have a great day. captioning funded by cbs good morning. it is thursday, november 12th, 2015. welcome to "cbs this morning." breaking news. the united states is involved in a major new offensive against isis and we are near the front lines in iraq. powerful storms rip across the messed leaving a path of destruction. >> more than 100 surprised women say a birth control mix-up led to unplanned pregnancies. how did that happen and who is going to pay? strt we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener." your world in 90 seconds. >> intense rain and high winds have been pounding the midwest. setting off power lines and segment off tornadoes. >> more than 170 severe weather reports the past 24 hours.

that in my whole life. >> this morning, u.s. jets are supported by kurdish iraqi forces to retake a iraqi town held by isis forces. >> donald trump under praise for portraying president eisenhower's plan. >> we would do it in a very humane way. >> in new york a news chopper blinded by a laser. >> we have lasers. >> they show an officer tasing a man over and over. >> a protest in missouri may be spreading. college students are calling on their president to resign in ithaca. >> police confront a man with a rifle on top after building in san francisco shooting him to death after he fired the weapon at the evasive hospital. >> deadly explosion in new jersey. at least one person killed and firefighters killed 15 people from the rubble. >> all that.

morning from being attacked by an alligator. >> oh, my god what is this? >> what i'm talking about. >> george w. bush stopped by to surprise veterans visiting his presidential library. >> got to know him well because we were both on "60 minutes." we were stable mates. >> trump and putin did appear on the same episode of "60 minutes" in unrelated segments on different countries on different continents. >> on "cbs this morning." >> unfortunately, it turns out these two prize stallions never actually met. >> i'm not sure why trump called the two of them stable mates. it's either a metaphor for their powerful friendship or donald trump doesn't know which one of these things is vladimir putin. announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by toyota. let's go places! welcome to "cbs this morning."

the war against isis. american war planes are backing kurdish troops in a new offensive to recapture strategic city in northern iraq. a united states military official says those planes carried out at least 20 air strikes this morning. >> sinjar sits along a key supply route. isis captured the city more than a year ago and accused of using murder and rape terrorize the local population. charlie d'agata is on the ground with kurdish forces overlooking sinjar. >> reporter: good morning. what you see there is smoke rising from the latest of a series of air strikes targeting isis militants inside and around the city of sinjar. we lost count of the number of air strikes this morning and overnight that have been launched in that vicinity. they have also been firing artillery from mount jinsinjar into the city and a massive effort to

peshmerga forces are closing on three sides of this city trying to push isis out. one of the reasons, it sits between the two isis strongholds of iraq and syria and mosul in iraq. so they are trying to cut off supply routes between those two cities. but it's not going to be easy. kurdish peshmerga forces we spoke to said they fear snipers. now the city may be ripe with homemade bombs and there is a concern of suicide bombers if not on foot then traveling in vehicles packed with explosives. >> incredibly reporting thunderstorm. charlie d'agata, thank you so much in iraq. a huge weather system this morning is slamming the midwest with heavy rain and strong winds and moving east. a line of powerful storms is churning near the great lakes. at least ten tornadoes have been reported. >> rain and wind pummeled parts of iowa over night.

some homes have been damaged. >> reporter: it is hard to imagine when this happened a husband and wife were home. they rode out the storm in their basement uninjured. now, powerful winds ripped off half of their roof and turned their garage to pieces. and tore down power lines like this one. there were multiple tornadoes reported across the state. this powerful ef-1 tornado tore through the city of voka, iowa, a dangerous mix of heavy rains and violent winds blasted the state on wednesday. >> your house shakes and you think it's going to come off. you hear glass breaking and started praying, crying, whatever, thinking burr family. >> reporter: the howling winds toppled trees, tore down power lines and flipped over semitrucks. people who live in the area were shaken. >> sounded like more than one freight train put together. i've never heard a sound like

>> we are watching a tornado form right here. >> reporter: the storm system stretched to missouri. fueled these lightning strikes over chicago and blew the roof off of this home in kansas. >> it's gone. so now, you know, all i can really do is i got to fix it. >> pulling in my driveway. >> reporter: in oklahoma, wind gusts of 60 miles per hour whipped several wildfires out of control, burning down this home and forcing evacuations, as firefighters struggled to keep up with the flames. >> the wind was originally out of the west blowing to the east and it just -- it didn't matter what we did, you wasn't going to stop the fire. >> reporter: the same severe storm system dumped more than a foot of snow in parts of the rockies and blanketed roads in nebraska. now, the couple that lives here told us that they are meeting with insurance agents later today. the winds are headed east to the

the great lakes rather. those winds will be strongest in the afternoon and could reach 60 miles per hour. charlie? >> adriana, thanks. hail and wind gusts up to 60 miles an hour pounded minneapolis. enough hail fell to coat the ground. danielle niles of our boston station wbz is tracking the severe weather as the system heads east. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. the same system we talked about yesterday spreading rain east. the severe weather threat for thunderstorms not as great today but rain changing to snow. northern minnesota and wisconsin will measure in inches by the time the day is done. the wind impact is large. 18 states under a high wind warning or wind advisory. through the day today for gusts 45 to 55 miles per hour widespread. that will cause scattered damage and outages already seeing reports of delays at o'hare this morning. that wind will slide east as the storm pushes off the coastline so a big wind maker tomorrow from the mid-atlantic through the northeast to end the week. . back to you.

