air force. he made a comment earlier with your very important slides about air force and army and the phrases it's not good, not bad, just different. with the financial constraints it will fight to ensure eventually as they are in our country. cannot praise telecom although it's not good, frankly won't do it because it's got to be good because it's usually supported. different isn't something surely you can afford. so that is my first question. the second question, referring back to those sites as well is that those two different approaches, the use half an army, not good, not bad, how much do you each teabag over your systems, satellite systems, use that process, how much is one relying on the other or are they basically excuses? >> i'll take the second half of your question first. everything that we do, like i said come is commonly distributed. the army uses all of our head when the user fees. do we have army intel analysts and the tgs that are doing work with us. what goes back to an essay is

air pollution. it does interfere with the e.p.a.'s longstanding authority and it does not interfere with the e.p.a.'s longstanding authority to protect the environment. in fact, as i stated in the very beginning, it clarifies that the clean air act was never designated, designed or shown to be for regulating greenhouse gas emissions. thus, we would be removing authority that the e.p.a. has not had, should not have and would not have because this congress will not pass what is called cap and tax regulations. again, control government spending, eliminate government regulations. the private sector believes that the republican congress can be here for the interest of not only taxpayer but also to make sure that jobs, investments in this economy and the future are very bright. i applaud my colleagues for coming down to help debate this bill. madam speaker, i encourage a yes vote and i move the previous question on the resolution. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on ordering the previous question

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and so, you know, if there are fewer air strikes, if the air campaign... if the allies back off the air campaign for whatever reason, i'm sure... well, i can't be sure, but i would expect that they would fine other ways to fight. i mean, certainly they fought in benghazi without air power backing them. and... >> rose: and they were losing. >> well, no, they weren't losing. i mean, they... they repelled an attack in benghazi. whether that attack would have continued, whether all the armor sort of on the road would have overwhelmed them is sort of an open question at some point in the future but, you know, they are certainly able to fight. so at the moment when they're expecting air strikes to allow them advance and they don't come they seem to be sort of frozen in place. and so, you know, we'll be looking to see how they adjust, whether they make clear decisions about their military leadership and sort out the risk at the top and whether they're able... whether they have professional soldiers they can call on and whether they can organize as professional so

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the air bags in the trucks may deploy accidentally. the government says 122 people have been hurt, some escaped with cuts and bruises, but two lost consciousness. here's dean reynolds. >> reporter: it's been two years since the air bag on her ford truck deployed for no apparent reason, but jacqueline reimel is still hurting. >> physically i still have aches and pains because of the injuries. >> reporter: the memory still lingers, along with the recovery from neck and wrist surgery. >> i was going about five miles an hour and my air bag just went off for no reason. like, i just remember a flash and a lot of powder. >> reporter: nationally, the transportation department says it's aware of 318 similar faulty air bag complaints about the poplar ford f-150 involving the 2004, 2005, and 2006 model years. even though most incidents occurred at low speed and right after ignition, regulators said they posed an unreasonable risk to safety. >> trucks are built ford tough... >> reporter: ford says the problem involves the protective covering aroun

can the united states air force do this mission without weapons. my fellow americans tonight we are launching a new effort which holds the promise of change in the course of human history i ask for your prayers. and your support. thank you good night when i joined the staff of the committee on armed services in the u.s. house of representatives back in one thousand nine hundred five my first assignment was to investigate and oversee the strategic defense initiative this was president ronald reagan's star wars program and its new national strategy represents a break from the danger was. assured destruction at the height of the cold war. also known as store wars was a program conceived to destroy all enemy missiles by relying on orbiting systems us hitters that preserve wired as a level one depends goes into action. at the time the prevailing view was that this was going to work that the technology was almost in hand and that this was going to change everything i remember the briefing i got from my staff director who said not just anti-missile system

clean air act. and from my perspective in nother, any aa -- and from my per peculiarive in new jersey, any attack on the clean air act is an attack on new jersey, primarily because of dirty, old coal plants, every state is out of compliance with the clean air act. now, one of those coal power plants is the aging portland generation station located just across the delaware river. and this plant emitted 30,000 tons of sulfur dioxide in 2009. that is almost three times the amount of all seven of new jersey's coal plants combined. so we've cleaned up our act. others need to do it for the collective air that we breathe as americans. its pollutants waff across the river causing a whole host of respiratory illness from airs ma to heart disease -- from asthma to heart disease. if not for the clean air act, my state or any other state similarly situated would not have been able to petition the federal government to stop the pollution that this pennsylvania plant spews into new jersey's air. just last week, n

