Colorado last july is opening. Do not adjust your set. This is snow in the south if you can believe it. All that the youngest nba in history with 20,000 career points. I saw joy back stage and we hugged and she said why are your boobs so hard. I did not get to ask him what what would your name have been . Blaze oliver. More fallout from armstrongs confession to doping. He was stripped of his 2000 bronze medal. Oprah said to get ready she prepared 112 questions. First question was did you use steroids. The next 111 questions were oh come on, you used steroids, right . Come on. Welcome to cbs this morning. We bring with breaking news from north africa. Algerian troops opened fire on a Group Holding hostages in the desert this morning. Some of the hostages were killed. Dozens of westerners were captured in a gas complex in algeria. The drama is still ongoing at that bp facility in algeria. Charlie dagata is in london with the story. Good morning. Good morning to you norah and charlie. Arabic Television Networks are quoting local officials and saying 35 hostages and 15 kidnapers have been killed in an attack by Algerian Army helicopters at the plant. We can confirm through our own cbs news sources the algerian military had begun in operation to retake the facility and there were multiple deaths of both kidnappers and hosthostages. One report said the group was moving from one area to another by bus when the helicopters opened fire. The Reuters News Agency says there are remaining surviving hostages including two americans. The Al Qaedalinked group said they had taken 41 Foreign Workers hostage including at least three americans in re retaliation for algerians cooperation for the situation in neighboring mali. John good morning. Good morning, charlie. What do we know about what happened on the ground . We know the algerians did have a plan. What we dont know whether that was based on a contingency or the plan was to retake the facility, it involved helicopters and firing from helicopters and that plan was executed today and of course as charlie reported we know theres casualties on both sides. What goes into a decision like that to carry out on attack to help these hostages . Norah, that is one of the most difficult decisions in this game and thats because its so high risk and usually it boils down to three things. Number one you have an opportunity, that means for instance the hostage takers and the hostages are separated for a time and they use that window number two, you learn that they have started killing hostages or are about to and thats when you make your move and why, or number three and that number three could be the case here you understand youre not going to be able to give them their demands and that youre giving them more time to retrench and fortify which will make a later rescue attempt almost impossible. Who are the hostage takers . This is an offshoot a Splinter Group from al qaeda and the arabian, al qaeda and the islamic maghreb, a Group Specialized in kidnappings. Theyve raised over 90 million in these operations in the last ten years. This did not seem so be as much a ransom operation as a trade for a lot of their former colleagues who are in prison and of course it has ended in a way that has not accomplished that. The head of this aqim is someone who we know, hes actually from afghanistan and now hes in Northern Africa. What does that tell us about al qaedas presence in Northern Africa . This is about local issues but also about global jihad. Somebody formed his own group but is still reading from the al qaeda network, Mokhtar Belmokhtar a oneeyed former afghan fighter,s been in the business for a long time has about 500 people behind him. What do you worry about the most . What you worry is exactly what were seeing do you have the ability with speed and agility to separate the hostages from the hostage takers kill the people you need to kill and rescue the people you dont and that is very difficult and that doesnt matter whether youre talking about the algerians or the navy s. E. A. L. S, you really have to plan it well and then hope and get lucky. What was the likely u. S. Involvement . I would say that it would almost be unlikely with american hostages that there wasnt some advisory capacity here on providing intelligence or advice or tactical advice. All right, we will continue to follow all of this as this story is breaking. John, thank you. I know there will be more information about certainly those hostages and what the u. S. Response is going to be in the future today. Im thinking also they failed in a hostage that was killed. President obama presented his plan for new gun regulations. The president is asking for several new laws including background checks for all gun sales, and in a cbs News New York times poll 92 of americans say they want gun buyers to be checked out. Nancy cordes is on capitol hill. Nancy, whats been the reaction from members of congress . Reporter well, norah, democrats think they have an opening right now because Public Opinion has shifted in the wake of the newtown tragedy and there are some areas where the two sides say they agree but restricting guns is not one of them. Within hours of the president s announcement im calling on congress to