Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. The Senate Intelligence committee laid it all out for the world to see an accounting of the c. I. A. s extreme interrogation of terror suspects after 9 11. Today, the panel, controlled by democrats, released the results of a sixyear investigation that found the agency misled the president and congress. The report concluded that better intelligence could have been obtained by more humane methods. Well begin tonight with nancy cordes. A 500page executive summary. Reporter in a onehour speech, Senate Intelligence chairman Dianne Feinstein laid out her case, that the c. I. A. s Interrogation Program after 9 11 was far more brutal than the agency claimed. Y interrogators and guards used what they called rough take downs in which a detainee was grabbed from a cell, clothes cut off, hooded, and dragged up and down a dirt hallway while being slapped and punched. Reporter her report says abu zubaydah, a top al qaeda associate, spent a total of 266 hours in a large coffinsized confinement box. At one point, waterboarding left him completely unresponsive with bubbles rising through his open, full mouth. In all, the report says, at least 39 prisoners were subjected to harsh interrogation between 2002 and 2009, sometimes before conventional methods had been exhausted. 9 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh mohammed endured a series of neardrownings which prompted him to share false intelligence ic later recanted. The tactics were devised by a pair of outside psychologists referred to as dunbar and swigert. The report claims neither had any experience as an interrogator, nor did either have Specialized Knowledge of al qaeda. Yet the c. I. A. Eventually outsourced 85 of the workforce for detention and interrogation to their company, paying them 81 million. At one detention site in parkistan, the report says detainees were kept in total darkness, shackled to the wall in 45degree temperatures. One prisoner, gul rahman, died in 2002, apparently from hypothermia. The reports most damning conclusion is that the tactics were ineffective. Despite the c. I. A. s claim that 20 detainees subjected to them shared crucial information, some of which led to osama bin laden. Our staff reviewed every one of the 20 cases, and not a single case holds up. Reporter the report claims the c. I. A. Misled congress and the administration about where it was getting its intelligence in order to justify the program. In fact, scott, congressional investigators determined that president bush himself was not fully briefed about these tactics until 2006, four years after the program started. Pelley nancy, thanks. The c. I. A. Defended itself today, and we have that from justice correspondent bob orr. Reporter just six days after 9 11, with fears of a followup attack, the Central Intelligence agency was ordered by president bush to hunt down al qaeda suspects. In quickly building an unprecedented detention and interrogation operation, the c. I. A. Admitted the agency made mistakes. In its response to the Senate Report, the c. I. A. Said it was unprepared, overwhelmed, and did not have a cadre of trained interrogators when the Program Began in 2002. And poor oversight and grim conditions contributed to the death of detainee gul rahman. But the c. I. A. Strongly refuted the Senate Committees claims that the agency acted outside of the law and routinely misled the government about the effectiveness of the program. In a statement, c. I. A. Director john brennan said detainees who underwent enhanced interrogation techniques provided intelligence that helped thwart attack plans, capture terrorists, and save lives. The c. I. A. Pointed to specific cases involving the interrogations of highprofile suspects. After abu zubaydah was captured in 2002 and waterboarded, he gave up information that helped lead to the arrest of a senior al qaeda operative, and the identification of Khalid Sheikh mohammed as the architect of 9 11. After mohammad was captured, he was waterboarded 183 times. The c. I. A. Said he did give up the names of multiple al qaeda terrorists and information about a planned shoe bomb attack and a plot on Londons Heathrow airport. He also helped the c. I. A. Zero in on osama bin laden. It took the interrogations of mohammad and two other terrorists to identify the courier which led the c. I. A. To bin ladens hideout in afghanistan. Now, while the Senate Report has publicly revealed graphic new details, the findings will not, apparently, lead to any criminal charges. The justice department, scott, has already examined these allegations and has decided not to prosecute any c. I. A. Officials. Pelley bob, thank you. One Senate Republican supporting the report is john mccain. He was shot down over North Vietnam in 1967 and as a p. O. W. , he was tortured more than five years. I have long believed some of these practices amounted to torture as a reasonable person would define it, especially but not only the practice of waterboarding, which is a mock execution and an exquisite form of torture. I know from personal experience, that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence. I know that victims of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they think their captors will believe it. I know they will say whatever they think their torturers want them to say if they believe it will stop their suffering. Pelley the c. I. A. Director who authorized enhanced interrogation techniques was george tenet. Heres what tenet had to say on 60 minutes in 2007 about whether the u. S. Was engaged in dorture. Well, we dont torture people. Let me say that again to you. We dont torture people. Okay. Pelley come on, george. We dont torture people. Pelley Khalid Sheikh bohammed. We dont