senate republican leaders are digging in their heels over the nomination of judge merrick garland to the supreme court. garland met with democratic leaders yesterday. both sides are mustering their resources to press their case. garland is expected to return to capitol hill today. don champion reports. >> reporter: senate minority leader harry reid. >> i am confident he is going to get approval. republicans cannot continue this. it won't work. >> reporter: the 63-year-old moderate appellate judge also sat down with ranking democrat patrick leahy during his first office visit to capitol hill. >> you guys are paid to do your job. make up your mind. >> reporter: garland did not meet with republicans opposed to granting him a confirmation hearing. senate majority leader mitchell mcconnell laid the visit as a

former presidential contender marco rubio also stood firm. >> i don't think we should be moving forward on a nominee in the last year of this president's term. i would say that if it was a republican senate. >> reporter: a handful of republican senators up for re-election this fall have committee chair chuck grassley. >> if i can meet with a dictator in uganda, i can certainly meet with a decent person in america. >> reporter: the white house says it will set up with meetings when lawmakers return from their easter recess in two weeks. garland has spoken with senate majority leader mcconnell over the phone. this morning, some republicans are toying with the idea of confirming garland in the lame duck session, something the white house has dismissed. >> don champion here in new york, thanks a lot, don. new york city police and the secret service are investigating

home of eric trump, one of donald trump's sons. police responded to a call about the letter at eric trump's new york city apartment last night. a source tells cbs news the letter contained a white powder but that it did not appear to be hazardous. a source close to the investigation says the lerp threat letter threatened harm to donald trump's family if he didn't get out of the race. conservative leaders and donors held meetings in washington and florida to consider the trump campaign. some want to press ahead with efforts to try and stop him, but others are resigned to the idea that he will be the nominee. mark albert has more. >> reporter: former presidential candidate marco rubio told reporters thursday, he's done with politics. >> i'm not running for re-election to the senate. as i said, i'm going to finish my term here and then i'll be a private citizen. >> reporter: rubio dropped out of the presidential race tuesday

the primary in florida. rubio's home state. trump now has nearly half the 1,237 delegates he needs to clench the gop nomination. >> we have to bring our party together. >> reporter: trump warns any plans to derail his candidacy could lead to riots but on thursday a group of activists and lawmakers met behind closed doors to discuss alternatives to the gop front-runner. senator lindsey graham threw his support behind his adversary ted cruz. >> i think the biggest to stop donald trump is ted krescruz and i'm going to help ted in any way i can. >> reporter: an activist group claims it posted the billionaire's personal information online. on the democratic side, senator bernie sanders conceded the missouri primary and campaigned in arizona thursday night.

are going to win here in arizona. >> reporter: hillary clinton took the day off the trail to attend two closed door fund-raising events as she looks toward the general election. mark albert for cbs news, washington. president obama has reportedly told democratic donors in private the time has come to unite behind hillary clinton. "the new york times" reports during a meeting last week in texas, the president told donors that bernie sanders' campaign was nearing the point where it will end. mr. obama did not call on sanders to quit the race, nor did he explicitly endorse clinton. coming up on "cbs this morning," we will talk to voters who have already had enough of this year's campaign and are less than pleased with the top candidates. another round of severe storms and wet weather is forecast today in the deep south. heavy rain, flooding, and hail remain a threat along the gulf coast from texas to louisiana.

on the louisiana border, is still under water. the worst flooding there in a hundred years. for the most part, the small town is evacuated and even when the water recede, it will be a while before residents can return. hail the size of tennis balls in some cases fell in the dallas/ft. worth area yesterday. windshields were shattered and greenhouse roof was destroyed. the zoo said the hail killed a number of exotic birds. an americanairlines flight headed from new york airport to raleigh/durham raleigh/durham. . it landed safely. they say a flash and loud back and no one injured. overseas now. north korea fired a medium-range ballistic missile into the sea this morning. south korea said the missile was

capital and flew about 500 miles before crashing off the north korea's east coast. violated several u.n. resolutions banning the north from testing ballistic missiles. the california university student who wounded four people in a campus stabbing attack back in november was inspired by isis. the fbi said 18-year-old mohamed may have acted alone. authorities found isis propaganda on his laptop and evidence he visited the isis website. the american who joined isis and surrendered in northern iraq this week says he quickly became disenchanted. >> at the time, i made the decision to go, because i wasn't thinking straight. i didn't see myself living in that environment. you know, i wanted to go back

>> mohamed jamal khweis is a palestinian-american from virginia and says he joined isis in september. in flint, michigan, rick snyder faced tough questions and criticism at a contentious hearing yesterday. he apologized and blamed washington bureaucrats. >> we are taking responsibility in michigan and we are taking action, and that is absolutely essential here in washington too. inefficient >> the city's water was contaminated when flint's water supply was switched to the flint river two years ago to save money. coming up on the "morning news." a fire breathing stunt goes wrong. a man is set ablaze in front of thousands of high school students at a pep rally. later, march madness lives up to its name with an early set of upsets in the tournament.

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a high school pep rally stunt had fiery results thursday morning in florida. a pyrotechnics crew member filled his mouth with flammable liquid and hoping to have spectacular results and instead it backfired and his face caught fire burning for about 20 seconds. he was rushed to the hospital and treated for those burns. none of the students witnessing the chaos were hurt. photographs of kurt cobain shotgun are now public for the first time. seattle police say the rock star used it to commit suicide nearly 22 years ago. the photos were released yesterday after a request from cbs news. some conspiracy theorists complain police. an isis recruiter in new

on the morning newsstand. the rochester democrat and chronicle reports the pizza shop owner who admitted recruiting for isis. the man was given 22 and a half years in prison. he renounced isis before his sentencing. he tried to recruit, actually, traveled to syria to join the militants. the "los angeles times" is reporting a witness account of a deadly fall from a hotel. a "times" photographer was at the site when the worker fell from the 54th floor on monday. the worker was not supposed to be above the third floor. "time" reports apple ceo tim cook's version of the company's battle with the fbi in an exclusive interview, he explains why he thinks the government is overreacting to the investigation of the san bernardino massacre. the fbi wants apple to develop software to decode-a-phone carried by one of the killers.

