>> triggering flash floods and water rescues. >> it was moving like a river. >> ships so far have failed to reconfirm the signal that could be from black boxes belonging to flight 370. >> dramatic testimony this morning at the oscar pistorius trial. >> i sat over reeva and i cried for i don't know how long. she wasn't breathing. >> a gunman opened fire inside an lapd station. >> a police officer wounded. >> the officer was shot seven times. he was saved, though, by his body armor. >> the most improbable tournament run comes to an end with a uconn championship. >> this is pure pandemonium here on the uconn campus. this party is raging. >> looking at the hungry huskies. this is what happened when you ban us last year. we worked so hard for it. >> freshman congressman advance mcallister is apologizing after a video emerged showing him kissing a staff member. >> the navy has rolled out its newest secret weapon that can obliterate incoming missiles. >> oh a car in the wall! hard in turn number one. >> dale earnhardt jr. >> how about this duo right here, 42nd and 43rd presidents enjoying the game together. >> the veep offered his own take on what it's like being married to a teacher. >> jill is probably right. i think i'd have the same attitude if i didn't sleep with a college professor every night. the same one. >> on "cbs this morning." >> a woman was recently conned out of $86,000 from a guy she met on match.com. even worse, he still wasn't called. this morning's "eye opener" is presented by toyota. let's go places. welcome to "cbs this morning." good morning, norah. >> good morning, charlie. >> we begin with this millions of people in the southeast are bracing for more severe weather today. flash flooding already killed two people. >> vicente arenas is in belhaven north carolina where tornados destroyed several homes. >> reporter: good morning. you can see some of the damage that was caused by the storm that moved through here. trees were snapped in half and thrown into a front yard. there's even some twisted metal down on the ground. these storms spawned tornados and heavy rain all the way from north carolina to florida. two tornados touched down around 4:00 p.m. in this rural area of eastern north carolina last night. from a distance this twister was caught on camera. the storm lasted just seven minutes, but that was still enough to take out power lines, flip cars and level homes. at least 13 people were treated from injuries at local hospitals, including a father and son. levi spencer says he was driving his pickup truck when winds tossed it across the road and into a field. >> any time you see a man walking away thanking god crying and stuff, and me and myself we cried all the way here. >> reporter: the carolina storm comes just one day after a tornado touched down, carving a 16-mile path in central mississippi, leveling communities overnight. heavy rains quickly followed and a 9-year-old girl was killed after flash flooding pulled her into a culvert. by morning, some areas had seen more than 8 inches of rainfall. many in mississippi and new orleans were left with destroyed homes and little to salvage. but for some knowing their families were safe meant much more. >> oh, my god, that's all matters. all this stuff can be replaced to me. it's just a house. that can be replaced. you can't replace somebody if they get hurt. >> reporter: as heavy winds and rain moved across the south, roads in alabama flooded. drivers quickly abandoned their cars, and those who didn't faced dangerous conditions. in birmingham alabama, rescue workers evacuated more than 120 people from their homes and downed trees blocked major highways. the storms also caused problems for people across the country. as many as 6,000 flights were delayed because of the weather. another 500 had to be cancelled. here in belhaven though the cleanup starts this morning. >> thanks. strong winds at daytona beach, florida, overturned a single engine plane last night. the cessna had just landed when a gust flipped it over of the the two pilots were not hurt. megan glaros of wbbm is tracking the storm and the weather in the west. >> good morning to our viewers in the west. there is still a possibility of some severe weather across parts of florida this morning. the last 24 hours the vast majority of all the storm reports in the nation were centered in the deep south. anything from hail to winds to tornados to even flash flooding. it looks like that potential does continue to push to the south today before wrapping up a little later on this morning as the storm system heads off the coastline. we see the west though dealing with yet another storm system this one bringing rain from seattle down to portland but not impacting the state of california. drought-ridden state that will stay dry for yet another 24 to 48 hours at least. >> megan, thanks. oscar pistorius delivered emotional testimony this morning in his murder trial. the double amputee track star known as the blade runner described in tears how he shot his girlfriend. correspondent and cbs news contributor debora is in pretoria with dramatic moments from the courtroom we saw today. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. it was another emotional day in court as oscar pistorius broke down sobbing loudly and uncontrollably. he finally described what happened on the night when he mistook reeva steenkamp for a burglar and shot her through a locked bathroom door. he told the court that he was overwhelmed with fear when he heard a noise and thought an intruder was breaking in. he reached for his firearm and screamed to reeva to get down and call for help. >> i heard the noise from inside the toilet what i perceived to be somebody coming out of the toilet. before i knew it i had fired four shots at the door. my ears were ringing, i couldn't hear anything so i kept on shouting for reeva to phone the police. >> reporter: after returning to the bedroom and realizing that reeva steenkamp was not there, he ran back and tried to break down the door with a cricket bat, finally making a hole big enough to reach through and grab the key. >> i unlocked the door i flung the door open i threw it open and i sat over reeva and i cried. i don't know how long. i don't know how long i was there for. she wasn't breathing. >> we'll take an adjournment. court will adjourn. >> reporter: earlier in his testimony, oscar pistorius told the court that his