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tropical storm andrea forms in the gulf coast. the first named storm of the atlantic hurricane season plans to dump several inches of rain on florida before moving up the east coast. >> we went over to the building, you know, can you hear us, can you hear us, say something. we tried to find the people. >> a deadly building collapse in philadelphia kills six people, while the search for survivors lasts through the night. and new hope for a 10-year-old girl in desperate need for a lung trance plant. a judge clears the way for her to get on an adult recipient list. >> if we did not stand up and do something, we would just sit there and watch her die. and golden ticket.
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the last month's record-setting powerball jackpot comes forward to claim her multimillion dollar prize. captioning funded by cbs june 6, >r thp this is news" for i'm . this is the "cbs morning news" for thursday, june 6, 2013. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. well, this morning the first tropical storm of this year's atlantic hurricane season andrea is bearing down on the gulf coast of florida. rough seas and increasing winding are already affecting florida's southwest coast. andrea has sustained winds of 45 miles per hour and is expected to make landfall near florida's big bend area by later today. now, heavy rain and coastal flooding is expected. cbs's hurricane consultant david bernard is tracking the storm. >> looks like the biggest factor surrounding andrea will be the rainfall amount produced, and for that matter most of the east coast as well.
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our satellite and radar indicating already torrential rain spreading into the west coast of florida, and that trend is going to continue north, it looks like, over the next 24 hours. we have a tropical storm warning in effect from the big bend of florida airy to ft. myers region and a tropical storm watch along the southeast coast from flagler beach, florida, to north beach, north carolina. that including charleston and potential. the rainfall potential between now and saturday, the yellow area could mean widespread 2 to 5 inches of rain and local amounts of 5 to 6 inches of rain. so just about anywhere from florida into the northeast, you combine that with a cold front on the way, it looks like flooding could be a problem. i'm david bernard, cbs news, miami. well, oklahoma officials say 20 people were killed in last friday's tornado and flooding. the storm that hit the oklahoma city area was one of the widest ever recorded. more than 2 1/2 miles across.
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eight of the victims were killed by flash floods as they tried to escape the tornadoes. and floodwaters from the mississippi river have burst through several levees in st. louis. folks in west alton, missouri, have been told to evacuate at a moment's notice. there's extensive flooding. there's extensive flooding up to the doors of businesses. the river has already crested in west alton and is slowly retreating. >> a dramatic late night rescue in philadelphia. a 61-year-old woman was pulled from a building that collapsed earlier yesterday. she's the 14th survivor pulled from the debris, but at least six people were killed when the building that was being torn down suddenly collapsed in center city. vinita nair reports. >> reporter: philadelphia fire crews worked through the night sifting through what remains of a thrift store, looking for survivors or victims. a building next door that was being torn down suddenly collapsed, trapping shoppers inside. >> we did not know and we still
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do not know how many people were actually in the store. >> reporter: more than a dozen people were rescued from the rubble and taken to area hospitals. >> there are six people who died. one man and five women. >> reporter: witnesses who were passing by the building when it collapsed were among the first responders. >> we went over to the building. we said, you know, can you hear us, can you hear us, say something, and we tried to find the people. personally i helped pull out two. >> reporter: jordan mclaughlin said he could feel the building fell down. >> there were big aftershocks on the ground. you could feel the building shake. people fell over. >> reporter: they used buckets to move bricks and search dogs to locate people who were trapped. more than 12 hours after the collapse, search crews say they have yet to reach the back part
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of the store where more victims may be trapped. vinita nair, cbs news, philadelphia. a report that the federal government is indiscriminately collecting the telephone records of millions of americans has civil liberties groups outraged. britain's "guardian" newspaper reports the national security agency is collecting the phone records of 121 million verizon records under a secret court order. the order is good until july 19th. it requires verizon to give the nsa information on all telephone calls, both foreign and domestic. the order may be the broadest surveillance order ever. there is no comment from either verizon or the nsa. and susan rice's appointment as obama's security adviser has critics up in arms but they say they will try to work with her. the president appointed rice yesterday. following the attack on the u.s. mission in libya, rice was accused of misleading the nation that derailed her possible
