good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good with yo i m anne-marie green. former trump campaign chairman paul manafort is accused of violating his plea deal with the government. a possible setback for the russia investigation. court documents reveal special counsel robert mueller claims manafort repeatedly lied to federal investigators. manafort was convicted of financial crimes in august before reaching an agreement in september to cooperate with mueller s russia investigation. manafort faces the possibility of additional prison time and more criminal charges now. it also means mueller s team is losing a key cooperating witness from mr. trump s presidential campaign. manafort, who remains in jail, denied that he lied. his lawyers say he believes he provided truthful information. and some devastating news for gm employees. america s biggest automaker says it is cutting as many as 14,000 jobs in the u.s. and canada. five gm plan
troubled past. two nooses were found on trees at the state capitol in jackson, hung by critics of steve nash hyde-smith. the democrat in the race mike espy focused not on the nooses, but on hyde-smith s words. they were harmful and hurtful, and they were they were they were hurtful to the people of mississippi of goodwill. reporter: mississippi voters say the controversy around hyde-smith s cements is on their mind. cindy hyde-smith i find to be objectionable and a relic of the old bad south. this political stuff is getting ridiculous. i know what she said. she did not mean it in a black or slave issue. it s not fair. okay, that was ed o keefe reporting on the ground in mississippi. we move now from mississippi to mars. this is the first picture today from nasa s insight lander. the speckious see there on the camera lens are dust from mars. the spacecraft made a flawless landing after a blazing plunge to the surface of mars. here is jamie yuccas. touchdown c
headquarters now says he might sue. we need to heat it to treat it like a hurricane or tornado. that is exactly what pg&e is doing tonight. they could be in the dark because of the fire danger. they say they could cut power in extreme fire risk areas as soon as tonight. that includes portions of alameda, napa, sonoma and lake counties along with nine other counties along the central sierra. tonight pg&e is in the process of notifying customers who could be affected. in a statement the utility said, the safety of our customers and the communities we serve is pg&e s top priority. we know how much our customers rely on electric service. we would only consider doing this temporarily in the interest of safety and as a last resort. minutes ago sonoma county responded to the warning, this would be the first event of its kind in sonoma county and we are ready for the challenges it may bring. back as you know pg&e was blamed for sparking several of the wine country wildfires th
but i m alive. i m well. i m going to be okay. reporter: search-and-rescue crews and thousands are being assisted by straight troopers in flattened neighborhoods. they receive calls daily as relatives calls for missing persons. residents with warned not to return because debris, broken power and gas lines are a risk. we are doing everything that we can to get the roadways open and trying to stabilize the situation so that people can go home and and and figure out how to put their lives back together. reporter: hurricane michael moved quickly and fast bringing rain and flooding to areas of virginia and the carolinas, with plenty of early warning, the concern now remaining for those onrders. former fema coordinating officer mark devoe explains evacuations for some are rarely that easy. you tell people to leave your home and everything with it some people are concerned about looting. there have been times when we have said evacuate and it wasn t necessary for them to
it was also the storm surge which blasted through from the gulf of mexico right through town and pretty much every home is either destroyed, flattened you turned into kindling and strewn about the neighborhood or partially standing, still, but ripped completely open and ruined. all of the shellshocked residents returning to see the damage as well as all the first responders from multiple states here doing the search- and-rescue operations. they all say the same word, once they get here and look around: catastrophe. and it absolutely is. it is devastation block after block after block. many of the homes were simply washed up by the ocean pushed over into the next neighborhood across the street slamming into those homes causing even further damage. residents who rode this out have unbelievable stories to tell. we talked to one guy, steve ramsey. he and his dogs decided to ride it out just down the street. when the water started rising fast in his house, he got out with the dogs