liza, what do you think?think he was. i think it was a compliment. i'm sure she's happy he said it. i'd be happy. i think it was just a normal thing for a man to say. >>. >> he said she's brilliant, dedicated, tough, she's exactly what you'd want anybody who is administrating the law, she also happens to be by far the best looking attorney general in the country. >> i think that's swell. >> you like it? >> yeah, it's, it's amusing, and also very nice. i think -- >> it's not like he said she's smokin' hot. >> right, but i guess some people are saying we're in a day and age where women especially of her position should be taken, given credit for what she's accomplished. >> you can't say she's pretty? >> politico writer as well who wrote well why are we becoming so concerned with being politically correct these days? you can't acknowledge a woman's good looks? it's ridiculous. >> wait a minute, when this lovely woman gets up in the morning, and looks in the mirror and puts on her make yup and do her hair don't y

. >>> later on in our "take three" and third hour, liza minnelli will be here talking about her guest staring show on "smash." >> we've got another legend here this morning, oscar winning director danny boyle, a new movie called "trance" opens today. good to see you. >> here is what i read about this film from one of the pieces written about it, "it's a wildly twisting mind puzzle exploring identity, madness and perception via the altered state of hypnotic trance," so it's like this show. right? >> if you're seeing a hypno

thank you, liza.ing, a cat put a soccer match on paws. >> the cat rushed on the field this is the netherlands. >> awww. >> ran around, the crowds cheered, got close to the goal but didn't score. the cat jumped off the field and the game resumed. everyone had a good time. there you go. >> where did he come from? just showed up. >> he lives there. >> just hangs out. >> a soccer fan. >>> thank you for watching kpix 5 news this morning. michelle will be back tomorrow. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com ♪ >>> good morning to viewers in the west. wednesday, april 17, 2013. welcome to "cbs this morning." new clues in the bombing of the boston marathon. former fbi insider john miller here with the latest. >>> a scare on capitol hill. a letter mailed to a senator might have carried a deadly poison. >>> how can you stay as smart as a 50-year-old when are you 80? the super agers. >>> we begin with a look at today's eye opener, your world in 90 secti 0 seconds. >> items recovered are black

let's check out the roads with liza battalones. >> good morning, everybody. we have pictures now of an accident which happened earlier this morning. this is in san jose. 101 northbound near hellyer avenue. right here this truck overturning and partially down the ditch. all lanes of the freeway are open at this time northbound 101 seems to be doing okay passing the scene. just keep in mind if you plan on heading out right now, you are going to notice all this activity off to the side and you can see traffic just rolling along past this accident again in san jose northbound 101 at hellyer. we are going to move on to the golden gate commute where traffic is fine getting into the city. it's wide open. same roadwork overnight shut down a couple of lanes southbound 101 on the bridge and all lanes will be open in a few minutes. the bay bridge drive getting into the city by way of i-80 is looking good with no brake lights between the macarthur maze and san francisco. do keep in mind in san francisco the northbound direction of great highway still shut down for sand a

liza battalones here.t the bay bridge toll plaza. still delayed for that westbound commute from the foot of the maze with those metering lights on still. past the traffic it does okay across the upper deck. westbound on the san mateo bridge you're still looking good at the toll plaza. a little slow at the high-rise section and heads up for this accident in alamo southbound 680 approaching stone valley. here's lawrence. >> all right. a lot of sunshine all around the bay area to start out the day. more of an offshore breeze blowing outside. that's actually helped to keep the temperatures up a bit. had a gust at sfo of 29 miles per hour in this past hour so it is blowing around a bit this morning. it will be breezy into the afternoon. temperatures mild into the 40s and 50s. this afternoon we could see some 70s. the humble back seat. we believe it can be the most valuable real estate on earth. ♪ that's why we designed our newest subaru from the back seat forward. introducing the all-new, completely restyled su

liza battalones has traffic. >> we are going back to the live pictures of that accident that happened earlier this morning in san jose. this is northbound 101 approaching hellyer avenue. this truck carrying a load of potted plans down a ditch partially overturned there. so expect just a minor delay getting through there. it's off to the right-hand shoulder so everything contained off to the side and all lanes are open and looks like not even a minor delay. traffic seems to be getting around it okay. north 101 in san jose approaching hellyer. the rest of the south bay commute very quiet light traffic at the 880/237 interchange in milpitas. bridge commutes looking good wide open at the bay bridge toll plaza. metering lights off, all lanes open across the upper deck of the bay bridge. all bart trains are on time. no delays at the golden gate bridge toll plaza. that's a look at the commute. >> thank you. >>> we're watching some developing news right now over in hayward. police are searching for the gunman who shot a woman sleeping in her own home around 12:30. the woman in her 20s was hit

