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KPIX CBS This Morning August 19, 2013

Theyre the guys that are going to fight this thing and get us hopefully back to normal. Crews battle fires throughout the west. Idaho seems to be getting the worst of it. Right now, the fire east of boise has burned more than 100,000 acres and has forced thousands from their homes. Hosni mubarak could be released from prison. Cleared him of his corruption case. Youre going to have an armed insurgency, not protesters on your hands. Were going to have to suspend the aid. He remains free on bail charged with the premeditated murder of his girlfriend. Bob filner is expected to return to work today, just as a recall effort gets under way to try to remove him from office. As long as the people of san diego and the council want it, he will be removed. Its futile to hold on. Southwest is bracing for floods from the gulf to the carolinas. Threatening to bring even more heavy rain covering a nearby city with a thick layer of ash. People there are using masks. All that. Arod drilled. Ill be really disappointed if hes not suspended. Im the wrong guy to be asking about suspension. Let me tell you. She showed her toughness. And all that matters. I think the last few weeks for me have been just a very different emotional experience. Something i never thought i would feel myself. And a lot of things affect me differently now. On cbs this morning. The freshman at ball state had a dance to winchance to win free tuition for a semester by making a half court shot. Welcome to cbs this morning. Norah odonnell is off. Welcome back good to see you. Its good to be back after two weeks. Not a spank, not an eye lash and i am delighted to be here. Gayle is back. Cutting off some Financial Aid to egypt. The death toll from less than a week unrest could soon reach a staggering milestone. Today, there is new violence. The target police officers. Charlie dagata is in cairos teher square. Good morning. Reporter first, breaking news out of cairo, shocking news. Former president Hosni Mubarak has just been acquitted of corruption charges. His lawyer told us he could be freed within the next 4 hour8 hours. There are reports prosecutors want to hang on to him for 15 days or more. An attack in sinai that left more than 20 policeman dead. Todays ambush attack is the worst single killing of Security Force misin a region that has seen these attacks triple. The violence is spreading. In cairo, we watched as egyptian soldiers drew their battle lines. The Muslim Brotherhood, supporters of mohammeded morsi, said theyd be marching towards a showdown at the courthouse. But this time the military made sure there was no way they would even get close. The Muslim Brotherhood has called for a solid week of protest. Cairo has become a battleground between their supporters and Egyptian Police in military. With a death toll climbing toward 1,000 since last wednesdays crackdown. The vast majority of the dead were gunned down by Security Forces. But theyve also suffered losses. And the government took journalists around a hospital to make sure were telling that side of the story too. Yesterday, the military leader general al sissy, went on state tv and vowed we will not stand by silently watching the destruction of the country and the people or torching the nation and terrorizing citizens. The militaryled government is doing everything it can to break the brotherhood. Arresting hundreds of its members, including key leaders, and considering the proposal to ban the whole organization on the grounds of terrorism. In another dramatic incident overnight, the government says 32 Muslim Brotherhood prisoners were killed while they were trying to escape. The Muslim Brotherhood says thats not the case. As 52 of it its supporters that they were assassinated. Whatever the case, its going to inflame the already tense situation here. Charlie and gayle. Charlie dagata, thanks. The crisis in egypt is front and center for president obama who is back at the white house this morning. Defense secretary chuck hagel meets with reporters this hour. He could face questions about cutting military aid to egypt. Lawmakers are divided on that. When we threaten something, as we did that we could cut off aid, the administration did, and then not do it then you lose your credibility and you influence. I dont think you throw the baby out with the bath water. Egypts an important country. I think we have to be very, very careful before we willynilly just cut off aid. Bill plante is at the white house. Reporter president obama would prefer to focus on the economy today. Hes got a meeting with financial regulators leaders this morning western time. But he cant avoid the problems in egypt. The state department has now begun taking steps to withhold economic aid. Thats only about 200 million of the 1. 5 billion that egypt gets annually from the u. S. The rest of course is for the military. And that comes as congressional criticism of the response continues to grow. Lawmakers have several more weeks of recess. But even so on sunday, a lot of them were very vocal in opposition to the decision not to call the overthrow of president morsi a coup. That would trigger an automatic cutoff of military aid. Egypt is far from the only difficult issue coming up. In the next ten week the president faces several uphill battles that could decide how his presidency is remembered. The government could shut down on september 30th if mr. Obama and congressional leaders cant come to an agreement on spending. And around the same time the debt ceiling has to be raised. The president says he wont negotiate on that one. He also faces a continuing fight over the implementation of his health care bill. Theres recent evidence the National Security agency