reena. >> ninan: paula reid in washington. thanks, paula. the flu outbreak is taking its toll again in the u.s. the centers for disease control reports 22 more children died this week, bringing the number of kids killed to 84. children aren't the only ones at risk. so are seniors. dr. jon lapook has more on that. >> reporter: it's wii bowling hour at cedar mountain commons in newington, connecticut, where flu is the common worry for the assisted living facility staff and residents. for 85-year-old peggy gorman, that means extra vigilance. >> if i see someone is coughing or sneezing, i will automatically not sit near that person. >> reporter: she's even willing to cancel family visits. >> if they are sneezing or coughing, i say, "please don't come." >> reporter: protocols here call for frequent disinfecting of surfaces, door exwobz, even salt and pepper shakers, encouraging vaccinations, and isolating those with flu-like symptoms. and they're also teaching residents proper flu etiquette. >> palms of your hand, in between your fingers as well.

paula reid in washington is our justice reporter. paula, let me start with you and some reaction to this. jeff nengzed it's unlikely they'll ever be extradited, so what are the immediate legal consequences here? >> reporter: that's right. don't expect any arrests any time soon. the russian government is highly unlikely to arrest or extradite any of these people. but what this indictment does is that it gives very specific details about how the russians meddled in the election and what crimes were committed under u.s. law. >> glor: all right, so, fran, the indictment doesn't mention the russian government, but in your estimation, it's hard to believe there's not some sort of link. >> no, look at the size. when you look at this, the number of people involved, the number of shell companies involved, the amount of money that this took. i mean, this was a very elaborate influence, covert action influence scheme, and it's impossible to think that this would have not-- the blessing and direction would not have come from want kremlin and the

our justice reporter paula reid joins us with more on this. paula, first of all, the significance of this today. >> reporter: this is all about getting former trump campaign chairman paul manafort to cooperate. and over the past few days, special counsel robert mueller has been coming at manafort from every conceivable direction. he has filed dozens of new charges against him. he got a plea deal with a dutch lawyer who used to work with manafort, and now he has the gates plea deal. now, gates and manafort, they were charged in the same conspiracy. so it's expected that gates is going to provide evidence about those alleged crimes. >> glor: so, paula, any indication that manafort might cooperate? >> reporter: none so far. today, he released a statement reiterating his innocence and saying that he still intends to pursue this all the way to trial. now, robert mueller is collecting evidence about any connections between the trump campaign and russia, and manafort, if he chose to cooperate, he could provide evidence of two important questions. the

paula reid looked into this promising treatment and its risks. >> reporter: anne stalling says she hasng severe depression for most of her life. she tried anti-depressants and even electroconvulsive therapy but nothing worked until she came to this potomac maryland clinic and tried ketamine. >> it was the fifth treatment in and i was coming home from the grocery store, and i was like wow, this is how you don't feel depressed. >> reporter: ketamine was approved by the f.d.a. in the 1970s to sedate patients during medical procedures. it's more commonly known as an animal tranquilizer and in powder form as "special k." a club drug used to get high. today ketamine is being provided legally off-label to treat depression at an estimated 250 clinics across the u.s. doctor steve levine offered intravenous ketamine infusions at several clinics around the country as an alternative to common anti-depressants. >> everything for the past 50 years has been based on the chemical imbalance theory of depression which has never held water. so all of these medicines while they do help a lot of people are

>> quijano: paula reid, paula thank you.was an emotional sunday at stoneman douglas high school as teachers and students returned to the scene of the massacre. omar villafranca was there. >> reporter: it was a somber return for survivors of the deadly mass shooting at stoneman douglas. students and teachers returned to campus coping with the reality of what happened here. as a parent are you ready for him to go back to school? >> no, not yet. >> reporter: how come? >> i had to pick him up that day and it was the longest eight hours of my life. and i'm not ready to let him go yet. >> reporter: today governor rick scott called on the florida department of law enforcement to investigate the initial response to the shooting. video from school cameras showed that the armed school resource officer broward county deputy scot peterson stayed outside the building while the shooting was taking place. peterson has since resigned. new reports say other deputies didn't enter the school either. broward county sheriff scott israel addresse

