her name is kelsea ballerini.cademy award of country music award. an image shows her stunned reaction last week when she found out she already won for the new female vocalist. she opened up about her wild year with jan crawford before a recent performance. jan, good morning. i love this girl! >> reporter: i know. she is just really cute and so talented. you know? we talked to her about what it felt like to win that new female vocalist award. she had she couldn't process it. this time last year, her first album wasn't even released. now she's this big award winner and that is a lot for a 22-year-old to process. ♪ >> reporter: as far as the debut, it's hard to get any better than this. ♪ love me like you mean it >> reporter: her first single "love me like you mean it" off her very first album, skyrocketed to the number one song on country radio. ♪ if you're going to hold me >> reporter: earning kelsea ballerini two nomination at the country music awards. >> i went to the acm last year and i couldn't get a seat with

. >>> plus, charlie gets some golf tips from defending masters champ jordan spieth and kelsea balleriniusic star on her acm nomination. that is the "cbs morning news" for this thursday. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. aaaglove it's thursday the last day march >>> good morning. our most favored view of the bay bridge at god's hours here at 4:30. it is the last day of march, april around the corner. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. >> i'm maria medina. it is now 4:30 on the dot and our whole family is here. >> there we go. >> welcome. >> i think we are going to start off with -- >> someone left the coffee down there and it went all over the place. >> kind of want to forget that. >> vente coffee all over the place. >> i thought it was raining. >> wow. of. >> that's pretty wet down there. i don't know if you remember, but march came in like a lion with rain showers and even some thunderstorms. now this last day of march we are going out like a lion lamb. the bright lights of san francisco, not as chilly this morning. 43 in san francisco. 50 concord. later lots of sunshine and w

. ♪ if you're hold me hold me like i'm leaving ♪ >> earning kelsea ballerini to nominations from thed i couldn't even get like a seat with the artists. >> where did you sit? >> like behind the artist section. >> yeah. >> did you ever think oh, maybe some day? >> i thought maybe some day. i didn't think maybe next year. at all. ♪ if you're gonna hold me >> in less than a year she has gone from an unknown to the one to watch. touring all over the world. ♪ so tell me baby do you got what it takes ♪ >> we met her before a sold-out show in new hampshire. as a young girl in knoxville, she turned to songwriting to get through a storm. >> when i was 12, i started writing songs. and that was it for me. that's what changed everything. >> and why 12? >> my parents split up, my family split up. and it was just a lot all at once. yeah, i think all of a sudden -- i think of it like a gift that kind of fell into my lap at a time where i really needed someone to talk to. >> over the next ten years, music went from being therapy to her passion. she was discovered by a local studio owner and at 15, mo