And Unmanned Aircraft over iraq. Some of those aircraft are gone. The pentagon has confirmed armed drones have been deployed over baghdad to protect u. S. Troops. Deployed troops numbering in the thousands are moving toward baghdad from both the north and the west. Theres new evidence indicating isis did massacre captured soldiers two weeks ago. President obama seems in fighting spirits in minnesota. I might have said in the heat of the moment during one of these debates i want to raise minimum wages so sue me if i do. I didnt think they were going to take it literally. 337 deaths so far. R b singer bao mac has died. Much of the states of minnesota is waterlogged. A guy armed with a metal pipe jumped on the lid of a moving police car. He told them he was from the planet zotron. All that a small plane made an Emergency Landing on a highway. This happening in arlington. Amy add a is getting praises for giving up her seat to a u. S. Soldier. On cbs this morning. Ladiesnight. Powerful shot. Make that the longest home run in the big leagues. Captioning funded by cbs and welcome to the weekend, everyone. Im Anthony Mason with vinita nair. Good morning. The holiday is just around the corner. And i hope my cold is gone in time for the holidays. It will happen. We have a great lineup of gets for you including chef shaun hergut. Hes won awards in australia. Plus lake street wants to be the best bar band. We begin with the top story. The influential cleric is calling for agreement on a Prime Minister before the new parliament meets next week. Meanwhile the armed military is flying armed drones over baghdad. We have Charlie Dagata in baghdad where the iraqi militants launched air strikes today. But we begin with mark albert with the latest involvement. Good morning. Good morning. 300 delivered so far this year with hundreds more on the way. Perhaps even more valuable are the growing numbers of u. S. Forces on the ground. The american commander who is already familiar to some in the iraqi military. The army overall is very busy an were certainly a great example of the kpe. Now the west point graduate is in charge of finding out how the u. S. Can prop him up once again. The president says theyll lead joint Operation Centers in the iraqi capital and Northern Iraq as well as 16 advisers made up of the Army Special Forces. Thats about 180 of the 300 troops authorized by president obama. To support them Spokesman John Kirby said some of the 30 to 35 surveillance flights a day over iraq are now armed. With the introduction now of additional u. S. Personnel in an advisory capacity designed go outside the embassy confines that the commander on the ground Central Command commander believed was prudent to arm some of these aircraft to make sure we have Additional Forces in place. They said american assistance will only go so far. This is not our countrys future to decide. This is iraqi. This is the iraqi leaders who needed to step up after we ended our mission there and give their country a better future. Its not up to us the United States turkey or iran or any other country to fix this for the iraqis. Thousands of the insurgents are moving toward baghdad in two directions if what the intelligence is called a multipronged assault. Theyre trying to find out if the iraqi forces can defechbd the capital. They say that assessment should take two to three weeks. Vinita . Inside iraq theyre conducting air strikes. For the latest on the constantly changing situation we go to Charlie Dagata in baghdad, the iraqi capital. Charlie, good morning. Reporter good morning. That battle started this morning. Theyre trying to seize back the city that was taken by isis fighters just more than a week ago in part of an overall military operation. Iraqi military says Government Forces are taking the fight to isis militants and that these bodies of isis fighters are the prove. God willing said this iraqi soldier they will not take another inch of iraq. This will be the fate of all isis fighters f after conquering and capturing large chunks of territory on a wave of fear and intimidation, the rapid sunni defenseive has appeared to slow down, at least for now. Large force have been doubling down in an effort to pinch after routes to baghdad, securing the roads of the Northern City of samarra. The army claims this raid claimed the province earlier this week north and east of baghdad. A seized cache of weapons is on display as is the body of a dead militant. Despite apparent gains with no political solution in sight, the conflict threatens to widen with or without u. S. Military support. Prime minister Nuri Al Maliki is desperately trying to hold onto power despite desperate calls for him to step down. And with the calls, the top cleric wants parliament to choose a new leader before it meets on tuesday, al maliki is fighting for his political life while facing growing battles throughout the country. Of course the sole purpose of trying to avoid this is to try to avoid further sectarian violence here and at this point theres no telling whether that can happen in a matter of days. Anthony . Charlie dagata in baghdad. Thank you, charlie. Few leaders in the world today know the middle east as well as the president sherez. He has been serving his country since it was founded in 1948. We wanted to hear his views on the Current Crisis in iraq and syria, so 60 minutes correspondent lara logan sat down with him for an exclusive interview in his last leg as president. Good morning. Good morning. The most surprising thing he told mow was the advice he gave to president obama about iraq. He said the conflict between the two main groups sunnis and shiites is the responsibility of arab League Coalition of arab nations and not the u. S. In his view this is not americas fight. The shiites, sunnis