captioning funded by cbs good morning. it is thursday, april 6th, 2017. welcome to "cbs this morning." president trump blames the syrian regime for the dangerous chemical weapons attack on its own people. he says it's changed his attitude about assad. ash carter is in studio 57 with the realistic actions the u.s. can do. powerful storms with heavy flooding. heavy rains and tornados leave serious tdamage in the southeas. and high school students force their new principal to resign. but we begin this morning with today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds.

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south has crossed the mid-atlantic. >> it's going to be developing more as it heads toward the east. >> president trump defending bill o'reilly in the wake of sexual harassment allegations. >> o'reilly needs to go to jail. >> a crash in washington. >> oh, my god. thank god he's okay. >> all that -- >> walk it off, george springer. >> weather sent spectators packing at the masters. a few families were able to get onto the course. >> -- and all that matters -- >> everyone has come together fro test the new protest ad. it's quite a controversy. kendall jenner handed a pepsi to a police officer and then everybody dances away. i don't understand why pepsi got hammered so far. i think they need to become

more. let's see coca-cola address climate change. that's what we should see. >> announcer: this morning's "eye opener" presented by toyota. let's go places. major league baseball starts and masters coming u. not a bad week. >> know. good stuff ahead. good stuff ahead. >> welcome to "cbs this morning." president trump will hold a high stakes meeting tonight with china's president. this comes amid major foreign challenges. president trump will ask president xi jinping to crack down. president trump called tuesday's deadly attack on civilians horrific. major garrett is at the white house with president trump's tougher response. good morning. >> good morning. syria's six-year war presents a stark challenge for president

trump's foreign policy. when the white house last contemplated a military strike, mr. trump wrote, stay away and fix broken u.s. the question, can the president stay away now. >> what happened yesterday is unacceptable to me. >> president trump said wednesday the chemical weapons attack in syria that killed neil 100 people changed his view on conflict and the dictator ship of bashar al assad. >> when you kill innocent children, babies, little babies, innocent babies, with a chemical gas that is so lethal, people were shocked to hear what gas it was, that crosses many, many lines beyond a red line. >> mr. trump also argued that if president obama had launched military strikes in 2013 in response to the first confirmed chemical attack under assad, things might be different now. >> i think the obama administration had a great opportunity to solve this crisis

a long time ago when he set the red leine in the sand. >> a red line for us is when we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical reactions. >> they crossed the red line when they killed people with sarin gas. at the time he sat on the sidelines saying, president obama, do not attack syria. there is no upside. >> it will be decided by the syrian people. >> and as recently as last week secretary of state rex tillerson said their future would not be subject to international pressure. >> imagine that is your child who has been gassed to degree by a regime. you will never accept that regime as your rightful leader. >> marco rubio said it gave the dictator license to carry out an

attack. >> i believe that's an incentive to act with impunity. >> when i asked the president yesterday if it changed his policy, he said, only you'll see. it suggested a possible shift underscored, gail, by the declaration that on this and other matters, he is, quote, flexible. >> all right. we will see. u.n. ambassador nikki haley said the trump administration will take action. holding up photos of syria, haley blamed russia and the asass ghast. >> children foaming at the mouth, suffering convulsions, being carried in the arms of desperate parents. look at those pictures. we cannot close our eyes to those pictures. >> holly williams is along the

turkey/syria border with the latest. a warning the images are disturbing. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it proved that a chemical weapon was used. that's according to turkey's justice minister speaking earlier today. he lost his 9-month-old twins in the attack in the town. say good-bye, my loves. he buried them yesterday along with their mother. even in the hello of serious civil war, this attack was notable for its barberism. men, women, and children left gapping for air and foaming at the mouth. autopsies were carried out at this turkish institution

according to local reports. they died after being buried with around 30 others. survivors who have been brought here to turkey can be tested for exposure to a chemical agent, but across that border inside the war zone, gathering evidence is more difficult and more dangerous. the streets are now unnaturally quiet two days after this atrocity, many of its residents have fled, but some are taking samples from the scene of the attack. they want to prove what it was that killed their loved ones. this man says he watched his mother, father, and nephew die. people were screaming, it's a chemical attack, he says, but you don't think about running away. you try to help people and carry them out of there. syria's foreign minister spoke just a short while ago and claimed that the syrian regime has not and will not use

