President obama playing golf this past weekend with tiger woods . Neither did we. I dont understand what the story is and what the outrage is. You want to watch him shank and slice . You know when you have a good weekend when you say sure go have a good weekend with tiger woods. Welcome to cbs this morning. Norah odonnell is on assignment. Cbs news has learned new details about what motivated adam lanza to go on a shooting spree last december in newtown, connecticut. The rampage at the Sandy Hook Elementary School killed 20 students and six faculty members. Bob orr is in washington. Bob, good morning. Good morning gayle and charlie. Law enforcement sources tell cbs news adam lanza was motivated by a violent video game and a strong personal desire to kill more people than another infamous mass murderer. Sources say adam lanza was in direct competition with Anders Breivik who killed 77 people in july 2011. Breivik set off a bomb in downtown oslo killing eight people and moved to a nearby island where he hunted down and fatally shot 69 people, mostly teenagers attending a summer camp. Two officials who have been briefed on the connecticut investigation say lanza was obsessed with breivik and wanted to top his death toll. Former fbi profiler Mary Ellen Otoole says copycats are common in highprofile crime his mentality is not that i can beat it but i can get more attention, more notoriety, do it more skillfully do it more efficiently. Reporter sources say lanza attacked nearby Sandy Hook Elementary School because it was the easiest target with the largest cluster of people but he apparently cut short his rampage as police arrived. Unlike breivik who surrendered, lanza killed himself after first firing several shots at responding officers. Investigators also believe violent video games played a role in lanzas murderous fantasies and a trove of material has been recovered from lanzas basement. Sources say in lanzas mind the killing of 20 children and six adults may have amounted to some kind of score. Sources say he spent countless hours alone in the basement of his home in a private gaming room with the windows blacked out, honing his computer shooting skills. This now becomes their full time job, theyre totally emerged in it theyre cut off from the rest of the family or from friends. Its not that it causes that it fuels whats already there. Reporter lanza also made multiple visits to nearby gun ranges with his mother nancy lanza, where they practiced together with actual weapons. Three guns registered to nancy lanza were later used in the sandy hook massacre. He killed his mother before the attack on the school. Connecticut state police are publicly dismissing the Lanza Breivik theory as speculation saying the investigation is not over and no final motive has been established. Sources insist investigators found evidence lanza was obsessed with breivik. The fbi is still trying to recover other information from lanzas smashed computer hoping to learn more about what may have pushed lanza to act. Gayle, charlie . Bob orr, thanks. John miller a former fbi assistant director john good morning. Good morning, charlie. What are we learning about motivation and what might have been in lanzas mind . Well no one clear signal but the pieces seem to be coming together and theyre looking at a lot of the things that were going on in the lanza home. One aspect might be that lanzas mother had gotten a boyfriend, and thats for the First Time Since the divorce, and apparently this relationship was getting serious to the point that he had stayed over at the lanza house a couple of times. The profilers who look at these things might tell you adam lanza could have seen this as a real threat to his relationship with his mother which was very close but you start to see things change there. He blacks out the game room so whens in there not even a pinhole of light can come in while hes playing that tactical shooting game. It enhances the reality of it for him. The next thing that happened is even more disturbing he blacks out his own bedroom so no light could come in there either and that kind of suggests that when he wasnt playing his shooting game that was taking up all his time, he was going into almost totally sensory deprivation in his bedroom so theyre looking at that aspect too, as things that were adding. Does anything come from his computer hard drive . No nothing. I mean he smashed that hard drive to the point the fbi experts and those experts theyve brought it to havent been able to get anything out of it but the Connecticut State Police can find information that wasnt on the hard drives that comes from his computer and that is on the servers where email and Text Messages and even the chat function that works within that gaming device that he was playing his shooting game on, where you talk to other players, and that may have been revealing, and of course the oldfashioned way, which is talking to the very few people that he considered friends and actually communicated with. Were hearing a lot of chilling information as youre pointing out but what are we hearing about his possible motive . Well, his motive seemed to be basically maximum lethality and one of the things they learned about the particular video game he played that was the shooting game was you didnt get points in the game for shooting another opponent. You only got points for a kill shot, and he seemed to have taken that out of his game into his reality. John miller we thank you. John will be back with an interview youll see only on cbs this morning. For the first time you will hear from the lapd