Yeah despite being snubbed at the Oscar Nominations ben affleck took home best directors of the Critics Choice Awards. I would like to thank the academy. Jack assures me is he going to work to make at least one letter legible in order not to debase our currency. Reporter on cbs this morning. The only way youre allowed to have that as your signature is if your name is boing boing boing boing boing boing. Captioning funded by cbs well come to cbs this morning. Hospitals from the Pacific Northwest to texas to new england are full of flu patients. And this morning, some areas are starting to run low on flu vaccine. Michelle miller is in boston inside a Neighborhood Health clinic. Michelle good morning. Reporter good morning, charlie, norah and our viewers in the west. The west coast may not have been hit hard by the flu but here in boston it is a health care emergency. City official this is weekend will open up Health Clinics like this and offer free flu shots. The hope is to ease some of the burden on hospital Emergency Rooms which are nearing capacity. The cdc is expected to release new numbers later today for an outbreak that is spreading across the country. This years flu epidemic has hit the country hard and early. It seems like everyone around you is sick youre not alone. The flu numbers keep growing in minnesota. A lot of moms and dads are looking for flu shots for their kids. Reporter mississippi was first to report high flu activity in midnovember just six weeks later, 29 states did. Adding to the misery manufacturers of tamiflu used to treat Sick Children and flu zone a widely used vaccine said supplies were running low or completely gone. This seasons flu bug is particularly potent responsible for severe outbreaks in years past. Theres something about the way the virus affects us that causes more disease and more inflammation inflammation. Reporter at massachusetts general hospital, the emergency room is packed and beds are full. How would you rate this season . This is certainly among the worst flu seasons that weve had and its really pushing us to our breaking point. Reporter the vaccine can lessen the severity of symptoms in addition to keeping others from getting sick. Its called the concept of third immunity so if almost everybody is immune to a virus, then that virus has a very difficult time of going through the population and making the Vulnerable People in that population sick. Reporter to give you an idea of just how seriously people are taking this outbreak here the archdiocese of boston has allowed his priests to suspend a communion wine, the sharing of it anded handshake, the sign of peace handshake and of course he says that normal services will resume after the flu season is over. Michelle thank you. Now to the gun control debate the National Rifle association is furious with the white house this morning nra officials met with Vice President joe bidens Gun Control Task force yesterday and they say no one wanted to listen to them. Bill plante is at the white house. Bill, good morning. Reporter good morning and good morning out west. In a few hours the Vice President s task force on guns looks at violence in video games. Yesterday it reached out to gun owners and the National Rifle association, which didnt like what it heard. The head of the National Rifle association described his groups meeting with Vice President biden as disappointing. Saying that most of the talk focused on restricting the rights of legal gun owners. The Vice President made it clear that on terms of firearms they have made up their minds. Reporter thats not the way the Vice President sees it as he told reporters just before the meeting with gun advocates. Theres no conclusion ive reached and with my colleagues im putting together a series of recommendations for the president. Reporter biden said theres growing consensus from his meetings to require universal background checks and ban high capacity magazine clips. Two proposals the nra, which represents more than 4 million gun owners strongly opposes. The biden meetings werent the only ones on thursday. Several large retailers who sell guns including walmart and Dicks Sporting Goods met with attorney general eric holder part of mr. Bidens task force to develop a plan to curb gun violence. s suspend the the sale of semiautomatic rivals following the newtown shooting in december. Just remember everything that i showed you, everything i taught you, all right . Reporter the nra tweeted a story about Melinda Herman a georgia woman who shot an intruder in selfdefense as she waited with her two children in a closet. Her husband coached her on the phone. If he opens that door you shoot, you shoot him, you understand . Reporter she fired at him multiple times with a. 38 caliber gun. Shoot him again, shoot him. Reporter the nra accuses the white house of tartgeting people like the hermans. The group says theyll turn to congress to fight against the agenda. We said before the election if barack obama was reelected that he was going to go after our Second Amendment rights. The newtown tragedy gave him an opportunity to do that. Reporter one of the proposals made is for armed guards at every school and the administration is considering a version of that, one of the ideas on the table is to make federal Funds Available to schools that want to hire police or install surveillance equipment. Biden has promised to send his recommendation to the president by next tuesday. Norah, charlie . Well be watching. Bill plante, thank you. A 16yearold student in taft california planned a shotgun attack on his High School Classmates the shooter critically wounded one student yesterday. The suspect eventually