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storm. >> announcer: this morning's "eye opener" presented by toyota. let's go places. >> what a thing to say to the viewers, i'm done with you people. >> it's funny but it's not funny. >> a lot of red on that map. >> and the pictures that keeps coming out of these tornados are phenomenally scary. >> t that is the longest stretch of time in nearly 40 years. >> this dangerous stretch of weather has been blamed for seven deaths and there have been, get this, 500 reported

tornadoes. cbs national correspondent is outside lynwood, kansas, where a massive tornado touched down just yesterday. what does it look like on the ground there? >> good morning. incredible images as the sun is starting to come up. where i'm standing is where one of the largest wholesale greenhouses stood in the midwest. you can see it's clearly in the direct path of this tornado, also overturning a couple delivery trucks. you can see the one behind me. there's debris spread everywhere as well as flower pots. a business that was once in this community more than 40 years is now forced to start from scratch. >> oh, my gosh! >> reporter: a nearly mile wide tornado ripped through kansas tuesday, destroying at least a dozen homes outside winwood. >> look at that! oh, my god! >> reporter: damaging winds flipped cars and pulled down trees and power lines. dina and several of her neighbors lost their homes. >> it's all gone.

hopefully tomorrow we will be able to salvage from stuff. we didn't lose everything. we didn't lose our lives. >> reporter: to the west lawrence was one of the hardest hit areas. >> we took cover in the corner of the basement by the concrete wall and heard everything upstairs blow up and water start rushing in from above love. >> reporter: at least 12 people were brought to lawrence memorial hospital for tornado-related injuries. crews at kansas city international airport cleaned up thousands of pieces of debris into the night, warning one piece of an engine can be catastrophic. >> all of a sudden it's like rapid fire machine guns hitting the side of the house. >> reporter: devastation from colorado to new jersey, pummeling parts of pennsylvania. >> things that were in the bedroom are in the dining room, doors off their hinges. yeah, it just did a number. >> reporter: the national weather service has received more than 900 reports of tornadoes so far this year. that's up more than 200 than on average. >> jericka, thank you.

tony, you were pointing out tornadoes are uniquely an american phenomenon. they happen other places but we get more than anywhere else. >> a rate of 10-1. the second most frequent country is canada. there's more weather issues out there. every county in oklahoma is under a state of emergency because of flooding. evacuations are in effect along the arkansas riv we are high waters explaining aging dams and evees. we're in portsmouth where the waters are reaching historic levels. how are the levees holding up? >> they are spilling over but that's not stopping a gentleman like this one, who was nice enough to let us use his vote this morning, where you can see the water is close to the roofline. the river is at 40 feet. that is a record. with rain in the forecast, it's only expected to rise.

it's a mission against rising waters. national guard helicopters swooped in yesterday dropping 5,000-pound sandbags to reinforce strained levees. some along the river took matters into their own hands, building makeshift barriers around their homes. floodwaters from the swollen arkansas river are threatening thousands of people from kansas to louisiana, where the mississippi river is now beginning to flood. hundreds of people in sand springs, oklahoma, had to evacuate when the river swallowed parts of that community. and in nearby tulsa, more than 1.2 million people are being warned water released from nearby keystone dam can threaten levees built in the 1940s. here in port smith, levees are holding up but waters are creeping into neighborhoods, like this one in riverland

terrace, which can only be themsed by boats. in the boat and see their house and we've offered storage in our house. >> bill walker has lived here for about 35 years. he hired contractors to build a wall to try to keep the creeping floodwaters at bay. >> how are you feeling watching this water come up? >> it's a bad feeling, but there's, you know, thousands of people just like my wife and i up and down the arkansas river that -- you know, they've already had to evacuate. so our prayers go out to them. >> the river is expected to crest today, but it's not expected to go down significantly for several days and not expected to return to its normal level possibly for several weeks, so this contaminated water is going to be around for a while. gayle. >> thank you again for letting

us use the boat. more severe weather and flash flooding is expecting in the midwest and the plains. cheap weather caster lonnie quinn ofwcbs-tv is here. how long is it going to last. >> today you still have the activity out there. i think you're going to focus on places like texas, oklahoma, missouri. it could sweep into portions of the northeast again. it could be calmer tomorrow. the rain goes into the small creeks and streams which feed into places like the arkansas river where all that record flooding. and if it sounds like we're going over the exact same places and the day before that and the day before that, it's because things are not changing in our atmosphere. we have all this searing heat in the south. we're running 30 degrees above average. savannah, four straight days of temperatures above. the warmest day ever at 102. 30 degrees below.

this jet stream pushing all the moisture. it's creating the spin, the tornadoes out there. a lot of folks wondering if there's a connection between tornadoes and climate change. we don't know. there's been no increase at all. but the days that have had tornadoes there have been more per day and dr. emmanuel put out this statement. it's impossible to see the connection. this is key. of all the weather types, we know the least about tornadoes and severe weather. i think it's best to say we don't know at this point in time. we need more information. anthony. >> very interesting. thanks. the supreme court's first decision of this term shows a reluctance to take on roe versus wade. the court voted 7-2 to uphold an indiana law. it restricts the disposal of remains after an abortion, but the justices refuse to overrule a decision by the lower courts

