i'm bob simon. journalism loses a legend and cbs loses a colleague and friend. we'll remember veteran "60 minutes" correspondent bob simon. >> he walked his way down the battle, what he called a jungle of screaming souls. >> isil is on the defensive and isil is going to lose. >> he wants to launch military action against isis but his idea is met with skepticism by some in congress. >> do you have tonight's winning ticket? >> three tickets matched all of the numbers in laugh night's powerball lottery drawing worth more than half a billion dollar. captioning funded by cbs

this is the "cbs morning news" for thursday february 12th 2015. good morning. i'm lauren lyster in for anne-marie green. veteran cbs news correspondent bob simon is being remembered the morning as a reporter's reporter. a gifted writer who reported from the most dangerous places on earth. simon was killed last night in a car accident here in new york city. he was a passenger in a cab that hit another car that had stopped at a traffic light. cbs news anchor scott pelley announced simon's death in a special report. >> his body of work earned bob too many journal is tick medals to count here tonight. his daughter tania is a producer and tonight our thoughts are with tania and bob's family and his many many friends. >> during his 47 years here at cbs news simon reported on

everything from riots to movies but it was as a foreign correspondent that simon made his name. kris van cleave reports on simon's remarkable career. >> i'm bob simon. >> general, call me a fool. >> no i won't. >> reporter: bob simon was a legendary news man, a gifted storyteller, a scholar and one time foreign service officer with that distinct voice of truth. >> but he looked so dashing. he was the epitome of a foreign correspondent. he was brave. he would go places where you probably shouldn't have gone. >> reporter: simon came to cbs news in 1967. four years later he moved to saigon to cover the vietnam war. he was one of the last continues to leave as it fell. he built a career in war zones around the world. the falklands, yugoslavia

somalia, including every decade. >> tel a viv was created by sadness, sadness beyond works. >> reporter: he wrenlt he was risking his life along the way. >> we saw a jeep in the distance, an iraqi army jeep and they took us away. >> reporter: during the opening days of the first gulf in 1991. simon and three members were taken prisoner by the iraqi military and held as p.o.w.s in iraqi prisons for 40 days. >> has this changed you? >> yeah. >> how? >> i don't know. too early to tell. >> reporter: simon joined "60 minutes" in 1996. this was his 19th season on the broadcast, reporting last week on "selma." he won 40 emmy awards including this one about poor members who constructed their instruments out of trash. >> just look and listen. ♪

>> reporter: this is the recycled orchestra. "60 minutes" producer jeff prager praised his friend. >> he loved what he does. a body of work that i think is difficult to match. >> bob simon was 73. kris van cleave, cbs news new york. reaction to simon's death is pouring in from journalists who remember him for his lifetime of contributions to news and his writing. on twitter cnn's candy crowley called simon a courageous no-nonsense reporter with a touch of poet. larry king recalled him as a great reporter and wonderful man. shortly after learning of his death, cnn host and "60 minutes" contributor anderson cooper called simon a warrior of poet.

>> one of the best in the world of getting a story, telling a story, writing a story, and making it simply unforgettable. >> and "cbs evening news" anchor and simon's "60 minutes" colleague scott pelley tweeted one of the great writers of a jen ration has passed. bob simon was a journalist of extraordinary courage. scott pelley will share more of his memories of bob simon coming up on "cbs this morning." this morning reaction by congress to president obama's request for authorization to use military force against islamic militants can be called buy partisanpart partisan skepticism. democrats think he's asking for too much republicans, not enough. susan mcginnis with more on the war powers debate. good morning. >> good morning. the president laid out his case to congress yesterday for allowing the u.s. to become more involved militarily in the fight

against isis including use of ground troops. here on capitol hill that plan is coming under fire both from those who believe he needs do more and those that believe the heavy lifting in this war, the ground battle, should but be the u.s. it's now up to congress to debate and pass president obama's proposeal to use military action against militants. they'll soon hold hearings where the white house is expected to lay out its strategy and still congress could try to change the resolution. >> as a nation we need to ask the difficult and necessary questions about when why, and how we use military force. >> the president's plan opens the door to using american ground troops. it rules out so called enduring offensive operations action beyond three years for which another vote would be needed but lawmakers on both sides are concerned and say they wayment

details before they'll authorize support. >> we provide it. we can't police a region that won't police itself. >> some republicans say the plan doesn't go far enough. >> the president's point is he wants to dismantle and destroy isis. i haven't seen a strategy yet that i think will accomplish that. >> stressing the threat from isis extends to the u.s. homeland the president referred to the four american hoss tax, most recently 26-year-old aid - worker kayla mueller. the draft calls for isis with the murders and ground force infusion operations. now, along with rescue operations the president said this resolution also allows him to use special forces to take military action against isis leaders. lauren? >> susan mcginnis in washington. thanks, susan. the ongoing battle over the keystone xl oil pipeline is coming to a head. congress sent president obama a bill authorizing construction of the pipeline.

