Community was shattered. Its hurt all of us as you can see but we will over time rember this. Thank you. The shooter was identified as a former reporter. He took his own life. Sadly these types of events happen too often. The journalists go through tough places. This isnt one of those places. On a top call with democrats where hes weighing whether he has the emotional fuel to endure campaign. J iust want the Vice President to decide to do whats right for him and his family. The pentagon spokesm ians confirming that two american soldiers were killed during an insider attack in afghanistan. Wall street bouncing back in a big way. The dow posted its third biggest oneday gain ever. A sixday losing streak. James holmes sentenced to 12 consecutive life sentences plus more than 3,300 years in prison snoon get the defendant out of my trcouroom, please. Walmart will stop selling militarystyle rifles not based on any decisions but because sales are down. Today schools and airports are closing and shelters are being prepared. All that and a florida man wont let his car get toed. They battle it out in a tugofwar. The moment a ye5ldaro who found out he was going to be a big brother. And all that matters. Those are the things that matter. The man returned a few minutes later. So already trumps deportation plan isnt working. On cbs this morning. Alison and adam were the ateam. I always said be more awake than your viewers and theres no doubt about it, those two were more awake. They were the bright shiny young faces that we got to see in the morning. Announcer this mornings eye opener presented by toyota. Lets go places. Captioning funded by cbs welcome to cbs this morning. Charlie rose and gayle king are off so Anthony Mason and Margaret Brennan are with us again. Good to have you with us. A short time our our cbs affiliate had a moment of silence on air for two of its own. They were shot to death during a live interview. The shooter is always dead. The reporters were on the air and letting their emotions show. It was a conversation with Vicki Gardner when the peacefulness of our community was shattered. As we approach that moment we want to pause and reflect and we want to share with you once again what made these two so special not just to us but to all who wjdb on police a moment of silence. Jeff pegues is in virginia where the shooting happened. Jeff, good morning. Good morning. The deadly shooting occurred right across the street almost exactly 24 hours ago and since that time investigators have searched the gunmans home and this morning there is more evidence that he may have been planning this attack for months. Alison parker and adam ward did not see the killer walking toward them but he was recording all of it to be hosted later on social media. The gunman comes up from behind, lifts the pistol, waits for wards camera to turn back onto parker and then as many as 14 shots were fired. Vickie gardner was badly wounded. They quickly focused vester flanagan. He worked at the same station and was fired. Then in may of 2014 he sued wdbj for discrimination. Court records say he was dismissed but he apparently held a grudge. He tweeted his on air name about the reporter claiming alison made racist comments and saying that adam went to hr one time. Investigators say he shot himself and he later died in the hospital. Jeff marx, the general manager of wdbj says flanigan was a troubled employee from the start. How early on did you know that he wasnt fitting in here . A few months into his employment. I think we knew he was a live wire, but do you ever see somebody taking up arms and getting throwing their own life away in order to prove some sort of point with a violent overkill. Shortly after the killing someone identifying himself as flanagan faxed a 23page suicide note to a b bc news. He allegedly praised the Mass Shootings at Virginia Tech and columbi columbine. Called wednesdays shooting. And added ive been a human powder keg for a while just waiting to go boom. Flanagan had traffic stops in his background but nothing more serious than that. Law enforcement sources say he was able to purchase two guns legally back in july in roanoke. Margaret. Jeff, thank you. Alison parker and adam ward grew up in the area where they worked together and their colleagues say they both had great future ahead. Vicki gardners husband says this morning she is recovering from her wounds. The local newspaper says the entire area is in a state of shock. Kris van cleave is outside the wdbj station. Good morning. Reporter good morning. It starts to feel like a family for the people who work there and the thousands who tune in. Many have been coming by the station leaving flowers, balloons, cards, wellwishers, mourners coming together. As for the families of the three victims here, they all say theyre struggling to understand why this happened. Immediately people go, wow. You know. She had that it factor. Reporter andy parkers daughter alison made him burst with pride. How do you begin to process what happened today . I dont. You know, the day has gone from total shock and disbelief to abject grief where ive been crying my eyes out all day long. Hey, everyone. Im Alison Parker. Photo journalist adam ward and i are putting finishing tumbles. Reporter for more than a year she worked the morning shift with adam. Both virginia natives, wdbj felt like home. They were two bright young people getting ready to start their lives. Parker just celebrated her 24th birthday and recently moved in with her boyfriend and cohost. They planned to get married. Ward was 27 and worked at the station since he graduated in 2011. He was also