And at 70, hes not slowing down. Meet the pilot with a fistful of speed records and a handful of hand built planes. All this and more on cbs this morning saturday, may 10th, 2014. Captioning funded by cbs and welcome to the weekend. We also have a great lineup of guests for you this morning including chef zack polaccio from the food network. Hes become a leader chef. Plus a very talented mom. Shes here with a mothers day performance and her grammywinning son. Thats ahead. First, the top story this morning. A fiery crash of a hot air balloon in virginia. Witnesses say they took photos and saw flames and heard screaming screaming. Police say the balloons gondola caught fire after it hit a power line. Police worked overnight to try to find the wreckage. Good morning. Reporter good morning. At daybreak the search zone expanded for the crash site as well as the pilot and the two women aboard. The area here is h out the day, making memories with their family and then not coming home. Reporte
A lot of people will be trying to make that determination themselves and watching that interview closely. Paul kalyn, thank you so much, paul. Appreciate it. Thats it for me. Cnn newsroom continues with brooke baldwin. Two brothers about to go blind decide to end their lives together. But it is what doctors do next that is stirring up the debate over the right to die. Im brooke baldwin. The news is now. Guns, ammo, and the white house. Find out what advice Vice President joe biden gave his boss. Plus, critics pounce on cocacolas new obesity ad. How scared is one of the worlds most popular brands about soda bans . And hes got to crawl over a lot of broken glass. After getting Lance Armstrong to confess, oprah says the cyclist didnt come clean in the manner she expected. Im brooke baldwin. Good to see you. We have got some developing news now out of the white house. Let me tell you what we know here. We know the Vice President , joe biden, has just briefed the president on his gun violen
Former mayors, Mike Bloomberg and Pete Buttigieg seem to be gaining ground while joe biden is down 11 points from last month. Lets go to our road warriors. Josh, mayor bloomberg is preparing for his first president ial debate and the campaign is on the defense again after more comments from the mayors past have resurfaced. Walk us through it. Thats right, stephanie, mayor bloomberg trying to climb out of a mountain of past controversial comments that have been brought back into light over the last week or so as hes been surging in the polls. Just in the last 24 hours or so, weve seen new comments hes had to try to respond to, including comments about blacks and latinos faring more poorly in schools. As well as remarks he made as recently as last year where we referred to transgender women as he, she or it. A in all of these instances mayor bloomberg saying this doesnt reflect the way he feels. Emphasizing his record as mayor shows he cares very much about trying to support minorities a
I dont think he will really reconsider. I dont think he probably can at this point, other people will and youre find out at the polls whether or not the other people are right. You he is really on a course that has to stay. Joined by msnbc Hallie Jackson, katy tur, and robert costa. I have to talk to, lets see, Hallie Jackson right now. What is the cruz team thinking when they put out the word, the statement by sanford that trump is a truther, that he somehow has been charging that bush was involved in 9 11. Bush was never a truther. What is this statement all about . Thats coming from mark sanford here. While he is endorsing ted cruz, im not sure thats something youre seeing out in the Cruz Campaign. Its not a line of attack that ted cruz has pursued. He has pursued a lot of them. This hasnt been one in particular. Sanford talks about not just his concern with a potential trump candidacy, but also, why he is for ted cruz and why he is is backing him up. This was dirty hallie, this loo
1 left . Oh, my god, its so dark. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news. Mason good evening. Im anthony mason. Harvey is just hours from blasting the gulf coast of texas. Its grown into a lifethreatening category 3 hurricane. This image from the International Space station gives a sense of its size and power. 22 million are in its path. Storm surges up to 12 feet are predicted in some places, up to 40 inches of rain over several days, winds over 120 miles an hour. The National Weather Service Warns some residents may not be able to return to their homes for weeks or months. Taed, people fled the Central Texas coast ahead of the brunt of Hurricane Harvey. We have a team of correspondents following this. First, David Begnaud in Corpus Christi. David. Reporter anthony, i just got off the phone with Corpus Christi police who told me they are not responding to calls for Emergency Service because of the current weather conditions. An extreme wind warning has just been issu