collected data on millions of americans. Thats another headache for mr. Obama. Gayle, charlie. Thank you, bill. The fallout from the nsa scandal is growing this morning. The washington reported the agency broke privacy rules thousands of times since 2008. The post cited an internal audit and other topsecret documents reportedly obtained from former contractor Edward Snowden. On cbs face the nation sunday california congresswoman jackie spear said it revealed what she calls extraordinary misdeeds. There is failed oversight now. The fact theres all this active going on that we dont know about. They spoon feed to the intelligence committees of both houses what they want to tell them. For any of us to say that we know whats going on in the nsa i would find very suspect. Our Senior Correspondent john miller served in the office of the director of national intelligence. He spoke with the nsa last night. Welcome back, john, good morning. Good to be back. Good morning. Is this failed oversight . What kind of oversight is it . This is very frustrating for the people of the nsa. Because their view on this is that this is successful oversight. They said, you know we made these mistakes but we encourage in my experience in intelligence community, in dealing with the nsa, which was sometimes difficult, because they were all about rules. But they say this is a culture of selfreporting. We say, if one of our people makes a mistake, dont first think, im going to make a mistake, im going to get in trouble. First, write it up. If you need better training well get it for you. The idea is lets collect this data and make sure we find out where vulnerabilities are. So, one of the the nsas also made up of a lot of mathematician mathematicians. One of the things they said is 115 out of more than 61 million inquiries that were cited as a mistake, they said thats a compliance rate of 999 . Percent. Right. Point. So they think theyre doing pretty well. The bulk of these things were they listened to peepople in the u. S. , which theyre not supposed to do was a result of what they call roemers. A legitimate terrorist person whos a terrorist target who happens to be in the United States and theyre picking up the signal of their phone or email account or whatever while theyre here. Thats a serious violation of their rules. On the other hand i think a whole lot of americans would say, if theres a terrorist target from overseas running around the United States, we would kind of want them listening to that. What kind of mistakes are we talking about here . Youre talking about two or three kinds of things. Some of these are typographical errors where theyre making a query and theres a typo and it delivers information on something else. Thats the. 99998 . Others are these roamer things. Basically, it is not there was nothing uncovered in these reports that showed a deliberate attempt or a knowing attempt to listen in or read anything they werent legally entitled to. There was this note over the weekend that the partner of Glenn Greenwald has a connection with Edward Snowden, was detained at an airport. He was stopped in transit in london coming from berlin where he was meeting with laura portis who is the documentarymaker whos doing the Edward Snowden documentary. And he was held for eight hours under a british law that says if youre a potential suspect in some terrorism matter, you can be detained. Glenn greenwald is upset about this. Brits are different from us in a couple of ways. One way is the way they handle state secrets. Which is they have things like a d notice where they can actually order newspapers no the to publish something. This signals two things. Number one they separate this case from a regular press case because they have an individual whos flying through Foreign Countries with computers that may have tens of thousands of top secret government documents. There are documents, but you cant separate us from the brit because their nsa works with ours hand in glove. All our programs are interlocked. They have a big concern there. Its really going to send rippling through the press. John miller, thank you. A wildfire in central idaho is threatening thousands in resort areas this morning. The beaver creek fire has burned nearly 160 square miles. Thats 2 1 2 times the size of washington, d. C. John blackstone is in ketcham near sun valley. John, good morning. Reporter with fire burning in the mountains around town it is smoky here in ketcham this morning. But this town remains on alert that it may have to evacuate at short notice. But it already seems like a ghost town. Nearly 3,000 residents of this region have already evacuated their homes. As the wildfire moves closer. Containment of this Massive Wildfire went from 9 to 8 . Dry winds have helped fuel the fire over 100,000 ericacres. Helicopters and airplanes circled. Marking retardant and water drops. The goal now is to remove the fuel. Crews are ridding the area of vegetation that could feed the flames and building fire breaks they hope will stop the blaze. But 12 days into this fight, the fire surges on. Crews must also work to protect houses that are now in its immediate path. The beaver creek fire has scorched just a single home. But its now threatening multimillion dollar houses in the affluent ski resort valleys. Some residents are taking matters into their own hands. I put together a Sprinkler System that would totally saturate the roof. Reporter weather conditions are expected to worsen today, making an already stubborn fire even harder to fight. It spread all over the place. You see pieces burning everywhere. Its no wonder its a little tough to get a handle on this one. P reporter firefighters have a challenge today with temperatures in the 90s and windswind s winds gusting 25 miles an