i'm tony dokoupil.s returned from the president's week recess greeted with a nationwide chorus calling for stronger gun laws. the slaughter at a school in florida spurred president trump to discuss the issue with the nations' governors and nra. margaret brennan begins our coverage. >> president trump insist heed would have personally barged in to help students. >> only way you stop it is retribution. don't think you will stop it by being kind. >> how come some people always make the 4 footer. some people under pressure can't take their club back. >> that educators should educate and not be foisted upon this responsibility of packing heat in first grade classes. the governor said teachers are not interested in firearms. >> i suggest we need a little less tweeting. a little more listening. let's take that off the table. >> the president held up programs in texas and arkansas as a model. yet on federal level, republican congressional leaders remain reluctant to craft laws requiring arming school staff. ini

i'm tony dokoupil.gin with another day of listening and learning after the deadliest high school shooting in u.s. history. president trump held the second of three listening sessions at the white house yesterday. he met with state and local officials including the mayor of parkland, florida, the site of last week's massacre that left 17 people dead. as he listened, the president also offered solutions to stop school shooters, including the idea of arming teachers. major garrett is at the white house. >> reporter: listening sessions on two consecutive days here at the white house, and the president's done plenty of talking on his own, saying it is imperative that america arm school teachers and other school personnel, combating gun violence with concealed weapons and teachers as skilled in arithmetic and grammar as they are in marksmanship. >> and i'm the biggest believer of the second amendment that there is. okay? i am the biggest. >> reporter: while president trump says he's listening to new ideas abo

i'm tony dokoupil.hooting in florida made his first appearance inside a courtroom. 19-year-old nikolas cruz, former student accused of killing 17 people at a south florida high school. as cruz sat in court more victims from the massacre were being laid to rest. bourke brk manuel bojorquez begins our coverage. >> nikolas cruz avoided eye contact during the hearing, silently staring down. it was his second time in court since last wednesday's shooting. more missed warning signs have emerged. newly released documents reveal in september, 2016, an investigator with florida's department of children and families visited the cruz household. after allegations of medical neglect. investigator noted cruz had depression, adhd, autism that he cut his arms in a snap chat post. that he plans to go out and buy a gun. dcf closed the investigation six weeks later saying the agency found no evidence of mistreatment. >> this wasn't the person that we knew. >> james and kimberly sneed took cruz in after his mother's death

here's tony dokoupil. >> reporter: scenes of destruction like this motel shredded by a possible tornado in northeastern arkansas guided the central and southern united states this weekend. as pounding rains, rising rivers and at least eight possible tornadoes ravaged the country. the roof of this home near bowling green, kentucky caved in, killing a 79-year-old woman. >> it was an elderly female which was located in the kitchen part of the house. >> reporter: the ohio river swelled to nearly three times its normal level in louisville, kentucky and spilled its banks further north, where cincinnati, ohio recorded one of its wettest days on record. just over the state line in tennessee newlyweds adam and heather edwards narrowly survived the massive storm. >> we're just lucky to be alive. everything can be replaced. >> reporter: family members say the couple huddled in a closet as winds toppled trees and hurled vehicles outside. >> metal from this barn took off and then the windows busted out. >> reporter: those deaths in arkansas and kentucky on saturday ended a 284-day run without a torn

i'm tony dokoupil. captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs >>> it's tuesday, february 27th, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." the gun debate goes to the white house. lawmakers from both parties are set to meet with president trump as the president says they should not fear the nra. >> there's nothing to be afraid of. and you know what, if they're not with you, we have to fight them every once in a while, that's okay. >>> a 17-year-old girl shot three times in the florida school shooting massacre is speaking out. >> i just want to say that i'm so grateful to be here. >>> and the u.s. supreme court turns down a white house request, leaving the fate of dreamers uncertain. >>> good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. we begin with the debate over gun control. tomorrow president trump plans to meet with a bipartisan group of lawmakers to discuss the issue. the president told a group of governors that they shou

here's tony dokoupil. >> reporter: scenes of destruction like this motel shredded by a possible tornadonorth eastern arkansas dotted the central and southern united states this weekend. ( thunder ) as pounding rains, rising rivers and at least eight possible tornadoes ravaged the country. the roof of this home near bowling green, kentucky, caved in, killing a 79 year old woman. >> it was located in the kitchen part of the house. >> reporter: when the ohio river swelled to nearly three times its normal level in louisville, kentucky, and spilled its banks further north where cincinnati, ohio, recorded one of its wettest days on record. just over the state line in tennessee, newlyweds adam and heather edwards narrowly survived the massive storm. >> we're just lucky to be alive. everything can be replaced. >> reporter: family members say the couple huddled in a closet as winds toppled trees and flipped vehicles outside. >> it started raining real hard and then he saw this barn, the metal from this barn take off. and then the windows busted out. >> reporter: those deaths in arkansas and kent

tony dokoupil went looking for answers. >> who is ready for a nature hike? >> me!d, oregon, a new group of boy scouts, marched off in search of adventure. >> raise your hand if you are in pack 203. you are doing archery. >> time was being called a girl in the boy scouts was an insult. not anymore. as of three weeks ago, the boy scouts of america, are admitting girls. as cub scouts. what do boys think of all of this? >> i already have to deal with my sister all day every day. and this is like the only time i get away from her, really, so -- >> we asked calvin hicky whose sister mckenzie was the very first girl in the pacific north west to sign up. >> just be nice to the girls. don't be mean. or else you won't get picked on a lot. >> we did pine wood derby a couple days age i did a watermelon car. he did a -- >> ferrari. >> jordana garcia had been coming to scouting tagging along with her brother daniel. >> sometimes he would do like carving and other stuff. but i just had to sit in the car and do my notebook. and just, start, start doing whatever i did. like if you