liza mikulski says her views are evolving. hashe president himself said his views evolved. i would not be so ironic using the word when applying it to republicans. aboute thing i would say the supreme court is i hope they learned the lessons of roe versus wade. ruth later ginsberg said that that decision stymied -- ruth bair ginsberg said that decision got in the way of a political process and took it out of a political arena. it gave a lot of people the sense that they had been robbed of the opportunity of being involved in the process and that is why 40 years later you have marches. i hope they understand that to do this, as you showed with the pupil, with opinion changing so rapidly -- with the pew poll, with opinion changing so rapidly, the best thing the allow this to is change with the expression of popular will. even if they end up on the wrong side, they had a legitimate shot and a decision has legitimacy in and of itself. >> for the record, north dakota this week enacted the toughest restrictions on abortion in the nation. opponents say they are trying to roll back

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liza batallones is here.llow avenue in hercules and traffic has been delayed all morning long leaving the crockett area heading through hercules heading towards the way bridge toll plaza and traffic's backed up into the mcarthur maze. san mateo bridge looking good. that's traffic. here's lawrence. >>> we have windy conditions expected to kick in, a little breezy? spots. a cold front sliding through the area. leftover clouds into the san jose area, otherwise those clouds begin to break apart and we're going to see more sunshine throughout the afternoon. numbers right now a little cool in the 40s. by the afternoon in the 50s, and maybe some mid-60s well inland. so it's going to feel pretty good, except those winds are going to be howling approaching the coastline, maybe some of those gusts to 45 miles per hour. still breezy for tomorrow but a little warmer. the winds calm down on wednesday and thursday. temperatures moving back into the 70s. the kind of things that drive us to do more, to go further, to be bett

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but this is a country with which we're not at war and there's remember been any declaration of war liza finally you i think certainly we thank you so that was leopold your board member and past president of veterans for peace so drunk campaign protest are underway in the u.s. with the goal in mind to get the spotlight to the drones that they say violate the sovereignty of other countries along with human rights abuses the organizers say that they got a boost when the white house nominated john brennan highlighting that drone issue artie's maria port naya has more. a month long nationwide anti drone campaign has kicked off in the u.s. and here in midtown manhattan dozens have gathered to protest washington's use of drones for targeted assassinations overseas and domestic surveillance here at home organizers say the aim the goal of this month long campaign is to bring the widest possible public attention to the ways in which drones they say are being used to violate sovereignty due process privacy and freedom of assembly hopefully the american people why drones are just a new truly for th

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liza was up in louisville and johnson had gone up to washington for a time. and so robert was the only one the family.esent and it's after that that it eally seems that the drinking problem started for him. >> there's another mary lincoln comparison. lincoln was devastated about the loss of her sons. do we have historic evidence how eliza johnson reacted to the loss at first? she, too, was extremely hurt. there were stories that charles son.er favorite i don't know if that's accurate or not. she weepedny mother, for them continuously. but she was proud of her son. the fact that he became a doctor, that was so important to her that her children were, in fact, educated. daughters ud of her and the sophistication and class and education that they had received. didn't fall apart the way mary did. mary just couldn't seem to handle it. death in her of life as well. >> next is kathy in bensalem, pennsylvania. kathy, you are on. caller: hi. how mrs. wondering johnson felt about her husband's impeachment. >> thanks. we're going to talk about the impeachment a little l

. >> this is the earliest existing house we still have for andrew and liza -- eliza.r family. they eventually had five children altogether. as johnson works in the tailor shop he finds he has a knack for debate and becomes interested in politics. you liza him as he becomes an -- elizaof the town supports him as he becomes an alderman of the town. she started this political journey. this likely would have been the kitchen or eating area of the home. andrew and eliza did purchase their first place while they lived in this house. they also purchased her half- brother sam's. they would have helped with chores such as raising the children and cutting the firewood and cooking the meals. this is the house where they got their start. this is where they put their roots down in the community. this is where he had a business. this is where they first entertained as he started into politics. this is the house where their children were born. this household was a very special place in the lives of the couple. >> make a visit to greenville, tennessee to see the life of the johnson f

let's check out the roadways with liza. >>> watching this accident with a dump truck hearing metal debris. it is on its side with debris on all lanes of southbound 101. this is on the connector ramp that leads san mateo drivers toward the san mateo bridge. two lanes of traffic shut down. it's beginning to delay traffic on southbound 101 at this hour. in the hayward area getting reports of an accident at 880 and winton. san francisco city streets coming off the bay bridge, you will notice film crews are along the embarcadero, and have shut down between folsom and mission. no delays getting through there. no delays reported for the bart system r or san francisco's muni. that's a look at traffic. >>> breaking news out of iran state media is reported that 40 people have been killed in a massive earthquake along the iran, pakistan border. the u.s. gs, the 7.8 quake was centered near saravan, and no word on damage but we are getting our first video of some of the shaking. this is out of pakistan. it comes less than a week after a 6.1 quake on iran's persian gulf coast. >>> a 7-year-old girl die

