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and at 70, he's not slowing down. meet the pilot with a fistful of speed records and a handful of hand built planes. all this and more on "cbs this morning: saturday," may 10th, 2014. captioning funded by cbs and welcome to the weekend. we also have a great lineup of guests for you this morning including chef zack polaccio from the food network. he's become a leader chef. >> plus a very talented mom. she's here with a mother's day performance and her grammy-winning son. that's ahead. first, the top story this morning. a fiery crash of a hot air balloon in virginia. witnesses say they took photos and saw flames and heard screaming screaming. >> police say the balloon's gondola caught fire after it hit a power line. police worked overnight to try to find the wreckage. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. at daybreak the search zone expanded for the crash site as well as the pilot and the two women aboard. the area here is h out the day, making memories with their family and then not coming home. >> reporter: a news conference is scheduled for next hour with the state police. the balloon festival was set to continue today as well as tomorrow, but organizers have now canceled the rest of the events. vinita? >> mark albert in washington. thank you. the nba is doubling down to force l.a. clippers' owner to sell the team. a guy known as mr. fit-it mr. parsons. carter evans has more now from los angeles. carter, good morning. >> good morning. richard parsons has extensive business experience. he ran some of the largest corporations in the world but he's no pro on the basketball court where his experience is limited to his college days as a player for the university of hawaii. the clippers lost in the third game of the conference semifinals friday night came just hours after the nba announced they hired richard parsons as interim ceo of the team. pit's first major owner since owner donald sterling was banned for life. clippers' coach. >> from what i heard and talking to him today, i think he's a very good hire for us. >> reporter: in a statement parsons said he's been deeply troubled by the pain the team fans, and everyone has endured. parsons has been called mr. fix-it of the corporate world. they're hoping citigroup and time warner can help stabilize it. last week they announced the league would try to force sterling to sell the team after a rage captured was made public. donald sterling had not commented publicly on parsons' appointment to ceo. his estranged wife shelly who claims to own a 50% stake in the team was at the game last night and says she approves of the move but both sterlings have indicated they'll fight any effort to force the sale of the team. fans think it's a losing battle. >> the commissioner and everyone is going to look at everything else goinged on and get rid of him from the nba, and that's what i'd like to see. >> i think in the best interest of basketball she should sell her part and let things move on. >> despite his extensive resume parsons face as deep learned curve in the sports business. he plans to focus on the business aspect to fill what he calls a void in the clippers franchise. >> carter evans in los angeles. thank you, carter. joining us is shaun gregory, a senior editor for "time" magazine. good morning. >> good morning, anthony. >> we've got a corporate executive now running this team. there's going to be a lot of confusion here, though, is. there? >> yeah, but the nba is saying we're sending you a real ceo here. dick parsons has run multi-billion dollar agencies. he can run the clippers. he's going to be the caretaker. he's said he's going to be the interim transition guy. he's experienced. at citi -- he took over during the recession -- he's a leadership board and the fact that he's african-american sends a strong message too. >> at this point sterling is saying the nba can't take away my property. can they take away his property? >> yes, they can because he signed an ethics agreement defining morals and he broke those. it adversely affected members. so if something you do adversely affects members, you can be voted out. what's the adverse effect here? corporations pulling out. so that's what the art calicle 13-d. >> it's like being a member of the country club. >> right. you sign an agreement and you break the agreement and you're out. >> shelly intends to keep her ownership in it. if they remain married, does that not complicate things? >> it does. she said she would be a passive owner. she's applauding parsons and saying i won't be involved. however, california has community property laws that complicate things so lawyers could argue if you take away from donald you take away from shelly as well. if i was a lawyer here in california and in involved in this i'm going to make me a lot of money. it's going to drag on and there's lots of complications and who knows how it's going to end. >> you interviewed richard sherman this week and he said he didn't think the nfl would respond the way the nba did. >> he made an interesting point. he connected it to the redskins. the nfl is sanctioning a racist team name. he kind of connected these two issues in an interesting way, you know, how the rest of the nfl players feel about that i'm not sure. sherman is a pretty outspoken guy and speaks loudly and he has a leadership position within the league. >> sean if thesterlings fight to maintain ownership of the team but the nba has put dick parsons in there to run it will there not be tensions in there about how this team goes forward? >> donald sterling's out, so parsons is going to have a say over the business side of things. he's already said doc rivers, you're running the show on the personnel side. i don't know if shelly's going to fall follow through what she's saying. she wants her 50% but it's going to be a passive 50%. i'm not anticipating -- i think parsons is going to do okay here. >> it sounds safe to say we're going to brace ourselves for a long legal fight. >> it's going to be a legal fight, exactly. no doubt about that. >> thank you so much. >> no problem. another round of severe weather cut across the nation's mid section. in san antonio lightning strikes ignited explosions at two oil storage facilities. no one was hurt. more severe weather son the way. let's get the rest from ed curran of our chicago station wbbm. good morning. good morning. >> a look at radar, and you can see we do have some active weather around the country, and as we warm things up today, we have a chance for severe from central illinois into missouri and kansas and back to oklahoma and even part of iowa. a slight risk for severe. can't rule out a tornado. but the biggest chance for severe would be for large haim. look at the temperatures. 95 in phoenix, 95 in dallas. look at the warmth on the east coast. 84 for new york 84 for d.c. so some very warm weather. mother's day brings us another chance for severe storms across the middle of the country. we have a slight risk of severe from central wisconsin all the way back to texas, and the threat there for tornados large hail and damaging winds. and here's your mother's day gift for you. denver under a winter storm watch and winter storm warning west of there. denver could see maybe 1 to 3 inches of snow. and in the mountains, they could see a foot maybe more. anthony? >> wow. ed curran of wbbm in chicago. thanks ed. there's been another bird strike at an airport. a u.s. air flight at laguardia turned around after a collision with a bird. that's the second time this week. the plane was bound for washington with 96 patternsssengers and five crew members. nobody was hurt. a passenger plane nearly collided with a drone over flr. it happened back in march. the incident was reported to air traffic control by the pilot of american airlines jet. it was on a flight from charlotte, north carolina. the federal aviation administration was unable to identify the owner of the drone. and to the scandal at the department of veterans affairs which faces increasing criticism that dozens of patient died because they waited too long. cbs news receive add document that forcing patients to wait was standard operating procedure. >> reporter: lonny, a vietnam veteran, said it took one year to get one test. >> i have had seven aneurysms. i haven't had a ct scan in two years. >> reporter: rosito was among the dozens of family members at a town hall in phoenix. this hospital kept a secret list of patients who couldn't get pointments in the v.a.'s appointment time of 14 days. >> it took two months to see his cancer doctor when they found out he did have cancer. >> reporter: we obtained this v.a. memo explaining the process of gaming the employment system. it was written by david newman a staff member in shycheyenne, wyoming. he outlined a way to get around it. when patients