chemical weapons against its own people. charlie? >> thanks, holly. holly williams in turkey. everybody is horrified by those pictures. ash carter served for nearly two years as asecretary of defense. he worked in the democratic and republican administration. he was recently named at the harvard school and associated with innovation at m.i.t. good morning. >> good morning. >> let me ask you with respect to this administration. what more can they do in syria to make a difference? >> well, the assad regime, you saw what happened recently. that is bashar assad. that is an atrocity. and the russians are enabling that. and, remember, the russians came in, charlie, you remember h. the russians said that they were going to do what they ought to have done, which is to promote and facilitate a political transition in which assad has

moved out. the structures of the syrian state, not the regime. the basics of government remain and the syrian opposition becomes part of the opposition and restores the country to the decency they deserve. they didn't do that. instead they fueled the civil war. >> what can they do? >> one thing right now, i think that additional sanctions on russia would send them over the hill or calling for is appropriate and the russians have responsibility for this and they didn't do what they said they were going to do. >> meaning they carried out the attack? >> no. they enabled. i don't have any reason to say that specifically. it's clear that the assad regime did. they're enablers and supporters. they dnld come in to end the civil war. they came in to join. >> but the trump administration say the obama administration missed a great opportunity to solve the crisis in syria. what's your response to that?

>> i wasn't secretary of defense at that time, but we are where we are today and that's where i'm realistic about where i was at secretary of defense, and i thought it was important that we keep the pressure on the russians to do what they're supposed to do. meanwhi meanwhile, the rest of syria, don't forget, we have american troops there today who are very successfully doing what has to be done. >> in syria. >> which is destroy isil. also iraq, by the way, because in order -- that's necessary because those -- that's not a civil war. they are intent upon attacking americans, and we need to protect ourselves and we need to destroy iraq, isil, and syria because that's where it arose, and we need to destroy the fact and the idea that there is an islamic state based on isil's ideology. that's important because we're doing that. at the same time we're trying to promote an end to the civil war,

not fuel the civil war. >> not to take out bashar al assad. >> again, what the russians said they were going to do was move assad aside and the members of the regime. >> hold on a minute. five days before this attack happened, president trump abandoned the goal of pressuring assad to leave power. that was a shift many u.s. policy. do you think that that sent a message that allowed assad to carry out this attack? >> i can't say that. i -- i -- i -- this is assad's responsibility. i think it's important for us to have consistency and enunciation on the policy. >> i was going go right to that. do you believe the north korean now have the capacity to deliver a nuclear weapon to america's coast? >> i'm certain they're trying to get that capability, charlie. >> but i mean how close are they

because some are saying they're this close. >> i believe that they're intent upon getting there, and what we need to do about that, we've long anticipated that, is we stay one step ahead of them. that's why, charlie, we improved our missile defenses of our own territory with their number and quality to protect ourselves. that's why we're deploying the so-called bad system in south korea. that's so important. and why we have so many troops on peninsula. job one,'d like to see the chinese turn north korea around for reasons i can explain but i'd like to be optimistic about. in the meantime we have to deter and defend ourselves. as we sit h, it's evening there. their motto is fight tonight. and, of course, nobody wants a war there.

>> but it means they're ready. >> they're ready. if a war came to korean peninsula, first of all, i'm confident we would win. we would destroy north korea's military and the regime, but it is an intensity of violence that the world has not seen since the last korean war. it's a very congested area around the dmc. many, many americans would be killed in this process, so it's not something you can deed with letly. but we are ready. >> president trump has a big meeting, of course, today, tomorrow, this weekend with president xi of china. he said the u.s. has spoken enough about north korea. we have no further comment. has the u.s. spoken enough about north korea? did you find that statement unusual? >> i think what's important is to act.

we've long been clear in opposing north korean nuclear missile but also their general aggression and provocative posture on the korean peninsula. i think that much is clear. what isn't clear to me is whether the chinese will ever do exercise what they uniquely have, which is carrots and sticks that could influence the behavior of kim jong-un. i haven't worked on this in a long, long time. >> why hadid the chinese not do that? >> i think there are two reasons, charlie, both of which -- they fear the near term more than the far term. they know this is trouble in the long run and select the frog boiling in the pot. they haven't jumped. the reason they haven't jumped to your question is two-fold. one is they don't want to see a collapse of north korea, and they don't want to see a war on the korean peninsula because they know that would result in a

unified korea quite lightly with the united states. >> we're out of time, but, remember, the president of the united states, donald trump said if the chinese are not prepared to go with us, we're prepared to go alone. >> yeah. i believe today he said he was going to be dealing with the chinese on that as well as very important economic -- >> right. trade and otherives. >> trade and other economic issues. >> thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> good to see you. >> likewise. the president has released one of his more controversial moves. steve bannon was removed. he denied that he threatened to quit if taken off. the new national security adviser general mcmaster led the changes. bannon was appointed to be a check on former national security adviser michael flynn and now that michael flynn is going, there's no need to stay.