family hunted by Christopher Dorner. He was the exofficer turned killer who left a manifesto vowing revenge. Thats ahead on cbs this morning. Unless a deal is reached we are now ten days away from drastic automatic Government Spending cuts. Congress is on vacation but that is not stopping president obama from pushing for a solution. Bill plante is at the white house. Bill, good morning. Reporter good morning, and good morning out west. In this hour a speech by the president pushing republicans to compromise so that automatic budget cuts wont happen. The president will be surrounded here at the white house by First Responders firefighters and emergency workers whose federal grants could be cut if the cuts go into effect and hell frame the choice as protecting Public Safety or protecting the kinds of tax loopholes that he wants to cut. When the president returned from a weekend golf vacation monday night, the budget battle was waiting. In less than two weeks more than 85 billion in acrosstheboard cuts are set to take effect. It will impact virtually every major agency in washington. The pentagon could see roughly half of the reductions and that has republicans upset. Were going to begin to unravel the finest military in the history of the world at a time when we need it most. Reporter mandatory cuts in domestic spending could also hit americans hard. There could be furloughs of food safety employees, leading to a shortage of meat poultry and eggs and pushing up food prices. 50,000 tsa workers could see their hours cut back that would mean longer security lines for air travelers, and more than 350,000 people who need Mental Health treatment could be denied. Hundreds of thousands of government workers from teachers to federal Law Enforcement agents are likely to be furloughed. Many republicans admit the sequester isnt ideal, but they insist cuts have to be made. Let me be very clear and i say this to the president as i say it to you, these spending cuts are going to go through on march 1st. Reporter the white house warns the cuts would get phased in just as the stock market is bouncing back. Our hope is that this does not happen that, we choose rather than make this an ideological fight as it appears to be right now amongst some on the Republican Caucus that we just do it a balanced approach to fix this problem. Reporter alan simpson and Erskine Bowles was plan to balance the budget was opposed by both parties will propose another budget of rewriting the tax code and deep spending cuts a compromise they hope will work for republicans and democrats. The fear is the cuts are likely to take place march 1st and last a few weeks until the public feels the pain, and Congress Gets the message. Charlie, gayle . Bill plante thanks. We told you yesterday about our white house immigration proposal being denounced by some in congress. White house Officials Say this morning only half the plan was revealed. It would offer Illegal Immigrants a path to become legal residents. They say the rest of the plan covers longterm issues like bringing more highly skilled Foreign Workers to america. Former white house adviser David Axelrod also says it was a mistake to put out any details of the white houses plan so soon. A new report says chinas military is responsible for Cyber Attacks on the United States and other countries. Virginiabased Security Company says its traced 141 cases of hacking to a single Chinese Military unit based outside of shanghai. The report calls that unit one of the most prolific Cyber Espionage groups. Chinas Foreign Ministry says the charges are groundless. The murder charge against olympic track star Oscar Pistorius has been upgraded this morning and once again the double amputee became emotional in the South African courtroom. Prosecutors revealed for the very first time what they claim happened on the night his girlfriend was shot dead. Emma hurd is at the courthouse in pretoria and joins us with the latest. Reporter charlie, gayle, Oscar Pistorius told the court he loved his girlfriend and had no intention of killing her. The words came in an affidavit read out by his lawyer in which he describes spending a quiet evening at home with Reeva Steenkamp before hearing a noise late at night. He felt vulnerable because he had received Death Threats and he wasnt wearing his prosthetic legs. He said he was convinced there was an intruder in the bathroom. He went there and he fired shots through the closed bathroom door. He then describes his fear and his horror at realizing that Reeva Steenkamp was not in the bedroom. The prosecution claims he intended to kill her. South african prosecutors have now won the right to charge pistorius with premeditated murder and if convicted he could spend the rest of his life in prison. The prosecution claimed the athlete deliberately shot his girlfriend four times in a rage after a valentines day argument. They say he should stay in custody until his trial begins. Pistorius lawyers argued the killing was a tragic accident. They say he thought he was shooting an intruder it was not premeditated, they say, and they want him freed to prepare his defense. South african legal expert steven toussant says this say chance for the prosecution to get pistorius version of events on the record. A prosecuteor will focus his questions on the night of the offense and expect factual answers which are under oath and those answers can be used against him in the trial. Reporter as what happened on the night of her murder is being disputed in a packed courtroom, Reeva Steenkamp is being laid to rest at a private funeral in her hometown