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>> reporter: montgomery early learning center employee's sentencely accused of exposing himself tie student at cynwyd elementary on the main line. authorities say the 24 year-old day even glover of philadelphia repeatedly tried to get a youngster alone with him at the elementary school. hes was there as staff for active school program and allegedly started with showing the young student his underwear, and then, he was partnered with her for a role in an after school performance and got her into a classroom with him alone in the cynwyd elementary school he exposed his genitals to her there. she ran out of the room this happened at least two more times according to court documents and student eventually told her mother in november, glover was arrested and in a search warrant authorities found a song that he made for young student on his phone, it mentioned her name and in it you could be hear him saying, i am all yours. we have reached out to lower merion school district and montgomery county early learning center both declined an on camera interview.

they have issued statements at cbs philly. reporting live, alycia nieves for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> thanks very much. meantime cause of the school bus crash in the crescentville section of philadelphia is currently under investigation. chopper three over the scene at east wyoming avenue near ramona avenue just after 6:30 this morning. officials say that the bus was headed to john hancock demonstration middle school and collided with an suv. two adults and 15 year-old student on the bus were hurt. two juveniles and suv were also hurt, and their injuries are not thought to be life threatening. well, so far there are no reports of the damage from yesterday's earthquake, u.s. geological survey say epicenter of the magnitude 4.1 earthquake was 6 miles north east of dover delaware. regina riply took this video from her cell phone when the quake shook this mirror in north jersey. surveillance video at gray fox grill in dover caught moment that happened 4:47 p.m. yesterday. we talked to a couple who

lived nearby the epicenter. >> it came on suddenly and just really heavily rolling for a while. >> dog started barking. >> dogs flipping out and we thought maybe a big plane from dover air force base had come down. >> now officials say that the quick originately 5 miles below earth's surface. people could feel it as far away as washington d.c. and new york city. our coverage of the earthquake continues on line at cbs philly.com. check out reaction on social media after the quake hit. well, former national security advisor michael flynn pled guilty to making false statements to the fbi. >> flynn admit that had a senior member of the trump transition team directed him to make contact with russian officialness december of 2016. correspondent weijia yank is in washington d.c. with the latest. former national security advisor michael flynn appeared in a federal court in washington this morning. shortly after turning himself into the fbi. the retired three star army

lieutenant general pleaded guilty to making false statements to federal officials, who are investigating whether anyone in president trump's campaign colluded with russia during the 2016 election. according to court documents filed by special counsel robert mueller, flynn did willfully and knowingly make materially false fictitious and fraudulent statements to agents about his conversation with russian ambassador sergei cecily ago in january. flynn was, forced out of the trump administration in february, for misleading vice-president pence about those conversations. >> mueller getting this charge , getting a lot closer to the question of potential, russian interference. >> reporter: flynn's latest associate of president trump to be charged in the fbi investigation, into russian meddling in the 2016 campaign. but he is the first one who has ever work inside of the trump white house. back in october, prosecutors charged trump's former

campaign chairman paul manafort, his deputy rick gates and campaign advisor george pop dab last as part of the probe. the white house down played their indictments. what pop dab last did was high that is on him not us. >> reporter: just this week flynn's legal team stopped rate waiting about the white house with the investigation. weijia yank for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". president trump could soon part ways with secretary of state rex tillerson. cbs news has now confirmed that the white house has a plan to force tillerson out. this is decision reportedly could come in a matter of weeks. tillerson, defense secretary jim mattis and president are expect to have lunch together today. tillerson says reports that the white house is considering ousting him are quote, laugh able. also, senate republicans have regain momentum now for their tax overall bill, this morning, two more g.o.p. senators announced that they would back the legislation. senators debated late into the night last night after a

bipartisan committee on taxation released its finding on economic study which is projecting that the republican tax bill will add more than $1 trillion to the deficit over 10 years. >> it will even rich the very wealthiest americans. it will temporarily help the middle class but the middle class tax cuts, expire. >> thinks unacceptable for republican party to have the house, senate and white house and not be able to reform the tax code. >> the republicans now believe they do have the 50 votes needed to pass the bill. they are expect to vote this afternoon. hillary clinton made a stop in philadelphia last night as part of her book tour , event was held at the contacted my of music, former democratic presidential nominee wrote that happened, that is her book which details her unsuccessful 2016 presidential campaign. clinton also attended a meet/ greet and signed copies of her book. american airlines claims that the glitch, won't feel christmas for folks flying

during holidays after all. hundreds of thousands office flights were scheduled without pilots of too many were allowed to take vacation day due to a computer error. american says it has fix the problem, and process of fixing the problem. company says out of 200,000, december flights, only a few hundred are still without assigned pilots. pilots union dispute that is claim and says thousands of flights are still listed as un assign. well, bird are certainly flying high this weekend for big game in seattle, washington against the sea hawks. >> eagles are 10-one and hoping to clinch the division with the road win on the road. coach doug pederson say up and coming three game road trip will be a challenge but his team remain focused. >> these games coming up will be a bench mark for a football team and it is a great challenge on the road, playoff environment, and, great football team that knows how to win and they necessity

thousand win in the fourth quarter, and so, we just got to go up there and do our jobs , be prepared, handle the noise but a great opportunity for our team at this time of the year. >> eagles take on seahawks at 8:30 sunday night. well well, a cbs sitcom star is engaged. we will shoal you who it is coming up next. harry and megan is quite a hit, their first official meet and green since they announced their engagement, coming up why their royal visit is a tribute to the late princess diana, katie? natasha, we have an absolutely beautiful upcoming weekend coming our way and pattern that will last news to part of the upcoming week, but there is a big pattern change that waits in the wings and i'll let you know when it gets here and what i am pack it will bring coming up. megan.