to block a state law that would have made it illegal to end a pregnancy because of race, gender, or medical disability. vice president mike pence signed both laws when he was indiana's governor. and in a story first reports on cbsnews.com, there will be no abortions in missouri starting this weekend if an abortion clinic closes. planned parenthood said the missouri health department is threatening not to renew the license for the st. louis facility. it expires on friday. cbs news reporter kate smith broke the news yesterday. >> there are multiple states with only one abortion clinic left. that's not an accident. they have only one because state lawmakers have been trying to close these clinics through these regulations that regulation them essentially out of business. >> there are six states that have only one abortion clinic, and if the license is not renewed, missouri would become

the first state without legal abortion since the roe versus wade decision way back in 1973. in our next hour planned parenthood president and ceo leana wen will be in studio 57 and we'll hear about the fight we have breaking news from washington. robert mueller will make his first public statement on the investigation in less than one hour. mueller oversaw as you know a nearly two-year probe of russian interference in the 2016 election. he concluded there's no conspiracy between the trump campaign and moscow, but he did decline to make a judgment on whether or not president trump obstructed justice. we will bring you robert mueller's remarks live in a special report around 8:00 pacific time. white house national security adviser john bolton says there's no reason for iran to back out of a nuclear deal,

other than to pursue nuclear weapons. he spoke this morning one year after president trump withdrew the u.s. from the iran agreement. bolton's is abu dhabi ahead of meetings with arab leaders. he also claimed iran was almost certainly behind the alleged sabotage of four oil tankers. the president has sometimes undercut bolton saying in one case that he is not seeking president's mar-a-lago resort had another security breach months before a woman from china by passed the secret service there. university of wisconsin's mark lindblom was arrested. what did he have to say yesterday? >> reporter: he told the judge he had no evil intention and tried to sneak in to see if he could. it was pretty easy, which explains why it's the second

intrusion in the past six months. he admits on november 23rd while the family was observing thanksgiving he snuck in through the tunnel that connects the beach to the club. before entering the tunnel he was screened by secret service but walked right onto the property. he was detained after the secret service said they noticed his behavior seemed out of place. they said lindblom did not have any contact with the first family, but his intrusion was several months before a chinese woman allegedly snuck into the club in march saying she was there for an event. she's pleaded not gl to lying to agents. lindblom has been sentenced to one year's probation. >> paula, is anybody concerned about security at mar-a-lago and are they doing anything about it? >> absolutely, gayle. it raises a lot of questions about what kind of access, sophisticated adversaries could gain. they say security at mar-a-lago

has been stepped up. after the march incident the president expressed his confidence in the secret service calling them fantastic people. tony? >> thank you. you can always buy your way in to get through the front door. >> that's true. all right. we're going to turn to this. oklahoma's top prosecutor blames corporate greed to what villafranca. we have learned. >> good morning. we have learned this is the first of 18 cases to go to trail. there's a lot of interest from

other states, drug makers and people affected from opioid abuse. >> i did everything to following him and drug testing him. >> reporter: but nothing emily walden did could save her son t.j., maybe of the kentucky national guard, from an ultimately fatal opioid addiction. that's what brought her here from kentucky for the start of this land mark case. >> the trial will set the stage for every lawsuit across the this y. country. >> reporter: oklahoma attorney general mike hunter is asking the judge to hold johnson & johnson liable for creating a public nuisance, contributing to the opioid epidemic through deceptive and misleading marketing. through opening remarks he accused the company of running a brainwashing campaign. >> money can make people and businesses do bad things. >> reporter: the state says drugmakers pushed clinicians to prescribe opioids making 149,000 sales businesses.

others settled out of court without any evidence of wrongdoing. >> we're going to show these companies worked together and johnson & johnson was in it up to their neck. >> reporter: johnson & johnson said their drugs were designed to be difficult to abuse and only prescribed a minimal share of oklahoma's market and the defense lawyer argued there's no proof the company's actions caused a single addiction or death. >> then how many would it take for two months. anthony? >> two months. wow, omar. thanks. a lot of people watching it very closely. a plane crash has killed two top safety officials with the u.s.

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we can't wait to see more of cody lee's emotional performance. everybody is talking about this. it moved simon cowell to tears. people were the big news this morning, it is a traffic alert on the bay bridge. it is slowing things down significantly. get a look at the map and it is in the red past 580. 4 miles an hour down to even slower than that, you speed up for a little bit but then basically come to a halt at the start of the toll plaza. this is due to an accident that now has the bay bridge down to two lanes in the westbound direction. take a look at all of those accidents as a result of that. kind of in the wake of that first accident. you basically have to either take the richmond san rafael bridge or the san mateo bridge as an alternate route. the reroute is going to be great. it might be a bit longer but it's not going to be the 120 minutes you're going to be sitting in traffic from highway

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good wednesday morning to you. we are starting off the day with some low clouds and patchy light fog in some spots. as we head through the day, all of us will have that sunshine. enjoy it. along the coast, 60 degrees for the bay, mid to upper 60s and inland locations topping out in the low to mid-80s and that's a 24-degree temperature spread from the coast to our inland locations. our pollen report looking at medium levels for today, increasing thursday, friday and for saturday. and there we go with that seven- day forecast, slightly cooler, a few more clouds for thursday and for friday, but still above average. we are going to warm up as we head through the weekend with plenty of sunshine with high pressure building in for us and we heat up even more still next monday and next tuesday, inland topping out in the low 90s. topping out in the low 90s. ive.

