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Security officer died at the border. Plus a promising new treatment that could help children suffering from peanut allergies. How capsules containing peanut powder could be a life changer for millions. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. We cannot merely take actions that make us feel like we are making a difference. The president voices support for stricter gun control measures. I think that should be the first step as we start limiting the ability of certain people to get these things. We have a voice and were going to be using it. Survivors of the Florida School shooting plan to hold a rally today. But the state house refused to consider a bill to ban assault weapons. They held rebelled parts of damascus. The deadliest violence there in three years. Flooding in the midwest. Herb rain combined with a melting snow pack. Its just overwhelming. In los angeles, a driver of a stolen truck. He slams into all that lindsey vonn won a bronze medal. The old evideest female olympic. All that they recognize the first responders. He clearly never helped melania with a necklace before. On cbs this morning. The survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School says we want something done. No more tweeting, no more thoughts and prayers followed by ina. They are saying we demand change, and until we get it, were going to call you out on it. I know some people think, theyre just kids. Can they really make a difference. Think a difference. Their generation found a way to mate it cool to eat tide pods, so theres nothing they cant do. Announcer this mornings eye opener presented by toy a toyota. Lets go places. Good morning and welcome to cbs this morning. President trump is taking the first step toward tougher gun regulations one week after the School Shooting in parkland, florida. The president tweeted last night we must now focus on strengthening background checks which could mean anything from legislation the nra supports to legislation it strongly opposes. The president also wants to ban bump stocks and over devices that can enable rapidfire shooting. Margaret brennan is sitting down with students and teachers and parents today. Good morning. Good morning. Today the president will hold a listening session not only with members of the Parkland Community but also those impacted by past School Shootings in columbine and sandy hook. We have to do more to protect our children. The president told the Justice Department to take swift action. We must actually make a difference. Efforts to ban bump stocks last year were stalled by the nra and republican leaders. So we think the regulatory fix is the smartest quickest fix. The nra disapproved of tuesd tuesdays derek tifb arguing that banning them has not been shown to avoid criminal activity. Bump stocks were not used in last weeks attack, but a shooter in las vegas did use them in october to kill 58 people in the deadly evidence shooting in u. S. History. Well be talking about gun laws as time goes by. President trumps personal views continue to evolve. In his 2000 book the america we deserve, he wrote i generally is oppose gun control but am in support of a ban on bump stocks. They may consider changing the age limit for those purchasing militarystyle weapons. Its certainly something on the table for us to discuss. Now, it is not clear how many of the park land stunt ak twists were invited to the white house. Yesterday one of the more outspoken david hogg said he had turned down an invitation to come here in favor of a prior tv commitment. John, he explained they had also been invited to the tv town hall. Margaret, thanks. Students who witnessed the deadly School Shooting are set to confront legislators today who just voted to put off any action on guns. Buses carrying dozens of students from Stoneman Douglas high arrived in tallahassee last night. Other students will hold the first organized rally of what they call the never again movement. Two nationwide rallies are scheduled for next month. The teenagers arrived after flts house of representatives rejected a motion to debate a bill banning assault weapons. Adriana diaz traveled from parkland to the capitol with the students. Good morning. Reporter good morning. The students told us they barely got any sleep last night. Share chaperones said they were up all night talking. Right now theyre having breakfast. Later theyll meet with lawmakers at the capitol. Buses arrived in tallahassee just before 10 00 tuesday night. Democratic state senator lauren book said lawmakers from both parties are ready to hear the students demands for change. They are resilient, theyre strong, and they are going to be the change that is going to happen here in florida. Reporter a new nationwide poll found that 75 of americans are not doing enough. But on tuesday a motion to propose a ban on Assault Rifles was struck down, 3671. Some argue gun ownership is a constitutional right and focus should be on School Security and Better Mental Health screenings. Stoneman douglas junior sheryl aquamaria was watching the vote. Its going to be on them. Its going to be on them and its going to be their fault. They heard the news on the bus to tallahassee. I was not surprised because i was told it was going to be hard. Going to be a long road. Know that we would not travel this far just to get nothing done. Reporter new photos from inside their closed school shows empty classrooms and textbooks still open on desks. Serena was there. A horror she wants them to understand. I want you to be there. I want you do hear the gunshots. I want you to listen. I want you to read the messages that one of your friends has been shot. And i want you to process that. The students hope to get lawmakers to pass new legislation like stricter background checks and a ban on assault weapons. It was funded by state legislators on both sides of the aisle out of their own pockets. Gayle . Thank you so much. Its so