engaged to morning producer melissa ott. She was in the newsroom watching the shooting unfolded. It was her last day before moving to North Carolina for a new job. Ward planned to follow her. She posted this on her facebook page. Adam, i will never find a man so happy, selfless, proteshive, funny, charming like you. My soul mate. I will always love you. He had that wit, that charm, that ability to light up a room and so did alison. Reporter andy parker is holding onto his last memory of alison celebrating her birthday with a family on the river. Were going to go down there for a Memorial Service and spread her ashes in the river, which she would have liked. Reporter parker told us he is taking some comfort in the fact that alison did not suffer. He said he will now campaign aggressively for strukter gun laws here in virginia and across the country. As for the third victim, the surviving victim, Vickie Gardner, we understand shes been upgraded to good condition. We spoke with her husband tim. He said she has more treatment, more surgeries today. Thank you so much. Alison parker calls her the most radiant woman hes ever met. Ahead they talk about her final days and amazing spirit. President obama offered his condolences to the victims and their loved ones. My heart goes out to them, to the families. You know, sadly these kinds of events happen too often and it its a testimony in this case to the fact that journalists, they go into some tough places. This wasnt one of those situations. This is a place where they should have been safe. The president calls the shooting one more reason to find way to reduce gun violence. John miller is with us. Hes a former assistant fbi director and a former senior correspondent. Good morning. Good morning. What can we learn from this . I think what we learn is this is out of the textbook. I spent a long time yesterday on the phone with mary otool, a former fbi director. Shes at the George Mason University school of science and still studying it. She said you could write the book on this guy. He exhibited all the behaviors, the pathway behaviors, which is all the preparation he did to do this. He bought that camera, practiced with itting obtained the guns and so on. The following and stalking, the identification of selected victims, so were seeing more of this. You call him the classic injustice collector. The classic injustice collector are those who arent making it and theyre blaming it on everybody else along the way. In this case you see a classic injustice. What was his injustice. His injustice was he viewed himself that he should be here on Network Television news and unfortunately he found the most terrible way to get there and be that lead story and be on it. John, what do you make i think a part of what we found most disturbing is he not only did it while it was Live Television and deliberately so and that he was photographing it himself as well. Since the Virginia Tech shooting, the fbi profailures when that gunman sent the videotape and it was broadcast on the tv, he said the next step was not to make a manifesto and video, the next step is to record the thing live while youre doing it and to distribute that. Theyve been worried about that for a long time and here it is. But he had this pattern of odd behavior. His coworkers were uncomfortable. He threatened them. As you say, this was thought out. This was deliberate. Why no red flags . Why was he legally able to buy a gun . Unless youre mentally adjudicated incompetent by a court, thats not part of the system, which is a background check you go to to buy a gun. Thats not going to show up on the radar screen. And you see with a lot of these meme that they they planned and executed their attack with such rational planning that theyre able to theyre able to mask the signs of Mental Illness that others see. And that was social media. They have an easy way to distribute whatever way they want to distribute. If you look at this case and stack it up against the Christopher Dorner case, remember the l. A. Police officer who was fired and he targeted all of those and tracked them down one by one and published a giant manifesto on facebook, they track. And this final act of leaving behind this long treaties about what everybody did and listing, that is the classic injustice collector. All right. John miller, thank you, john. Well talk to republican president ial candidate Chris Christie about the wdbj killings. Governor christie will be here in studio 57 ahead on cbs this morning. A new poll out this morning shows Vice President joe biden running stronger against Top Republican candidates than Hillary Clinton. The quinnipiac poll finds biden with a lead over donald trump. He leads marco rubio by three points and fellow republican by six points even though biden is not a candidate. He told Democratic Party insiders wednesday if i were to announce to run, i have to be able to commit to all of you that i would be able to give it my whole heart and my whole soul and right now both are pretty well banked up. His son beau died three months ago and clinton says give biden time. I just want the Vice President to decide to do whats right for him and his family, and i dont think its useful to be behind the scenes asking this or saying that. This morning ee poll shows biden has a higher favorability rating than any other candidate in both parties including Hillary Clinton. Donald trumps latest rhetoric is the talk of the republican campaign. Trump is not backing down as candidates in both parties and journalists act in out bursts. Julianna goldman is in washington and reports on those two. Good morning. Good