>> thanks, danielle. this morning, the federal aviation administration is looking into a series of new laser strikes on aircraft. some of last night's attacks were caught on video. thre local news helicopters in new york and new jersey reported lace lasered were flashed to them. kris van cleave with more. >> tht theis is the record laser on surge on aircrafts so far this year. 5,300 reports more than last year and coming in at a rate of 18 a day. the faa says wednesday was a busy night nationwide. >> three news helicopters were targeted today, including our own chopper 2. >> the crew aboard chopper 4 became the target of a laser strike today. >> laser attack targeting our wabc news helicopter tonight. >> reporter: three choppers last

night struck by being struck by bright green lacers. the attacks were caught on camera by two of the crews. pilot and reporter joe beerman from our new york station wcbs says the lasers hit his cockpit several times. >> when we were looking there, we got lasered. same time nypd was right next to us. >> reporter: the news crew guided bliss to the location of the lasers and two suspects were taken into custody. >> reporter: just after 7:30 last night, air traffic controllers in dallas warned pilots after three different planes, a southwest airlines boeing 737, a virgin america airbus a-319 and a private business jet, were all hit by a laser while preparing to land at love field. >> you want to turn away from that light source. when it illuminates this helicopter you can't turn away from the light source. it's incapacitating for a few moments. >> reporter: police pilot kevin cook patrols skies over los

angeles a particular hotbed for laser strikes and such a problem all 88 airborne l.a.p.d. officers have been provided special protective glasses. one of these pointed at an aircraft is a crime could lead up to jail time of five years and a substantial fine. federal investigators plan to remove the charter jet that crashed into an apartment complex in akron, ohio. tuesday's crash killed all seven passengers and two crewmembers on the plane. it went down as it approached the akron-fulton international airport at the end of a flight from dayton, ohio. don dahler is near the scene of the accident in akron this morning. good morning, don. >> reporter: good morning. investigators recovered that cockpit voice recorder and sent it off to washington for analysis. they are also taking a closer look at the turbine engines and main engine records for the aircraft and what the weather was like at the time of the accident and they are all trying to figure out why this plane

fell out of the sky. surveillance video shows the charter jet skimming the tree line and then crashing, sparking a massive fire and destroying up to four homes. >> it was very rainy, foggy, overcast, ground is wet and power lines on the ground. >> reporter: on wednesday, investigators examined the charred rubble. bella dinczar. >> the left wing hit the ground first and left a witness mark. then the aircraft hit half of an apartment building, destroying it before running up an embankment behind the building and coming to rest. >> reporter: officials confirm that all nine people on board the jet, including both pilots, were killed. denny lukowitz is president of the charter company that operated the plane. >> i can tell they were very-seasoned pilots, both of them. >> reporter: the seven passengers on the airplane worked for preb enterprises a

they were in the second day of their trip. our hearts are broken, the message on the door of the company. some of the victims have been identified by our cbs stations and affiliates. the following were victims. they all worked together at the real estate company. chavez copiloted the plane. on wednesday, virgin's wife posted a message on her facebook page writing, i miss you. what i would give to have you back. investigators also talked to a pilot who landed at the akron-fulton airport shortly before the accident. he was on the same radio frequency as the hawker 700 and did not hear any distress calls. the ntsb expects to be a site here a total of four to five days. >> don, thank you. we reported yesterday on the deat of this woman diane smoot in that plane crash in akron and we mistakenly showed the picture

of another one and we sincerely regret our error. a nationwide poll among democrats show clinton leading bernie standards 52% to 53% and martin o'malley at 5%. nancy cordes is at drake university in des moines, iowa, all three will face off on saturday's cbs news democratic debate. >> reporter: our new poll also finds that clinton supporters are more likely to say they have made up their minds. so she is going to walk on to this debate stage on saturday night as the undisputed front-runner. her republican opponents meanwhile are locked in a serious debate over immigration after tangling on that issue at their debate on tuesday night. >> we are going to have a deportation force and you're going to do it humanely. >> reporter: donald trump doubled down on wednesday on his vow to deport illegal immigrants.

>> i think there is a better conservative approach that solves this in a way it doesn't cost an arm and a leg and respects the american values. >> reporter: clinton chimed in on twitter calling trump's plan un-american. >> we are a country of laws. have to go out and they will >> reporter: a touchy issue for a party that is worried about a repeat of 2012 when mitt romney's much milder proposal still turned off hispanic voters. >> the answer isself deportation and people decide they can do better by going home because they can't find work. >> reporter: when they weren't debating immigration on tuesday, republicans were talking about hillary clinton. >> hillary clinton. >> mrs. clinton. >> clinton. >> online video her campaign mocked her for mentioning morning the middle class at a debate focused on the economy. republicans said that is because she is their true rival, not each other. the assault continued on wednesday. >> we continue to expose her radical views on abortion.

obama and hillary clinton on amnesty, republicans will lose. >> i like the fact that i was given the chance to point out the threat of hillary clinton's presidency. >> reporter: we have just learned this morning that clinton's democratic rival bernie sanders has won the endorsement of the postal workers union. it's the largest union to back him so far. and interesting, charlie, in our new poll, he leads among democratic voters under the age of 45. he has 46 points to clinton's 40. >> include inting fact. thanks, nancy. "face the nation" host john dickerson will moderate the democratic presidential debate saturday night at 9:00, 8:00 central on cbs. this morning more than 100 women with suing a birth control company for a packaging error which which they say resulted in unplanned pregnancies and they want the company to pay for the

>> the women filed this lawsuit in a pennsylvania state court last week. they are claiming that a pharmaceutical company which is a subsidiary of endo pharmaceuticals and its manufacturers distributed defectivive birth control pills in 2011 and they say caused 1134 accidental pregnancies across 26 states. it was discovered the rows of pills inside the box were placed upside down and this caused women to take placebo pills during the week they should taking hormone pills and left them at risk for contraception. the case is seeking millions of dollars in damages and in some cases the cost of raising two adulthood children who were born from these allegedly unplanned pregnancies. cbs news reached out to representatives from endo pharmaceuticals and the company that packaged the products and both declining to comment on

safety and product quality is their top priority. endo pharmaceuticals told us they have been only to confirm one be defective package ever sold to a patient. >> what are the women asking for now, jan? >> reporter: they want money which would cover mental anklewish in in some cases, the cost of raising their children and others. one of the attorneys said it was heart wrenching for some of these women in the atlantic magazine in 2012 he said one client was in the military and had to give up her child to adoption because she was getting ready to be deployed and two others dropped out of school and two of his clients were 17 years old. this morning, investigators in san francisco are trying to find out why a gunman pointed a rifle at a hospital and fired at police. the man aimed the rifle yesterday afternoon from a nearby construction site. police say he shot at officers when they confronted him. they returned fire and killed him. new jersey investigators