inspiring to hear young people lobby. Knowing their voices can be heard and they can make a difference and to present the panel they felt to people who were not there. I think people are saying thats the difference between this and sandy hook. These kids were there, they can speak up, and they want you to know. It reminds you of the civil rights movement. They spoke up and made a difference to change the civil rights in this country. Many people believe that could happen again this time. We will see. Two more victims of last weeks shoot willing have their funerals today. Services for three other students, gina mon tall toe, carmen schentrup, and peter wang. Witnesses say peter was killed after holding a door open to help others escape. He was a junior, rotc member who dreamed of going to west point. In a rare honor the west Point Academy admitted peter to its class of 2025 yesterday. Carmen schentrup was a scholarship seminational finalist. Students say she had a big personality. She didnt deserve this. She deserved so much more. She had so much more fire left in her. Funerals will be held today for 17yearold nicholas and chris hixon. Why some are say iing restricti gun rights is still not the answer. More than 250 people are reported dead in the assault on the heavily populated area. Medical clinics are among the facilities hewitt. Its the worst in the 7yearold war in ghouta. Good morning. They call the assault lies and deceptions but graphics show the reality of what is an escalating civil war that has civilians trapped in the middle. Government air strikes pummeled the already stricken ghouta. Syrias volunteer Ambulance Service captured the chaos. The wounded rushed to hospitals overflowing with victims. This father like so many parents outlived his son. This doctor is the president of the Syrian American medical society who has teemed working in ghouta. Two of his staff were the last 2 hours are the same as the last days. Its the peak. Reporter the rebelheld enclave of ghouta has been under siege for more than five years as the Syrian Regime backed by russian allies has crushed rebels. The people of ghouta are still living in fear after the 2013 chemical attack that shocked the world. It is a Lawless Society where rebels have used humans as shields and where Government Forces have fired back. Families are in basements. Its just a matter of them praying hoping that the missile will miss their basement. So hunger is one factor, but theyre waiting for death. And proGovernment Forces are reportedly preparing a new ground assault. The doctor says he knows families who want to leave but cant. Theyre worried Government Forces who control checkpoints will consider them rebels and kill them. Gayle. All right. Thank you very much, jonathan. A mass ichb and deadly storm system is causing dangerous flooding from texas to the great lakes. Nine people have died in this storm. Flood watches and warnings are in effect for tens of millions of people this morning. Demarco morgan is in goshen, indiana, where the floodwaters are causing some people to evacuate. Good morning. Reporter good morning to you. Take a look at this parking lot behind me at this shopping center. Its covered in water. Officials have been handing out sand bags to try and stop the flooding but the National Weather service says evacuations are necessary. Emergency crews used boetds to evacuate people and pets from this neighborhood near the rising creek. Water has come up a lot faster than what weve anticipated. From the time weve gotten here, i believe the waters have come up about ten feet. Reporter on indiana roads its hard to tell exactly how bad the flooding can be. If youre driving down the road and you see road closed signs, thats going to be a good include the road is closed and you should turn around and find a better route. Reporter the Indiana Police is warning drivers against rolling the dice on flood waters. It could be very dangerous. Reporter in bangor, michigan, the fire chief gave a similar warning. We want everybody safe. I dont want to have to come and rescue you or tell you youve lost a loved one. Reporter its dangerous, not limited to flooding. It spotted two ef tornados in texas. This was just south of dallas. Went in the kitchen and when i come out of the kitchen, the whole roof caved in. Reporter now, even as the rain stops in part of the midwest, the flooding may get worse and a snap of cold air is expected to follow. There are Winter Weather advisories from illinois all the way to texas. John . Demarco, thanks. People are waking up to what feels like spring even though the start of the season still one month away. Meteorologist Danielle Niles of our station wbz is tracking the breaking tou inin ining tempera morning. Good morning. These are a handful of the record highs that will be today. 81 in richmond, virginia, 70s and 80s down across the southeastern United States. Montgomery, 84. 85 in new orleans. Upper 70s in atlanta and 86 in tampa today. Were talking about a big snap back to reality tomorrow with flooding rain going on in the ohio valley on the Northwest Side as the record cold temperature comes in. 6 or more inches possible stretching back up to minnesota and a little strip along the new york pennsylvania border that could see 3 to 6 inches into tomorrow. Major olympic upset team usa took home gold in crosscountry skiing. She crossed the finish line about a half a ski ahead. They won the first ever in womens u. S. Lindsey vonn made history. Shes the oldest woman ever to medal in an olympic alpine event. Ben tracy is in pyeongchang. Ben, good morning. Good morning. Lindsey vonn missed last olympics in sochi because she was injured. Shes been waiting eight years for this downhill moment and it lasted 100 seconds. With several deep breaths, lindsey vonn leaped downhill. One last time in the olympic downhill. Reporter she skied a clean and fast run hugging the turn and gliding into the finish. And lindsey vonn crosses the line. Reporter