vice president mike pence downplayed the changes. >> moving a couple personnel off the national security council simply represents a very evolution. >> the white house says bannon only attended one nfc meeting. many had criticized the idea of giving a a leading role at the council. more than 20 million americans are in the packet of a severe weather pattern this re georgia yesterday. strong winds and heavy rain flooded the roads there. severe threat icalina to new je the northeast flood watches and warnings are in effect. mark strassmann is in western georgia where a reported twiste. mark, good morning. >> reporter: good f this agriculture store heard bad weather way, hs sent all of his employees home.

good thing. 90 minutes later the storm was here and this is what it looked like. the twister hit through the area and whatever it hit, it hit with punishing power., flash floods d high winds caused damage from the midwest on wednesday. at least nine reported twisters touched down. buildings in south georgia. >> the top on the wle house started peeling off. so we knew it was a real serious storm. trees and crushed this pickup truck and a >> it could be very worse. i'm thankfult's not. >> reporter: hail pounded homes as big as baseballs, even peeling paint off homes. this truck became trapped in floodwaters. five city workers were stranded and first responders used rafts

to rescue them. sudden rains caused flash flooding across the region. lightning is believed to have started house fires. >> almost everything in there is damaged. >> reporter: at the masters golf tournament in augusta, the severe weather caused the cancellation of the par 3 contest for the first time ever and forced hundreds of people to leave. two people were hurt but no one was killed by these storms, but the impact was felt north at atlanta's airport where hundreds of travelers -- stranded travelers had to spend the night. the local forecast is clear the rest of this week. good news for masters tournament at augusta, georgia, for all the players and the fans watching them compete. norah? >> absolutely, mark. thank you so much. president trump is coming to the defense of embattled fox news host bill o'reilly.

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good morning, i'm rahel solomon. community leaders are calling for a cease-fire on the streets of philadelphia dozens gathered at a vigil to remember victims of the monday 's deadly shooting in north philadelphia state representative w curtis thomas is hose particular today's gathering at 11:00 at harrison plaza recreation center at tenth and thompson streets. now lets check the forecast with lauren casey. it looks like a wet day out there. >> pack a along that umbrella we have had a round of showers working through, mainry dry conditions say for areas of drizzles but off to the south and west there is a blossoming area of thunderstorm activity across virginia that will continue to move northe as we head in to late morning and afternoon. showers and thunderstorms in store for the day-to-day some could be on the stronger side even isolated severe, high of

61. for tonight meisha lingering showers otherwise quiet and breeze which a low of 45. >> all right, lauren, thanks very much. wet roadways. they have been posing a problem all morning long and they will keep you commute slow. we had an accident westbound vine before the schuylkill that has been cleared but still slow, plus we have an accident 295 north bound pennsylvania, mount holly pulled off to the shoulder but still less than posted speed traveling by. then we have a water main break from carney's point township new jersey, harding highway close pot pennsville auburn road use, that alternate. back over to you. next update 7:55. up next, cbs this morning high school journalist discover questionable credentials and forced their principal to resign i'm rahel

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they had demanded. you remember i did a kwtd 60 minutes" piece. >> i do remember. >> the sum it between president trump and china's president will take place in ma a lago. the laid back setting is to help the two men understand each other. they have been under pressure over trade and north korea and trade in the south china sea. margaret brennan is there with a look at the high profile meeting. good morning. >> good morning. past presidents have held meetings at government owned properties like camp david but president trump is giving it a personal touch bringing zee the president to his personal

place. he repeatedly blasted china accusing beijing of unfair practices he equated to rape and theft. >> we have a lot of power with china. >> today president trump will try to reboot the relationship by inviting china's president and wife to family club, mar-a-la mar-a-lago. >> the u.s. president is investing in building a personal relationship with xi jinping. >> the two leaders have plenty to discuss but where the discussions would take place became a concern to congress after they appeared to openly discuss north korea's missile test over dinner in february. the government accountability office has now agreed to plan whether mar-a-lago has secured space. the type of secret service screening measuring and how the government ensures travel related expenses are fair and reasonable.