if a gas leak caused an explosion that killed one person and leveled a duplex. surveillance video shows the moment the blast ripped through the roof outside of newark. 13 people to the hospital and two in critical condition with burns. witnesses say the explosion was felt blocks away. the mayor says it flattened the building, quote, like a pancake. this morning, the showdown over race on college campuses is spreading to new york state. >> sun don't shine! >> thousand students at ithaca college walked out of class over concerns of racial injustice. they are demanding the resignation of college president thomas roshone. the they say he has failed to address racial intolerance including a thinking themed party including other things. in response, the president created a diverse officer

position on tuesday but protesters say that is not enough. this week, protesters at the university of missouri forced the resignation of the president and the chancellor and yale students also accuse school administrators of insensitivity to racial tensions. the two largest daily fantasy sports websites are still taking bets in new york state this morning, defying a cease and desist letters. draft draftkings and fanduel vow to fight the order from the new york attorney general's eric schneiderman. snirdsman says the two sites amount to illegal gankship gambling. disturbing video shows police using a taser multiple times against a man in virginia. ahead why his family is questioning the cause of his death more than tw thank you, norah. hi everybody. in the city, clouds overhead anding the in the area, 53 degrees. winds out of the south will

warm us to the upper 50s right now, 46 to around 53 your temperature spread. but spreading through the area, oh, some light rain. this is round one. and there's another batch midday. and then we see a little better commute, and then get ready for the whipping winds friday into saturday. a judge decides to move a baby from the home of a lesbian couple.

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tomorrow a first of its kind good morning. it is thursday, november 12th. rain had heed in. i'm chris wragge. the forecast in a minute. police are investigating the shooting of an off duty postal worker in newark this morning. the victim's injury are said to be non-life threatening ! and also, police say two men tried to rob a gas station at washington and court streets. an officer shot and wounded one testify suspects who was taken to the hospital. a second suspect was take into custody. a man police say is notorious for taking trains and buses for joyrides is under arrest this morning. investigators say the 50-year- old darius mccollum was caught behind the wheel of a stolen bus yesterday and arrested. police say he took the bus directly from port authority terminal. investigators say he has 25 prior arrests related to the transit system. and more on the story coming up today at noon.

and new this morning as well, a new deal worth billions of dollars has been reached for the new hudson river rail tunnel project. officials have reportedly inked a deal with new york and new jersey to fund the $20 billion project. under the agreement, the federal government and amtrak would be response for half of the estimated cost. and new york and new jersey would split the rest. the deal includes replacing two amtrak tunnels also used by nj transit that are more than 100 years old. and over to john elliott for the forecast. >> thank you. hi everybody. we have gray skies in the city right now. and 53 degrees. pockets of fog around the area. and numbers between 46 and 54. we are going to see numbers above normal with the south wind. north and west, light to moderate rain for morris, sussex, warren, up into sullivan and orange county as well. and then a bit of a break. so that will miss a good part of the area. and this line likely won't. that's your midday. so it's going to be the on

should see better conditions for the afternoon commute. 59. don't forget we have a coastal flood advisory until 1:00 p.m. south shore and around the city up into coastal connecticut as well. >> okay. thank you so much. i'm chris wragge. we are back with another local update in about 25 minutes.

after this. the idea it is a good idea for putin to be in syria, let isis take out assad and then putin will take out isis, that is like a board game. that's like playing monopoly or something. >> wait. let me get that straight. monopoly is the first board game that comes to your mind? there is most better board game to describe the risk? after strategy that puts battleships into trouble? sorry. >> that's so clever because haven't we played most of those games? >> i'm still playing them today. >> that's right. >> including last night. >> you're right about that, norah, you're right. welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up in this half hour, new questions over a man's death in police custody more than two years ago. the video just released shows police officers using a taser on the victim multiple times. a judge in utah says a

foster child should be taken from a same-sex couple. was based on religious believes and not the law. >> time to show you some of this morning's headlines from around the globe. "usa today" says there are legal concerns over the nation's biggest wiretap operation. it is being carried out in riverside county, california, to monitor drug trafficking. but the operation has led to arrests and seizures across the country. nearly all of the surveillance was approved by a single state court judge. the rulings allowed the interception of more than 2 million conversations and federal prosecutors fear the state's orders are unlikely to withstand a legal challenge. the judge has declined comment. britain's "guardian" reports on an international deal to use satellites to track all commercial flights. this agreement was driven by the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight 370 last year. current ground-base radars are unreliable when the aircraft is flying over the oceans.

the new system enables real-time tracking of planes anywhere in the world. full implementation is expected in 2017. uptick in obesity. 28% of american adults were obese in 2013 and 2018. that supp. from 35% in 2011 and 2012. a gain from 32% more than ten years ago. among young people object toesity is leveling off. "wall street journal" reports apple is planning a new payment system to allow people to send money to each other. a push by silicon valley to shift americans away from cash and checks. the system would allow peer-to-peer payment and apple banks. the service could get off the ground next year. this morning, disturbing newly released videos are sparking allegations of police brutality in rural virginia.

