Welcome to cbs this morning. We begin with breaking news from london where a helicopter crashed this morning at the height of rush hour. It caused a huge fireball o them to be believed the helicopter pilot and 13 more have been treated for their injuries. Flames and debris filled the road when a thick plume of black smoke marked the scene of the crash not far from one of the capitals busiest commuter intersections and the site of the new embassy. The helicopter collided with crane near the top of a highrise building at a construction site before spiraling into the street in the middle of londons rush hour traffic. Local resident matt haverson feared the worst. We thought it was a terror attack. Someone shoultted that the plane flew into the crane. Reporter British Police were quick of that unfinished building. Charlie and norah . Elizabeth palmer thank you. Boeing 787 dreamliner is having new trouble this morning. One of the groundbreaking airliners had to make yet another Emergency Landing. It happened less than Reagan International airport but it has regulators and passengers watching carefully. It made an Emergency Landing in tack a matsu 45 minutes into its flight from western japan into tokyo. Cockpit instruments alerted pilots to battery problem that triggered emergency warnings. Escape chutes were deployed and all 129 passengers and eight crew members were evacuated. There were at least five minor injuries. Runways at the airport were temporarily shut down. When the cockpit crew decides to make an Emergency Landing and divert to an airport and then actually evacuate the that tells me theres something that theyre very concerned about. In a News Conference a spokesman for the airline said Dreamliner Service will resume once they can identify the cause of the problem and confirm the planes safety. In the last six weeks there have been eight reported mishaps involving 787s last week in boston a Japan Airlines dreamliner had a fire on board after landing. Japan air 7 heavy hold your position. We have fire trucks coming to you. Reporter the culprit the same type of battery involved in last nights incident. Transportation experts insist these are normal growing pains but in a Statement Last night the faa said its adding this but the incident to the comprehensive review of the 787 its already comprehens conducting. The key is to be able to understand whats going on with to these aircraft get them fixed, whats goi and make sure that if its a design issue, make the its appropriate change so that it so doesnt plague the manufacturing process and operating process for the life of the aircraft. Reporter the National Transportation safety board is sending an investigator to japan along with representatives from the faa and boeing. Japan airlines also grounded its 787s last night meaning about half of the dreamliner fleet is e, currently temporarily out of service. Iner currently thank you. White house Officials Say president obama will launch a presiden sweeping effort this morning to launch target gun violence in america, un hes expected to present a ent a threepart plan focusing on gun sales, education, and Mental Health. Major garrett is at the white house. Major, good morning. Reporter well, good morning, charlie and norah, cbs news has learned new details including the renewed effort to stop re law to bullying in schools and the president S Health Care law to increase access to Mental Health gun control services. Gun control will dominant the cal headlines. The president will call for a assault tougher assault weapons ban after the one that expired in ten years in 2004. Hell also ask congress to ban fire all firearm ammunition magazines containing more than ten bullets, hell also seek universal criminal and Mental Health background checks for all gun sales including private transactions. The assault weapons ban is already an uphill fight. Well not prejudge s that befor before it started or i dont believe that. Ve and i think that that doesnt a mean its a sure thing either. If if these things were easy they ve been would have been achieved ach already. Reporter the white house will also push for a tougher he white hou federal gun trafficking law to trafficking l punish gun merchants to refuse punish gun to run thorough background re checks. Also an executive order for federal Health Agencies to order conduct wideranging research viol into gun violence. The president will also beef up antibullying efforts with more school counselors. There will also be federal aid to schools who want to hire armed and trained security more School Officers and under the health care law, mr. Obama will train more Mental Health counselors and expand access to mental off Health Services in schools. He the president summarized his goals at mondays press t conference. My starting point is not to nt is not worry about the politics. Is t my starting point is to focus ones what makes sense, what works. Reporter all this will be unveiled before a group of unveiled children surrounding the president. Dren sur they were invited because they were wrote the white house after the newtown massacre pressing their aft sorrow and fear. Sacre on the eve of his announcement the National Rifle association on posted this web ad announce ingdenouncing him for using secret service for his protection for his daughters but denouncing armed guards in daug schools. Mr. Obama demands the wealthy. Pay their fair share of taxes but hes another elitist hypocrite when it comes to fair share of security. Reporter the white house had no reaction to this nra accusation. And the coming gun control fight the white house expects very intense resistance on capitol hill to a reinstatement of the assault weapons ban and limiting the weapon magazines and the president will fight both but nd the biggest on fight is putting nk y gun sales under backglownd checks. Ates the leading Time Magazine cover shows michael bloomberg, Vice President joe biden and former congressman Gabrielle Giffords who survived a shooting two years ago. For more on the politics john for more dickerson joins us now, john good mor good morning. Good morning. Lets start first with this new nra ad which criticizes the president as an elite ihypocrite crit and brings the president s daughters into the fight. The fight. Is this getting personal . Well its already been pretty personal, but, yes, this is this is a very incendiary i message to the nra members and also, though, its trying to expand charges against the president. In other words, this video that the the nras put out makes a larger argument. Its not just about guns its puts going in to the people when have negative views about the president. Am so, it uses all the emotional presses all presses all the emotional r those p buttons for those people who dent and t dont like the president and the nra is making it about hipock extrassy and not safety. The president said hes not worried about the politics right now but the politics will make a especia difference. How aggressive will they be especially on the assault weapon weapons ban . They will be aggressive, theres some reporting that the white house is backing away from the assault weapons ban, aides called up supporters and valerie va jarrett called up allies to say were not dropping the assault weapons ban. Whats