julianna goldman reports from washington. julianna: hillary clinton is dismissing her upcoming appearance, saying to previous testimonies -- saying two previous testimonies. >> what difference does it make? julianna: and other congressional inquiries into the theories, and it's now an attempt to derail her presidential campaign. >> i think it's pretty clear that whatever they might've thought they were doing they ended up becoming a partisan arm of the republican national committee. julianna: chairman trey gowdy insisted he wants to focus on the events surrounding the attacks even though his committee's investigation revealed the more politically charged issue of clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state. >> i have told my own republican colleagues and friends shut up talking about things that you don't know anything about. julianna: but it will be impossible to take politics out of the equation on thursday. >> i wish for once mrs. clinton would be prepared to stand and be held accountable for the murder of

jeff, that includes the most conservative members. >> glor: julianna goldman inwas. a major trucking rowd in southern california will remain closed several more days. a mile-long stretch of state route 58 is still buried in mud up to six feet deep. here is mirreya villarreal. >> reporter: from the sky you get a better feel for the impact of thursday's 30 minute torrential downpour, where three inches of rain turned a normally dry landscape into a mud pit leaving nearly 200 cars and 300 people stranded. truck driver david noe was one of them. >> i have been through hurricanes, floods, tornadoes. but this is a first for me after 31 years of driving. >> oh my god. >> reporter: in that initial river of mud there were some drawmic reses keus like this one. a driver pulling his girlfriend to safety. it's believed everyone trapped in this mess got out but emergency workers are double checking. as quickly as they found themselves stuck, getting unstuck is proving tedious. for now, all drivers can do is wait and see what is next for the highway that appears to be frozen in ti

more now from julianna goldman in our washington bureau. >> democratic frontrunner hillary clinton beat senator bernie sanders nationally by 24 points. with vice president joe biden in the mix, her lead shrinks slightly. clinton comes in with 46% followed by sanders with 27% and biden, third at 16%. the vice president is expected to decide whether to launch a white house bid in the coming days. and he spent the long weekend in delaware with his family. >> everyone wants to know. >> out of my way, will you. >> the poll shows that democrats overwhelmingly believes clinton has the best chance of winning the general election next year. but they also give her and biden similar marks on leadership. and across the country, 61% of voters say biden is honest and trust worthy compared to 35% for clinton putting her in the same territory as donald trump. the republican presidential frontrunner leads with 27% followed by ben carson with 21%. the rest of the field is in single digits. >> you love polls. you are at the. >> i done love them. i only like them when i'm at number one. >> reporter: 784% o

the journey went smoothly, but as julianna goldman reports, it's part of a complicated transition. >> reporter: us airways flight 1939 ended where it began-- touching down in philadelphia early saturday and ending an era. this final flight was a farewell tour to charlotte, phoenix, and san francisco. retired us airways c.e.o. ed colodny was on board. >> change is the way of the world and bittersweet, yeah, but more sweet than bitter. >> reporter: by the time the flight touched town us airways was already history, the final step in its merger with american airlines begun at midnight, starting the progress of combining the two massive reservation systems into one with the goal of not disrupting passengers. henry harteveldt has worked on several airline mergers. >> when you put the reservation systems together, it's like doing a simultaneous heart and brain transplant. >> reporter: merging the systems on a saturday means fewer people are flying and there's more time to fix any problems before the monday rush. the reservation system is an airline's nerve center linking millions of passeng

president obama will meet fridays with families of the victims, and julianna goldman tells us that the shooting has now become a major issue in the presidential campaign. >> from the indications that i shooter. >> reporter: on "cbs this morning" ben carson doubled down, repeating the suggestion that victims of last week's mass shooting at an oregon community college could have done more to protect themselves. he apparently department know that an army veteran did, in fact, try to stop the shooter. >> do you know who chris mintz >> no. >> reporter: the republican presidential candidate ignited the firestorm yesterday. >> i would ask everybody to attack the government because he can only shoot one of us at a time. that wayee don't all wind up dead. >> reporter: the former neurosurgeon posted a provocative defense of the second amendment on facebook writing, "i never saw a body with bullet holes that was more devastating than take the right to arm ours away." some rivals, like senator lindsey graham, took issue with carson's remarks. >> i just don't think that's the road to go down in ter

