This is the cbs morning news for friday, november 22nd, 2013. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie 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 delay most president ial nominations. President obama welcomed the shift, but republicans are crying foul and warned that dangerous precedent has been set. Susan mcginnis is in washington with the details. Susan, good morning. Annemarie, good morning. This rule change is so controversial its known in washington as the nuclear option. It basically removes the ability of the Minority Party to block most president ial nominations. Now, democrats say republicans have used the filibuster to in a campaign of obstruction against president obama. Republicans say democrats have a hidden agenda. The ayes are 52, the nays are 48. With all but three of their members agreeing to the change, democrats have effectively killed the filibust
Senate democrats vote the nuclear option, they vote filibusters but it comes with a warning. My friends on the other side of the aisle, youll regret this. Youll regret it a lot sooner than you think. Phonefriendly 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. Im annemarie 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
down to the ground and held on to me until he thought it was safe to get up. so as far as being haunt go ahead. tina, go ahead about being haunted by the memories you were going to say? well, haunted is probably not a good word for me. i never felt like i was traumatized by it. i think my age had something to do with that. and not being any closer to where the president was killed probably helped that feeling also. and what do you make of the conspiracy theories and how people have discussed this over the last five decades of what really happened on that day? what are your thoughts? well, i don t really have a theory of my own other than i don t think we really know what happened. i don t think we know yet what happened. and i really haven t kept up with all, there s so many conspiracy theories. i ve heard a few and read a few books about it and some of them sound plausible.
but all i know is what i heard and what i saw that day and what my parents witnessed with me. well, you were a witness to this moment in our country s history, a sad and dark chapter for all of us. tina towner-pender, thank you for sharing your story with us, i appreciate your time today. coming up, how that moment changed life in america forever. michael beschloss and larry sabato s book is a must read and they re going to join me to talk about what this day means, where we were there and where we re going down. we re right back after this.