>> by meeting with the president of china on thursday and friday in palm beach, florida, and i think we're going to have a very interesting talk. >> also in question is whether the trump family financially benefits from such a high-profile visit. business analyst, kathleen clark. >> it attracts a large amount. >> hesitate son don junior now holds that title according to a license of taked by cb suhs in. he's not staying at the property but the visit raises questions. >> when president trump makes arrangements to meet a foreign leader like mar a la fwoe, what he's doing is using the government office for private gain. >> now the white house has not responded to our inquiries whether the chinese delegation will be paying for any kind of

service while they're visiting mar-a-lago. >> interesting question raised there. margaret in palm beefrp. thank you. president trump is coming to the list of bill o'reilly, even though the list of companies pulling adds growing. they're reporting that o'reilly and fox paid millions to settle harassment allegations. vladimir duthiers is here. good morning. >> good morning. the fox news host's comment only came over the weekend where he said his prominent position makes him susceptible to lawsuits. they're hoping the controversy dies down and no new revolutions take its place. he did the same for fox news host bill o'reilly. in an interview with "the new york times" on wednesday, he called bill o'reilly a good

person saying i don't think bill did anything wrong. >> it's clear bill o'reilly and donald trump have a relationship that goes back aways, so in that sense it's not surprising the president would make the commencomment s in support that he did, however, it came with quite the controversy. >> "the new york times" reported over the weekend bill o'reilly and fox news reached a settlement with five women. when asked, trump said personally i think he should have settled. one woman who did, responded, it requires mediation and prevents going to court. she said the president's comments made her feel vilified all over again. meanwhile more advertisers are taking their commercial dollars elsewhere. nearly 50 sponsors

three are pulling out. >> you wonder whether it's going be something more es on "the o'reilly factor" were down from 18 to 13 minutes but show' of the controversy or in spite of it. >> it sends quite a message out there. >> it doyou, vlad. a high school principal stepped the tlag that prompted the high school reporters to dig a little deeper. >> i love this story. >> i do too. we invite you to subscribe to our cbs ipod. you're watching "cbs this morning." of course, thank you for that. we'll be right back.

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investigative reporting by a group of student journalists forced their new principal to resign. amy roberts was hired last month to lead. when they set out to write a story about her they found inconsistencies in her credentials. omar villafranca inside the high school where the new principal quit before her first day. >> reporter: good morning. there's a job opening at pittsburgh high school because of what happened in this small newsroom. student journalists starting asking questions about amy robertson and they found things out that the school board did not. they found out that the incoming principal's advanced degrees were not worth the paper they were printed on. >> no one knew who she really was, and so we wanted to shed some light on that.

>> reporter: when students at pittsburgh high school started asking routine question about incoming principal amy robertson, they didn't like what they heard. >> in looking into her background we noticed several discrepancies and several red flags. >> that's when two went to work. in last week's issue, stujts detailed a march 16th call where she gave conflicting dates and answers. robertson said she earned a masters and doctorate from a university online but occasionally visited the campus in california. >> it was unaccredited and also ha discrepanciesing with being a diploma mill or web mill. >> this shows a commencement but

it's from h. department does not have a record of core license university. sprp decembertry brown says he's proud of the students and says rt hearing was doomed without the proper documentation. >> they woul a license in kansas. i'll just say the chickens where they come to roost. >> most people don't want their taxpayer dollasoone that lied. >> reporter: these students also learned the value in shoe roll that is to present truth. >> reporter: robertson's undergraduate degree is also in question. we're told she did attend but did not graduate. we reached out to robertson on multiple platforms and did not

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good morning, i'm jim donovan. there is a pretrial hearing today for bucks county man accused of sexually assaulting six sisters. prosecutors say that lee kaplan fathered two children with a then 14 year-old girl who had been gifted to him, for helping her parents financially. the girls parents also face charges kaplan's trial is set to begin may 30th. let's send it over to lauren for the forecast, hi there lauren. >> keep an eye to the sky for potential of strong to severe, thunderstorms quiet right now but still miserable dealing with fog, and some drizzle out there but as far as showers, storm scan three showing us we had a run moving through over last couple hours and now mainly dry but off to the south and west is developing area of thunderstorm activity over virginia, we will

continue to move north east, arrival time late morning into the afternoon so showers and storms in the forecast today, windy conditions as well especially along the coast where wind advisory is in effect until 5:00 p.m. thanks very much, lauren, still causing problems for us out there accident new castle county, delaware route four becker avenue westbound is closed one ease bone lane is block. use route to kirk wood highway is your best bet. we have university avenue and grays ferry avenue, head up looking slow there as well, jim. our next update 8:25. coming up on cbs this morning cbs sports jim nancys live with the look at the masters i'm jim donovan make it a great

good morning. it is thursday, april fth, 2017. welcome back to "cbs this morning." president trump's top political strategist loses a hay-profiegs role. ahead, why steve bannon was taken off national security council. but first here's today's "eye opener" at 8:00. syria's murderous six-year civil war presents a stark challenge for president trump's america first foreign policy. >> autopsies on some of those to prove that a chemical weapon was used. >> before this attack happened, president trump abandoned the goal of pressuring assad to leave power. do you think that that sent a message that allowed assad to carry out this attack? >> i can't say that. this is assad's responsibility.

