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KPIX CBS This Morning January 15, 2018

Preventing a catastrophe. And a turkish airliner skids off a runway. Well show you how everyone survives. And cvs shows how it will alert customers to altered beauty photo ads. First, we begin with the eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. A missile may land in 90 minutes. This is not a drill. I thought, oh, my god, this is it. The investigation of hawaiis false missile alert. It caused widespread panic. The mistake, i take responsibility for it. This is unacceptable. It has to be fixed and people need to be held accountable. Do you think President Trump is a racist . I think he is a racist. I did not hear a derogatory comment about individuals or persons. This sentiment is totally phony as well that is attributed to him . Yes. I am the least racist person you have ever interviewed. That i can tell you. Oh, my god casino boat erupts in flames just off floridas gulf coast with 50 people on board. This could have been a tragedy. In turkey, a jet skidded off the runway and ended up on a seaside cliff. Everyone on board survived. All that. A georgia firefighter is being called a hero aft is her caught a toddler tossed from a third floor balcony. And all that matters. So who is the head of the group . Were all sort of workers among workers and women among women sort of rolling up our sleeves. How do you get things done with no leader . Well, were women. On cbs this morning. Chase on the deep cross. Fires to the right side. Caught touchdown are you kidding me in the middle of the ball game this mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning on this Martin Luther king holiday. If youre watching that game, you were thinking what did we just see on television . What just happened there . Thats why people watch sports. Those moments. That is true. How does that go, john, ripped from the jaws of victory . Am i making it up . Ripped victory from the jaws of defeat. Thats it. We all can see that ourselves. Made it up. Im gayle king with John Dickerson and Bianna Golodrygas here too. Norah odonnell is off on this Martin Luther king holiday. Hawaii officials face widespread criticism over a false a harm warning the public of imminent missile attack. People across the state ran outside searching for places to hide. The head of the fcc which is investigating calls the error absolutely unacceptable. At 8 07 saturday morning, more than 1 million cell phones in hawaii began buzzing. With a message saying seek immediate shelter. This is not a drill. State officials canceled the alert at 8 13. Six minutes later. But they didnt send a new cell phone message for another half an hour until 8 45. David begnaud went inside the command center where the mistake happened. He is in honolulu. David, good morning. Reporter good morning. Oops. This was the front page headline after that mistake happened. The agency that made the mistake is now investigating exactly what happened. The governor says the employee who pushed the wrong button not once but twice feels terrible about what happened. He hasnt been fired. Hes being welcomed back to work. But not in the same job. The panic was palpable. Hawaiians rushing for cover under the threat of a missile attack. This child was lowered into a manhole. Another family huddled in a closet. 5,500 people called honolulus 911 system. Its embarrassing. Again, its a mistake. Reporter hawaiis Emergency Management administrator vern i miyagi says one of his employees hit the wrong button twice. He was supposed to hit the option for a drill. Instead, he hit the real thing. This was the alert. A missile may impact in minutes. This is not a drill. With all due respect are you sure this was an accident . Yes. I know the individual. This was an accident. But why did he hit yes twice . Thats being talked about and being investigated right now. Reporter this is the state warning point. It was here the mistake happened. The man who had been working for about ten years was sitting in this chair when he pushed the wrong button. He realized within the first two or three minutes he made a mistake but it took nearly 38 minutes to get another text message alert out saying false alarm. It is an epic failure. Reporter hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard was one of the first to correct the error on twitter. 36 minutes of terror before this message went out saying sorry, false alarm. I dont usually panic. Reporter noah tom was far from his wife and children when the alert was issued. I felt totally helpless. Im sitting there just kind of balling my eyes out. Reporter in the aftermath, people across hawaii were confronted with this question. What would you do if this was the real thing . Wakeup call. Say, hey, wait a minute, i dont know what to do. Our opportunity right now is to reach out and get that information through to people. Reporter you know, it took 38 minutes to correct the first tweet because what they actually had to do is get an i. T. Guy at home to compose a message, then put a template in the system, then get a new alert out saying hey, guys, false alarm. Now that template actually exists. Its ready to go. Its not going to take 38 minutes. For the time being, though, the government says i dont want you guys practicing this anymore and when you do start practicing again, i want two people to be involved in every test. Amazing. Thank you, david. The immigration debate in congress is stalled. After President Trumps reported use of a vulgarity to describe haiti, el salvador and some african nations. Last night, the president denied hes a racist. Two republican allies say he didnt use the reported language. Some democrats are pushing back, using the threat of a Government Shutdown as leverage to get what they want in immigration talks. Errol barnet is traveling with the president in west palm beach, florida. Errol, good morning. Reporter good morning. The political fallout from President Trumps comments could jeopardize