relationship with reeva steenkamp was a loving one, that they were talking about moving in together, that they believed that they had a future together. he did concede that there were times, though that he was jealous of reeva steenkamp. he said he was besotted with her and there were times that he was more into her than she seemed to be into him. court had to adjourn early once again, as pistorius was overcome with emotion. he could not continue giving his testimony in the witness stand. >> thanks. the university of connecticut is celebrating another ncaa basketball championship this morning. the huskies never trailed last night as they beat kentucky 60-54. don dahler is here with a big victory for a team that was looking for redemption. don, good morning. >> good morning. many thought uconn had a tough road ahead after long-time coach jim calhoun retired just before the 2012-2013 season. and the team was banned from the tournament last year for failing to meet academic standards. but last night the team took the title and a stance against their critics. >> if i could have your attention. if i don't have your attention, let me get your attention. >> reporter: alongside his teammates, senior shabazz napier erased any question about a team so many had doubted. >> ladies and gentlemen, you're looking at the hungry huskies. this is what happens when you ban us last year two years. we worked so hard for it. >> the uconn championship. the huskies once again are in basketball heaven. >> reporter: the team that lost its head coach, its conference and a handful of key players just one season ago won it all last night. >> for the national championship deep in the heart of texas. >> reporter: from the tipoff uconn dominated the court. >> there goes daniels! >> reporter: managing a 15-point lead in the first half. >> they're going to go reverse. >> reporter: inside at&t stadium, a record-setting crowd of nearly 80,000 watched, including an unlikely duo. >> they go by 42 and 43. >> bipartisan sportsmanship. >> kentucky drives in. >> reporter: common ground seen off the court, but not on as kentucky battled back. >> he puts the exclamation point on so many follow-ups. >> put the ball up there. >> reporter: uconn was relentless. >> boat wright though. >> reporter: napier dominated the scoreboard with 22 points. the wildcats narrowed the lead trailing by just one point with just over 8:00 remaining in the game but uconn responded with back-to-back three-pointers. >> wow, right over. >> top of the key, and he hits back-to-back threes! >> reporter: kentucky never recovered. >> randle. >> oh, wow. and this most improbable tournament run. >> reporter: at the buzzer the crowds both inside the arena and back home in connecticut erupted. even 30 arrests couldn't dampen the celebration of the team's fourth national championship in 15 years. >> tonight uconn's women's basketball team will play for the championship against notre dame. if they win, it will be the second time the school has pulled this off. they first did it in 2004. uconn is the only school to ever win both men's and women's titles in the same year. charlie, norah sglflt don, thanks. crews looking for the malaysian airline have suffered setbacks this morning. they're covering an area where they detected pings over the weekend. seth doane is in beijing where today marks a grim anniversary. seth, good morning. >> reporter: that's right, good morning to you charlie. yes, just a month ago on march 8th flight 370 was scheduled to land here in beijing. that, of course never happened. today in australia authorities there coordinating the search urged patience and said the priority is to try to detect additional signals coming from the deep. until investigators are certain that the batteries have run out, searchers on the "ocean shield" will continue to try to pick up those signals or pings from the black boxes. >> the battery life expires on the device at 30 days but experience with the kit from around the world is that they usually last longer than the 30 days. >> reporter: authorities say they'll drag the towed pinger locator through the ocean for several more days. for now, the submersible vehicle, blue fin 21 will stay above water. >> it is a large area for a small submersible that has a very narrow field of search so it's going to take a long long time. >> reporter: today up to 14 planes and 14 ships are scouring the nearly 30,000 square mile search zone, looking for debris. while some authorities are expressing increased optimism australia's deputy prime minister admitted feeling anxious. >> the connections two days ago were obviously a time of great hope that there had been a significant break-through. it was disappointing that we were unable to repeat that experience. >> reporter: if it was a disappointment for authorities, the wait has been devastating for weary families. at beijing's limit do hotel, there was a quiet vigil today. steve wong's mother was on the plane. we need to persist in finding the clues, he said and finding our relatives. two-thirds of those passengers were chinese and there is certainly growing frustration among the passengers' family members we've spoken with frustration of false leads, so much speculation. norah, they just want some closure. >> all right, seth thank you. and this morning president obama plans to sign an executive order aimed at eliminating the pay gap between men and web in the -- women in the federal government the average woman earned 77% of what the average man earned and the white house staff isn't doing much better than that. >> we as an institution here have progressively addressed this challenge. obviously, though at the 88 cents that you cite that is not 100, but it is better than the national average. >> major garrett is at the white house. major, so how do white house officials describe this disparity where at the white house women make on average 88 cents for every dollar the men make? >> reporter: good morning. the white house is getting, as you indicated, norah, roughed up by its own pay equity rhetoric. an analysis shows that the median income of feel male staffers is 88% of that of male staffers. now, this study also showed that men and women with the same white house jobs earned exactly the same salary. now, the white house said its gender pay gap is tied to job experience education and hours worked among other factors. this matters because those explanations