This is the cbs morning news for thursday, march 12th 2015. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Early this morning two Police Officers were shot in ferguson missouri. Violence erupted during a protest following the resignation of the citys police chief. He is the latest city official to quit following a Justice Department report finding incidents of racial violence in the City Police Department and the government. Witnesses say several gunshots were heard from a distance. We hear what we thought were fireworks up the street. It turns out it happened three more times. It was gunfire because we saw the muzzle fire from the gun on top of the street and so we were all kind of just duck down and once we duck down we saw the cop shot down next to us. Laura hettiger is outside the hospital in st. Louis. Laura, good morning. Reporter good morning to you, annemarie. Yes, this is where two Police Officers are being treated the morning for what the county police chief is calls very serious gunshot injuries. Lets get you right out to the scene right outside the Ferguson Police department. Were being told it was around midnight that the st. Louis police chief got the call that two of his officers had been shot, the county police chief saying that the evening was fairly uneventful right until midnight. That is when he said someone from the crowd of protesters fired three gunshots two of which hit two Police Officers. We do know that one of them was from slus county police. He was shot in the shoulder. The other was from near bys we ter grove. Also from st. Louis. He was shot in the famous both officers were conscious when they were transported to the hospital but the chief did not have any suspect information and did not comment on how the officers are doing right now. He does say they have been fortunate that more incidents like this have not happened in the last seven months. We have seen in Law Enforcement that this is a very, very very dangerous environmental for the officers to work in regarding the amount of gunfire that we have experienced up there. Reporter its been a very eventful day in the st. Louis area. We did get word the Ferguson Police chief tom jackson would be resigning yesterday afternoon. That was made official right around 5 30. And that is when the protests started. Protesters went to city hall and then we understand they went to Ferguson Police department. They were peaceful protests again, until right around midnight. And right now were being told there is a manhunt for the suspect or suspects who did this. Annemarie . Kmovs Laura Hettiger in st. Louis. Thanks a lot, laura. Well this morning the department of Homeland Security is investigating another alleged incident of misconduct by secret service agents. Two senior agents drove a government car into a security barrier near the white house following a reported night of drinking. Susan mcginnis is in washington. Susan, good morning. Annemarie good morning. This is the last thing the secret Service Needs after a string of security lapses. One of the agents being investigated is second in command of the president s security detail. This incident happened march 4th at about 11 00 p. M. While the secret service was investigating a suspicious package. The agents have been identified as Mark Connolly who works on the president s detail and george ogilvy a sign yore supervisor. They arrived at the scene after a night of alleged drinking they ran through security tape and then ran through the gate of a white house during an investigation of a suspicious package. The package turned out to be nothing. The new secret Service Direct eror john clancey. The leaders of the House Committee that oversees the secret Service Issue add Statement Last night saying the fact that this event involved senior level agents is not only embarrassing but shows a clear lack of judgment in a dangerous situation. A report last december called for new leadership at the agency following a string of embarrassing security lapses. Agents were disciplined for hiring prostitutes before a president ial trip to colombia in 2012. The failure to detect gunshots at the white house and last september, a fence jumper who made it inside the executive mansion. The president shows s chose clancey to clean up the agency even though the package asked to choose someone from the outside. Rangeing from misconduct and breakdowns that undermine the conduct that previous generations worked so hard to establish. Also under investigation a super ceased officer who may have wanted to arrest them and do sobriety tests. Thank you susan. Crewser is through the night for 11 servicemembers who are presumed to have died in a Helicopter Crash on the florida coast. One turned back because of poor visibility. The other crashed into a narrow waterway. There were seven marines and four crew members on board. Debris and body parts began washing ashourd yesterday. At the time of the crash, dense fog had moved in. You can depart from one station and hit weather that you didnt expect. So the conditions have to be right for them to take off. Now, what they run into while theyre airborne is a different story. The helicopter that crashed was piloted by a veteran National Guard crew. The marines were based at camp lejeune in north carolina. Its day six in the testimony of the Boston Marathon bombing trial. On wednesday the jurors focused the last casualty several days after the attack. Kris van cleave reports. Reporter prosecutors say the blurry figures in this video are brothers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother tamerlan after they shot the officer in his cruiser. Five hours earlier the fbi identified the suspects but they approached the police car anyway. I believe it was because they wanted to find another firearm. They never got the officers gun, but the officer was killed at the scene. The biker is student nate harmon. In court he pointed to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as the man he saw leaning into the drivers side of the vehicle. He snapped up turned around he looked startled harmon told jurors. We made eye contact. He said he seemed to be wearing this sweat shirt seen earlier in the day. They pegged the older brother as the master mind. Dzhokhars lawyers say it was tamerlan who shot collier. Collier paid his own way into the police academy. His last words to the officer, i told him to be safe. Kris van cleave, cbs news, boston. 