negotiations. Democratic congressman john lewis says he wont even vote on government funding unless theres a deal on daca. Republican senator rand paul says the setting to get anything meaningful accomplished here is being destroyed. No, no, im not a racist. Reporter President Trump refuted claims made about his character. I am the least racist person you have ever interviewed. Reporter democratic senator dick durbin was one of the lawmakers in the room when the president allegedly used a vulgar term while referring to countries caught up in the immigration debate. They were vile, hatefilled and clearly racial. Reporter republican Lindsey Graham says he immediately confronted the president about his use of words. Quote, all those attending the meeting know what i said and how i feel. Two other republican senators at the Oval Office Meeting who, days ago, said they could not recall the president s comments, seem to sharpen their memories. Im telling you he did not use that word. I didnt hear that word either. I certainly didnt hear what senator durbin has said repeatedly. Reporter senator tom cotton says the quotes attributed to the president are false. Youre saying you didnt hear any of this sort of lumping everybody together . I did not hear derogatory comments. The sentiment . About individuals or persons, no. Reporter the controversy stems from sensitive negotiations on immigration between the president and both parties. Democrats want to address the status of dreamers. The children of undocumented immigra immigrants. The president wants to reform the visa lottery system and end socalled chain migration. Last week, President Trump was optimistic about striking a deal. But on sunday via twitter, he said, quote, daca is probably dead. Because the democrats dont want it. Congressman and civil rights activist john lewis called the president racist for his comments but said democrats arent giving up on a compromise. We must not give up or give in. We must continue to press on and get a deal. Reporter now, consider this, in a new cbs news nation tracker poll, 70 of americans, they support allowing dreamers to stay in the country. While 76 say they found President Trumps reported comments inappropriate. Errol, thanks. Dan senor is a former adviser to speaker paul ryan. He has spoken with republican members of congress in the room during the Oval Office Meeting. He was Senior Adviser to mitt romney in the president ial campaign. Good morning. Good morning. You have spoken to people in the room. Two different accounts. Correct. You have senators two republican senators saying dick durbins not telling the truth . Right. Whats going on here . What it sounds to me obviously, i wasnt in the room, but what im trying to piece together is trump did Say Something derogatory but it wasnt a big moment in the room. Its not like people stormed out. Its not like people interrupted. Lindsey graham made that one comment. But it wasnt sort of a Game Changing moment in the room. It seems like the politics burst out of this meeting about a day later. The concern is forget leave aside the word everybody was repeating last week. The concern is that the president views the world this way and views people based on the group they come from and of course people noted that the countries he made note of all have people with different colored skin. And norway, the one he raised up, has essentially an all white population. Assuming he said a version of what he said, its hugely problematic because it basically makes a sweeping judgment about people from certain parts of the world. Even though there are many talented those country, by the way, some of those countries may be basket cases. Its okay to say that. It doesnt mean the talent coming from those countries are basket cases. Also has implications for our countrys bilateral relationships with the governments in those countries. That said, there is a point to be made that immigration restrictionists have a legitimate argument, some of us may disagree with it, but a legitimate argument about the implications of this lottery system that picks people from certain countries, designates certain countries, rather than a skilled base merit system. Many immigration reformers in this country are pushing for that kind of system. If thats the point the president is trying to make, its an inartful way to make it. Unfortunate now seems everybodys parsing their words exactly what he said what he didnt say. All right, lets move on from that. Where do we go now from here . Because we saw the daca conversation. Where does that leave that discussion . I think two things are going to happen this week. Republican members i speak to said they will now move to a temporary spending bill some time this week which will get us to the third week of february. Which takes down the threat of a Government Shutdown. I also think based on the members i spoke to it is unlikely if theyre going to get a daca deal any time soon. The blowup from this meeting has raised the stakes. If trump said something as senator durbin said that it was vile, racist and hateful, how does durbin sit down and negotiate with the president who he thinks is vile, racist and hateful and make any concessions . If youre the president , how do you negotiate with someone who has called you racist, vile and hateful . How do you make concessions to that person . Both sides have a base problem now. The president has a little advantage here in that his constituency i dont think cares if they get a daca deal. The democrats are not going to shut down the government over daca. Let me ask you one question about your good friend mitt romney. Reports he is, in fact, going to be running for senate in the state of utah. Can you confirm that . I cannot confirm it. Im not here as a spokesman for him. I think it is highly likely he is going to move forward. Have you talked to him . I have spoken to him, yes. You think its highly likely . I think its highly likely. We know he is in good health right now . Yes. Very