pass some very specific proposals right away. Reporter republican senators were releasing statement after statement expressing their opposition Floridas Marco Rubio told fox news restricting assault weapons would not prevent mass murder. I think the president doesnt have the guts to admit it, is not a believer in the Second Amendment although he states he is. Reporter mr. Obamas proposals include reinstating the assault weapons ban which congress let lapse in 2004 and limiting the number of bullets in high capacity magazines to ten, but even getting those measures through the democratically controlled senate will be difficult. North dakotas Heidi Heidcamp opposes the gun restrictions. This is wrong headed. We need to be doing things that actually achieve a result and thats not something i am convinced will achieve the intended result. Reporter there are other proposals on the president s list that have bipartisan support like cracking down on gun trafficking and imposing universal background checks. If you want to buy a gun, whether its from a licensed dealer or a private seller you should at least have to show you are not a felon or somebody legally prohibited from buying one. This is common sense. Reporter Washington State republican Dave Reichert a former sheriff, agrees with the president on that point. I think thats part of a total package, it should be examined. It could make a difference. Reporter House Republican leaders say theyll wait to see what democrats can pass in the senate before they make a move and democrats say theyre going to move quickly, Holding Hearings in the next couple of weeks. The Vice President will likely make his best case when he meets with the conference of mayors mayors from both the right and the left in a couple of hours. Charlie and norah . Nancy cordes thank you. Also in washington is david keene, president of the National Rifle association. Good morning, david. Pleasure to be with you. Did anything that happened in newtown change anything about the nra or will your efforts simply to be resist resist resist . Well were very interested in answering the question of how do we make schools safer for our children. As you know from the very beginning after this happened weve argued that we need two things, one, we need to get at the root of the problem, which is the broken and devastatingly broken Mental Health care system we have in this country because most of these people all of them in fact are people with severe mental problems. Secondly we need to provide security, because we can never predict how one of these people is going to act. Most of the proposals that have to do with firearms are simply feelgood proposals that have been tried in the past and wont work or wont have any real impact. The real question that needs to be addressed is not what do we do about guns its what do we do to make our children safe. David, we have a new cbs News New York times poll out this morning that shows 85 of nra households support background checks on all gun buyers. Are you out of touch with your own membership . Not at all. We actually are polling our members as well right now as well as other gun owners and Second Amendment supporters. You know the nra has been one of the biggest supporters of the socalled nic system which provides background checks. In the past when they were talking about checks at gun shows, most guns sold at gun shows do involve a background check because theyre sold by licensed dealers, but 40 of guns are from private sales. Would you support in private . Let me make my point. At the gun shows we suggested to the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms some years ago if they want everybody that makes an exchange checked, all they have to do is provide a booth and do it. They said no we werent going to fund it. The difficulty comes in when youre talking about you and me as next door neighbors and you buy a new shotgun and want to sell one to me how do you enforce a background check on that . We want to see the proposal but as a general proposition, the nra has been very supportive of doing background checks on purchasers through the system and secondly of adding the potentially violently mentally ill to the database which most states in the federal government have up to now not done. David, on the eve of the president s and thats good pardon me. On the eve of the president announcing these new gun proposals the nra put out this ad in which you mentioned the president s kids. Jay carney the White House Press secretary called your ad repugnant and cowardly. Why is it not off bounds to use the president s kids or anybodys kids in a political ad . Well the ad was not about the president s kids. Let me just stop you right there, david, because i looked at the ad again and read through the transcript you mentioned the president s kids three times. Of course we did. Of course we did, and we also had pictures of a number of other people including David Gregory and others who send their children to schools that have protection and deride the idea that average citizens children should be protected. That was our point. Our point is not about the president s kids its not about his kids its about everybody elses kids. We think that one of the most