welcome back everyone. royal watchers are in for a treat next spring, tmz reports wedding between prince harry and meghan markle will be broadcast live, worldwide. and the same was true for his brother williams wednesday nothing 2011. royal watchers expect more people to tune into harry and meghan's welled in the u.s. since meghan is american. there are reports that the wedding may happen over the memorial day weekend. and, just days after announcing their big engagement prince harry and his bride to be carried out their first royal couple appearance. >> cbs correspondent terry o kita reports from windsor.

>> reporter: prince harry's fiance meghan markle stole the show at couple's first royal meet and greet. hundreds lined up early in the english city of nottingham to get a glimpse of the american who once the british prince's heart. >> she's very beautiful. >> we are so excited. >> reporter: well wishers waved british and u.s. flags to welcome newly engaged couple. prince harry and markle visited a charity fair to mark world aid day a cause close to the heart of harry's late mother princess diana. >> it is just delightful. i'm obviously very star struck but very human. >> reporter: in cities across uk excitement is building for harry and meghan's royal wedding especially here in windsor. the couple will marry at the castle next may. mike and melanie are visiting from pittsburgh and happy to hear harry is marrying an american. >> he must really, really,

love her to kind of circumvent tradition. >> i think it ace adorable. >> everybody loves a romance story. >> reporter: couple says first thing they have connect on was their passion for humanitarian work. >> one of the first things we started talking about was just different things that we wanted to do in the world. >> reporter: they stopped by a school friday to support a program that steers young people away from violence, prince harry and markle say they feel strongly about change, and look forward to creating it, together. terry okita for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". it was a very special birthday for a star of the big bang theory, actress kelly, is is engaged. in a video she was left in tears following her boyfriend karl cooks proposal. kail i could not help but tear fully say we're engage before saying yes, and cook followed that powe with the video of the two slow dancing. they have been dating since march of 2016, and she celebrated her 32nd birthday.

>> ahh. well, a few of new jersey 's finest are looking clean cut again. >> after a month of scruff for no shave november a group of cherry hill police officers have shaved it all off now. this morning officers, said good bye to their beard, mustache, as part of the no shave november, fundraiser, officers raised money for various causes including saint judes and american cancer society. they raised more than $3,500, that is a thousand dollars, over their original goal. very nice. >> coming up, santa's about to get very, very busy, having a little bit of fun before christmas. still ahead on "eyewitness news" this noon will it be fun with the jolly old elf and reindeer in the local river, katie. >> who knew, he could also man a boat along with the sleigh, awesome. we are looking ahead to the weekend that really all and all is pretty fantastic if you have plans to decorate, hit the outlet malls, whatever you it may be outside you are in the clear.

lots of sun. slightly above average temperatures. that trend will continue into early next week. we will have the rest of the seven day and changes down the road coming up.

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forecast. >> beautiful. >> first four days, high pressure settled in, it is hanging out. >> good. >> it >> from cbs news headquarters in new york. good morning. michael flynn pleaded guilty today to lying to the fbi about his contacts with russia. he entered the plea in federal court in washington. then in a written statement flynn says he's cooperating with special council, robert mueller. mueller is investigating russian interference in the elections last year and whether anyone in the trump campaign was involved. he was trump's first national security adviser. he was fired for lying to vice

president pence for his contacts. in his statement he has said, it's extraordinarily painful to en dour these false accusations of treason. he said the actions i acknowledged in court were wrong and i am working to set things straight. my agreement to cooperate with the special interest office reflects in my best interest of my family and country. i accept full responsibility for my actions. we are joined with paula reid outside of the courthouse where flynn entered his plea. >> according to the newly released court documents. mike flynn will testify that

before he met with the russian ambassador he spoke with the zone i don't remember official of the presidential transition team who he will also testify was with other senior members of the presidential transition team. he says they had a long conversation what if anything he should discuss with the russian ambassador and specifically the russian team told him they wanted him to talk about sanctions and how not to escalate the situation between the united states and russia following sanctions put forth by the obama administration. this is very significant. this takes the ownness off motorcycle flynn and shows this was directed by the president's transition team this. is a valuable piece of evidence for robert mueller for his on going i investigation. >> to be clear, paul a this suggests that flynn was directed by the campaign, possibly the