morning. Those two met last night when popular spanish journalist jorge ramos. Tv journalists werent the only ones responding to trumps attacks. What is it like to be caught in the cross hairs of a billionaire president ial frontrunner . You know exactly how it feels. Reporter fox anchor megyn kelly and Univision Jorge ramos found Common Ground after his tuesday night confrontation with donald trump. It happened with your colleagues at fox news. He hates it when being confronted. He was just telling me things. It was a very loud shrill voice and i said whats going on over here and didnt think it was appropriate the way he beheched. Reporter and to announce his Second Public truth with rogers ailes. I have much bigger things to think about. Rogers ailes is a great guy and no. Do it as a conservativeor crying out loud. Go through these questions and what youll find is this guy doesnt have a plan. Hes appealing to peoples angst and their anger. Reporter trump was unfazed. I guess he was traying very hard because i said he was low energy. Reporter he also took heat from democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton. Dont get distracted by the flamboyant frontrunner. Reporter she struck a more conciliatory tone. It clearly was jts the best choice. I should have used two emails one for personal, one for work, and i take responsibility for that decision. Anthony, this is the kind of answer that many Top Democrats and donors have been looking for her to give for months now. Julianna, thaerngs. Wall street is beginning another rally. Asian markets rebounded overnight. Chinas shanghai shot up over 5 . The nikkei gained about 1 . Stocks are also higher in britain and germany. The dow soared 619 points reince. Thats the biggest oneday gain in seven years. The surge broke a string of five straight sessions of triple digit losses. This morning we know the identities of two american servicemen killed in an insider attack in afghanistan. 27yearold captain matthew role land and 381yearold sibley. The gunman was dressed in an Afghan Security forces uniform. This morning the fast moving wind is tracking aet 45 miles an hour. It forced the airport to close. Its expected to hit puerto rico today. Erika is on track to impact florida early next week. This morning the faa is investigating a scary aborted takeoff. The planes nose lifted off the ground too early last week in las vegas. The pilots were unable to bring the nose down as the md83 jet was traveling nearly 143 miles an hour. The crew finally slow the plane and guided it back to the gate. The Airlines Says the plane is fixed. The former prep School Student gives his klt of what happened. Ahead, the testimony announcer this National Weather report sponsored by the makers of tylenol. For what matters most. Alison parkers boyfriend said she could have done great things. Chris hust talks about the reporter he worked with and loved. The news is back here in in the morning on cbs this morning. Your allergies bring more than sneezing. And itchy eyes. They also bring tough nasal congestion. 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Were putting the final touches. Weve seen cars heading into town with snow and ice on top of their cars and its spilling off. State police are expected for people to head out for the Holiday Weekend as early as today, so lets see if we can catch anybody. I wanted to go through a sleep study to see if my job impacts how i do the news. Adam, come out in front of the camera. Hes the ugly stepmother. The 5k mud run. When i was younger i wanted to become a doctor or a pharmacist but as a journalist i get to cover those types of fields, so its close enough. Alison parkers boyfriend is a news anchor and joins us. Chris, thank you so much. First you and your colleagues at wdbj are in our prayers this morning. Reporter thank you very much. I appreciate that. I have not been able to hear her voice until i just heard it in my ear just now since yesterday. I miss her voice and everyone in this community got to hear it nearly every single day and now they cant except in memory. Chris, what are you holding there . This was something that was made by alison for me that was personal for us. We only had nine months together but i can tell you guys it was a whitehot relationship that burned full of love. We were betrothed to each other. We were going to get married. We moved in together in august because we wanted to save money to buy a house and to buy a ring. We were living the dream and that dream was shattered. For our six month anniversary we didnt have enough time to have an verse so all we could have were monthaversaries. She made me this scrapbook and said we were the cutest nooseiest prettiest couple ever and we are and i had that for nine months. I had what all of us in this business well not maybe all of us, but some people are desirous of being a power couple and a team and i found my teammate and my partner. These pictures here are when we had an opportunity to live anchor a st. Patricks day parade here in Downtown Roanoke together. It was the only time we ever really worked together. I anchor the 6 00 and 11 00 and she does the morning show. Chris, you shared so much of your life and experiences. Did you have any sense . Did alison have any sense that she was being targeted . No. No. And we talk in tv news and i talk to her. We talked about what we would do in situations when we have to identify a shooter. I dont want to talk about him, i really dont. I will say this, that he made many claims against many people at this station that were all unfounded, innocuous claims or innocuous that any reasonable