officers using taser on a man multiple times in may of 2012. less than two 24 hours later, ray lambert was dead. >> reporter: medical examiners determined that linwood lambert died. the medical examiner said the medical examiner didn't see the video we are about to show you. video of the 46-year-old being tased several times even after he was restrained. this violent confrontation was caught on police cruiser in hospital surveillance cameras in south boston, virginia. police say they wicked up 46-year-old linwood lambert junior for causing a disturbance at a local hotel. here is the family lawyer. >> they placed him in handcuffs and not put him under arrest. he was not charged with any crime. >> reporter: the officers brought him to a regional hospital for medical evaluation but when they arrived at the

hospital, lambert kicked out the window of the squad car and bolted toward the emergency room doors. three officers responded by tasing lambert multiple times and fell to the round. >> they are saying it's justified because they have no other answer to why they used so much force with a man who was already restrained. >> while he was on the ground, he was repeatedly tased again and placed in shackles on his legs. >> reporter: lambert was placed under arrest charged with disorderly conduct and destruction of property. >> instead of being brought into the emergency room, they put him back into the police cruiser. >> reporter: an officer tased lambert again as he sat in the back seat of the police car and warned that he wasn't done. >> sit up or i'll tase you again. sit up! >> he was under obvious stress and sweating heavily and

appeared no longer responsive and they drove him back to the jail. >> he ain't moved since we left. >> reporter: an ambulance then transported lambert from the jail back to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. an autopsy said the cause of death was acute cocaine intoxication. lambert's sister has filed a 25 million civil lawsuit against the officers, the chief of police, the deputy chief of police, and the town of south boston. >> to see what had happened to him was just -- it was devastating. >> reporter: her lawyer says the amount of cocaine in lambert's body was low and the actual cause of death is now clear. >> i think it's obvious on the videotape that here is a man who was tased repeatedly and it caused him to have cardiac arrest. >> reporter: the official police investigation into the incident is still open. we reached out to the officer's lawyers and the south boston police department, but we still have not heard back. gayle? >> thank you, jeff.

this morning, a utah -- in utah rather a lesbian couple is protesting a judge's decision to remove a foster baby from the couple's home. the judge ordered that the baby be placed with a heterosexual couple instead even though the women were deemed qualified. elaine key handquijano shows how child welfare officials are reviewing that decision. >> heart breaking! because we had been told to care for this child, like, a mother would. >> reporter: april hoaglund and beckie peirce. >> i am her mother. that's who she knows. and she's just going to be taken away in seven days. >> reporter: they believe judge scott johansson is imposing his own religious beliefs and not the law. >> he said for his research he had found out that kids and

well as they do in heterosexual homes, and when they asked to show his research, he would not. >> reporter: kutv says a utah child and family service spokeswoman confirmed the judge's decision was based on the couple being lesbian. they will have the division attorneys review the judge's ruling. >> i'm not going to expect my case workers to violate a court order but on the other hand i'm not expecting my case workers to violate the law. >> reporter: the women raising two older children said the baby was thriving in their home. >> it's not right and it hurts me really badly because i haven't done anything wrong. >> reporter: a utah court spokeswoman told the associated press the judge is precluded from discussing pending cases. they say the state-appointed

attorney sports them. >> i hope that gets worked. out everybody says what kids want is love. you might be surprised to learn where some things in your cereal pop up and how some companies are ditching artificial ingredients. that is next. if you're heading out the door, we understand you got stuff to do. we only ask you set your dvr so you can watch "cbs this morning" any time you feel like it. hopefully, in the next three days! also you don't want to miss vanessa williams who is coming back to studio 57 because she is coming back to tv! we will talk to her. we will be right back.ulin, your doctor may be talking about adding medication to help lower your a1c. ask your doctor if adding once-a-week tanzeum is right for you. once-a-week tanzeum is an injectable prescription medicine that may improve blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes, along with diet and exercise. once-a-week tanzeum works by helping your body

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campbell and hersheys and kell logs kelloggs is part of the growing list. >> reporter: anyone who reads nutrition labels knows they can be filled with hard to pronounce ingredients. many are, quote, generally recognized as safe, according to the fda. but experts warn there is still a long way to go in regulating exactly what goes into our food. would you eat your favorite cereal if you knew it contained this? a product also used in jet fuel. reading food labels has become a habit for heather tomyasu. this mom of a 2-year-old boy also has twin girls on the way and thinks twice about feeding her family anything with artificial ingredients. >> i want to know trulythfully in the product and not using key words that sound good but, you know, are hiding something.

companies say they are taking artificial coloring and flavors out of their products. kraft has pledged to remove that bright yellow color, really a synthetic dye, from its classic mac and cheese by next year. and general mills, maker of trix and other cereals saying natural natural. the company says it's about listening to their customers. general mills telling us we are raelg really doing this because we have heard from families who say this will make the products better. but it may also be about profits. a report this year shows 80% of consumers are willing to pay more money for natural products. >> this is definitely a reaction to statistics. >> reporter: heather white directs the environmental working group a nonprofit that monitors and rates over 80,000 food products based on the safety of their ingredients. >> the reason that companies are

making this step is because they listen when we start to vote with our pocketbooks. >> reporter: artificial ingredients weren't always taboo. >> it could be a selling point. >> reporter: this food historian stays in the early 1900s when food contamination was rampant consumers responded positively to the idea of manufactured food. >> the fact that food was made in a big factory by a big company was saying that guaranteed in consumers' minds that it was safe, that it was modern, that it was scientific. >> reporter: ad campaigns helped boost that image. wrigley's gum had artificial flavor and powdered tang became the drink of the future. food processing and mass production drove the need for at additives even more and everything had to taste the same.

and microwaves gavecame to the forefront. these days, even with the company's new changes, there are too many unknowns about what exactly we are eating. >> there is 10,000 different chemicals that we are exposed to in food and about at least 3,000 which we don't know anything about, so fundamentally we need to overhaul or system when we are thinking about chemicals in food. >> reporter: heather white was citing a study done there by the pugh research company. she said natural could be vague and misleading. the fda is trying to how to define natural and how to appropriately use it to categorize food. >> i think this is a step in the right direction. >> i think it's very important to have this information so you can make better choices.

