vlad. >> duthiers: paula reid in washington, thank you.ing up next, is the trump administration preparing to crack down on legal pot? >> duthiers: this week, attorney general jeff sessions, no fan of marijuana, directed all 94 u.s. attorneys to evaluate pot-enforcement policies and send him recommendations. as carter evans reports, a federal crackdown on legal weed would face blow-back from the states. >> reporter: all right, so what have we got in here? >> this is super lemon haze. >> reporter: each year, more than 100,000 marijuana plants are grown, processed, and packaged in this industrial warehouse in olympia, washington. and it's all legal. >> a lot of people would be surprised to see what a good recreational facility looks like. >> reporter: jerry derevyanny is with northwest cannabis solutions, the state's leading pot producer, earning $21 million last year. >> i think that a lot of politicians have realized that even if they don't personally like marijuana, that this is the better way forward. >> reporter: they'd rather have it in

paula reid has the latest. >> they will never forget this face. >> reporter: on april 4th joseph jakubowski recorded the moment he sent a 161 page manifesto to president trump. in it he expresses grieveances against the government and some antireligious sentiments. >> evolution, time for change. >> reporter: hours after jakubowski mailed his manifesto a large quantity of high end handguns and rifles were stoleen from a nearby gun shop. a short time later, jakubowski's car was found on fire. jakubowski is the suspect in the burglary and is now the subject of a massive manhunt. david moore is is chief of the janesville, wisconsin, police department. >> find the suspect, make the arrest, and keep all of our community safe. >> reporter: police say jakubowski had been highly agitated recently regarding a variety of political issues, and allegedly made threats to steal weapons and use them against public officials or at an unspecified school. local and federal law enforcement agencies are working together on the case. >> it's really scary to know that somebody is out there that has a lot of weapo

justice reporter paula reid has the latest. >> what do we want? >> mercy! >> when do we want it?now! >> reporter: these eight death row inmates received an 11th hour reprieve when a federal judge blocked arkansas' unprecedented plan to execute each of them by the end of the month. arkansas governor asa hutchinson scheduled the executions to take place before the state's supply of midazolam, one of its lethal injection drugs, expires in two weeks. >> i don't want to go back to these victims' family and say, "well, we're worried about how this looks or the speed of this, so we're not going to be able to carry out the will of the jury and the courts and the sentencing." >> reporter: the inmates filed legal challenges to the timetable and the state's use of midazolam, which has been used in botched executions in other states. robert dunham is the executive director of the death penalty information center. >> the use of midazolam exposes the prisoners to unnecessarily painful death, and it's for that reason that the court entered a preliminary injunction stopping the executions. >> re

. >> ninan: paula reid in washington. thank you, paula. an american business woman has been deported from china on friday after being convicted of espionage. her two-year ordeal was a source of tension between the u.s. and china. roxana saberi has the story. >> reporter: more than two years after chinese security officials detained sandy phan-gillis, she's back home in the u.s. in a statement, her husband said, "many of sandy's friends and family members have been crying tears of joy." the 57-year-old is an american citizen of chinese descent. in 2015, she was visiting china on a trade mission with houston officials and business people when suddenly, she disappeared. >> she was subjected to repeated threats, including the threat to take away her access to doctors and medicine. >> reporter: last month, her husband, jeff, told senators her captors accused her of spying for the u.s. >> sandy is not some top-secret agent for the f.b.i. she is a wife and a mother and a business woman. >> reporter: phan-gillis' detention created friction between

. >> paula reid in washington. , paula. >>> since his inauguration 100 days ago, president trump has not returned home to new york city. according to reuters, he's reluctant to go home. >> i love new york but closing up streets is very the city. it's right smack in the middle of everything and i always feel a little bit guilty when i go there. if i go to -- as an example, i have a lot of property, so if i go to one of my clubs like in new jersey, they'll say, oh, he's going to play golf. i'm not going to play golf. i couldn't care less about playing golf, but i have a place there. costs almost nothing because it's hundreds of acres and security and they don't have to close up streets, et cetera, cetera. >> nonetheless president trump will return to new york to meet with australia's prime minister on the u s ss intrepid. he's been criticized for returning to mar-a-lago seven times since his presidency. >> president trump's approval rating is 41%. cbs news elections director anthony salvanto helps us delve deep sbeer

cbs news justice reporter paula reid has been following the developments closely.he's in our washington bureau. good morning. >> good morning. >> first off, why did the government withdraw its demand to find out who's behind these tweets? >> i read the requests they sent to twitter, and it's not clear why they were looking at this account in the first place, although it does suggest they believe it's legitimate and tweeting out legitimate information. you don't issue a summons for a random twitter account or random twitter troll. so it does appear it's a legitimate account but when they sued it was clear they weren't going to win in court, so they withdrew their request. >> so, paula, do you think it was to have a deterrent effect on accounts like this? >> i do. i really do think that was the goal of this, to put them on notice that government is trying to get information about who's behind this account, but it had the complete opposite effect. this account has tens of thousands of new followers. so while they were trying to get information about this account, all