julianna goldman has that. >> unimaginable grief. >> reporter: hillary clinton choked up in new hampshire today as she took the stage with a mother of a sandy hook victim. >> i am proposing what i consider to be common sense approaches. >> reporter: on the heels of yet another mass shooting, clinton called for expanded background checks, either through legislation or executive action. asked at an earlier event about a possible biden run, clinton didn't seem concerned. >> this is a decision for the vice president to make, and he needs whatever he time and space he wants to be able to make that decision. >> reporter: sources tell cbs news that biden is likely to and is leaning toward running. he gave no clues over the weekend when he spoke to the largest gay rights group in the u.s., but he reminded them that he was the one who prodded the white house to support same-sex marriage. >> some of you credit me with taking a political risk or thought i was doing something special, but, folks, i was just answering in the straightforward and direct way what i eve known my whole life, and i mean thi

julianna goldman has the story of the monuments men and women. [applause] >> reporter: harry ettlinger was honored as one of the art experts turned military officers who rescued treasures looted by the nazis. the 89-year-old discovered this rembrandt self-portrait that had been stashed away in a german salt mine. >> i was in charge. i said, let's open the box. >> reporter: before the war, the masterpiece hung in a museum in ettlinger's hometown, but because he was jewish, he was never allowed to visit it. he and his family fled nazi germany for the u.s. now, thanks to ettlinger, the painting is back in its hometown. what did you think? >> for me to be able to go into that particular museum and take a look at it and get a photograph of it, that made me feel good. it made me fe good, you know? my heart. >> want the get into the war? >> monuments men. >> reporter: the 2014 film brought new attention to the monuments men. it was based on a book by robert edsell. >> who are these men and women? >> reporter: one of those women is motoko huthwaite. she

here's julianna goldman. >> you can direct those questions to my very able vice president. >> reporter: deflecting a question about joe biden's political future today, not even president obama could escape the "will he or won't he" intrigue. >> i think the vice president, like every other candidate, makes their own decisions about these issues. >> reporter: anxious supporters are wondering whether biden's window is closing. last night, longtime biden confident, former senator ted kauffman, sent an e-mail to a network of former staffers telling them to hold tight. he wroit, if he runs a bind campaign will be optimistic and won't be scripted. he believes we must win this election. everything he and the president have worked for and care about is at stake. have you made your decision yet? >> reporter: the vice president has played it coy, but the e-mail is meant to push back against suggestions that hillary clinton's strong debate performance could discourage him from running. >> this is about bringing our country together again. >> reporter: a new poll in new hampshire shows clinton with

julianna goldman, cbs news, washington. >>> that's the "cbs overnight news" for this friday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back with us just a little bit later for the morning news and of course cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new i'm scott pelley. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the "cbs overnight news," i'm michelle miller. former secretary of state and democrat presidential candidate hillary clinton spent a long day on capitol hill. she was summoned before the house committee investigating the 2012 attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya. four americans died in the attack including ambassador chris stevens. nancy cordes has the story. >> reporter: the hearings started out cordially with hand shakes. but things quickly grew tense. >> i think if you look at the statement i made i clearly said it was an attack. >> calling it an attack is like calling the sky blue. of course it was an attack. >> reporter: republicans accused clinton of ignoring requests from ambassador chris stevens for more security.

and simply put, it may not be easy to give up on that dream. >> julianna goldman reporting tonight. julianna, thanks. >>> syria's civil war took another ominous turn when russian warplanes strayed into turkish air space on saturday. last week to prop up the assad dictatorship while the u.s. is targeting the terrorist army known as isis. now two of the world's largest air forces are fighting on different sides, and keeping them separated is the job of u.s. commanders in the persian gulf. david martin has a rare look. >> scott, this is the nerve center for the air campaign against isis. and through this window is the operations floor where all the missions are being tracked, including the ones over syria, where russian aircraft are also operating. you can see it on the screen. the yellow aircraft are russian, the green american. u.s. pilots flying f-16s out of turkey first picked up the russian planes on radar. the russians closed to within 20 miles, at which point the american pilots could visually identify them on their targeting cameras. lieutenant general charles brown, commander