>> paula reid at the white house. thanks, paula. >>> president trump is leaving it up to white house chief of staff john kelly to decide whether mr. trump's son-in-law jared kushner will get a final security clearance. the "washington post" reports the justice department alerted the white house two weeks ago to ongoing issues in kushner's security investigation. kushner only has an interim clearance. that still gives him access to top-secret and sensitive information. as president, mr. trump can give his son-in-law a high-level security clearance if the background investigation goes on. >> for more on the developments in washington, we turn now to anna palmer, senior washington correspondent for politico and co-author of politico's playbook news letter which i read every morning. good morning. >> good morning. >> let's talk about the latest turn in the events. how much pressure is on paul manafort given the breadth of these indictments? >> i think what you saw was an escalation. paul manafort getting closer every week,

it's worth it. >> paula reid, cbs news, potomac, maryland. >> up next, for this super bowl star, thest battle is off the football field. even if no one in your home smokes, secondhand smoke can be closer than you think. secondhand smoke from a neighbor's apartment can enter your home through air vents, through light fixtures and even through cracks in the walls and the floors. secondhand smoke is toxic. especially to children. protect your family. visit tobaccofreeca.com. >>> we end tonight at the super bowl where the biggest challenge facing the member of the new england patriots is not the hard charging eagles. solder tackled a greater challenge off the field now helping his son do the same. here is mark strassmann. >> reporter: nate solder plays left tackle for the nuclear patriots. one of tom brady's bodyguards on the team's offensive line. he is massive. 6'8", 320 pounds. but cancer has blindsided him twice. >> you think it is something that older people get. people that smoke cigarettes this sort of thing. not the case at all. >> in 2014, solder had surgery for testicular cance

. >> ninan: for more on this, we turn to justice reporter paula reid in our washington bureau. paula, how is the justice department responding to the memo. >> reporter: well, the f.b.i. director, christopher wray, sent an internal message to the entire f.b.i. late yesterday, and in it he praised the day-to-day work he has witnessed during his sex months leading the organization. he said, "let me be clear: i stand fully committed to our mission. i stand by our shared determination to do our work independently and by the book. i stand with you." now, attorney general jeff sessions, who has recused himself from investigations into the 2016 campaigns, he stayed mostly out of the memo controversy, but shortly after the memo was released, he issued a statement saying that he will now forward this information to the office of inspector general. that's the justice department's internal watchdog. and then that office can decide if it wants to open a formal investigation into the claims in this document. >> ninan: i guess everyone wants to know how this could affect the russia investigati

>> paula reid. paula, thank you. >>> it was an emotional sunday at stoneman douglas high school as teachers and students returned to the scene of the massacre. omar villafranca is there. >> reporter: it was a somber return for the survivors of the deadly mass shooting at stoneman douglas. students and teachers returned to campus, coping with the reality of what happened here. today governor rick scott called on the florida department of law enforcement to investigate the initial response to the shooting. video from school cameras showed that the armed school resource officer, broward deputy scot peterson, stayed outside the building while the shooting was taking place. peterson has since resigned. new reports say other deputies didn't enter the school either. broward county sheriff scott israel addressed the accusations on cnn's "state of the union." >> while this killer was inside the school there was only one law enforcement person, period, and that was former deputy scot peterson. >> reporter: nr

here to discuss more on the indictments is cbs news justice reporter paula reid. she's in our washington bureau. paula, good morning. >> good morning. >> what can you tell us. >> according to court documents he helped to fund the internet research agency that launched these operations against the u.s. now the other defendants are accused of working for that agency to effectively operate as a troll farm. so these were people who spoke english well enough to be credible as they pumped out these messages on social media. we also know from the court documents some of these defendants traveled here to the united states to collect intelligence and then to launch actual events, rallies, and even some self-defense training. >> and prigozhin known as putin's chef was alleged to have been involved. where does that leave the investigation going forward, paula? >> this lays out a way to possibly charge folks here in the united states. the documents specifically say the russians worked with the americans here on the ground. so the question for robert mueller is whether or not a

