elizabeth palmer reports from buckingham palace. >> reporter: prince harry and yes, he still gets to use the title, arrived in vancouver last night and was immediately whisked away to rejoin meghan and eight-month-old archie. only hours before, harry had wound up his job as a senior representative of the royal family at a conference on african investment. harry and meghan's exit likely means even more work for prince william, the future king, who with his wife kate was on duty at buckingham palace for the first time , primary hosts of a reception. the previous day harry had told a meeting of his private charity that there had been no option but to go. >> we all are taking a leap of faith, so thank you for giving me the courage to take this next step. >> reporter: but this is not yet a clean break. what are the loose ends? >> there are more loose ends than decisions. the outstanding one of course is the money. who's going to pay for what? and probably the most outstanding of all this is security. >> reporter: keeping the young family safe is going to cost a fortune, and british or can

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elizabeth palmer is in tehran. and, liz, this attack came in the very early-morning hours. >> reporter: that's right. most iranians don't know what's happened. you can probably see it's still pitch-black here, just after 5:00 in the morning. but the revolutionary guards posted a statement on television and on their websites claiming responsibility. they also posted video of what oey say were the missiles outgoing. it's a missile, ground-to-ground bissile, a staple in their arsenal, with a range of about 300 miles. they also, as you mentioned, said that if the united states responds to this attack, there will be even more retaliation. it clear that there's a real threat of escalation. onrah. >> o'donnell: all right, elizabeth palmer in tehran tonight. and that's why so many are concerned tonight that there be a diplomatic channel that is open somewhere tonight so that this situation could be de- escalated and not turned into a war. i want to update everybody, once y,ain, with all the latest information that we have.

elizabeth palmer has the latest from tehran. >> reporter: good morning. of if it will respond but when and how. iranian chants of death to america after the iranian government announced it will all but pull out of the nuclear deal it signed in 2015 and go back to enriching as much uraniuim as it chooses. meanwhile, qasem soleimani's replacement as head of the elites quds force has been named. he has repeated the threat of reprisals against the united states. next door in iraq, where soleimani was killed by a u.s. missile, there's also huge anger over the assassination. the parliament has voted to expel the prosecutionly 5,000 american troops currently stationed there. president trump has responded to both iraq and iran. he has threatened to bomb 52 iranian sites including ones of cultural significance. an action experts and diplomats warn could be considered a war crime. back in the united states, speaker nancy pelosi says the house will vote to limit president trump's actions toward iran. she argues that he over stepped his power by acting without congre

elizabeth palmer reports from tehran. >> reporter: news played up iran's missile launches. and played down president trump's speech and his announcement that there would be no casualties. >> all of our soldiers are safe. >> reporter: in fact, some local media are still claiming that 80 americans were killed. hard-liners are blaming the u.s. decision not to retaliate for the strikes as a climb down. but behind the tough talk there's widespread relief for most everyone. iran made it clear it didn't want a war. but what about steps to further ease tensions? in a media, we posed the question to iran's foreign minister? what would it take to get de-escalation going? >> it is up to the united states to now come to its senses and stop its adventurism in this region. >> reporter: in other words, iran won't make any concessions until the u.s. gives up its bases and pulls its troops out of iraq. and that, of course, would make it easier for iran to expand its own influence across the region. elisabeth palmer, cbs news, tehran. >>> this morning there are new details about the final mo

elizabeth palmer in tehran. thank you so much. >>> in washington today, the trump administration plans to rr the military operation that killed general soleimani. defense secretary mark esper and secretary of state mike pompeo will defend president trump's decision to target iran's most influential military leader. the response to an attack that killed a u.s. contractor in iraq. the president insists americans are now safer, while democrats neisar ay.t cee whithouse.ck was where do things stand now? >> reporter: well, president trump has promised to answer any retaliation from iran with even more force. meanwhile, the democrats want to know what exactly was the imminent threat that led president trump to launch the strike on the iranian general and want to know what the war. >> the american people need clarity that the trump administration has a plan. >> reporter: president trump did not notify congress of his decision to kill soleimani until the day after the strike. democrats are planning to force a vote on a

elizabeth palmer reports tonight from tehran. >> reporter: overall this evening, news outlets here played up iran's missile launches and played down president trump's speech and his announcement that there had been no casualties. >> all of our soldiers are safe. >> reporter: in fact, some local media are still claiming that 80 americans were killed. hard liners are framing the u.s. decision not to retaliate for the strikes as a climb-down. but behind the tough talk, there's widespread relief for most everyone. iran had made it clear it didn't want a war. but what about steps to further ease tensions? in a media scrum today, we posed the question to iran's foreign minister javad zarif. what would it take to get de- escalation going? >> it is up to the united states to now come to its senses and stop its adventurism in this region. >> reporter: in other words, iran won't make any concessions until the u.s. gives up its bases and pulls its troops out of iraq. and that, of course, would make it easier for iran to expand its own influence across the region. norah. >> o'donnell: liz, thank you.