can you talk about the dance-off? can you say anything about that. >> no. i don't -- >> that was such a fun moment. nacho was at the wedding. he was like me no speak english. i'm not optimistic. >> we're hoping to hear a lot from him. you know someone else we're hearing from for the first time, the hiker in hawaii lost for 17 days in the forest. she's calling her rescue a miracle. amanda eller is her name. she describes her fight for survival as a spiritual boot camp. jonathan vigliotti is at the medical center where eller was treated for her injuries. jonathan, did she say there was ever a time she lost hope out there? >> reporter: yeah, to start with the hope part of it, she had

hope for a few days she would run into somebody or find a trail that would lead back to her car. as you can imagine after days went on she did lose hope. she reported somehow she saw and heard 20 helicopters overhead. she would stand on rocks and try to gain their attention and nobody saw her until luck changed her lie. >> when i looked up and saw the helicopter and he was pointing at me, i fell to the ground and started bawling. >> she describes the moment she was spotted and getting lost for 17 days. >> iri >> i was like, shoot, these are not bike paths. these are not walking paths. these are boar paths. >> reporter: the wilderness took its toll. a day after injuring her knew in a 20-foot fall, she lost her shoes in a flash flood. >> i was sitting in a foot of water on hard rocks that i knew

were digging into my skin. i couldn't sleep. i was shaking so hard that the only thing i could do was meditate. it was the only thing that brought me peace. >> reporter: the physical therapists desperately tried to signal for help. >> i was putting sos on rocks. i would putting any kind of clothing i could take off my body out so they could see there was a sign of a human being there. >> reporter: then, just as she questioned whether she would ever be rescued, her prayers were answered. >> my heart just fell through my feet. i collapsed. i had a plant in my mouth i was planning on eating for dinner. i don't know how they spotted me. that is a miracle. >> reporter: eller says she has no plans to return to the forest any time soon, but she does have a new appreciation for life. >> grateful for every breath, grateful for everything, and i hope i never lose that. >> reporter: eller's legs are still pretty banged up from walking through all of that pretty thick brush. she's going to be on crutches,

we're told, for at least two weeks, but she says she's going to get on her feet as quickly as she can. the is a physical therapist. she says she wants to focus on her patience healing. >> it will be great for her to get back into action. what, if anything, did she say she learned from all this? >> reporter: yeah, hindsight is always 20/20. she expressed some regretd, specifically with her phone. she wanted to unplug. she says she's never going to unplug again. though, keep in mind, this was supposed to be a three-mile jog. she never expected it to be this fight for her life. >> that is interesting that meditation was the thing that comforted her through all this. jonathan, thank you so much. >> but i have to say, i think it's another great endorsement for meditation. you always hear about these stories of people getting through very difficult times. download your head space meditation app. it really does work. i can't get enough. i'm so fascinated by this woman, that she kept her cool, that she was able to get through. i can't get enough of this

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>> reporter: ashton kutcher will be called by the prosecution to help establish time of death of one of the l.a.-area victims. kutcher was supposed to go on a date with ashley on the night she was murdered, but when she didn't answer the phone earlier in the evening to confirm that date, kutcher went to her hollywood home and knocked on the door. >> mr. kutcher is part of the chronology of the this case. >> reporter: during opening statements, prosecutors told jurors they believe ashley was attacked from behind by michael garguilo. after she exited her shower on february 21st, 2001. it was around 10:45 p.m. when ashton kutcher arrived. >> mr. kutcher looked in the window and saw what he thought was spilled wine on the floor. we believe the evidence will show that was actually bloo >> reporter: kutcher allegedly told police when she didn't answer the door, he left.

ellerin was found by her room nate the next morning brutally stabbed to death. prosecutors describe garguilo as a methodical, systematic killer. he's accused of attacking at least four women, three in california and one in illinois. michelle murphy, the prosecution's first witness, was allegedly garguilo's only survivor. prosecutors claim murphy battled for the knife they say garguilo used to stab her, cutting him and leaving his dna at the crime scene, dna that was found years earlier on another victim across the country. >> why were you all called to be here? >> they are using some of our case with these california cases due to the link of the dna. >> reporter: the family of 18-year-old trisha was called to testify in this trial because of the similarities between trisha's 1993 death in suburban chicago and the three cases from

l.a. county. investigators believe she was garguilo's first victim. her murder remained unsolved until 2011 when two witnesses came forward after watching a "48 hours" mystery report on the case. within a few weeks, garguilo was indicted. his attorneys say he's not guilty of killing anyone. the family had never met the two witnesses who blew open the case until they all came to l.a. to testify. >> i think it was very noble, what you did. >> heroes, right? >> yes. >> reporter: but they must wait for the trial here in l.a. to end before garguilo can be brought back to stand trial for their daughter's death. >> fighting for this case goes on with me forever, and that's the way it's going to be. >> reporter: having sat through testimony in this trial, i can tell you that most of it has been gut wrenching and grueling,

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it's that time again. mr. duthiers is here. >> i am here. >> what did he say. >> i am here. >> i am here. >> good morning to all of you. here are a few stories we think you're going to be talking about today. a lone republican congressman blocked a $19 million aid bill. massey objected to consenting to the vote. lawmakers from both parties criticized massey's move. the republican controlled senate has already approved the aid. this is aid that will help states hit by hurricanes and the wildfires. they say it's a budget thing and it leaves out money for the wall. >> i'd be curious to what his constituents have to say. >> i wonder what's really going on there. >> it's supposed to pass eventually. now to this.

mackenzie bezos has become the second richest woman after divorcing amazon founder jeff bezos. she's plaejed to give half of her $37 billion portion to charity. she's been encouraged to donate more than half. >> i heard she has a disproportionate amount of money she now wants to share. good for her. >> it's a very good gesture. >> very admirable. >> i wonder how much money you have to have to give into this. >> once you're a billionaire. >> she has a lot. more power to her. she could give away a million dollar a day until she reaches 100 and not run out. interestingly he did not sign the giving pledge but he did tweet support. >> he could spend his money on other things. >> that's true. >> i sense some judgment there. >> no. no judge at all.