but it wasnt enough to beat sofia goggia. She and von are clothe friends. Thats a good look at a genuine friendship. Reporter for von it hit hard. I tried so hard, and worked my butt off. Its sad. Its my last downhill. I wish i could keep going. I had so much fun. I love what i do. My body just cant probably cant take another four years. Reporter in figure skating the Womens Short Program was long on russian talent. They are in first and second place. There they go. She needs this. Reporter all three competitors for team usa struggled. Mir mirai could not. And in a shootout for the u. S. Reporter the u. S. Mens hockey team lost to the Czech Republic ending hopes of a miracle medal in these games. But heres the good news. The american womens hockey team is still alive. theyre going play for the gold medal against canada, and there will be more suspense on the slopes. Mikaela shiffrin goes head to head with lindsey vonn in the alpine combined. Thank you, ben. I feel for lindsey but she can go out with her head held high as the oldest. I think its amazing how the young skaters get up and act like nothing happened. I want to lie there for a minute. I know. But the music keeps playing. Its a life lesson. The music keeps playing, youve got to get up. Thank you, sir. Potential new treatment could protect millions of children with peanut allergies. Ahead, how families anxious jo President Trump used the suspicious death to promote his desire for a border wall. 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Good news with this, it is not as quite as widespread as we had seen yesterday, taking a lot at current visability were definitely finding Poor Visibility but a lot more sparse then yesterday, reading is up to 8 miles for example, philadelphia has been increasing in visibility at the airport since we have been on the air since 4 30 this morning on Eyewitness News but with time those cloud break like yesterday, 75 to break a new record but more rain on the way, time to dust off that umbrella, meisha. Loving that 75, that is right, stay right in this moment. Taking a look outside at a disable truck ramp from city avenue to northbound boulevard that ramp is closed but they are starting to move that out of the way. Accident on the schuylkill eastbound before the curve pulled off to that far right shoulder, rahel, back over to you. Next update 7 55. Up next this morning mysterious death of the texas board patrol agent im rahel solomon, good morning. 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They did more than 650 interviews and 26 searches, and while the president and other politicians used the death to make a political point, we believe what happened was an accident and not a crime. That is the culvert where agent row hill omar tee nez was found dieing in november. Its located along a quiet stretch of interstate 10 near the u. S. mexico border. The area looks like its in the middle of nowhere. Martinez was responding to a tripped sensor along a known smuggling spot. He radioed for backup. Martinez then parked on the eastbound side of interstate ten. He turn off his head light and kept is h emergency lights on so they wouldnt see him coming. It was a moonless light. The only light would be the flashlight or light of vehicles. Reporter according to a source he ran across the eastbound lanes of i 10 through the grass divider an then across the westbound lanes and ran right off the edge of a culvert that had no guardrail or barrier to stop him. Im 61, so if i go to juan in one of the culverts and put my hand here, the estimate, its an 8 to 10 food drop. Reporter martinez may have made the same mistake running across the interstate and right off that edge. They believe he fell off at a digits point because his point was 22 feet away. A Border Patrol agent was able to make contact with him after his fall. Despite his injuries garland was able to get back to his vehicle and turn on his emergency lights. At that time garland told the dispatcher snog the effect of we ran into a culvert or i ran into a culvert or i think i ran into a culvert. Now the dispatcher wrote he thinks they ran into a culvert. The fbi found no other footprints, no defensive wounds, or any dna belonging to anyone. Are you open to the possibility that maybe thisacci . No. Doesnt make sense to you. No. I sce agent martinez died and his fiancee angie ochoa is not fbi. She said the injuries were too a pain medication in his system. Take that medication, i see li accident. Youre not suggesting he was drugged. At this point, i think it was probably given to him intentionally. Even in a normal dose, sometimes there can be some impairment of ability to function, but very little impairment. Reporter we asked forensic pathologist to look at his report. This is all very typical for a fall and not for a fight. Reporter cbs news has learned agent garland suffered multiple broken vertebrae and has a brain bleed. The fbi believes he has amnesia and has nothing to do with martinezs death. There was no conflict between him and agent martinez. Despite the agents findings, they call it a heinous attack and they refuse to back down from that. This group of drug smugglers i tacked and ambushed him. It looks like he was literally beaten to death. Snow smugglers were ever found. We asked the white house for comment. They told us know. We called officials 40 times, sent ten emails and five Text Messages and they finally got back to us and told us the people who were authorized to talk would not be available. What a mystery. What did the sheriff say . He said they responded. They said if it was an attack, we would have responded with Assault Rifles. Thank you. Glad we followed up on that story. You have to feel bad for family mens who are still very skeptical. David, while youre at the table congratulations for being awarded for Public Service that recognizes all of your work in puerto rico. At one point werent they calling you the patron saint of puerto rico . Two months . We did more than 40 days. There were 35 people responsible with me. It was a team effort. I will lead the gratitude train and say thank you. Thank you. A new treatment could help millions of people with peanut allergies live with less fear. Ahead, how this promising approach could protect suffers if theyre accidentally exposed to peanuts. 