julianna goldman has that. >> reporter: hillary clinton choked up in new hampshire today mother of a sandy hook victim. >> i am proposing what i consider to be common sense approaches. >> reporter: on the heels of yet another mass shooting, clinton called for expanded background checks, either through legislation or executive action. asked at an earlier event about a possible biden run, clinton didn't seem concerned. >> this is a decision for the vice president to make, and he needs whatever time and space he wants to be able to make that decision. >> reporter: sources tell cbs news that biden is likely to make a decision within the next week and is leaning toward running. he gave no clues over the weekend when he spoke to the largest gay rights group in the u.s., but he reminded them that he was the one who prodded the white house to support same-sex marriage. >> some of you credited me with thought i was doing something special. but folks, i was just answering in the straightforward direct way what i've known my whole life. >> reporter: clinton spoke to that gathering earlier in th

julianna goldman, cbs news, washington. >>> that's thecbs overnight news" for this friday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back with us just a little bit later for the morning news and of course cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city. i'm scott pelley. captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs >>> it's friday, october 23rd, 2015. this is the "cbs morning news." >>> marathon testimony for hillary clinton. the former secretary of state is questioned for more than 11 hours. but few new details emerge on the benghazi terror attacks. >>> killer confession. police say the man suspected of shooting a 4-year-old in a road rage incident has admitted to the crime. >>> underworld discovery. 22 people are arrested and 12 tons of pot are recovered when authorities uncover a massive underground drug smuggling tunnel. >>> and you'll meet the texas attorney whose ads are lighting up the internet. >> someone just call brian wilson! >>> good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters in new york. thanks for joining us. i'm

here's julianna goldman. >> reporter: the dead include at least seven patients, three of them children who were burned alive, and 12 doctors without borders staff members. at least 37 people were seriously injured. according to defense officials, u.s. forces conducted an airstrike in kunduz around 2:15 a.m. local time near the hospital. they say the intended targets were taliban insurgents who were firing on u.s. service members embedded with afghan fighters. the u.s. military hasn't confirmed that its bombs hit the hospital, but officials acknowledge the strikes may have resulted in collateral damage to the nearby facility. u.s. officials offered condolences, including defense secretary ashton carter who called the incident tragic. general john campbell commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan spoke with president ashraf ghani and in a statement said they are working to thoroughly examine the incident and determined what. "as always we will take all reasonable steps to protect civilians from harm." a spokesman for the afghan interior ministry said 10-15 terrorists were hiding in the ho

now now from julianna goldman in washington. >> learning is about so much more than just filling in the right bubble. >> reporter: in a video posted on facebook, president obama acknowledged his administration has contributed to a problem across the u.s. public school system and is calling for standardized testing to be capped at 2% of classroom time. >> i also hear from parents who, rightly, worry about too much testing and from teachers who feel so much pressure to teach to a test that it takes the joy out of teaching and learning. >> reporter: the mea culpa was timed to a survey released saturday showing standardized tests have exploded in the past decade. a typical american student takes 112 mandated standardized tests between pre-k and 12th grade. most countries that outperform the u.s. on exams test three times during their school careers. the debate stems from president george w. bush's no child left behind law and intensified last spring with new common core tests. opt-out movements have spread across the country amid growing concerns that tests are taking up too much classroom

. >> in washington d.c., sources close to joe biden tell cbs news correspondent julianna goldman the vice president is close to announcing whether or not he's running for president. >> the vice president laughed off a call for him to launch a run for the white house. >> thank you very much. no-- i didn't say that. >> reporter: but people familiar with his deliberations tell cbs news joe biden is leaning toward entering the presidential race. as soon as within the next week to ten days. >> it is great to be back with the other. >> hillary clinton and biden gave rousing speeches to the largest gay rights group in the u.s. and cast themselves as champions of lgbt right. >> we're going to face some ridiculousness, especially from our friends in the gop. >> s there's homophobes still left, most of them are running for president, i think. >> reporter: biden also reminded the gathering of prompted the white house to support gay marriage. >> some of you credit me with taking the political risk, or thought i was doing something special. but folks, i was just answering in the straightforward,