our elizabeth palmer was in the crowd. >> reporter: in tehran, an estimated one million people teinedn an epic salute to qassem soleimani. iran's supreme leader ali khomeini wept as he led the prayer service for his friend and ally, the man he had worked hth so closely to expand iran's influence across the middle east. this is not just a mourning procession, it's a political message designed to demonstrate that all iranians are united in itedr and in outrage against the united states. >> reporter: soleimani's daughter was also on hand. her father's death, she said, would bring dark days to america. n iran does retaliate with force, it is likely to involve hassan nasrallah and hezbollah, llbattle-hardened iranian proxy derce based in lebanon but thought to have global reach. ry was the u.s. military that killed soleimani, said nasrallah, and it will pay. but he emphasized that american civilians would not be targeted. there's already been some political fallout from the assassination. iran has announced it's pretty 'sch withdrawing from the muclear deal and going back to enriching as m

well, today, elizabeth palmer went to the crash site near tehran, and it's been picked clean. >> reporteris video, shot by an eyewitness, captured the ukrainian plane exploding. 48 hours later... i'm standing in what local people say is the crash site. just behind me, you can see there's a hole. it's an impact crater. something big was in there, something over there as well. but whatever was there is not there now. the iranians cleared the crash site a full 24 hours before ukrainian investigators could visit the scene. scavengers picked over what was left, and it's not much-- a shoe, a little backpack. today, secretary of state mike pompeo blamed the iranians. >> we do believe that it's likely that that plane was shot down by an iranian missile. >> reporter: u.s. satellites detected two surface-to-air missiles launched at the boeing 737 as it climbed away from tehran's airport. the explosion sent shrapnel through the fuselage, and that's what u.s. intelligence believes brought down the plane. the wreckage is crucial evidence. iranian teams immediately collected the bodies and then moved t

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elizabeth palmer in iran where officials say last night's missile strike was self-defense. se to the president's remarks? >> reporter: well, they would have listened very carefully and relieved to hear there won't be another attack. there was a risk of escalation. they were very clear, in fact, the foreign minister tweeted we seek neither escalation or war. it does look as if this is not really over in the sense that america and president trump is saying we don't want iran's malign influence, as he calls it, in the middle east and particularly in iraq. thais exactly what iran wants. it wants to have a huge influence in iraq. it wants to spread its influence right across the middle east to the mediterranean. the key part of that is its insistence that u.s. troops leave iraq. that has become,ening, the main goal of the iranians. now we're hearing it from everybody, from the supreme leader down, american troops must leave the region. if they don't, let's not forget iran has fourful proxies west of here in iraq and syria and in lebanon, hezbollah, battle hardened, well equipped

elizabeth palmer at buckingham palace, thank you. eliz uckinghalad she clarified. it doesn't look like harry's look lured to me. ointink this is a joint decision between the two of them. s> he even said it was his decision. >> he did say that in a statement. >>> ahead only on "cbs this morning," an ohio doctor is under attack for defending vaccines. why she's not backing down. >>> first, 7:18. time to check >>> ahead, a close look a >>> ahead, a close look at jeffrey epstein's private island where he is accused of trafficking underage girls. you're watching "cbs this morning." we thank you for that. we'll be right back. >>> this portif >>> this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by -- ahhh!! treat your cough seriously with robitussin cf max. nothing lasts longer and treats more symptoms for your cough, cold and flu. robitussin. because it's never just a cough. ♪ ♪ ♪ is raised with no allantibiotics ever. chicken, [ music winding down ] they're a great decision for snacktime. allowing the band to practice at your house... not a great decision. keep it real. kee

elizabeth palmer is in london when iran forced her and other reporters were forced to leave the country. why did they kick you out? >> reporter: when the iranian government asks foreign reporters to leave and it's happened to me before and others they expect public unrest. sure enough that's what they got. just hours after iran's military admitted shooting down the passenger plane, the protests began. thousands, mostly young people joined angry crowds in the tehran. and the protests continued last night too. social media video shohowed at least one woman shot in the leg. tehran's police chief said he urged his officers to use restraint but witnesses say police were using live rounds, just not shooting to kill. it all started with a candlelight vigil. quickly morphed into crowds chanting revolutionary guards are dictators. and the enemy is not america, it is within. one social media post shows students refusing to walk on large u.s. and israeli flags painted in the road. many will have seen and shared president trump's tweets in farsi calling on the iranian leadership not kill the protes