michael morell. back in a moment. stay with us. >> rose: mandy patinkin is here, as an actor you know him for his roles in the princess bride and the series homeland. he is often seen on concert stages and in the theater here in new york. what you may not know is after production wrapped on the fifth and sixth season of homeland, he traveled to the refugee route in europe to help the international rescue committee with the ongoing humanitarian crisis there. this year he and his wife kathryn visited lesbos, greece around serbia in refugees camps. he connected with a family he first met in 2015 after they escaped their native syria. here's a look at their reunion. >> how long have you been here? two days. and when do you plan to get on the boat to go to athens? >> we're waiting for someone to help us. we lose our small bag with all our money in it. we're waiting for someone to help us. >> do we take our shoes off? yes. how are you? mandy! good to see you! oh, hello. hi. how are you? abdella. >> so good to see you! he sa

next half hour, michael morell and fran townsend join us.hey look at the impact of last night's missile strike and what could happen next ahead on "can cbs this morning." >> breaking news this morning from stockholm, sweden. someone drove a truck into a department store in the swedish capital. police say two people were killed. jonathan vigliotti is following this unfolding story now from london. good morning. >> good morning. this happened on a crowded street, just outside a popular department store in the capital. images from the scene appear to show the truck crashed into the side of the building, one photo showed a fireball at the point of impact. you can also make out an h&m store in another picture. swedish media reporting gunshots may have been fired, police confirm at least two people have been killed, and a large number wounded. it comes just two weeks after the london attack where a man piled a rental car through pedestrians near parliament and at this point swedish police say they are treating this as a possible terror attack. nor

we also have michael morell the former number 2 at the cia joining us. also a cbs news national security analyst. michael, the president -- president trump has just ordered an attack against a major ally of russia. there are many russian forces both air forces and ground forces, fighting in syria. what are some of the complexities that this gets us into? >> reporter: scott, i think the key complexity here is we would not want to attack, um, a syrian target at which there were russian forces. we would not want to kill russian forces in such an attack because that could lead news a war with russia. so i'm pretty confident that the pentagon was confident that there were not russian forces at this particular airfield. >>> michael morell former number 2 at the cia. michael, thank you. we are expecting to hear from the president a little bit later this evening. he is in palm beach, florida, hosting the president of china in their first meeting. we'll bring that to you as soon as we have it. there will be more about all of this as well on your late local news on

we'll talk with cia insider michael morell about how the u.s. might respond.lus, the american attack against islamic extremists dropping the largest non- nuclear bomb ever used in combat. and the explorer who is preparing to launch the first expedition to the titanic in more than a decade. also our conversation with barry gibb the last survival bee gee talks about losing his brothers, sibling rivalry and the band's continuing legacy. see you at 7:00. >>> "cbs this morning" starts at 7:00. >>> in our bay area watch, some people in the north bay who live near the smart train railway will soon get much- needed peace an quiet. the city of petaluma will implement a quiet zone next week. that means train engineers will be prohibited from blowing horns, except in emergencies. san rafael and novato will also launch their own quiet zones after further testing is completed. >>> in palo alto, some households could see the utility bill go up 4% this summer. about 12 bucks a month. the city's utilities department says it may also increase water rates by 4% and garbage coll

missile attack in syriale we'll speak with the former deputy director of the cia, michael morell.w you an exclusive clip from the finale that you will only see on "cbs this morning." that's the "cbs morning news" for this friday. thanks for watching. i i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com 6vfz z5yz y26vfy y5yy >>> live from the cbs broadcast center in cbs-3 "eyews news" this morning. >>> tonight i ordered a targeted military strike i syrim where the chemical attack was launched. >> strikes on syria. we're following breaking news. we'll have reaction to the military action taking response to chemical weapons attack on civilians earlier this week. >> shot at the bus stop, a robbery ends in gunfire. >>> and a roof ripped off a local building, vle we're live with what witnesses say they saw as powerful storm blew through our area. toed is friday, april 7, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. let's get you out the

cbs news senior national contributor michael morell is a forer deputy director of the cia. good morning. >> good morning. >> one point on david's eporting is it possible that this was also to send a message orthorth korea? on't don't think the u.s. intended it that way. i think it was used because in here was a military purpose. ight think it might be seen by kim jong-un as a message. >> what are the capabilities of north korea as we speak? >> they have nuclear weapons. ucleare tested nuclear weapons five times. d number of times successfully. five have short-range and mes.um-range ballistic missiles that are capable of reaching ully. targets. they have deployed an icbm that's capable of reaching the targets.tal united states. >> being an intercontinental -- >> capable of reaching the united states that they've never tested and we think they've had capa enough time to make a nuclear weapon to a missile. so the threat is now, right. it's not two years from now. >> they can reach us. we havhave to assume that, yes. >> the threat of them having he threaweapons is what, beyond

