the hostage situation and how they got the suspect out of the building. and dealing with a little cloud cover and fog out there this morning, but we ll warm up nicely and see sunshine, but a chance of showers in your forecast. i ll tell you more about that in just a bit. it is 7:00 a.m. on saturday morning, september 10. thanks for joining us today. i m anne mackovic. tomorrow, of course, marks the 10th anniversary of the worst terror attack on american soil. security officials are on high alert this weekend, over a possible new threat to americans, from the golden gate bridge to international airports, security has been beefed up. drew levenson joins us live from ground zero in new york with more on the possible targets. good morning, drew. reporter: good morning, to you. you re right. security is much tighter here today than it has been for quite a while and for any of these anniversaries. in fact, it s because authorities believe they have a credible threat. police a
way we fight, the way we live and the way we travel. americans were introduced to new heroes and very familiar enemies. join us at ground zero for a look at those we lost, those who survived and a look ahead, early this saturday morning, september 10th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs good morning on a partly cloudy cool day in downtown manhattan this saturday, i m russ mitchell. i m rebecca jarvis. we ll be speaking to members of families, those who perished in the 9/11 attacks, those twhorp heroes aboard flight 93, the flight that landed in shanksville, pennsylvania. and andy card, president bush s chief of staff that day, who said america is under attack. we ll end the broadcast with inspirational music. we begin with the latest terror threat. u.s. officials say intelligence indicate an attack could happen in washington this weekend. three men reportedly involved, two men have traveling documents. bob orr is in our washington bureau. the fbi can t say whether or n
scene of this mass murder, a nondescript ihop in nevada. police are starting to share more information about the gunman. 32-year-old eduardo sencion was carrying three weapons, two assault rifles and a pistol. he apparently only used the ak- 47 assault rifle. police say he drove up in a blue minivan at 9 a.m., took out the rifle and opened fire. first he shot a woman on or near a motorcycle. at some point he shot up the outside of a barbecue shop called locals barbecue then walked deep inside the ihop to the back. he saw a group of uniformed national guard troops who were eating breakfast and just started shooting. in all, he shot five members of that group. five members of the national guard killing two of them, two men. by the time police arrived, he had shot 11 people total. then at some point the gunman turned the weapon on himself actually making a total of 12. i just hear bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, at least 10, 12 shots. we started to hear what we thought was fir
swamping the gulf coast. the tropical storm was downgraded to a tropical depression late last night. lee is headed east northeast, it has 35-mile-per-hour sustained winds, but hurricane consultant david bernard said it s the threat of flash floods that s the real problem. it s going to merge with this cold front and move to the northeast, that means a tremendous flood threat in the appalachians and also potentially the mid-atlantic and northeast. that yellow area is two to five inches of rain, the orange area could mean as much as five to eight inches of rain, so i m real concerned about flooding in these areas. louisiana took the brunt of the flooding when lee came ashore. drew levenson has more. reporter: lee dropped more than a foot of rain along the gulf coast. low-lying communities are taking the brunt of the storm. lafitte, louisiana, is under several feet of water because of overflowing bayous. sandbags in some places are failing to hold back the floodwaters. a
good morning, everyone on this labor day, good to see you. i m terrell brown in for betty nguyen. this morning the big rainmaker named tropical storm lee is slowly making its way across the northern mississippi, after swamping the gulf coast. the tropical storm was downgraded to a tropical depression late last night. lee is headed east northeast, it has 35-mile-per-hour sustained winds, but hurricane consultant david bernard said it s the threat of flash floods that s the real problem. it s going to merge with this cold front and move to the northeast, that means a tremendous flood threat in the appalachians and also potentially the mid-atlantic and northeast. that yellow area is two to five inches of rain, the orange area could mean as much as five to eight inches of rain, so i m real concerned about flooding in these areas. louisiana took the brunt of the flooding when lee came ashore. drew levenson has more. reporter: lee dropped more than a foot of rain along the gu