jan crawford reports. >> reporter: lieutenant colonel joseph morris oversaw the army's special victims prosecutors that handles sexual assaults, domestic violence, and child abuse. he also led the government case against staff sergeant robert bales who is serving life in prison for the murder of 16 afghan civilians. now, morris has been suspended and is under investigation after a female army lawyer said he tried to kiss and grope her in a hotel room during a 2011 legal conversation on sexual assault. -- conference on sexual assault. no charges have been filed. the allegations come as the defense department is gap well the sharp indris -- grappling with the sharp increase in assault complaints. >> no comment. >> reporter: last year another military officer responsible for sexual assault prevention air force lieutenant colonel jeffrey crash seven ski was charged with groping a woman outside a bar. he is acquitted in a civilian court but is expected to retire from the military. this week general jeffrey sinclair is facing a court- martial on charges that include forcing a junior officer

but as jan crawford reports, another delay is already in the works. >> reporter: with consumers outraged over cancellations, the:announced last november that americans could keep their plans for another year, even if they did not meet the affordable care act's basic coverage requirements. >> i completely get how upsetting this can be for a lot of americans, particularly after assurances they heard from me that if they had a plan that they liked, three could keep it. to those americans, i hear you loud and clear. >> reporter: now cbs news has learned the administration will allow insurers to offer the substandard plans even longer, avoiding another round of cancellations just week es before the mid-term election -- weeks before the mid-term election. one senator says the white house is trying to protect vulnerable democrats, not consumers. >> if you look at the timing of it, it's designed to delay right after the 2014 elections. we already know what happened when people started to receive cancellation notices last time. >> reporter: news of the extension comes just three weeks before anot

jan crawford reports obamacare is back before the supreme court. can a health plan be forced to and r women's contraceptives? and jim axlerod with another embarrassing breech of security at the tallest terror target in america. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> reporter: good evening. this is our western edition. rescue workers are risking their lives tonight in oso, washington, searching ground that has been compared to quicksand for victims of the mud slide. three days after it buried this village north of seattle, 14 people are known dead but dozens more are still unaccounted for-- among them, 30-year-old billy spillers, father of four, a career counselor for the navy. three of his children are missing, as well. the fourth child, four-year-old jacob, was rescued from the debris. cbs news correspondent danielle nottingham is on the scene for us tonight. danielle? eporter: scott, more than 60 members of the washington national guard joined the search today. we're told teams are pinging for cell phone

jan crawford reports. >> reporter: the arguments were unusually intense and divisive. the court's three female justices all liberal defended the law and dismissed arguments by business owners that the contraceptive coverage requirement violates religious freedom. most forceful was justice elena kagan, a former top lawyer in the obama administration who clashed repeatedly with attorney paul clement. kagan said if business owners could object to birth control coverage based on religious grounds, what about the next case? suppose an employer refuses to fund vaccinations for her employees or blood transfusions. one religious group could opt out of this and another could opt oust that and everything would be piecemeal. clement pushed back saying those cases were different. his clients provide coverage for most birth control methods and argue the government should make an exception in the law so they would not have to cover for a pill and devices to preconvenient the implant of an embryo in the wound. >> roberts suggested upholding it. today he suggested that the contracepti

jan crawford reports obamacare is back before the supreme court. can a health plan be forced to and r women's contraceptives? and jim axlerod with another embarrassing breech of security at the tallest terror target in america. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley.

jan crawford is in washington with the newest twist in the rollout. jan, good morning. >> reporter: well, good morning, charlie, nora. good morning to our viewers in the west. last fall, the president allowed some of the no-frills plans to stick around, after an outcry from millions of consumers who had their policies cancelled. now, the white house is hoping to prevent a similar scene just before the midterm elections. with consumers outraged over cancellations, the president announced last november that americans could keep their plans for another year, even if they did not meet the affordable care act basic coverage requirements. >> i completely get how upsetting this could be for a lot of americans, particularly after assurances they heard from me that if they had a plan they liked, they could keep it. and to those americans, i hear you loud and clear. >> reporter: now, cbs news has learned the administration will allow insurers to offer the substandard plans even longer avoiding another round of cancellations just weeks before the midterm election

jan crawford is in washington with how a sudden increase in applicants could tie up the website. n, good morning. >> good morning. the white house, as you know, has been saying repeatedly march 31st, monday, that's the deadline deadline. they're not changing it. with it six days away, they're backing off on that. here's what's happening. as long as you can say you tried to enroll before monday's deadline, you can get more time. and this is the honors system. all you've got to do is check a box on your form that you've been trying to sign up. the obama administration says it's doing this because it's seeing, you know, as you know, this recent surge in enrollment. it's been on that kind of full-court press lately to get as many people as possible to show up -- to sign up. but republicans are saying, look. this is just more delays for a law that isn't going to work no matter how often the administration changes it. charlie and clarissa? >> ya >> jan, thanks. >>> president obama meets with european and nato leaders in belgium. but in the netherlands tuesday, he dismissed russia's infl

