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KPIX CBS This Morning October 22, 2013

Saeft grader opened fire at Sparks Middle School. The playground. One in the calf fear ya, one in the hall. 45yearold former marine mike lands berry, math teacher being hailed as a hero. He said i would do anything for you guys and i guess that meant taking a bullet. The september jobs report. Unemployment dips slightly 148,000 jobs created. Fewer jobs than expected. San francisco b. A. R. T. Workers have reached a deal with management putting an end to a fourday strike. Passengers aboard a delta flight to atlanta are safe after a fire on their plane forced an Emergency Landing. There was smoke coming from the coffeepot. Another delta flight made an Emergency Landing in Eastern Washington state. Theres no excuse for it. The Washington Post reports his Administration May have known of early trouble. Just days before it was rolled out. They had four years to get ready. Its not fixable. Theyre working to find the biological mother of a little girl whose identity remains a mystery. A subway rider in boston ended up on tracks says he may have been sleepwalking. Oh my god. Eli looking, and he fires, touchdown giants finally get win number one of the season. Finally said let me just get all my lines out of way because my fans are driving me nuts. Put the cookie down now all that mattered. While the president was speaking, a woman nearly fainted. This happens when i talk too long. Wow, that just happened. On cbs this morning. You can get your questions answered by real people, the phone number or these call centers. Its 1800we didnt think this through. This mornings eye opener presented by toyota. Lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning. Good morning, norah. Good morning to you charlie. We begin with this story. A nevada middle schoolteacher is being called a hero. Authorities say he gave his life to protect his students when one of their classmates started shooting yesterday. The young gunman is dead and police are trying to answer questions about this latest school shooting. John blackstone is in sparks, nevada, just east of reno. John good morning. Reporter good morning, norah and charlie. It was in the Early Morning darkness about 24 hours ago just after 7 00 a. M. In the west that this schoolyard became a scene of horror. A popular teacher was shot to death. Two students were injured, wounded, and before the 13yearold gunman killed himself. Last night students gathered at nearby church to mourn. It was a somber gathering last night as students and their parents remembered their friend and teacher, michael lands berry. The Sparks Middle School math teacher was also the schools soccer coach. Police say the 45yearold military veteran was trying to stop the student assailant when he himself was shot and killed. What kind of a teacher was he . He was an amazing teacher. He taught in ways like ive never seen. He was tough but he had a really soft heart. I think thats why he became a teacher. Reporter at least one witness pointed to a possible motive revenge. He pointed to us and he said you ruined my life and im going to ruin yours. Reporter after shooting lands berry and two other classmates the students sturned the semiautomatic on himself and was killed. Federal officials tell cbs news the gun was owned by his parents. Police scanner audio described the chaotic scene. Were inside the calf fear ya where the students have been huddle sod they are safe here. Were looking for the shooter now. I just heard a bang and then i just thought it was just a joke. Then i saw people running. Reporter two 12yearold victims were rushed to local hospitals. One was shot through the shoulder, the other shot in the abdomen. Both sustained nonlifethreatening injuries. Reporter police say lands landsberry died trying to intervene. Students took to twitter to praise their fallen teacher. Mr. Landsberry was an amazing teach we are a good heart. Landsberry forever my favorite coach. Even senator harry reid chimed in. Michael landsberry veteran, wonderful math teacher, admired by students died a hero. Police have not suggested any motive for shootings. We may get more details at a News Conference scheduled for 10 00 pacific time this morning. School and another nearby will be closed for the rest of the week while this community mourns. Charlie, norah . John, thank you. And president obama is vowing that healthcare. Gov will be fixed. In a cbs news poll out this morning only 12 of americans say the governments efforts to sign people up for Health Insurance is going well. 49 believe it is not working. Bill plante is at the white house. Bill, good morning. Reporter good morning. And good morning in the west. Well, we now know that there were signs of big trouble before the website opened for business. But the administration launched healthcare. Gov anyway. The Washington Post says this morning that in a prelaunch test to see if it could handle tens of thousands of people at once, the site crashed when just a few hundred had logged on. Now, the president monday admitted that things werent going well. They were mr. Obamas first extensive comments about the major technical hurdles facing users of the website healthcare. Gov. Nobodys malder than me about the fact that the website isnt working as well as it should, which means its going to get fixed. Reporter that was in stark contrast to what the president said before the Health Care Exchanges opened for business, when he promised purchasing Health Insurance would be easy. Its like booking a hotel or a plane ticket. Reporter mr. Obama offered no explanation monday for the fact that over the past three weeks the site has been almost unusable. Applicants have been unable to log on or have had their information frozen midapplication. We are confident that we will get all the problems fixed. Reporter but theres a deadline. Under the new Health Care Law, individuals who do not have insurance by march 31st next year must pay a 95 fine. Some republicans are already calling for a delay of the individual mandate to purchase Health Insurance because of the problems White House Press secretary jay carney called that unnecessary, suging the administration would be flexible. The law makes clear that people who do not have access to Affordable Care due to other factors will not be penalized. Reporter Kathleen Sebelius will testify in front of a Congressional Panel next week where she is expected to be grilled on all aspects of the law. For some critics thats not enough. I would say shes got a lot of questions to answer. I think she should be fired. Reporter rinse priebus is the chair of the National Republican committee. He filed a freedom of information request to find out exactly how many people have successfully signed up for Health Insurance so far. This is an answer to a very simple question that they know right now what the answer is. And theyre not telling us. Reporter the administrations biggest fear is that the difficulty signing up will keep away healthy