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good morning. it's 7:56 on this thursday. keep the umbrella handy today, we have on and off showers. el well the forecast nay moment. but first, police are investigating the shooting of an off duty postal worker in newark this morning. it happened at 18th avenue. the victim's injuries said to be nonlife threatening. and police say two men tried to rob a gas station at washington and court streets. the officer shot and wounded one suspect who was taken to the hospital. a second suspect was take into custody. and new this morning a new deal worth billions has been reached for a new hudson river rail tunnels. the daily news says several officials have inked a deal with new york and new jersey to fund the $20 billion project. under the agreement, the federal government and amtrak

would be response for half of the the estimated cost. and new york and new jersey would split rest. and the deal includes replacing two amtrak tunnels also used by nj transit that the are more than 100 years old. and let's get to john elliott for an update on the forecast. >> well, thank you, chris. you know the wind out of the south continues to warm us up, up to 54 now in thety. and the high today above normal. the normal high is 55. just a degree shy right now. and sunsets at 4:41. not a lot of sun to see. showers right now and light rain. this is pushing through. so now more orange county and sullivan and rock lapped seeing showers. this is the first chapter, a break and then the next line fills for the middle part of the day with the front. so we have another round of showers or two today. after that, it's a west wind, a drier wind but it's going to be really windy tomorrow. 35-plus miles per hour winds.

and they could even intensify more overnight into saturday. and autumn chill, absolutely. flirting with 62 today. lucky to hit 50 or 51 on saturday. and warmer sunday into monday. >> okay. thank you so much. i'm chris wragge. we are back with another local update in about 25 minutes.

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it is thursday, november 12th, 2015. welcome back to "cbs this morning." more real news ahead, including a lawsuit over jcpenney's prices. customers complain they were tricked. mellody hobson is here with what she learned. first, here's a look at today's "eye opener" at 8:00. >> powerful winds pour down power lines like this one. there were multiple tornadoes reported across the state. >> this is the type of laser pointer behind the record surge on aircraft. wednesday, it was a busy night nationwide. investigators recovered that cockpit voice recorder and they are all trying to find out

exactly why this plane fell out of the sky. women filed this lawsuit claiming that a pharmaceutical company distributed defective birth control pills. >> she is walk on the debate stage on saturday night as the undisputed fronts runner. her republican opponents are locked in a serious debate over immigration. >> anyone who reads nutrition labels know they can be filled with hard to pronounce ingredients. >> i want my mac and cheese yellow or orange. >> starbucks cup is not going away. many claimed about the claimed red holiday cup are taking their business to dunkin doughnuts. one said the faster we get there, the sooner we get to meet jesus. i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell.

isis. the united states is playing a crucial role. american war planes are backing kurdish troops as they fight to recapture the city of sinjar in iraq. officials say those air strikes have killed at least 60 isis militants. >> isis captured sinjar more than a year ago and sits between two isis strongholds and the kurds say their troops cut off supply routes between those two cities. parts of the midwest are cleaning up this morning from a strong weather system that is still churning near the great lakes. at least ten tornadoes were reported. a powerful ef-1 tornado tore through an area in iowa. a mix of heavy rain and strong rains hit the state on wednesday and the gusts brought down trees and power lines and semitrucks were flipped over. can you believe that? adriana diaz is in iowa with a closer look at the damage joot. >> reporter: the older couple

basement and it was over within minutes. they and their two dogs survived but take a look at their home. part of the roof gone. their garage is flattened. there were multiple reports of tornadoes across the state. but it wasn't just iowa. this storm system stretched to missouri and kansas where the roof was blown off of this house. in oklahoma, wind gusts up to 60 miles per hour spread wildfires out of control, burning down this home. firefighters struggled to keep up with the flames. the same storm system dropped more than a foot of snow in the rockies and covered roads in nebraska. as for the couple that lived here, they say they will meet with insurance agents today. believe it or not they actually spent the night here in their basement and said they just feel happy they are alive. gayle? >> thank you very much, adriana. republican presidential candidates kept on talking about immigration on wednesday. that controversial issue brought some of the loudest discussion in tuesday night's debate. donald trump now says that

deportation force would carry out his plan to remove everyone who came to the u.s. illegally. jeb bush says that trump's plan to deport 11 million people is just not realistic. >> just assume for a moment that -- that there would be due process. i haven't heard mr. trump's views on that but i assume in our country that actually -- people would consider that to be worthy of consideration. 500,000 people, basically, i think would double the number of people processed through our judicial system. it's not possible. >> donald trump faced more questions about the legality of his plan from bill o'reilly of fox news last night. >> i also don't think you could deport these people because the federal courts stop you and say each person that donald trump, president trump wants to deport has to have due process. in the year 2050 you'd get around to it. >> bill, they are here illegally. people are here illegally. >> doesn't matter. the courts would rule they all have to have due process because

they are on american soil. you know that. >> do you remember when you said about the anchor babies that there is nothing you can do is? >> i was right about it. >> no you weren't. >> all we -- yes, i was you don't need a new amendment. >> the courts have ruled twice against the anchor baby stuff. you need a constitutional amendment pass to overturn that. you might be able to do it but you just couldn't -- >> you don't have to do a constitutional amendment! >> it just goes around and around and around! >> democratic front-runner hillary clinton went on twitter to call trump's plan absurd and inhumane and un-american. a new poll out this morning shows clinton now leads bernie sanders by 19 points. the nationwide poll of democrats was taken just days before the democratic candidates face off in their second debate. john dickerson moderates this weekend's democratic presidential debate saturday night at 9:00 eastern and 8:00 central on cbs. on wednesday, russian president vladimir putin is

responding for the first time to allegations of state sponsored doping. in a late night meeting, putin called for an investigation that would cooperate are global anti-doping organizations. monday's report by independent commission said russian sports are plagued by doping. >> putin and russians sports minister met some of the country's athletes today in sochi. putin is urging transparency. but the sports minister suggested that these allegations are politically motivated. an international group could decide by the end of the week whether to suspend russia from track and field events. the first step toward excludeing its athletes from next year's olympics in rio. another record breaking diamond auction and a mystery. the man behind two successful bids who paid 48.5 million for this blue moon gem on wednesday. yesterday we showed you a

record breaking 28.5 million. the associated press says the man who bought both jewels is a tycoon convicted of corruption charges and he lives in hong kong where he can avoid extradition. he reportedly bought the stones for his 7-year-old daughter. >> she incumbent want a barbie? a little excessive. i don't know. >> what is that? tens of millions of dollars! >> can't wait to see what happens when she turns 15! >> i'm not touching that one! >> i don't know, charlie. long after retiring from the nfl, jim kelly is still the pride of buffalo. this morning, we are going to