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Reporter now a Company Called aimune is offering a new assault. It gave large doses of sprinkled peanut powder over food to children ages four months to 17. They were able to take in two peanuts, enough to avoid a deadly reaction to a small deadly exposure. It changes the way the system sees peanut. It changes it to seeing it as something dangerous to see it is as something safe. Reporter he helped recruit test subjects. Its not going to be for everybody but certain families who are very anxious about having accidental exposure, this is great therapy for them. Reporter the companys fiebldsings have not been reviewed be independent experts. I would be anxious to see further documentation on the study and kind of what comes of it before we would jump in. There are some risks when you take the drug. Up to 19 of the kids had to drop out of the study because of the side effects. Still aden said he would love to worry less about his peanut allergy, especially on one day in particular. 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Thats why they were fired. Jared kushner is resisting access to classified information as white house chief of staff john kelly tackles security clearance issues. Kushner is the president s Senior Adviser and soninlaw. His Background Investigation is still pending. Cbs news learns that kelly would revoke top cleeshss for anyone whose background check had been pending since june 1st or earlier. Kelly would not comment on anyones particular situation. Sports illustrated has an expose on the Workplace Culture of the dallas mavericks. Its a picture of predatory corporate culture. It includes Sexual Misconduct between former Team President and ceo Terdema Ussery who left. Afterward they say we immediately hired outside counsel to conduct a thorough and independent investigation. Theres no room for such conduct in the mavericks workplace or any workplace. And there was a comparison done to a low carb versus low fat diet. Stanford hat 600 adults undergo insulin testing. 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It is a little bit more visibility then were you able to find in the last her or so where you could not make out anything, let alone tree line or that lamp post there in the foreground but it is starting to lift at burleigh still dense however. Later on today as skies clear just like yesterday we sky rocket all the way to 75 degrees. More showers moving in as early as tonight and then for the next couple of days. Meisha. Katie, thank you. Looking outside for right now very busy as we have accident, 95 past route 452 we have an accident in the right lane, backup shot, looking very slow ly around that area reports of the disabled vehicle schuylkill west bun before the vine right lane compromised there disable truck boulevard north bound ramp from this schuylkill pulled off to that right lane very slow, through here as well, jim, over to you. Next update 8 25. Coming up on cbs this Morning Panel discussion on assault weapons in america, im jim donovan, make it a great day. 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Hes showing new openness to gun control measures. Theyll meet with lawmakers who say they need to get tougher on gun laws. Graphic images from the ground show the reality of what is an escalating civil war that has civilians trapped in the middle. Theyve been handing out sandbags to try to stop flooding but evacuations are necessary. Unprecedented warmth here. Were talking record highs in the 70s and 80s. Even northern maine getting in on the action. Lindsey vonn missed the last oholympics in sochi because she was injured. Shes been waiting eight years and it lasted 100 seconds. An italian tennis champ learned its better to be lucky than good. Extraordinary. He managed to pick it up and win the point. ve never seen that in my life. Thats what you call really good tennis play. That was fun to watch. Im gayle king with Norah Odonnell and john dickerson. Students from Marjory Stoneman dulg Las High School are marching to the State Capitol this morning. They arrivinged on three buses. They want new gun laws to prevent shootings like the one that killed 17 of their classmates and teachers just a week ago. Theyre holding a rally while others lobby state lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. Adriana diaz made the trip. Shes at the State Capitol. Adriana, good morning. Good morning. The students will be arriving here within minutes. Theyll be coming from that direction. It was here at the capitol that yesterday the house turned down an attempt to vote on a bill that would ban assault weapons. When they saw that happen they got emotional. Now, we spoke to state senator lauren book who said both sides are working on a package of reform that would raise the minimum age to 21. For anyone who would want to buy an assault weapon. It would provide funding to tear down the freshman building at the school where the shooting happened. Now, there are only 13 days left in this legislative session and the senator told us if they cant get something done within that time, it would be, quote, unacceptable. The students said theyre keeping the pressure on these lawmakers to hold them accountable. John . Adriana, thanks. Big name celebrities are backing an upcoming gun control rally in washington. The march for our lives is planned for march 24th. The event is organized by students aimed at preventing another mass School Shooting. George clooney and his wife amal will donate 500,000 to help fund the march. They were inspired by the eloquence of the students. Oprah winfrey said she