the house passed the measure yesterday, endorsing a bill already passed by the senate. the president has threatened to veto the measure. neither chamber has enough votes to overcome a presidential veto. this morning the news about the weather is all about the cold. an arctic front with dangerous windchills is moving over the upper midwest and headed east. meteorologist eric fisher of our boston station wbz is tracking the potentially record braking freeze. >> a cold front is kicking off here, minnesota, portions of-month-old. could feel as cold as 25 below zero, maybe as low as 40 below. ufl this behind a front will bring some scattered snow showers across the northeast as well as we head toward the evening. not anticipating a lot but it does deliver a shot of the chilly air. looking for the highs in the single digits. 40s in a place like atlanta, but

we look into the north heading into the weekend. a big cold blast that's challenged records. high temps, below zero on saturday and the 20s starting to move their way south. the real brunt of all this is on sunday. highs in the 40s in florida. 30s around atlanta. they say stuck around the freezing mark. lots of single digits and teens. we'll be challenging and likely breaking a few records with that. as that cold moves in a large storm develops this one has the potential to become a blizzard for eastern new england by saturday night. places that are absolutely buried could see more than a foot of snow again. i'm meteorologist eric fisher for cbs news. coming up on the "morning news," the "american sniper" trial. testimony begins in the matter of the killing of sniper chris kyle. and multiple winners in last night's powerball drawing. this is the "cbs morning news." but it won't cause me discomfort.

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investigating whether religion played a role in a triple murder tuesday. the three victims were muslim and the accused gunman describes himself as a gun toting atheist. vicente arenas reports. >> reporter: the killings were mourned across the world with the hashtag muslim lives matter. authorities say accused killer craig steven hicks is cooperating in the triple murder investigation. >> i just heard gunshots. i don't know what building it came from, but i heard kids screaming. >> reporter: police say gunfire broke out after a dispute over a parking space. all three had earned undergrad honors at nc state. barakat was in his second year. >> we're still in a state of shock and will never be able to make sense of this horrendous

tragedy. we ask that the authorities investigate these senseless and heinous murders as a hate crime. >> investigators say they have not ruled out the possibility of a hate crime and the fbi has been called in. karen hicks is the suspect's wife. >> i can't say with the absolute believe that this was related to religion but was the long standing dispute over parking my husband had with the neighbor. >> hicks was a student at a tech school. his face page says he's an ordained atheist minister. his neighbor said he was always angry. >> he always had issues with noise in the neighborhood and parking. >> he's being held without bond. vicente arenas cbs news chapel

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>> it's tough, but, you know conversely if nothing's done and everybody's aware of it, what sort of lesson are we teaching them there? >> reporter: jackie robinson west captured hearts last summer in a tale above the odds. team advocate suggested it was racially motivated. >> you need to reverse your condition unless you're willing to investigate every one of the 16 teams in the saint way you did this team. >> reporter: the runner-up team from nevada now holds the tight. >> what really kills me is all the teams that jackie robinson west played against, some of those kids got their dream taken away from them. >> reporter: jackie robinson west is suspended from little league privileges until the team gets new leadership. adriana diaz cbs news chicago. coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," we

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bob simon's assignments as a correspondent for "60 minutes" took him all over the globe from the battlefields of vietnam in the middle east to a remote top of a monastery to the set of a hollywood movie. on last sunday's "60 minutes" he sat down with ava duv nay, the director of the movie "selma." it's the march over the edmund pettus bridge that was reports a year ago. >> described in 165 by cbs news correspondent bill stout. they were beaten back with canes

and clubs and whips and tear gas and nausea gas. theed throughs were carried by television to an unbelieving america. >> reporter: 50 years later ava due has it reported. >> hundreds being beaten and bludgeoned in a quest for their own dignity. >> reporter: as for now the bridge with the name ud mend pettus, a confederate general and leader of the general of the kkk. >> they still honor the kkk. >> what do you think of that? >> i demanded him turn it over speaking where did it all go wrong. this was not supposed to happen.

>> reporter: by hollywood odds she shouldn't have risen on director. women directors make only 4% according to one study and a woman director of color is virtually unheard of. >> do you think that the fact that your film "selma" is such an important event that this and of itself is going to be a big step in the direction of enabe bling future people to do it? >> i don't know. don't know. i'm not a big believer in one person that's a door opener. i can open the door but if no one is coming stlu it or the door is allowed to close right after me it doesn't mean much. >> action. >> reporter: she may be a relative new by as a director but she's an old hand at selling films. she worked just out of camera rank for years as a publicist and movies such as "dream girls"

and "the help" in getting word out. she wants michael mann in action and tried directing herself. she made some low budget films that were well received which eventually led to her first film for a major studio, "selma."

today it is thursday, february 12th, good morning, i'm's ukee washington. i'm erika von tiehl. here are stories we are following today. police in burlington county are looking for two suspects in the the home invasion. find out what the robbers did to him and what they took we are live with the latest. and a giant of journalism has died this morning we are remembering 60 minutes correspondent bob simon while following investigation in the car crash that claimed his life. but first we are in for a a very, very cold and possibly snowy valentines day weekend. temperatures where to drop right. >> and over course of the next couple of hours it will be warmers it will be a as far as how it feels. for next couple of