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j. krchltcpenney is agreeing to settle a class action lawsuit for 50 million dollars. it faced accusations of tricking customers into thinking they were getting deeper discounts on sales by misrepresenting the original prices. the ceo says, quote, while we are confident of our position resolving this litigation removes any uncertainty and risk

mellody hobson talked with a senior executive at jcpenney what happened? >> they are being accused of false advertising. the idea is called price anchoring where they advertise an item on sale, they list the original price, and the plaintiffs are saying the original price was overstated to make the discount appear bigger. >> what is supposed to be the original price? >> here is the thing i learned in researching this story. price is incredibly complicated by state. so in california, as an example, they have a rule, an item must be on the floor a third of the time before it's put on sale. >> hjcpenney moves 1 billion units a year and it is different by states and this is a complicated thing and easy to trip. >> they didn't admit to any

but they think they must be guilty. >> in arbitration, the arbitrator said the fine would be anywhere from 20 to 120 millions and i think jcpenney let's split the thing and get out of here and not let this overhang on our stock. they have ron johnson who came and went and not a good period for the company. he had made some statements during that period around pricing and changes some policies back and forth that could have tripped them up here. they are not saying that publicly but that was my sense. >> but as a customer, i want to know is jcpenney going to make changes as a result of this and do you see other companies making changes? >> when you write a check for $50 onmillion i think you will watch closely what the rules are. first and foremost. >> you would think. >> they say base price integrity is important to them and 50 million is probably making it more important.

action suits against kohl's and tj maxx and joseph a. bank. >> macy's yesterday reported a very sharp drop in its quarterly sales. when you look at retail stores overall, how are they doing, the macy's and others? the stock is up 30% this year for macy's while the index is down about 30%. macy's had a tough day yesterday. and they have been suggesting that christmas wouldn't be great for them. but the whole industry has definitely been under a cloud. and they have had to deal with the competition from companies like amazon that have taken market share and some of them have been slow to being online and there have been changes in shopping patterns for millennials and a host of issues that they have had to deal with all at once. >> about the idea of black friday?

>> black friday, everyone is doing different things. that is going to be quite interesting to watch. can't wait for that. >> you know what is interesting to watch? >> galeyle and i like a good sale. >> we do. coming up, the star who says she drew inspiration from our mellody hobson who joins us at the table. did you know this about you? >> i heard about it! >> actress and singer vanessa williams is talking about joining cbs "the good wife." and what does she see in mellody hobson hobson? that is coming up. centrum brings us the biggest news... in multivitamin history. a moment when something so familiar... becomes something so...new. introducing new centrum vitamints. a multivitamin that contains a full

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our high school honor roll series continues this morning with hall of fame quarterback jim kelly who spent his career with the buffalo bills. kelly lives with his wife and daughters outside of buffalo and he remains cancer-free after battling the disease. >> in the '90s, he led the bills to four straight super bowls. kelly recently brought a golden football to his hometown to celebrate super bowl 50. nfl films is capturing the journey. james brown, host of "the nfl today" on cbs, takes us to karns city high school in pennsylvania. >> good. good. turn up. good job, guys.

6-0, right? >> correct. >> reporter: that is hall of fame quarterback jim kelly breaking down film with a high school football team. >> a little bit too much but you always want to throw away from the db. how did the guys fade in and out maybe a little bit too much but not bad. >> reporter: he is comfortable among them. after all he is in his hometown with a golden football to give back. >> people always ask me why i'm from. i east said, east brady, pennsylvania and i'm proud to say that. it's located 65 miles southeast of pittsburgh. hard working blue collar and drive right across the allegheny river and our town sits on the side of a hill. >> reporter: it's here where kelly and his high school coach revisit and reminisce. >> up the steps and in. do you have the key? >> i do. >> he still has the key after all these years.

wow! >> pretty neat. >> brings back some memories. >> look at the bulldog. east brady bulldogs. >> the place to go on a saturday was right here in east brady when we played at home. >> he was my quarterback for three years. through the three years that he played, we only lost three games. we tied one. i had an opportunity to coach all of the kelly boys. >> i came from a family with six boys. there is competition every day in my house. my father always told me there is going to be somebody out there that is probably better than you. but your work ethic is going to put you over the top. >> reporter: kelly heeded his father's advice and became a first round draft pick who led the buffalo bills to four super bowls in the '90s. and though his alma mater is now closed, he has been greeted with open arms by their former rival orange city. >> wow!

cheerleaders, good job! you guys weren't so loud. people always ask me about the class of '83, me, marino and pennsylvania quarterbacks. i always said work he ethic, they are still in office. what that gold football represents is hard work. all of those guys out there that made it were able and fortunate you reflect on where you came from. i played in super bowl xxv, xxvi, xxvii, xxviii. we kept fighting and we didn't cry about we didn't win. i just hope they walk by and look at that gold football and say maybe one of these days, it might be me. i was a little boy from western pennsylvania. nobody ever thought i would get there but if you work hard enough, anything is possible. >> what a great story! our thanks to j.b. look!

room and c good morning. it is 8:25 on this thursday morning. i'm mary calvi. an investigation is underway into the murder of a former new york knicks draft pick. 35-year-old michael wright's body was found in the back of a lexus suv tuesday morning in brooklyn. the medical examiner ruled he died from blunt force trauma to the back of the head. wright lived in new jersey. he was reported missing last week. wright played at the university of arizona. and an nypd crack down on dangerous driving is underway this morning after a string of recent traffic fatalities. the department launched an initiative to put a stop to dangerous habits including speeding and distracted driving. it will see hundreds more officers on patrol dedicated to traffic enforcement. it lasts through n ovember 22nd. and new this morning, a new deal worth billions has