>> journalistic comparison. problems i would like to have. >> also true. >> could be post marital warfare going on, that's all i'm saying. we hope not. >> we hope not. there's this now. the smithsonian institution will have a black leader for the first time in its 173-year history. lonnie bunch, a good friend of this show, was chosen to take over the largest museum. bunch is the founding director of the national museum. this is 19 museums, nine research centers. >> i called him yesterday to say congratulations. he said he's overwhelmed, excited, and a bit terrified. he's looking forward to it. we got know him with the ore museum he opened. it's so well deserved. i'm so excited for him. >> 19 museums. that's a big job. >> he can do it. we'll be watching. okay. a powerful and inspiring

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good morning. 7:56, starting out your morning with a traffic alert and it is a bad one. i'm talking an additional two hours on your drive. looking at our maps, this is a result of a crash on the bay bridge that's still at this hour has two lanes blocked in the westbound direction. that means everybody has got to get over the bay bridge in only three lanes. look how slow the drive times are. the red is backed up way back there where you see the blue dot, that's our live camera i'm going to show you in just a second. in the meantime the richmond san rafael bridge is a much better option because it's green all the way into the city. and also the san mateo bridge, though there is an accident there and some red, at least you continue to keep moving. so remember that live picture i was going to show you? this is at san pablo dam road,

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good wednesday morning to you, starting off the day with patchy fog. plenty of sun and temps warming up. your micro climate forecast is about the micro clements from 60 along the coast and breezy, plenty of sun and warming up to the low to mid-80s inland. 24-degree temperature spread from the coast to our inland locations. our pollen report, allergy sufferers medium for today, it increases thursday, friday and for saturday and here's that seven-day forecast, slightly cooler thursday, friday, a few more clouds as we head through the weekend, temperatures will be warming up well above average, plenty of sunshine saturday and for sunday with high pressure really building in, check out monday and tuesday, inland we are talking

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this is a cbs news special report. i'm margaret brennan in new york. special counsel robert mueller is about to make his first statement since his report on the russia investigation was released to the public. he will speak shortly at the justice department. the nearly two-year investigation ended in april and concluded there was no conspiracy between the trump campaign and russia let's listen now. >> two years ago the acting attorney general asked me to serve as special counsel, and he created the special counsel's

office. the appointment order directed the office to investigate russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. this included investigating any links or coordination between the russian government and individuals associated with the trump campaign. i have not spoken publicly during our investigation. i'm speaking out today because our investigation is complete. the attorney general las made the report on our investigation largely public. we are formally closing the special counsel office and as well i'm resigning from the department of justice to return to private life. i'll make a few remarks about the results of our work, but beyond these remarks, it's important that the office's written work speak for itself. let me begin where the appointment order begins, and

that is interference in the 2016 presidential election. as alleged by the grand jury in an indictment, russian intelligence officers who were part of the russian military launched a concerted attack on our political system. the indictment alleges that the use of sophisticated cyber techniques to hack into computers and networks used by the clinton campaign. they stole private information and then released that information through fake online identities and through the organization wikileaks. the releases were designed and timed to interfere with our election and to damage a presidential candidate. and at the same time as the grand jury alleged in a separate indictment, a private russian entity engaged in a social media operation where russian citizens posed as americans in order to influence an election.

these indictments contain allegations and we're not commenting on the guilt or innocence of any specific defendant. every defendant is presumed unless and until proven guilty. the indictments alleged and the other activities in our report to describe efforts to interfere with our political system, they needed to be investigated and understood. and that is among the reasons why the department of justice established our office. that is also a reason we investigated efforts to obstruct the investigation. the matters we investigated were of paramount importance and was critical for us to obtain full and accurate information from every person we questioned. when a subject of an investigation obstructs that investigation or lies to investigators, it strikes at the core of the government's effort

to find the truth and hold wrong wrongdoers accountable. let me say a word about the report. the report has two parts, addressing the two main issues we were asked to investigate. the first volume of the report details numerous efforts emanating from russia to influence the election. this includes the discussion of the trump campaign's response to this activity as well as our conclusion that there was insufficient evidence to charge a broader conspiracy. in the second volume, the report describes the results and analysis of our obstruction of justice investigation involving the president. the order appointing me special counsel authorized us to investigate actions that could obstruct the investigation. we conducted that investigation and we kept the office of the

acting attorney general apprised of the progress of our work. as set forth in the report after that investigation, if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. we did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime. the introduction to the volume two of our report explains that decision. it explains that under longstanding department policy, a president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office. that is unconstitutional. even if the charge is kept under seal and hidden from public view, that, too, is prohibited. the special counsel's office is part of the department of justice, and by regulation, it was bound by that department policy. charging the president with a crime was, therefore, not an option we could consider.