person would conclude they were innocuous and yet they were taken out of context. Anything we can do to help these people who want to harbor hate in their heart. Chris, how did you find out yesterday about what had happened . So our relationship was that we werent able to really see each other much during the week. She did the morning show and i did 6 00 and 11 00, so our schedule was pretty much i would come home from work around midnight, i would stay up until she got up and make her breakfast and make her lunch and send her off. She texted me when she got to work around 3 00 a. M. And she said good night sweet boy and that was the last i heard of her and then about 7 00 yesterday morning i got calls from the station telling me there was a shooting live on air and they needed to come to the station. Chris, im so sorry. All of us, our hearts go out to you and dont know youre even talking to us to be honest. Youre being share. The way u that im talking to you i dont know. I mean im a part of a story now. I dont know what i can do to cover it other than to share her story, you know. That becomes part of the story. And to cover it means im going to cover alison. And adam was a friend and someone i was excited to do fantasy football with this fall again. He loved he loved melissa with all of his heart and he was a much, much better boyfriend and fiance than i could ever be. He loved her with every ounce of his being and she loved him back. He was so spontaneous and giving in his love that it was easy to see why melissa and he were so meant for each other. And how do you want allison to be remembered . That she was not only a great jurmt because buh that she was excellent at everything she did. She was a she was a wonderful gymnast and she won at swimming. She was a champion swimmer. And a marvelous dancer and the only thing i really regret this morning is i never got to see her dance in person. She was going to be in a celebrity dancing competition coming up very soon and she was practicing the tango with her partner and she would have been so fantastic in it. She would have been better than everybody else. She would have won the darn thing but she wouldnt let me see it till the night of the performance she was phenomenal and she was the love of my life and she told me every day that e was the love of hers. Chris, thank you again for sharing with us this morning. We understand how difficult it is. And, again, our thoughts and prayers go out to all of you at the station. Thanks so much. This was two of us, guys. This was two of us gunning down. We will not forget them. We will not forget them. We wont either. We also want to show you some of this mornings other headlines this morning. The New York Times reports on walmarts decision to end sales of militarystale assault rifles. The retail giant says the move is not political. Walmart is the largest seller of guns and ammunition in the u. S. They say theyre down for ar15s and orifles. Its adding more shotguns and hunting weapons. The Washington Post looks at president obamas visit to new orleans today for the tenth anniversary of hurricane katrina. The president will meet with residents to continue to rebuild and hell also deliver remarks at a new Community Center in the hard hit lower ninth ward. Nearly 2,000 people died in the storm, most of them in new orleans. The advocate of baton rouge reports on the killing of the plifb with his own gun. The officer responded wednesday to a domestic dispute where three women were stabbed. One of them was dead. The suspect was captured after a standoff. Police say the gunman is the officers cousin. They report in lawsuit over keyless ignitions in cars. The device has killed 13 people. It accuses ten of the worlds biggest automakers in a coverup. Some leave a car running after they believe its shut off believing it will shut off and that can lead to Carbon Monoxide poisoning. Usa today reports on the began cub that died. The cub was the smallest born on saturday. 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I thought to myself, you know, were going to have sex. Reporter the prep School Graduate told the injury he and the 15yearold had come very close to having intercourse but stopped. I thought to myself, you know, maybe we shouldnt do this. It wouldnt have been a good move to have sex with this girl. Reporter his lawyer jay carney later asked him why he told his friends he did. Thats a tough thing to admit to. The last couple of days, i guess i wanted to look good and, you know, i wanted everyone to think that it had gone great. Reporter last week the alleged victim who was not shown because shes a minor said labrie forced himself upon her. I was raped. I was violated in so many ways. Reporter the prosecutor grilled the defendant about conversations he had with classmates leading up to that nate in which he discussed how he, quote, wanted to slay her. You want all these people here to believe that after all that time thinking about her and having foreplay, you just stopped. It didnt stop but i kissed her. I think his story is carefully concocted around the physical evidence. The story has changed all the time. Reporter but jay carney says the evidence is on his clients side. The truth tends to be following the evidence and conforms to the evidence. Thats why its the truth. Reporter now the 16yearold girl in this case was in the courtroom when labrie testified yesterday and at one point mid morning she ran out of the courtroom crying. She did come back later in the day. Labrie was the only defense witness which means Closing Arguments are set to begin sometime this morning probably. Norah . All right, anna. Is there a jury inside that trial . Caller yes, there is a jury. All right. And when do we expect a decision . Reporter well, its hard to know exactly when a decision will come. Theres Closing Argument and jury yet to come and the question is will they begin the deliberation today or might they hold over for the weekend. Anna, thank you very much. 