margaret brennan, cbs news, tokyo. >> venezuelas went to the polls today to elect a new president. polls show most voters backed nicholas miduro, chosen by former president hugo chavez to carry on the country's socialist revolution. chavez died last month the cancer ending his 14 year rule. >> ntsb investigators are in indonesia tonight looking into why a 737 missed the runway trying to land on the island of bali. the plane crashed into the sea yesterday. the next move is to pull it ashore. all 108 passengers and crew sur ---- survived. tomorrow the supreme court will hear arguments in the case that potentially carries huge implications for scientific and medical research. at issue, can a company patent a human gene? our chief legal correspondent jan crawford joins us now. jan, let's start with the company. who are they, myriad. and what case are they , myriad genetics is a biotech company that spent years and millions and millions of dollars doing research on genes that understand how they can help diagnose certain diseases. and it's arguing that that work and isolating specific h

margaret brennan is in tokyo where they spoke to secretary kerry. margaret, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. well, north korea says that japan will be its first target if they go to war. and secretary of state john kerry was here trying to reassure the japanese that the u.s. will defend them. but also to discuss ways to get north korea to abandon its nuclear program. the scene in the north korean capital was more festive than militant today. as thousands laid wreaths at the tomb of north korea's founder, kim il-sung. he'd be 101 today, and his grandson, current president, kim jong-un, was expected to use the date as an excuse to conduct another missile test. is he in charge or is the military? >> margaret, the best way to answer that is simply to say that every indication is he's calling the shots. obviously, a lot of what he's doing is directed internally at his own people. it is such a tight, closed society. so much propaganda. he's gone further in the nuclearization. he's gone further in the development of missiles, and he's clearly

. >> and i'm margaret brennan.'s white house correspondents' dinner the usualry rev rent conan o'brien is usually the emcee, but the tone may be subdued coming just weeks after the boston bombing. >> girls rising. about the struggle of nine girls in countries for education. >> whether you're wearing this season's "it" color. you don't know what it is yet? take a guess. you're going to meet the powerful woman who chose it. but first our top story this half hour. air traffic controllers who were furloughed due to the budget mess in washington are now headed back to work. that should ease the huge flight delays that air travelers endured this week as jan crawford reports. >> congress moved quickly to improve the legislation that would end the furloughs. they've delayed 5,000 flights nationwide. lawmakers heard it from travelers who are frustrated by long lines at the airport, delays caused of course when the faa said it had to furlough the air traffic controller because of mandatory budget cuts. now republican senator

i'm margaret brennan. >> and i'm anthony mason. on "cbs this morning saturday," we got him. in the words of boston's mayor as the police officers cheer in the second suspect of the marathon bombing being taken into custody. >> it was the climax of one of the largest manhunts in american history, something that paralyzed the city and transfixed the nation. >> all in all it's been a tough week, but we've seen the character of our country once more. >> and that's what we'll be looking at on our broadcast on this saturday morning, april 20th, 2013. captioning funded by cbs >>> and good morning. welcome to the weekend. margaret brannon is with me. >> a lot to catch people up on. >> three sure is. we begin with our top story obviously, a dramatic story that comes to an end. all of boston and the nation breathes a huge sigh of relief. let's begin our coverage of this horrible monday's double bombing at the boston marathon coming to a dramatic end in watertown last near near boston with the capture of 19-year-old dzhokhar tsarnaev. the old

cbs reporter margaret brennan has more from the south korean capitol. >> reporter: he said north korea has told embassies to pull out. and for businesses to withdraw. the industrial mplex is the only place where the two koreas work together. u.s. intelligence confirmed that north korea moved hardware for long-range missiles to two locations for a possible launch within days. efforts to dial back the hostilities appear to be failing. north korea's biggest ally is china, which has significant military and economic ties to the regime. today, china's president warned of regional chaos if countries pursue selfish gains. they say the chinese-north korean relationship is at a near historic low. the u.s. embassy here has not changed its security posture. john kerry will arrive in seoul on friday and push for a diplomatic resolution to the crisis. >> if north korean dictator kim jong un thinks his regime might not survive a war with the u.s., he's not acting like it. he's threats have convinced the top commander in korea to cancel a trip to washington. they say kim jong un is dangerously close

