Ridiculous pr statement. Donald is a fragile soul. He apparently is not going to come to the debate. Although i have a 20 bet hell show up. Im still standing. Bernie sanders and Hillary Clinton in a dead heat in iowa. If there is a large voter turnout, were going to win. Three men arrested in that wildlife refuge in oregon. Scientists believe the zika virus has the potential to become a pandemic. The World Health Organization is called on to meet. American airlines had to make an Emergency Landing when people fell ill. Two people were inside the chopper when the engine lost power. I watched the propellers actually stop. Widespread tornado damage. The twister lifted vehicles. I was driving, all of a sudden i felt i was up in the a ir. We look at the capture of El Chapo Guzman from a video all that a handcuffed suspect steals a car while the trooper searched his car for marijuana. If you break out in New Hampshire, you think you could go all the way . I do. Organizers in South Carolina, nevada youll break out . I probably will cry for a little while. And all that matters whats your super bowl pick broncos or panthers . I think its a great story for Peyton Manning, but carolina looks tough. This is going to be a close one. On cbs this morning. People are very upset because theres going to be a new movie. And in that movie Michael Jackson is going to be played by a british white man. The producer said we didnt want to cast a white man, but wed like to get nominated for an oscar. So you do what you got to do. This mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Lets go places. Places welcome to cbs this morning. Donald trump says his mind last Republican Debate before monday iowa caucuses. Trump calls his boycott of tonights fox news debate an eye for an eye. He plans a campaign event. While seven of his republican rivals share the stage in prime time. A new poll out this morning shows 32 of likely Republican Voters in iowa support trump. Ted cruz is in second place with 25 . Only one other candidate, marco rubio, is in double digits. Major garrett is in des moines where crews take center stage for the first time in a debate. Major, good morning. Reporter good morning. The boycott and art of the deal maneuver is playing out hourbyhour. The fox and trump camps continue to negotiate, but, for now, the gop frontrunner has an event scheduled across town at Drake University at the same time as the debate. The purported purpose . To raise funds for veterans organizations. Trumps republican rivals either dont buy it or find it farcical. I got a fair question for reporter in South Carolina wednesday, donald trump portrayed his boycott of the debate his textbook negotiating ploy. I was not treated fairly. You know that . Does everybody agree with that . You know in life, when with i fight with you, im fighting the same way. You have to be treated fairly. Reporter ted cruz dropping in some polls but betting on a ground game in iowa said trump is a coward. Not that he is afraid of me. He is afraid of you. Reporter cruz who will likely become the number one debate target tonight proposed a final time and place for a debate with trump. How about the two of us in a oneonone debate manomano . We have a venue, we have a time. All we are missing is a candidate. Foxs prime time king bill oreilly urged trump to reconsider. Here is it is what. Bill, let me tell you. Youre taking this much more seriously than i am. Who is . I want you to consider, all think about it. Say, look. I might come back. Forgive. Go forward. I dont like being taken advantage of. In this case, i was being taken advantage of by fox. Reporter trump simplified his tactics in terms familiar to his supporters. If im representing the country as president , i wont let our country, because its a personality trait. Im not going to let our country be taken advantage of. Reporter trumps gop rivals frustrated at being frozen out of another media moment, fumed. I got a 20 dollar debate hell show up. I went up a couple of points, i would say. Interesting side show. Greatest show on earth this is not a show. Reporter a super pac supporting ted cruz is offering to put up 1. 5 million if he accepts the texas senators debate challenge. Two organizations said they will not accept any donations from trumps event here tonight. Thanks, major. Strassel is with us and writes a column that appears weekly in the newspaper and please to have you. Welcome. Nice to be here. Could this be a big mistake for donald trump . I think it is. This is the key moment for iowa voters. They are tuned in. They are paying a lot of attention to this one debate, because by the way, the rnc cut back on the number of debates so there is a lot of focus on this one. We know 4 out of 10 of those voters still say they could change their mind. Donald trump is going to be up on that stage and all of his competitors as you can see, are going to be leveling charges at him and he will be not be there. Do you there is an empty chair . I think a possibility. Fox and rnc