Captioning funded by cbs ng funded by cbs this is the cbs morning news for thursday, june 5th, 2014. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Bowe bergdahls hometown canceled longstanding plans for a welcome home celebration. The former p. O. W. s release by the taliban has touched off heated debate. The small idaho town has been swamped with hate mail and angry calls blasting the town and labeling bergdahl a traitor. The town says they cant handle the expected crowds. Susan mcginnis is in washington. Susan, good morning. Good morning, annemarie. Questions about Bowe Bergdahl just keep piling up here on capitol hill, and now they have its hometown a changing its plans for his homecoming. Yellow ribbons hang on trees alongside posters reading free at last in Bowe Bergdahls hometown. But plans to celebrate his homecoming this month has been scratched amid a debate whether the Army Sergeant was a dese deserter. Something that was very happy has become very mixed. In the days
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Dubois good evening. Scott is off tonight, im maurice dubois. This is are western edition of the broadcast. Today we got to see for the first time how the release of u. S. Army Sergeant Bowe bergdahl went down. The taliban put out this video of his handover to u. S. Forces last saturday, five years after he was taken prisoner. We also learned more today about bergdahls Service Record in afghanistan. We have a series of reports tonight, first, bob orr with the video. Reporter with the sun setting over the mountains of khost, afghanistan, a small group of armed taliban fighters, one of them with a white flag, stood near a silver and orange pickup truck. Inside, alone in the back seat, sat Sergeant Bowe bergdahl. The cleanshaven captive appeared to be having some trouble with his vision. He blinked repeatedly, and at one point rubbed his left eye. American surveillance planes flew overhead. Taliban gunmen, some armed with rocketpropelled grenades, stood guard on nearby hills. Then the sou