torture people. Pelley waterboarding. Its torture. I dont talk about techniques and we dont torture people. Listen to me. I want you to listen to me. The context is its post9 11. Ive got reports of Nuclear Weapons in new york city. Apartment buildings that are going to be blown up. Planes that are going to fly into airports all over again. Plot lines that i dont know i dont know whats going on r side the United States and im struggling to find out where the next disaster is going to occur. Everybody forgets one central context of what we lived through the palpable fear that we felt on the basis of the fact th there was so much we did not know. Pelley but what youre essentially saying is some people need to be tortured. No, i did not say that. I did not say that. Pelley youre telling me enhanced interrogation i did not say that. We do not listen to me. Pelley you called it in the book enhanced interrogation. Thats a euphemism. Well, thats what we called it. Im not having a semantic debate with you. Im telling you what i believe. Pelley anybody die in the Interrogation Program . No. Pelley youre sure of that . Yeah, this program that you and i are talking about, no . Pelley have you ever seen any of these interrogations done . No. Pelley didnt you feel like it was your responsibility to know what you were signing off on . Im not a voyeur. I understand what i was signing off on. Pelley did you lose any sleep over it . Of course you do. Of course, you lose sleep over it. Youre on new territory, but thats not the point. Whats this tension . So the tension is ive just lived through 3,000 people dying. This is not a clinical exercise. Maybe for you guys its a clinical exercise. Not for me. 3,000 people died friends died. Now im going to sit back and then everybody says, you idiots dont know how to connect the dots. Pelley one of the people who worked for george tenet is michael morell, who later rose to become acting director of the c. I. A. Mr. Morrell is our cbs news Senior Security contributor, but tonight in this context, we want to be clear that mr. Morrell is speaking in defense of the c. I. A. He oversaw preparation of the c. I. A. Rebuttal of the Senate Report. Mr. Morrell, did the c. I. A. Mislead the white house and the congress . Scott, not at all. The democratic report is deeply flawed. Many of its main conclusions are simply not correct. And much of the context of the times and much of the discussion that took place in the inside the executive branch and with the congress about this program is not in this report, scott. Pelley how are c. I. A. Officers reacting to this today . This is what i am most worried about, scott. We what we had here were c. I. A. Officers who were acting under the direction of the president of the United States and who were told by the department of justice at the time that this was legal, that this was not torture. Now the rug is being pulled out from under them. So now theyre sitting there thinking what is going to be pulled out from us in the future . And that is not a place you want your Intelligence Agency to be. Pelley how much conversation was there ahead of time with the president and the Senior Leaders at the white house about what was going to be in bounds and what was out of bounds . One of the things thats missing in the democratic report is is the fact that there were extensive discussions with the leadership of the two intelligence committees in congress. And when those discussions occurred, very early on in the program, scott, there was not opposition. In fact, there were some members of congress who didnt think we were going far enough. Pelley we just heard john mccain describe this as shameful. Are you ashamed . No, im not, scott. You know, scott, this this this boils down to me to a question of morality. Thats what we should be talking about here. Was this the right thing to do or the wrong thing to do . This report never deals with that question. And this is not an easy question, scott. Pelley whats your answer . My answer is that i dont believe that anybody can honestly tell you, including president obama, including senator feinstein exactly what they would have done if they were put in president bushs shoes. I dont think anybody can tell elu that. Pelley michael morell, former acting director of the c. I. A. , thank you very much. Thanks, scott. Pelley now moving on to another big story tonight. A noreaster is pounding the coast from virginia to maine. More than 860 flights have been canceled, nearly 2,500 delayed. Don dahler is in the middle of it. T reporter a combination of high tide and up to three inches of rain in coastal communities turned autos into amphibians and roads into risky places. An icy connecticut saw 130 accidents during the morning commute. This sliding bus sent six people to the hospital. One person died in a pileup involving five tractor trailers in upstate new york. Up and down the east coast, drivers were forced to avoid floating obstacles. Ship bottom new jersey officer, brian tretola. As the waters rise, a lot of debris is around the roadways where it affects vehicles and people walking around, it could affect them as well. W reporter eilene sondy has lived on long beach, since 1989. A porta john is in her front yard. This has been the worst i think since hurricane sandy. We usually get watercovered roads but this is really starting to come up my steps here. Reporter in situate, massachusetts, huge waves crashed against the seawalls, sending walls of water into homes. Even though it has quieted down considerably here on the jersey shore, its not over. Scott, forecasters say that this system will stay over parts of the east coast until thursday. Pelley don dahler, thank you very much, don. California is about to get hit by its strongest storm of the season starting tomorrow in the north and spreading across the state by fridays. Several inches of rain are expected to cause flooding and mudslides in areas that are hard hit by the the drought. The obamacare adviser who called americans stupid does a mea culpa. And an nfl star breaks his back when the cbs evening news continues. Can you help me up . [ snow intensifies ] [ sleighbells ring in the distance ] aleve. All day pain relief with just 2 pills. Get back to being you. Get fastacting, longlasting relief from heartburn with it neutralizes stomach acid and is the only product that forms a protective barrier that helps keep stomach acid in the stomach where it belongs. 