important things we can do is provide security to the children of america and we dont think thats an inappropriate message. David keene thank you very much. Well hear from the other side in a half hour mayor Michael Bloomberg will be here with us in studio 57. The feel good story of the College Football season has come to a bitter end. Notre dames manti teo found inspiration in the death of his girlfriend on the same day he lost his grandmother. Last night the story of his girlfriend was exposed as a hoax. Chip reid is in washington good morning. Good morning, norah. Manti teos inspirational story was featured from espn to sports illustrated. I reported on the story as well for cbs this morning on the day of the bcs championship game but it turns out we were all dupe by a fictitious story made up online. I last thing she said was i love you. Reporter College Football manti teo said his girlfriend lennar kekua died the same day his grandmother died. Notre dame coach brian kelly awarded the game ball to the linebacker with teos girlfriend in mind. I want to award this game ball to lennay and id like man tie ti to have this ball to take back to hawaii for her. I couldnt do it without the support of my family and my girlfriends family. Reporter yesterday dead spin discovered kekua never existed. 22yearold stanford grad gets in a near fatal car accident, contracts leukemia and dies, thats a big tragedy, going to be written up somewhere. It wasnt no, death notice no obituary, no announcement of her funeral. Reporter jack dickey is one of the reporters who broke the story after receiving an anonymous tip. This person should have had a high profile but had nothing except stuff on social media. Reporter jack swarbrik said his star linebacker was the target of deception. This was a very elaborate, very sophisticated hoax. Manti was the victim of that hoax. Manti is the victim of that hoax. Earlier, teo released this statement, over several months i developed an emotional relationship with a woman i met online, to realize that i was the victim of what was apparently someones sick joke and constant lies was, and is painful and humiliating. Teo discussed the apparent hoax with School Officials on december 26th, 12 days before notre dame lost the National Championship game to alabama, a game in which teos poor play was scrutinized. Manti teo and the rest of this defense unable to wrap him up and bring down t. J. Reporter a woman on facebook was surprised to learn her image had been hijacked. We talked to this woman and said all of these photos are of me. Im not dead. I have not had leukemia i didnt go to stanford and i dont really know who manti teo is. We said oh wow. Reporter the surreal chain of events have some speculating teo may have been in on the hoax but as far as notre dame is concerned, theyre sticking by their man. The single most trusting human being ive ever met will never be able to trust again in the same way in his life. Thats an incredible tragedy. There is no word yet on when manti teo is expected to address the media beyond his Statement Last night. Questions remain as to teo could not have known. Deadspin identified a friend or distant Family Member of manti teo who was behind the hoax. Deadspin who also broke the brett favre scandal a year ago says this is the biggest story the site has had, over 2 million hits in eight hours. Chip did we reach out to notre dame . We did repeatedly charlie that weekend before the bcs game and before our story aired we contacted them repeatedly asking for interviews with coaches or teo himself and they never returned our calls. After the hoax became apparent to him, did he do anything to say that i know this is a hoax or did he continue with the knowledge that it might not be . Right, and chip as chip pointed out, notre dame knew about this on december 26th. Chips story ran in january, right, and you contacted notre dame and nobody told you that they knew about this, right . Thats right, and i also interviewed people in hawaii. I was there covering president obama by coincidence and thats why we did the story from there and i went to his hometown of la laaea i talked to neighbors, they were familiar with the story of lennay kekua. Does notre dame understand how serious this is . I think they do and they understand they have to address this to a greater degree and its stunning they knew december 26th and didnt make it clear to the world then and a lot of people are speculating perhaps thats why manti teo did not play so well in that bowl championship game but they didnt want him to have to deal with it before the game. Chip reid thank you. Good morning. Heading out the door today, lots of sunshine coming our way. Chilly in the spots in the valleys, overnight lows in the 20s and 30s there. But a beautiful start to the day. Were going to finish up very nicely as well. Right now, weve got 31 degrees in livermore. 27 and chilly in santa rosa. 40 into San Francisco today. Temperatures moderating a little bit. By afternoon, we should be up a good one to six degrees from yesterdays highs. Mid60s in the afternoon in some spots. Announcer this National Weather report sponsored by petco where the healthy pets go. 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