called for an appointment, they were not booked into the computer until an appointment came up no later than 4 days away that way the memo says you get off the bad boys' list. the v.a. responded by launching a new investigation in cheyenne and by putting author of the memo on leave. the revelations from this scandal are expanding. brian turner a veteran and v.a. worker in san antonio told our cbs station kens said the list existed in texas and the formula for creating the list was well known. >> this isn't one clerk or a couple of clerks or one area. apparently this guideline came down from someone, this guidance or coaching skill came down from how far up i don't know. >> for "cbs this morning: saturday," wyatt andrews, washington. reaction to the v.a. scandal has been fierce. in an interview for tomorrow's face the nation, bob schieffer asks former defense secretary robert gates about the issue. >> this situation now in the veterans administration do you think the administration is putting enough priority on this? >> i don't know about the specific episode that i've been reading about in the newspapers. i do know that as i wrote in my book, if there's one bureaucracy in the department of defense, it's the v.a. i give a lot of credit to rick shinseki. i think shinseki has all the will in the world to do the right thing by veterans. he's totally committed. but he sits astride a very tough democracy. the administration has protected the v.a. and so on. my problem is below the secretary and think it's really important for him to delve into this and then if there are real problems, then to hold people accountable. >> bob's guests tomorrow will also inclues house intelligence committee chairman mike rogers republican of michigan and senator elizabeth warren, democrat of massachusetts. the crisis in ukraine is deepening ahead of the referendum for independence on eastern ukraine and fighting is increasing between the government and separatists. yesterday russian president vladimir putin visited what had been crimea. clarissa ward is in done everything, eastern ukraine. good morning, clarissa. >> reporter: good morning. well, a red cross team has been released here after they were held for seven hours by pro-russian militants. one was severely beaten because they were suspected of espionage, this after one of the bloodiest days here in eastern ukraine. in the city of mariupol there were clashes. the army continued with its offensive to take back buildings under the control of militants. some of the worst violence happened at the police headquarters as security forces bombarded it with herb fire to push out the rebels inside. hours later firefighters were still tackling the blaze. at least one dead body lie on the street outside. pro-russian rebels blocked out the main street with a makeshift barricade and burned tires outside the town hall to stop the army from pushing into the city's center. elsewhere men tried to block the military any way they could. for many here where support for russian russia is high the ukrainian army has only heightened the security. people flew russian flags and carried pictures of joseph stalin. we met 26-year-old teacher maria who told us that she was looking forward to tomorrow's referendum for independence. will you vote in the referendum on sunday? >> yes, of course. we'll vote. i think the majority of our region they will vote and the referendum will go with a good result. >> reporter: and what would a good result be? >> that we will have our own republic here donetsk republic. >> reporter: the streets today are quiet but very tense, and many people here are still bracing themselves for more possible violence ahead of tomorrow's vote. vinita? >> clarissa ward in done everything, ukraine. thank you. first lady michelle obama took her husband's place on mother's day this weekend addressing the president's weekly address. the the education that is her birth right. thank you. meanwhile help from the u.s. and other nations is pouring into nigeria in hopes the girls can be found and rescue. the girls were abducted from their school in nigeria's remote northeast. debora patta is in the capital abuja. >> reporter: good morning. it's now down to the nigerian government to thrash out the details of its rescue mission. we know the girls were taken into the dense zam bee za forest in chibok but there are different reports whether they've been broken into smaller groups and taken across the border or whether they remain in one large group. rare anti-government the antigovernment sentiment is growing springing from the delta government region to the boko haram northern parts of the country. as the protests grow larger parents of the missing children are becoming angrier. >> in fact diplomats have done nothing. >> reporter: the latest amnesty international revelations are likely to fuel further outrage. the organization says the nigerian military knew about the abductions four hours before they happened and did nothing. as international delegations arrive from the united states and brittain nigeria's president goodluck jonathan is feeling the heat. the northern state of borno met with him to push for more forceful action. the leader of the delegation told us the president is clearly under pressure to find the girls. >> every reporter is talking to me about it and so we know that he was worried. >> reporter: it's coming up to a month since the girls were stolen and finally the president is taking the abduction seriously because the rest of the world is taking it seriously. the american and british delegations have arrived and are working with the nigerian government as it plans its rescue mission. the united states team includes a hostage negotiator a kidnapping expert and sexual assault counselors. deborah patto, cbs this morning. nigeria. time to show you this morning's headlines. the new york sometimes says a u.s. special operations commando and a cia officer shot and killed two civilians in yemen. they tried to kidnap the americans while they were in the barber shop. they were attached to the u.s. embassy in yemen. they left the country with the approval of the government of yemen. u.s.a."usa today" reports chrysler is recalling mini vans. they say the switches overheat when they become exposed to moisture. the company knows of three dozen incidents but no injuries or accidents in the dodge grand caravan and chrysler town and country mini vans from 2010 to 2014. the "los angeles times" says singer chris brown was sentenced to the maximum, a year in los angeles county jail for violating his probation. this comes as brown faces an assault charge for hitting someone outside a hotel in washington. brown's attorney says brown could be released before the end of the weekend for time already served. the news and observer of raleigh, north carolina said the grandfather of seattle seahawks russell wilson will be honored today. brandon wilson was rejected when he applied to the school in 1946 because it did not accept black students. he attended kentucky state university some three years later and later served as its basketball coach and president. the "new york daily news" says larry willmore of the daily show fame will take over the comedy central slot vacated by stephen colbert when he leaves for cbs next year. willmore will be host of "the minority report" in january. jon stewart will produce the show when it hosts a diverse panel of voices you currently underrepresented in television. it is 22 minutes after the hour. here is a look at the weather for your weekend. coming up can you force a business to allow you to work from home? the lawsuit that may spark a surge in telecommuting. plus it stands at the symbolic heart of the nation's capital. after an earthquake left it cracked and battered the washington monument is set to reopen. you're watching "cbs this morning saturday." coming up, could it be possible to turn back the clock on our aging bodies? new research suggests it may be. >> i hope so. we'll be right back. you're watching "cbs this morning: saturday". >> evenhristmas morning. >> christmas morning was great. christmas morning we'd come down. no presents under the tree. just a little envelope with a sigh fehr or limerick or math puzzle. we'd solve it go to another room. find the next envelope solve that. by the time we got back, there were presents. >> from that of your father you love codes and symbols and that shows up in your books. >> it's fun. people do crossword puzzles because there's something in the human mind that loves that eureka moment, oh i figured it out. that's part of what these books do. >> and from your mother who was very religious you get that nice mix and that tension that exists between religion and math and science. >> exactly. i grew up in a very religious household. i went to church sang in the choir, she was the choir director. at