wanted to join forces and is promising the same amount. Director Steven Spielberg and film expectative Jeffrey Katzenberg will also match. It will be interesting to see how many others will contribute to that fund. President trump will meet with the parents, teachers and students to talk about school safety. A new quinnipiac poll shows that 66 of those support stricter gun laws. Thats the highest numb every measured in the poll. Its up 19 points from december 2015. The vary and found that 97 support universal background checks. Margaret brennan has more on this story. Good morning. Good morning. Students of parkland will share their feelings when they meet facetoface with President Trump. They and survivors of sandy hook and columbine will also join. We know at least one prominent Student Activist from Stoneman Douglas high school has turned down the invitation to todays meeting. Ahead of that somethings dew point has displayed an openness to at least consider stricter regulations to improve school safety. Last night he tweeted, quote, we must now focus on strengthening background checks. Yesterday he directed the Justice Department to ban bump stock and other devices. They were used in the Las Vegas Concert back in october that killed nearly 60 but they were not used in last weeks florida shooting. So the announcement when it happened yesterday seemed to catch many in the atf by surprise as theyre still in the process of technically reviewing whether or not they can restrict these devices. Norah . Thank you so much. A woman accusing President Trump of Sexual Assault wants congress to investigate the 19 claims of Sexual Misconduct against him. Rachel crooks told the Washington Post mr. Trump kissed her without her consent in a trump tower lobby in 2006. He responded in a tweet, he never met her and the encounter never happened. Crooks fired back. Im not surprised. That seems to be his common response. My response is it absolutely did happen. President trump seems to be the one immune to all of this for whatever reason. Apparently we dont want to hold the president accountable but i think if anyone should be held accountable it should be him. Crooks is running for a seat in the ohio state legislature. We asked the white house for a comment but have not yet received a response. Ahead, well talk with six people directly involved including a mother of a man killed in a pulse nightclub killing. My son was killed with an assault weapon. What are you going to do for me . What are you going to do for your your own child or kids in chicago or other kids in high school . What are we going to do for them. What the Group Analyst dick button has harsh wordings for what the sports system is doing to his sport. Its boring. I dont like seeing people do this. All right. Ahead, how the evolving sport of figure skating is leaving american women on the sidelines. Youre watching cbs this morning. You totanobodys hurt, new car. But there will still be pain. It comes when your Insurance Company says theyll only pay threequarters of what it takes to replace it. What are you supposed to do . Drive threequarters of a car . 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And you owned these weapons prior to las vegas. Yes. And your outlook on owning these types of weapons has not changed. No. Why not. For us at least being comfortable with them is important. Just having them for defense in our own home is huge. Austin, you survived the columbine shooting. You watched your best friend shot, right . I did. Would you have thought then nearly 20 years later youd see 200 if not more School Shootings since then . No. I had no idea that that was what was going to occur. Colby, youve witnessed prevalent gun violence throughout your life growing up. Im on the ground seeing shooting and stuff every day in these communities. New york, baltimore, chicago, and on and on and on. Christine, you yourself were a police officer. Kelsey, you currently are, and yet your views are so different when it comes to this topic. Lost my son in a mass shooting. He should be mourning my death. Its not fair. And it was done because of an asaumt gun. We have to name it. He died with nine bullets from an assault weapon and hes only one of over 100 people that were killed within a couple of minutes. How long were you in labor with your child . And for them to die in split seconds and so many. Weve lost so many. My son was killed with an assault weapon. What are you going to do about it . What are you going to do for me . Theres nothing. But what are you going to do for your own child, for the kids in chicago, for other kids who are in high school. What are you going to do for them . I was the victim of a mass shooting while an assault weapons ban was in place and im not one of those people that believes that an assault ban is going to solve our problem but i do think its going to bring down the loss of lives while we focus on the issues of Mental Health. Im not willing to accept this is the new normal. Kelsey, are you nervous about sending your new son to school . Yes, it makes me worried to a degree as sand scary as this is where we are in society right now. We dont have to stay here. Whats so frustrating for me is every time one of these tragedies occur people fracture into two camps Mental Health or gun control. I dont dig my heels in on either side. Its both sides. I would like to see funding behind a Nonpartisan Group of experts to study this. The u stace does not have a monopoly of mentally ill people but yet this seems to be an american problem. Whats the next step . A lots of things that take place, you have to be able to stop it on the front end. Parents need to be more present with their kids. You need to be involved, who their friends are, what theyre doing. When it comes to gun rites and any sort of legislation, what is the limit for you . Im open to ideas to fix the problems that we have. But when people want to ban something just because somebody did something