according to the labor department explain a good deal of the gender pay gap nationally. the big difference in these stories, when president obama discusses this issue nationally he doesn't mention those other work variables, only the broad figure that 77 cents per dollar is what women earn compared to men in median wages. the factors the white house used to defend its pay gap are used nationally, the difference shrinks to 5 to 7 cents on the dollar. >> so, major, exactly what is the president going to do today? >> reporter: the president will sign two executive orders both dealing with federal contractor workers. that's a small subset of the u.s. labor force. one will allow those workers to openly discuss pay and salary levels without fear of reprisal or punishment. this could expose some differences in pay between men and women. the second requires federal contractors to tell the government pay levels by race and gender. this is largely a tool but most economists do not believe it will increase pay for most federal contract workers. the crisis in ukraine is deepening this morning with the threat of more lost territory. pro-russia activists are trying to take control of government buildings in two eastern cities. mark phillips is in london where britain's foreign minister is accusing russia of trying to destabilize ukraine. mark, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. well, it is sounding familiar. government offices in the eastern ukraine this time are taken over by people claiming to be pro-russian ukrainians. russia warns the ukraineian government against taking repressive action that could lead to civil war. ukrainian forces move in to evict the demonstrators and the tension rises. once again the fires are burning in ukraine and moscow is being blamed for stoking the flames. demonstrates said to be pro-russian ukrainians had occupied government buildings in the major cities of danetsk. they demanded a referendum the same device that was used to annex crimea to russia. the u.s. says many were not local and were being paid. overnight ukrainian forces moved in to try to reclaim the buildings in what they're calling an anti-terrorist operation. the government in kiev says 70 what it calls criminals were arrested, but the demonstrators still control some government offices in the largely russian-speaking industrial heartland of eastern ukraine. and not for the first time the ugliness spilled over into ukraine's parliament when the leader of the old pro moscow communist party got up to accuse ukraine of bringing its problems upon itself by bringing down the previous pro-russian government some of the other members thought they had heard enough. and with the accusations and the fists flying russian foreign minister sergey lavrov has weighed in again saying it is the west not russia, desable destabilizing ukraine and called for talks. but that seems to be driving toward another east-west confrontation. it is time to show you some of the headlines. the stars and stripes has new details on last week's 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it's a simple question with no simple answer. it has all the makings of a big budget action movie. a four-man rescue team topped into an inflatable boat in the pacific a thousand miles off the coast of mexico. >> carrying medical gear water, references technology telephones batteries. everything you can think of that is going to last you for at least a week each for their own personal gear. >> reporter: their mission, aiding a family of four stranded in their sailboat tend to go a sick 1-year-old girl for four days until a navy warship can pick the family up to bring them home. well, it's not hollywood. it is a costly operation. involving the air force, the navy, the coast guard, and the state department. >> it's expensive business. it's a dangerous business but it's a business that we are obligated to keep the american people safe. >> reporter: while no one is saying how much this rescue operation cost flying a coast guard chopper would run 15,000 an hour and 20,000 an hour for the guard's largest search aircraft all paid for on with taxpayer dollars. there's a reason. >> charging for rescue is dangerous. it makes someone question before they call for help. >> reporter: eric and charlotte kaufman taking their girls 1 and 3 ages on a around the world sailboat adventure and their stranded vessel started taking on water last week and the young girl developed a fever and vomiting and a rash covering her body and many on social media are calling the parents reckless wondering why their taxpayers should literally bail the kaufman's out. >> i'm sure the same people having a fire department waiting to put out their house fire when they drop a turkey into the turkey fryer. norah? >> john thank you so much. new crash test ratings for mid-sized suvs are out this morning. the insurance institute for highway safety looked at nine 2014 models. only three of them got good grades. jeff pegways is in ruckersfield virginia, with the results, the testing ground. good morning, jeff. >> reporter: good morning. this is where the ihsh test the cars and suvs that we all drive. every year conduct 80 tests here and that means they are crashing hundred dollars of vehicles. this time around they wanted to test out mid $sized sufficients like this one to see how they held newspaper a crash at 40 miles per hour. by virtue of their size and weight, mid-sized suvs are some of the safetiesst vekeds on the road but a crash test shows not all are created equal. the test replicates when 25% of a vehicle's front end strikes a tree or utility pole at 40 miles per hour. these are the suvs used in the crash test? >> the same mid-sized suvs we just had in the small crash test. >> reporter: david zuby is the chief officer for ihhs. he said the suvs that scored the highest create what amounts to a protective shell around the driver. >> you can see a lot more space from where the driver would sit in and that indicates that the air bags and seat belts have a chance of doing their job to protect driver from injury. >> reporter: the shelf lay equinox and gmc terrain earned a top safety pick plus along with the toyota highlander and all three held up well after striking the barrier but forward collision warning systems and automatic braking. >> if someone was sitting in this seat they could walk out of this crash? >> exactly. a good