good news. Dan senor. Thank you. The white house and President Trump have yet to comment on the deadly Southern California mudslides, nearly one week after the disaster. At least 20 people were killed in the storm and mudflows last tuesday. Four people were still considered missing. Search crews are now transitioning from rescue to recovery mode. Jamie yuccas is in the area where the main highway is still closed this morning. Jamie, good morning. Reporter good morning. Highway 101 still covered in mud and debris. Its been a week since the mudslides. Crews working around the clock. Theres no time frame on when this may reopen. At the same time, people in town are trying to heal. Thousands came out sunday night to mourn those lost. A candlelight vigil filled the Santa Barbara county courthouse grounds sunday night. James weimer came to remember his grandparents alice and james mitch whole celebrated james 89th birthday last sunday. That was the last time i saw them. I loved them so much. Reporter cleanup and search efforts are continuing around the clock. Crews are focused on the difficult task of finding the bodies of those still missing. It was apocalyptic. Reporter this is what David Grokenberger and his family saw tuesday morning. I looked and said, we cant get in the car, its being swept away by a fivefoot wall of mud and debris. Reporter workers rescued the family of three. Leading them through the wreckage. There was a reason that were still here and theres a reason that house protected us. Reporter Officials Say the 101 freeway acted as a cash basin for massive amounts of mud and debris, preventing more extensive damage behind it. They say theyll have a better idea today when it can finally reopen. Under normal conditions, the Santa Barbara area is protected by a series of debris basins designed to catch excess water and mud. Workers are trying to clear them out ahead of possibly more rain this week. Officials say no drainage system could have handled last weeks mudslides. It was a slurry with rocks that are over your head and entire trees. This is a debris flow of the likes we have not seen. Reporter with 101 still blocked, the only way to travel the 30odd miles between Santa Barbara and ventura is to take a 250mile detour. Amtrak is adding some train cars to its los angeles to Santa Barbara route. Some people are using boats to get back and forth by sea. I know people who are still stuck there. Thank you very much. 250mile detour is a big one. Thank you, jamie. Florida shuttle boat captain is credited with saving dozens of lives when a massive fire broke out onboard. Dramatic video shows passengers jumping into the freezing water as large flames quickly surrounded the boat yesterday. 14 people were hurt. Weve received word one person has died. The boat was headed to a casino cruise just off the coast near tampa. Vladimir duthiers of our streaming network is following the story. Good morning. Reporter good morning. People on the shores nearby said they noticed the boat sounded different on sunday. Just moments before they saw a cloud of thick black smoke billowing up from the ships stern. Dramatic video taken from the shore shows passengers jumping from the flaming shuttle boat. Police say the vessel had just started a roughly threemile journey to an offshore casino cruise when the captain noticed something was wrong with the engine. Thats when he decided to beach the boat on the shore. Coming as fast as we can. Reporter video taken by lisa shultz show flames engulfing the boat in a matter of minutes. We were nervous it was going to, you know, blow up. You could feel the heat off of it. Reporter she and her husband rushed to help those forced into the cold gulf water. We had to get into the water at one point and it was just freezing. And they were jumping off in front of it. We had to jump probably, what, eight, eight or ten feet. To the water. To the water. Reporter passenger and crew that were able to safely evacuate waded through 100 yards of Shallow Water to reach Emergency Personnel and nearby homeowners who had come to help. They were pulling clothes out of their closet to bring out to us to put on to keep warm. Reporter Authorities Say the decision to turn the boat around prevented a major disaster. If they were out any further, this could have been a tragedy. Certainly different ending than this. A manager for the familyowned Tropical Breeze Casino said the company lost its only shuttle boat in the fire. Its not clear what exactly caused the fire on board to start. But heroism from the captain and the folks on shore. Amazing. Quick thinking. Vlad, thank you. Investigators say a sudden engine surge caused a passenger plane to skid off the edge of a cliff in turkey. Drone video shows the boeing 737 stuck in the mud. As it dangled just feet over the black sea. 168 people were on board. The Pegasus Airlines flight took off from the turkish capital of ankara and ran off the runway moments after, landing in trabzon saturday night. Video shot just after the plane came to a stop shows the panic on board. The passengers and crew were safely evacuated. No injuries were reported. Its still unclear what caused the engine surge. Incredible video. A case where a mudslide actually prevented the plane from falling further. Some hotel chains are changing their privacy policies in response to last years deadly las vegas shooting. Ahead, how the room occupied sign you stick on your door does high clouds and low clouds are the story this morning. Yes, that fog is out there. And definitely made for a gorgeous view before that sunrise this morning. Heres a look at your high temperatures today. It will be in the upper 50s. For san rafael and santa rosa. 60 degrees for San Francisco. 64 in san jose. And were looking at rain late tonight. Could get anywhere from a quarter to threequarters of an inch of rain for the north bay. The rest of the bay area, basically, a drizzle is expected. And another storm is ex

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