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nomination to be the secretary of state. the president said rice is the consummate public servant wh puts her country first. >> sh see at once passionate and pragmatic. i think everyone understands susan is a fierce person for justice and human dignity, but she's also mindful we have to exercise our power wisely and deliberately. >> the president's nominated human rights advocate samantha power to replace susan rice as the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. a jury will decide in august whether sergeant robert bales will be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. bales pleaded guilty yesterday to killing 16 people in afghanistan, many of them women and children. bales went on an overnight killing spree during deployment in march of 2012. he said there was no good reason in the world for his actions. now, coming up on the "morning news," reversing
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with the cleaning power of crest. firefighters solemnly marched to houston's reliant stadium to honor four of the city's pravest who died fighting a massive hotel friday on friday. it was the deadliest day in their 118-year history. an estimated 114,000 mourners filled the stadium yesterday for the memorial service. and the tsa is dropping its plan to allow small knives on airlines. as sharyl attkisson reports, the agency set off a firestorm of opposition from airline workers, lawmakers, and others. >> reporter: some of the most tense and organized lobbying to keep small knives off planes
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came from 90,000 flight attendants. >> when you think about everything in the industry, the public, everyone on the street, everyone seems to think, this just didn't make sense. >> reporter: tsa said the risk to passengers from small knives was low and lifting the bash would give screeners more time to focus on bigger dangers such as explosives. last march, tsa administrator john pistole insisted small knives would be allowed despite opposition. >> reporter: is there any chance the tsa will change its mind? >> no, this is along with a risk-based decision. >> reporter: before all this, congress was set to vote to overrule the tsa and keep the knife ban in place. they say they'll go ahead and move forward with that legislation so the tsa can't change its mind again. sharyl attkisson, cbs news at reagan national airport. on the "cbs moneywatch," a
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crackdown on student loan fraud, and google glass not in the cards at casinos. erica ferrar ray is here in new york with that and more. good morning, erica. >> good morning, anne-marie. asian stocks slid again on the uncertainty surrounding the monetary policy. tokyo's nikkei shed half a percent. hong kong's hang seng dropped about 1%. and a series of disappoints economic reports sent wall street into a tailspin. the dow plunged 217 points, closing below 15,000. the nasdaq took a nearly 4-point dive. the u.s. senate takes up a measure today that would stop the interest rate for subsidized stafford student loans from doubling to 6.8%. it comes as an investigation of the u.s. department of investigation revealed that the number of students fraudulently applying for student loans surged 82% since 2009. 34,000 students received awarding totally $874 million
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that they likely were not entitled to. and microsoft revealed its including its popular e-mail application for tablets when it introduces its 8.1 later this year. the software company says outlook 2013 will be part of the free updates for the tab llts running the latest operating system. microsoft hasn't given a specific release date for the update. if you're interesting to get your hands on the hot new controversial google glass, don't think about taking it into a casino. new jersey banned the device which features a camera. from the state's 12 casinos. in nevada several casinos will ask patrons to take them off if they're suspected of using them to secretly record. an anonymous bidder plunked down nearly $34 million for a carpet. sotheby's auctioned off the persian rug. it was bequeathed to a d.c. art gallery in 1926 from william a. clark, an industrialist and u.s.
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senator from montana. and, anne-marie, i can't imagine the winning bidder will be putting that carpet on the floor. >> oh, no, no. i don't think anyone's allowed to step on that. erica ferrari here in new york. thank you, erica. well, coming up, meet the newest mega millionaire. an 84-year-old comes forward to claim last month's $590 million jackpot. how a stranger's kindness may have helped her win. to visit. i'm still not gonna make it to mars, but, thanks to hotwire's incredibly low travel prices, i can afford to cross more things off my list. this year alone, we went to the top of the statue of liberty and still saved enough to go to texas, to a real dude ranch. hotwire checks the competition's rates every day so they can guarantee their low prices, so we got our four-star hotels for half price. next up, hollywood! >> men: ♪ h-o-t-w-i-r-e, hotwire.com. ♪ >> man: save big on car rentals too, from $11.95 a day. we admire strength. that's why we're donating to wounded warrior project.
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here's a look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. new york, partly sunny but thunderstorms in miami, chaurk and dallas. los angeles, morning clouds with a high of 75 degrees. an 84-year-old widow in florida is now the single biggest lottery winner in u.s. history. the mother of four finally stepped forward to claim last month's $590 million power ball jackpot. eric glasser from our tampa affiliate wtsp reports. >> she's a wonderful neighbor. >> reporter: a few things we already know about gloria mackenzie aside from the fact she's now loaded. she apparently knows how to keep a secret too. neighbors say the 84-year-old never let on over the past two and half weeks that anything changed. in fact, they say they've seen a lot less of her since the may 18 drawing. go figure. >> she's so quiet, i didn't really notice, you know?