chance that reasonably a healthy person would walk away from this crash without any serious injuries. >> reporter: the kia suze yalof schwartz sorento and mazda cx-9 received poor ratings and the worst in the group was the honda pilot. what did it do wrong? >> the main problem with the honda pilot its structure collapsed. we had brake pedal, for instance, moving inboard. some 16 inches toward the driver and the steering column moved to the right, so the dummy glanced off the air bag and didn't get pull protection. >> reporter: honda responded to its suv's crash test with an e-mail. every new generation of the honda pilot has helped lead the light truck segment with a wide range of standard safety and driver shifting technology and committed it will continue to do so in the future. we reached out to kia. they still have not gotten back us to. we called mazda and they will us their cx-9 manufactured before this test and in previous tests it's done quite well they say. this is the honda pilot behind me. you can ste the structure collapsed. orting the ihhs if this happens and you're in this accident the chances of you walking away without some sort of injury are slim. gayle? >> jeff pegways, i was a pilot back in the day i love that car. you had to be doing the hula charlie. toyota people were here you said where does one get one of those highlanders? >> i did that because a friend of mine had one and he likes it a lot. this reminds you one more time of how you can lose your life. to see the force of an impact at 40 miles per hour. >> that's right. >> i'm glad they do the test. >> it doesn't seem that fast. >> i'm glad they do the test. >> i agree. >> information you can use this morning. thank you, jeff. neighbors in western pennsylvania, are taking sides over oil and gas fracking. some landowners can't wait to make a deal with energy companies. others don't want anything to do with drilling. as michelle miller reports a state law could force everyone to let the fracking begin. >> reporter: suzanne matteo is raising two young daughters on this four acre land in pennsylvania. what is underneath her property has an energy giant intereste in leasing her land. against her wishes. >> we don't want to lease our land and we should have that right not to lease our land. >> reporter: matteo and her neighbors sit on top of a piece of land the energy company hope to develop. the houston based company is trying to. >> announcer: 1961 pennsylvania law that could allow drillers to pull gas rights or bundle the properties landowners who support drilling with those who oppose it. >> it's a point to pit neighbor against neighbor and what better way to get people hating each other than money? >> if you're going to be forced into something, it's better off, i think, to get on the band wagon. >> reporter: neighbors bruce and jody clingan run a 200-eric golf course nearby and signed a gas lease for $500,000 down plus 18% royalties on future gas and oil production. >> give our daughters and our grandsons another third generation here to run the course. 99% that is for it and the other 1%, you know, i just can't see where they can stop growth and economy in this area over it. >> reporter: jacqueline weaver san expert on energy law at the university of houston. >> there might be some owners in those combined tracks that actually don't want to go into the pool but it forces them into a larger unit. >> reporter: pennsylvania joins about 40 states that have forced pooling laws on the books. and proponents are forced to cut down on the number of wells and ensure property owners get their fair share of proceeds. in a statement to cbs news news hillcorps says it's the fairest methods of protecting the landowners and ensures all participants, leased or unleased, are compensated for the minerals they own. in the meantime matteo continues to hold out for moral reasons. >> money, it's just money. i wouldn't sleep at night knowing that i was -- i signed off on this. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning," michelle miller new york. >> controversy continues. it shoots down the enemy at seven times the speed of sound. our first look at the navy's newest weapon. that's next. tomorrow the next step in the search for flight 370. we will show you the american made robot built the manpower the will... mobilizing to take on the world? 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" ". >> these storms spawn tornadoes and heavy rain all the way from north carolina to florida. >> from hail to winds. >> another emotional day in court court. oscar pistorius finally describes what happened. >> i'd fired four shots at the door. >> australia authorities urged patience and said the priority is to try to detect additional signals. >> reporter: nobody here disputes shows that the median income of female staffers is 88% of that of male staffers. >> if someone adventurous takes a risk and gets themselves into trouble and needs help, who should pay? it's a simple question but it has no simple answer ss. >> reporter: they wanted to test out suvs like this one how they held up in a crash at 40 miles an hour. >> they are sellcelebrating in connecticut. >> the huskies once again are in basketball heaven. >> last night the team took the title and a stance against their critics. >> ladies and gentlemen, you're looking at the hungry huskies. this is what happens when you've been there last year two years. this morning's "eye opener@8" is presented by panera bread. i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell. a severe storm warning is being blamed for two deaths in the south. rain, violent winds and tornadoes. >> warm weather is heading north this morning but another round of potentially dangerous storms threatens the atlantic coast the. in belhaven north carolina an area hit by at least two tornadoes. vicente? >> reporter: you can see some of the damage left by the storm that tore through here yesterday afternoon. the trees here were heavily damage damaged. . you can see how they were twisted and torn off their tops and ended up in the front yard. you can see twisted metal that is thrown all over the place here. the tornado was caught on tape yesterday as it moved through belhaven north carolina. you can see this home video that was take ebb ofn of that twister. we surveyed the damage. we found a foundation of what was once a home. a man told us there was once a house there. it