nora and gayle?p of a tech was on the train and is now missing. one of her employees says she was on train 188 last night. she released a photo of jacobs and is asking the public to help find her. the congressman on the subcommittee of railroads joins us. what questions, are you asking? >> the traveling public wants to know how could this happen. we're seeing investigative teams going out, including having the federal rail administrator, sarah feinberg going out to look at this. we want answers. and we're looking at -- we've been looking at safety throughout the last several years on how do you improve safety. in this case we want to know how this happened so we can make sure it doesn't happen again. >> you have introduced a bill on passenger rail reform. where does that stand and how does it adjust safety? >> it is actually the amtrak bill that deals with other parts of rail as well but is primarily amtrak. it's in the senate now. the president has already sent a letter of support. we expect the sen

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good morning. >> good morning, gayle.3 to 4 million people are expected to come here the first year. the designerers have added attractions. every trip to the top of the world trade center starts with a step back in time. >> so i want you to see the elevators now. >> the ride to the 102nd floor is a visual history lesson. >> this is the bedrock and now in the 1500s this is what manhattan looked like. >> reporter: tourists see it from wetland wilderness to modern metropolis. >> it's the fastest elevate never the world, 47 seconds. >> to the top. >> to the top. now you notice the building being built around you and all of a sudden we're at the top. >> reporter: our tour guide is david checketts. he used to run madison square garden. now he's the head of legends. most sky views hit you immediately. not here. a video builds the suspense before the city is unveiled. >> wow. >> at that point it's a plus. >> they're trying to take people's breath away. >> yes, we are. >> on a clear day, visibility seems almost endless. these win

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. >> gayle king is live in new york with a preview. good morning, gayle. how are you?ear us, gayle? can you see us? >> is d.c. talking to me? >> d.c. is talking to you, gayle. >> my favorite friend and partner. good morning to you. >> it sounded like andrea. >> it is andrea. >> good morning to you, nick and andre ya. i think you're talking to me so i'll talk back you to. we're in texas and the huge shake-up in the world of soccer. the latest on the overnight arrests of top fifa executives on corruption. and sex therapists. sarah cooper on a new study that finds spa some women -- finds that some women have a cheating gene. much discussion on that. the news is back in the morning. we'll see you at 7:00 straight up. back to you guys. >> thank you, gayle. >> we're also talking about stress sweat this morning. >> we have been. >> guilty of that. dealing with that every day. i think it was the -- the sweat was coming from or thanks to the weather yesterday. >> it's -- it doesn't matter if you're stressed or not, you will be sweating for sure. >> i don't sweat. that's the pro

gayle, norah. >> and you didn't touch it michelle. you didn't touch it.far away are you from it michelle? >> i'm like a centimeter away. >> wow. >> they're watching me. >> wow. it was interesting to see how the price went when it started at 500,000 and it went so much higher. >> in 11 minutes. >> in 11 minutes. i want to go to that person's house and see that on the wall. very nice. >>> and it's called a hostage road. many americans can't get their belongings. >>> if you're taking your kids to school or heading out to work set your dvr to watch "cbs this morning" anytime. we'll be right back. we got the new tempur-flex and it's got the spring and bounce of a traditional mattress. you sink into it, but you can still move it around. now that i have a tempur-flex, i can finally get a good night's sleep. when i flop down on the bed, and it's just like, 'ah, this is perfect." wherever you put your body it just supports you. like little support elfs are just holding you. i can sleep now! through the night! (vo) change your sleep. change your life. change to tem

thank you, gg. >> gayle, are you now inviting colby over to gayle's house? 23 novels in 23 years. she's worked hard. she's known for her dark plots and twisted plots. her new book is different. she's teemed up with her daughter, co-author samantha. their adult novel is called "off the page." samantha your first time, welcome. jodi you've been here before. i'm going to start with you missy. when you were 13 what did you say to your mom? >> i was 13 years old and i was daydreaming in my eighth grade french class which i don't condone and i was starting to think about books and what happens when we close a book because i just couldn't believe that the characters staid frozen in time waiting for us to return and breathe the life back into them so i started to kind of play around with the different personalities that characters could have while the book is closed and who they really are when there's no one reading them. >> and she brought it to you, mom, and you thought, great idea or i don't know? >> my idea is maybe there was a prince stuck in a fairy-tale. whe