said they wont have an empty podium there. Do you think as karl rove made the point in wall street journal today it could be enough to blow his lead, that it is a small enough lead in iowa that can could be the margin of difference . The problem is we dont really know what his lead is. The number one question that everyone has out there in iowa is how devoted are donalds are they devoted celebrity watchers . The kinds that will stand in line five hours to get a ticket or the kind of people go out on a cold night to a caucus and those could be very different people. You believe big turnout numbers at these rallies doesnt translate into the votes at the end of the day . Thats what nobody knows. In the past, you can have about 120,000 people who are regular caucus goers to the republican caucus. Registration has not necessarily changed a lot in iowa. So has donald trump actually taken some of those voters or not . Could marco rubio benefit from all of this . He has been very strategic. He was a big believer that you can peak too early in iowa so he has saved all of his fire power the past week and polls are coming out showing he is moving up. He has the endorsement of the des moines register. And sioux falls newspaper as well and campaigning with joni ernest. The New York Times makes the point that the fight is between the leading republicans and roger ailes of fox news network. What do you make of that and trump appeared with oreilly last night and one of their biggest stars begged him to reconsider . I think the toughest thing for the media you want a donald trump on, good for your ratings, but, you know, at the same time, republicans love to bash on the media. But is this donald trump taking on fox . Because he thinks fox has too much power . It could be. But it also just could be because most republicans think it plays to tell their voters that the media is bad. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Certainly still more to come. Kim strassel, thank you for joining us at the table this morning. Washingtons biggest newspaper is blasting Bernie Sanders this morning. The Washington Post editorial says the democratic candidate is running a, quote, fictionfilled campaign. It labels the vermont senator as not a brave truthteller and a sanders and Hillary Clinton are making Campaign Stops today ifn iowa today and nancy cordes is there. Good morning, nancy. Reporter good morning. That editorial primarily took issue with sanders plans to dramatically expand government. They say he has not adequately explained how he would pay for all of that. Its the same case clinton has been making, but it doesnt seem to bother his supporters. Another thousand of them showed up for him last night. I give you Bernie Sanders. Reporter stumping with Susan Sarandon in mason city, sanders blasted clinton for leaving the state. My opponent is not in iowa tonight. She is raising money from a philadelphia investment firm. Frankly, i would rather be here with you. Reporter sanders had just returned from his own trip to washington for a 45minute we talked about the mexican issues. We talked about foreign policy. We talked about politics just a little bit. Reporter what kind of politics . The president knows something about iowa. Reporter earlier at a Bowling Alley in adele, iowa, clinton argued she is best to equip the president s gains especially when it comes to obamacare. If they get a republican president , it will be gone and the first week. Reporter in mason city, her husband insisted shes a transformative candidate. There is only one person who is a proven change maker. Who is the change maker here . She is a walking, breathing change agent and she a born change maker and everything she touched, she made better. Reporter that is the case zoe wagner is making between now and caucus night. The High School Junior is a beaverdale. Are you old enough to vote . No. Im 20 days too young to vote. Reporter you can still be a yeah. That is the cool thing. Even though i cant be there to stand in her corner on caucus night, i can help in other ways. Reporter the democrats are still locked in their own debate fight over whether to hold another one in New Hampshire next week. Sanders is playing hardball saying he will only participate in clinton agrees to three more debates, in march, april, and may. Gayle, he wants as many chances to be headtohead with her on stage as possible. We will see how it turns out. Thank you, nancy. Cbs news will bring you a debate with the republican candidates next month from South Carolina. You can see i the cdc this weekend adds new areas to its travel advisory areas where the mosquito virus is spreading. Ten cases have been reported this month. We have the director. He took part in a briefing with president obama on the zika threat. Hes with us from washington. Good morning. Good morning. We now have over 4,000 suspected cases of babies born with baby defects in brazil. I think the question everyone is asking is could this affect the United States . We do not