important to keep your eye on on that the president is nt is the for the assault weapons ban but its also part of the negotiation in convincing some s of these moderate democrats and even maybe some republicans. They need to push for that so need to that if the ultimate deal that if doesnt include that its a imate part of the bargaining process its so that a moderate democrat can say, well, yes, i voted for an mo ultimate package, but to their for nra friends they can say but i didnt support the assault weapons ban. Nra i d its all part of the dance were about to start to get into here. Does the president and the Administration Believe because of mayor bloomberg and gabrielleh giffords and because of what happened at newtown this time the odds are shifting in their ga favor, notwithstanding the resistance . Yes, they believe the odds are shifting in their favor but yes, the they dont believe the odds haveg i shifted wildly in their favor. Its still an uphill climb and particularly on an assault a weapons ban but to show you how lt the politics have shifted its basically conventional wisdom now that the background check has a lot of support, polling lot of shows even among nra members theres a lot of support for background checks for all kinds rs of gun sales. T you know, eight years ago or ten years ago that was a huge ten yea political fight that the supporters of gun control laws. The and, john just quickly, what about the optics of today, the president surrounding himself quickly, with children to make this unding announcement . The white house wants to makehe preside this fight about children not about taking away gun rights. John dickerson, thanks. Cbs news will have live coverage of president obamas announcement this morning, the coverage anchored by scott pelley will begin at 8 55 pacific time. Now that Lance Armstrong has admitted to using performance enhancing drugs, the International Cycling union has asked him to repeat his confession to an Antidoping Commission and reveal everything he knows, hes already talking to the u. S. Antidoping agency leading to speculation hes ready to name names. He skip reid has more on the has fallout from the Oprah Winfrey ning. Interview. Goord good morning. Cbs news has learned that armstrong has turned down a restitution payment for alleged fraud and the offer to cooperate with authorities in a federal investigation has also be an rejected as inadequate. Reporter the world still has to wait one more day to see sti Lance Armstrongs highly will anticipated interview with Oprah Winfrey. I would say he did not come clean in the manner that i expect expected. It was surprising to me. We were mesmerized and riveted by some of his answers. Reporter but those answers wont be enough to satisfy antidoping officials. Tuesday the world antidoping offi agency said armstrong would need to make a full confession under l oath if he ever wants the chance he to compete again. The former cycling champion was banned from the sport and stripped of his seven tour de rt a france titles following the release of a mountain of evidence against him. In an interview with scott mou pelley on 60 minutes, former armstrong teammate Tyler Hamilton accused the International Cycling union or ing up uci of covering up the doping heir sort scheme. F they had their sort of golden boy, they had their, you know, to a their ticket to a lot of money. Y. And their ticket to america, it made america crazy about cycling. Incredible. Incredible. But it is your opinion that the uci would sanction the cheating as opposed to sufferingpposed the consequences . Yeah. H. 100 . 100 . Reporter the uci has set up an independent commission to investigate similar claims meanwhile armstrong continues to meanwh try to make amends after lying for more than a decade. De Sally Jenkins who coauthored co two books with him appeared on charlie rose tuesday night. For better or worse this is his moment to sort of let people his momen hear it from him rather than hear it read it in a report or hear it ha in a broadcast. It remains to be seen what consequences armstrong will face armst at least two lawsuits against east two him are pending and legal experts say criminal charges are cr a real possibility. Chip reid thank you. With is david epstein, a for Senior Writer for sports illustrated, hes covered the ted. Lance armstrong story, david, good morning. Good morning. So, let me ask you, christinemorning. Brennan has a piece in the usa today who said that he did thisine brennan not because it was the right iece thing to do because he must s he did believe its the expedient thing its the to do. Do how much trouble is he in legally . Hes in a lot of trouble civilly for sure so in the whistleblower lawsuit where hes trying to reach kind of a settlement to give the u. S. Postal service back some money he could face triple damages. There because its a case of defrauding the government so probably okay, we know he oi prejudice perjured himself, in a case where he said he didnt dope butd the statute of limitations is out, so criminally a federal prosecutor would have to retake up a case thats been dropped e and its unlikely. Probably who he might implicate and how d how deep might this scandal go . The reason he would implicate people is to get his ban reducedet his and to do that he cant just cant confess to what has already been out there. He has to implicate new people he has and that would mean the highest levels of the International Cycling union, pat mcquade, the rnational cy head of the International Cycling union who are very s powerful people in world sport. S one one thing to confess to doping, but another thing to trydoping. To intimidate people and nd threaten them. How how profound and how serious are serious are the allegations of that . Allegatio extremely. Of i think thats one thing that makes this case very different is there are people who have really been ruined because of e people lances aggressive attempts to keep them quiet or to drag them attempts into court. When he knew they were telling the truth. Into and ive been talking to a lot were of people like that and i think there will be no closure for a of lot of people no matter what that. Unless he makes apologies to very specific people in very makes specific ways not just about his own doping. S to specifi im just focused on what chip said at the top of his piece, that hes offered to pay 5 5 million and they turned him he down. Hes offered to pay 5 he million and theyre sitting ay there saying we can take much million more youre going to be be giving us much more than that mu anyway, so why take 5 million why when youre going to get 30 g to get million or 120 million, its just like you offered you a 1 if i owed you 100. Wow. What has it done to cycling . Only in america where it was a big sport when Lance Armstrong was competing and its a huge sport sport in europe it e devastated. Its the crescendo of 100 years. Of doping and i dont think it will ever be the same. Thank you. Mornings britains telegraph report office the latest violence in syria. More than 80 People Killed by explosions. Most are students who died on aleppo. The first day of final exams. The Assad Government blames the rebels. The rebels blame the government. 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