. >> well, the fbi wanted to know what had caused the explosion in the air, michelle was more groundedthe moment. what happened when blue skies and unholy winds came uninvited into her airplane. >> it was like, okay, what do i do next? and how do we get out of this? and are we going to land? and you know, can i get a hold of the pilot? >> i guess i really never fully appreciated what michelle had done. it's been 13 years and sometimes i forget what an incredible heroine she was and how she helped those people on board. >> reporter: when the plane was safely down and the damage was still being assessed, the two pilots could be seen walking around their wounded, aging jetliner, wounding perhaps how they managed to land it? no one aboard flight 243 will ever tell that you surviving this flight was anything short of a miracle, an astounding chapter in aviation history. >> still to come on "a second look," this stunning accident triggered an investigation that changed the kind of planes that the federal government uses to fight fires. >>> a bit later we take you on board the plane that many

>> alan: another air traffic controller falls asleep at the controls. tonight, the faa admits it has a widespread okay, there we are... um, these days we're all trying to save money, that's why i'm shooting this commercial myself, at home. it's really easy and i can pass the savings onto you. okay, ready for the food part? check it out. my warm and flaky croissant sandwiches. supreme or sausage. both made with fresh egg and melting cheese. you get 2 for just 3 bucks okay, i'm back, whoa- oh, i am so ready for this recession to be over. >> alan: it's happened again. another case of an air traffic controller sleeping on the job. caught today in miami, and tonight, the government is taking action to keep controllers awake. tomas roman is in san francisco airport with more on how they plan to do it. >> reporter: the air traffic controller who fell asleep in miami has been suspended. he is the seventh air traffic controller to be found sleeping on the job and also the catalyst causing the faa to revisit scheduling in order to deal with fatigue. there are 4,0

flow may allow for better air. but looks can be deceiving. in the 12th annual state of the air report, santa clara, contra costa and solano counties were the worst in the bay area with the highest number of bad air days. alameda county was nearly as bad. as for highest number of good days? sonoma county followed by san mateo and san francisco. while the bay area has seen dramatic improvement in air quality, more people and more cars are on the way. and cars and vehicles burn a lot of fossil fuels, major source of an especially dangerous type of air pollution called particulate pollution. that involves tiny fine particles. >> the very tiny particles instead of impacting in the throat or the nose make it all the way down into the lungs. and they carry with them all kinds of other toxic chemicals. so that's what we think increases the risk of things like lung cancer and cardiovascular disease. >> reporter: bad air can also affect patients with medical conditions. >> if they are on a lot of appropriate medication they

the fourth point is air quality. this -- the operational air quality was considered less than significant. the proposed project would pose potential health risk, particulate diesel matter that is emitted during construction. the mission would not exceed the air quality management district significant threshold. the operation air quality impacts were analyzed and h -- on page 84. this concluded that the building corporations would not violate standards are expose the receptors to it substantial pollutants concentration. there is no evidence to support -- no evidence presented to support a conclusion that the office system would result in a substantial impact on neighboring office buildings. the next point has to do with the objectives of the developer. an eir shall describe a range of reasonable alternatives which would obtain the reasonable objectives of the project but would avoid are substantially lessen the effect of the project. the range of alternatives would be those that could avoid or substantially lessen the

we have a cold air mass, unstable air mass that is going to move through the area through the entire day today. the pink indicating the rain-snow mix, cold air mass trying to mix down in. it's wet through dublin and union city this morning. further south, this is where we have heavier rain from san jose through sunnyvale, cupertino and down around santa cruz, lighted to moderate rain and higher elevations of mount hamilton. rain snow mention, morgan hill. we are looking at lighter returns in the north bay and a bit of break there right now. low 40s to the north. upper 40s to the south. breezy winds out of the northwest. oakland gusting to 21 miles an hour. not as windy as it was yesterday. wind gusts up to 50 miles an hour, keep a chill in the air. so keep the showers also throughout the day. we are going to see sunshine and unstable air mass allowing the possibility of more heating and creating thunderstorms. temperatures as much as 10-12 degrees below the average highs. just in the 50s. we clear out tonight as high pressure builds in. that will allow temperatures to drop off near f