the same time i had my dad on the math side. hayed no problem with that until i started to learn about the big bang cosmology and i had to say, wait, you know the baseball says there's adam and eve and god created -- and there's this big thing with the big bang and evolution. i asked the priest, you know which story is true and this priest responded by saying nice boys don't ask that question. >> really. >> and for me that was the moment when i look back on my childhood, that was the moment when i realize thad this battle between science and religion was a fertile ground and thing i write these books just as an ongoing attempt to figure it all out. >> i love it. >> is there someone that you know that's like robert lang den? >> yeah. he's a conglomerate of a lost different people. my favorite people the people i admired most as a child were my teachers. in portugal a planned test flight of a small military drone did not go well. watch this. the soldier launched the aircraft which immediately took a nosedive right into the water. >> a second running launch attempt was made. that was more successful as the drone stayed in the air like it was supposed to. no surprise. that went viral. monday after it was severely damaged after an earthquake the national monument will reopen to the public. >> jan crawford got a look at the results after the repair of the huge restoration project. >> reporter: it's 100,000 tons of solid rock the anchor of the nation's capitol, massive and unshakeable until 1:50 p.m., august 23rd, 2011. a 5.8 earthquake in nooern virginia literally shifted the monthment. dozens of tourists were at the top as the stones cracked and crumbled. the building held strong. even made it out safely. but as interior secretary sally jewel and park director explained the damage was severe. >> most of the damage was at the top. >> at the top obviously because it magnified as it went up. >> reporter: there's one little spot where the monument shift add little bit, a half inch or 5/8 of an inch above it. >> reporter: park police surveyed it by air and discovered multiple dislodged stones and cracks one four feet long. they brought in engineers who repelled from the top for an even closer look. their findings triggered a massive restoration project that's lasted nearly three years. and for the first time with repairs now complete the park service took us inside washington's most iconic landmark. so you obviously are not afraid of heights. 555 feet 55 stories to the top. today the debris is gone. cracks are filled. joints reinforced. >> look how big that crack is. >> that is typical. as you see, the force is on the stone. so a lot of the stone repairs are really subtle and the public won't be abe to pick them up unless they're specifically looking for them. >> reporter: the repairs were done with a sense of purpose. the monthment is a symbol of democracy. >> the march of washington. >> reporter: it's haeld a role in every historic event in washington to the struggle on civil rights, proi test in vietnam to the inauguration of president obama. and inside at the top, you can see the very struck tu of government. >> so you can get an iconic view whether it's arlington cemetery or the white house or the lincoln memorial or the capitol. so it's all of those views. >> reporter: views that come with daunting challenges when you're in a one-of-a-kind building. you can't access the monument from any given floor. so crews had to create special scaffolding complete with an elevator. >> they were learning along with the park directors on what techniques would be used to repair this so it wouldn't damage the stone. >> reporter: the park service needed help and billionaire investor david rubenstein gave it. rubenstein donated $7.5 million, half of the project's cost, to get the work done and done right. >> i've about tried to call what i've done patriotic philanthropy, which is to try to say give back to the country in any way you can. that's what i tried to do with the washington monument. >> reporter: it's that contribution that means the monument will open on time on budget on monday. for "cbs this morning: saturday," jan crawford washington. >> it looks great. what a project. >> it does. for opening day the tickets are first come first serve for a majority of people. can you imagine the lines? so many people want to see it again. >> it's great to have it back. now here's a look at the weather for your weekend. up next, medical news in our "morning rounds," including why it's not a good idea to let children use smartphones or other touchscreen devices. >> plus dr. jon lapook and holly phillips on why states may soon be required to label genetic will i modified food. it's already in virginia. this is "cbs this morning: saturday." 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>> it's fascinating but we're talking about baby steps and baby mice steps. it's not necessarily people. we're talking about for the very first time understanding the molecular biology of aging. if you said ten years ago we're going to have something that can decrease aging, they could say this is p.t. barnum. a sucker is born every second. >> even at this stage are there any risks you're looking at? >> this is a growth factor. whenever you think growth factor, you think tumor, cancer. >> are they talking about trying it in humans? >> they talk about it maybe, five years. but we're a long way from doing it. also this week vermont governor peter schuman mandated labeling of jeannette lick i modified foods. vermont is the first state but many others are working on it. what did they actually say? >> there are going to be three difference ways they can be written, but ult paltly it's going go go on any food products that use jeannette licknannettegenetically modified food plants. genes have been removed from plants to give them characteristics. often it's related to resist insects to reduce pesticide or increase color and flavor. >> how much of our food is actually genetically modified? >> this was news to me. almost all of it. the vast majority of the soy, cotton and corn that we consume is genetically modified in some wi on our store shelves. >> i don't think that it's surprising that most people would support this decision, bhou is the food industry responding? >> they're not happy about it. the bottom line is we have a right to know how hour food is made and what's in it. it's very hard think, to make a co-subsequent argument against labeling and tell the people what we're buying. the food industry is worried that there might be a negative stigma if there's a gmo label on food. some people might think it infers danger. there has not been large studies that show there's been any harm to it from genetically modified foods. some people argue that they are completely safe, but the real focus is they need to have complete trance parency and we need to know what we're consuming. a mississippi high school junior scored major success this week when the coca-cola company announced it would remove brougham nated vegetable oil from its power aid drinks. it's found if flame retardants. it's banned in europe and japan. the report states that sara cavanaugh start and online petition in 2012 to remove it from gate ore aid. she then launched a second focus on power aid and gathered almost 60,000 signatures. it will eliminate vegetable oil from all of its drinks by the end of its year. >> many parents let their children play with touchscreen devices thinking it will help them learn. but new research might might parents think twice before they hand over the smartphone. jon, every time we do one of these, my child is deprived of one more thing. tell me, what does the study actually say? >> well the american department of pediatrics discourage the use of screens for ages under 2. they say we're going to look add families and give them questionnaires and find out what's the reality. it turns out 70% of families with children under 3 were using the touchscreen and the average age of first use was about 11 months. >> wow. obviously, holly, a lot of parents think this is just fine but what's going on here. >> right. the bottom line is again, most families used them at very young ages, but ultimately there was no educational benefit. 