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Internet. Who did it . It doesnt look like a kid in a basement with a laptop. It looks more sophisticated than. Foreign hackers claim responsibility for crippling the internet nationwide and around the world. Paypal and amazon and netflix a few of the names hit. It began with the east coast and spread to the western united states. We have a bunch of babies running our country, folks. We have a bunch of losers. They are losers they are babies anger is not a plan. Attack the city of kirkuk in northern iraq. Firefights erupted as Security Forces try to gain control of buildings and streets. Incredibly nothing to do happening across massachusetts. Worcester county hardest hit. The cars are trying to drive through a big body of water. A huge fire is burning in a recycling center in los angeles. Like a scene from hell. Beautiful and amazing and rare images of the longest living Marine Mammal in the world. Bowhead whales near the Arctic Circle where the water is nearly transparent. A protest at the miami heat game. This woman taking a knee while singing the National Anthem. And all that matters. Nyquist. Score and its 42. On cbs this morning saturday. We talked about detroit. A lot of people have begun to wonder what trump will do in the likely scenario he will lose the election and the unlikely scenario that he admits it. Now reports are that trump is thinking about starting a donald trump tv network. Im excited i cant wait until he introduces his other programming like the hourlong crime drama bad hombres chew chew chew chew welcome to the weekend, everyone. Im jeff glor along with jamie y y yuccas. 70 years in south dakota one mans vision has been slowly carved into the mountain and see how the mountain of work is in the hands of his children and grandchildren. Later this morning, we will have a rare tour of the popes summer residence as it opens to the public. He was a Founding Member of the grateful dead but now bob weir is playing music that changed his life years before forming that band. He talks to Anthony Mason about the inspiration and youll hear him perform in our saturday session. First, the top story. Investigators are trying to to determine who was responsible for a string of sophisticated Cyber Attacks that caused major outages for some of the largest websites in the u. S. The rolling attacks began friday. The sites are up and running again. The disruptions happened in the wake of recent breaches that targeted organizations and election agencies. Marlie hall is here with more. Reporter good morning. Overnight a Foreign Group called new world hackers claimed responsibility for the cyber attack but the american web company at the core of the attack hasnt been able to confirm that. Meanwhile, cyberexperts winner hacks like this are becoming the new normal. The first wave began early friday, taking down websites including twitter, netflix, amazon and spotify, among others. Around noon, a second one hit which also apparently affected the fbi. The cyberattacks continued throughout the day. At this point, i dont have any information to share about who may be responsible for that malicious activity. Reporter the attacks focused on a website called dyn inc. It has a switchboard for major website. Dan ackerman who writes for cnet says they are known as denial of Service Attacks. That is when a lot of computers around the world who have been previously hijacked send dummy data to a target and prevents it from showing the websites you want to see. Reporter still unclear who is responsible but late friday wikileaks who has been releasing hacked emails from democratic officials, tweeted to its supporters, stop taking down the u. S. Interpret. You proved your point. Cbs news Homeland Security Security Consultant Fran Townsend turned to russia as a possible instigator. A pushback pitch from the russians saying we should be careful engaging these cyber activity with them because they are very capable. The fbi and the department of Homeland Security told cbs news they are investigating all potential causes, but they have not gone as far as to say that this was a statesponsored attack. Fascinating. Marlie hall, thank you very much. For more on this we are joined by james norton of play action strategies. A Cybersecurity Firm and in boston for us this morning. James, good morning to you. Good morning. Thanks for having me. Lets go ahead, talk about, first, how this happened. You know, look. Denial of Service Attack is essentially the flooding of traffic. If you think about a traffic jam on, you know, i93 here in boston, youre essentially flooding the highway, in this case, the internet, with the number of pieces of data. And so distributed denial of Service Attack which is essentially using the internet of things, other devices, such as dvrs, other things connected to the internet that might not have standard security will be brought together to essentially, again, flood the internet, so if youre a user and youre at home and logging on and trying to experience a website, you know, look something up, do some work, you essentially will get a blank screen and because the internet has been jammed with traffic. As you mjentioned, this is cameras and cable boxes, whatever else they are using. Can you talk a little bit about new world hackers . Who they are and what they are trying to do . Sure. I mean, i think you need to think about this in the sense of, you know, following 9 11, the country took a lot of streps to secure our infrastructure. A lot of steps to secure bridges and roadways essentially for the reasons of having that backup and, you know, Personnel Services not being able to get to people that might be of need. You have to think about this hacking group, if, in fact, it is them in the same limelight in the fact they are looking to jam up our services and how we run our lives every day. So, you