that led to several faa air worthiness directives. airlines were ordered to inspect 737s for signs of metal fatigue. two years ago, the faa fined southwest $7.5 million for failing to conduct timely crack inspections on its 737 fleet. we talked to the ntsb on the scene. >> we will be looking at everything. right now we are here to look at this accident, and if we find issues related to this accident that could be applied to the rest of the fleet, we will make that point known. >> reporter: and metal fatigue has led to tragedy. in 2005, a chalk's airways plane crashed on takeoff from miami when its wing ripped off. 20 people were killed. in 1988, the top of an aloha airlines plane tore off in flight. a flight attendant was sucked out of the plane to her death. metal fatigue is caused by the constant movement on the skin of the airplane, the constant contraction and expansion, every time the plane takes off for or lands. and those cycles are more important than the age of the aircraft. this aircraft was 15 years old, with nearly 40,000

behind that is really cold air, i mean really cold air for april. it's cold air any time of the year but we're getting into the time of year where cold air doesn't come in. this is going to pack a punch. it's a showery kind of pattern but an april chill. there won't be a lot of rain here but could be brief heavy snow in the mountains. be advised by that. that would be tomorrow. blustery today. mostly sunny. 50s and 60s on the temps. low 60s, mid-60s around the bay. isolated 70 or so. as that system moves south it's going to give us a pretty good blast of cold air on thursday into friday. now it should clear out by friday afternoon and evening. it will not be very warm. saturday looks great during the day. but saturday morning's going to be very cool. then mostly sunny, partly sunny on sunday. >>> 5:42. in japan the utility that owns that damaged nuclear plant says it has stopped a leak of radioactive water. tokyo electric power company says its contaminated water had been gushing out through a large crack in a storage tank into the pacific ocean. th

air on each floor. here is the rest of it. the way highrises work, we have a performance-based engineering structural system that is not fully designed yet. when it is fully designed, it goes to the building department. there will be a peer review at dbi. we will get feedback. if the feed back is great and the structural system worked perfectly, we might be able to make some more room. but until we finish that and go through a plan check, which cannot produce anything. that is why i said earlier we are going to go to a plan check process. we are good to submit the process. it takes a lot of detail. when we finish the process, hopefully we will come out the other end with a building permit. if there is the protrusion, i am sure they will appeal and we will see you again. or we will have been able to eliminate it by that time. commissioner hwang: do you understand their complaints about the protrusion? what do you understand it to be? >> actually, i do not. if you walk between those buildings right now, w

as someone who constantly travels between time zones, he says he can relate to air traffic controllers who occasionally doze off while on the graveyard shift. >> if i were an air traffic controller alone in a tower cab and there weren't -- there wasn't a lot of activity, at some point the coffee won't keep you awake. you're going to doze off. >> reporter: airport officials say there is no overnight shift at menetta san jose but the faa tells us sfo and oakland international have at least two air traffic controllers working at all times. unlike in reno, where a lone controller fell asleep and was unreachable for 16 minutes, as a special medical flight carrying an ill passenger was attempting to land on wednesday. >> that was shocking to me and i think to most americans that there was only one guy on duty after midnight. >> reporter: in addition to reno, other recent documented cases of air traffic controllers sleeping on the job occurred in knoxville, tennessee, seattle, lubbock, texas and washington, d.c. the scandal prompted the head of the faa's traffic control unit to resign today a

nato will continue with the air strikes. it remains to be seen whether a slightly better organized rebel force can actually shove qaddafi's troops out of this key oil port of brega. we should know in another couple of days. >> schieffer: and qaddafi, do we have any idea where he is? >> none whatsoever. he's been conspicuously absent even from libyan television. one of his spokesmen said cryptically, you know, he has offices all over country, implying he may not be here in tripoli. what everybody is wondering is whether the regime is crumbling from the inside, and whether the defection of the foreign minister is just the first of others to come. so far, no word at all on that either. >> schieffer: all right. liz palmer. be careful, liz. thank you so much. and senator reid, i want to ask you first about the situation in afghanistan. our military commander there, general petraeus, was so disturbed by this and the reaction, the fallout in afghanistan that he sent emails to all the sunday morning shows telling them to please emph