reportedly been reached for new hudson river rail tunnels. officials have inked a deal with new york and new jersey to fund the $20 billion project. under the agreement, federal government and amtrak would be response for half the estimated cost. new york and new jersey would split the rest. the deal includes replacing two amtrak tunnels also used by nj transit that are more than 100 years old. another crack down on smoking, this time in public housing. smoking would be prohibited in public housing nationwide under a proposed federal rule. the ban would also require that common areas and stray offices on public housing property be smoke-free. it's part of a long running campaign to stop unwanted exposure to second hand smoke. and let's get a check on the forecast with john elliott. >> hi everybody. gray skies in the city right now. very tip pictures top of the tv screen, it's a little bit brighter but still pockets of fog and still some rain and

more rain on the way. 54 here. we are dealing with more readings in the 50s. it's a south wind. so today numbers will be above normal. but this line really holding together and continuing to push through now. and more of orange as well. and a break for the in much of the area through midday. but that's when we see the next line. and now you notice it's falling a part a bit but there's moisture at the surface for the front to hold together and drop off some showers. then after the front, dealing with the gusty winds that will take over. the winds that have caused so damage in the midwest and plains. 59 today, above normal. and tomorrow we feel the wind, really starts to rip and it's colder saturday. >> thank you so much. back with another local update in 25 minutes. "cbs this morning" returns in just a moment.

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this half hour, jim nantz is in our toyota green room with a preview of "thursday night football." see how the drama starts tonight with a coin toss. plus can the giants ruin the patriots perfect season on sunday? >> on no way! also in the green room, look, it's vanessa williams! we are going to talk to her about joining "the good wife." one of our favorite shows. plus her return to the miss america pageant and lots to talk about ahead. time to show you this morning's headlines around the globe. the "los angeles times" reports fewer new cars come with a spare tire. automakers try to lighten their vehicles to improve gas mileage. 36% of 2015 model year cars come with run flat tires instead. in 20065% came without a spare. 30 million drivers do not have an extra tire for emergencies. "the new york times" reports on a record number of young women living at home.

women 18 to 34 and 36% of them lived with their family last year. that tops a previous high in 1940. the survey also found young men were still more likely to remain at home than young women! but the share was not as high as it was in 1940. london's "telegraph" reports on the olive oil industry and top brands are passing off theory virgin oil as extra-virgil. seven brands are being investigated for putting the extra virgin label on lower grade oil. one olive oil company criticized the testing. "the san francisco chronicle" reports on in and out burger suing a delivery app and website. it kams its food is being delivered without permission. the company is using a fake in-n-out logo.

visit the very best product and food across the country. many men are stepping out of dress shoes to sneakers. can you say charlie rose, anyone? get a shot of his feet. the brands jumping on this trend include adidas and prada. i like it when you use were sneakers. >> fancy feet. >> workplace continues to replax dress codes. the luxury sneakers often cost hundreds of dollars and you have an under armor today? those are affordable. very nice. the road to super bowl 50 returns tonight with a return of rex ryan to metlife stadium. the buffalo bills head coach is back on its old turf. the bills face ryan's former team the new york jets. cbs' jim nantz will call tonight's game. good morning. >> good morning. >> what about this? what is rex ryan going to do to

>> he's tried to low key it this week. the greeting he gets today when he wakes up. "welcome back, you bum." i spent most of my career living around the broadcast center and your technical team here, these are my friends. i'm just glad they didn't say to me, welcome back, you bum! >> they would never say that about you. >> never say that about jim nantz. >> i tell you what, this is going to be interesting tonight because there is so much about the old coach taking on his old team. i was with rex last night. he is grateful for the six years he had here. he twice got them within a game going to the super bowl. and did good things here. he has no ax to grind but certainly the fans here are ready to take it to him tonight. >> jim, the copy toss! >> yeah. >> he is going to send out the former jets player who broke the

>> i.k.inekpame is his name. he would do the same thing as jets people. his captains have a tie to the team he is playing. three captains tonight and one kid used to play for the jets. this is par for course and has no impact on the game. come out for the coin toss means nothing. >> one quick question about you. rex ryan, you had dinner with him. how do you prepare for a game? >> i didn't have dinner with him. we have our little production meeting. before i put that down on my expense report. you know, you meet with the players and coaches before every game. you read reams of material. by the way, i'm not making this sound like this is hard manual labor. this is just how you research for a game. when you do two in a week it's condensed and probably 300, 400 pages like you guys do. you're reading whatever your clip services and the main stuff you get is talking tolt players and the coaches. for us for thursday night games,

all day wednesday, morning with the jets. afternoon with the bills. tomorrow, we begin preparation for sunday. we got the patriots and the giants on cbs the national double-header game, big game and spend the next couple of days with those teams. >> your production meeting, is food served? >> food is served. >> we call that dinner around here. >> or breakfast. >> let's talk about the jets quarterback ryan fitzpatrick. what do you think about him? >> he has done a masterful job here. this guy has led this pneumatic life. he has started for four different teams the last four years. and he picks up his family with five kids and keeps moving around the country. now he is battling an injury on his nonthrowing hand. and they are being very coy about it. they are not going to announce anything after the game tonight. he may have, possibly have surgery tomorrow after the game. he has got a ligament. there is an issue with a ligament. it's not anything major. it's something that given the fact they would have an extra couple of days before they play a week from sunday, he could

recover and not miss a game. >> we will be watching tonight, thursday night. i always let my kids stay up late for nurse"thursday night football." you talked about the patriots undefeated and sometimes they run into trouble with the giants. it's going to be a good game. >> they have. as a lifelong patriot fan, you are aware of that, aren't you? they lost to the giants in super bowls xlii and xlvi. the giants beat them twice in a super bowl. they played up in new england in 2011 the giants came into a place the patriots are not lost to an nfc team in years and beat them. >> let's talk about gisele. did you see charlie rose's interview with gisele bundchen? >> i have not seen it but, obviously, i need to do this in preparation for my patriots game

on sunday, it looks like. >> i'll send you a link! it is worthy of your time! it is worthy of your time. always good to see you. >> i like tom brady, by the way. >> you are really clever, aren't you? >> what do you need to know? >> everything. >> is there anything? >> i don't know. i don't know if you just said take to me in private! >> when you say anything to gayle in private -- >> on the way. >> yea! >> two? >> yes. caroline, have my two girls. caroline and finley. early 2016 young boys. >> young gayle. >> young charlie, young jane. i don't know. still in development and i don't know if that will work. >> congratulations. >> it's out there now. >> i'm very excited. >> i ask first. >> moving on! he's never coming back! >> the new york jets host the buffalo bills on "thursday night