know, certainly theres some success there. There was some, you know, disruption in our daily lives and that is essentially what they are trying to do. But, james, in part, they say they are doing this because they are pointing out flaws. They say they are trying to help, in part. Sure. And, you know, certainly, you know, the internet is essentially the name came from connected networks and so the internet is a broad, fast, collection of pieces and parts. So certainly if you look at the recent hackings that occurred in the federal government of the office of personnel management, at target, at home depot, you know, there were flaws in those security and the for the most part we didnt have our defenses up. It wasnt anything certainly overly done in a certain way. So i think that essentially, they could be just pointing out that there are some flaws and we have to get our defenses up. It is october and that is cybersecurity month and everybody should understand the internet is a place that need to be secured and looked at as an area we are vulnerable. Is there anything that consumers can do . Youre talking about netflix, spotify, services that people use every day. Absolutely. Consumers can update their passwords and have multifactor identification. Id say once a month so they are uptospeed in terms of what their passwords are. Always monitoring their services and looking at their credit reports. There is two types of attacks. Certainly there is the hacks like there was at home depot and target where, you know, they are getting peoples Social Security numbers and credit cards and one yesterday which is slowing down the internet and something we have become very independent on. Both things could have a major impact and consumers should be vigilant in terms of updating their Information Online and changing that type of information. James norton, thank you. Thank you for having me. Donald trump will try to take a page from Abraham Lincoln today when he makes a gettysburg address in pennsylvania. Trumps campaign described his speech as trumps closing arguments which is his plan to restore the economy and outline of priorities for first 100 days in office. That speech is supposed to be positive but the recent days on the trail have anything but for donald trump. Craig boswell has more. Reporter donald trump came under fire again this week for reusing to commit himself to respecting the results of novembers election. Yesterday, in pennsylvania, trump picked up that drum beat once again complaining about an election that is stacked against him. We are living in a rigged system. Remember, folks, its a rigged system. Just remember it. We are in a rigged system. And a big part of the rigging are these dishonest people in the media. Big part. Reporter donald trump continued to insist friday that the election and journalists covering are in a league against him. The media, the special interests, wall street, the career politicians, the system is rigged and ive been saying it for a long time. Reporter an argued this election is a struggle for survival. Either we win this election or we lose the country. And, believe me, this is the last time we are going to have a chance to win. Reporter in North Carolina, trump directed his fire at two of Hillary Clintons most effective surrogates, the president and the first lady. They are losers. They are babies. We have a president. All he wants to do is campaign. His wife, all she wants to do is campaign. Reporter expressing frustration that Michelle Obama is now depicted as a big supporter of clinton, trump recalled a time when she was anything but. If you cant run your own house, you certainly cant run the white house. Where is that . I dont hear that. I dont hear that. Shes the one that started that, i said, we cant say that. Its too vicious. Reporter later in pennsylvania, trump also amped up his attack on the man in the white house. The world hates our president. The world hates us. Reporter and with just over two weeks until election day, trump dismissed poor showing in recent polls as proof he is bringing new voters into the political process. They say we cant poll this thing. People that we have never seen before, great people that have never voted before because they have never felt like voting and they have never had the confidence in the people that are running. Reporter trump trails clinton in recent polls of both pennsylvania and North Carolina. Later today, hell deliver his third speech in two days in pennsylvania where he is behind by nearly double digits and hasnt led a poll since early summer. Craig boswell in washington for us, thanks. Another key state in the president ial election is ohio and where Hillary Clinton was on friday after a nineday absence from the campaign trail. The push there comes with a new attack ad being rolled out and some important surrogates hitting the trump. Nancy cordes is with the campaign. We know in our country the difference between leadership and dictatorship, right . Reporter in cleveland, clinton called trump a threat to democracy and releasing a new ad in ohio and six other states. He saved everyone in his unit. Reporter the ad features gold star father khan who bashed for days after khan spoke out after his stance on muslims. I want to ask mr. Trump would my son have a place in your america. Reporter in wilkes bury, pennsylvania i take it behind the gym. Reporter there was more blunt talk from oprah winfrey. People say i dont know if i like her. She not coming over to your house you dont have to like her. Reporter that is not exactly the ringing endorsement candidates dream of, but it reflect how many clinton backers feel. Oprah went on to describe the race as a choice between democracy and a demagogue. For cbs this morning saturday, im nancy cordes, in cleveland, ohio. For more on the twists and turns of campaign 2016, we are joined by the Washington Post Political