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Theres more evidence he may have been planning this for months. He viewed himself as being on news. Wellwishers have come together. Theyre all struggling to understand why this happened. Ew a nl pol shows Vice President joe biden running ngstrogaer ainst Top Republican candidates than Hillary Clinton. Im just going to continue with my campaign. Two trump targets met last night when jorge ramos appeared with fox news megyn kelly. He appears not to be a fan of yours. Or yours. Well hes arippean ng ithe senseual assault trial. He said he had playful and affecti affectionate with the girl. We didnt have time for a sixmonth anniversary. She made us this scrapbook that said we were the cutest nooseiest prettiest couple ever and we are. Im Norah Odonnell with Anthony Mason and Margaret Brennan. Charlie rose and gayle king are off. Our cbs affiliate wbdj held a moment of silence on the air for reporter Alison Parker and photographer adam ward 24 hours after the shooting. Parker and ward were shot to death by a former wdbj reporter who recorded the attack himself and put it online. The woman they were interviewing, Vickie Gardner with the chamber of commerce was wounded. Her husband tells us shes recovering. Ward was engaged to wdbj producer melissa ott. She was in the control room watching when it happened. She posted this message on facebook. Adam, youre the one. You understand me, my soulmate, enjoy the enless tech games in your heaven. I love you so much. Parker and wdbj chris hurst had just moved in together and planned to get mair. Her father said the two blocked together. She loved chris. They were such good they were almost like an old couple. Domestic couple. It was really cute to watch them. You know, they loved each other very much. Her father spoke to us, he said, because he wants people to remember alison. Gnaw poll shows alison with a huge lead in the republican president ial race. 28 of republicans in the nationwide pole support trump. Jeb bush, ted cruz are tied for third. Governor Chris Christie is with us here in studio 57. Welcome back. Happy to be back. I want to talk politics but first the top story, the murders in roanoke. What did you first think when you heard what happened . Its an awful tragedy and my heart goes out to those folks who suffer thad loss. Its terrible thing and i think most americans are just tired, tired of violence, tired of lawlessness and we want folks to do something about it. New jersey has one of the lowest rates of gun deaths in the country. Is that because of some of the gun control laws in your state . No. Thats because they have a governor who enforces the law and also supports community policing. And you look at crime exploding all over the country, but in camden, new jersey, which used to be the most dangerous city in america. We fired the entire police force, brought in a new police force. The murder rate in the last three years is down 61 . People know two things. As governor ill do anything i have to do to protect the lives of the people in new jersey and fight again these criminals and second that were doing things Like Community policing so the community and the police force are working together to protect their neighborhoods. Thats the kind of leadership we need in the country and we dont have it right now. In the case of this shooter, he didnt set off any trip wires. He did have this history of complaints against him, threatening people, but he legally purchased gun. If youre president , how do you stop stuff like that happening . First we should do more about Mental Health in this country. The fact is we need to know more about peoples Mental Health. Dwoimt need new laws to be diebl that. We need to enforce it. Youre saying he should have been profiled . I dont know the particulars about him, nor does anybody else. What im saying in general t problem i see with the governor is were not focusing on Mental Health. All youre hearing is lets have new laws when we dont enforce the laws we have. Theyre the ones committing most of the Violent Crime in this country and yet we want to be calling for more laws. Its a way for member os congress to feel useful. Quite frankly, thats not what we need to do. You saw the quinnipiac poll. It says you have the support of 4 of the republicans. Whats going to keep you in it . The people of the country. This country is incredibly frustrated. Incredibly frustrated with a country thats completely enept. Im going to continue to speak with that. In new jersey i came in with the same thing. Were going to go out there and work hard and make this happen. As 4 governor given how crowded this field is theres no reason for me to forgive you at all for that question. Hes just being polite. Heres the thing. Heres the thing, and if i was at 7 youd be saying i was in third place. So lets get serious, okay . These polls dont mean anything right now. What matters is what matters to the American People. Theyre frustrated by a president who has permitted lawlessness in this country and now we have a candidate who believes the law doesnt apply to her. If t fact is she shouldnt be running at all. Thats never happened with me. I answer every question directly and thats what the American People are