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president bashar al assad could remain in power. steve bannon has been dropped according to the "washington post" from the national security council. he was removed. the president was strongly criticized for giving bannon that position in january. mr. trump's new national security adviser general h.r. mcmaster led the changes. now, bannon denies reports he threatened to quit over the move. chip reid is at the white house. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. bannon said he was appointed to a check on the national security adviser michael flynn. they said now that he's gone, there's no longer for bannon to remain on the nsc. >> >> this is just ensure the national security council is organized in a way that assures the president. >> by removing steve bannon from

principles commit tea and adding back the chairman of the joint chiefs and national intelligence, the reorganization reverses the changing approved by trump eight days after his inauguration. >> this is something that's a radical departure. >> reporter: at the time his nsc appointment stunned some including cbs news senior security contributor michael morell. >> having somebody like bannon in a room brings politics in a room where there should be no politics. >> reporter: he's best known for his previous job, the head of "breitbart news," highly conservative and ultra con tiff. >> he rarely speaks in public but when he does, he's a fierce

leader. >> all of this promises are going be implements. >> sources say the removal of bannon is just one sign of a rise of a new power center here at the white house led by jared kushner and his wife, the president's daughter, ivanka. charlie. >> chip, thanks. this morning we're getting a look at just how many positions within the trump administration are still unfilled. 550 key positions that required senate nomination. only 22 nominees 2rks 2 have been confirmed. 21 others have been formally nominated but not confirmed and 24 are waiting nomination. >> incredible. and a hat tip to axios and michal len for pointing that out in their newsletter this morning. that suggests a lot of these key positions have not only not been

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an emotional day. a trib boot to the late arnold palmer and we'll talk to jim nantz about a tradition unlike any other. plus a rock star librarian who's travel 2g 00 day as year. school library is a sacred place for kids. you're watching "cbs this morning." we'll be right back.

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the 81st masters is under way in augusta. it's the first since arnold palmer. billy pain honored palmer and his white kit at this morning's honorers starters ceremony. all for you and arnie. i'm going to place this --

ladies and gentlemen welcome me and express your love and affection to mrs. arnold palmer. well, good morning and welcome to the 2017 masters. it is a wonderful but in one respect difficult day. for the first time in many, many decades, someone is obviously missing from the first tee here at augusta national and the masters. the almost unbearable sadness we all feel at the passing of arnold palmer is surpassed only by the love and affection for him, which will forever reside in our hearts. arnold palmer was more than the king, a title he justifiably deserved by his four masters victories and more pga tour

wins. arnold palmer was my friend. he was your friend. despite all of his fame and fortune, he always had time for all of us. a smile, an autograph, a photo. he was always giving. but it still hurts so bad that he is not here with us today. we knew this day would come. we counted our blessings over the last several years as his health was beginning to decline, but his smile and his graciousness never changed. as he would walk to this very tee for this ceremony, we would point and shout above the cheers to the kids and grandkids, look, look,palmer. they would radiate smiles because they knew they were seeing a legend. and you know what? he would always smile back. that's the arnold palmer we remember, we miss, and will

forever love. please join me now in a moment of silence as each of us says our own personal good-bye to this one man. thank you. i am so happy. u i'm so honored with todayed a it always with in good hands of great friends legendary golfers. first on the team, golf's great international champion, a winner of three national titles, a man who played in a record-setting unbelievable 52 masters tournaments, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back mr. gary player.

next on the tee we welcome back our six-time -- yes, six-time masters champion, a man whose accomplishments here in the augusta nationals and masters are unmatched even to this day, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back mr. jack nicklaus.

>> ouch. you don't think that hurt? wait till you find out what this does. okay. here goes nothing. >> well done, well done.

>> ladies and gentlemen, the 2017 masters has now officially begun. have fun! >> there you have it. billy payne with that great ceremony to kick off the masters. jim nantz has been covering the masters for cbssports for 32 consecutive years. he is with us from augusta. jim, good morning. great to see you. >> good morning. always great to be with all of you. never see anything like the first tee and the raw emotion as arnold palmer was certainly remembered in such a grand and beautiful fashion and billy payne did such a great job, i think, of summing it all up and at the same time getting this tournament started with gary player and jack nicklaus hitting those first shots. >> it was, it was. there's a lots of news. first of all the number one

golfer dustin johnson had an accident. what's the latestsome. >> he slipped on the stair 'cause last night of the house he's renting and he threw his back out. fortunately for dustin he has the last starting time today, just a little after 2:00. we probably won't know until a half hour before start time if dustin is going to be able to play. it's just a shame. he comes in here having won his last two starts. he was a favorite coming in. just a bizarre twist of events here on the eve of the tournament. >> do you know what happened, jim? what was he doing? >> he was going downstairs. he's got a little one running around the house. i know he was going downstairs in his rental house and he had only socks on his feet. we even all done that before. i've done that before. he slipped and jarred his back. >> jim, charlie here. >> hi, charlie. >> how are you? >> i'm well. excited to be here. >> what story lines are you looking at for this masters?

