>> reporter: steve hartman o the road in edison, new jersey. captioning funded by cbs the road in edison, new jersey. it's monday, may 6th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." a plane erupted into flames people. what happened when the plane landed as the fire broke out. a warning to iran. the white house deploys an aircraft carrier and bomber task force amid fears of possible attacks on american forces. and president trump reverses course. why he now says special counsel robert mueller should not testify before congress.

good morning from studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters in new york. anne-marie green is off. i'm brook silva-braga. good to be with you. president trump now says special counsel robert mueller should not testify before congress. that's a change in position and it's raising questions with house democrats. they've set the date of may 15th at the date for his testimony. that's next week. it would mark the first time with regard to russian interference. tom hanson is in new york with why some lawmakers from bothet sides of the i'll say they want him to testify. good morning. >> good morning, brook. if there's one thing they want to hear, it's from robert mueller. he's been tight-lipped throughout the two-year investigatio now

president says he wants to keep it that way. president trump has reversed course, now insisting special counsel robert mueller should not testify before congress. on friday the president said that he'd leave mueller's testimony up to his attorney general william barr who was asked about it last week by the senate judiciary committee, but yesterday the president retweeted that stance, stating, bob mueller should not testify. er earlier in the day both took to the morning political shows saying they're eager to hear from the author of the 400-plus-page investigation. >> he's spent well over $30 million, had all the assets in place with the grand jury. he is the one that's the central figure here. >> on "fox news sunday," david cicilline said the date of the 15th has been the date to testify so far. >> the white house said they would not interfere. >> cicilline later testified on twitter nothing has been agreed to yet and that a date had only

been proposed but not yet accepted. and in the meantime house judiciary chairman jerry nadler has given tone jern real barr until today to deliver an unredacted version of the report. brook? >> tom hanson here in new york. thanks. the u.s. is deploying an aircraft carrier to the middle east after fears of a possible attack. it's in response to troubling indications and warnings from iran. among the those being dough employed is the "uss abraham lincoln carrier." . the israeli army lifted potential restrictions on people living in southern israel signaling a cease-fire with gaza. over the weekend they bombarded israel with hundreds of rockets while israel carried out hundreds of air strikes.

palestinian medical officials have confirmed israel's 23 deaths. four israelis were also killed. the bloody violence was the bloodiest since the 2014 war. investigators in russia confirm at least 41 people were killed when a passenger jet burst into flames during an emergency landing. the plane had just taken off on a flight from moscow to murmensk yesterday when the pilot was forced to turn around. massive flames engulfed the plane as it skidded down the runway. mola lenghi reports. >> reporter: a plane made an emergency landing at sheremetyevo airport outside of moscow. russian investigators say at least 41 of those people including two children were llono theshowngut from the side of the flame. other cellphone video shows desperate passengers using the

emergency explicit slides to escape and flee from the massive fireball behind them. there ere reports of bad weather in the region. about 30 minutes after takeoff the plane was forced to turn back for unspecified tech cal reasons. officials say the plane bounced upon landing, hitting its lane three times. the hard landing caused fuel to dispel. the pilot had more than 1,000 hours of experience flying the plane. the airplane belongs to the flagship russian carrier aeroflot. a criminal investigation has been opened in moscow, which is standard whenever there's an aviation death in russia. mola lenghi, cbs news, new york. back home a boeing 737 is expected to be pulled out of a florida river after it skidded off a runway. new video shows some of the 143 passengers and crew on the miami air charter flight on the plane's wing. this is just moments after it left the runway on friday.

22 people were treated for minor injuries, but all are expected to be okay. >> i was extremely lucky i was able to come home to my kids, my two boys. that's all i kept thinking about as i was trying to get out of the plane. >> the flight datta recorder has been recovered. investigators are still searching for the blavoice recorder. the cause of the crash, is, of course, under investigation. president trump's former personal lawyer michael cohen is expected to hold a news conference before reporting to prison later today. cohen was sentenced to three years for tax evasion, lying congress, and campaign finance crimes. he'll serve his time at a federal prison. the facility is known to be fairly comfortable. includes tennis courts. he'll be joined by prominent sources like richard sorrentino

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those are some of the headlines on the morning newsstand today. the "chicago tribune" reports another body was found in the rubble of an illinois chemical plant that exploded and burst into flames on friday. authorities say the body was found yesterday as search crews looked through debris at the silicone plant north of chicago. nine employees were there when it exploded. three people were killed and one person is still missing. canine dogs are helping in the search. >> however, when we're dealing with the chemicals, we're dealing with the heavy fire, all of those scents can throw a dog off as well. >> the cause of the explosion is under investigation. "the wall street journal" reports boeing knew about software problems with a cockpit safety alert on its 737 max jets for a year before telling the faa.

p it was designed to alert them when an important sensor might be providing incorrect information about the pitch of the plane's nose. that sensor malfunctioned during two flights that crashed, killing 46 people. officials say it was only after that second crash in martha boeing became more forthcoming about the problem. it isn't clear, though, if the alert system would have prevented either crash. the "washington post" says president trump picked a former border chief to become director of u.s. immigration and customs enforcement. mr. trump tweeted yesterday he had selected mark morgan who has publicly backed the president's border wall. morgan was in his position at border patrol for only a few months before he was ousted shortly after mr. trump took office. the president recently pulled the nomination of a previous choice to run i.c.e. the norew orleans advocate reports diana ross tweeted she felt violated by a tsa screener at the new orleans airport.