hour. With the fire so close, many businesses in ketcham have closed down during what is often the height of the summer tourist season. There are few tourists here. For good reason. Instead of fresh mountain air, the air is thick with smoke. Thank you, john. San diego mayors bob filner supposed to go back to work today. Whether he will is anybodys guess. Recall Campaign Launched a petition drive sunday. A poll finds 72 of voters in san diego would sign it. Filners accused of sexual harassment. There are more than a dozen alleged victims. Bill whitaker is in san diego. Bill, good morning. Reporter good morning, charlie, good morning, gayle. Today, mayor filner is supposed to return to work after undergoing just two weeks of rehab for help with issues that have led to charge of sexual harassment. Now, few expect that he will actually return today. As he weathered the growing storm of criticism. And now a recall drive. An. The calls for mayor filner to resign have grown stronger it launching a petition drive to get him out of office. They have just days to get more than 100,000 signatures. How many did you get . I was able to collect over 100 signatures from people. People knew whats going on they wanted to sign it. The groping, the slobbering on women. First all, thats what bother me the most. Reporter 16 women have come forward with lurid stories of inappropriate and unwanted at vances sadvances. I was placed in a head lock. He just slobbered down my chin. I got a very wet saliva filled kiss. Reporter when Michelle Tyler asked the mayor to help an injured iraqi vet, she alleged filner asked her for sexual favors. Everybody thinks was this a onetime incident. Then you hear about one person after the next after the next, youre just shocked. Reporter 67yearold greatgrandmother Peggy Shannon says filners kisses and sexual conversations made her uncomfortable. A city employee, she was afraid to speak out. This is why i did it. For the people of san diego, for these ladies. And for san diego to be able to move forward. Reporter before going into rehab, mayor filner acknowledged his troubles. I must become a better person. Reporter now the City Attorney is investigating questionable charges. On filners city issued credit card looking for other legal means to oust the disgraced mayor. He will be removed. The people of san diego have now seen it. And the problem with bob filner is that he has to see it. Reporter yesterday, an antifilner rally. Today, the mayors supporters are expected to rally in downtown san diego. As for the mayor himself, well hes known to be stubborn and few expect him to give up without a fight. Thanks bill. The crew of a u. P. S. Cargo jet that crashed in alabama was warned the plane was dropping too quickly seconds before it hit the ground. The twin engine jet went down near the Birmingham Airport wednesday. Both pilots were killed. Several seconds before the crash, a sink rate alarm went off. Investigators say theyre not finding a problem with the controls or the engines. They plan to look at pilot pressures and training. In south africa, the olympian known as the blade runner was indicted this morning for murder. Oscar pistorius is charged with the murder of his girlfriend on valentines day. Business store pistorius says he shot his girlfriend by mistake believing she was an intruder. His trial starts next march. It is time to show you some of this mornings headlines. The New York Times says budget cuts have grounded a wide range of federal government workers. Most travel budgets have been slashed by 30 . Thats kept scientists from doing work in the field. Nasa pulled out of the national symposium. Secretary hagel is making less trips to afghanistan. The trial of the ft. Hood shooting suspect major nidal hasan. The rampage left 13 dead and 30 wounded. Hasan said little in court but in a letter published over the weekend he said he carried over the attack to defend his muslim faith. The Los Angeles Times says the tech injury is in a surprising slump. Struggling to keep up with the way people buy and use technology. And supporters of Vice President joe biden believe he can win the 2016 democratic president ial nomination. Thats even in Hillary Clinton enters the race. Biden allies are considering steps for a white house run. Officially, the Vice President has made no decision about another bid for the presidency. Heavy rain brought flash floods to parts of the gulf coast this weekend. Gulf port mississippi is swamped. And flooding caused schools to be canceled today in three florida counties. More rain is in the forecast. Good morning. Got a few clouds around the bay area this morning. So far it is quiet. This afternoon could get interesting. Possibility of isolated thunderstorms around the bay area. Looking back towards San Francisco a little hazy and dense fog. Low pressure spinning off the coastline. It is going to sit there the next few days and keep things unsettled through wednesday. Red flag warnings up in the mountain tops. Up into the 90s. That National Report sponsored by the new thriller in theaters august 28th. New questions this morning about the death of Princess Diana. Reporter good morning, charlie, gayle. There have been conspiracy theories about the death of Princess Diana and dodi fayed in that paris car crash since it happened. Police here in Scotland Yard are admitting they are actually looking into the latest allegation that the death was caused by, wait for it a member of the british military. Plus a building is blown up in the name of science. What experts in california hope to learn about earthquakes before the big one. Yankees star Alex Rodriguez gets beamed in boston. Why his attorney claims arods own team is also trying to hurt him. 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