regulation and greater controls. the europeans understand that. it's time for the americans to understand that too. >> can i just go back to the national privacy law? what would that do for me or work in practice? >> that would mean the companies would have to fully disclose how they collect your information, use your information, and you'd have a right to be forgotten so

if you wanted all your information deleted, you can hit that button and be assured your data is gone forever. >> you were known as an activist ceo. you certainly have critics and supporters. one of the issues you have taken on is gender equality. you have taken it by both hands and say you can't be a ceo and take on gender equality. >> you're absolutely right. you know everywhere i go i try to bring 25 ceos together like i did at the dinner table last night with you. i would say, look, we have to focus on so many things that are critical. one of them is gender equality. number one it's equal advancement and opportunity. you know it means equal pay which means men and women need to be paid for the same work and ceos need to be held accountable for making sure they're paying men and women and it's about preventing sexual harassment.

you can't have jindal equality when you've got psychological safety in your workplace and you can work together. >> you have issue information your own company. you walk in a meet full of white guys and you say, what's wrong with this picture. you're looking to change that in your own company. >> that's exactly right. i see that every single day. that's how i got involved. i said, how are we going to change? how are we going to improve our work with, for example, women. that's why we've spent more than $9 million to balance out our pay scales. that's something every single ceo can do with one button. we don't run our business on 3x5 cardss. you know that, gayle. we use computers. that means we know exactly. >> you did that internal audit essentially and were surprised by what you found. what if other ceos said to you

provely why they haven't done. >> the vast number of ceos are afraid to push that button because you don't know what's going to come out of that system. it's a leap of faith we're all trying to make. we're all trying to improve our sales forces. we were one of the best places to work at and we're proud of that. look. gender equality is extremely important. all aspects of equality is important. diversion is critical, lgbtx. last time i was hear, we were talking about what we were doing in indiana and georgia and you know even the environment's inequality. we have to be thinking and ceos have to take responsibility for their products when it comes to the environment. >> i'm sure there are ceos that are saying, stop talking, we've

got a business to run. >> thank you so much. >> thanks for coming. thanks for having me. a new book that argues what you need to succeed in live is already inside you. dr. i'm dianne feinstein and i approve this message.

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when people face tragedy and challenges in lives what helps th them persevere? that's a good question. the new book is called "the stuff condition unlock your power to overcome challenges, soar, and succeed." it's published by gallery jeter, of simon & schuster, a division of cbs. yep, she's created to him, baseball a great derek jeter, but we won't hold that against her. she joins us at the table. we all love him. and dr. sampson davis. good morning to you both. >> good morning. >> welcome, welcome. >> i think it's so important people understand your individual stories briefly about what you've been through. sharlee, before your 23rd

birthday you were treated for hodgkin's lymphoma. you were going to school and being treated for cancer at the same time. take us through it. >> at the time i didn't feel too grueling. i was young, vibrant, and in college wanting to have fun. i did six months of therapy. i begged my doctor and parents to stay in school in atlanta and i commuted back and forth every other friday to sloan kettering here in new york. >> that's the part. you were in school in atlanta in spelman and you were going back and forth for cancer treatment. they said why don't you give up school. you said, no, i'm not going to do that. >> you, dr. sampson davis, you were 17 years old and thought you would rob drug dealers. you were the getaway driver. what was it you thought you could do? >> i thought we could get away. >> you didn't get away. at 17 you think you're going to

je juvenile detention. instead you were handcuffed. that changed your life how? >> when i was arrested i realized i had to change my life and with me, it was p to me. it was with the stuff i had inside of me. i didn't have to search it and seek it out. i possessed it. it was a matter of me activating it. >> sharlee, what does that mean, the stuff, you have it in side you? >> we believe it's inner fortitude, this you're born with. it's resilience, you know. >> grit. >> grit, exactly. and it's that -- a lot of people don't realize they have it. like i didn't. when we first did this project, he was telling me i had this inner fortitude when he knew my story going through cancer in college. so it's really -- we would really like to tell people that don't know about it that they do have it in them. >> i think many people say i want to unlock stuff, that special thing inside. one of the helpful pieces inside is writing your motivational

