anne-marie. we're seeing video that appears to show at least some of the passengers from that hijacked plane being released on the tarmac in cyprus. the plane landed there just before 9:00 local time. as to how many passengers have been released, there is not much clarity at this point. local media in cyprus is saying that the hijacker or hijackers agreed to release all the women and children on board. they're saying that 30 to 40 people have been released. other media is reporting that 56 people have been released. we've also heard this morning saying that everyone on board has been released with the exception of the cabin crew and four to five passengers. the reuters news agency is reporting that there were ten american citizens and eight british citizens on board. we can't ind pendly confirm this to do so. we're also hearing some reports about who the hijacker or one of the hijackers may be. egyptian state media is reporting that he is an egyptian citizen, and local media in cyprus is reportin

anne-marie? >> clearly a lot is in flux now. it's very early in this incident. holly williams, thank you very much. >>> we're going to bring in cbs news senior national security consultant juan zarate now. juan, we now know that there were americans on board. give us a sense of what may be going on behind the scenes to resolve this situation. >> well, anne-marie, certainly the cypriot authorities are trying to solve this on the ground, working with egyptian authorities as well to try and understand who this hijacker or hijackers are but also to try to communicate with them directly and try to defuse the situation. as holly describes, we've had passengers released. that's very good news. what's troubling here is the fact that they've kept crew members on board and a certain number of passengers. and you worry that those passengers may be westerners. but no doubt they're trying to defuse the situation. certainly in washington, you're going to have people scrambling to understand what this is about,

i'm anne-marie green. it is super tuesday, arguably the most important day of the presidential primary season. more delegates are up for grabs today than any other single day of the contest. for hillary clinton, this is an opportunity to distance herself from bernie sanders while donald for the gop nomination. a cnn/orc national poll shows trump more than 30 percentage points ahead of marco rubio. that same poll finds clinton topping sanders 35% to 38%. weijian jiang is in washington with the latest. weijian, good morning. >> good morning, anne-marie. good morning to everybody. by the front-runners, he will not clinch. the nomination but momentum can certainly carry them through, and for a fractured gop, that means a greater divide between republicans who will and will not back trump. on the eve of super tuesday trump predicted a win in georgia. >> we're going to win, win, win. >> the latest poll show the presidential frond runner leading in both the national and in several key states. hammering him for da

anne-marie. good morning to everybody. by the front-runners, he will not clinch. the nomination but momentum can certainly carry them through, and for a fractured gop, that means a greater divide between republicans who will and will not back trump. on the eve of super tuesday trump predicted a win in georgia. >> we're going to win, win, win. >> the latest poll show the presidential frond runner leading in both the national and marco rubio has tried to halt it hammering him for days most recently for failing to disavow former kkk leader david duke who announced his support for trump. conservative movement for the kkk or david duke or anyone who will not condemn them. >> senato cruz is banking on a win in his home state to keep his campaign alive. >> what we will see, i believe, is donald trump and me coming out both with a significant chunk of delegates and everyone else far behind. >> in the democratic race political analysts expect hillary clinton to pick up far more delegates than bernie sande

i'm anne-marie green. >>> powerful and dangerous storms are predicted to move across the central and southern plains today and tomorrow. on wednesday night, a tornado touched down in tulsa, oklahoma, hurting at least seven people and knocking out power to thousands. >> we could see it right there. you see the house right there in the debris. as it's hitting the houses in stone canyon, there is debris off of some roofs. i people are taking cover in this area. >> reporter: the twister touched down multiple times around tulsa. >> look at that. >> reporter: the hardest hit area measured a mile in a residential section of the city and homes there sustained severe damage. >> the debris going around in circles. my son, wife, the client, get down on the floor. two minutes later, boom. the high winds came through and broke everything and broke out windows. >> reporter: the storm shredded roofs and brought power lines to the ground. >> right there, you see he that rotation? it's back on the ground. on the south side

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i'm anne-marie green. this is the "cbs morning news." i'm anne-marie green.spieth.-marie green. ♪ ♪ most weekends only last a couple of days. some last a lifetime. book at hampton.com to get a guaranteed discount. >>> it's 4:25. happening today. tough times in the district from metro to roads. a nuclear summit could bring traffic to a >>> trump stands off on abortion, and criticism comes from all sides, including his rivals. >>> we will start out nice today, and allison has the forecast. >> reporter: not a bad start at all today. today is okay. it's as the sunsets that things will change, and you may want to find the umbrella that you need for the next 24 to 34 hours. i will explain coming up. 55 is a big improvement. maybe just a light layer, because you're not going to need a jacket this afternoon. headed into the 70s today. we are headed out with a lot of sunshine. by lunchtime, turning to mostly cloudy and overcast skies around the dinner timetable. windy throughout the afternoon. we will time out the chance for showers and thu

anne-marie? >> don champion here in new york, thanks a lot, don. >>> coming up on "cbs this morning," we'll talk to donald trump about his campaign, today's contest and what comes next. >>> funeral services for former first lady nancy reagan will be held friday. first lady michelle obama will attend. mrs. reagan will be buried at the ronald reagan presidential library in simi valley, california, next to her husband. president obama says she'll be remembered for her grace, charm and the extraordinary love she had for president reagan. >> i know how much she meant not just to president reagan but to he was lucky to have her. and i'm sure he'd be the first to acknowledge that. so she will be missed. >> nancy reagan died sunday from congestive heart failure. he was 94 years old. >>> the somali extremist group al shabaab confirms this morning the u.s. has bombed an area it controls, but it claims casualty reports are exaggerated. the pentagon says more than 150 militant fighters were killed saturday w