Columnist philip bump. Good morning. Good morning. Donald trump is not changing his strategy, is he, at this point . Doesnt seem to be. He is quadrupling down . Let donald be donald . Yeah. He has been pushing for sometime what we call a base play. He has a core basis support. He is trying to energize them and get them to turn out. The problem we see repeatedly in these polls, which, by the way, are very good at tracking what is going on, contrary to what we just saw him say, these polls suggest that he is about 40 and that he has not figured out how to get past that ceiling. You have to look at, though, after the third debate and also the Al Smith Dinner that happened, there has been so Much Negative talk. When im talking to people on the road, they are saying im just staying home. Do you think this is going to affect voter turnout . I think it will, right . These are two historically unpopular candidates. I shouldnt say no one but most people who are voting for donald trump, for example, are doing so because they dont like Hillary Clinton. A lot of people who are voting for Hillary Clinton because they dont like donald trump. I think this is advantageous to some extent to the democrats because democrats generally turn out less any way so the democrats have built good machines for getting people to go to the polls. Interesting. The democrats deal with the drips from the wikileaks. Sure. And do those continue to come out up until election day from what we have seen or your statute of limitations . It seems that way. Im not sure if its going to make any difference. What we are seeing nowadays minor revelations of different people who work on staff with the campaign. Im not sure we see any bombshell and if weekyleaks had a bombshell they would release it. The time is sort of now. The calculated things that go on inside a campaign is frightening at times and interesting to see. I want to talk about some of these states their, one would think, bigtime red states that the clinton campaign, i think is going after and we have seen some of that in these emails as well and including arizona. Exactly right. Michelle obama, for example, is in arizona. Arizona is a state that, you know, for the past 64 years only once has voted for a democrat. Incidental that time was 1996 when they voted for bill clinton. What campaigns do is throw resources into the opponents territory just to make the opponent have to defend there. This seems like legitimately because the demographics say a lot of hispanics there they might have a shot at winning it. Because he is not defending there . Well, in part, because he is doing so poorly nationally, right . He is losing by about six points nationally. Thats a wide margin. If youre doing that badly nationally that tend to on suggest even in states that you should be able to win youre going to do worse than the people before you. Early voting started there. How is turnout . Turnout is kind of mediocre. What is interesting democrats are doing better as a percentage of the return ballots in arizona and North Carolina than we saw four years ago. Philip bump, thank you so much. Thank you. Tomorrow morning on face the nation, john dickersons guests include Reince Priebus chairman of the Republican National committee. Deadly storms overnight. One person killed after 7 inches of rain fell on central and western pennsylvania. Fridays storm flooded several roads and triggered mudslides. Officials are monitoring the water supply fearing the possibility that thousands of gallons of gasoline could pour in from a ruptured pipe. Eastern and Central Massachusetts is drying out this morning after a torrential rain storm there. Hardest is worcester which got 5 inches of rain and dozens of motorists were stranded on flooded streets as you see there. They actually had to be rescued. There were no reported injuries. At least 85 people in atchison, kansas, are recovering from respiratory problems after a Chemical Spill at a distilling plant lisaed a cloud. You can see firefighters neutralized it with foam. A courthouse and three schools were evacuated and the air was shrer cleared a few hours later. In baghdad, iraqs second largest city and isis stronghold in northern iraq. Jeven finnan was the first america to be killed in the offensive which began this week. Yesterday, isis launched a counterattack on kirkuk, killing 46 people. Holly williams was there. Reporter good morning. Isis may be losing ground on the battlefield but by attacking kirkuk, its shown it can still carry out deadly terror attacks. We were with this local s. W. A. T. Team as they fought a gun battle with isis. The surprise attack started with multiple suicide bombings before the extremists holed up inside buildings, including this house under construction. We know there are between six to eight isis men over there inside that building. Reporter six to eight inside that building over there . Yes. Reporter on the streets below, the body of dead isis extremists. Security force said they were 50 behind the assault. The s. W. A. T. Team began firing tear gas canisters throwing up a smoke screen before sending a team into the building. So they have been shooting at the building and also firing tear gas canisters and now the assault team is about to go in. But as they approached, they came under fire and one of them was hit. One of the s. W. A. T. Team was injured. They had to pull back and now they are trying to pin the isis gunman down inside the building. Commander Louie Mohammed is from kirkuk and told us hell fight isis until every last one of the extremists is dead. Whats in their heads . Revenge, he said, for the mosul offensive. The fighting continued in kirkuk overnight. This may have been retribution for the mosul offensive but its also a foretaste of what that battle will look like. Gun fighting in a densely packed city. Holly williams in northern iraq, thank you. Time to sh