of port elizabeth. Her family faced the cameras to speak of their grief. At the end of the day its a family and theres only one thing missing reeva. Reporter back in court there were more tears, pistorius family around him sobbing, as he faces the prospect of waiting months in jail before trial. It is unusual in a case of premeditated murder for a suspect to be freed on bail. A storm is threatening blizzardlike conditions and pushing into the upper midwest. Windchill advisories are posted in the dakotas and minnesota where drivers face whiteout conditions. Some parts of minnesota are so bad snow flouplows are being kept off the weather. Meteorologist Mike Augustyniak of wcco in minneapolis is tracking a series of storms. Winter storm watches for much of the midwest these go into effect during the day wednesday and will last in some cases through friday. From the twin cities of minneapolis and st. Paul through south dakota nebraska missouri, kansas and affecting highways 90 70 80 and 35 some heavy snow on the way. The storm is moving onshore in the Pacific Northwest, its coastal rain and mountain snow potentially over a foot in the Sierra Nevada range. Some Hurricane Force wind gusts in some of the high terrain as well. Rain in los angeles later tonight and the storm moves through the rockyies late tonight and storms firing from austin to dallas there could be Severe Weather and snow and ice developing in parts of oklahoma and working up through kansas city. Here is the forecast for the snowfall starting tomorrow and lasting through the day friday, that pink area is where we could have over a foot and a half of snow with a lot of wind so blowing and drifting an issue, bottom line it looks like a mess and on the east side of the storm there should be heavy flooding rain for the gulf coast. For the 33rd day in a row the price of gas is higher, some drivers in Southern California are paying over listen to this 5 a gallon. Wow. Nationwide the average price of unleaded regular is now 3. 74 a gallon. Thats according to aaa. It was 3. 30 just a month ago. Production cuts, a jump in oil prices and the closing of refineries are being blamed. We now know what caused the carnival cruiseship to become stranded in the gulf of mexico. Investigators say a leak in a fuel line caused a fire in the engine room of the carnival triumph. The ship was left without power and working toilets for five days. The ship was eventually towed to alabama but investigators want to know why the ship was adrift for so long. A brazen multimilliondollar diamond heist, eight masks robbered drove up to a passenger plane headed to switzerland in brussels. They grabbed an estimated 50 million worth of diamonds and at the same time drove out the same way. The Washington Post says European Countries wont arm syrian rebels. Britain pushed the idea of the meeting of foreign ministers. The u. S. Also rejected the idea. Usa today, theres a change of tactics for teachers and students if they become targets of shooting. In the past they were told to hide and wait for help but now Police Videos tell victims to confront a shooter if all else fails. The Washington Times says sarah palin is returning to the spotlight, she will address the conservative Political Action conference next month in maryland. The wall street journal finds students who graduate with a degree in the arts wrack up the biggest student loan debt. The average from specialized art schools runs 21,500. Graduates from Research Universities had an average debt of about 18,000. The Los Angeles Times says microsoft opened outlook. Com, it says microsoft shuts down its hotmail brand. Those who already have a hotmail address can still use it. And the Houston Chronicle says a woman who gave birth to a rare form of quadruplets had two sets of identical twins. The parents did not use fertility drugs. The births on valentines day went smoothly and they already had one child, charlie. They said they just wanted a sibling and now they have four. Big change in the weather today. Storm clouds rolling back in. We have seen some showers already and more to come out there right now a whole lot of clouds, not too many showers just yet in san jose but that would likely change. We could even see a little snow over the mountaintops. Our highdef Doppler Radar picking up on scattered showers now. I think it will really start picking up toward the middle of the morning and the middle of the day. Temperatures in the upper 40s and the low 50s. Next couple of days, staying a bit unsettled right into the weekend. The exofficer who led the exofficer who led a war against California Police puts one husband and wife on the hit list. Lapd. They dont teach us at the academy how to protect your family when theres a maniac that wants to kill your children. They are breaking their silence in their first interviewer. They tell john miller about their week in hiding only on cbs this morning. A new book says power foods could lower your risk for alzheimers. The author will show us what to eat and what to avoid your brain on cbs this morning. Mine was earned in djibouti, africa, 2004. The battle of bataan 1942. [ all ] fort benning, georgia, in 1999. [ male announcer ] usaa Auto Insurance is often handed down from generation to generation because it offers a superior level of protection and because usaas commitment to serve the military, veterans, and their families is without equal. Begin your legacy. Get an autoinsurance quote. Usaa. We know what it means to serve. Wow, ive been claritin clear for 10 days when your allergies start, doctors recommend taking one nond