was blown to pieces by the tornado. we also got video of a van that was upside-down and a car right next to it also damaged and we saw some video of a staircase pushed up against the tree. it was the most awkward scene. these are some of the images we're seeing around belhaven. we've seen people coming up and down the roads seeing the damage. norah? >> thank you. storm y stormy weather rained out yesterday's practice round at the masters golf tournament, the first time that has happened in 11 years. cbs station wbbn has a look at what's coming today. megan, good morning. good morning. and good morning to our viewers in the west. the deep south was hit hard over the course of the last 24 hours. the vast majority of all the nation's storm reports centered in had this area from damaging winds to hail to flash flooding to even tornadoes. and what we see today is that as the storm system pushes to the east it may still bring a possibility of isolated severe weather to parts of floor are floor florida today as it pushes off the coastline. another storm system pushing onshore across the pacific northwest today bringing light to moderate rainfall from seattle to portland. california, unfortunately, will stay dry. >> me fwan thanks. oscar pistorius game sick this morning during his second day of testimony. the south after paraolympian described what happened before shooting his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp steenkamp. he said he thought someone had broken in. >> that's the moment that everything changed. i thought that there was a burglar gaining entrance to my home. i was waiting to cross the passage which leads to the bathroom. i think initially i just froze. i didn't know what to do. i interpret eded it as being somebody climbing into the bathroom. i initially thought that somebody, if they were at the window, the pass ang entrance or the passageway could be three or four meters. they could be there at any moment. and the first thing that ran through my mind i needed to protect reeva and i, i need eded to get my gun. >> prosecutors say it was premeditated murder. pistorius face as possible life sentence if convicted. the search for flight 370 is one month old and time is running out to locate signals from its flight data recorder. listening equipment has failed to detect any new pings. officials say the batteries in the locator beacons are about to run out. in beijing chuck hagel had tough words for china's military. hagel said china has no right to an air defense zone over disputed islands without consultation. >> the united states has been very clear, direct and firm on how these disputes should be resolved. they should be resolved diplomatically, peacefully through international law. >> hagel said the u.s. will protect japan in its dispute with china. china's defense chief said his country is ready for diplomacy but will use military force to protect its territory. the reverend al sharpton is denying a report that he was an fbi informant. documents on the smoking gun website showed sharpton recorded conversations with new york crime bosses during the 1980s. he reportedly was known as confidential informant number seven. sharpton says he was a victim. he says he called the fbi after he was threatened. he admitted recording some conversations but that he was never told he was an informant. for the fourth time the university of connecticut ncaa's men's basketball are champions beating kentucky 60-54 last night in the final game. it was an unexpected championship matchup. connecticut was the seventh seed and kentucky was number eight. the husbandkies, you may recall, were banned from last year's tournament for academic reasons. congratulations to them. after the game the uconn campus erupted. street lights and windows were broken during the celebration. at least 30 people were arrested, but no serious injuries are reported. husband huskies fans get another chance to celebrate tonight. uconn plays notre dame for the women's national tighttle. >> that would be great if it's two for two. i wish people could learn to celebrate without breaking stuff. >> i agree. >> there has to be a better way. >> yes. >> i have some suggestions but nobody asks me. it's now 8:08. time to check your local headlines. . who would you ratr who would you rather see in concert, daytaylor swift or justin bieber? 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>> did you think it was sexy? >> the sound of it turns me on. >> it was only 5% for the flute, to be fair. compared to about 25% for guitar. saxophone was right behind guitar. >> i like that, too. >> you do? the saxophone still works. >> a dated thing? >> i didn't mean it that way. >> what are you trying to say, michael? you're not getting off to a good start. polls show 42% of americans say this decade has the worst music since 1970. ouch. that good music is hard to find. >> so you have a theory about this, first of all, let's talk about how the poll is done the same as the presidential poll. they called 1,000 people on the phone, i believe. >> i will say this about the age of the people you talked to. >> that's something to think about, i guess, when you're calling people on the phone. base basically i really do think it takes a long time for the music that you hear -- for people to make sense of it right? we look back on the '70s and we're thinking about the great stuff but not the terrible stuff. i remember when people used to think the '70s was the worst music ever. as time goes on it becomes clearer, oh, this is the great stuff right now people might be like all i hear is a lot of loud teenybopper music and i don't get it. >> the rolling stones were playing "satisfaction." the girl's father walked in the room ripped it off and said stop listening to that filth. today it would be nothing. >> they study that in school now. >> go ahead. >> i was going to say 39% of those polled would rather take their daughters to see taylor swift in concert than miley cyrus or justin bieber. i'm surprised the number you is not higher. right? >> yeah. it's true. taylor has done a good job -- i call her taylor -- >> taking your daughter to see a concert. i would not take my daughter at the a young age to see miley cyrus. >> we didn't ask the daughters what they want. taylor swift has cultivated her own image to be safe and clean whereas miley is twerking everything and joking about drugs and justin bieber who is even lower on the list has issues. taylor is the safe choice if you're going to go to a concert. >> 33% of people said they would prefer they studied the beatles over mozart. >> isn't that interesting? i think the parents don't nomo dart either. know mozart either. they would like to study together. >> i am surprised by this. >> either/or. >> yeah. they don't have to be mutually exclusive. >> the amazing thing is people who list enen to the radio. 