. >> reporter: good morning, gayle. that cruise liner was on its way back here to boston harbor yesterday evening when it came toen a abrupt stop about 50 minutes into its return trip disabled and without power. this 92,000 ton cruise liner, the "norwegian dawn" was packed be 3,5 people when its steering system malfunctioned tuesday night. >> my family and i were having dinner and we felt a sudden halt in the ship and the captain came over the p.a. system and told us we had lost steering on the cruise ship and as a result of that we ran up on a coral reef. >> reporter: passengers flocked to the ship's deck while crew members and dive teams inspected the vessel's hull for damage. they confirmed its strike churl integrity and no injuries from the accident have been reported. in a statement, norwegian cruise lines said "the ship is fully operational with a full complement of on board services available to guests." >> spirits are still high everyone is happy, everyone seems to be happy to extend their vacation another day.

gayle? >> all right omar. thank you. jeff pegues is in washington with new information on the fbi's long running interest in elton simpson. jeff, good morning. >> good morning. the fbi first investigating elton simpson about nine years ago. that's when the phoenix office began an investigation because of his association with what the bureau believed was setting up a terrorist cell in arizona. there are recorded conversations between him and the informant discussing a holy war and gopher owe seas to wage a jihad. countless court documents document in 2009 in which simpson is quoted as saying it's time to go to somalia, brother. it even tile to go to the battlefield. it's time to roll. he was stopped on his way. investigators believe his goal was to go from south africa and then on to somalia. that was something simpson denied. but a year later he was found guilty of making materially false statements to the fbi and sentenced to three years' probation and a fine. law enforcement officials say

gayle. >> thank you, jeff.timore's city attorney moseby will decide whether to charge the officers. it's her first elected office. she spent five years as an assistant states attorney. her husband is a baltimore city councilman. >> john mill joins us at the table. he's our former senior correspondent. good morning. >> good morning. >> first a general perfect of what's going on between police and young african-americans in one case and is it nothing new, it's simply we're photographing it now? >> i think it's a combination of the two. you know this is a nation where you have 18,000 police departments with 850,000 police officers that make 11.3 million arrests just last year across the country, which is actually a low figure. you've got 500,000 violent crimes, but when you have these encounters and, you know, a moment of that is collected on videotape and it's played over and over again, particularly in a community where there's tension, these become flash points and i think while they're blown out of proportion

gayle? >> thank you scott. >>> four people facing charges in the deaths of two mississippi police officers are due in court today. the community gathered last night for a candlelight vigil to remember the officers. they were gunned down saturday night after a routine traffic stop. anna werner is in hattiesburg mississippi, with machinery more on what happening. anna good morning. >> good morning, gayle. this is the impromptu memorial of the two officers were shot. one was decorated officer of the year and the other new to the force. it was 8:30 at night when officer benjamin dean stopped an escalade for speeding. he had probable cause and called for backup when he saw four people inside. officer cory talt arrived just before the shots were fired. >> was upstairs and heard gunshots. >> deen and tate were rushed to the hospital and were pronounced dead. >> they worked feverishly to save both but it wasn't to be so. too much bloodshot and too much damage done internally. >> reporter: within fou

gayle?" the sitcom ended 15 years ago but seinfeld the man is still going. the sixth season begins on wednesday. anthony mason got to go along for a ride with seinfeld on cbs sunday morning. >> a ferrari 308 kwal trow valve which means four valve. >>iery seinfeld is obsessed with automobiles. >> pretty snappy, wasn't it? >> yes. >> in show business and things were going well you wanted to show off a bit, this is what you would get. fun? >> yes. >> that's how he hatched the idea for the internet. >> this is comedian yans in cars getting coffee. >> he was trying to create a show where comedians could talk about fair thavt subject, comedian. >> i don't know why people think the guest is more important than the host. >> he said there's a connection. >> part of it is a social experiment of like i sometimes think of it as i'm just trying to isolate a gene here and put it on display. i go look at these weird people. >> how many jokes do you think you have? >> oh i don't know. >> do you catalog -- >

so please join me in a very warm welcome for gayle tzemach lemmon. [applause] >> is it's so nice to be here with all of you and of course i would have loved c-span since i was 10 years old so that's very exciting that c-span is here. we will keep it pretty informal. i will talk for 15 minutes and then we can do the quest in an answer. the story began when i was hosting an event in 2012 at the council on foreign relations and i was asking somebody about combat story. she said well it's just like the first lieutenant who lost her life on the battlefield in afghanistan in the special operations might mission and i said what? so she said yeah e there was this lieutenant who was out there and she was on a night raid alongside ranger regiment and a lot of these guys were special operations teams and if you look at her open to where he actually says that she is a member of the north carolina national guard but if you keep reading it tells you the story of what she was actually doing the night she died. she was part of a special operations team. i said, how