paula reid joins us with more on. this paul last, what would significant? >> reporter: a gates plea is a big win for robert mueller because gates had lots of valuable information about his co-defendant paul manafort. it's been interesting to watch the special counsel turn up the heat on paul manafort inch a court filing late friday, they just sort of mentioned in an offian way, we found new evidence against paul manafort. we may add new charges. you take that in combination with the fact that his co-defendant is going to plea, that's exactly how this winter games works. they're trying to turn up the heat to get people to flip on more high-profile people. >> glor: and the focus still remains on manafort for the special counsel? >> exactly. >> glor: paula, thank you very much. flooding along the ohio river is expected to get worse. downtown pomeroy, ohio, is already underwater. some businesses have closed. flood warnings are up in cincinnati. the river is forecast to crest tomorrow afternoon and remain in minor flood stage until friday night. >>> now to the w

paula reid is at the white house. >> reporter: reena, as you just noted, republicans earlier this month released a memo suggesting that the f.b.i. abused its surveillance power to monitor former trump campaign adviser carter page. they alleged that the f.b.i. requested a warrant based on information from someone who had an anti-trump bias. but today's memo, which is authored by democrats, alleges that the f.b.i. actually had an independent basis separate from the information in the infamous dossier to believe page was knowingly helping russian intelligence. and republicans have charge that warrant to monitor page taints the origins of the special counsel's investigation into any connection between the trump campaign and russia. in a statement, democrat and ranking committee member david schiff said, "our extensive review of the initial fisa application failed to uncover any evidence of illegal, unethical, or unprofessional behavior by law enforcement." while republican committee chairman devin nunes released his own statement, doubling down on claims the f.b.i. used political dirt paid

paula reid is in our washington bureau with the latest. paula, good morning. >> good morning. the white house cited national security concerns as the reason the president is blocking the release of the democrats' memo. in a letter to the committee, white house counsel don mcgahn said the memo contains properly classified and especially sensitive packagea sensitive passages. but last week the president released a classified memo on the same subject crafted by republicans. that memo charges that politically biased officials in the fbi and justice department abused their surveillance powers in asking for a warnltd to monitor the communications of former trump campaign adviser. the document was drafted by former british intelligence officer christopher steele and they didn't disclose it during the request for the surveillance warrant. rod rosenstein and christopher wray have outlined specific concerns about releasing the democratic memo. they say they need to protect intelligence gathering sources and methods. they had an opportunity to review the memo for more than a week before

justice reporter paula reid and more on this. what would significance of a gates' plea be? >> a gates' plea is a win for robert mueller. because gates has lots of valuable information about his co-defendant, paul manafort. and has been really interesting to watch the special counsel turn up the heat on paul manafort. in a court filing late friday. they just mentioned in an offhand way, we found new evidence against paul manafort. we may add new charges. so you take that in combination with the fact that the co-defendant is going to plead. that's how this game works. trying to turn up the heat to get people to flip on high profile people. >> focus remains on, on paul manafort for the special counsel. all right, paula. thank you very much. flooding along the ohio river is expected to get worse. downtown pomeroy, ohio is underwater. some businesses have closed. flood warnings are up in cincinnati. the river is forecast to crest tomorrow afternoon. and remain in minor flood stage until friday, night. now to the winter olympics where been better. norway lead the medal count with