>> you know, this is going to be -- first off, today's going to be big story line as you can no doubt tell with the wins. it's cold and it's blowing up to almost 40-mile-per-hour gusts. it's going to be a survival test out there today. you could shoot a really high score. but we come in looking at jordan spieth trying to avenge what happened last year when he had the big lead with nine holes to go and made a seven on the 12 hole and a bogey. we've got the dustin johnson story to talk about. everybody comes here primed. we're going to hopefully have a suspensable finish on sunday. >> great to see you. >> a great to be with you. >> are you going? >> looking forward to it. >> charlie? >> mo. >> oh. >> you can stream the entire 81st tournament on cbssports.com

good morning, i'm rahel solomon. former philly high school stand out and ncaa champion coach dawn staley returns to her alma matter. she won women's college champion ship sunday night as coach of the south carolina game cox but she came to school player of the year at dobbins high school in north philadelphia. special gets will have a party in her honor. lets send it over to lauren for a check of the weather maybe good idea to stay inside because it is wet out there. >> dealing with low cloud, drizzle all the way around, we had showers moving through our first round overnight last night and early this morning. second day round is creeping its way in and it is much more formidable, close-up thunderstorm activity, expanding and continuing, to develop, just south and west of the d.c. area that will

roll our way in the next several hours, so showers and thunderstorms off and on into late morning, afternoon, gusty wind high of 61 degrees, and for tonight quiet, lingering shower early, breeze which a low of 45. cool tomorrow, some light showers around, windy conditions but meisha, beautiful by the end of the upcoming weekend, sunny and 65 by sunday. >> that is such a welcomed break. thanks, lauren. looking outside look at how busy ben franklin bridge is moving in the westbound direction, lot of areas looking this busy trying to make your way in center city, head up there. accident in delaware route four becker avenue westbound side closed one eastbound lane is block, use kirk wood highway as your best bet. accident in newtown square, pennsylvania, goshen road at 252 and also another accident, in cull beesville route 63, the road is partially blocked there. over to you, rahel. >> meisha, thank you. our next update 8:55a head on cbs this morning academy award winning actress julia

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an arizona teenager is reaching for the stars in search of a prom date big time. he created a very elaborate retake of the opening song in "la sps la land." he asked emma stone to his high school prom. you go, jacob. dozens of classmates and teachers helped him make the video. but the teenager says he's got a backup date in case stone can't make it or declines his creative

imitation. i think it's nice he has a backup. >> what do you think? >> i think if she can, that would be touching. >> how would you feel if you're the backup date and emma stone is like, i'm coming and you're like, i'm still here. >> i think i would understand. >> i wouldn't. >> you wouldn't? >> no, no. you want to go to the prom with the guy who made the cool video. >> she might say no just because of that fact. >> you're not the backup date? norah says i'm not the backup date here ever. >> important discussions here. welcome back to "cbs this morning." julia roberts, she's not backup date either. we'll show you our interview we had with her later on in this half hour. right now time to show you some of this morning's headlines. "the baltimore sun" reports on a crash of a fighter jet in a washington community. it shows an international

going down. the pilot ditched his jet in a wooded area to avoid crashing into homes. no one on the ground was hurt, but 20 homes were evacuated. the pilot suffered minor injuries. he had been heading to a training exercise in pennsylvania. "the new york times" explained why pepsi's new ad campaign fizzled big time. it was quickly pulled after social media critics said it was criticized. the company apologized saying pepsi was trying to projektd a global message of unity, peace, and understanding. clearly we missed the mark. "usa today" has a report out that fines united states is losing ground as a tourist destination. they ranked spain as the most tourist friendly place to visit. it's followed by france, germany, japan, and the united kingdom. united states ranked sixth. it dropped from its fourth place