wrong with it. I think thats not helping the issue at all. Y, we can lock up major assault weapons, but with the stabbings to come back up . Theyre not going to kill 49 people in 2 1 2 minutes with a knife. Do you think congress has done enough. Theyve done nothing. Theyve done worse. Thats why we have to leath strong democrats like chris murphy from connecticut. Thats the problem. The whole issue gets political. It is political. Its republicans that cause the problem. We have to name it. Were getting caught up in one small, small portion of this issue. Toby, what do you think . I dont believe. Is congress responsebling ultimately . Its on the people. I mean in my opinion gunfree zones dont work. What would the ideal solution to Mass Shootings . Im okay with background checks, even a psychological test, even safety training. Are you in favor of eliminating bump stocks . Yes. What do you think the solution is to live in a society where you have the right to own the weapons you own responsibly and christine has the right to know her son went to a nightclub and will not be slaughtered . Were so far apart. You know, were not going to do what she want, were not going to do what i want. We need to find a common ground. As a High School Student who saw a mass shooting you see these students really galvanize. Do you think parkland will be that event that changes . I hope so. The activism we see out of parkland is inspiring. Theyre standing up. And i think more kids and more people around the world need to stand up though because if we dont, well keep well keep sitting lighter talking about it. What is your message to the president and congress on this topic . Do something. I think it needs to be harder to get guns. Listen to the people, hear our ideas, hear what we have to say. Im just tired of the whole, the left, the right, were pitted against each other, and its sickening. We need to come together and figure out a solution. As you can see, things got pretty heated during the discussion and its understandable how those frustrations carry on in washington among politicians debating this very issue. What you didnt see is after the filming stop, each of those Panel Members gave each other a hug and they all agree that change is need and civil discourse is needed. And the Human Connection they all share regardless of how complicated the issue is. I want to thank them all. It was a great, great discussion. What i heard from it was that even though those who have a large number of guns in their home including assault weapons believe there should be believe in safety first and faux most. A lot of people who joined the nra believe in safety and they do support additional background checks on those who have Mental Health issues and others. Thats a way to start this. I was drawn to Austin Eubanks to say this back and forth and politicizing it and the anger on both sides doesnt lead to any changes. And its interesting that the clarks who have been through an Assault Rifle shooting are still supporting it. Im surprised by that. Im happy of colby as a remind ore f what happens in inner city streets across the country on a daily basis. Very well done. Very well done. To hear more personal stories from the group and how they are affected by the news of recent Mass Shootings head over to cbsnews. Com. Its been 12 years since an American Woman won an individual medal. Ahead, why team usa is no long irdominating on the rink in a sport where athleticism trumps artistry. Youre watching cbs this morning. In tski mountains more than any other, family fun reaches a new peak. So whether youre a speed demon or more of a snow angel, your winter chariot awaits. Pick the best peak for your family getaway at iloveny. Com new york state. 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I believe the future of immunotherapy at ctca is very bright. The evolution of cancer care is here. Appointments available now. Welcome back to cbs this morning. Right now its time to show you some of this mornings headlines. Usa today asks how common is Sexual Misconduct in hollywood. A survey of women in the industry, 94 say they experienced harassment or assault during their careers. 21 say they were forced to do something sexual. 75 did not report these experiences out of fear of backlash. Of those who flagged misconduct, only 28 say their workplace situation improved after reporting the harassment. Pretty stunning numbers. Usa today reports Arctic Sea Ice is at record low levels for january. Its frozen ocean water that melts in the summer and refreezes in winter. The arctic ice last month was nearly 10 below average. Fortune reports that applebees is closing up to another 80 restaurants. Sales dropped 5. 3 at applebees in 2017 and fell 1. 9 at its sister chain ihop. Oh, no. I love the pancakes there. Ihop plans to open as many as 100 new locations. Business insider reports jeff bezos just shareholder a new video of a 92 million mechanical clock planned to outlast the United States. Its supposed to keep time for 10,000 years. It shows the 500foot clock being built inside a mountain in west texas. He predicts over the lifetime of this clock the United States wont exit. He said its designed to be a symbol for longterm thinking. Hes always thinking. And the portlaportland pre herald says theres a revised lobster emoji. Lobster lovers were really mad. The emoji only had steamed. It only had eight legs and lobster actually have ten legs including their legs, who knew. His tail was also tweaked a bit to make it more accurate. Got to get that right. Something to get all buttered up about. Norah, never good when the crew is groaning. I was struggling. A quagmire of risk takers at this table. Yes, we do. Women figure skaters have challenges ahead in their quest for an olympic medal. All three struggled at last nights program. Mirai na ga suh, brady tennell, and karen chen all stumbled. Theyve been in every olympics from 1948 to 2006 but the last winter games no u. S. Woman