60% of the parents who gave their kids devices felt like they were learning something from them but whether they were educational games or not, they were not increasing their verbal skills or really teaching them anything. but i do feel there should be a disclosure going across the bottom of the screen right now. dr. holly phillips' kids do use touchscreen diseases. i think it's necessary to understand these devices are fun for the kids not necessarily harmful, but the only thing that educated or kids are us. it's about talking to them reading them and that's truly what teaches them. >> i think for a lot of parents it is a matter of survival. finally, valerie harper was diagnosed with brain cancer more than a year ago and she was told she might live a few weeks more. but this week she testified before congress about the need for increased cancer research funding. >> today i am a year and four months past my expiration date and while i won't pretend to understand the federal budget i do know that research dollars equal lives. >> it's great to see she's still with us. >> it is. this strikes home very personally for me because i've had several patients who have died of brain cancer and we've all had parents die of cancer as physicians. how many times do i have to say it. we need more research dollars, we need more research dollars, and, oh, by the way, we need more research door lares. >> it really goes down to it saves lives. up next, is there a legal right to work from home? attorney rickykky klieman looks at a case where it could make it'sier to work from home. you're watching "cbs this morning: saturday." 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>> oh, certainly. i had a wonderful childhood but i definitely think i was drawn to the arts probably because of that slight outside irperspective. you know i kind of embraced that because i think, you know, as an actress it gives you that heightened skill. >> do you feel like this is the edge of your life and you're being swept? >> it's incredible. just this week i got to go to the met ball which is kind of surreal and i know that was alongside with belle coming out and my parents were here for the premiere, which was amazing. >> the people in this town would kill to go to the met ball. there you are on the red carpet. people are saying she's the next lupita. what do you think about that? >> i love lupita. we got to hang out together at the ball. i admire her work. very stylish lady. if i eat this super creamy and delicious tillamook marionberry pie ice cream right now i'll explode into creamy happiness. wha? oh. tillamook ice cream, tastes better because it's made better. welcome to "cbs this morning: saturday." i'm anthony mace snoon and i'm vinita nair. new studies that show how your mind is tricking you into eating poorly. plus a record-setting aeration building a unique buy biplane. even at 70 he'll take you flying with him. don't join the herds at the usual suspect destinations. we have some better ideas for you. first or top story this morning. a terrifying hot air balloon accident. the search is expanding this morning for three people missing after a hot air balloon they were riding in caught fire and crashed at a virginia festival. >> witnesses say two people jumped from the airborne gondola to try to escape the flames. police say the balloon hit a power line and its gondola caught fire. mark albert has more from caroline, virginia north of richmond. mark, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. state police right now are holding a news conference to update us on the search. cruise looking overnight in this heavily wooded area did not find the wreckage or the pilot and its two passengers. witnesses took dramatic video of flames engulfing the balloon's basket. state police say it struck some power lines and then caught fire. shortly before it crashed witnesses saw two people jumped from the gondola while it with us in the air. we don't know if they survived. the balloon festival was in virginia, 15 miles from the capital. 1,500 people were here including carey bradley. >> you could hear people screaming, please dear god, sweet jesus, we're going to die, please help us please help us. there kind of was a pop and when that happened the basket exploded and the e brie started flying to the ground. >> reporter: yorlg nicers have now canceled the rest of the balloon festival this weekend. anthony? >> mark albert. thank you, mark. the nba is turning up the pressure on los angeles clippers owner donald sterling to sell the team. the league has named business executive dick parsons as the clippers' interim ceo. he calls sterling's racist remarks to his girlfriend quote, biggerquote quote, a bigger issue than the nba. it came hours after the nba hired richard parsons a the interim ceo of the team. this is the first major move to seize the clippers since owner donald sterling was banned for life. parsons has been called mr. fix-it of the corporate world. the nba hopes citigroup and time warner can help stabilize it. the nba tried to force sterling to sell the team after a racist comment after an argument with his girlfriend became public. they have not commented publicly. his is stranged wife shelly who owns a 50% stake in the move says she approves it but they'll fight any effort to force a sale of the team. parsons has said he's going to focus on the business as spoeskt the team while he leaves the basketball end of things to coach doc rivers. visit knee vinita? >> carter evans in los angeles. thank you. another round of severe weather rolls through. lightning strikes in san antonio, texas caused two oil storage tanks to explode friday. there were no injuries. meteorologist ed curran of our chicago station wbbm is tracking the weather. good morning. >> good morning. we have some very warm temperatures around the nation and we're going to see that heat and the cold clash. here's a look at what we're going to see today as far as high temperatures. 95 degrees in phoenix. we have 90 degrees for dallas today and certainly we've seen the heat in the southwest. but look at the east coast. 83 in new york. 84 degrees for d.c. so some very warm temperatures out there for today. we're seeing active weather as we look across the nation. as we heat things up during the day today, a slight risk of severe in the middle of the country from central illinois into "eye opener," kansas, missouri, and into oklahoma as well. the biggest risk here although you can't rule out a tornado, the biggest risk would be for very large hail. and here's another problem we have. a winter storm warning for areas just west of denver. up in the mountains they could see up to a foot of snow or so. and denver could see anywhere from 1 to 3 inches. on mother's day we face a risk of severe once again in the middle of the country. some stormy weather with a slight risk of severe including tornadoes, large hail and damaged winds extending all the way from central wisconsin all the way back to texas. >> ed curran at wbbm in chicago. thanks, ed. the nation's v.a. hospitals are under scrutiny amid questions whether treatment was delay and whether this may have contributed to texts of patients. cbs news has obtain add memo from a staff member from shy cheyenne cheyenne, wyoming. it encourages long waits until the appointment is two weeks away. they launch add new investigation in cheyenne and put the author of anymore moethe memo on leave. the men were decorated at knights of france's legion of honor. each was given an insignia in his role from liberating france from nazi occupation. >> only 70 years, that's all, but better late than ever. it meant a lot to me if fact of the recognition and where, again, as i said before many other guys deserve it more than i do. but they're not here. they never came back. that's what it is. >> hundreds of americans have been awarded the honor since france opened up eligibility to all living u.s. veterans who fought on french territory. >> we all know the saying it's mind over matter. well two recent studies show mind plays a major role when it comes to health and eating. he wrote about how food and the way it's presented trick our brain. derek, good morning. >> good morning. >> so we've known for quite a while that our brains and belly approach hunger in a completely different way. how is our understanding of this evolved now? >> so now we're beginning to see exactly how big a role the brain plays in this. you know sometimes people will say are you hungry and you'll respond, what time is it. that's a great example. what time is it has nothing to do with it but it shows we need our brains. we need our active memories to know when do we start eating, stop eating when should we eat not eat. >> i think it's fascinating when you use people who had amnesia as part of the test. >> you look at them. the researchers did this. would you like to have lunch. they said yes. a few minutes later they said would you like to have lunch. they said yes. it's sort of a mean study when you think of it. at the same time it show as really clear lesson which is that we aren't taking the message from our stomachs. we're taking it from our stomachs and our brains. >> starting with foods we perceive as healthy, what did that show? >> so foods we perceive as healthy in terms of salads or in terms of food texture, so one interesting thing in terms of food textures actually is we tend to think that crunchy foods are healthy and we tend to thirg