we'll speak with the former deputy director of the cia, michael morell. >>> and "home land's" stair stops57 as we show you an exclusive clip from the finnel th finale that you will only see on "cbs this morning." that's the "cbs morning news" for this friday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ,, i'm kenny choi. >>> it is friday. as we take a live look at the golden gate bridge, wet conditions out there this morning. friday, april 7? >> i'm kenny choi. >> i'm michelle griego. we love our fridays even under storm watch. >> besides the free frontal moisture we had yesterday -- the prefrontal moisture we had yesterday, this storm was spot on from 10 days ago when we started tracking it. i talked with brian hackney, last night at 6:30, it was down to the minute like clockwork! so you have the front roll through at 6:30 for the evening commute then at 11:00, here comes the cold front. we are on the phone with each other, we are texting each over. we're giddy! >> so i have to believe the computer models when they suggest that the w

putting him on the nsc stunned many foreign policy experts, including michael morell, former acting c.i.a. director and cbs news senior security contributor. >> having something like ban whereon in the room brings politics enter a room where there should be no politics. >> reporter: also alarming critics was the apparent down grading of chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, four-star general joseph dunford, who was removed from the principles committee along with the director of national intelligence. today the president reversed those decisions in addition to removing bannon from the nsc. the moves appear to be a victory for the national security council, lieutenant governor h.r. mcmaster, who replaced michael flynn after he was fired for misleading the vice president about his conversations with the russian ambassador. the white house today downplayed the changes, calling them a realignment and streamlining of a massive bureaucratic organization that they claim was created under the obama administration. the white house says bannon was placed on the nsc as a check on flynn. now that he

michael morell is a forme acting director of the c.i.a. so many of these leaks in the last several years, how do you stop it from happening? >> we can't keep all of the information in one place. we need to spread it out. we have to have better rules about need to know, and if you don't have a need to know, you don't get access to the information. >> reporter: a former top justice department official says assange could be prosecuted under a number of statutes but any case will be "messy." anthony, wikileaks argues it is like a media organization and its activities are protected by the first amendment. >> mason: justice correspondent jeff pegues. thanks, jeff. president trump today weighed in on france's presidential paris attack will help the far-right candidate, marie le pen, in sunday's vote. he told the associated press, "she's the strongest on borders and on what's been going on in france. whoever is the toughest at the borders will do well in the election." elizabeth palmer has the latest on the attack in which one officer was killed a

michael morell is a former director of the cia.rning. >> good morning. >> is it possible this was also to send a message to north korea? >> i don't think the u.s. intended it that way. i think it was used because there was a military purpose. i do think it might be seen by kim jong-un as a message. >> what are the capabilities of north korea as we speak? >> they have nuclear weapons, they've tested nuclear weapons five times. and successfully. they have missiles capable of reaching their targets. they have deployed an icm that's capable of reaching the united states. so the threat is now, right? it's not two years from now or five years from now. >> now. >> now. we have to assume that. >> the threat of them having nuclear weapons is whatsome. >> its use against south korea, japan, against us, its sail to the other country and it's loose nukes when the regime collapses. who controls the nuclear weapons. there's three different threats. >> where's our help here? is china of assistance? it appears that the relationship is more complic

senator marco rubio, and michael morell and fran townsend will discuss what's next. >>> judge neil gorsuchjoin the supreme court in a few hours. the senate votes today after republicans make a historic change in the confirmation rules. >>> and we remember mr. warmth, comedy legend don rickles, he loved to put you down and make you laugh. >>> we begin with a look at today's eye opener, youror

joining me from washington is michael morell, chief military correspondent for the "new york times" and co-awe for for u.s. war footprint grows with no end became game in sight. when did you come to this thesis and wanted to write about it? >> it was one of a people of reporters who contributed to the article. it wasn't just me and hubbard. but over the last few months tracking the the developments in the area. i was out in iraq and syria. it's clear that the pace of operations in the middle east is accelerating. a lot of this follows the trajectory that president obama set. there is not a dramatic departure in the strategy, but it's sort of obama strategy pumped up a bit maybe by 20% and, at the same time, since i used to cover the state department, it's rather striking that the administration is talking about slashing the state department budget, including the kind of programs that one might want to have in place to help consolidate a military gain in iraq or syria, and there is very little talk on the part of the administration about what happens after mosul and raqqa is taken back f

question about all of that, because we had former deputy director and acting director of the cia michael morell here talk about how unmasking takes place and he said to me that certain people of a high rank can request when they see a conversation, a conversation with some foreign official that is being followed or wiretapped or whatever, they -- and the person who is the american is only identified as person 1, person 2, person 3, they can ask that they be unmasked. now, and it goes through a procedure. to ask that something be unmasked simply because you don't know who it is is very different than going on with what the president has said a witch-hunt for people, is it not? >> absolutely. and we should say, you know, again, that the president offered no evidence that susan rice or anybody else associated the administration leaked any of this. there is no evidence of that, and ambassador rice and other senior administration officials have denied doing so. i guess time will tell as to who is right. but, look, charlie, this is smart tactically. >> rose: right. >> as crazy as that might sound. th