another air traffic controller dozes of. the big change coming now as a result of this morning's incident. >>> he wants to present $20,000 to brian and his family. >> duchovny's restaurant raises money for a jiefnts -- giants fan brutally beaten in los angeles. >>> open house for the students at cal. do they think the skyrocketing costs are worth. it good evening. i'm ann notarangelo. just when you thought it couldn't happen again, it has. another air traffic controller sleeping on the job. this time, in miami. manuel gallegus on what the faa is doing now to make sure it doesn't happen again. >> reporter: an air traffic controller working at miami international airport fell asleep at work early saturday morning. the controller was on a midnight shift. manning a radar facility that handles high altitude air traffic. air traffic tapes show the controller did not miss any calls from planes trying to land or take off. 12 controllers and two managers were also on duty. the sleeping controller was suspended. the newest problem pro

air. it has moisture associated with it. we're going to bring a cold rain tonight and thursday. starting out with fair skies, 40s and 50s. cool and breezy this afternoon. temperatures making night the 50s around noontime. a few clouds around. upper 50s to the mid-60s. warmest locations well south of the bay area. breeze picks up. showers by midnight through early tomorrow. rain-snow mix, higher elevations through friday. look at those high temperatures. everyone in the 50s tomorrow into friday. slight warming for the first half of the weekend. good morning, frances. >> it's a good time if you are hitting the roads because traffic is light out there. a lot of road work has been cleared. no trouble here westbound 80, traffic through berkeley. drive times on carquinez bridge is only 18 minutes. 101 in san rafael, we're looking south as you make your way past marin civic center, no delays down to the golden gate bridge. south bay, live shot of the interchange. earlier you may have noticed calt

that's where the cold air is. some of that green has turned to white had reports of some snow at will its. thank you, kirk. i said he was in lake county. he writes me, yo, i'm up here. i get a lot of tweets. so we have our system diving downright there. we have some very cold air coming in behind this system and you can see it's taking a beeline towards us. what's over us right now is not a big deal. that's the big deal. that's coming downgoing to give us very cool conditions. 40s right now and also very windy. possibility of thundershowers later today as that whole system just slides right over us. so anything goes. and you can see look how that just -- i love that satellite because it shows you exactly what's happening. there's the source of our cold air. so windy, cooler. this is a very cold dynamic system for this time of year. especially with the days a little longer now thunderstorms and possible hail are good possibility today i should say. low snow levels are likely as well. especially as we get towards to

it is school tonight because the air is dry and dry air cools.towering only 38,000 ft. vs 48,000 earlier today. lots of rain coming down in near coeur narrow corridor. it's a bomb of the storm that will deepen rapidly as it runs up the east coast. in our area it is not the snow which could accumulate 1 ft. in some spots in interior remained in new england as you can see there. it is the cloud cover coming in for opening day. spotty light showers measured in hundreds of an inch. not a lot tomorrow. not the brightest day either. we will have a high of 46 purses the '83 we saw on the first of april 1st year ago. that is the 37 degrees cooler opening. it marked as we say 5 below normal and just an inch of snow 6 in. is normal in the month of march march or tear here is the forecast i'd just up to noon tomorrow you can see the rain is approaching from the west. the clouds will thicken during the morning these little spotty showers will come through during the afternoon not amounting to much. just enough to wet the pavement and make it uncomfortable. h

and then the air bag is suddenly popping out unexpectedly. ford says the issue is a wire right inside the steering column that can chafe and cause that air bag to deploy. there have been more than 300 complaints, 122 injuries. everything from burns and sprains, eye injuries, loss of consciousness. ford has been resisting this massive recall. it has argued that the air bag warning light comes on very, very early. weeks before the air bag would actually deploy. giving consumers plenty of notice. but the government has insisted on this recall. ford has now finally agreed. next month, more than 1 million truck owners will be getting those recall notices. george. >> boy, this is a huge recall. lisa, thanks very much. >>> still ahead on "world news" -- new questions today about a popular weight loss drug. the government is asked to ban all sales. >>> and the secret of a long life from america's oldest teacher, 97 years old and still on the job. for pain? oh, bayer aspirin? i'm not having a heart attack. it's my back. it works great for pain. [ male

