bissinger.ring live from the sat center, to todd quinones cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> all right, todd thank you. >>> on that new twitter account jenner picked up 1 million followers in just four hours and three minutes. that's the fastest ever to 1 million. >> she's almost to 2 million tonight 1.7. >>> a lot of reaction pouring in about the caitlyn cover. tell us what you think connect with us on facebook or twitter and at cbsphilly.com make sure you use that hash ago cbs3chat. >> she just tweeted again thankingthanking everybody for making her the fastest growing twitter handle. >> lot of support out there obviously. >> still ahead tonight four vehicles are the latest in the recalls due to faulty air bag. we'll have that information for you next. >> also a trip to seat animals in a wildlife park turns deadly for an american woman. coming up what she was doing when this happened and what will happen to the lion that was involved in that attack. >> kathy? >> more rain ahead overnight and even into

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also spent hundreds of hours with buzz bissinger.confided she had a panic attack after a ten-hour surgery to her face. what did i just do? what did i just do to myself she said. a counselor helped her overcome the doubts. and she now has the love and support of her children. within the first hour, social media exploded with more than 10,000 tweets including this one from valerie jarrett. the brave choice to live as your authentic self is a powerful example to so many. >> this is a seminole moment? >> absolutely. >> transgender people are watching across the country hoping to increase visibility. >> i'm always going to be your dad. jenner's raise to fame the older generation jenner was once the world's greatest athlete. >> what a day for bruce jenner! >> reporter: an olympic champion on the wheaties box. >> i was probably at the games because i was running away from a lot of things. i don't want to diminish anything. >> reporter: now as caitlyn, kirch table conversations about transgender issues. >> bruce always had to tell a lie. he

it was written by the magazine's contributing editor, buzz bissinger, who spent an extraordinary amounth caitlyn. he joins us tonight. you spent hundreds of hours with bruce jenner, a lot of time with caitlyn. are they different? do they seem different? >> obviously in terms of appearance obviously. >> they're very different. very different in appearance obviously. they do seem different. and it's a work in progress in the sense of we're just getting to know caitlyn. caitlyn is just getting to know herself. but the difference i see is, first of all caitlyn is having more fun in life. bruce didn't have much fun in life, the last 10 or 15 years i think he had no fun in life. he was very lonely and alone and not really motivated in the shadows of the kardashian family. caitlyn seems very emotionally connected, reaching out to the so-called jenner kids more than ever before, happy, alive and learning to listen and learning about empathy, which were all characteristics, frankly, that bruce never came near. >> that's what's so interesting about your article. one of the many things about it is

. >>> plus, more on caitlyn jenner, we'll speak with "vanity fair's" contributing editor buzz bissingeralk with country music star martina mcbride. that's the "cbs morning news" for this tuesday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. >>> good morning. it's tuesday, june 2. i'm michelle griego. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. >> good morning. yesterday was a wet start, drizzle. out the door, not so much. we do have some clouds and some fog however but off to a mild start. temperatures hovering around that 60-degree mark for some of the warmer spots. i have your full forecast coming up. >> and we're just hearing from the chp that all lanes are open in redwood city. they were busy overnight a fatal accident happened at 1:00 this morning south 101 before woodside. accident investigation is complete. all lanes are open and traffic is now flowing well through there. i'll have more traffic in just a few minutes. >>> breaking news. crews are on the scene of a two- alarm house fire in monte sereno. kiet do has the latest developments. >> reporter: good morning. firef

we should also note that the author of the vanity fair article is bus bissinger and he's of friday nighthts fame from mon all right re. he'll be on "good morning america" this morning. it will be interesting the hear from him tam. >> thank you erin. >>> it's been a day of waiting on a little bit more rain after dealing with the nighttime of flooding and those downpours have caused some floridaing across the region. cars were creeping along a drenched route 322 and sicklerville road in williamstown gloucester county. in thornbury pa the downpours caused poor visibility. in newark delaware the avon underpass looked a little bit more like a stream when the waters suddenly flooded that road. >> seeing some rain out there right now but nothing heavy. >> no its all light and the flood warnings and watches that we had earlier are now over. so other than blocked storm drains here or there, guys, i think we're in much better say. and as you take a look at storm tracker six live double scan the closeup view showing you everything we have right now across south jersey and the immediate region is hi

ahead, buzz bissinger will join us in studio 57.ll look at jner's response to her critics and the most remarkable moments of her long journey. of course, the author of that "vanity fair" piece and spent hundreds of hours with caitlyn. >> it's most remarkable story of his career. interested to talk to him. >>> did visitors to an african wildlife park put themselves in danger? what park officials are saying after a lion >>> this national weather report sponsored by toyota, let's go places. >>> researchers make their own hurricanes to save lives. >> ahead, inside the state-of-the-art lab where they simulate a category 5 storm. >> the news is back in the morning right here on "cbs this morning." simulate a category 5 storm. >> the news is back here on "cbs this morning." 100% icing. toaster strudel. 300% awesome. wish your skin could bounce back like it used to? new neutrogena hydro boost water gel. with hyaluronic acid it plumps skin cells with intense hydration and locks it in. for supple, hydrated skin. hydro boost. from neutrogena.