49%. >> isn't that astonishing? and cd players are way down low at 9%. the cd has gone but radio is still there. >> i love the radio. absolutely love the radio in the car. gayle does, too. >> new yorkers forget how much time people spend in their cars and radio is obviously the most common thing there. >> thank you so much. great to see you. >> great to be here, thank you. the pennsylvania family went to the mat so a 13-year-old girl could wrestle against boys. you'll hear from her next only on "cbs this morning." ♪ you're going to hear me roar ♪ announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by toyota. let's go places. y amenity. booooriiiing!!!! ah, ah, ah. hit it, guys! ♪ ♪ ♪ it's got a bin for your chickens ♪ ♪ a computer from the future ♪ ♪ and some giant freaky room for eight ♪ ooh, yeah! ♪ but it ain't got no room for boring ♪ i'm spacing out on all this space, too! ♪ no, we ain't got no room for boring ♪ ♪ for boring, we ain't got no room ♪ [ male announcer ] the all-new highlander. toyota. let's go places! what? 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>> reporter: frustrated for their daughter the family fought back. >> since she wanted to do it i was the one that encouraged her and i certainly never told her that was wasn't something for her. >> reporter: they appealed to the school district a number of of times asking for a change of policy. the physical size speed and power of male athletes could create a competitive disadvantage and a hazard to the health and safety of a female athlete. >> i feel she is as safe as the boys out there and million personnel are there. >> reporter: they filed a federal lawsuit arguing their daughter was denied equal rights under the 14th amendment and they got a restraining order. one year in the battle a federal judge agreed with the family. the school district finally backed down. >> i was just relieved in that i could go on with everyday life and not have to worry about it any more. >> and i like school. >> reporter: beattie says it has taught her school is more important than strength and has no intention of ever backing down. >> i will keep on trying my hardest and try to be able to beat some of the boys and be able to do good. >> reporter: lion mountain school district declined to comment. the legal cost for the beattie's amount to $140,000. one year ago, a woman lost a foot in the boston marathon bombing. today she is walking and guess what? she is dancing too! she is here with anderson cooper, kind ever dancing, too, to show your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. leland yee could enter a plea in federal good morning, it's 8:25. time for some news headlines. state senator leland yee could enter a plea in federal court this morning. the charges include public corruption and gun and drug trafficking. lee is among 29 people arrested last month in an fbi raid. a bizarre vandalism spree is under investigation in san francisco. someone tipped over at least four smart cars in the middle of the night between sunday and monday. all four were within 10 blocks of each. and the giants open the home schedule at at&t park today. the ballpark will be sold out for 247th consecutive game. expect heavy traffic near the stadium before and, of course, after the game. stay with us. traffic and weather in just a moment. salesperson #1: so, again, throwing in the $1,000 fuel reward card is really what makes it like two deals in one. salesperson #2: actually getting a great car with 42 highway miles per gallon makes it like two deals in one. salesperson #1: point is there's never been a better time to buy a jetta tdi clean diesel. avo: during the first ever volkswagen tdi clean diesel event, get a great deal on a jetta tdi. it gets 42 highway miles per gallon. and get a $1,000 fuel reward card. it's like two deals in one. volkswagen has the most tdi clean diesel models of any brand. hurry in and get a $1,000 fuel reward card and 0.9% apr for 60 months on tdi models. checking conditions on the golden gate bridge, it is slow towards the golden gate bridge. there was an earlier crash into the lombard turnoff and it was backing things up near the south tower. here's a live look outside. a lot of folks look like they were avoiding the san mateo bridge for a while. it was really backed up because of an earlier stalled big rig so southbound 880 is heavy as well as the dumbarton bridge which for a while was a good alternate. you may still want to use it. the big rig is long since cleared but obviously there are heavy delays right now trying to get out of hayward on the flat section and over the high- rise out to the peninsula. bart is on time which is good news for the giants home opener later on this afternoon. that's traffic. here's lawrence. thin layer of high clouds moving overhead. we do have a little fog out toward the beach and most of that just a thick fog right down on the coastline. it's already beginning to break up so we're going to see a whole lot of sunshine outside should be a beautiful day again today maybe the peak of the heat as high pressure holds on with that offshore wind. that will crank up temperatures. mid-80s in the valleys today, 83 in napa, 78 in oakland, 81 in mountain view, 8 in san jose. and about 74 degrees in san francisco. if you are headed toward the coastline, we are planning on 60s and 70s. mostly sunny skies this afternoon. looks like a return to low clouds and fog tonight into tomorrow. cooler temperatures over the next few days. probably going to cool temperatures downright through about saturday. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com ♪ welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up in this half hour see for yourself what it takes to bounce back after losing a foot. wounded in the boston marathon bombing, adrianne haslett-davis has been bouncing back. anderson cooper has been watching her recovery since they met nearly a year ago. men say you shouldn't even bother laughing. jamie wax found a professor who says humor is all about benign violation. we will explain what that means. jamie is here with that story coming up. time to show you some of this morning's headlines. "the new york times" looks at the creative way hackers gain access to computer networks. experts say hackers are entering through printers thermostats and even vending machines. that makes it harder to prevent breaches like the one at target last year. "usa today" looks at the ranking of american airlines and it measures on-time flights and mishandled bags and other performance data. the top airline is virgin america for the second year in a row. that is followed by jetblue and hawaiian. american eagle, by the way, finished last. san jose mercury news looks at a smart car mystery. several of the little cars have been tipped over in san francisco. car owners are not laughing. police say the pranks will be investigated as act of felony vandalism. new york daily news looks at derek jeter's final homeopener at yankees stadium. in the fifth inning yesterday, jeter ripped the ball deep into left field ian missed a homer by inches. jeter's home run trot turned into a dash to second base. the yankees beat baltimore 4-2. cbs news new york looks at lady gaga's good-bye performance at rose land ballroom. it is closed this morning after nearly a century of shows. ♪ i love my life i love this road i'm on ♪ >> that was a nice moment. lady gaga told her fans about her memory going to the ballroom and she kissed the stage as the show ended. i went last night because, listen, i've seen gaga in concert three times. i really like her. she is very theatrical and she puts on quite a show and a nice night for her. >> sad to see rowland closing. >> yes. they are still wondering what to do with the building. not quite sure right now. >> a great finale. >> yes. survivor of a boston marathon bombing has done something amazing. the attack nearly one year ago killed two women and a little boy. 275 other people were injured during adrianne haslet-davis. her left leg was amputated above the ankle. >> reporter: that does not promise her from dancing again. she and cnn have kept a video record of her recovery. >> oh. this is like seeing my child walk for the first time again. it's pretty emotional and it's pretty exciting but she is a star. she is amazing. >> stand up for me. ♪ does it hurt? >> she is standing on her own. >> what you feel or what i need you to differentiate. doing good. >> okay, okay. ♪ >> it feels really good to stand up right now. i haven't stood up in a really long time. i almost forgot what it's like. i so desperately want to dance again. i am so close. >> adrianne haslet-davis is here with anderson cooper of "survivor diaries." do you remember that moment? >> yes i do. i tear up when i see it. i remember what it was like to be upright again. you have this visual of the world from the chair and it's tough. >> how do you feel today? >> today is a great day. i have more good days than bad days now which is a welcomed change. >> you said you were -- in that clip, you said it was like christmas. you were very excited about getting your new leg but then it's like the reality set in and you had to confront the new normal. would you share that process? it was really touching to see for you. >> yeah. it was very noshl.emotional. i was so excited to get a leg because i knew what it meant. and it could not look like a leg and put in a shop per se was very tough. >> it reminded you of the things you couldn't do? >> uh-huh. yeah. >> anderson, when did you first meet adrianne? >> we met just days after the bombing. i talked to her mom and we went to her hospital room and we had just a great conversation and i think we were all blown away by how optimistic she was even then and the first time we met her, she was talking about dancing again and that was the thing which kind of we all just thought, you know, this is an incredible lady and she was very kind to let us follow her for the year, which it's not an easy thing to do. >> how did that come about? did you say to her, look can we log your journey the next year? >> basically. i think we early on asked and i'm not sure you knew exactly what it would entail but you were very kind to do it. and it's not just letting camera crews in from time to time. adrianne shot a lot of the documentary herself on a little camera on her iphone. so that takes a lot. >> where did it come from deep within you the sense that i have to dance? >> you know, i knew that the goal needed to be reached because the opposite of that of giving up was way too much of a burden. the burden of recovery and getting a leg and dancing and relearning the dancing was less of a burden than the relate of never doing it again. >> the technology was amazing. in the documentary, they showed how the engineers were able to get a leg that would imitate your dance movements for you. your mom said that she can't imagine you not dancing that you just have to dance and your husband said the same thing. >> yeah. yeah. >> that's what it means to you. >> it's inside of me. i can't listen to music. there was a long time during the recovery process about two months i couldn't even hear a song if something was playing in one of the other hospital rooms i would ask that they turn it off. in a dancer's mind you're always choreographing and wondering what that dance would look like. and i couldn't even hear it. >> it's not just about you dancing too. you're a dance instructor right? that is your profession and what you do and your identity and how was anderson? i understand you gave him a lesson? >> i did. >> your toughest assignment yet? >> when we first met in the hospital room we had such a great conversation and i was so inspired about her dancing again i kind of blurted out, when you dance again, i would love to get a dance lesson from you because i am a terrible dancer and never dance odd camera and never doing that in nine years and not thinking she would follow through on that and she instantly was like that is a deal. >> i jumped on it. >> i wonder if "dancing with the stars" will be calling? >> they will not be calling. i need many more lessons and i'm not sure what i was doing with dancing. >> you won't even say his name. you won't even say the boston bombers's name. i don't want to know it or know how to pronounce it or give it any power. >> no, no way. why would i? >> what would