paula reid has the story. >> reporter: anne stallings says she's been battling severe depression for most of her life. she tried anti-depressanted and therapy but nothing worked until she came to potomac, maryland clinic and tried ketamine. >> i it was like the fifth treatment and i had come home from the grocery store and i was putting away the groceries and i was like, wow, this is how you don't feel depressed. >> reporter: ketamine was approved by the fda in the 1970s to see dade patients during medical procedures. it was more commonly known as an animal tranquilizer and a powder known as "special k," a club drug used to get high. todayiquette a mane is being provided legally off-label to treat depression at an estimate 2d 50 clinics across the u.s. how many do you see? >> we see ten to 12 and across all of them, about 70 to 80 a day. >> reporter: dr. steve levine offers intravenous ketamine infusions at several clijices around the country as an alternative to common anti-depressants. >> everything for the past 50 years has been based on the chemical imbalance theory of depression

it's worth it. >> paula reid, cbs news, potomac, maryland. >> up next, for this super bowl star, theeagles. solder tackled a greater challenge off the field now helping his son do the same. here is mark strassmann. >> reporter: nate solder plays left tackle for the nuclear patriots. one of tom brady's bodyguards on the team's offensive line. he is massive. 6'8", 320 pounds. but cancer has blindsided him twice. >> you think it is something that older people get. people that smoke cigarettes this sort of thing. not the case at all. >> in 2014, solder had surgery for testicular cancer and kept playing. the next year, cancer really hit home for solder and his wife lexy. hudson, their first child, was 3 months old. >> we were giving him a bath. we felt a lump on his left side. felt weird. we never noticed it before. >> hudson had a rare kidney cancer. >> hudson has tumors in both kidneys. and in each kidney, he has multiple tumors. >> emotionally we were like bankrupt. >> yeah. >> ape year of chemotherapy shrank hudson's tumors. three month as go they started growing again. which means th

paula reid is at fbi headquarters in washington. paula, good morning. >> reporter: good morning.inted many of these top officials at the top of the justice department. but this memo controversy has put him in direct conflict with his fbi director. director wray believes that this memo should not be released unf the fbi using information. we've talked to some sources that wray could resign over the reese lease of that memo. we're told that' true it's not hishe's committed to serving out his n-ould issue a rebuttal if this memo is ed this is all based on the l us they're willing to artment share classified information with congress with the expectation that til a discreet manner, but with this controversy, it's clear they're using it in the most partisanwa imaginable and they're concerned g critical bipartisan relationship. ow, in talking to rank and 100% focused their job. they're not paying attention to what's going on in ome concernst the general public may start to lose trust in t gayle? >> thank you very much, paula. >>> c national security analyst fran townsend spent 13 years

. >> paula reid is at fbi headquarters in washington. paula, good morning. >> good morning. yet or which version he received. now, republicans say that changes that were made were minor edits including some grammatical fixes and two changes requested by the fbi. but democrats refused that. the democrats say they were not minor and they're demanding that this memo be withdrawn and they be allowed to revote. norah? >> paula, detail why the justice department is worried about this memo getting out. >> i sources inside the fbi and justice department, folks who have served multiple administrations. they all believe it's part of a thinly veiled attempt to remember, this memo focuses on deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. he is overseeing the mueller probe and he has final approval on any charges that are brought. so if you can understand mimineu mueller investigation. f >> thanks. >>> senior analyst fran townsend serve 13d years in the justice department. she was homeland security advise adviseer to george morning. >> good morning. >> they looked at the memo and said they have

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paula reid is at fbi headquarters in washington. paula, good morning. >> good morning.t or which version he received. now republicans say the changes that were made were minor edits including some grammatically fixing and two changes requested by the fbi. but democrats refute that and say the changes were not minor and demanding that this memo be withdrawn and that the committee be allowed to revote on whether this new, altered memo should be released. norah? >> paula, detail why the justice department is worried about this memo getting out? >> i've talked to sources inside the fbi and justice department, folks who have served multiple administrations and it's pretty consistent across the board, they all believe that this is part of a thinly veiled attempt to undermine mueller by trying to focus attention on federal investigators and federal law enforcement as the real scandal. because remember this memo focuses on deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. he is overseeing the mueller probe and he has final approval on any charges that are brought. so if you can undermine