gayle? >> thank you, seth. reporting from kathmandu. >>> hundreds of more migrants arrived in italy. a coast guard ship carrying 900 people docked in sicily. over the weekend more than 600 were rescued in the mediterranean. that number continues to increase. a baby was born aboard the italian ship. she was in labor when the crews reached her. >> no word on what caused the death of david goldberg spouse of cheryl sandberg. he led the website surveymonkey. their strong marriage played a defining role in their careers. we interviewed them on "60 minutes." she described the time david stepped in when she was offered a contract at facebook. >> my husband said are you kidding in? you can't take the fiftd off. >> finally my brother-in-law looked at me and said don't take the first offer. >> dave, what did you think when she said i'm goic to go ahead and accept it. >> app oh plek tick. you're going to be running all the negotiations and deals. you can't just take the first offer. it will look bad. not because the money

gayle and i have some thoughts. opener at 8. >> they planned aspects of this long-running schemes during meetings held here in the united states. >> these charges allege widespread corruption within the international federation of football. >> i reported in this city for more than a decade. i can tell you this is some of the worst flooding i've ever seen. >> this house that was destroyed by the flood. that just shows you how high up raging waters came. >> the iraqi army is clearly in disarray. >> it is the first time that china has so clearly stated its military plans and ambitions in the last two years. >> several of the people traveling last week with daron wint were converting large amounts of cash into money orders. >> i do declare i have no choice but to take my pupils and rotate them from one side of my orbital socket, twist to the other. >> this morning's eye opener at 8 is presented by walgreens. >>> i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell. a series of arrests are working the world of soccer. mi

gayle? >> thank you, kris. crews are working around the clock to repair the track but this morning it's still unclear when the amtrak tracks will be restored in philadelphia. those who died, a tech ceo, a u.s. navy officer and a college dean who just finished his ph.d. jericka duncan is outside the hospital which treated dozens of injured passengers. jericka, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, gayle. 22 patients remain here at this hospital with eight in critical condition, but for the more than 200 people on that train doctors say the psychological impact should not be overlooked. five of the seven people killed in tuesday's crash have been identified. they include abid gilani a senior vice president with wells fargo, jim gaines a 48 father of two, and justin zemser a 28-year-old captain midshipsman. >> he was wonderful. everyone looked up to my son. there's no other words i can say. >> reporter: derrick griffith was also one of the passengers killed. he was a dean. he was called a pillar of the communit

gayle and i have some thoughts. a look at today's "eye opener" at 8:00. >> the chargesll aege spwideread corruption in the international federation of association football for 24 years. >> it's really a devastating blow. these are some of the more senior executives. it confirms the worst fears of a lot of fans. >> i covered news for more than a decade and i can tell you it's some of the worst flooding i've ever seen here. >> the house completely de-troyed by the floodwaters. it shows how high up the water came. >> iraq has employed the shiite muslim militias. i >>t's thest fir time that china has so clearly stated its military plans and ambitions in the last two years. >> several of the peeopl who were traveling with wint last week were converting large amounts of cash into money orders. >> why, randall j. paul i do declare i have no choice but to take my pupils and rotate them from one side of my orbital socket and twist to the other. >> announcer: this morning's "eye opener" at 8:00 is presented by walgreens. >> i

. >> reporter: good morning, gayle. week the volcano was relatively quiet but geological officials have warned it was still unstable and could erupt again. on thursday those predictions came true. the calbuco volcano refused to let up thursday spewing another supersized plume of smoke and ash miles into the sky. some villagers hadn't even finished cleaning up from last week's back-to-back eruptions when they were ordered to leave their homes once again. "it's tough" this man said "because we had already removed all the volcanic material from the houses. so now to evacuate again is kind of hard." the volcano roared back to life last wednesday after lying dormant for more than 40 years. over the past week, a blanket of volcanic ash has coated nearby towns, choking the area's salmon industry and disrupting flights all the way to argentina. so far, at least 6,000 people have been forced to evacuate along with some pets. many gathered at this shelter, unsure of exactly what they would go back to. "we are a bit scared" this w