should be handed by them. Its an arab problem. Theyre qualified to handle it. Really an arab problem. He said he told president obama the u. S. Should support the fight in iraq rather than lead it. As this terrorist group isis consolidates its gains in iraq and look toward jordan does israel feel frightened . Is a threat eminent from the terrorists in iraq so dangerous that its capable of bringing israel closer together with some of its oldest enemies . Maybe. And they shall be delighted to have it happen. Were not looking for enemies. We have enough. What were trying to do is convey enemyniemyies into friends whenever we can. 20 years later, theres still no peace and the most recent talks fell apart. Yet paris remains on good terms. Who are the leaders in the middle east that you can count on . Abbas is a partner. I have much respect for the king of jordan. I have much hope about the new president of egypt. And also saudi arabia and the gulf countries. What about Bashir Al Assad in syria. Is he here to say . After killing 160,000 people i wouldnt take the security insurance. Over the past 65 years, he has worked with ten u. S. President s and hes the only member of israels founding generation whos still in office. But in just a few weeks he will step down and finally retire from government service. Even though youre the worlds oldest statesman already, you have more plans. I dont think aim is a consideration in my situation. I think youre as young as your dreams and as old as your calendar. So im not concerned about my age. Im concerned about the future. President paris did not have much hope for the future of iraq. He said he did not see the slightest chance of it remaining as one country. Fascinating interview to hear some of his viewpoints. Did he make any mention of the three israeli teenagers who disappeared on the west bank . Yes, he did. According to them theyre not negotiating for the release of those captured teenagers because they dont know who took them. But he did say in no up certain terms that if israel has even the slightest idea where they are, they will have no hesitation going in there. I love that youre as young as your dreams not as old as your squall door. More rain is expected in the central add northern plain states. River banks have overflowed their banks and gushed into streets and into homes and businesses. Danielle niles a meteorologist with our boston station wbbz has more. Thats right, vinita. These green shaded areas, indicate where flood warnings are in effect. Flash flood watches are on. And flash flood warnings are ongoing in parts of kansas this morning where clusters of thunderstorms continue. This is all with a cold front that will continue to slide toward the east. So the Severe Threat today extends from the texas panhandle and portions of the midwest. Damaging wind gusts, large hail isolated tornados will be the primary threat. Tomorrow that threat is for a smaller area but still in the same spots and have been seeing clusters of storms for days. Torrential rainfall. Anthony, back over to you. The white house released its review of the scandalplagued Veterans Administration and its not good. Yesterdays scatheding report found, quote, systematic and chronic failures. It also says the 14day scheduling for new parents to receive care is arbitration and illdefined. The report says the Veterans HealthCare Administration must be restructured. General motors has called yet another recall. Yesterdays recall is for almost half a million vehicles worldwide. 428,000 are in the u. S. Including gms tot selling sierra and the silverado. A Software Glitch ka cause the transmission to shift into neutral. Gm says its not aware of any crashes or injuries. Like mary barra, meg whitman was forced to turn around the company. After downsizing staff shes had to find a way to cut down on energy. Thats forcing Computer Companies such as hewlettpackard to get creative. Reporter in las vegas this month hewlettpackard meg whitman announced a bold future. This changes everything. Reporter a dramatic redesign of computing h. P. Calls the machine. What will h. P. Be able to do . It will be able to compute much faster with huge amounts of data and it will also take up a lot less space and pull a lot less energy. Reporter managing the explosion of data is literally sucking up the Worlds Energy supply. The estimates are it could take up 25 to 35 of the world ee data centers, up from 2 to 3 today. Reporter hewlettpackard is working to use light instead of copper wires and whitman is putting threequarters of the companys lab team on the project. Thats a big bet. Its a big bet. Were taking a lot of chips, in las vegas analogy, and putting it on red. How big is this in terms of cost . It will depend on time but its thousands of dollars. Years ago in a palo alto garage, h. P. s growth has stagnated as they shifted from computer devices to cloud. I think you wrote there are Many Industries that are big and slow and stuck. Exactly, exactly. And thats not where you want to be. We cannot be there or there will not be another 75 years for h. P. There arent many Tech Companies that have been able to make these kinds of transitions. Youre right. You have to be able to cap ballize your existing existence. Id rather do it to myself than have someone do it with me. So whitman who took ebay from 30 employees to 15,000 during her tenyear reign there will cut 15,000 jobs at h. P. About 14 of the global work force and the 57yearold ceo has broken down the walls of the h. P. Executive culture. Have a seat. Well have a meeting. Did you move everybody out into cubicles . I did. Why . When i got here this whole area was filled with wood paneled offices, very formal and it looked like a bank. I said the ten years at ebay was cubicles and the