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we remember in 1983 vanessa williams made history. she became the first black woman to be crowned miss america and then she was forced to resign after nude photos were made public of her but she soon took back control of her career and never looked back and becoming a grammy nominated singer and has starred in several movies. she co-starred in "ugly betty" and "desperate housewives." she plays courtney paige, a wealthy woman andor in "the good wife." >> i was just coming to see you. >> i'm so glad. >> shall we? >> it's been cleaned. >> i wanted to thank you for inviting me.

i'm sorry it was so eventful. >> i like events. no reason to apologize to me for that. >> so what do you think? >> peter and alicia? i thought they were boring. >> oh. >> like a real married couple. >> vanessa williams is here. you're playing courtney paige! she is tough, we can tell already. welcome back. this is what is so cool when we were reading the research that that role was sort of based -- you used mellody hobson as a guide and she was on today and you met for the first time in the green room! >> this is kind of the synchronicity today. not only did i meet mellody i based the character on and leading with her intellect but my husband is a huge buffalo bills fan so the fact we are talking buffalo and tonight going down here, it's been great. >> to prepare, you looked at mellody's talk?

i didn't want to do an impression. i didn't want emulate her speaking and all of that stuff but i wanted to get her power and the sense of her. i didn't do the collar either. i was close to kind of emulating. she wears a beautiful collar. >> wardrobe, medicallyllody always wears a collar. >> we have to talk about your character and shaking up the presidential campaign. >> it's the first time take eli gold has had somebody that kind of disarms him, so it's a multiple episode that i'm doing. and it's nice to see eli kind of get unraveled and a lot of people who have worked with him for years loves seeing that part of him. >> isn't he great? >> he and i work with martin and he with did the hanna montana series and we did a cbs movie 20 years called "nothing lasts forever." walked in and saw him and another one i did a movie with

and two of the directors i work with are from are "ugly betty." >> when a producer is looking for a strong woman, do you think they think vanessa williams? >> my body of work, i play a lot of strong evil women but some some definitely dynamic women so it's nice to get the call. >> when they laid it out for you did they tell you what was going to happen or were you surprised reading the script? i can't tell if she is good or bad yet. >> she's not evil but wilmaetta schraeder. she is wondering whether she should put her mean into peter's campaign so they are auditioning to see if -- >> the first impression was not necessarily good. >> well, you know, they have had scandal in their past. >> let's talk about miss america for a second. i think many people were touched when the miss america pageant issued an apology to you and gentlemen just happen to have it and i'd like to mowknow what you

were thinking at the time. >> on behalf of today's organization, i want to apologize. >> oh. >> to you. and to your mother, miss helen williams, i want to apologize for anything that was said or done that made you feel any less the miss america you are! >> did you know that was coming? >> his hand was shaking -- anyone what was going on. when they asked me to come back, i, of course, called my mother who you know. and she had some real reservations and she had, i don't think you should do it and i've got -- i've got a lot of emotions that are attached, and things i don't feel so. i told them, i said, listen, if i come back, i want to sing one of my songs. so i sang "oh, how the years go by." and talks about how the years go

seen from a 20-year-old girl and my 52-year-old woman' who has a career and that was important to me. after i did my sound check, we will break to commercial and come back and say a few words. i knew i was supposed to stand there. sam came behind me and i felt his hand shaking. we went live, he said, vanessa, i want to say something to you. i said, my god, what is happening? so it was wonderful. and happy for my mom. >> i loved your mom's expression when they talked to her. >> she endured a lot. i kind of wiped my hands and i'm moving on but she endured a lot. >> 32 years later, what did it mean for your mom? what did she say after? >> sam was one of my judges when i was crowned in '83 so it was great to have him be part of the whole establishment now but also bring it back to its former glory and integrity. so he was the reason really why this all went down. and i think my mom felt that it was genuine.

>> this is what we should say. congratulations, police congratulations, mrs. script. >> dreams are possible, gayle! it could happen to you! >> keep that alive. >> go on vacation. >> i met him in egypt on a cruise on the nile with sasha. >> comes in the form of a business place? in egypt! >> fs on ahe was on a safari and let me stop in egypt on my way there. >> i'm thinking of going to egypt! thank you, vanessa.

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good morning. it is 8:55 on this thursday morning. i'm mary calvi. breaking news n into our news room. police have arrested a man wanted in connection with the deadly shooting near penn station. according to investigators, 27- year-old vincent arcona of long island tried to use a fake name when he showed up at the hospital. he was arrested after someone noticed him and called police. police say he was involved in a dispute that stemmed from a drug deal inside the mcdonald's monday. he and another man allegedly followed the victims to a subway entrance and opened fire. one man was killed and two others wounded. three news helicopters reported being hit by lasers last night including our own

chopper 2. they were over brooklyn's park slope neighborhood which flashes of cockpit. >> when we were looking there, we got laserred, same time nypd was right next to us. so they hovered above the place. a green laser. >> with help from an nypd helicopter, officers on the ground tracked the raiser to the back of a builden on fulton street. they arrested two men. and two other helicopters also reported being hit by lasers. let's get a check on the weather right now with john elliott. >> thanks, mary. going to be another busy day in the city. right now, relatively quiet. 56 degrees, above normal right now. and cooler readings north and west. and we're also watching some rain. and some heavier rain through duchess and putnam county. just that one passing shower. and this line, then a break and then another line. and then yet another line of showers that will push through.

it's going to be interesting, this is falling apart a bit but we are going to see midday showers in the city and for more of the area. so it will slow you down a bit. and better for the afternoon commute. and then windy and colder this weekend. >> thank you. our next newscast is at noon. we are always on at cbsnewyork.com.

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