surrendered. Witnesses say he had been harassed at school even bullied and as carter evans reports, a teacher is getting credit for preventing a potential disaster. Reporter when students at Taft High School were finally released from the campus lockdown, they quickly learned how close the school had come to catastrophe. Anna lease is a soft more. Over the intercom lockdown this is not a drill, this is not a drill. Everyone was piling up on top of each other all hiding in the corners. Reporter as first period class was starting the 16yearold gunman was spotted leaving his home with his brothers shotgun. We believe he picked up the. 12 gauge shot gun and walked into the school armed with the shotgun and one of the neighbors called 911 to report that. Reporter while police raced to the school the gunman went into morgan aldridges class. He pumped it right away and shot. Reporter one student was hit and the gunman fired at another and missed. The guy that got shot i was holding him, i have blood on my sweatshirt. Reporter at one point he told the class who he was looking for. The kid popped up behind me and said im sorry and he eased up just a little bit. Teacher ryan heebber and a staff member talked the shooter into surrendering the gun. Heber didnt want to talk to a media but sent a message to his parents after the shooting. He texts my wife and says im okay. The student came in my classroom and shot another student. Reporter david heber is not surprised authorities are praising his son as a hero. Just totally involved in everything at school and church. He goes to church every sunday and hes just a good young man. Reporter police say the gunman targeted students who he felt bullied him for more than a year. Students told us the gunman got in trouble at school last year for having a list of students he wanted to harm. Were you surprised when you heard who the shooter was . No. I wasnt surprised because he had a hit list last year so. They shouldnt have let him back in the school. Reporter while the school has a full Time Police Officer on campus he was stuck at home snowed in. Police say it was the Science Teacher who changed the equation with some quick thinking in the classroom. For cbs this morning, carter evans, taft, california. Arraignment is set today for james holmes the man charged with killing 12 people and wounding 58 others in the colorado Movie Theater massacre. Judge ruled last night that prosecutors had enough evidence to put holmes on trial. Defense attorneys are expected to ask for more time saying holmes is not ready to enter a plea. The faa is ordering a full safety review of boeings troubled 787 dreamliner. Transportation secretary ray lahood confirmed it in the past hour. We are concerned about recent events involving boeing 787, thats why today we are announcing that we are conducting a comprehensive review of the design and production of the boeing 787. Now the review was announced a few hours after two new incidents involving the hightech jet, a crack was found in the cockpit windshield of an all Nippon Airways 787 in japan and oil found in the engine of an all nion air. Also a fuel spill and cabin fire. The head of the faa Still Believes the 787 is safe and boeing says it is confident in the jets design and performance. President obama sbre deuced white house chief of staff jack lew as his choice as treasury secretary. The president has been criticized for nominating another white man. We heard comments from new york congressman Charlie Rangel and New Hampshire senator jeanne shaheen. Its embarrassing as hell and i kind of think theres no excuse when its his second term. He has places where he could appoint women and i hope hell take a look and do that. Cbs news political director John Dickerson is in washington. John, good morning. Good morning, norah. All right, so is it all the president s men, as they say for president obama . Well, right now it looks like it these last three appointments all white males, and this criticism is basically, look, mr. President , you won your election based on the votes of women and minorities so you should respect that in your naming of your cabinet picks. The white house pushes back and says hes only half way through the process, dont judge him so quickly, but if the president s being judged quickly on race and gender issues it may in fact be because he taught people how to do that in his campaign. There was not an issue of race or agenda that the Obama Campaign didnt jump on when it came to mitt romney and the republicans. So now hes feeling a little of that heat himself. So what does he plan to do . Well the white house officials, first they plan to say wait a minute, his closest and most trusted adviser is an africanamerican woman he has plenty of women staying in his cabinet along with minorities more women work at the white house than men, so theyre basically saying wait a minute that this recent flap that hes involved in is a little overtorqued as they say, but white house Officials Say wait a minute, there are more appointments to come stay tuned. Hes planning to keep the diversity in his cabinet and his office as it was in the first term, but there are more picks to come. Let me turn to gun control for a second. Where do you believe the president believes what he can achieve and how will he define success . Thats a great question. I think where we are is the biden group is moving very quickly and the question now is whats the president going to do . How big of a platform is he going to make at the state of the union where he will talk about this and what are the pieces built together to build this coalition. The assault weapons ban which a lot