going to reward ultimate ultimately. Ill be held accountable as governor and everything i say in this race. If you look at the national polls, the two men leading have never been elected officials, donald trump and ben carson. You have the appeal of saying like it is. It seems donald trump has seemed to have been given report. Would you ever kick a reporter out of a News Conference . Never have. Youve yelled at them. When i think a question is inappropriate or incorrect, i corrt them. Youre talking about outsiders. Im a republican in new jersey. I wake up every morning as an outsider. I know what its like. Thats what people want. They want somebody whos going to washington and fight for them. You certainly dont agree with donald trump on a number of issues, i assume. Of course, theres reluctance. Listen. For me i can only speak for myself. Its my job to introduce myself, my ideas, my programs, my visions of leadership. Its not my business to be sitting here even though here we are sitting here this morning for 3 or 4 minutes already and all were asking about is donald trump. Im not going engage na n that. Theres no purpose of that. Youve about betown chairman of the republicans association. You care about the party. I do. I know you do. Thats why im running for president. Do you feel someone in the party is misrepresenting your party, why wouldnt yaw say sew so. Because theres no one that represents the party right now. Norah, thats what the process is all about. As the process continues, were in august. As this process continues people are going to emerge ads the people of our party. So lets not anoint anybody as the leader of our party when were 5 1 2 month as away. So its my job to make my case about the American People on things im concerned about. Thats why there are more town halls in there. They think the immigration system is out of control, theyre worried about student death and theyre scared to death theyre going to be killed by a terrorist. Now, if we think thats a better position than we were in seven years, then its not the america i remember. Those are the things im going to be focused on. What about calling people bimbos. Listen. I think that question answers itself. But it is in many ways a situation where the oxygens being eated up. Its not clear where any of the other do sit. Whats your plan . Its simple. Four steps. First thing you need to do is build fencing or walling in the urban areas along the border where its appropriate. Not across the entire border. Second, we need to em bass them. These what theyre particularly god at. Third wi need to use drones and cameras along the border and to be able to then put human resources. Fourth, we knead to start penalized employers in this country. Hiring cheaper labor to make more money. Heres what i do. You hire illegal labor to make more money. Whatever your profit margin was, the fines are double that. These folks are coming here to work. Some dont want to talk unthe employers folks, unleak what Hillary Clinton thinks, were the state in the country. If they know theyre not going get a job, theyre not coming. Thats what we need to do. Thats a commonsense doable proposal. The president of mexico is not paying for wall, i dont care who asks him. We need to do a plan that will actually work. The last thing is the president Guinness World records reaches a milestone. Ahead, a closer look at the book featuring some impressive and outrageous World Records. This book is very popular in my house with 8yearolds. But how it will survive in the digital age. 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Refresh your space with an extra onehundred dollars off every thousand at havertys. Plus enjoy thirtysix month, nointerest financing. Havertys. Discover something you. Today marks 60 years since the Guinness World records published its first book. Consider the longest fingernails or biggest motorcycle. Debora patta is in london with the impact of the book. Debora, good morning. Reporter good morning. Well, this book has prevented plenty a pub argument from turning into a bar room brawl. What began as harmless publicity has become one of the bestselling books of all time. Published every year its an assort mns of jawdropping achievements. When Roger Bannister became the ferret man to run a mile in under four minutes, guinness was there to report it. But it was also there to document the world east finest jumped on a loaded spring and blowing off fire board. Youll find the tallest and shorterest men, even the oldest practicing gymnast who at 86 still doing back flips. Guinness World Records believes it is the final word on, well, everything. I can tell you with 100 accuracy the tallest man is 83. Hes travelled the world reporting it all, the sublime and the ridiculous. We celebrate them all equally. Whether youre bolt or the guy in clogs or on all fours, its that rich variety and we treat them all the same. What is it dow ewe think about humans that we want to break records . Its an inherit part of being human, that you have to push yourself. You dont really need to climb that mountain or sail that ocean but people do because its challenge. She became the first woman to row the ocean with her son. My son was going to row the ocean with his best friend and he dropped out and he called me and said, mom, how would you like to spend christmas with me in barbados. Theres one thing. You have to row it. Over the years theyve concurred the track, if dominating the airwaves to the longest fingernails and the Worlds Largest zumba clash and way from just human achievement s. e you get more than just the bragging rights. Its the guinness book of World Records. Yes, you did. Its a proof. Its a metal. Its an oscar. It begs the question whether an actual book of World Records is necessary, but theres an online version as well. There shouldnt be any bar room brawls for at least another 60 years. I love the guinness book of word records. I spent so many hours. Its a niagamuch big picture. I remember the guy with the longest moustache. Yes. Im vinita nair in new york, coloring for adults. That storys coming up on cbs this morning. But i did. Im mike, and im very much alive. Now my doctor recommends a bayer aspirin regimen to help prevent another heart attack. Be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. 