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>> and now it makes sense? >> now it makes sense. >> gloria, my neighbor? dawn was shaking when she heard news of gloria's good fortune. she talked with mackenzie daily when the neighbor would take walks every day. >> she's a sweet little lady who's trying to live is all. and she won the lottery? my sweet little old neighbor lady won the lottery. >> reporter: she's a friendly quiet woman, just the neighbor you'd like to have, her modest home just a stone's throw from zephyrhills. with $377 million now burning a hole in her pocket, they wish her well, figuring she probably won't be their neighbor very much longer. >> i hope she has much more fun than she's ever had and i hope she don't stay there. >> the best to her. >> congratulations. enjoy the money. >> that was wtsp's eric glasser reporting. after taxes, her winnings come
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to about $278 million, and mackenzie bought the winning ticket after another customer let her go ahead in line. in sports now, a double oversometime thriller in the nhl's eastern conference finals. richard donahue, the boston transit officer shot during the boston bombing. there was a goal by chris kunitz but in the second overtime patrice bergeron redirects the pass into the net for the game-winning goal. the bruins win 2-1 and lead the series three games to none. in baseball, cargo carries it for the rockies. carlos hits three home runs, tying a career high. all together the rockies hit six homers and piled up 20 hits as they beat cincinnati, 12-4. hewn astro's mascot astro having a tough time entertaining the guests last night. he gets stuck trying to climb over a railing at minute maid
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park. the astros, meantime, have no problem putting ball in orbit. they hit six home runs to top baltimore, 11-7. and with less than 100 days till the nfl pays off, the reigning champs paid president obama a visit, making a short trip to the white house. president obama welcomed the winners of super bowl xlvii. the ravens presented him with a personalized purple jersey. when we return, an 11th hour lifeline. a federal judge intervenes in the case of a pennsylvania girl in need of a lung transplant. lung transplant. it starts with something little. tiny changes in the brain. it can happen to anyone. a request for information. a simple donation. things anyone can do. it steals your memories. your independence. your loved ones. it ensures care, support, a breakthrough.
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new hope for a pennsylvania girl with cystic fibrosis who is in desperate need of a lung transplant. on wednesday, a ruling by a federal judge allowed her to be placed on an adult transplant list. susan mcginnis has that story. >> reporter: 10-year-old sarah murnaghan cheered when she heard the news. she will now have the same chance of receiving a lunn transplant that adults do. >> she's not looking for easy, just possible. >> reporter: sarah's parents sued the government to try to revoke the so-called under 12 rule, which puts children behind adults on the transplant list, forcing them to wait longer, even if they're sicker. >> we're very happy the judge ruled this way and is changing and giving us an opportunity. >> reporter: it came after the congressman for the murnaghans pushed for the change.
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>> time is running out. please suspend the rules until we look at this policy which we all believe is flawed. >> this is an incredibly agonizing situation where someone lives and someone dies. >> based on their age. based on their age. >> sir -- >> reporter: secretary sebelius says the medical community should decide who sits where on the transplant list, not the courts. some people worry others will file lawsuits if they don't like their spots on the list. the murnaghans feel they had no choice. >> if we did not stand up and do something, we would just sit there and watch her die. >> reporter: after the judge's ruling secretary sebelius organized an emergency meeting to review its policies. susan mcginnis, cbs news, washington. a memorial at the arlington national cemetery marked the 50th anniversary of the death of slain civil rights leader medgar evers. attorney general eric holder and
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4 minutes before 5:00 on this thursday morning. a most pleasant start to the day. marty is over at first warning weather. >> it's gray and that's going to lead to a couple showers today and a lot of rain tomorrow. let's take a look. we're in the mid 6 #0 0s in the area now. 74 at lunch. going to a high in the upper 70s, a humid, gray afternoon with showers around. steady rain is going to become a part of our lives before bedtime. here's what we have our eye on for you today, state lawmakers are set to hold their first public hearings into the problems at the city detention center. >> laura neuman wants to hire
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100 firefighters. >> the celebrity welter night. >> a presidential on nor -- honor, the ravens head down to dc for a ceremony outside the white house. . >> major league baseball is facing another performance enhancing drug scandal this morning. >> it's the 1-year anniversary of the opening of the maryland live casino. wjz is live with the impact this casino is having. >> we'll have a report on the first tropical storm of the season. first warning,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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