morn. howard this lawsuit is being filed on behalf of thousands. reporter: it is. listen, back last friday when i spoke to the attorney getting this lawsuit together he said he needed five plaintiffs and instead he s named nine plaintiffs who want to sue the city. they want to sue the city, mayor, police chief and also republican luck works department. you may remember the scene back in march. public works personnel were homeless people such as blankets and bedding and clothing. this happened in early march. the city was fed up with personal items lining the street. this is outside the denver rescue mission. in taking the items they are returning filing a lawsuit saying the city used their camping ban that he described as a vis ration of constitutional rights. rights. when i see a mass deprivation of constitutional rights, as an attorney i have a duty to act. they are taking homeless citizens in denver there are constitutional rights. i m cold that day. we needed our
group of passengers claiming they were discriminated against because they are black. good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i m anne-marie green. well, this morning, it is still unclear what caused that russian jet line tore crash in egypt last weekend. cbs news has learned that a u.s. satellite detected a heat flash over the sci-fi peninsula at the same time the jet broke apart in midair on saturday. all 224 people on board were killed in the crash. the bodies of more victims were returned to russia this morning. tina krauss is in london with the latest. tina, good morning. reporter: anne-marie, a senior official at the russian airline blames an external influence for the crash, ruling out pilot error or technical issues. the debris has spread across nearly 8 square miles of the top aviation officials say that indicates the jet broke up in midair but says it s too soon to say what caused the crash. the air
did. allen pizzey is in egypt. reporter: search teams have finished combing an eight-square-mile area of the sinai desert where the airbus went down and will now widen the search. most of the bodies have been found along with the plane s two flight data recorders. decoding them to discover what caused the plane to suddenly break apart in mid-air is expected to begin tomorrow after the arrival of expfrts from ireleld where the a-321 wawa registered andndad its last safety check. the airbus and other experts examine the twisted metal of the fuselage for clues today. a neat arrangement of ggage waiting in the desert rather than on an airport carousel was a poignant reminder of how much those clues matter. an isis affiliate based in the sinai has claimemeit brought down the plane. and while there s no evidence of any direct terrorist involvement, the possibility the sinai militants were responsible can t be dismissed, according to u.s. director of national intelligence james cl
well, the company that wants to build the controversial keystone xl pipeline wants them to hold off on the project. the oil pipeline would travel from canada to the gulf coast. transcanada says it is still negotiating with the state of nebraska, where it is facing several legal challenges. opponents say the pipeline is an environmental hazard. support, say it would improve america s energy security. and now to presidential politics a. just released poll shows ben carson surge ahead of donald trump in the race for the gop nomination. meanwhile, efforts to have more control over the debate processtime seem cob falling apart. good morning, don. good morning, anne-marie, given all the action on the campaign trail, it s hard to believe the presidential election is still a year. on the republican side, ben carson appears to be building on his national lead over his opponents. meanwhile, president obama took who won his job last night. reporter: republican front runner ben carso
reporter: after being in a halfway home and under house arrest for five months 50-year-old michael higgins became a free man. the former public school teacher served ten years in federal prison for dealing meth and ecstasy. i was released two years early, and i am so grateful for that. reporter: he s one of some 6,000 federal inmates mates to be granted early release under a u.s. sentencing commission program. in 2014 the commission voted to cut jail time for some non-violent drug offenders. the average 10 1/2-year prison sentence is being reduced by two years. this program is part of a bipartisan effort to reduce the federal prison population, which has grown to more than 200,000 inmates. alsosoeing adadessed, evening out sentences for thoho cauaut with cracks as opposed to powder cocaine, and loosening so-called mandatory minimum sentences. critics say both practicic have led to high incarceration rates and unfairly targeted blacks and the poor. kevin ring represents