but liza minnellminnelli, did y to her? >> we had a little chat. she was excited about the show.elopment." >> yeah. >> she's amazing. >> jordan roth, also amazing. thank you so much. "kinky boots" playing at the hirs hirschfeld theater in new york. i don't know how donnie is going to top this. he has given me shoes on the air a few times. jordan, thank you so much. >>> coming up, with hopes of sweeping gun reform fading in the senate, a leading voice on the issue sets her sights on violent video games. >>> plus, congressman peter king of new york joins us here on set. what the north korean crisis means for american foreign policy in the pacific. "morning joe" is back in just a moment. >> kim jung-un monday threaten america. he gets to the office monday, oh, yeah, today is the day. when you hear that, gosh, i hope he doesn't do that. but then the more you think about it, they're not going to, i mean, north korea is like a carnival cruise for the love of god. you know, they're not going to destroy anybody. they have no electricity, no plumbing, they don't have enough food, no fresh

. >> a federal appeals court is apparent here arguments on whether a law that prohibits liza's mentalealth professionals from offering their peace amand at making gay and lesbian teenagers straight mile is the civil rights of practitioners and parents. opponents say the man infringes on their free speech, freedom of association the religious right. supporters said proposition is necessary to protect minors from practice as the question by major mental health professional associations. >> american airlines is promising to run a normal operations today after worldwide technology meltdown left thousand passengers stranded yesterday. kron fours mike pelton is live from sfo with an update this morning. >> take a look at some of the video you can see long lines and a lot of canceled flights. a computer failure forced the airline to ground all flights frosfor several hours. the problem was fixed yesterday afternoon because they big back up and passengers unhappy. >> at this point i am waiting and i can't to the counter to find out what can be done. they said we're working on--i came to the c

in the days that followed that, liza minelli and belting out new york, new york.of your reflections and times you remember events have been able to, country has been able to heal due to a sporting event? >> i don't think when president bush took the mound at yankee stadium and he threw out the first pitch. the whole thing had just been a month. it was still so very, very fresh. here the leader of the free world out in front whatever, 50,000 people. yes, he was wearing a bulletproof vest, just the symbol of that. he threw the pitch and everybody roared and sat back and watched the game. it was terrible tragedy going on in new york and cleaning up the buildings. i have goose bumps talking about it now. it was an amazing moment when president bush did that. >> heather: as we look at these pictures coming in from boston following what happened there at the marathon. it was time for people to say, hey, we've been locked in our homes, the city was shut down. it hadn't happened before. we're not going to let you stop us. we're going to go out and continue to live our liv

last two days, you'll have a duet with liza. >> she would have to agree to sing with me.>> we've been down that road. >> the last time we sang with a noted singer was oh, a few years ago with stevie wonder, and it was horrendous. >> that's the way i feel, leave it to the professionals. >> no, that makes it more fun. come on, you're with me, right? i know you are. >>> meanwhile, coming up, we're going to talk about -- we're going to take an open house tour across the country. there's beautiful homes and you can get these for under $300,000. >> that's right, barbara is going to show us that, plus elementary students from arizona who are skilled at handling royalty. they are some of the best chess players. >>> in "today's" kitchen, a little latin. with an eye on keeping things healthy. but first, al has a look at the weather. >> quick look at our weekend. starting with tomorrow, showers here in the northeast, slight risk of strong storms down in florida. beautiful weather, gulf coast on into texas and the southwest. rain along the pacific northwest coast which will continue

you'll find ♪ ♪ a love letter from the times >>> and as if you needed me to tell you, that is the great lizastudio 1a i'm willie geist along with al roker and natalie morales. coming up this half hour, jury selection begins today in the $40 billion, with a "b" wrongful death lawsuit brought by michael jackson's mother. >>> plus girls just want to have fun and new beauty products bring out your playful side, we're going to give you a chance to try a whole new look. >>> and we'll learn how to fry with the best of them. we who are about to fry. >> fry. >> salute you with some traditional southern fried favorites, losing some of the fat without sacrificing the flavor. >> good. >> sounds good. before we start frying let's get a check of the weather. >> let's show you what we have today a risk of strong storms texas into oklahoma, wet weather making its way into the central plains, snow showers around the great lakes. beautiful day in the northwest, sunny and warm through the southwest. for tomorrow we have mild conditions in the mid-atlantic states, warm in southern california. gulf coast into te