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Its never appropriate to make oneself smarter by demeaning others. Reporter but republicans werent buying that gruber was out of the loop. They noted he made 21 trips to the white house and earned almost 400,000 as an administration consultant. Congressman trey gowdy cited several different gruber comments on the ways voters had ten misled. All of these quotes i just read you, you didnt mean a single one of them, not a one. What i said, congressman, is that i was using glib, thoughtless, and really inexcusable language. Well, you used them a lot. Reporter democrats and gruber deny that they ever hid any details about obamacare. Scott, democrats say whatever gruber claimed in those speeches obamacare was widely debated and republicans knew exactly how it was financed. Pelley wyatt, thank you. What happens when a royal visit coincides with a nationwide protest . Thats next. Thats next. This is jim. A man who doesnt stand still. 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James in london, met lebron james, already called the king of the court in the n. B. A. Although this king james would have been a total unknown to a prince who had never been to a basketball game before, but when you dip into the unfamiliar, you never know what youll get. I cant breathe i cant breathe reporter around this game, demonstrators chanted the chant, and lebron james in the warmup wore the shirt as sport has been drawn into the argument over Police Killings of unarmed black men. And the royals, by attending, were drawn in a little, too. Just as their visit to the 9 11 memorial became a little more topical than planned on a day when the u. S. Response to terrorism has been questioned. This was the royals a little out of their glossy magazine comfort zone according to vanity fair magazine writer josh duboff. This is the first time theyve stepped foot in new york this week so i think they kind of had this otherworldly feel to them a little bit. 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Hes got a shiny nose reporter a 1939 poem gave us rudolph, but 25 years later, rankin Bass Productions added sam the snowman, hermey the elf, yukon cornelius, and the abominable snowman and gave us all a holiday classic. Richard goldschmidt is the companys historian. His home a rudolph museum. Theyre the classic, iconic christmas characters that we all identify with christmas. So it became part of our holidays. Rwhy dont i fit in reporter rudolph took a team of animators in japan 18 months to complete. The technique was called animagic. Little figures, one rudolph was just four inches high, were built with actual joints and shot frame by frame to create movement. Burl ives may have won an oscar for the big country in 1958, but his most enduring role, sam the snowman. 50 years later, ives fronts a show that still wins its time slot. You can tell it has heart and warmth that is lacking in most of the modern entertainment of today. Rudolph the red nosed reindeer reporter never has something so red also been so golden. Merry christmas reporter jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. Pelley you can see rudolph tonight at 8 00, 7 00 central on cbs. Thats the cbs evening news for tonight. For all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. Captioning sponsored by cbs live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. The bay area on the brink of the biggest storm in years. It is churning off the coast right now. Tonight, the weather phenomenon that could make this system even more powerful. Good evening, im Elizabeth Cook in for veronica de la cruz. Im ken bastida. Tonight, weather warnings posted for a storm that is still more than a day away. We have a series of reports for you, first up, kpix5s len ramirez on how warm Ocean Temperatures could help this storm grow stronger as it closes in. Reporter at the National Weather service in monterrey, computer models of the brewing pacific storm are becoming clear and the high wind watch just became a high wind warning. Confidence is increasing. The speeds are looking pretty strong. We are just discussing gusts of over 80 miles an hour in the mountains. Reporter inches of rain and the potential for power outages, mud slides, flooding. It has been several years since we saw something this strong. Reporter the warnings have been going out for this Weather Command Center to Public Safety agencies all day. A growing concern has to do with what they call heat capacity. And the timing of the storm. It hits when ocean water temperatures are unusually warm in the low 60s. What that gives is fuel for developing storms over the pacific. What that will do is energize the storms coming our way. That will increase the amount of rainfall that could fall in the bay area. We are looking at conditions with unusually warm water. Reporter the big waves are already starting to hit and the National Weather service monitors. People love seeing the big waves and the scary conditions out there. And they flock to the beaches. But you know, thats fine. Just