tony dokoupil reports now on, a w men who was taken for more than $1 million. >> the fbi says romanceblem impacting all demographics and that the scams are increasing because they're lucrative and easy to pull off. scammers often prey on victims for money hitting where it hurts the most, the wallet, sure, also the heart. >> i wasn't lonely desperate lonely. i wanted some one to talk to. >> debbie montgomery johnson signed up for online dating service after the sudden death of her husband lou in 2010. >> i thought, safe, can do it from my home. >> reporter: where the widowed mother met a british businessman who called himself eric cole. >> i talked to him a fewmes. we messaged every day. >> johnson says she and cole engaged in a two year on line relationship never met in person. over the course of the relationship. johnson gave cole more than $1 million in increments. >> at this point your heart rules your head. and i was doing what my heart wanted me to do. >> in 2012, johnson says her life stopped when cole came clean over video chat revealing who he really was. a young man in nigeri

tony dokoupil has the story from cbs "sunday morning." in hershey, pennsylvania, the rush is on. close to a billion will be made just for this valentine's day. >> okay. let's go get them. >> reporter: if you need an even bigger dose of something sweet, watch their hand. >> when did you develop your sign language? >> oh, that one? >> that's been. >> what is senate. >> this means i love you. >> when we walk into work together. and he goes to go out the door, we just kind of both go like that to each other. >> reporter: kay and rob wagner met on their first day at work. >> we were sitting in orientation in the building. >> i look back. i thought pretty girl back there. the rest is history. >> reporter: they fell in love on the factory floor. >> he would make me laugh. yeah. >> reporter: what would he do? >> like his hair net. pull it down over his face. and the candy. i was like keep up. just funny stuff look that. >> reporter: they have been co-workers now for 22 years. for 21 of those years, they have also been husband and wife. they're not alone at hershey's where love and work m

to tony dokoupil did some research of his own. >> reporter: if you're getting ads for things you neverhed for online, you may thi think a company is listening in. companies know so much about you already, they probably don't need to eavesdrop. so you have this feeling that your phone is listening to you? >> definitely. >> reporter: sam is sure she gets ads from facebook and google from things she only mentioned out loud. >> i didn't write that in my e-mail. i didn't check it out online yet. it's just popping up, kind of weird. >> reporter: weird enough to convince her the companies are eavesdropping through her phone's microphone. but are they? >> i think it's very, very unlikely -- >> reporter: sandy is a former facebook operations manager. he says constant streams from so many phones would be too expensive to gather and analyze and all the data would drive up people's phone bills. beside, he says, companies don't have to listen to know what's on your mind. >> they know a tremendous amount about you. that enables them to make guesses about what to advertise to you that can be uncannil

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tony dokoupil is here with disturbing details. good morning. >> disturbing is the right word.hi told authorities she found a semiautomatic rifle hidden in his guitar case and also read his journal describing he wanted to become infamous writing, quote, i need to get the biggest fatality number as i possibly can. on monday night cathi was confronted with evidence that her grandson joshua may be planning a school shooting. on tuesday morning she called 911. >> i'm finding journal entries from my grandson and he's planning to have a mass shooting at one of the high schools. >> reporter: according to authorities, detectives searched joshua's house seized a rifle, bomb-making equipment, and his journal. in it joshua allegedly wrote, i'm preparing myself for the school shooting.bombers' don't make the same one. he boast thad his aim was improving. authorits say in a convenience store monday. they say his rifle matches the one used in the crime and his journal describes how he felt powerful pointing the weapon at the cashier. wednesday a judge deemed joshua too dangerous to be uncuff

tony dokoupil is following the investigation. good morning. >> good morning.ation is. tom wales was targeted because of his job. if that is true, he would be the first and only u.s. attorney killed in the line of duty. the case has never gone cold and a new reward may be a sign that investigators believe they're getting closer to the truth. on a chilly night fwh 2001, tom wales was sitting in his home in a basement office when a gunman shot several rounds through the basement window. >> the shooter was familiar with his property and work habits. >> reporter: it set off the motion detectors, leading the investigators to believe it was a carefully planned execution. more than 16 years later the killer still at large and the case was recently the jikt of a five-part podcast. >> they say it was the perfect murder, but i'm not buying it. >> reporter: investigators are not buying it either. they came together wednesday in a seattle congressroom named for the fallen u.s. attorney asking the public to help solve the case. >> we have a lot of investigators right now, s

tony dokoupil is here with the disturbing details. >> reporter: joshua's grandmother cathy told authorities a semiautomatic rifle hidden in her grandson's guitar case. she also found his journal in which he alleged described a desire to become infamous, write, quote, i need to get the biggest fatality number i possibly can. on monday night, cathy o'connor was confronted with evidence her teenage grandson joshua may be planning a school shooting. on tuesday morning, she called 911. >> i'm finding journal entries from my grandson. >> uh-huh. >> he's planning to, um, have a mass shooting at one of the high schools. >> reporter: according to authorities, detectives searched joshua's house and seized a rifle, bomb making equipment and his journal. in it, joshua allegedly wrote, i'm preparing myself for the school shooting. i'm learning from past shooters/bombers mistakes so i don't make the same ones. he boasted that his aim was improving and wrote, i can't wait to walk into that class and blow all those expletives away. authorities also say joshua is the gunman in this surveillance gunman of a