statement explain how you get that done? >> it's 11 elements. whatever your ma tra is, if you don't have one, you can use one. i used three ds. dedication, determination, and discipline. they're ironclad and applicable to anything you're going through. if you don't have one, come up with your oerngs put it on post-its, mirror in the bathroom, desk, wherever it is that gets you going. unlock the stuff to live your maximum life. >> anything to do before it comes to you. >> if you're going from high school to college or retiring, you want to make sure that you're staying ahead so you are living your maximized life either in relationships or if you're going through a hardship like divorce, it doesn't have to be a tragedy. you want to be sure you're doing your best and living to your fullest potential. >> if you didn't have your stuff, you would be in prison

with your friends champ and pissy pillow. so you two were sitting on a plane and saying we should write about a book. this isn't about a book. >> it started out with him saying he wanted to write a book and talking about his ideas and i was telling him what was wrong with his ideas. he said i wonder if it's a gene we share. >> i said, please, do not make me read this book. aisle read it to support you but don't make me read this book. that's when we started talking about a way to have it applicable to anybody. >> do you guys believe everything has this stuff? >> tell us about that gene because there is some of its chemical. >> it is, but i'm glad sharlee sort of nixed the idea of using the gene. we discovered the common traits -- for two years we worked on the book to find these common elements that everyone shared. we had tons of stories.

we narrowed it down to 15 stories of people who overcame obstacles and challenges. sharlee has been working on it for 20 years. when sharlee said i have cancer and i'm going to commute and stay in school, she thought that was normal. i'm like, are you kidding me? who are you kidding me? like no one does that. so you have the stuff and you use it in every phase of your life. so it was good for her. i think that's when we realized we had something special. >> i said to him, if i have the stuff, can i go on this journey with you when you figure this out. i want to know what it was i had so i can use it the rest of my life. >> it's a really good read and very inspiring. you know how some people see an obstacle and overcome it. >> your brother said this about you who wrote the forward that you are one of the strongest people we know. we look at him as mr. tough guy, strong guy. he says that about you. that says a lot about you,

sharlee. >> thank you, great book. >> sharlee jeter and dr. sampson dave. it's called "the stuff." an incredible video of a dog leaping in a pool. how remus, the dog, wasted no time when he saw his little friend struggling to stay afloat. you can hear more on "cbs this you can hear more on "cbs this morning" podcast app. oto balancendidate for governor the state budgetarties together while making record investments in local classrooms and creating new career training programs. antonio villaraigosa for governor.

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and five others are injured, after a multi-vehicle crash crash on intersta good morning, it's 8:55. i'm michelle griego. at least three people are dead and five others injured after a multi-vehicle crash on 880 in fremont. the chp says they arrested one man on suspicion of driving under the influence of marijuana. a mother faces new charges after her 10 children were allegedly tortured and living in filth. 31-year-old ina rogers is facing nine felony counts of child abuse. her husband, 29-year-old jonathan allen, is facing 9 counts of child abuse and torture. in san francisco, yesterday city leaders announced a new proposal to ban plastic straws entirely. they say huge amounts of plastic and single use food containers are ending up in

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8:57. we're still tracking delays along 101 due to an accident as you approach highway 92. if you are heading southbound, that's where you'll start tapping those brakes heading through burlingame. this is live look right near poplar and you can see it's about a 15-minute ride just to go from burlingame down to palo alto university avenue.

that crash blocking at least two lanes involving a motorcycle. just getting into san mateo has been tough for drivers on the san mateo bridge. no longer in the red but still in the yellow. just under 25 minutes from 880 over to 101. and 880 has been the hot spot of the day. we're tracking a new accident as you approach "a" street. let's check in with neda on the forecast. a low pressure system is really sitting right over northern california right now. look at all these lightning strikes just east of us near sacramento but we saw a line coming through fairfield and napa earlier and now looks to be calming down. here's some rain and thunder and lightning at lake tahoe. this would be the homewood view. it's gorgeous up there with all the cool clouds taking shape. now, golden gate bridge right now showing clouds but also some clear skies. we are certainly seeing a mix of it all out there today. there's a chance we could see some thunderstorms. warmer this weekend. i'm dianne feinstein and i approve this message.

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