that soft foods are not healthy. how does this play out? what they did is fed people crunchy brownies and soft brownies. when they didn't prompt them with anything, people were more likely to eat soft brownies whechbl they were told to pay attention, all of a sudden everyone switched to crunchy brownies. does this make any sense? think about trail mix, granola, crunchy cereals. we have an intuition that crunchier foods are healthier for us theechb there's chocolate in the granola. >> i wish crunchy was good. i want to ask you about the menu. where we put the low calorie items affects huchb we order them. >> this is cool. they start labeling the menu with calories right? this is good. it pushes people toward ordering less calorie foods and pushes restaurants to feel embarrassed about serving a 600-calorie muff fin. both good things. if you group it and say healthy menu, it helps us to compartmentalize it. your brain say, check, it has healthy food items but i going to eastward the hamburger anyway. vicarious food inrollment. we want to be around healthier food but we give ourselves license to in dull j precisely because we've seen the word salad. >> i thought it was fascinating. even if there was a side salad, people still order the french fries. it didn't affect in terms of actual consumption and purchasing at all. >> this is the cliche about someone who goes tout mcdonald's and they order the triple whopper with eggs and a huge thing of fries and chicken tenders and then get the diet coke. why are you getting diet coke. but it's difficult to sort of process both things at the same time. subway, for example, people ate much more at subway. they ate for longer periods of time because they thought they were at a healthy restaurant. so once again they had given themselves license to depart from their deyet. that's kind of what we're always looking for because we want to eat the stuff we like in the first place, so we're hungry really for excuses. >> a strange way we're tricking ourselves twice. then that gives us license to eat unhealthily. >> even though i don't like this research it's always fascinating. thank you so much. >> thank you. it's now 8:11. here's a look at the weather for your weekend. up next flying fast the good old-fashioned way. >> reporter: i'm brandon scott near san diego, and this is a record-breaking airplane built and piloted by a grandpa with a need for speed. that story's coming up on "cbs this morning: saturday." ♪ let it fly away ♪ ♪ come fly with me let's float down to peru ♪ i'm phil mickelson, pro golfer. if you have painful, swollen joints, i've been in your shoes. one day i'm on top of the world... 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>> home to lsu. you want to go there when they're not doing a home game. then it's an uncrowded affordable place. great food and great history. there's great place called frost top. if you want root beer thiefr got root beer. zas pa ril la and zack's potato chips. then you've got plantation homes and all of that between, great history. you can stay there overnight. >> we need to remind you of the cuisine. we saw the beautiful images of the food you're going to get. >> it's foodie nation and the best part, hotels there, 77 bucks on average except during home games. don't go during home games. >> next up on the list let's head up to the west coast, reading, california. >> it's the far north of california. it's usually overlooked but what place it is. you've got to bridge there, the sun down bridge, spanning the sacramento river. once again you've also got a walk there a 12-acre walk with 50 different markets and galleries and stores. and, of course it's at the base very close to mounlt shasta which is 14,000 feet up. great place to hike in june and july. great place to go. >> so when you're planning trips like these theleterms of n te ofg you ould aow for driving. >> you know what? it depends where you're going to be drivinging. are you going to take the interstate or the highway. i'm a big fan of the two-lane highway. six hours is the max. you can stop once or twice if you have to. you see so much more. stay off the interstate. >> how about when you suggest to people planning driving versus flying. >> it all gets down to money. if you take a look at a round trip flight, just a shuttle, can average around $600. you know what? drive. >> driving with the price of gas, still high, but -- >> i'll tell you what, driving with a toddler -- >> with two people in car, you've got it. >> is there a best time of year -- a great time period to do this? >> yes, tuesday, wednesday, and thursday. >> the days we're all working. >> all right peter greenberg, thanks so much. >> you've about got it. coming up, a horse is a horse, of course, but california chrome, he's something special. after winning the kentucky derby, he's got the biggest shot at winning the triple crown. you're watching "cbs this morning: saturday." we got to see philip seymour hoffman for your first time in a long time, and it was good to see him, john but at the same time i had a little ugh. what was it like for you watching the final edit since he was a friend of yours. >> yeah. after his passing, it changed my perception of the film. it's still shocking. i watched it last night, and it's still a shock. >> did you know that he was struggling with drugs? did you know that still? >> i mean i think it was public knowledge that he had had a brief struggle before we shot the movie but he had taken care of business i think, and on the film it was nothing but professional, and his performance was fantastic. >> how good an actor was he? >> he was somebody who -- you know the whole -- everything about him contributed to his capability to give those kinds of performances. he had an emotional and intellectual intelligence and ability to harness those emotions, but right in the middle of that the technical wherewithal, knowing where the camera is while being deep into an emotional scene, it was pretty extraordinary, and the voice -- i mean he was very powerful. you know, we'd see him on stage. >> your "mad men" co-star christina hendricks is always in this. >> i recognized her. >> she is. she is. earlier on she wanted to look different and get away from the sort of signature red hair, so she kind of came up with that look on her own, and i thought it was great. she's fantastic sheechls great in the movie. >> what made "mad men" so successful? >> the writing. matt minor's vision of the show is so specific and so good. everywhere i look, i see a country ready to move forward... and a congress standing in the way. their budgets are late; jobs bills are stalled... and special interests run rampant. as an economics teacher at stanford i know education means good jobs. so here's my plan: i'd start teaching computer coding in public schools right away. open doors for women in science and technology. and prepare young people for middle class manufacturing jobs. i'm ro khanna and i approve this message, because change starts with us. . welcome back to "cbs this morning: saturday." we begin this half hour with a horse's tale one that's still being written, the story of california chrome. >> a commoner in a sort of kings. california chrome beat his million dollar competition to win the kentucky derby last week. he's the only horse that can take the triple crown this year and he goes for the second leg next week in the preakness. carter evans has more. >> california chrome sensational! >> reporter: if every there was a rags-to-riches story it would be california chrome unheralded, unnoticed. he was a $10,000 investment for a team that had never own add racehorse. steve and carolyn coburn are co-owners. >> people spend millions and millions and millions of dollars buying horses putting them through training and have never done anything that we did our first try. >> reporter: not just winning any race. the big one. >> i'll be immortalized after i'm gone. people will say, yeah i'll remember him. he won the kentucky derby r that's art sherman. he's been training for decades and suddenly he's got a champion. >> it's once in a lifetime that you'll never forget. this is like hitting the lotto. >> reporter: the lotto almost came much earlier, well before all the prestige. two months ago, the owners who were still scraping by were offered $6 million for california chrome. >> there was a discussion. >> reporter: it was brief. >> it had more to do with we worked so hard to get where we are. >> we would be in the shadows after all of our blood, sweat, and tears, and art sherman with all of his blood, sweat, and tears and them to take the glory for something they had nothing do with and basically getting rid of art as a trainer. the answer was not only no but hell no. >> reporter: and now california chrome is seeking to become the first triple crown winner in 36 years. >> we're still in awe. it happened and it happened to just normal everyday people and that itself is amazing to me. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning: saturday," carter evans, los angeles. >> good luck to california chrome in the preakness next weekend. now, here's a look at the weather for your weekend. coming up next, "the dish," plus zak pelaccio is here with dishes from his new restaurant fish and game and something special for mother's day. you're watching "cbs this morning: saturday." im. a man who doesn't stand still. but jim has afib atrial fibrillation an irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. that puts jim at a greater risk of stroke. for years jim's medicine tied him to a monthly trip to the clinic to get his blood tested. but now, with once-a-day xarelto jim's on the move. jim's doctor recommended xarelto. like warfarin xarelto is proven effective to reduce afib-related stroke risk. but xarelto is the first and only once-a-day prescription blood thinner for patients with afib not caused by a heart valve problem that doesn't require routine blood monitoring. so jim's not tied to that monitoring routine. 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when we were young, we'd have spaghetti the night before. she'd take the leftover spaghetti -- it's basically fra cha ta. >> you had a stint as a writer and producer of the food network, is that right? >> that's right. >> how did you decide to get serious about cooking? >> it was tough. after i graduated from college, i didn't take the profession of chef that seriously because i knew i had to stand up all the time work with fife sharp knives, and it was like screaming frenchmen. i thought it soundses like a horrible career. it was a gravitational pull. i was always on the periphery -- not always but in the begin beginning in college i was on the periphery and it kept pull mig back in. i had to be involved with food. i danced around working with the food network and doing other jobs that weren't directly involved with the kitchen and i finally jumped right in. >> most chefs usually have one thing that they're amazing at. you went from southeast asian to barbecue and now to fish and game. what has the transition been like for you? >> fish and game has been the most personal because it's truly representative of jory and our other co-chef kevin pomplan and myself, and the way we cooked on the weekends we took our weekend lifestyle and turned it into a full-time lifestyle. we were working in the city since 2005 weekending in the hudson valley, and that con virted into a full-time gig. so we decided to make our move and eat food that we grew ourselves. now we have -- we're running two farms upstate that serves the restaurant and we have a ton of local farmers who've built relationships with, so i know exactly where each chicken, each pig, the chilies, garlic come from. >> i want to ask you this dish and as i ask for your signature, if you could have this meme with anyone -- and don't feel obligated to say your mom -- but who would that be? >> there are so many people. i would give you two choices. a.j. lee ling who's a famous gore monday because i would love to drink all day with him. we'd probably eat chicken, goose, duck, and lamb or sigmund freud. up next, gets a priceless lesson from mom. gamey winner ben harper learned all he knows from inside the family business and we'll take you inside. we have a performance from his hello. this is where we do that bundling thing? 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>> it's a lot of things. it's a retail store. it's a museum. we have lessons going on all the time. >> reporter: it's poetry it's music. it's freedom of expression as much as anything in. >> this place has literally been in the family for how long? >> what is it now? 55 years? >> wow. >> yeah, sure, we can do that. >> reporter: for the past 13 years ellen harper has been running the folk music center in clairemont, california, which her parents founded in 1958. >> my mother taught i don't know hundreds -- countless hundreds of people to play -- >> including me. >> yeah. including me. >> reporter: so you learned from your grandmother. >> as well as my moom. my grandmother used to teach lessons and i would set up the chairs. that was my first teenage job. get over here, you're going to learn some. ♪ >> this room has got to have so much presence. there's so much of your history in here. >> i remember ben crawling when he learned to crawl. >> yeah. >> this is as much the childhood home as a house. ♪ >> during his nearly 20-year professional career, ben harper has release ed 15 albums. this week, he released his latest. a collaboration with his mother ella. it's called childhood home. >> said, hey, mom we should do a cd some day. yeah, great idea. but ben's had a career and i took a little detour from music. >> i was off to the races when i finally got a flip into music and started touring around and soon after that, i just you know, came to my mom, said, hey, let's do a song together just one song. from that one song came another song and another song. ♪ >> the songs are sounds of family life. and the folk music center ♪ you know how heart ache can be ♪ >> is that a guitar? bass guitar? they had nearly every instrument available to choose from. ben wrote six of the tracks. ellen wrote four. >> once you bring a song and you're sitting and you play, it's music and it's its own path. you stop thinking oh it's my son and you're two musicians and you're working together and songs. >> there is this thing when she says to do something a certain way, it's not just coming from another musician it's coming from your mother. >> yeah, and oddly, if i say the same thing, it's coming from your son, the hierchy is thrown off balance at that point. >> i was actually wanting some input, some guidance. >> and i was thinking about getting some revenge, so it worked perfectly. >> okay. but the best part anything that was the least bit ak ward was counterbalanced by the sound and creativity that was going on. >> because effectively, you've been doing this for a long time. >> that's about as close to two people are going to get to sharing one voice. it just felt like that. >>. ♪ learn it all again tomorrow ♪ >> ben said something the other day that stayed with me. he said it's a lifetime of proproductions. >> yeah. >> it's got to feel great now that it's over, that you have this thing that you made together. >> it does. he just brought me a few cds and said, oh my gosh you know. >> i've heard my kids on more than one occasion singing songs out of that record now. >> oh that's good. >> that will be there for their kids and their kids. it's kind of like this place encapsulated on a cd. it's its own institution. go and press play. >> now, here they are, ben and ellen harper from their new album. this is a house is a home. ♪ ♪ a house is a home even when it's dark ♪ ♪ even when the grass is overgrown in the yard ♪ ♪ even when the dog is too old to bark when you're sitting at the table trying not to start ♪ ♪ a house is a home even when we've up and grown even when you're there alone and i♪ ♪ a house is a home even when there's ghosts even when you've got to run from the one who love you most ♪ ♪ a house is a home even when we've up and grown even when you're there alone a house a house is a home ♪ ♪ a house is a home where the chores are never done when you spend your whole life running to the phone and if the life that you live is not the life you choose ♪ ♪ a house is a home even when we've up and grown even when you're there alone a house a house a house is a home ♪ >> we'll be right back with more music from ben and ellen harper. >> announcer: this morning's turday session sponsored by toyota. let's go places. s event. we're looking for something safe with a really smooth ride. he's a very light sleeper. oh, the camry's safe and has a smooth, comfortable ride. oh, the camry's perfect. and you're in luck. it's toyota time. so it's a great time for a great deal. 