in a series of tweets yesterday, the 75-year-old singer described what she said was an overly intimate and aggressive pat-down by the screener. ross said the female tsa toucher touched her between her legs and tsa says it is investigating, but its initial video review of the incident says all protocols were followed. the owner of the winner country house feels terrible he has to apologize for his horse winning the race. his horse won only after officials disqualified the horse that crossed first, maximum security, for interfering with other horses. >> you know, you always want to win with a clean trip and have everybody recognize the horse as the very good horse, the great athlete that he is. >> maximum security's owner says he's considering appealing the decision. and, yes, even president trump

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here's a look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. ♪ i just wanna fly for folks who just can't get enough of airport food, another airport is letting visitors experience the restaurants, bars, and shops of its terminal without needing a boarding pass. tampa international airport is the second in the country after pittsburgh to offer such a program. the tampa airport says it will allow 25 people -- how is is g you would really want to do -- 25 people to visit each of its four terminals between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. they have to apply ahead of time and then will still have to go through airport security all to

eat at an airport restaurant. i didn't know they were that good. on the "cbs moneywatch" president trump threatens with more tariffs, and a recall of frozen chicken strips. diane king hall is at the new york stock exchange with that and more. good morning, diane. >> good morning, brook. china this morning says negotiators are state prepared to go ahead to washington for trade talks despite president trump's threat to raise tariffs. the president tweeted the current 10% tariff on some $200 billion of chinese goods will rise to 25% on friday. he also threatened to impose 25% levees on an additional $325 billion of chinese goods. that news sent the markets in asia falling this morning. u.s. stock futures are also lower. on wall street friday, the dow rallied 197 points following a strong jobs report. the s&p 500 added 28 and the ly 12 llion pounds of frozen chicken strips.

the company says the ready-to-eat strips may be contaminated with m metal. the recalled packages has p-7221 on the back of the packages and aous-by date of october 22, 2019, to march 7th, 2020. "avengers: endgame" still dominated the box office over the weekend. it brought in over $145 million. "endgame" is the highest grossing movie behind james cameron's movie "avatar" and "titanic." is a thriller came in second and the third with $10 million. bet on mimum security to win,

place, or show in the kentucky derby lost a combined $9 million. $8,000 to win. a little over $520,000 was bet on country house who ended up winning the derby. >> it turned into a lot of money for the folks who were lucky enough to have the right number. >> a numbers guy. you've got it, brook. >> diane king hall with all the numbers at the new york stock exchange. still to come, waves of love. a grandmother who had been waving to students from her window for more than a decade gets a fond farewell.

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♪ eye of the tiger he must be so sick of this song, huh? tiger woods has a tee time at the white house today. not exactly a tee time, but the golfing legend is scheduled to receive the presidential medal of freedom from the president in the rose garden later today. after years of injuries and personal issues, woods staged a comeback last month to win his fifth masters title. it was highly dramatic. afterward mr. trump tweeted mr. woods would receive the medal because of his, quote, incredible success and comeback in golf and more importantly life. it was a very special farewell for one woman in british columbia, canada.

take a look. >> oh, nice. oh, lovely, that. thank you, thank you. >> this is such a cool story. hundreds of teenagers showed up to say thank you and unfortunately good-bye to the woman they call the waving grandmother. you see, soon after tinney davidson moved into her home more than a decade ago, she started waving to students as they walked past her window to school, and the students started waving back. i guess, why not. now the 88-year-old is leaving, moving to an independent living facility, so the kids turned out to wave good-bye one last time. >> i was shocked again that there's so many kids that wanted to say good-bye to me. >> it's not the first time she's been honored. in 2014 the students held a valentine's day assembly for

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and investigators in russia now confirm at least 41 people were killed when a passenger jet burst into flames during an emergency landing. the plane was flying from moscow to murmensk yesterday. the cause of the crash is under investigation. president trump says despite north korea's launch of short-range missiles over the weekend, a nuclear deal with the country is still possible. david martin reports. >> reporter: according to u.s. intelligence north korea fired off rockets and short-range missiles, none of them capable of threatening the u.s., but all of them able to reach targets in south korea. kim jong-un personally oversaw what the north koreans call a strike drill, which some experts interpret as a warning to the south for having resumed military exercises with the u.s. kim had recently met with russia's president putin, and secretary of state mike pompeo

spoke with margaret brennan on "face the nation" and said that might have had something do with it. >> after he met with president putin, he made the decision to take these actions. >> reporter: the drill did not violate kim's self-declared moratorium, and president trump tweeted it would not torpedo chances of a deal in which north korea would give up its nuclear weapons. kim knows i am with him and does not want to break his promise to me. deal will happen. >> we are full speed ahead in trying to work the north koreans to diplomatically achieve the denuclearization on peninsula. >> reporter: without another summit, north korea seems to resume testing long-range weapons. david martin, cbs news, the pentagon. coming up later on "cbs this morning" on cbs "morning rounds," we mark melanoma monday with tips on how to protect cancer. against the deadliest

on "cbs this morning," the democratic presidential hopeful cory booker is set to release the details of a major new plan, and we'll talk with the royal wedding photographer for prince harry and meghan markle about his new children's book "thank you for my dreams." that's the "cbs morning news" for this monday. thanks for watching. anne-marie green is back tomorrow. i'm brook silva-braga. have a great day. s back s back tomorrow. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 studios . taking a look from the exclusive sales force cameras, some of you wake up to rain and fog this morning, good morning, it is monday, may 6.

>> monday, where did the weekend go? >> let's check in with mary. >> we will help ease you into monday as we kick off the new work week and you can see some showers on high definition doppler this morning. you can see some spotty showers right over the golden gate in san francisco and the richmond district as well as downtown san francisco and the chinatown area and a little bit over the bay bridge this morning. so some drizzle and a few showers as we start off the day. the microclimate along the coast, it is foggy,: upper 50s and that they will have some clearing, and we go partly sunny and cool in the low 60s for the bay and in the locations warming up to the low 70s and mild with a