. >> gayle king, our good friend and part near is in new york with a preview.ew york with a preview. good morning, gayle. >> we are here. good morning to you. ahead we'll talk with c.i.a. insider michael morell about what the texas attack could mean for future isis threats. plus, forget about the pills. a top spleep expert on how you -- sleep expert on how you can breathe yourself to sleep and willy nelson is -- willie nelson is in studio 57. getting high at the white house, 1600 pennsylvania avenue. the group he says that should stay away from marijuana. the news is back in the morning. we'll see you at 7:00 straight up. we should say it was not during the obama administration. it was during the jimmy carter administration. just to be clear. >> looking forward to details on that one. >> we'll be watching, gayle. thank you. >>> details on our forecast. it seems to be a bit of a roller coaster ride of a day. >> we have a little bit of everything. we have some sunshine. we have some fog. then we'll see clouds and a little bit of rain this afternoon. >> a potpourr

very good, gayle.ll be watching. >>> nothing about nothing, you know everything about everything that's about to unfold over the next 24 hours. this is a weather coaster ride. >> i like to call it the weather coaster. hot today. >> we've had it all season long, winter to spring, whatever. >> we went to winter right to summer. we're finally going to get our taste of spring. spring weather fans rejoice. it's coming tomorrow. and it's going to stick around for a few days. today is summer and it sure does feel like it already. take a look at our michael & son camera. we're at 71 degrees. it's very humid out there as well. so we are going to see winds out of the south, southwest today. a little breezy as well. it will pick up a westerly component and that's going to help us warm up a. few clouds hanging around this morning and also i want to bring your attention to a few areas of sprinkles. that's it. this is a front coming on through so you can't rule out a shower. areas that will see these showers or driz

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we hope to have gayle king with us shortly. private e-mail address while she was secretary of state. her lawyers have said that address did not exist while clinton was in office. >> democratic presidential candidate already handed over 55,000 pages of e-mails from another account. the state department now plans to release those messages by mid-january. that's two weeks before the iowa caucuses. >>> texas public safety officials are warning police across the state to watch out for outlaw bikers. they're here in retaliation for sunday's deadly shootings in waco texas. the u.s. has more than 1,000 motorcycle gangs. some are known for transports cocaine, heroin ecstasy and pharmaceuticals. >> sunday's shoot-out killed nine bikers some were shot by police. the shoot-out follows a long rival dispute between two gangs. the hell's angels says people will stop at nothing. >> it's their religion. it's more important to them than anything else out there. and they will fight for it and kill for it and die for it if necessary. it's what the

and we'll explore gayle king's fear of heights.g bucks writing words that we can't say on tv? >> you want to read 143. >> you took my [ bleep ] and ♪ >>> romance novels continue to top the best-seller list. new authors from the world of self-publishing are being wooed by literary giants. the latest is meredith wild. she's a tech ceo turned writer. her first book was an e-book several years ago. michelle miller shows us. >> meredith wild graduated from smith college in english. with software and nearly a decade would pass before she'd write her sixth book. now with the sixth title on the way, wild's books are being hailed as the hottest in adult fiction. >> meredith wild that couldn't be the name -- >> could be. >> reporter: meredith wild's pen name has helped her lead a double life. does it help sell books? wild? >> i think it's descriptive. >> reporter: she's a married mother of three by day. best-selling author of erotic romance by night. >> i do blush a little bit sometimes when i'm writing. oh, my gosh, this is a little crazy.

gayle? >> good to see the train up and running.nk you, kris so much. >>> one marine is dead and others hurt. 22 were aboard the osprey when it went down and exploded into flames. it happened during a training exercise on the island of oahu. carter evan shows us what led to the tragedy. >> oh oh! >> reporter: stunned witnesses looked on in shock as this video obtained by our hawaii affiliate kgnb shows the military aircraft plunging toward the ground then bursting into flames. 22 marines were on board. they wish conducted a training flight. at least one marine is dead and all 21 others were taken to the hospital, some with critical injuries. the military is calling it a hard landing mishap. tragic and our condolences go to the families and the loved ones of the victims but right now we need to investigate further and see what happens. >> reporter: witnesses say at least three aircraft were participating in exercises. they were conducting maneuvers while kicking up dust. >> we saw three aircraft circling and when it cleared up we saw