the department's written opinion explaining the policy makes several important points that further informed our handling of the obstruction investigation. those points are summarized in our report, and i will describe two of them for you. first, the it permits the investigation of a sitting president because it's important to preserve evidence while memories are fresh and documents are available. among other things, that evidence could be used if there were co-conspirators who could be charged now. second, the opinion says that the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing. beyond department policy, we were guided by principles of fairness. it would be unfair to potentially -- it would be

unfair to potentially accuse somebody of a crime when there can be no court resolution of the actual charge. so that was justice department policy. those were the principles under which we operated, and from them we concluded that we would not reach a determination one way or the other about whether the president committed a crime. that is the office's final position, and we will not comment on any other conclusions or hypotheticals about the president. we conducted an independent criminal investigation and reported the results to the attorney general as required by department regulations. the attorney general then concluded that it was appropriate to provide our report to congress and to the american people. at one point in time, i requested that certain portions of the report be released. the attorney general preferred

to make the entire report public all at once, and we appreciate that the attorney general made the report largely public, and i certainly do not question the attorney general's good faith in that decision. now, i hope and expect this to be the only time that i will speak to you in this manner. i am making that decision myself. no one has told me whether i can or should testify or speak further about this matter. there has been discussion about an appearance before congress. any testimony from this office would not go beyond our report. it contains our findings and analysis and the reasons for the decisions we made. we chose those words carefully, and the work speaks for itself. the report is my testimony. i would not provide information beyond that which is already public in any appearance before

congress. in addition, access to our underlying work product is being decided in a process that does not involve our office. so beyond what i have said here today and what is contained in our written work, i do not believe it is appropriate for me to speak further about this investigation or to comment on the actions of the justice department or congress. it's for that reason i will not be taking questions today as well. now, before i step away i want to thank the attorneys, the fbi agents, the analysts, the professional staff who helped us conduct this investigation in a fair and independent manner. these individuals who spent nearly two years with the special counsel's office were of the highest integrity. i will close by reiterating the central allegation of our indictments, that there were

multiple systematic efforts to interfere in our election. that allegation deserves the attention of every american. thank you. thank you for being here today. >> special counsel robert mueller speaking for the very first time publicly about his two-year investigation and its conclusions regarding russian interference in the 2016 election. he began and ended underscoring that there was a concerted attack on our election by russian intelligence officers, the gru, reiterating again that this was sweeping and systematic interference saying that is where the focus should be. notably he did also explain where some of the questions that circulated lately, and that is around the obstruction of justice allegations and why he did not conclude or, in his words, did not exonerate the president on potential charges there. he said today it was not an

option we could consider, really putting it in context to standing department of justice policy saying it was essentially what constrained them from doing so. you cannot do so to a sitting president. paula reid is a lawyer, she's been a reporter for two years on this. she's with us at the justice department. paula, what stood out to you from what mueller said today? >> reporter: margaret, this is so remarkable. this is the first time we've heard from the special counsel since he was appointed almost exactly two years ago. we were told that the white house was notified that mueller might make a statement. a source suggested to me that this testimony -- this statement may be in lieu of future testimony, his efforts to arrange a way for him to answer questions before congress has so far stalled. you heard him in these remarks. he said his testimony is his report. if he were to answer any additional questions, they wouldn't go beyond the findings in his report.

what i thought was so significant is what specifically he chose to highlight in this approximately eight minutes. specifically on obstruction of justice. while the president likes to say that the mueller report was total exoneration for him and his campaign, the fact is mueller did not exonerate the president. he said he could not exonerate the president and laid out a lot of evidence to suggest that the president may have committed obstruction of justice. but in his remarks today, the special counsel made sure to wed the fact that he couldn't exonerate the president with the fact that there is a policy here at the justice department that rod rosenstein who oversaw this investigation also believed should be upheld, which is that you cannot criminally charge a president. i think that's incredibly significant that he pointed out. i said i didn't exonerate him. there's a policy. he didn't say he couldn't exonerate him based on the evidence. the majority of americans, according to nbc news polls, do think mueller should answer questions before congress. we'll see if this statement today means he doesn't have to

testify or democrats and others continue to push for him to answer questions before congress. >> we go to chief washington correspondent major garrett standing by at the white house. major, do we know the president was watching this statement today? >> reporter: we certainly suspect he was. white house officials told us they got notice yesterday that bob mueller would speak. everyone here is curious about what he would say and how he would say it. i think for the political atmosphere around this investigation, the most important thing the special counsel just said was the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system when you have this question of potential presidential wrongdoing, and the justice department forbids an indictment of a sitting president. translated, what does that mean? what was the special counsel saying to congress, particularly house democrats? there's evidence, if you believe this is efficient to empanel an impeachment committee, that's the constitutional remedy that

i'm outlining when there is a justice department regulation forbidding an indictment of a sitting president. essentially bob mueller said there is a process. it's called impeachment. it's in congress' hands now. this report speaks for itself. it can't amplify it, i will not amplify it in testimony to congress. now house democrats it's up to you. what are you going to do with the evidence laid out in this report. >> major garrett, thank you. i want to bring in for some analysis, cbs news legal analyst, jonathan turley who joins us from washington, constitutional law professor at george washington university. robert mueller essentially saying i went as far as i can go here. why did the justice department, why did they ask him to make this statement today? >> it doesn't sound like they asked him to make this statement according to him. i have to tell you, he's dead wrong on that doj memo. there's nothing in that memo

that prevents him from reaching a conclusion. attorney general bill barr and deputy attorney general told him to reach a conclusion, that there was not such a policy. >> sorry. can you clarify? what we heard the special counsel say was the standard that you cannot indict a sitting president. >> right. but then he extrapolated from that. that is clear. he's right about that. he extrapolated and said, if you can't indict a president, you shouldn't find evidence of a crime. that's what a special counsel does. that's what he signed up to do. also there's nothing that says he can simply refuse to answer questions before congress. congress has a good argument there. but one thing that came out of this conference is a direct contradiction now between mueller and attorney general barr. bill barr said that mueller told him and rosenstein clearly and repeatedly that the doj memo said you can't indict a sitting president was not the reason