anne-marie? >> elaine cobbe in brussels, thank you very much. >>> the showdown between the federal government and apple appears to be over, at least for now. the fbi says it was able to hack into an iphone belonging to the san bernardino shooter without the help of the tech company. but the bigger face-off over whether companies are obligated to assist the government still hasn't been settled. don champion is here in new york with more on that. good morning, don. >> good morning, anne-marie. apple says it was looking out for the privacy interests of its customers when it refused to comply with the government, but the fbi's ability to hack into the encrypted iphone raises new questions about the security of apple's biggest-selling device. >> reporter: the fbi won't say who helped it hack into the iphone belonging to syed farook who along with his wife killed 14 people in san bernardino last year. the government revealed in a court filing monday that it gained access to the phone without apple's as

anne-marie? >> don champion in new york.hank you very much, don. >>> coming up on "cbs this morning," we will take a look at the security preparations for the gop convention in cleveland. >>> well, some of those running for president have been highly critical of president obama's visit to cuba. the president wraps up his three-day visit today, and yesterday during a sometimes-tense joint news conference, cuban president raul castro denied his country holds political prisoners. despite some deep divisions, mr. obama says progress has been made. chris martinez has more from havana. >> reporter: president obama calls this a new day. and he says the u.s. embargo against cuba will end. it's now just a question of when. president obama and the first lady smiled for the cameras as they arrived for a state dinner in havana. ♪ the mood was less celebratory when president obama and cuban president raul castro held a joint news conference hours earlier. >> the road ahead will not be easy. fortunately we don't have to swim with sharks i

i'm anne-marie green. well, crews are on the scene this morning of a california commuter train derailment. nine people were taken to the hospital, four with serious injuries. the altamont corridor express. the sheriff's office says the train jumped the rails after hitting a tree that fell on the tracks. the first car with about six people on board fell on its side and into a creek. rescue crews had to battle fast-moving water to rescue passengers from the partially submerged car. right then, the train tipped over. and then i saw people falling over from the other side of the train because the train flipped. and then the next thing we knew, the water -- we started seeing water coming into the bottom of the train. >> the second car derailed but remained upright. it was raining heavily at the time of the accident. >>> more severe weather is possible today in the southern plains. a strong storm system threatens texas, arkansas and louisiana with widespread rainfall and powerful wind. there's the potential for

anne-marie? >> don champion in miami, thank you, don. >>> well, former republican vice presidential nominee sarah palin made a surprise appearance at a trump rally in tampa. she lashed out at the press for the way protests at trump rallies have been covered. >> what we don't have time for is all that petty punk-ass little thuggery stuff that's been going on with these quote, unquote, protesters. >> palin had originally canceled her appearance after her husband, todd, was involved in a snowmobile accident in alaska. he's in serious condition with a collapsed lung, eight broken ribs and other injuries. >>> well, coming up on "cbs this morning," we will talk about the importance of today's primaries with cbs news political director and "face the nation" moderator john dickerson. >>> an american who had been fighting with isis is in custody this morning after he surrendered in northern iraq. according to his driver's license, he's identified as mohamed amin of alexandria, virginia. he gave himself up

he was doing it for exactly the reason anne-marie said. if you go into a war with the expectation that the hard part is what happens after the guys killed, then it's going to make you less likely to intervene. that's exactly what he was doing. we know exactly what he was doing and ultimately it fails. which brings us to the two most recent cases which started in ours after 20 oh but, of course, the precipitating events were exactly the same time in libya or egypt, the start of the syrian civil war with 2011. the start of the uprising. so here's what i take issue gently, i hope, with michael's contention in the book that as of late 2012 the record on the libyan intervention was mixed. i disagree. michael in his remarks today seem to agree. the record is not mixed. it's not mixed to the libyan intervention was a disaster. don't just take my word for it. christopher chavez from the rand corporation, in my e-mail box this moment was an e-mail with the headline from christopher, use force to forge peace in libya. views and its allies need to st

anne-marie. with donald trump still steaming ahead, political futures are on the line for republican hopefuls today. both tried making last stands in their home states yesterday. meantime on the democratic side, hillary clinton is trying to avoid any surprise upsets today. bernie sanders riled up supporters late last night in chicago, urging them to take him to victory. >> let us see this great state help lead the country into a political revolution. >> reporter: hoping to slow hillary clinton's momentum, sanders is looking for upsets in illinois, ohio and missouri today. uphill battle in the delegate-rich states of florida and north carolina where clinton holds a sizeable lead. >> i am asking for your support. i would be honored to receive it. >> reporter: millions of votes have already been cast here in the winner-take-all state of florida where on the republican side, donald trump leads marco rubio 2-1 in polls. a trump win here will likely spell the end for rubio's campaign. >> we have to vot

i'm anne-marie green. it is super tuesday, arguably presidential primary season. more delegates are up for grabs today than any other single day of the contest. for hillary clinton, this is an opportunity for her to distance hearns from bernie sanders while donald trump has an insurmountable lead. a national poll shows trump dominating his rivals more than 30 percentage points over marco rubio. that same poll finds clinton topping sanders 35% to 38%. weijian changjiang is in washington with the latest. >> she will not clinch the nominations but momentum can carry them through and for a fractured gop that means a greater divide between republicans who will and will not back trump. trump predicted a win in georgia. >> we're going to win, win, win. >> the latest poll shows the front-runner lead both nationally and in several key states. marco rubio has tried to halt it hammering him for days most recently for failing to disavow former kkk leader david duke who announced his support. >> there's no room in the