jan crawford is in washington with the case as the senate looks to change how military deals with the epidemic or trouble. jan, good morning. >> reporter: well good morning, norah and charlie, and good morning to our viewers in the west. the latest allegations are almost impossible to believe. the man in charge of prosecuting the army's sexual assault cases has been accused of a sexual assault while at a conference on sexual assault prevention. lieutenant colonel joseph morse oversaw the army's special victims prosecutors, a team of two dozen lawyers that handled sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse. he also led the government's case against staff sergeant robert bales, who is serving life in prison for the murder of 16 afghan civilians. now, morse has been suspended and is under investigation after a female army lawyer said he try to kiss and grope her in a hotel room during a 2011 legal conference on sexual assault. no charges have been filed. the allegations come as the defense department is grappling with the sharp increase in assault complaints including against hig

jan crawford is there with what may be called a soft trip. >> mrs.ters and her mother. white house officials are calling this visit a people-to-people trip. >> reporter: in between meetings with university students the first lady will make a stop at the great wall of china, the terra cotta warriors museum. it also includes a number of events with china's first lady less than a first year after mrs. obama missed her visit to the u.s. which some read as a political snub. richard mcgregor said this kind of diplomacy can go a long way. >> you don't have to have mrs. obama to go over there and lecture and chide the chinese about its human rights record for her to have a positive impact. she can go over there with a different message. a softer message. a more inclusive message. >> reporter: critics say it has dodged strained u.s./china relations like china's history of human rights. in beijing, hillary clinton tackled it head on. >> all governments here and around the world expect their responsibility to protect and promote internationally recognized human

jan crawford shows us the 4-year-old shadow coach who's stealing the show. >> reporter: that's phil martelliress up like tugger day. i like to wear my orange bets all kinds of tugs ties. these shoes, i wear these shoes all the time when i'm tug. >> reporter: phillip has a different kind of superhero and it's not just dressing up during games. >> does anyone have any questions. >> reporter: there are those postgame pre conferences when coach bill gives him the mike. >> reporter: when you talk ho what do you like to talk about? >> it like to talk how my guys are pleaseling. >> have you watched all the tapes. yes, i've watched them all. his mother megan was captain of her college team. now she's got a different leadership role it's awesome. so fun. but honestly it's demainlanding. from the moment he wakes up he has to think about what kind of suit he's going to wear, tie he ice going to wear. at some point he has to go too school. >> what do you like to tell the players. >> get rested get ready for practice, and if their uniforms are dirty, get them clean. >> he's been going to games really sin

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jan crawford is in washington with the trial that's already full of drama. jan, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, norah and charlie. right, already, this case has had some highly unusual developments. the lead prosecutor abruptly quit. he had to be replaced. sinclair's lawyers said it was because he didn't believe in the case. and the defense is also attacking the credibility of the general's main accuser, saying that she's just not telling the truth. now, all this is going to play out in a military courtroom in north carolina, proceedings, in fact, are under way right now at this moment. he's believed to be the highest-ranking military official to face a court-martial for sexual assault. the former deputy commander of u.s. forces in southern afghanistan, a brigadier general jeffrey sinclair was pulled off duty in 2012 after allegations he coerced a lower-ranking female officer into performing oral sex and threatened her when she tried to end their affair. >> here today to inform you that brigadier general jeffrey a. sinclair has been charged with mult

jan crawford is at the high court to look at the latest challenge to the affordable care act. ic over the new law which requires companies to offer insurance that includes free birth control. religious employers across the country started filing lawsuits saying that violates our religious beliefs. the court agreed to decide this issue in a case involving hobby lobby, a nationwide craft supply store founded by david and barbara green 42 years ago. >> it's our rights that are being infringed upon to require us to do something that's against our conscience. >> reporter: hobby lobby provides coverage for birth control pills, but as david greene explains in this company video, the health care law forces them to also cover other contraceptives such as the morning-after millpill and the iud. lori wyndham is a lawyer for the greens. >> that they would be tantamount to an abortion. >> reporter: the women's rights groups and doctors say the cases about women's health. jean connery is president of the american college of obstetricians and gynecologists. >> as a physician, i need a number

for "cbs this morning," jan crawford, washington. >> just another reason i like being a girl. >> i grew story came out to know so many photographs were taken by incredible women photo journalists. >> we all saved the national geographic. >> yes, we did. >>> dan gilbert shows how he and warren buffett are ready to invite you into the billionaires' club but you better know your college basketball. there will be surprises. that's aheads on "cbs this morning." >>> your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. >>> good morning, 8:25 your time on this thursday. in the headlines, crews slowly demolishing what's left of that san francisco building devastated by a huge fire. they are making sure there's nothing left that could fall on its own and potentially injure people below. firefighters remain on the scene in case they need to pour more water on the smoldering rubble. it's still not clear what caused tuesday's big fire at a housing complex that was under construction. >>> a u.s. supreme court justice is refusing to block a city of sunnyvale law that bans possession of gun magazines that hold

jan crawford has the story. >> reporter: good morning norah and charlie and our viewers in the west. diane dianene feinstein normally a staunch supporter of the spy agencies, but yesterday she and others were outraged and feinstein spoke out. >> i have grave concerns that the cia search may well have violated the separation of power's principles embodied in the united states constitution. >> reporter: the california democrat accused the cia of hacking senate computers to get a document it didn't think the intelligence committee should have. >> the cia did not ask the committee or its staff if the committee had access to the internal review, or how we obtained it. instead, the cia just went and searched the committee's computers. >> reporter: the document is called the panetta review a series of internal cia memos said to be critical of the agency's enhanced interrogation programs after 9/11. the senate intelligence committee has been investigating those programs for years, using a secret site in virginia to comb through classified cia documents. the cia claims senate staffers somehow