another air traffic controller asleep on the job. this time during the midnight shift saturday at the miami air route traffic control center. and now the federal aviation administration is planning to make changes to air traffic controllers' work schedules to combat fatigue, long overdue says one former faa administrator. >> the fatigue we're seeing in the control tower is the result of too few qualified controllers in the nation that can fill in. so they're working double shifts, four or five nights in a row. >> reporter: the reports started coming in last month when two passenger planes landed on their own at washington's reagan national after a controller fell asleep. then a string of more reports of sleeping controllers, in knoxville, lubbock, outside seattle, then a case of a medevac plane unable to wake a sleeping controller in reno. miami, the faa suspended the air traffic controller in saturday's case. transportation secretary ray lahood saying, there is no excuse for air traffic controllers to be sleeping on the job. we will

the latest air scare. this one involving the first lady. >>> and unhappy days for cast members of that hit show. a multimillion-dollar lawsuit to get, what they believe, is their fair share. >>> good morning, everyone. thanks for being with us today. we have been following a developing story overnight. more violent storms now bearing down on a big chunk of the country. >> and this time the wild weather is barreling through the deep south all the way up to the northeast, with 75-mile-per-hour winds, heavy rain and hail as big as golf balls. >> there's also a chance of more tornadoes like this one, that ripped through carlinville, illinois. just 1 of nearly 30 twisters reported since yesterday. we'll check today's complete forecast in just a second. >>> moving on, now, to the other big story on this wednesday morning. the latest high-profile error by an air traffic controller. >> now, this made even more glaring because it involved a plane like this. take a look. it's a military jet with the first lady onboa

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. >>> improving air travel. how the federal government is responding to some of the most common complaints of airline passengers. >>> in san francisco, >>> fire in a residential hotel here. newschopper2. this fire was reported about 40 minutes ago. it was spotted by a police officer driving by. he noticed it, calmed the police -- i'm sorry. calmed the fire department. they came out and found fire in one of these chute, the gap bridge chute. there are a lot of fire crews out there. >> reporter: tori, one of the biggest complaints from airline passengers is getting hit at the last minute with a fee you would were not expecting for your baggage meals, pill rows -- pillows, whatever. now the government is imposing new rules to protect passengers. among those rules are full disclosure of fees. when you buy your ticket, you will be told up front about every penny you should expect to pay. they have to limit tarmac delays on international flights to four hours. domestic flights are limited to three hours. airlines have

another air traffic controller asleep at the switch. the government says it was intentional. he meant to be asleep. they plan to fire him for it. the faa says the controller slept for five hours during the midnight shift last month at mcghee tyson airport in knoxville. another controller was able to monitor the seven aircraft that flew into that air space during that shift. >>> up next here, a snack in the stack. imagine the first time somebody proposed chips in a can. and these days they're worth a fortune. >>> finally here tonight, the folks who make tide and crest and pampers are selling off another big american brand name. one that almost went nowhere at first, but now when the numbers are crunched, is worth billion of dollars. nbc's kevin tibbles explains tonight why procter & gamble is now passing on that american staple in a can -- pringles. >> once you pop, you can't stop. >> reporter: from its humble beginnings, the quirky saddle-shaped chip became an icon of american engineered food. yes, that is brad pitt getting the pringles

. >> another mishap in the air. this on united flight headed for san francisco. >> passenger arrive back in the bay area this evening and what a story they have to tell. >> lillian is live in san francisco international tonight. lillian? >> l passengers ariff from new orleans tired yet relieved. first clue something was wrong was when the interior lights went out. you can see how the nose of the air bus 320 ran off the runway. passengers on the sfo bound flight say it was the landing like nothing they have ever felt before. after only a few minutes in the air united flight 4 97 went back to the new orleans airport for an emergency landing. >> instead of going down we were going too fast for the normal speed to land so the guy next to us said we are going to land hard. sure enough we landed super hard. >>reporter: problem started 4,000 feet in the air. crew detected smoke in the cockpit. the pilot then reported the instruments had stopped workin working. >> 4 97 we are declaring an emergency. we have lost all our ins

