senate democrats vote the nuclear option, they vote filibusters but it comes with a warning. >> my friends on the other side of the aisle, you'll regret this. you'll regret it a lot sooner than you think. phone-friendly skies. the government imposes new rules to let you use your cell phone during air flight. >> apparently official. president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. central standard time. >> and on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of john f. kennedy, a witness to the tragedy shares her story. >> i was the last film of the limousine before he got shot. captioning funded by cbs this is the "cbs morning news" for friday, november 22nd, 2013. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. well, the senate has changed the way it does business. senate democrats approved a historic rules change that all but ends the use of a filibuster to end most president nominations. president obama welcomed the shift but republicans are ward s precedent has been set. susan mcginnis is in washington with the details. susan, good morning. >> anne-marie, good morning. this rule change is so controversial it's known in washington as the nuclear option. it basically removes the ability of the party to block fi filibusters. they say they have a hidden agenda. >> the ayes are 52, the nays are 48. >> with all but three members agreeing to the change they killed the filibuster in the senate. now the threshold to move a nomination forward drops from 60 votes to a simple majority of 51. >> the change would effect the nominations an up or down vote on nominations. yes, no. >> president obama says repuicans have used a record amount of filibusterslock his nominees. >> today's pattern of obstruction, it just isn't normal. it's not what our founders envisioned. >> but republicans say democrats are making this move to divert the public's attention of the botched rollout of the affordable care act. >> this strategy of distract, distract, distract is getting old. >> and while the move change is meant to move the senate beyond partisan politics it could separate the two sides even further. the opponents say the 51% vote threshold removes the party to have a say. they cater to the extreme wing on the other side of the charge. >> you may regret this. and you'll regret this a lot sooner than you think. >> now, this rule las not been changed in 1975 when the senate voted to lowering the filibuster from 60 votes to a twir this morning a cold front threatens to deliver snow to much of the southwest. winter weather advisories and snow warnings are posted from nevada to kansas, up to a foot of snow is possible in parts of utah, colorado, and new mexico. wi nd gusts of up to 80 miles an hour slammed central utah just north of salt lake city last night. the wind knocked down power lines. hundreds of households lost power. the expected winds are expected to last through tomorrow. federal prosecutors are appealing a conditional ruling that would release a central figure in a bribery scandal that has rocked the navy. a sixth officer in the navy has been suspended. bigad shaban was in the courtroom. >> leonard francis has helped stock navy vesselsith supplies for more than 25 years but court documents accuse him of overbilling the navy for millions of dollars. three have also been accused. they gave francis access to classified navy shipping schedules. when the navy began looking into allegations of fraud, francis allegedly briebd navy investigator john beliveau to get inside information on it. he even e-mailed a picture of a prostitute he asr.kefo your kinda babe? >> you bet. hopefully i'm her kind of guy. he's pleaded not guilty to all of them. francis has been in custody since september but thursday night was granted an unusual bail that requires the multi-millionaire to rent the san diego apartment and pay for security cameras and part of his guard outside his home. he must also pay a bond. the massachusetts high school student accused of killing his math teamer has been indated. prosecutors charged 14-year-old phillip chisliip chism. he stole her credit cards, underwear, and phone. ke had previously pleaded not guilty to murder charges. kennedy cousin skakel woke up a free man for the first time in 11 years. he faces a possible retrial in the 1975 murder of his neighbor martha moxley. last month the judge ruled he was not properly represented in his original trial. and overseas, a man and a woman who were arrested on charges who held three women as virtual slaves for decades are free on bail. the women were rescued from a house in london and are said to be doing remarkably well under the circumstances. mark phillips reports. >> reporter: police said they moved in on a house in london after they discovered a tip that three women had been held there against their will for 30 years. a woman's protection charity arranged for the escape and the police arrested an m and a woman both in their 60s. the trapped women had apparently been allowed out occasionally but only under strict supervision. detective inspector kenneth hyland said the women had been tear an iced from their captors. >> they were all rescued. all three of them were highly traumatize and were taken to a place of safety where they remain. >> police say there's no evid t abuse at this stage but warned the investigation isn't over. if you break down the numbers, it seems the 30-year-old woman may have been held as a domestic slave all her life. mark phillips, cbs news,mond. coming up on the "morning news," stocks start the day on record levels. and they allow passengers to make mobile phone calls during their fliechlt this is the "cbs morning news." well i drove grandpa to his speed dating this week, so i should probably get the last roll... yeah but i practiced my bassoon. 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