: at the time his nsc appointment stunned some including cbs news senior security contributor michael morella room brings politics in a room where there should be no politics. >> reporter: he's best known for his previous job, the head of "breitbart news," highly conservative and ultra con tiff. >> he rarely speaks in public but when he does, he's a fierce leader. >> all of this promises are going be implements. >> sources say the removal of bannon is just one sign of a rise of a new power center here at the white house led by jared kushner and his wife, the president's daughter, ivanka. charlie. >> chip, thanks. >>> this morning we're getting a look at just how many positions within the trump administration are still unfilled. 550 key positions that required senate nomination. only 22 nominees 2rks 2 have been confirmed. 21 others have been formally nominated but not confirmed and 24 are waiting nomination. >> incredible. and a hat tip to axios and michal len for pointing that out in their newsletter this morning. that suggests a lot of these key positions have not only not been filled or c

many foreign policy experts including former acting cia director and cbs news senior contributor michael morellm where there should be no politics. >> reporter: bannon served in the navy but he has little foreign policy experience. he is best known for his previous job as the head of breitbart news, an ultraconservative and highly controversial website. >> i can run a little hot on occasions. >> reporter: a close conif i dance of the president, he rarely speaks in public but when he does he's a fierce critic of the media and defender of mr. trump's nationalist agenda. >> you better understand something, all of the promises are going to be implemented. >> reporter: sources say the removal of bannon is just one sign of the rise of a new power center here at the white house led by jared kusher and his wife. the president's daughter ivanka. >>> now to the story we are following the crash of a fighter jet forced the partial evacuation of a suburban neighborhood. how the pilot is being praised for what his actions before parachuting from,,,, >>> actress julia roberts says she feels awkward, despite a

. >> cbs news senior contributor michael morell was deputy director of the cia and cbs news national homeland security adviser to president bush. good morning to both of you. fran, let me start with you. what are the issues with the strike? >> look, in a single sentence. we saw president trump draw a red line and they enforced it last night. they defied use of chemical weapons. he was with the keng of jordan, clearly was moved, both had pictures coming out, and the tremendous threat that this imposes to jordan. >> what message does this send to assad and to the world in gener general? >> so he will look at the target set, right? it was a single air base used for the chemical weapons attack. so the message assad will take is i cannot use chemical message again. he will get that message. this will deter him. but we did not go after regime commanding control, so that will also send him a message that we are not going to try to force hum out militarily. so he will read both of those messages. >> is it risky for him to read it that way? in other words, might it mean a change regime plan?

debunked by obama national intelligence director clearp, former acting cia director mike morell an and adam schiff. michaellynn, national security advisor gone, because among other things, his name unmasked improperly if not illegally by susan rice. attorney general jeff sessions, a man of the highest hon year and integrity who sat across the table from a russian just like nancy pelosi did has recused himself from overseeing an f.b.i. inquiry in. in spite of the fact there is by all accounts absolutely no evidence of any collusion that democratic spiteful united front against the president simply complained and nunes went south. what is wrong with the republicans? even f.b.i. director jim comey reportedly not cooperating with anyone, now he's on his own. hillary clinton and her husband were cashing in on the sale of u.s. uranium to russia. money, cash, was actually crossing hand. where was the republican outrage, the hearings, the demand for recusals, the ethics investigation? susan rice lied about benghazi, bowe bergdahl, knowing nothing about the unmasking of michael flynn and days later she admit she di

by the end of this year, scientists should have all 1500 of the world was michael caine is under their watch. rebecca morelleisles and the western isles and the highlands. overnight, the cloud will tend to come back in. with the cloudy ducks, some spots of rainfor with the cloudy ducks, some spots of rain for the north and west of the uk. slightly cooler conditions for stornoway and shetland. as it comes down, the front really weakens the significantly. so there will not be any huge rainfall. heading through the day, the sky brightening up, sunny spells in the afternoon. in the sunshine, turning schuyler warmer. for the weekend weather prospects, high pressure slips gradually a little bit further westwards to allow this low pressure system through in the second half of the weekend. nevertheless, the weekend is not looking too bad. but the mornings could turn out to be quite chilly, especially where there are overnight cloud breaks. hello, you with business live. campaigning in the uk in action gets under way today. antonio to johnny will antonio tojohnny will meet with theresa may at 10 downing street this m