they were not going to reach a conclusion on obstruction. he has now basically thrown down a very strong position contradicting that. he says that that was the reason that, was a well-studied decision of his team that they could not find evidence. rod rosenstein was in that meeting. does he recall mueller saying as well that he was not constrained by the doj memos. >> very quickly, jonathan, does the attorney general want the special counsel to testify before congress? >> i think he does. he has said that he has no objection to mueller testifying. that's the reason i find this all rather strange. the attorney general says you can testify. congress has an oversight --

legitimate oversight interest in your testimony. and what mueller is saying is, if you call me, i'm just going to read from the report. >> let's go to capitol hill where we find nancy portis. >> nancy, this is not going to satisfy them. >> no. but here is what democrats who have been pushing for an impeachment inquiry to be opened will like from what they heard from robert mueller this morning. he said point-blank, if he had confidence that the president did not commit a crime, he would have said so in his report. those democrats are going to take that as a sign that he thinks that there is some there there that should perhaps be moved away from the justice department and into the congressional realm in the form of some kind of impeachment inquiry. they're also going to like the

fact that he said -- he didn't say point-blank, margaret, that he would not testify on capitol hill. he left that open. but here is what will probably discourage a lot of democrats who have visions of the special counsel coming here to capitol hill, testifying in public and going into great detail about all these potential cases of obstruction of justice committed by the president. he said that, if he does testify, he won't go any farther than he already has in the report. >> nancy cordes on capitol hill. this friday on "cbs this morning," our jan crawford will have an exclusive interview with attorney general william barr. it will be his first network tv interview since president trump appointed bar to lead the justice department. you can expect all this will be put to question. tune in to "cbs this morning" then. our coverage will continue on our 24-hour streaming network. you can watch it at cbsnews.com

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sailor with a promising career. that career was cut short by a murder. it involves three suspects, an illicit love affair, a hit man, and a woman who loved nothing more than money. >> cory voss returned from deployment and he was at home with his wife also known as kat. they had a romanive dinner. >> kt tells cory she needs money for the children's lunches the next day at school. she asks him to go to the atm. >> an individual entered the passenger side of his vehicle and pointed the weapons at cory. >> and what we now know, he went to an adjacent parking lot. new port police arrive at the parking lot and find cory voss deceased in his vehicle with multiple gunshot wounds. >> my partners and i responded and talked to her. she was distraught, screaming.

this seemed like it was overkill. >> throughout the investigation, leads led us to multiple individuals involved with the murder of cory voss. >> one suspect david brunnian, they stopped his car and found what investigators call the smoking map. >> and on that map was handwritten langley credit union, a detailed description of cory voss's truck as well as cory voss's name written on there. i thought how dumb can this guy be to still have in his possession something that unequivocally links him to cory voss. >> i nerve have come across a triangle of three individuals with no connection initially thanned up in a cold-blooded murder of somebody who was totally innocent. >> and you can watch roadmap to murder tonight at 9:00, 8:00 central right here on cbs. it will be followed by a second

n ncis: the cases they can't forget. that's called "heartless." >> people can't get enough of cr e stories. good morning. here at 8:25 we are starting your day out with a very bad traffic alert. it includes the bay bridge and it's going to be an additional two plus hours to your commute. i would take the richmond san rafael bridge or the san mateo bridge as an alternate route. realtime traffic maps here, look at this, you are underneath 10 miles an hour the whole way on the east shore freeway all the way through the toll plaza and then once you finally get past that accident, only then do you start to move at an actual regular rate of speed. it's backed up on 580, parts of 880 are backed up as well. it is slow going this morning and as a result i'm going to circle several traffic accidents that have -- or have happened as a result of those packups. again, richmond san rafael bridge because the marin

commute looks nice or the san mateo bridge depending on where you are coming from or where you're going, it's going to be worth the extra time because it's an 84 minute drive on the east shore freeway, backed up -- this is san pablo dam road and this looks like this pretty much to highway 4, it's about an hour and a half just to get to the bridge and half an hour to get through the toll plaza, about two hours of a delay. take a look at the toll plaza here, you are pretty much parked just trying to go westbound and in the far background on the east shore freeway you aren't seeing very much movement at all. you can see the reflections on the windshield. it's creeping along. the windshield. it's creeping along.

good wednesday morning to you. starting off the day with low clouds, patchy light fog and also catching a little bit of sunshine on our roof camera this morning. as we take you through the afternoon, we are going to see that sunshine about 60 degrees along the coast and breezy, mid to upper 60s for the bay and low to mid-80s inland. all about the micro climates for today, about a 24-degree temperature spread from the coast to our inland location. so as we head through the afternoon, some of our specific daytime highs 67 in san francisco, 69 in oakland, 74 in fremont, 75 mountain view, 78 in san jose, 82 for concord and 81 for livermore. slightly cooler for tomorrow, a few more clouds thursday and for friday, plenty of sun as high pressure builds in just in time for the weekend with temperatures really warming up inland and check out monday and tuesday of next week, light offshore winds soaring into the low 90s inland monday and