president to reach out to russia? >> i want to speak very specifically to the language in the court documents this. is what he's testifying before a judge and told the grand jury. he specifically says senior officials of the presidential transition team, there is no specific mention of the president in this part of the documents. at this point, yes. they are saying he was directed by the president's transition team to have this moating and to specifically discuss sanctions and ways to not escalate the situation between the u.s. and russia -fl. >> paul a this is a very serious charge michael flynn has pleaded too. he's agreed to plead to lying to the fbi while in fact in the white house as national security adviser in january. he was being invest gated for more significant charges, was he not? >> absolutely. sources have confirmed that at least half a dozen witnesses

have come to federal court to discuss michael flynn's business dealings. specifically the lobbying with turkey and russia. it is showing that there maybe charges against flynn and his son, very serious charges. there are questions about violating federal law talking about u.s. policy. anthony, the special council is willing to overlook that evidence presented the last six to eight months and allow him to plead guiltiy to making false statements. that tells us michael flynn had something very valuable to offer robert mueller. here we see what he was offering. this is significant. it shows this was at the helm of the transition team. >> i want to bring in jeff from the washington bower owe.

jeff, what does this maybe for the investigation now? >> well that obviously it's preceding and getting closer to the president's inner circle. let me set the scene here. one thing with the plea agreement is how hyper focused investigators are on flynn during the transition and into the white house. keep in mind after he became national security adviser four days after the inauguration, he was questioned by the fbi. then 18 days later he was fired or about 18 days later fired after it was revealed he was compromised. it was the acting attorney ten ral at the time, sally yates, who went to the white house and warned them that investigators felt mike flynn was compromised. he hadn't accurately described his contacts with the russian ambassador. at the time u.s. intelligent

officials and law enforcement officials had access to the intercepts. the electronic intercepts in which sanctions were discussion even though according to the vice president motorcycle flynn told him that was not the case. so, invest gaters at that time felt he was compromised. this is an important part of the investigation. that period between the transition and the first few weeks in the administration for michael flynn. >> jeff, what did he -- what do law enforcement officials belief in looking at the intercepts for the reason flynn was reaching out to the russians. >> let's go back a year, december 2016, the obama administration was intent in sending a message to the russians, a punishment if you will, for interferin interferind

meddling in the 2016 election. how did they do that? they felt one step was announcing the sanctions against certain people within the russian government. so, when those sanctions were under mind there were people in the inte intelligence communityd law enforcement community whether shocked because the russian behavior was so unrussian like. in this case that didn't happen. as the intercepts came out people in the law enforcement felt they were being under minded, the obama administration was being under minded. there were officials saying there is one president at a time. they were seeing the inter actions and they were concerned. >> their concern that mr. flynn was being directed by someone

else? >> that was the suspicion. he wouldn't of done this on his own. i was told that multiple times during that period. they always felt that he was being advised or encouraged to make the contacts. >> i want to bring back paula reid again outside of the federal courthouse where mr. flynn entered his plea today. >> paula, what happens with the conversation with the ambassador. >> i'm reading closely, tiny print, the documents filed by special council this. is what flynn will testify to. he will say immediately after talking about officials he called the russian ambassador and requested russia not escalate the situation between them and the u.s. and respond in a resip owe cal manner. said immediately after the call the transition team wanted to know how it went and wanted an update. he was in constant communication

with the transition team about his conversations with the russian ambassador and how they went. two days after the conversation with the transition team saying, yes, let's talk about sanctions and a way to tam -p the situation down. you see russian president, vladimir putin released a statement december 30th that russia would not take retaliatory measures to u.s. sanctions this. is incredibly significant. this shows a tight time line and connects vladimir putin's actions with conversations with president trump's transition team. >> paul a what do we know about michael flynn making the decision to cooperate here. when he actually tipped? >> we know there has been a steady parade of witnesses the last six to eight months. a few weeks ago something interesting happened. several witnesses with the public relations firm coming here to testify were told to

hold off. earlier this week we know flynn's lawyer stopped sharing information about the investigation. we know the lawyers met with special council early this week. it appears they were getting closer to a plea deal over the past several weeks. we know that based on what sources have confirmed to us about what was going on with the grabbed jury and what we have confirmed about flynn not cooperating with the white house. anthony, it appears they were looking for a plea deal. it seems to have closed the deal the past several weeks. >> paula, why do you think he agreed to the plea deal and accepted it? >> it's not only mike flynn under scrutiny but his son mike flynn jr. they were both potentially exposed to the foreign loniing crimes we talked about. when you don't disclose income and work on be half of a foreign government. a incentive to avoid federal prison, there is even more of a

incentive if your child is potentially looking at a federal prison sentence. based on the evidence we know and the charges that robert mueller could of brought, all of these things come together as an attractive intensive to start talking. >> as paula reid has reported there is evidence that michael flynn was directed by senior officials of the trump team to contact the russians. he has accepted charges of lying to the fbi in january as national security adviser in the trump administration. we want to thank paula reid outside of the federal courthouse and our washington bureau. there will be more on your local news on your cbs station and our 24 hour streaming network cbsn and the cbs evening news. i'm anthony mason, cbs news, new york. >> for news 24 hours a day go to

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