of people talked about in the wake of newtown, this wrenching moment driving this debate, that may not be the sign of success. What a lot of gun control advocates really say is the most important thing is these background checks so in the end, Something Like the assault weapon ban which is very closely related to the massacre at newtown, may not be the thing that is most important and may not be the thing that survives so background checks is really the thing to watch. John dickerson thank you. This sunday on face the nation Bob Schieffer will ask john mccain and joe manchin and Stanley Mccrystal about the president s nominations and the afghan troop drawdown and talk with mayor Antonio Villaraigoso sunday on failings the nation on cbs. Chilling new details in britain in the child sex scandal connected to a Famous Television host. Police report claims jimmy savile who died in 2011 committed more than 200 sex crimes over six decades. The youngest victim was just 8 years old. The assault took place in television studios, school hospitals and even a hospice. Second report blames police for not doing more to stop sevile. The government is targeting an active ingredient in ambien saying were taking too much of it. Zolpidem, the popular sleep aid, the fda cut the recommended dose in half and says doctors should do the same thing for men. Welcome, doctor. Thank you for having me. What is the issue here . Weve known for a long time this is a help. The government is just concerned with new studies with driving simulators that these drugs are staying in our system much longer than we previously thought and its essentially like driving drunk. It is impairing your thinking as youre getting up in the morning and its a problem. But the fda is only issuing these guidelines for zolpidem for women, why not men . We have a different metabolism metabolism, smaller in size and factors we have yet to discover about women and their met preliminary of these drugs and so we have noticed this in the field ourselves and unfortunately theres millions these are affecting. Kara kennedy this summer was taking ambien and had unfortunately an accident because of it. What kind of action you recommend be taken . Well unfortunately, we dont recognize the importance of sleep. Sleep is basically for wimps and if youre successful you should push through these barriers and unfortunately sleeping pills we take them, put the cold cream on and take your sleeping pill. There are other options, and these medications can be addicting. You want to take them only for four to six weeks and after that, reach out to a specialist to get help. Is zolpidem a narcotic and if you recognize that how long should you take sleeping pills . What do people need to be concerned about . Its not a narcotic. Its a sedative hypnotic but it has the same impact on our thinking as driving drunk and what happens is you go to see a general practitioner they dont get at the root cause so the simple thing is to say here is a sleeping pill. It will take time to solve but it can be solved. Cognitive behavioral therapy, sleep hygiene, mindfulness can be alternatives to the sleeping pill. Thank you. Time to show you some of the mornings headlines from around the globe. The wall street journal reports on talk to determine the longterm United States presence and role in afghanistan. President obama is meeting with afghan President Hamid karzai at the white house this morning. The u. S. Wants to turn over all combat missions to the afghan troops by the end of next year. An indiana boy kidnapped in 1994 has been found in minnesota. When he was 5yearold Richard Wayne landers was taken by his fathers parents after his parents divorced. Landers now 24 years old was living under a different name but he used the same Social Security number. Usa today says facebook shares are climbing theyre up more than 78 in the last four months, on thursday the stock closed at 31. 30 Facebook Stock is up almost 18 since january 1st. And san diego will be as cold as boston tonight, a cold front will force temperatures to drop below freezing in some areas. The cold snap comes after snow snarled traffic on interstate 5 through the grapevine. And a powerful slowmoving storm socked louisiana with heavy rain and flooding. Governor bobby jindal declared a statewide state of emergency. At least one suspected tornado was reported and meanwhile the Northern Plains and Rocky Mountains are getting hit hard with a powerful snow and wind storm. Some areas could see blizzard conditions and up to 24 inches of snow. Good morning. It is clear and calm outside. We are seeing some temperatures at or below freezing. This is a live look right now at beautiful sunrise over the dublinpleasanton area. We are going to warm things up by this afternoon. Partly to mostly sunny skies, temperatures struggling to get out of the upper 40s in some parts of the bay area. Upper 40s to low 50s on your afternoon highs. Another cold morning on tap for tomorrow. And then sunshine sunday into next week announcer this national we announcer this National Weather report sponsored by Green Mountain coffee, brew a better day. Why would v. A. Hospitals why would va hospital officials imply theyre to blame for families getting sick. My sister they said they had no other cases. But there were others and an inspector found deadly bacteria in the hospitals water system. This morning a cbs news investigation. And one year ago this weekend, the Costa Concordia ran aground and 32 people were killed. Well return to that italian island and ask survivors about the accident that shocked the world on cbs this morning. 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