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the ceremonial first pitch, which i can't decide whether that's the first worst pitch in baseball history or the best first pitch in baseball history. >> these ooh hysterical. >> she might have been aiming for him. chicago white sox had their employee of the month throw out the first pitch. as you saw, she through the first pitch into the photographer's lens. don't, worry. he's okay. >> he got the picture. that's good. >> i like that you point out

she's employee of the month, so apparently she's very good at her job, but they're not releasing her name because they don't want her to get the backlash. >> i have a feeling her colleagues are going to find that picture and put it on her desk. >> she's going to hear about this for a couple of days. welcome back to "cbs this morning." it's time to bring you that story. over here, tony. camera two. i was looking at the wrong camry tony is like over here, gayle. over at you, camera two. tony, you go first. >> i'm going first. i was prepared to go second. i'll scramble. >> do you waenltd anthony to go first? >> no. i can do it off the cuff. kit harington, john snow from "game of thrones." >> have you discussed this with her. >> a marital past. we could do a whole segment on marital pasts that okay. >> john snow, king of the north,

kit harington, he's having an amazing moment as an actor, but he's checking in to a wellness center for what his staff is calling personal issues. what i think is remarkable, it's a culmination of several episodes where he says, look, i know i'm supposed to be on top of the world. he says, inside i feel vulnerable, anxious. it shows you that no matter what it looks like on the outside, you have no idea what's going on on the inside. >> so true. i seem so fascinated by a marital past. my ex- had a marital past i didn't know about. anthony? jennifer hudson made a surprise appearance at the award ceremony paying tribute to aretha franklin paying tribute with a rousing rendition of

"amazing grace." ♪ ♪ amazing grace amazing grace ♪ >> she never disappoint poinlp. she's going to be playing aretha in a film. her flight got canceled, but she drove. >> like aretha who couldn't fly. >> she said she simply had to be there. the other thing is aretha is the first individual woman to earn a special citation from the pulitzer prize. >> so well deserved. you go, jennifer hudson. i love this story. it comes from washington state. think about this. a dad interviews his daughter every day from kindergarten to high school. i think of this for everybody. he posted the video on youtube. here's a look at how it goes. >> love you, madison. >> love you too. >> i love you. >> love you too. >> love you, kid. >> love you. >> love you, squishy. >> love you. >> love you too.

>> love you. >> love you too. >> love you, sweetie. >> love you. >> love you. >> love you. >> i love you. >> love you. >> it was a good first day. >> yes. >> mission accomplished. >> imagine this on the first day. that's madison's first day. every day he would say how's school today. what did you do today? as she gets older, you hear, okay, dad. that's such a great memory. >> every time i see this. >> me too. now you can do this, tony. >> i'm only about six weeks yet. >> he hasn't started school yet. that's the beauty. i used to do every month or every school year, but that's so much better. you get to hear and see him. i love this guy. madison and her dad. >> my kids used to ask can you pull out the videos? >> it's a pain when you're doing it but you appreciate it later. bravo to you, dad. coming up, danks and deadly overcrowding on mt. everest is not likely to end any time soon.

nepal says it has no plans to limit permits on the highest mountain. at least 11 people have died this season alone. they complain about traffic jams near an area with low oxygen levels. they call it the death zone. that's pretty direct. this season's death toll is the highest since the 2015 nepal earthquake that triggered an avalanche there. high altitude climber david -- jim davidson. good to have you here. >> thank you. >> you look good. >> thank you. i've got ten fingers. doing okay. >> a lot of crowding on mt. everest. more fatalities than they've seen in years.

what's going on there. >> bad weather. it got all compressed. it was a bigger crowd than average and maybe people that weren't trained. you stack all of them together and it turns out -- >> are there changes to the process that could fix this? >> the gocht issues permits but there seems to be no limit. they keep adding more. >> do you think they should? >> i think they should restrict it based on experience. if you keep letting more people come, it's going to be worse every year. >> i'm surprised. it's $11,000 to get the permit. >> correct. >> there's much more costs in terms of getting up with equipment and the time. >> it takes two months. the average cost might be 4r5$,000 and it takes a lot of personal time and stress on the family. >> you must know it's not going well as you're standing waiting in line. take us through the process that

people don't say, look, i'm out of here. >> we're in the dead zone. even on bottled oxygen, you're slowly dying. you can feel the energy draining out of your legs and core. it takes a lot just to exist. >> what are the people in line dealing with? >> they're dealing with that and i know i'm going to slow and want to summit. it's called summit fever. you want to summit. you're pulled with i want to go up, but i should go down. >> even though you could possibly die, you don't get down. is that the credo with you? >> i think if you're smart and have guides and companions, you say, this is not our day, let's go down. but it takes great restraint. >> when we pass each other, one of us has to unclip from the

other. >> do they? >> you're not speaking the same language. >> they know it's dangerous. sit possible in some takeaway from this that the allure of everest will actually increase and overcrowding will actually become more of a problem. >> you would think it would be less. >> you would think you would hear 11 people died and you might ask for a refund. >> you would think. after the disaster year, the numbers go up. it has some pool. it's a gorgeous mountain and a great experience to try to improve yourself and be part of a great team. >> there's no qualification required for getting the permit, correct? >> the guide company should do some screening, but maybe they don't do enough. some screen strictly and others don't. you can find some companies that let you go. >> how do you fix it?