you like to see happen? >> i think that he did a terrible thing and i support them seeking the death penalty for this case. >> the one-year anniversary is coming up. where will you be? >> for the one-year anniversary, i will be at the tribute event and there with my husband and some of our dear friends. i've been asked to speak at that event as well so along with some of the other survivors. >> you plan to go back to the marathon. the marathon is the following week after the one-year anniversary. >> your brothers are running? >> they are. my brothers are not runners but they are running. >> do you have any desire to run a mayor a thrown? >> i do. adam and i want to run next year' marathon. i had a place in my hard for ted a long time and had it on my list of things to do. i didn't think it would happen in quite that capacity. >> i was there. i'll tell you what someone said to me. not a dry eye in the house. >> that was your first public dance -- >> it was my first public dance and it was incredibly moving. i didn't have a dry eye either. >> i love that you wore a short dress. was that a deliberate decision on your part? >> it was a deliberate decision. i wanted to show the amazing technology that hugh herndon and his team worked on and i wanted to show it and be proud of that. it's difficult for me to wear short dresses now. >> it's such a great story and the fact the two of you got together and it will be inspirational for anchorage people. >> i think a lot of people will be inspired. >> i know they will be. are mom says you want to hear in happiness. i'm so excited to meet you. we were all excited you were coming today. always good to see anderson but we were excited you were coming. >> just to see me dance. >> i want to see you dance with gaga last night! >> i try to keep my jubilation to a minimum, anderson! >> adrianne haslet-davis and anderson cooper. the documentary airs tonight on cnn and it is must see tv. people say a joke doesn't work if you have to explain it but a professor says he can show us why anything is funny or not. coming up next he tells jamie bulldog: you don't need superpowers to help someone. sometimes, all it takes is a warm heart and a cold nose. that's why mattress discounters good deed dogs is raising money to train service dogs for people with disabilities. i would never imagine a life without an assistance dog ever again. i relied on people a lot. he helps me live a more independent life. bulldog: we need your help to do more. give at mattressdiscountersdogs.com, or any mattress discounters. mattress discounters good deed dogs helping dogs help people ♪ at kaiser permanente we've reduced serious heart attacks by 62%, which makes days with grandpa jack 100% more possible. join us at kp.org and thrive. you know that i'm completely in love with mayor rob ford. i want to know everything about him so you can imagine how excited i am about this new documentary one of the canadian cable channels is running. >> discovery canada presents a rare glimpse at one of nature's most powerful and forerocious predators. the great white ford. savage. cunning. >> mayor ford. >> ford spends much of his life sometimes resulting in e rat tick behavior. the great white ford only on discovery canada. >> i'll bet you they are cracking up. do you know why that was funny? you might find the answer in a new book called "the humor code." it's published by simon and shuster which is a division of cbs. jamie wax spent time with mcgraw to find out how he broke the code. >> it's a question to be asked, isn't it? no doubt about it. humor is subjective. maybe you like slapstick, jokes. what is funny to one person may not be funny to another one but if professor peter mcgraw is right at the core of everything that makes us laugh is one simple formula. >> i was raised by a single mother so my grandma was around all the time. she helped raise me. she was like a father to me. you know? she even had the beard. >> reporter: sheeba mason is a new york city based stand up comic and her fellow comedians battle every. >> i analyze constantly. >> reporter: in this analysis do you think about if it's funny only or do you think about why it's funny? >> if it's funny because it's just because it works, then i don't have to sit there worrying about why it's funny. >> place your hand in the bucket of ice water. >> reporter: but university of colorado professor peter mcgraw spends a lot of time worrying about why things are funny. >> stumble on this question what makes things funny and i'm not proud of this but i googled it. >> reporter: and when he couldn't find an adequate explanation, he developed his own. tell me about the benign violation theory. >> the idea behind the benign violation theory is counterintuitive a little bit. >> reporter: basically mcgraw's theory says start with a threat or things amiss, a violation. couple that with something lets us know all is safe and there is no real danger that the threat is benign. the result is humor. >> and we laugh at benign violations and amused by them and say, hey that's funny. >> reporter: he says all comedy the three stooges to chris rock to the viral videos you see on youtube stem from this idea of benign violation like an innocent baby biting his big brother's finger. reverse the situation and you might not find it so funny. mcgraw partnered with journalist and co-author joel warner to explain all of this in "the humor code." the book details their journey across the globe testing the theory. the pair traveled from scandinavia to the amazon from asia to africa. >> having traveled around the world with this guy, his theory did stand up to a lot of scrutiny like whether we were in palestine, violations, we placed brimming with comedy because we were finding ways to make all of the violations of their daily lives of palestine benign. >> i'm stalking someone. >> reporter: of course, not everyone in the comedy world thinks analyzing why we laugh is such a great idea. >> both of us are big fans. louie ck and i got to run the violation theory past him. >> reporter: this guy walks in with a sweater vest. i'll explain the theory. >> louie kits him off and says i don't think it's that simple. >> reporter: even the authors acknowledge there is more to what makes us laugh than just a formula. >> i still do think that the best comedy is part science and part magic. you know? 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