made the podium in the singles competition. Analysts say that could happen again in pong challenge. Dana jacobson shows us how american women no locker dominate the sport. Good morning. Good morning. We fell in love with Dorothy Hamill for her grace and signature bob. We remember Peggy Fleming and mick shell quan floating on the ice. But today u. S. Womens figure skaters seem to be lacking that same star power and the question is why. Figure skating is a different sport now than it was when i comet competed. Reporter sasha cohen is an artistic skater. Its really, you know, a list of check boxes to hit instead of preventi preve presenting your unique personality and study. It is nice when i can skate and its not crowd and you listen to frank sinatra. Reporter we caught up with her. Its been 12 years since you won your olympic medal and you were the last woman to win an individual skating medal. Why is that . I guess to flip it on its head, why did u. S. Women do well for so long . I think as others have had medalists, its sparked more interest in their programs and theres more skaters going in and rising to the top because they have those role models. Reporter russia and japan have eclipsed the United States in this jumpheavy era of figure skating. So far hes done five quads. Reporter and for the men, the bar is even higher. Will he add another . This is number six. Yes. The name of the game now is quadruples. Quadruple jumps. Reporter dick button is the first skater to ever land a triple jump in competition, but the twotime olympic champion and longtime commentator said theres a difference between a perfect jump and a perfect move. There are two aspects to skating. Dorothy hamill was interesting. Peggy fleming was interesting. Janet lin wynn was adored becau she was calm, quiet, and floated. You dont have time to do that today. Why not . Because youre adding points. Come on. Boom, boom, boom, boom, add the point sthoos these days its hard to know what the points mean. You used to be able to go into a bar and everybody would say they did not deserve a 5. 9. You now have a point system of 283 preside 283. 4. What the heck does that mean . Reporter the International Skating system redefined the 6. 0 system. I think it was introduced in the right spirit, a spirit of accountability, but its made everybody look the same. Reporter the irrepressible dick button has one word for that. Its boring. I dont like seeing people do this. What do you want to see them do . I want to see them be creative. I want to see them perform. Reporter in a sport where raw athleticism seems to trump artistry, skaters jump, whether they can land cleanly or not. You fall on your face and you get a point. I dont like seeing somebody fall down four or five times and still win. To watch for the power and speed. Reporter russia, japan, and other countries are winning by teaching skaters to maximize points and by subdy diezing their athletes. If you were in russia or china, you would have free ice, get paid to be an athlete. Reporter because the physical attributes have increas increased, top female skaters have matured. This is what makes Nancy Kerrigan such a wonderful skater. Interest and enthusiasm in figure skating has drastically since declined. How do we get the enthuse yak back. What i want to see is as much as the quadruple jumps is the performance level and the personality level. I want to be able to fall in love with the skater. When youre playing a game, you have to play by the rules if you want to win. Right now its a quad game, and thats where the points are accrued. And figure skating is an art, but its first and foremost a sport. In an opinion piece out in the new york times, 1998 Gold Medalist Tara Lipinski voiced her concerns writing that young skaters were awarded not for innovating and taking new risks, but for skating cleanly. She said as those younger skaters moved up in the rank, it left the u. S. Women unprepared to compete on the world stage. Thanks. First time author tara we westover was taught as child to avoid schools and hospitals. Ahead how she youve worked hard. Busted tail. And impressed the boss. Maybe its time to be your own . Transform your career with strayer universitys mba program today. Lets get it. Oo8z z12fzyer universitys mba program today. Y2oo8y y12fy a womans account of her childhood experience off the grid inspired a critically acclaimed memoir. Te her father was a survivalist who distrusted all forms of government. Tara westover writing, quote, we have no medical records because we were born at home. We have no School Records because we never set foot in a classroom. At this moment according to the state of idaho and the federal government, i do not exist. She graduated from cambridge university. How did she do that . Her book is already on amazons bestseller list. Tara, congratulations. Bravo. I never read a story like this. I was curious. What is she going to look like. And you walked in looking so normal. I was relieved too. Give us a sense of your childhood. Youre the youngest of seven kids. You dont even know what your exact birthdate is. I dont. I was raised on this Beautiful Mountain in idaho. It was a beautiful place. But my father had these radical beliefs and because of these beliefs we were a bit isolated. There was no school. We never went to the doctor, not even when we were injured. My father had a junkyard and we were injured quite a bit. You guys were head for the hills bags. You were ready to go at all times. It was possibly because of the way we were living they may come and force us to go to school, that kind of thing. Your father believed that all these forms of government were agents of the aluminaty, right . Yeah. He had an idea it infiltrated all the institutions whether it was doctors, hospitals, he was very concerned about it. Describe what it was like working in the junkyard. You werent just sorgt sorting seatbelts. It wasnt that my dad wasnt wired about our safety. He didnt have