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People tell us their budget, not the other way around. Arent you lactose intolerant . This isnt lactose. Its milk. Hi, babies. A baby monitor shows 1 1 2yearold twins trying to fool their mom during naptime. They were standing in their cribs until they heard mom. Thats when they hit their mattresses and pretended to be asleep. That is so adorable. Welcome back to cbs this morning. Coming up in this half hour, coloring books are growing up fast. See how adults are embracing a distraction from their digital lives by drawing inside the lines. Plus another colorful wonder if you can stand the stink. Were outside chicago where spike the corpse plower is coming to life. Meet the hardnosed fan finding beauty in a sense comparable to dirty socks and limburger cheese. Looking forward to that. The wall street yurnl looks at americas huge and growing thirst for bottled water. Our consumption has doubled more than double. Its puts it on track to outsell soda by 2017. Basketball gapes will play tribute to the late player lauren hill. Remember hills courageous fight with inoperable brain cancer last season. It inspired them. They will open each season for xavier. Money from ticket sales will go to pediatric brain cancer research. Cbs philadelphia reports on big news for kyw katy faye linger who was criticized for being on air to being pregnant. From that happy story to more happy news. This is so exciting. Ice amazing to announce this. O fehlinger just gave birth two little girls. She was firing back after getting tweets on how she lo looked. Her twin daughters and her are doing well. Congratulations to her. Our cbs affiliate reports on a proposal gone wrong. The groom to be accidentally dropped the ring in the ocean. Matthew quickly dove into the water to start looking for it. Some strangers who saw it happen also jumped in to help. It took an hour and a half, but one of them found the ring. He then proposed and Kayla Harrity said yes. What if they had. Found the ring that apparently people ran to get goggles so they could help jump in the water and find the ring. Thats like an insurance ad waiting to happen. I dont know how many guys get the insurance right when they buy it. News you can use. Not very many. No very many. It would have been a goner. Well, the daily mirror of london reports on some of the 1,000 slang terms added to oxforddictionary. Com. Awesome sauce means extremely excellent. Beer oclock. Fur baby is a persons dog, cat, or other persons dog or cat or hangry, someone whos hungry and angry. Burger king wanted to team up for a day to create the mcwhopper. It combines the companys signature burger. Burger king wrote, we know weve had our petty differences but how about we call a ceasefire on the socalled burger wars. The ceo of mcdonalds said, we love the idea intention but they our two brands could do something bigger to make a difference. Ps, a simple phone call will do next time. What are they up . This. They want the country to talk about them. Theyve got people talking an burger. Its faux controversy. They didnt really want to create a mcwhopper for International Peace day. With good intention. Im like, wow. Thats really great they want to work together. Theyre trying to support this cause but clearly this intention was get as much publicity out of this, hopefully mcdonalds will play along. Unfortunately mcdonald responds leaving everybody flat. Theyre both feeling the pressure from restaurants. When is the last time anybody admit theyd wanted a fast food burger. I think it elevated the whole category so i dont see any downside. The issue is it can get tricky. Burger king is known for doing it. Theyve done it for decades. Their market budget pales in comparison to mcseconds. They spent 32 million a year. Mcdonalds spends a billion dollars. As were talking about it it helps amplify everything we do. There are risks here. They want to say, hey, you want to be in social good company. Apaurmtly mill lepials are all about social good. Apparently. Apparently. There has to be some giveback here and thats the risk. Burger king is going to have to come to the table and make sure theres some money given to this company. Doesnt it put mcdonalds in an awkward situation as well . I think it does. They say we might have dub this if you had just called us. They wanted to spur a reaction and this is all happens in real time so soninlaw media takes over. They didnt call and give them a headsup. The p. R. People were probably sitting around and thats all they could come up with. Clearly theyre a pretty good marketer. How about teaming up and having a veggie burger or something i can eat. Still wand a mcwhopper. Youre not alone. Some of the hottest books are selling faster than that i can be printed. Vinita nair with how adult coloring books are drawing attention. Some say its the backandforth movement. Others say its about unplugging. The global interest in the