cold air and rain and wind today. take a look, sky7hd, isn't this beautiful? this is the golden gate bridge and marin headlands. it would be a great day to get out and enjoy anything. kind of gusty on the water. we are looking at temperatures around the bay area on the cool side this morning. in fact, it's 56 degrees in hayward and still cool in marin, 55 in san rafael. napa was 59. we have those gusty winds to thank for that and' airport, gusting to 30 miles an hour. concord gusting to 21 miles an hour. and not so bad that the wind will continue to pick up in the east bay hills all along the coast. then we've got an arctic cold front and late season cold front on the way to bring showers tonight. chance of a thunderstorm tomorrow. it's going to move out of here rather quickly but leaving the cold air behind. a couple of cool days and then get the rain gear. here is the system that brought the cooldown, next one bringing the moisture and cold air. temperatures will be definitely a little cool but not as cool as what we're going to experience tomorrow. this is

this all happens happened at andrew's air force base. while the faa says the planes were never in any danger, it's the latest black eye for the agency which has been struggling over the last few weeks with air traffic controllers getting caught sleeping on the job. >>> mother nature slashed the nation's mid section with tornados in eastern missouri, the twisters damaged homes and pulled down power lines. fortunately no injuries were reported. just unbelievable there. severe storms brought baseball sized hail to the state. chunks of ice caused delays at the air force base. >>> and the weather season just doesn't want to leave minnesota. a month into spring, parts of the state got a coating of snow and, of course, we're going to have meteorologist bill karins check in with us in just a bit with more weather. that's coming shortly. >>> first, let's take a look at other stories making news today in america. high winds continue to fuel massive north texas fire that continues to creep toward the dallas/ft. worth area and hundreds of homes ther

a little bit cooler air mass. we'll still tv sunshine but we'll have the temperatures coming down a few moves. meanwhile with the northwest wind 10 to 20 miles per hour it's going to put the ash and the alder and the juniper is on the high side for all those allergy sufferers. 70 degrees in sonoma and 23457 a, 70s around the delta, discovery bay, back in through pleasanton to san leandro. oakland should top off that 70 as well. morgan hill and gilroy, otherwise 60s pretty much at the sea shore. so, again, we do have plenty of sunshine today, on rather wednesday as well, and then thursday cloudy skies with a threat of rain returning very cool conditions, notice the temperatures only in 250s, cloudy skies a chance of rain also on friday. but the weekend is panning out to be on the dry side. my pick, this was sent to us buyer inwho went up to truckee and saw all that snow. hard to be where it will be in july. they might still be building snowmen. >> illinoising up the reservoirs. all right roberta, thank you. >>> can

the rebels today took on gadhafi's troops without western air support. the rebels fight with mortars and rockets. they lack experience. rebels load a rocket, it doesn't go off. after adjusting it, the rocket eventually fires, but way off target. moments later, gadhafi's troops fire back. there's chaos. some of the rebels retreat to safer ground, but not all of them. the rebels are firing mortars and rockets at gadhafi's forces, which are just behind them. gadhafi's troops are responding with what sounded like tanks and artillery shells. but for the first time here we're seeing that the rebels are staying their ground. near the front, an argument. one rebel is so angry that the others want to run away, he fires his gun at their feet. they stay and bring in reinforcements. on the road we see a convoy of weapons, including dozens of what look like new rocket launchers, heading out to confront gadhafi's troops. but there may be a quicker way to topple the libyan dictator, an internal coup. yesterday libya's foreign minister and former intelligence chief, mou

still, most americans live in areas where the air is dangerous to breathe. most polluted places are in california, although houston and charlotte, north carolina, make the list. air quality can exacerbate medical conditions. >> if they are an a lot after appropriate medication, they may make it through, but they feel worse. >> reporter: patients like dina know how to plan around the pollution. >> instead of running outdoors, i go to the gym, or just find alternate ways of doing my exercising, and running. >> reporter: so she doesn't have to feel the painful symptoms of dirty air. sandra hughes, cbs news, los angeles. >>> coming up a little bit later on "the early show," team coverage of the deadly storms that just devastated the south. plus, a look at the royal forecast for tomorrow's much-anticipated royal wedding. >>> and sharon osborne, co-host of "the talk" is live at buckingham palace with some very regal insider information. don't want to miss that. that's the "cbs morning news" for this thursday. thanks for watching, everybody. i'm betty nguyen. have