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VietnamRepublic-ofWestchesterNew-yorkUnited-statesLouisianaVermontCaliforniaPortugalSan-diegoRussiaWashington i'm lauren lyster in for anne-marie green. this morning a slow moving storm system threatens the midwest with another round of severe weather. today's threat follows a weekend of damaging tornados and heavy snow. winter storm warnings are in effect in colorado and wyoming. in the midwest and plains, folks are cleaning up after dozens of damaging storms. several twisters touched down in south central nebraska causing heavy damage. there were preliminary reports of 34 tornadoes yesterday in nebraska, iowa, kansas, and indiana. late sunday several tornados caused heavy damage in southern nebraska. at least one person was injured. homes were torn apart, trees snapped in half, and power lines blown over. late saturday a tornado took dead aim at the missouri town of orrick just east of kansas city. the twister had winds of up to 135 miles per hour, damaging up to 300 homes. >> i pulled up, got the kids out, down in the basement, and then literally like two minutes after that, we were all down in the basement and everything started happening. >> it's been tough. we've all been kind of in shock. i mean, you know, when it happens, you don't expect it to happen to you. >> there were also storms in kansas and alabama, but no reports of serious injuries. out west a springtime snowstorm is causing all kinds of issues. it started snowing in denver yesterday morning, and it isn't expected to stop until later today. the snow created hazardous driving conditions in utah. there have been numerous accidents and several injuries. meteorologist eric fisher of our boston station wbz says this weather system is headed east and won't be through until later today. >> well, after a mother's day that certainly brought a wild bout of weather between the severe and the snow, we're still dealing with both as we kick off a new week. now, around the denver area, the snow still coming down this morning. there will still be storms in progress as well off to the east. the warmer air tracking toward the great lakes before they start to run out of steam. by late today, we get toward 5:00, most of the snow is starting to wind down. that part of the story ending. but still a line of storms firing up anew here by 5:00, 6:00 time frame and that line is to be moving off to the east. with that line of thunderstorms, we're not talking as high of a tornado threat as what we saw yesterday. there could be a couple of isolated tornadoes, certainly large hail and wind gusts and it's probably the wind gusts we're most concerned about. those wind gusts up to 70 miles an hour or higher. clusters of storms will be moving across the great lakes over toward detroit and building down through missouri as we head through the afternoon and evening, so another day to be very alert when it comes to the weather. in terms of high weather, big contrast with the storm system. you can easily see where the front is, right over the front of topeka, kansas. to the east, temperatures in the 70s and 80s will feel a but as we look across the mountains, 30s and 40s, well below average temperatures and a lot of snow to shovel. i'm eric fisher for the cbs news. >> two ukrainian provinces cast ballots. pro-russian separatists claimed a resounding victory in donetsk and luhansk. it was called a criminal farce organized by russia with no legal consequence. clarissa ward reports from eastern ukraine. >> reporter: at some polling stations there were lines as long as five city blocks as thousands of ukrainians defied the will of the international community and even a request from russian president putin. some of these people have been waiting more than an hour and a half to cast their ballot, and one woman told me that she has lived here for 23 years and that she's never seen so many people come out to vote. certainly the referendum did not meet international standards. many polling stations had no booths, leaving voters to cast their ballots at an open desk. we saw one older woman vote twice. the ballot had just one question. do you support the independence of the donetsk people of the republican. with one exception every ballot we saw had one tick for ukraine. we love ukraine, one voter told us but they took power and are destroyed our country. the crowd echoed their approval. there were pockets of violence. ukrainian forces shut down a polling station in a nearby town. later surrounded by an angry crowd, they began firing their weapons. at least one man was killed. it was the latest in a string of clashes with the military that for many here have only strengthened the desire for independence. >> clarissa ward joins us on the phone from donetsk. clarissa, is there a sense that the result of this vote could cause more violence? >> well, certainly i think that's the fear. the people who voted yes in this referendum see independence from the government in kiev as the only way to avoid war, but the people who boycotted the referendum -- and there were many of them -- see this vote as illegitimate and potentially de-stabilizing, and i think a lot of people are going to be watching very closely today to see what russian and what president putin, how they respond to the situation. >> and, of course, we saw those crowds of voters in your report, but what else can you tell us about the voter turnout yesterday? >> well, we visited quite a few polling stations during the course of the day, some of them with very long lines, particularly in the city of mariupol. the referendum organizers are claiming more than 2 million people voted, but given the lack standards of this election, we saw people voting twice, there was no apparent electoral register, i would say those numbers are very hard to certify, but certainly there's a large chunk of the population here who support this movement. >> clarissa ward in donetsk, ukraine, thank you so much. there's still no sign of the nigerian school girls kidnapped by the islamic militant group four weeks ago. there was a demonstration called for their release yesterday in the nigerian capital. police tried to breakthrough up, but protesters refused to leave. experts from the u.s. and other countries are helping with the rescue effort. the ntsb is investigating the fiery crash of a hot air balloon. three people were killed friday and as mark albert tells us, two of them were members of the university of richmond athletics department. >> i want to begin this invocation with a moment of silence. >> reporter: it was supposed to be day of celebration at the university of rich maryland but it became a day of morning for natalie lewis and ginny doyle, two members of the athletic staff. lewis who was engaged was a championship swimmer whose mascot was the spiders. flowers sit outside the office. the notice sign, spider nation. doyle was a basketball star before becoming a head coach. they went up in a balloon friday. the balloon piloted by dan kirk of delaware, a licensed balloonist for at least 13 years clipped a power line, caught fire, and crashed. on sunday the university's baseball team paid tribute to their fill lowe athletes. it canceled the remaining games the seniors would play. head coach tracy woodson. >> it hits you, and, you no, you never know if it could be you or your family. i hate it. i feel for them. i don't like situations like this, but, you know, i had to make sure our guys understood. >> reporter: hot air balloon crashes in the u.s. are extremely rare. according to the national transportation safety board there have been 67 where someone died. in the past 50 years. mark albert, cbs news, richmond, virginia. coming up on the "morning news," open for business. the washington monument welcomes visitors today for the first time in more than three years. this is the "cbs morning news." ng "cbs morning news" botox® is an fda-approved treatment that significantly reduces headache days for adults with chronic migraine, 15 or more headache days a month, each lasting 4 hours or more. it's proven to actually prevent headache days. and it's injected by a doctor once every 3 months. the effects of botox® (onabotulinumtoxina) may spread hours to weeks after injection causing serious symptoms. alert your doctor right away, as difficulty swallowing, speaking, breathing, eye problems, or muscle weakness can be a sign of a life-threatening condition. side effects may include allergic reactions, neck and injection site pain, fatigue, and headache. don't take botox® if you have a skin infection. tell your doctor about your medical history, muscle or nerve conditions, and medications, including botulinum toxins, as these may increase the risk of serious side effects. the dose of botox® is not the same as other botulinum toxins. put the odds on your side. visit botoxchronicmigraine.com and talk to a headache specialist. the bhershey's s'mores, together is hothe unmistakable taste that reminds us that life is delicious. 