believe that there will be a major outbreak of zika in the United States. We dont want to be cavalier about it. We want to take it very seriously, but if zika acts like the other types of viruses that are mosquito born that we had experience with like chikungunya and dengue, it could be controlled with mosquito control. Hopefully we will not see we have to be vigilant but we do not expect a major outbreak in the United States despite the fact theres considerable problems in brazil with the widespread outbreak of zika. What is the urgent response that is necessary at this moment . Well, right now the urgent response is really vector control. Namely to make sure that the mosquito vectors really are controlled. And you can do that by eliminating them with insecticides. What we spoke to president obama about was the countermeasures, better diagnostics. The development of vaccines. Being able to understand the disease better. Let me ask you, doctor, i know this is overwhelmingly spread by mosquitoes but the cdc has said there is one case spread by other means. Are you concerned by that . We do not believe there are major ways of spreading this apart from mosquito bites. The considerable thing were aware is the decelerating in pregnant which who get infected while they are pregnant. Thats the reason why the cdc has come out with the guideline of telling pregnant women or women who might be pregnant to avoid unless absolutely necessary travel to those regions where you have the local spread and the outbreak of zika. Important information. Thank you so much. Youre quite welcome. Youre quite welcome. Three more members of an armed group who took over a federal wildlife refuge in oregon are in custody and their surrender came as their leader bundy urged the followers to end the occupation. He made a Court Appearance wednesday in portland. Bundy said in a statement, quote, please stand down. Go home and hug your families. This fight is ours for now in the courts. In all 11 members of the group have been arrested and face felony charges. Some holdouts remain inside the oregon. Reporter locals here want the occupation to end as soon as possible. Even after the arrest and death of one man, as many as ten antigovernment protesters remain hunkered down and vowing to make a last stand. This is a free for all armageddon reporter that is the message from one man still inside the malheur wildlife refuge and he is calling for reinforcement. They stop you from getting here kill them reporter he and others are refusing to end the armed occupation which began as a protest over federal land ownership. This, even as their jailed leader, ammon bundy, urges them to go home. In bundy wants everybody to others were arrested tuesday when Law Enforcement stopped them on a road about 20 miles from the compound. Bundys brother ryan was injured Lavoy Finicum was killed and he had recently told reporters he would rather died than be caged. Im going to not spend my days in a cell. Reporter supporters are calling him a martyr. Clive bundy she said they cold blooded shot him and she figures at least six times. Three or four of the times after he was on the ground dead. Reporter but authorities put the bame squarely on the protesters. Let me be clear. It is the actions and choices of the armed occupiers of the refuge that has led us to where we are today. Reporter 11 people, including bundy, now face felony charges of conspiracy to impede officers of the United States through the use of force, intimidation, or threats. This cant happen any more. This cant happen in america and it cant happen in harney county. Reporter the fbi has blocked off all roads into the wildlife refuge and the federal criminal occupiers are believed to have had explosives inside their compound. Wow. Carter, thank you very much. Our cbs news investigation into the Wounded Warrior project is sparking strong reactions. Former employees told us that the charity spent lavishly while not always delivering enough help to veterans. Now a branch of the u. S. Military is weighing in. The acting secretary of the army tells cbs news we need to make sure no soldier falls through the cracks when our ethos is we leave no one behind. It is our sincere hope that any organization dedicated to our veterans conducts themselves in a manner worthy of their service and sacrifice. We have also heard from the tough mutter company which partners with a charity to organize militarystyle endurance races around the world. They told us, quote, we recently put our partnership with the Wounded Warrior project under review and we are now in the process of evaluating our Charity Partners for future event. The Wounded Warrior project has strongly rejected several of the claims made in our report. Its ceo has declined multiple five people are in custody this morning in connection with a Southern California jail break that gained national attention. The Orange County sheriff is not describing their link to the escapees. 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