cbs reporter margaret brennan on the ripple effects. >> reporter: travelers will breathe a sigh of relief as air traffic controllers return to work. north carolina native margie traveled through new york today. >> i was delighted. i sat on the runway for a couple of hours just a couple days ago. >> reporter: with the crisis over, the other budget cuts are looming outside the airline industry. and this week, the federal jobless benefits in the states like california, new hampshire, and ohio, they will all be slashed by the double digits. those cuts will take money out of the pockets of the newly unemployed. and in his weekly address, president obama, they warned that unless congress agrees to find new ways for them to spend the painful budget cuts that will continue. >> we can't keep putting band- aids on every cut. >> reporter: and the white house, they say that many of those cuts were impacting the vulnerable. like the low-income women and children that will get meals through federal programs. and groups that don't have the type of muscle to lobby for relief, says sarah binder tracking t

in an interview to be seen a little later on on "cbs this morning," our margaret brennan asked kerry if the offer still applies even if north korea test fires another missile. >> there are some things that if he were to do would be even more provocative and dangerous. i think if he shoots the missile, which i think is both unnecessary, unwarranted and reckless and provocative, i think that we still have the ability to get to a place working with china and others where we could turn this around. >> well, today is a national holiday in north korea as it marks the birthday of its first leader. tara mergener is in washington. tara, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. all eyes are on that 101st birthday celebration today. there's fear it may be used to demonstrate the country's military capability. north korean celebrated the birthday of kim il-sung, the country's founder, with the unveiling of statues and a marathon through the streets of the capital, but no missile launch. secretary of state john kerry met with japanese prime minister shinzo abe monday morning. >> one t

but as margaret brennan tells us tonight there is more fallout to come. >> reporter: travelers breathed a sigh of relief as air-traffic controllers returned to work. north carolina native margie satinsky traveled through new york today. >> i'm delighted. i sat on the runway for a couple of hours a couple days ago. >> reporter: with the f.a.a. crisis over, other budget cuts are looming outside the airline industry. this week federal jobless benefits in states like california, new hampshire and ohio will be slashed by double digits. those cuts will take money out of the pockets of the newly unemployed. in his weekly address president obama warned that unless congress agrees to find new ways to tax and spend, the painful budget cuts will continue. >> and we can't just keep putting band-aids on every cut. >> reporter: the white house says many of those cuts will impact the vulnerable, like low income women and children who get meals through federal programs. groups that don't have the type of muscle to lobby for relief says sarah binder with the brookings institution. she's tracking the fal

margaret brennan is at the state department. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, charlie and norah. cbs news learned the first shipment of u.s. aid to the armed syrian rebels happened today. delivered to the supreme military council including military food rations and medical supplies. while the administration says it's helping the rebels help takes quite a while to get there. the request for gas masks and chemical weapons trains has not been filled by the u.s. or european governments. >> margaret there's a piece in the paper this morning in "the wall street journal" about secretary kerry meeting with other arab leaders. what do they want? >> reporter: publicly secretary kerry did not address the syrian situation. behind closed doors senior administration officials say that he spoke to six arab minute ministers. what that means isn't clear. israel has made clear their intelligence minister told me they will get militarily involved if the syrian regime transfers weapons to terror groups but short of that at this point

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our margaret brennan has an interview with secretary of state john kerry. plus a brand new airliner crash lands in the ocean, snaps in half, and yet everyone survives. so we'll ask what may have gone wrong and right. the news is back in the morning. see you at 7:00. >> thank you, charlie. >>> key measures of new york state's new gun law go into effect today. anyone with a gun which has been reclassified assault weapons are required to register them. the measures also place limits on the number of bullets which will be allowed in gun magazines. the national rifle association plans to head to court to ask for an immediate halt to the magazine effort. it takes just days before the senate is expected to vote on a measure to scandz background check -- to expand background checks for gun buyers. >>> republican senator marco rubio says a bill will provide a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million undocumented workers here in the country. it will be introduced as early as tomorrow. it will not include amnesty for those who enter the country illegally. >>>

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. >> margaret brennan, thank you. >>> an update on the health of former south african president nelsonandela the first video in nine months. he did not talk and appeared weak. his head propped up by pillows, seen with south africa president, jacob zuma. he was released more than three weeks ago from the hospital. treated for a lung infection. he is 94 years old. >>> dow is down after fizer reported weak earnings. there was a bogus report of a white house attack. mistake or not it sent the stock market into a nose dive and wiped out $200 billion worth of value from the dow in minutes. cbs news and contributor mellody hobson joins us now. i'm glad you are here. this story has far-reaching consequences. have you been talking to regulators. what are they most concerned about? what are they going to do? >> they are concerned about high-frequency trading, where financial companies have written computer programs that scour the web for any kind of information and execute trades in milliseconds based upon that. we're not talking about millions, we're talking about billions of trades. billions o

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