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It was a generally quiet day on wall street with the dow finishing slightly lower. The dow lost 27 points. Service has been restored to itunes and app stores. Yesterday the widely used services broke down and were inaccessful to users. Apple blames an internal technical error. It came back yesterday afternoon. Its bookstores werent working either. Petsmart has gone private. Petsmart excepted the buyout offer back in december. The deal values ss petsmart at 83 a share. And a Consumer Advocacy Group wants to shelf Mattels Barbie doll this fall. The doll asks kids questions about their interests, families and more. It records their response and sends them to a cloud. The dow uses the childs answers to shape its response. The campaign for a commercialfree childhood says that poses a danger to the children and their families because of what kids can reveal. Annemarie . I suppose it can be a little creepy . But you know what im not an 8yearold girl. 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Dressed in suits they made their first and last appearance before their welterweight bout on may 2nd. This is a fight that the world cant miss. I believe that its what ive been waiting for. Reporter Floyd Mayweather jr. Has. Pack yeel has it. If you lost once, its in your mind. If you lost twice, its in your mind. Pacquiaos trainer had mar realistic approach. Reporter its no accident. The flight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao is expected to be the highest grossing boxing match in history. The bout has been five years in the makes with each side making different demands. Cbs president Leslie Moonves acted as a mediator to end the stalemate. Once the ball started rolling, they were gentlemen, they were respectful of each other. I was really glad it came together. Reporter payperview ticket prices have not been set but are expected to cost about 100. Danielle nottingham cbs news los angeles. In case you needed reminding, march madness is here. 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Shes the sweetest lady in the world and if you were doing something like, thats not funny at all. Hes asked fans to cut it out saying its so uncool. Coming up after your local news on cbs this morning duchess Kate Middleton visits the set of downton abbey. Im annemarie green. This is the cbs morning news. Buffs away hard skin even on those hardtoreach spots. Its amazing. You can see it and feel it. For soft, beautiful feet. Amope pedi perfect. clucking noises Everyone Wants to be the Cadbury Bunny because only he brings delicious cadbury creme eggs. While others may keep trying nobunny knows easter better than cadbury. It is a race against time to save the rhinos of south africa from extinction. Last year more than 1,200 were slaughtered for their horns. Debora patta went along on a lifesaving mission. Reporter these rhino know only too well what its like to run from danger but this time the man with the gun is trying to rescue them p dave cooper is on a project to lift 100 rhinos to a secret location in botswana. You want to get them into an area thats nice and open. Reporter on the ground park warden simon naylor is in constant touch. Carry on. Reporter once a rhino is hit with the tranquilizer our convoy speeds across the savannah. We have only a few minutes to find the rhino and inject an antidote before there is any fatal or longterm injury. The rhino is blindfolded. This is not a pleasant experience for the rhino, but it is a brief experience of discomfort that could ultimately save his life. Was lucky today. I see that the drugs worked nicely. Reporter moving a groggy 3,000pound rhino often takes two dozen or more men. Cooper and his team also darted this huge female. Her calf was clearly terrified. But naylor says the poaching crisis demands desperate actions. Now most of my day is spent protecting these rye knows. Weve had to double our guard force. Weve really had to become like a fortress just to protect the rhinos that we have. Reporter in two days the team captured ten renos, but poachers killed 1,200 rhino last year alonite. Right now it looks like an insurmountable task, but you have to keep at it. If you throw up your hands, youve lost. Reporter and for these rhino, new hope as they begin their 900 mile journey far away from the deadly reach of poachers. Debora patta cbs news johannesburg, south africa. Well coming up after your local news on cbs this morning, well go to the white house for reaction to the latest secret service scandal. Plus the fight over powdered alcohol which was approved by the federal government this week. Jan crawford has details. And duchess Kate Middleton visits the set of the hit show downton abbey. Finally the late cbs correspondent bob simon was acknowledged by his peers last night. He was awarded by the cbs news foundation. Jeff fager spoke and his daughter tanya spoke. He died last month. Thats the cbs morning news for this thursday. Im annemarie green. Have a great day. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com we start with breaking news in ferguson missouri where anti Police Protest turn violent overnight. Two Police Officers were shot, our Nicole Brewer is following the violence and she joins us with the latest information on this, nicole. A 41 yearold Police Officer was struck in the shoulder, another cop 32 from wester grove, missouri was shot the in the face. Both were hospitalized and are conscious after shots rang out shortly after midnight. This happened during a demonstration surrounding the resignation of the fergusons Embattled Police chief wednesday night. What began as a celebration of his departure became a violent chaotic scene lets take a listen. They saw, the fire from the gun, a atop of the street. So we are all just
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