julianna goldman reports from washington. julianna: hillary clinton is dismissing her upcoming appearance, saying to previous testimonies and other congressional inquiries into the 2012 attacks, refuted conspiracy theories and is now an attempt to derail her presidential ms. clinton: whatever they might have thought they were doing, they ended up becoming a partisan arm of the republican national committee. julianna: chairman trey gowdy insisted he wants to focus on the events surrounding the attacks. >> i have told my own republican colleagues and friends, shut up talking about things that you don't know anything about. julianna: but it will be impossible to take politics out of the equation on thursday. ms. fiorina: i wish, for once, mrs. clinton would be prepared to stand and be held accountable for the murder of four americans in benghazi, libya. julianna: meanwhile this weekend, donald trump and jeb bush continued to spar over the september 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and the gop frontrunner's suggestion that former presi

. >> julianna goldman. in washington. thank you very much. >> major trucking route in southern california will remain closed several days. a mile long stretch of state route 58, is buried in mud up to 6 feet deep. here's cbs' maria villareal. >> reporter: from the sky you get the impact of thursday's 30 minute downpour where three inches of rain turned a dry landscape into a mud pit leaving stranded. truck driver david noe was one of them. >> i have been through hurricanes, floods, tornados, but thth is a first for me after 31 years of driving. >> reporter: in the initial river of mud there were dramatic rescues like this one. a driver pulling his girlfriend to safety. it is believed everyone trapped in this mess got out. but emergency workers are double checking. as quickly as they found themselves stuck, getting unstuck is proving tedious. for now, all drivers can do is wait and see what's next for the highway that appears to be frozen in time. maria villareal, cbs news, los angeles. >>> secretary of state john kerry sa

and julianna goldman tells us the shooting has now become a major issue in the presidential campaign. >> from the indications that i got they did not rush the shooter. >> reporter: on cbs this morning, ben carson doubled down repeating the suggestion that victims of last weak's mass shooting at an oregon community college could have done more to protect themselves. he apparently didn't know that an army veteran did in fact try to stop the shooter do. you know who chris mintz is? >> no. >> reporter: the republican presidential candidate ignited the firestorm yesterday. >> i would ask everybody to attack the gunman he can only shoot one of us at a time. that way we don't all wind up dead. >> reporter: the former neurosurgeon, post aid provocative defense of the second amendment. i never saw a bed with bullet holes that was more devastating than taking the right to arm ourselves away. some rivals like senator lindsey graham took issue with carson's remarks. >> i just don't think that's the road to go down in terms of questioning people who have lost their lives you have no idea what you

julianna goldman has the story. >> they have these things called super pacs. one knows what the hell they are, what they mean. it's the dumbest thing i've ever seen. >> reporter: railing against the pacs and the cndidates who have them are regular attack lines in donald trump stump speeches. >> they want to take these people like little puppets and they want to say you do as i told you because i gave you $5 million and you'd better do it. >> reporter: trump made those comments last night amid a flurry of questions stemming from a "washington post" article on whether one of the groups based in denver, the make america great again pac, was operating with trump's approval. ♪ people familiar with the campaign's initial planning tell cbs news that before trump was an official candidate his team discussed whether to sanction a dedicated super pac and to call it "make america great again," a phrase trump has trademarked. one republican operative tweeted that she had been invited to meet with the campaign in june, ahead of his announcement. she said in those meetings

julianna goldman. thank you very much. >>> now the rare television interview with charles koch as in the koch brothers owners of the second largest private company. forbes estimates their worth $43 billion each. they have bankrolled a network of conservative groups that help start the tea party movement. in a book "good profit," koch writes bout the values that drive him personally and politically. he sat down with anthony mason for "cbs sunday morning." do you think it's good for the political system that so much what's called dark money is flowing into the process now? >> well, first of all my, what i what i give to politically, that's all reported, it is either to pacs or to the candidates. what i give to my foundations is, is all public information. but a lot of our donors don't want to take the kind of abuse that i do. they don't want these attacks. they don't want the death threats. so, they aren't going to participate if they have to have their names associated with it. >> do you think it is hea