spot two years ago. researchers say the u.s. lost ground in its appeal of national beauty and the threat of terrorism. the ratings were before president trump was elected. politico says joe and jill biden have signed for some books. no terms were revealed. biden's first book will deal with the death of his son beau from brain cancer. and the "washington post" reports on quadruplets admitted to yale and harvard. the wade brothers were also accepted into other top schools individually. they include georgetown, stanford, and duke. what an incredible accomplishment. oh, my gosh. >> remember the wade brothers. we have not heard the rest of

them. >> mom and dad. >> that says something about nature and nurture. >> mom and dad. yes, except for the bill. julia robertss left her hometown in georgia as a teenager to head to new york city. she made popular marks in "mystic pizza," magnolia," and "pretty woman." julia quickly became one of hollywood's most sought after actors. >> you're late. >> you're stunning. shall we go to dinner. >> roberts has won three golden globes. now the mother of three lends her voice to the new animated voice called "smurfs: the lost village." she talks about fame through the eyes of her kids and her apprehension when she began following her dream. >> i was 17 when i moved to new

york. it was a big different from smyrna, georgia. i spent a lot of time by myself. the city was so fast and big, so i would get on the phone with my mom crying, i want to come home. you stay right where you are. you work this out. >> and you did. >> yeah. >> as stunning as she is on screen, her fans say no one makes a character more relatable than julia roberts. her early success led to a landmark payday. >> people don't dream about being rich. they dream about being able to watch their kids swim in a pool without worrying about having a his tysterectomy at the age of >> "erin brockovich." >> when did you realize you could make a career out of this and thought, okay, i'll be all

right. >> i think when i got nominated for "pretty women." ♪ you just leave it all up to me ♪ >> and it was the second nomination where i thought, maybe it's not a fluke, like maybe i really am able to get all of my creative feeling across. >> i don't want you to get too excited. >> reporter: starring alongside richard gere in "pretty woman" may have commented her as america's favorite woman. remember that laugh? it was cameraman danny moder. >> he was great friends with brad and i would go, i read that book. >> i can contribute to this conversation. >> it was long after that. but that's what started. it was the two of them in their

conversation about books and movies and stuff i would chime in. >> the two married back in 2002 and have three children, twins, fin yas and hassle, and henry. >> do they know what you do? >> they do. >> they really get who you are? >> one of them said, so, are you famous? >> yeah. >> like, you know, i guess there are people who know me that i don't know. >> are you more famous than taylor swift. no, i am not. but i think that kind of put it in kind of, okay, well -- well, okay. >> i eat smurf willow, leader of the smurfs. >> i'm afraid that's quite impossible because i happen to be the leader of the smurfs. >> whatever you say, papa sang. >> now they can hear their mom. >> i think these smurfs are timeless fun little creatures. >> and there are many life

lessons in that too. >> they've always had these sweet lessons and teachings, and this movie is no different in that it's so much about being kind and accepting our differences and right now if we can take that in, all the better. just to soften the edges a little bit of what's happening in the world right now. >> you know, we had an election in this country and there was a woman's march and it was report thad you were there. >> mm-hmm. >> and that you took hazel. >> why did you go and why did you want to take her? >> she had a very strong interest in the election, and i think the result was so surprising to her as it was to many of us, and i felt it was important for her to feel a sense of participating, you

know, that you're not just in your house and this thing has happened. we as women have certain ideas and beliefs and we just want to be really sure that you are aware of them. >> julia roberts, julia fiona roberts is turning 50 this year. >> gayle. >> i like it. >> gosh. you're breaking the girl code. >> it's published everywhere, julia. listen. i'm 62, and i think it's great. and i wonder, do you have those kind of hang-ups that, you know, when you reach a milestone birthday? >> well, there's nothing to be done. it will arriving. >> yes. god willing, yeah. >> yeah. that's the thing. that's the only other option to turning 50. so i'll go for 50. >> yeah. i was hoping you wouldn't have the hang-ups about that number. i don't really think you do. >> well, i don't think i do, but i think it has so much to do with being settled and happy,

but, you know, i do have a mirror in my bathroom. >> yeah. and what do you see when you look in the mirrors many. >> some days i just need a tight ponytail. >> a ponytail works. she describes herself as a stay-at-home mom. that's how she describes herself. who likes to work because she still very much likes her acting career. her husband danny moulder calls her domestic artist. she's very artsy crafty and loves making stuff for your her kids but she still loves her job. >> that's great. i love her. >> she eat great on and off screen. the movie opens tomorrow. the lovely gorgeous julia roberts. and you can hear more of our conversation with julg ya on "cbs this morning" podcast. she describes her process for chusing movie roles. you can find it on apples and itunes ipod cast. a super fan of books is