. >> reporter: good morning, gayle. lumber liquidators said more than 26,000 kits have been given out and of those tests it says the vast majority came back within some health guidelines. but some customers we've spoken to say they're still trying to figure out what to believe and how to know whether their homes are safe. john mutters and his wife installed flooring from lumber liquidators in their lexington, kentucky home two years ago. how do you like it? >> we love it. it's great. >> lumber liquidators is the largest and fastest-growing retailer -- >> reporter: but after seeing the "60 minutes" report mutters orders two of the test kids offered by the company. what are you hoping to find snout. >> i'm hoping to find out the level of formaldehyde is an acceptable level. >> "60 minutes" sent undercover investigators to three chinese factories that produce laminate flooring for lumber liquidators. they found box after box of floorboards with labels indicating they met strict california standards. in tests later commissi

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but we are very honored tonight to welcome author and journalist gayle tzemach lemmon a senior fellow at the council of foreign relations as well as a contributor to the atlantic defense fund where she reports regularly on issues of national security and foreign policy. she is also the best selling author of the dressmaker -- the remarkable story of a community of entrepreneurial afghan women under taliban rule. she's here tonight to talk about her latest book already garnering lots of national attention and praise called "ashley's war"." the book that looks at the all but unknown history and i think ultimately the continuing legacies of a special all women pilot program known as the cultural support team to putting women on the battlefield alongside other special ops teams to give access to afghan women. her reporting bring stories to life in particular that the are first to attend ashlee wife for whom the book is titled illustrating not only the valor of these women and their bravery but incredible courage and her desire to fight for their country so please join me in a very warm we

i'm sitting with my two fabulous coanchors of cbs this morning gayle king and nora o'donnell. we had a remarkable experience. we did the first ever live television show from the top of the brand-new one world trade center an one world observatory. we are on the 102nd floor. we can see everywhere. we can see up the hudson. we can see down the east river into the atlantic. we can see the physical presence of this great city as you have never seen it before. >> it's so true carlie that the star of the show really is the viewment but what this building represents is so much more than that. and that's what i keep thinking, when you come in this building you can't help but feel what the people feel who are working here, who built it. one guy said to me no hatter how bad a day is when i walk in here no matter how challenging, i look out here and have great appreciation and gratitude. >> i agree. you think about what happened to this city on 9/11 and around the country and the rebuilding of this building. the word i think that was used today was rebirth. it's the rebirth of this area

good morning. >> reporter: good morn, gayle.he week. the culprit for all of this pollen, the trees. blooming flowers and budding branches means spring is in the air and so is the pollen. it's it's everywhere collecting on the ground and clumping on cars. he says there's so much pollen even people who have never had allergies are suppering. >> this particular season we're bombarded with phone calls with people experiencing allergies for the very first time. not only allergy but pollen triggered as eded as many wheezing. people who have never had it before. >> reporter: normally pollen releases in spring but the long brutal winter delayed that. for allergy suffers, it's the perfect pollen storm. >> right now we have birch, palm maple. if you're sensitive, you're going to feel it. >> reporter: it's not just the northeast. pollen counts are at medium to high levels. roxanne lives in tulsa, oklahoma. she said she recently suffer one of the worst allergy attacks she's ever had. >> i was miserable. full of allergies. i couldn't talk, i

but they also love to read a gayle forman book, you know?and i think that's important to remember, that they're not just reading all of our books they're reading all the great books that are out there. but the one thing to remember is sometimes they could never get to the gayle forman book if it wasn't for a book that felt like home first. and the one thing about reluctant readers that i saw firsthand for myself as a reader but also the kids i see at schools is that when you are a reluctant reader it's kind of important to feel comfortable within the story on page 1. and what is it that's going to give you that feeling of comfort? maybe it's a setting that's familiar or maybe it's a point of view character that feels authentically similar to you. so i think that's one of the things that i'm most focused on is just in the field with this kids on me trying to introduce them to books that will make them feel comfortable. [applause] and now i feel like i don't even need to introduce tim federle, but here is tim, who is amazing and i have to say

incredible stories of gayle mcneil. she said she barely made it out of her home as the water busted windows and tossed furniture. she and her husband got to their car, but as the water rose around it the air bags went off. >> i was driving and my husband was able to get out on that side and this man appeared and pulled me out. i couldn't get out otherwise. >> who was this man? >> his name is chance. that's all i know. >> reporter: as residents like mcneil try to get their feet back under them, the flood threat remains with isolated thunderstorms in the forecast that could bring a huge amount of rain soaking an already saturated ground. the water has nowhere to go. john and christine. >> thank you, ana. we are getting harrowing images of the time the water tore through the homes along it'sthe blanco river. terrifying. it was like a washing machine in the living room there. caught up in the same flood were three families sharing a vacation home cabin in wimberley. including jonathan mccomb and his wife and two children. t