that bone in his head. We would treat the injuries at home. You were impaled. Your brothers leg caught on fire. Your father nearly died from an explosion and your mother was at home making pink turs and essential oils in the kitchen. My father was the worst. He was standing next to a car when it exploded. He was badly burned. It wasnt that they didnt care about us. It was the way his mind worked. He was going live that way. A big part of the book is the relationship you have with one of your older brothers. You give him a pseudonym in the book. You call him shaun. You name the other brothers. You say he was extremely emotionally and physically abusive with you. Yes, he was. When i confronted my parents about it, they tried to convince me i was insane and i couldnt trust my own memories and ultimately that would lead to is strangement from my family. At first that was their choice. They os extra sized me for speaking up against my brother. It took a lot of years. Its important to say you have fwour brother, tony, tyler, richard, and luke. Youre not talking about any of those. Youre talking about shaun and you ive given him a fake name. Exactly. Your parents have a lair. They said, tara was a love daughter. Like her two brothers that got phds. Home school was a sufficient foundation to their education. Dwlou react to that. One of the reasons i wrote the book is their gaslighting of experiences. Their continual denial. I guess i would say i love my parents, i believe theyre good people, but i think i think the tragedy here isnt that bad people do bad things. Tragedy is what good people do to keep secrets. How were you able to get an education to go to harvard, cambridge, byu, when you had not really been to a classroom . Well, i had an older brother who had done the same thing. He educated himself. Bought the books and educated himself and he told me i should try to go. I bought an acp study guide and i tried to teach myself enough. I learned enough to scrape through the a. C. T. That statement isnt completely factual. I barely got through. I didnt know what the holocaust was. I once asked what it was. You came across a world you had never seen before and you said i dont know this world and everybody looked at you like where had you been. I think they thought i was denying it. But i meant it completely sincerely. I didnt know what it was. Did you have to write this book . A lot of it is claiming your own story from other people who are trying to tell you your story. Did you have to in order to complete that . I felt like i needed to to come to terms with the decision to let go of my family. When i was writing my book, the questions were what does it mean to belong to a family and what obligations do we have to our family and what are the limits and what do you do when you want to be loyal to your family but you feel its in conflict with loyal to yourself. You said its possible to love and hate at the same time. You said in a family like ours, no crime is worse than telling the truth. What is your relationship like with today . Half im close with. Even the half im estranged from, i love them. Im not angry toward them. I think anger is a mechanism you need to get out of dangerous situation. But once youre out, once youre safe, you dont need it anymore. Do you talk with your mom and dad . I email with my mother occasionally, a little bit. I limited that because i did have a bit of a mental breakdown. My parents cob vinced me that i was insane about my brother and i had a complete mental breakdown. Theres only so much of that i can have in my life. Tara, really bravo. You say a mental breakdown is never obvious to the people having them. Thank you for sharing your story with us today. Educated is on sale wherever you like to buy your books. Youre watching cbs this morning. Wednesday, middle of the week. Hump day. Hump day as gayle says. That does good morning, im jim donovan. The search is on for cause of the huge house fire in Delaware County, the fire broke out around 6 00 this morning in the 900 block of pitman avenue in collindale. Fire fighters evacuated residents of the home just moments before the walls and roof collapsed, fortunately there were no injuries to report. Lets turn it over to katie for a look the a the forecast. Were looking ahead to another very warm day another record breaking day in fact with our high expected to rebound all the way to 75 degrees. So might as well be midmay with these values. Your solid 30 degrees as long as we hit 75 above what is average but record to beat is a long standing one setback in 1930. In the meantime we have a cold front approaching. Today will be warmest day of the next seven, that is also expect to bring nothing more than rain showers to the northern most counties but once it gets here we will start to see showers unfold here through overnight, even as early as this evening in the north and western counties but this will linc inner to tomorrow. Rounds of rain coming through, temperatures falling, we will hit that high of 58 around midnight and temperature falls throughout the day, by friday a chilly raw rain and there is more wet wet they are weekend from another system come in, so we have got, pretty un settled pattern very active, meisha but it is mild for the most par. Absolutely today is just a little gift, good morning. We have an accident 95 south past route 452, two lanes block now, backups extending to the blue route very slow moving here. Plus a disable truck on the walt whitman bridge westbound right lane block, speeds reduced to 35 miles an hour see yellow letting you know travel less than posted speed and we will route one trolley shuttle butting between north street inn sharon hill due toy fire or pitman avenue. Check schedules on line. That is Eyewitness News for now. Join us for Eyewitness News at noon. Im jim donovan. Make it a great hey, did i mention i can save you 620 for switching to progressive . 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