even when you read the "vanity fair" piece about caitlyn jenner the writer buzz bissinger, talks aboutscrewing up the pronounce. even caitlyn refers to herself as a he at some point. so we're all learning. can you help us -- what's correct? how do we address this? >> well really the safe evidence way -- when you don't know the safest thing to do is call somebody they. it's the safest way to avoid messing it up. if are you really worried, genuinely concerned and want to be earnest say they until they tell you what they want. that's a safe place to be sort of -- it's a middle ground for people who don't know. but it's okay to ask people what their pronoun is. and if -- the other thing is as a trans person, i feel like it's my obligation that my family, my friends, and people in my world are also in transition. i need to have a little flibltd with them messing it up. that's something i offer to people in my direct contact. it's something i feel like i want to do for them. they are being earnest and trying. it is very rare that someone says it -- says the wrong pronoun intentionally. let m

the philadelphia man buzz bissinger who wrote the article talked about the emotional transformation thathe witnessed. >> a huge difference more open more honest more connected, more everything centered i think yaitlycitlyn found her soul that bruce never had. >> she told him yesterday i'm free, i can live. >>> well certainly a day that does not feel like it should for this time of the year. the clouds are locked in. we have drizzle around or at least some light showers for most of the area. really giving us cooler temperatures, also the wind direction is doing that too. so rainy and cool today, and for the rest of the day today. clouds are going to linger overnight and through parts of the area tomorrow. i think we'll have a little sunshine that will try to build in but the clouds will come right back for thursday warmer as we go into friday, so finally that warm air starts to move back in. temperatures are still in the 50s, 54 pottstown, 54 allentown. 56 degrees in millville, 55 atlantic city. everyone is cool today because we're all under that same weather pattern, clouds with drizzle

there's a long article by buzz bissinger, who spent a lot of time with jenner. >> annie liebowitz photographs. >> most importantly, the photographs by annie liebowitz. it's this package, really part of this process that bruce, now caitlyn, jenner is going through. it began with the abc diane sawyer interview. it continues with this cover. it will continue in july with a series on e! and the espn award. >> on the espn award, what kind of award is this? >> the arthur ash courage award. it's at the espies. michael sam received this recognition last year. nelson mandela, robin roberts some of the past winners. bruce jenner was chosen back in april when we were still calling him bruce jenner. now as of today, he would prefer to be called caitlyn jenner and preferred to be referred to as a woman. journalists, generally, we've had to learn how to work in situations like this. the best thing to do is go ahead and support this person's choice. so to say she and caitlyn in this case. because this is so new, we need to refer to formerly bruce jenner. we need to indicate to our audience what we're talkin

he was interviewing buzz bissinger and he talked about all the secrecy involved in the article. >> those pictures are incredible and we didn't want them out -- >> before. >> before. and neither did caitlyn. caitlyn said i will not let a paparazzi make money off of me because that's a big deal. this is the picture heard around the world. i will not let a paparazzi make money off me. if i have to stay in my house for two months i will do it and that's basically what she's done. >> i think that's a key point, bonnie. one of the reasons this is all stage managed so that he back then bruce, now she, caitlyn, was not being exploited by the paparazzi. she wanted to do it on her own terms. >> it's her right to decide when she wanted to reveal herself as her trueself self because she wanted it to be a teachable moment and she wanted it to be a moment that was a freeing moment. she said as of this moment when the "vanity fair" cover comes out, i am free. and so it had both i guess pr impact but it also had a huge a monumental emotional impact for her. i think it was entirely her right to be able t

joining us is buzz bissinger, the author of the article in the july issue of vanity fair.ast time you saw caitlyn? >> i saw caitlyn on may 6th, part of the vanity fair shoot, the incredible pictures by annie leibovits, she was glowing, she looked great. she looked happy and it was a little freaky to tell you the truth. >> why do you say that. >> when i started the story in february it was bruce, it was bruce jenner the bruce jenner i remember winning the decathlon the hero of america and literally on march 15th, he went in for ten hours of plastic surgery, that was the end of bruce as we know it. now she's caitlyn she was excited. but scared. this is the point of no return. you can't take back the plastic surgery, so he said and it's in the story, in vanity fair what if i made a mistake? she had a panic attack. >> after the surgery? >> the day after. >> describe >> she was in a lot of pain trying to get some sleep, then woke up in a terror. >> how did she stop having the panic attacks? >> she met with a counselor the counselor said it's normal it's normal because of the pa

. >> buzz bissinger wrote that profile of caitlyn jenner and joins us now. good morning to you. bruce jenner. you spent hours with caitlyn jenner. obviously there's a physical difference but also a difference in personality? >> yeah. i mean, it's beginning of caitlyn jenner's life but huge difference. more open more honest more connected, more -- everything's centered. caitlyn has found her soul that bruce never had. >> you almost get the sense that caitlyn is euphoric to be free. >> and i think that's the case. i just spoke to her yesterday. she said i'm free. i can live. i don't care about the paparazzi anymore. just make sure it's a good shot but more than that it's relating to the children from her first two marriages. it's having a relationship. he never had a relationship. she is going to have bonds. she is going to be free. she's going to have fun. she was completely isolated i think, for the last five or six years of his life as bruce. >> you mentioned the kids. she had four kids from first marriages. you delve deeply into that. one of the most shocking is what you revea

joining us now is buzz bissinger, the author of the profile of caitlyn jenner in the july issue of "vanityo be with us. >> thank you. >> when was the last time that you saw caitlyn? >> i saw caitlyn on may 6th, it was part of the "vanity fair" shoot, the incredible pictures by annie liebowitz. she was glowing, she looked great. she looked happy, and it was a little freaky to tell you the truth. >> why do you say that? >> well, you know when i started the story in february, it was bruce, it was bruce jenner, the bruce jenner i remember 1976 winning the decathlon the hero of america and then literally on march 15th he went in for ten hours of plastic surgery, and that was the end of bruce as we know him and now it's caitlyn. >> how was she handling it right before the surgery? >> she was excited but she was scared. this is the point of no return. this is the point of no return. you can't take back the plastic surgery, so he says and it's in the story in "vanity fair," what if i made a mistake? what if this really isn't what i've wanted all my life? what do i do then? she had a panic attack.