genre has catapulted it into the mainstream. Its almost hip tottic. Youre creating something beautiful that you might not do under other circumstances. Jean roberts didnt care much for coloring as a kid. Now she does it every day. Whats the best part of it . For me its when im finished and im like i did this, this is great. Last april she posted inviting other adults to color with her. That led to the creation of the Cornwall Coloring Club that sits, shades, and moisturizes. The goal was to unplug from the digital and immerse in the analogue. Luanne lindemann joined. Then she asked her best friend lynn rhodes to go with her. I think people like coloring but dont want to say it. Closet colorer. Now were out of the closet. For the past few months theyve quietly become international sensations. Some of the original and most popular books are drawn by designer joanna fastford. I would draw on books, walls, my sister, anything i could get my hand on. A Publishing House initially approached the scottish artist to draw a kids coloring book. Where did the idea come fro fr. I thought there was an opportunity. A blank sheet of paper can be quite in tim dating. But with a coloring book, i wondered if people would latch onto that. Did you wonder if it would actually sell . Yeah. The first book we initially print 13d,000 copies. I panicked and told my mom shes going to have to buy a lot of them to save face. Shes sold 5 million. Theyve bun done by hand. First traced in pencil and then trace over by pen. Whos buying the book. Some families are doing it together with their kids. People recovering from illness. Theyre doing it in hospital. Ive had investment bankers. I think everybody has that little bit of nostalgia. For lynn rhodes its simply more than getting lost between the lines. Coloring has helped ease her multiple sclerosis. Do you find this feels like therapy . Being able to just sit and talk. Thats always therapeutic. My life, im constantly on the go. Its nice to just sit down and just relax and color. Some experts say they found evidence that coloring has some specific health benefits. It engages both sides of the brain and reduces blood pressure. I have to say i was the biggest skeptic, but spending the afternoon with them i kind of like i want a book. Can someone give me one. Dwoild this at home. Take one of your childrens books. This is the real deal. My friend beth told me about this a couple of months ago rj she said it sold out. Try to go online. It sold out its that popular. She created the genre herself. Thats great. Thats awesome sauce. That was an awesome sauce report. Indeed. This is not so awesome sauce. Depends where youre standing. Near the winding city thousands are hoping for something foul in the air. Im add ya na diaz in the chicago garden where spike is about to unleash something a rare and foul smelling moment in the plant kingdom is about to unfold outside chicago. This morning a corpse flower named spike is on the verge of blooming. And if youve ever smelled one, you might want to run. A warning to adriana diaz who is at the chicago Botanic Garden to show us how the crowds are craving the stink. Adriana, good morning. Reporter good morning. Thousands have signed up to get an email alert. The moment spike here showed signs of pant life labor. Over the past weeks hes got around the clock care and is even the star of his own 24hour livestreaming broadcast all to make sure nobody misses the big moment. Anticipation has been agonizing. Were expected parents, firsttime mother and father waiting for our child to be born. Reporter more than 40,000 people have filed. Theyve file through this greenhouse Maternity Ward all hopes to witness the moment when the largest flower species gives bloom. Its been expecting for 12 years. It gave itself a kick itkic. Its coming. He has both male and female roots. The flowers single natural habitat. Thats where im already starting to feel some of that. Floral cult rust tim collins raised spike. For the past 12 years tim has looked after spike making sure hes well fed and maintained the perfect picture. I have baby pictures i can share with you. Reporter waiting for the day this 58inch flower showing its colors. Its amazing. A lot of people have a hard time keeping a house plant alive for 12 months. His leaves are starting to unfurl, a include. But it will accompanied by something just as breath taking achlt putrid stench, likely to take your breath away in a bad way. How would you describe the smell . The smell of death mixed in with moth balls, the smell of skunk, all of those things mixed together. Last week another spice years bloomed in denver. Thousands of curious onlookers endured a threehour wait in the sun with a photo op and a whiff. To me it smells like dead mice. It smells like indianapolis in the summertime. Pollack says the flower is trying to imitate rotting flesh on purpose. In the wild theyre trying to attack dunk beetles and flies. The coloration of the flower is to also make it look like me too. So all of those things are luring or tricking those insects for pollination. Is it almost like a botanical miracle . A lot of people in horticulture, this is on their bucket list. Its a onetime opportunity to see. Reporter with no insects to pollinate, hell be artificially inseminated through a hole that will be cut here once he blooms. It will last for up to 36 hours. Its a good thing it hasnt happened. Once it opens up, you dont want to be anywhere near it. Will it die . It will last two days, crumpleable and in less time another will bloom. It will take 3 to 5 years. 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