>> climbers need to train harder. >> it sounds like self-regulation whochl's going to say i'm not qualified. >> who thinks they're an above average driver. >> exactly. >> one about way to do it is say you have to climb other high peaks and if you haven't climbed those, you won't go on everest. that will keep the business in nepal. >> climb with jim davidson. he's climbed it. one of polo's biggest names, nacho figueras, is defending his close friend prince harry. he joins us in the toyota green room. ahead, why he reactioned so

♪ ♪ >> nacho figueres is known around the world as the david beckham of polo. i disagree. i would say that david beckham is known as the nacho figueres of soccer. >> or football where he comes from. >> you're right anthony. he saddled up for a charity event with his close friend harry. this weekend figueres returns to

liberty state park overlooking new york city to lead his team in the 12th annual move pico polo classic. he joins us at the table to discuss. i look at this picture behind us which sets it up really well. look at those gorgeous horses. that's why i go, to look at all the horses. nacho, welcome back. so glad you're here. >> wonderful to be back. >> you've been doing it for 12 years and you do it because you say there's nothing like playing in liberty city, riding in liberty city. >> for new yorkers it's easy to understand. something magical about hitting the ball and all of a sudden you look up, the statue of liberty on your right, the new york city skyline in front of you. it's a very powerful feeling. look at that. it's a powerful thing. i get the chills every single time. >> i will be there on saturday. last week you were in rome,

because you do this all around. >> correct. i'm a professional polo player. i played in rome last week for a charity. >> for harry's chart. >> in new york this week, then california, aspen. we do the same event in los angeles, too, in october. >> polo is not as popular here as it is in your home country and other places as well. ever thought of getting a beer sponsor and having a pig roast for a bigger crowd? >> maybe that's the way to go about it. we'll talk about it afterwards. pico will be very happy. >> but with harry in rome, he got into a little bit of it -- i called people drinking hate-orade, how dare he play so soon after meghan giving birth. >> how dare a guy to tell a guy who is leaving his house for 24

hours, to raise money for vulnerable children in africa. how dare he say that? it bothers me how guys change thnarrative of the thing. if you don't pay attention and respond -- >> if you don't call them on it. >> yes, strongly, then that's the story. oh, prince harry left his house right his baby was born, how dare him leave his wife there? that's the story line. no, how dare you say that this guy is taking 24 hours off his precious time with his newborn baby to come raise money for kids. >> you're saying that should be the headline, not the other way around. >> that's the headline. i think this is a problem because otherwise we're all distracted and all in with our lives and looking at our phones. you go through your instagram or your news thing and you read, oh, this guy left his house, how dare he, and that's what stays in your head. you receive the information. it's edited in a way and you

process it that way. sometimes we're smart enough to know it, but kids or people that are not so focused or understand the real situation will just take it in like that. so i think it's crazy. >> it caught my attention because you're so very discreet about your friendship with him, the fact that you chose to speak up about it i think feels volumes about how strongly you feel about it. i know how guarded you are about them. >> very. i thought this was important because i think they are being misinterpreted in so many different ways. it bothers me a lot that -- >> how are they being misinterpreted? >> the headlines and the narrative is about them not getting along with so and so or not doing this or not doing that or is the baby sleeping or not sleeping? how about this guy, both of them wake up every morning and all they think about is help children, even this week.

he was there and we were at the hotel where we spend the night before the game, and he talked to a person and said, you know, this morning i got my coffee and i saw that you have a plastic thing on the coffee and i send my shirt. i got my shirt in a big plastic bag, can we please not use the plastic. that's this guy, okay? like you said, i don't like to talk about that at all. >> but you want the story to be right. >> that's who he is. that's who they are. no plastic -- >> they're trying to make the world a better place. >> we'll be right back with more on "cbs this morning." >> i'll see you saturday. i'll be there. alright boys, time for bed.

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want to share something that makes your life better. home depot worked overtime. this boy was born with hypotonia. it affects motor skills and makes it difficult to walk. his parnls worried the insurance would not cover the walker. that i wejts to a home depot in cedar town last week to buy parts to build one themselves. when employees heard logan's story, they surprised his parents, building the walker for him free of charge. the family was overwhelmed. >> it means so much. i'm ready for him to be running around and wearing me out, you know, trying to keep up with him, and this is just the first step. >> justin moore said the walker has also given his son a new independence. >> once again, it shows you kindless always works. they heard about it and on their own they did it. nicely done, home depot employees. >> it speaks volumes. >> that's the america we know

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good morning, 8:55 am, we're going into the fifth hour of the traffic alert. which destroyed the commute over the bay bridge. it's good to the maps, you could see how bad i'm talking about, there was an accident east of treasure island, all except for one lane are open so you can go across the bay bridge in four lanes but the damage is done. it's an absolute disaster, it backed up all the way to 580 and 13 split, way past 580, to highway 4, as you're trying to get to the maze itself, below 10 miles an hour for the vast majority. there's a whole herd of traffic collisions in the wake of that backup fender bender's, they

are too busy working on a traffic alert. my suggestion take the richmond san rafael bridge go 1012 s. marin into the city or the san mateo bridge and 101 to the peninsula, those are good commutes, drivetime is two hours extra as a result of that. this is all the way to write, things are finally working here, if you get a little bit further west, an absolute disaster, take a look at the toll plaza, to get from highway four, to the other side of the bridge it will add the 22 minutes itself, and the drivetime of 64 minutes, it's getting close to an hour and a half extra.

we are starting off the day with some sunshine in spots. here's a live look at the tower cam looking north to full skies. low clouds and patchy light fog in spots. as we head to the afternoon enjoy the sunshine. this afternoon, 60 in and breezy along the coast, mid to upper 60s for the bay low to mid 80s inland. warming up of a above average for this time of year, 67 in san francisco, upper 60s oakland, mid 70s redwood city fremont mountain view upper 70s san jose as well as for vallejo, low 80s concord, livermore and phil field.

warming up as we head to the weekend and special into early next week. arly next

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