Spying on heads of states. Its part of a fallout following revelation thags the u. S. Has spied on german chancellor Angela Merkel and 34 other leaders. President obama said he was unaware of high level eavesdropping but the New York Times said the state department signed off on the process and a key part that is calling for total review of u. S. Intelligence programs. Susan mcginnis is in washington. Good morning. Reporter good morning, annemarie. Theres no final decision yet from the white house about ending these programs, the white house is waiting to see what happens here in congress. And more lawmakers now calling for changes including the head the Senate Intelligence Senate Intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein scompreft outrage that the u. S. Spied on allies including german chancellor Angela Merkel. She issued a statement saying i totally opposed. The finestein and her Senate Colleagues want to go one step further. Shes calling for review of all operations. Senator feinstei
This is the cbs morning news for tuesday, october 22nd, 2013. Captioning funded by cbs good morning. Good to be with you, im annemarie green. Police in nevada say they dont know why a student opened fire at a middle school, it happened in sparks just east of the reno. Dozens of students watched as a teenage gunman shot and killed a popular math teacher and wounded two other students before taking his own life. As Teresa Garcia reports that teacher is being hailed as a hero. Reporter the deadly shooting at a Nevada Middle School was fast, furious and frightening. I saw the people running, i thought that was going to be my last day. He pointed to us and then said, you ruined my life, and im going to ruin yours. Reporter the 13yearold shooter opened fire around 7 15 a. M. , just before classes started on the campus of sparks middle school. A male student came to the school with a semiautomatic handgun. He shot two students, one male teacher, before turning the gun on himself. Reporter Law
Give us some and the show must go on. A Television Reporter passes out, live on the air, but recovers in time to finish the out, live on the air, but recovers in time to finish the interview. Captioning funded by cbs this is the cbs morning news for tuesday, december 31st, 2013. Good morning, good to be with you. Im annemarie green. And we begin this morning with bonerattling cold weather thats covering the central u. S. And moving east. The arctic air mass has produced snow and ice, causing Power Outages from wisconsin to maine. There are windchill warnings in north dakota, minnesota and michigan. Travel is difficult due to heavy snow in iowa. And the northeast may be in for a major snowstorm to begin the new year. Meteorologist eric fisher of our boston station wbz has more. Here we go, the final day of 2013 and cold is going to be the rule for a lot of folks. Especially in the North Central united states, up in the northeast, as well as below average temperatures it will be bitterly
Insurance website. Website Developers Tell the Associated Press they saw red flags for months and complained to each other about unrealistic deadlines. Well, now congress is looking into the issue. A cbs news poll found that 51 of americans disapprove of the Health Care Law and only 12 of americans think the signup for Health Insurance changes is going well. Tara mergener is in washington. Tara, good morning. Good morning, annemarie. As major problems persist with this website, the white house has hired a former budget official and trusted adviser to lead the project. On capitol hill the administration faces tough questions about what happened. Highranking health and Human Services officials will brief congress this morning on the problems with healthcare. Gov. The website was supposed to make it easy to shop for Health Insurance, but it has been slow and unresponsive. We need to get to the bottom of it. Congressman mike rogers says he and his colleagues have tough questions for Obama
Get it done before january 1st. Even congressional leaders are skeptical. The American People have a right to be very upset with this congress. President obama has invited nancy pelosi, john boehner, mitch mcconnell, and harry reid to the white house this afternoon for a fiscal cliff summit. Here we are five days from the new year, and we might finally start talking. Todays white house meeting might be the last chance to come to an agreement. Thats because it takes time for a bill to work its way through both chamber of commerce. I dont know time wise how it can happen now. Under senate rules, the only way a bill could make its way through the procedural hurdles in time is if every senator agrees not to. Theyll have 24 hours. Outside the beltway, carlino will be watching. Everyone is kind of in a waitandsee and fingerscrossed per expect tichb right now. Since 1930 this is only the fifth Time Congress has worked after christmas. And todays summit is the first time president obama has me