taking his love of literature on the road. >> it shouldn't be viewed as a privilege to have a school library. holy mackerel! >> holy mackerel! >> it should be seen as a right that every child, every teacher has a right to a school librarian. >> absolutely. next, how his infectious enthusiasm makes him one of the

you may remember the school library's where many students discover popular books like "charlotte's web," "goosebumps," or "harry potter." 51% say the kids get their best ideaings for books from school libraries or teachers. but most schools do not have the resources to pay for a full-time librarian. dean reynolds caught up with a man outside of chicago who's crossing his love of literature with as many kids as possible. >> reporter: john schumaker's job keeps him on the road about 200 days out of the year and this is what he does for a living. >> my job is to tell teachers and librarians and principals and superintendents, and parents about the power of letting kids read the books that they want to

read. >> reporter: with a boundless enthusiasm, this 35-year-old librarian may be the foremost advocate for school reading in the country. >> being in the library, being in this magical sacred place is one of the most rewarding things. >> reporter: we were with him when he visited the kendall elementary school in naples, illinois. >> holy mackerel! >> holy mackerel! >> reporter: where there are plenty of page turners and enthusiastic readers. >> what does it for you. >> works your brain. >> gives you enthusiasm. >> how old were you? >> kindergarten. >> really? >> 1 or 2. >> wow. >> as such, he tours schools all ore the country, but even that broad label is too narrow for

his impact. >> as you're reading the book, your heat is grueling. as you're reading the book, your soul is billowing out. >> i think reading is everything. >> reporter: she's the third grade teacher. the library is the heart of our school. the students are excite god. without a library, i'm not sure how a school could function. >> reporter: not every school is lucky. according to a survey 39% of schools nakswide reported not having a full-time librarian. carla haden is the librarian of congress. >> many schools are under severe fiscal challenges and they have to make hard decisions. that has affected many school libraries. >> it should. be viewed as a privilege. it should be seen as a right r even if libraryians are on hand, it's doubtful they would be quite like mr. schumaker. >> do you like the spell bookme?

there's nothing better than smell books. >> reporter: over the years he's given away more smell books that he can count. >> his work is so important because he's giving inspiration to school librarians. not an oxymoron. a rock star librarian. >> last night i had so much work to do but i had to reach this book. >> reporter: schumaker who reads 800 to a thousand books a year says he didn't like the library much growing up. >> i was always being shushed, so i would ask to go to the nurse. >> reporter: that time changed by being an educator. >> by putting a book in the hands of a child, we can put hope directly into that child's hands. we can put love directly into that child's hands and we can show them, look, you have the

power to make this world better. >> i love your enthusiasm. >> the joy that came off of the kids that we met today will carry me through the next month. >> and onto the next good book. >> let's give everyone a round. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning," dean reynolds, naperville, illinois. >> i love that when he said reading a book means your soul is growing. do you remember getting your first library card with your name on itso? i love this thing. >> the thing i love is access to books and information because of the internet. >> books can tang you many, many places. bravo, mr. schumaker. bravo, mr. schumaker. you're welcome to maxx you. you are whimsical, vibrant, statement making. we see what makes you unique. so we have something for everyone, at a price that's just right for you. maxx you. maxx life.

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good morning, i'm jim donovan. community leaders are calling for a cease-fire in the city of philadelphia, dozens gathered at a vigil to remember victims of the monday 's deadly shooting in north philadelphia, three people were killed in that shooting not far from a catholic grade school. state representative, w curtis thomas is hosting today's gathering at 11:00 at harrison plaza recreation center at tenth and thompson streets. lets turn to lauren for today's forecast. >> thanks, jim. we have the fog, we have low cloud, drizzle, miserable, we will get more active as we head in the next couple of hours and storm scan three reflect ago this to the south and west over baltimore and d.c. this area of developing weather, thunderstorm, heavy rain with this weather that will continue to move northe bound and into our neck of the

wood as we head in the next couple hours and contending with that through this afternoon. showers, embedded thunderstorms and they could be on the strong side, gusty wind, high temperature of 61 abe then tonight quieting things down storm threat to an end early this evening but linker shower possible breezy at 45. tomorrow is a cool day, dreary as well light showers around, windy for phillies home opener but beautiful by end of the weekend, meisha and then down right awesome by monday, sunshine and 75. >> yeah, look at that monday, dang. thanks very much. that will be beautiful. it is not looking so great our commute is looking congested 42 freeway, 295, still very business traveling less than posted speed. look at ben franklin bridge pushing westbound in center city give yourself extra time, they are water main break at carney's point township new jersey still out there route 48 and close at pence auburn road. penns grove auburn road is your best bet. construction on 95 south northbound rather on ramp from columbus boulevard is closed

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