interaction was amazeingamazing. The interesting thing is when you come to a new organization symbolic value is important. I like that in politics. Reporter whitmans political career was brief. A 2010 run for governor in california that ended in defeat taught her the value of communication. Its the story you tell. Its the heart. Its the authenticity that captures peoples imagination. I learned that running for governor, perhaps a little too late, but i did learn it. Would you ever do it again . No. Never . No. I wont run for Public Office again. Do you regret it in any way . No. It was very difficult. Very humbling, but i have probably learned more from my failures than i have learned from my successes. This was a very successful failure and a very public one. Hewlettpackard was 12 a year ago is now 34. Thats what everyone looks for. The world is getting red for another soccer match. On tuesday before they take the field chile goes up before brazil. It features the chilean miners who were trapped. They took the soil from that mine to give the players hope and courage. Jeffgeoff fosters is here. Good morning. Welcome. Good morning. You can put your hand around the number of teams. Now its traditional tournament that americans will be more familiar with. Win and you go home. You can sort of see your path to the final. Also flo more tice which america might like. Now things go to a shootout. Its something americans havent experienced but it is exciting when it happens. U. S. Plays belgium next who we lost to in an exhibition a year ago . Yeah. Pretty badly. Its an exciting belgium team top to bottom. They have what they call the golden generation, a bunch of Young Players coming up. They really dont have much world cup experience but theyre loaded with talent so its going to be another tough opponent. Lets talk about how they ended up here. Some say a narrow loss is as good as a win. Yeah. They got here obviously beating ghana. Thats what they needed do. No one expected them to beat germany. No one has near the talent. But losing to germany is nothing to be ashame of. Look at portugal. I also heard that during the game they inquired about the portugal school because they wanted to know how much they needed to win or draw or lose by. We needed to beat them. We would have had to go on more of an attack. They were monitoring that game, but theres a reason they play them at the same time so we dont know exact lay what we need to do in those situations. The u. S. s offense against germany look add lited a little shaky. I didnt see any offense. Youre more direct. The key player joe zi altidor, is he going to be back . Theyre hopeful. Hamstring injuries are really weird. You dont know. There are different degrees. Theyre optimistic. They hope hell be out there which will benefit the americans. Can we put you on the spot and ask you what the score will be . 10. Thats it . I think the u. S. Can win it. I think it will be very close. It might come to extra time. Great soccer. Geoff foster thank you so much. The New York Times reports on ukraines new president poroshenko signing the long delayed trade path with europe on friday that moscow had bitterly opposed. Poroshenko said, quote, this is a really historic date for ukraine and said he would like his country to one day become a full member of the european union. Rejection led to his ouster. The wall street journal say s says theyre recalling haagendazs. The list contains chocolate chip ice cream but fails to say it has peanuts. The Los Angeles Times says theres a sphere that could be tested to land on mars. It will take place off the Hawaiian Island of kauai. It plans to send spacecraft and even astronauts to the planet. At the quicken loans National Tiger woods had three straight bogies and missed the cup by ten stops. Its only the third time he misset the cut. They got the spelling of his name wrong and the color of his eyes right blue. They report on the sale of Frank Sinatra sinatras first new Jersey Drivers license. They misspelled his last name coming up wrongly convict and still angry. The men jailed for the brutal rape in new york reach a 40 million settlement. How a wrong turn sparked the First World War 100 years ago today. Youre watching cbs this Morning Saturday. Mara its easy to lose your way in a place like this. Ms. Winnie earle kids in paterson face lots of obstacles but nothing can stop their determination. Mara my dream is to be a pediatric nurse. Ms. Earle taught me if i work hard i can do anything. Ms. Winnie earle mara had so much potential, it was my job to help her reach her goals. Mara now, im headed to college to study nursing ms. Winnie earle there are so many talented kids like mara and they all deserve to live their dreams. A bizarre looking headset could change the way video games are being played. While the military is working on its own use of the technology technology. Good morning. Ive chief foster. Ill take you into my world of Virtual Reality coming up on cbs this Morning Saturday. This is cbs3 Eyewitness News. Good morning everyone, im nicole brewer. Two people are dead following Early Morning house fire in north philadelphia. Authorities say an older woman, and a young male child were killed in the fire on the 1500 block of north sixth street. Now, the home did have some working smoke detectors and five others managed to escape the blaze. The cause of the fire is still being investigated and so far officials are not releasing the names of the victims. Now, a check on the forecast with carol. Morning, carol. Good morning nicole. Bright day the sun is up, it is out and it will stay up and out all day long. So expect to find a lovely day weather wise, ben franklin bridge, showing looking very nice, and so do the skies above. Storm scan3 no problems at al