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>> well, jeff, you look at the radar right now, what might catch your attention on may 11th is snow, but the thunderstorms explosively developing this afternoon, this evening. that is the one we mentioned at the top of the newscast where you see a little cell into eastern nebraska. and that is the zone we'll be watching as we head through tonight. tornado watches in yellow from illinois back down through the plains all way down toward the texas panhandle. and an area in particular for tornadoes is here in red. these storms developing in kansas. there is a warm front right in here. where wind sheer, basically twisting of air in the atmosphere is highest, so we will watch these storms as they move across southern iowa into northern illinois, up to baseball-size hail and damaging wind gusts also possible. tomorrow, the threat is a little lower still damaging wind gusts, large hail and farther up north towards green bay, wisconsin. >> jeff: eric, you mentioned snow, that's significant snow in the rockies. what is happening there? >> an unbelievable late season snowstorm there across the front range. reporting of up to 19 inches of snow already. a couple mountain tops, highest elevations three feet of snow. and several feet in the denver metro as well, this will pose a power outage risk. the leaves are coming out and that is extra weight for the trees so that will linger into monday morning for the denver area. >> jeff: eric fisher, thank you very much. meanwhile chronic drought in california has lead officials to declare tomorrow the start of the fire season in all but three counties this weekend, southern california is getting a look at what could be ahead and here's carter evans. >> high winds began whipping through los angeles in the predawn hours. 50-mile-per-hour gusts brought down trees and power lines. >> because of the very dry and gusty conditions, we have extreme fire danger, red flag warning in place through tomorrow night. >> reporter: the state's fire season usually begins in july, but for southern california it never ended. in january, a wildfire destroyed five homes east of los angeles during what was supposed to be the rainy season. so far, california has seen 1,350 fires, nearly double a typical year and the forecast is bleak. over the next few days, parts of southern california will see strong winds, very low humidity and record-breaking temperatures topping 100 degrees. chris concepcion is a division chief with the orange county fire authority. >> this is a time everyone needs to be extra careful in the wild land areas in all the behaviors they take in those areas. santa ana wind driven embers can destroy your homes and neighborhoods far from the actual flame front. >> the state is already facing its most severe drought on record. the latest reading of the sierra mountain snow pack, which provides about a third of the state's water is more than 80% below normal. and california's driest months are still to come. carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. >> jeff: the european union says tonight it will not recognize the outcome of today's vote on separation in two regions of eastern ukraine. the balloting was marred by isolated outbreaks of violence and concerns about voting mistakes. clarissa ward is in donetsk. >> reporter: at some polling stations there were lines as long as five city blocks as thousands of ukrainians defied the will of the international community and even a request from russian president putin. >> some of these people have been waiting more than an hour and a half to cast their ballot. and one woman told me that she has lived here for 23 years and this she's never seen so many people come out to vote. certainly the referendum did not meet international standards. many polling stations had no booths, leaving voters to cast their ballot at an open desk. we saw one older woman vote twice. the ballot had just one question: do you support the independence of the donetsk people's republic?ç#v- with one exception, every single ballot we saw had a ticket for yes. >> we love ukraine, this voter told us. but our government took power illegally and they're destroying our country. >> reporter: the crowd echoed their approval. >> there were pockets of violence. ukrainian forces shut down a polling station in the town of krasnoarmeisk. later surrounded by an angry crowd, they began firing their weapons. at least one man was killed. it was the latest in a string of clashes with the military. and for many here they have only strengthened the desire for independence. jeff, there is, of course, a significant part of the population who don't support the separatist movement and who boycotted today's referendum. and many of those people are very concerned that tomorrow's results will only bring more violence. >> jeff: clarissa ward, thank you. france is offering to host an international summit next weekend on how to deal with boko haram. the militant group that kidnapped more than 200 nigerian schoolgirls. deborah patta joins us from the nigerian capital, abuja. deborah? >> a source communicating with well-placed senior contacts in both government and boko haram has told cbs news that what he saw as a dialogue committee has been head up by military intelligence. separately united states and british teams already in the country are working on well- coordinated strategy with government says the presidency. the sheer scale of the ope2s)rjñ that has to be put in place is daunting. the immediate priority for the international teams is to develop a coherent picture of exactly what happened. that is how many girls were taken and what their precise identities are. up until now, there hadn't even been a conclusive list of the names of the stolen girls. so it appears government has a two-prong strategy. on the one hand, thrashing out the details of a search-and- rescue mission. and on the other, our source says, the girls could be used as a potential prisoner swap for boko haram militants being held in nigerian jails. >> jeff: deborah patta, thank you very much. >> a "washington post" report today says secret service agents were diverted from the white house to the home of a fellow employee during the summer of 2011. the "post" says agents made checks at the maryland home of an aide to secret service director mark sullivan. the agency was concerned that she was being harassed by a neighbor. sullivan resigned last year, following a scandal involving agents using prostitutes on a presidential trip to colombia. on "face the nation" today, house intelligence committee chairman mike rogers said this. >> they're going to have some explaining to do and maybe they've got great explanations. but they're going to have to come up and explain it. and if they can't get this piece right i think you're going to have to look at a cultural leadership shift in the secret service. >> jeff: a secret service spokesman tells cbs news the checks of the employee's home occurred over the july 4th weekend when the president was at camp david and there was no impact on his security. the spokesman says the checks took place quote, "because of concerns for the physical safety of an employee." there was a somber commencement today in virginia. two staff members from a school athletics department along with a pilot were on board that hot air balloon that crashed on friday night. this afternoon, searchers recovered the third and final body. mark albert is on campus. >> i want to begin this invocation with a moment of silence. >> reporter: it was supposed to be a day of celebration at the university of richmond. but commencement sunday turned into a day of mourning for natalie lewis and jennie doyle, two members of the women's basketball team staff. lewis, who was engaged was a championship swimmer for richmond whose mascot is the spiders. flowers now sit outside her former swim coach's office. the note is signed spider nation. doyle was a basketball star at the school before becoming associate head coach. lewis and doyle went up in a hot air balloon friday evening at a festival in virginia. witnesses say the balloon piloted by dan kirk of delaware, a licensed balloonist for at least 13 years clipped a power line, caught fire and crashed. on sunday, the university's baseball team paid tribute to their fellow athletes it cancelled its remaining games that the seniors would play. head coach tracy woodson. >> it hits you and you just never know if it could be you or someone in your family. so i hate it. i feel for them. i don't like situations like this. but you know, i had to make sure our guys understood. >> reporter: hot air balloon crashes in the u.s. are extremely rare. there have been 67 where someone died, according to the national transportation safety board, in the past 50 years. >> jeff: mark albert, thank you very much. the washington monument is re- opening. an earthquake in 2011 made it unsafe to visit. two and a half years later, it is back, even better actually now. they say it is now earthquake proof. the first tickets go on sale tomorrow morning. in washington state scientists and officials are still trying to determine what caused a landslide yesterday in the town of maple valley. the slide was estimated to be 300 feet wide, it temporarily redirected a river into people's backyards. but no one was hurt. >> later here, michael sam prepares to report to his new nfl team. and a look at drones after a near miss. when the "cbs evening news" continues. 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