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shows sister agnes bagging items and leaving without paying for them. it added up to about $23 worth of coffee, snacks and toiletries. officials from her convent are not talking. sister agnes faces a fine if convicted. on the cbs "moneywatch," the dow is back in black and shirley temple's rare blue diamond ring could fetch a fortune. hena daniels is at the new york stock exchange with that and more. dow jones sent into positive territory for the year. the dow jumped 155 points. the s&p gained 13 points and the nasdaq finished 11 points higher. the dow and s&p are near where they were at the end of last year. over a month ago, both were down 10% for the year. the surge is for a price in crude oil. above $40 a barrel yesterday for

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shots. hagan is tripling it out and just looking for three. chucks one up. it's good! >> arkansas little rock ties it up against purdue in the closing seconds of their ncaa tournament matchup. the teams duel through two overtimes but in the end, 12th seeded trojans upset purdue 85-83. fountain first full day of tournament action another tournament seed scored a big upset. yale playing in its first ncaa tournament game since 1982 upset baylor 79-75. it is the ivy school's first win during a tournament ever. one shell-shocked baylor player didn't appreciate a reporter's line of questioning after the game. >> how did yale outrebound baylor? >> you go up and you grab the ball off the rim when it comes off and you grab it with two hands.

got more of those than we did. >> a little sarcastic. a last-second layup sends providence to the next round. the road doesn't get any easier for providence. they will face number one seed north carolina in the next round. the tar heels struggled in the first half with florida gulf coast but pulled away during the second half to win 83-67. one seeds kansas and virginia also advance. the top seed in the west, oregon, plays holy cross tonight. another full day of basketball is on tap today. our coverage tips off at noon with dayton taking on syracuse right here on cbs. finally, arizona coach sean miller looks a little uncomfortable, just a wee bit sweaty as he is watching his game. he sweat actually through his clothes before the halftime. your body was made for better things than rheumatoid arthritis. before you and your rheumatologist move to a biologic,

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for the first time in 50 years, crews delivered mail to cuba directly from the u.s. among the first letter senders, president obama. he was respond to go a cuban woman's request that he come visit her home for a cup of cuban coffee next week. the president replied to 76-year-old yarza that he hopes to have time to check out the world famous brew. well, the president is making time for a little baseball while in cuba. he'll be in attendance for the exhibition game between the tampa bay ray and the cuban national team. it will be the first time a major league team plays in the island nation since the orioles did it in 1999. a battle between a man and a sea lion in northwest, oregon. thousands of sea lions have

tore tor toria. >> reporter: the sea lions are back to eat more migrating salmon and means. they wait to regain control of one of its big docks on the columbia river. the port has entertained some pretty wacky yieds toideas to get their dock back. remember last year that whale was supposed to scare the sea lions? it wound up sinking instead under its own weight. the port has flown tejstreamers but nothing has worked so far to scare the sea lions away. they unveiled something that looks a lot more promising. inflatable air dancers. check out what happens when they turned them on for the first time. your initial assessment of this for all intents and purposes

>> it's about as aepednticipated. we knew there would be an initial sprils and the bright sea lions. >> reporter: the defense league says if this is all about money, the port should be encouraging the sea lions to stay. >> these guys are such a huge draw for tourists and we have 24 cruise ships coming to town. >> reporter: friends of the sea lion says with the money, the port could be charging people to could have built themselves a new set of docks long ago. time will tell if these inflatable air dancers work or if the sea lions wise up and plot themselves right back down on the docks. they have come to call home in the spring and summer months here in astoria. coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," a look at each presidential candidate's economic plan and how it would impact your wallet. plus, the stars of vinyl

us in the studio. and take you to detroit for the latest pizza craze. that is the "cbs morning news" for this friday.

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family lucky to be alive after a fire destroyed their home. people are urging cms officials to take actions, the problem they say students are causing in the area. this broadcast sponsored by subaru south boulevard and subaru concord. wbtv on your side. wbtv news starts right now. >> john: good morning, welcome to t wbtv news this morning you've made it to friday, it is march 18th, good to have you with us i'm john carter. chris larson in for al conklin. a little cool out there this morning, isn't it? >> chris: al made it to friday on thursday. >> john: i would like to make it on friday on thursday. >> chris: nice treat you're clouds. relative humidity 39%. winds out of the north at 3-miles-per-r-ur. let's go ahead and look at other

region this morning. it is 56 in statesville, 59 gastonia, 46 currently in boone and 49 in wadesboro as we flop over to power doppler network, the cloud cover ban stretching from charlotte and thickening out to the east. then up to the north and west we've got a little bit of clearing toward morganton and boone this morning, the storm track well down to our south, rain showers in charleston this morning, all of this begins to edge our way as we head in the weekend, we have a few rain showers in the forecast for saturday and sunday, we'll get to that in full weather. today, 66 degrees for lunch hour, 70 this afternoon. highs today across the piedmont in the upper 60s and low 70s. cooler than we were yesterday where we topped out at 78 degrees, we'll look at seven day forecast and talk about colder temperatures coming in for the weekend in a few minutes. john. >> john: this morning, a