paula reid at fbi headquarters in washington with more on this story. esident appointed many of these top officials at the justice department, including the attorney general, deputy attorney general and the fbi director. but this memo controversy has put him the direct conflict with his fbi director. director wray believes that this memo should not be released because it unfairly criticizes the fbi using cherry-picked information. now we've talked to some sources about these reports that wray could potentially resign over the release of that memo and we're told that is not true, that is not his style, and he is committed to serving out his ten-year term. but we're also told he could issue his own rebuttal if this memo is released. i talked to senior justice officials and they say the tweet, the memo controversy, all indicative of the unprecedented pressure facing the justice department these days. they also tell me typically they are willing to share information, classified information, with congress with the expectation that they will use it in a discre

good morning, paula reid. >> good morning. >> the dust has settled a little bit since friday.tments mean? >> well, this is very different than the indictments and the charges we receive against manafort, gates, papadopoulos, because no one here is likely to go to jail. it's hardly like they they're going to jail to face these charges. it lays out in specific details how the russians meddled in these elections and what crimes were committed under u.s. law because when you say someone meddled, what exactly does that mean. here robert mueller lays that out specifically. he says sometime it was pushing messages out on social media, sometimes paying people and sometimes it was setting up rallies on the same day on opposite sides of the snooiissu >> when you look at it, and it surprised everybody, do you see tip of the iceberg or more tip of the iceberg? >> i think it's tip of the iceberg. he's laying the groundwork and explaining to the american people what happened. nund they'll explain whether americans knowingly were involved in this. the attorney general wassed ament. he e said

paula reid is following the developments.ing. >> the dust settled since friday, what do the indictments mean? what's the most important thing to take away from this? >> this is different from the indictments and charges we have seen against others because no one here is likely to go to jail. highly unlikely the russian government extradites their own citizens to face the charges. legally speaking, the significance of this indictment is that it lays oh in specific details how the russians meddled in these elections and what crimes were committed under u.s. law, because when you say they meddled, what exactly does that mean? here robert mueller lays it out specifically. sometimes it's laying out messages on social media, engaging americans to engage in political activities or set up rallies. >> this is at the heart of the what he was tasked to do. when you look at it, and it surprises everybody, do you see tip of the iceberg or iceberg in what more he has to do? >> tip of the iceberg. he's laying the ground work here, explainin

. >> paula reid in washington, thanks. >>> there is increasing backlash over the way white house chief of staff john kelly handled the allegations of spousal abuse against former staff secretary rob porter. kelly reportedly has said he is willing to offer his resignation. >> but a senior white house official says kelly's resignation is unlikely even as questions persist of kelly's support of porter after the allegations became public. harold barnett is at the white house. >> reporter: yesterday president trump spoke glowingly of rob porter, which is in stark contrast to the terse words of vice president mike pence. but you know what those mixed messages are consistent with a white house that has sent muddled signals all week after allegationings of spousal abuse by porter first came to light. >> it was very sad when we heard about it and certainly he's also very sad. >> reporter: the president's parting words for former staff secretary rob porter made no mention of his alleged victims. >> he says he's innocent, and i think you have to remember that. he said very strongly yesterday that

. >> paula reid, thank you. >>> president trump is leaving it up to chief of staff john kelly to decide whether or not mr. trump's son-in-law, jared kushner, will get a final security clearance the washington post reports the justice department alerted the white house two weeks ago in ongoing issues in his security investigation. he only has an intimclearance. >> that still gives him access to top secret and sensitive information. as president, mr. trump can give his son-in-law a high level security clearance if the background investigation goes on. >>> for more on the developments in washington him we turn to anna palmer, co-author of politico's playbook newsletter, which i read every morning, anna, good morning. let's talk about this late ev turn in the events. how much pressure is now on paul manafort given the breath of these indictments? >> i think what you saw this week was really the escalation on paul manafort, mueller is getting closer every week. the pieces are falling into place. $60 million scheme that they're accusing him of, this is one of his closest advisers, who is now