young people. The Health Care Act needs them to offset the cost of insuring those who are older and sicker. Charlie, norah . Bill thank you. With us now republican senator marco rubio from florida. He says he will introduce a bill to postpone the mandate until health carecare. Gov is fixed. Good morning. Good morning. It was abated during the time of passing, when the legislation was considered by congress during the campaign. It was debated. What do you think you can accomplish now . Well i think those are two separate issues we e need to confront. The first is whether obama care should exist or function, and obviously i believe it should be repealed or replaced. Thats a separate issue im raising with regard to the flaw i intend to introduce. Im arguing the law says clearly if at some point next year you do not have Health Insurance, you havent bought it, youll owe the irs money, a penalty. You talked about it in the package that introduced this segment. The reality is its unfair to punish people for not purchasing a product that they cant purchase right now because the technology thats in place, the website that theyre supposed to buy it on by the president s own admission is not working. All im calling for is a delay on that requirement until the General Accounting Office of the United States certifies that the website is up and working and has been functioning for six consecutive months. I think thats the prudent approach approach. Do you think it has a chance of passing . We hope so. Every week that goes by it becomes apparent the problems inherent in the way the website operates are very significant. I think its going to be difficult to reverse in this in a number of weeks as we get closer to the deadline. You have Consumer Reports coming out yesterday advising people to stay off the website. I think as weeks go on there will be a look for a solution to this problem because its not fair to punish people for not buying something thats not available. Senator, good to see you. Good to see you, norah. I want to ask you about what jeb bush said. He said republicans should show a little restraint on this, maybe let the Health Care Law play itself out, and cease the massive dysfunction. Do you disagree with jeb bush . I think the approach im outlining is a restrained one, although i believe the whole thing should be repealed and replaced. This bill doesnt do that. Its calling for a limited delay on the individual mandate until the website is fixed. I think thats a very prudent approach. Quite frankly, i think its where were going to have to wind up anyway. You saw yesterday the white house didnt rule out a delay, jay carney didnt rule it out because they understand the problems this website faces are significant and will be very difficult to fix in just a number of weeks. Does this also mean there wont be another Government Shutdown when this comes up again, that you would agree more with the republican leader mitch mcconnell, as opposed to senator ted cruz who says hell do anything to stop obama care . Ive never believed we should shut down the government. On the contrary i voted and supported the idea we should keep the government open and fund it, that we shouldnt put any more money into this disastrous Health Care Law. Thats been my position. It remains my position. One of the most fundamental powers of congress is to fund things or not fund things. I certainly dont believe we should be funding an Insurance Law thats going to do so much harm to the American Dream and the american economy. I dont quite understand that. Explain it to me. How can you say i dont want to defund it but i dont think we should put any more money in it . Whats the difference . Thats the point. If you dont fund it you dont put any more money you dont want to use the word defund. I believe in repealing it but defunding is a way to repeal it. The question was about a Government Shutdown. I never believed in a Government Shutdown. And in fact the Senate Democrats have multiple opportunity tons to fund the entire government. I myself would not Fund Obama Care. Defunding it would mean shutting gown the government when this issue comes up again. Why . Youre say dog not Fund Medicare or do not Fund Obama Care . I actually dont think thats a fair way to represent it. I think the right way to represent it is ask the democrats who control the senate are you willing to shut down the government simply to protect obama care. Is obama care that important that youre willing to fund nothing unless obama care is funded because thats the position they adopted. Look, i made a motion on the senate floor to fully Fund Head Start and they blocked that because it didnt Fund Obama Care. Whats the difference in your position and senator cruz . Senator cruz will have to speak for himself about what his you know what his position is. His position was, at least as far as the last incidents were concerned, his position was we shouldnt Fund Obama Care. I agree with that position. I will not vote for a budget that spends a penny more on this disastrous Health Care Law. The position of Senate Democrats adopted was unless we Fund Obama Care we will fund nothing. I dont think thats a reasonable position. And thats the position they adopted. And seem to have gotten away with in the eyes of some. Senator marco rubio, thank you for joining us. Good to see you. The Obama Administration is dealing with another controversy this morning. Secretary of state john kerry wet meth with the French Foreign minister today in paris. Their meeting comes after a french newspaper reported the nsa reported more than 70 million french phone calls. The foreign minister says that is unacceptable. President obama phoned french president hollande to address the issue. The white house says there are legitimate questions aamong friends and allies about the intelligencegathering program. Concerns about fires on board for two delta flights to make Emergency Landings. Plane s a fire was quickly put out. A flight from atlanta to seattle made an Emergency Landing in pasco, washington overnight. There was fire in the cargo bay. After landing, no flames were found. In florida, authorities are one step closer to finding those who helped in a prison escape. Two convicted killers were recaptured over the weekend after using fake documents to get out. Mark strassmann is in Panama City Beach florida. Good morning. Reporter good morning, charlie and norah. Joseph denkins and Charles Walker are among the thousand inmamt at the bay county jail and have been since they were recaptured on saturday. Now Authorities Say theyre closing in on possible accomplices. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement tells us that theyve identified suspects who may have helped the men escape by creating the forged documents. Authorities are now building a case against them. Weve also learned that there may have been as many as seven cases of florida inmates trying to use forged papers to win early release. Of those, three were successful. Walker jenkins, and another inmate who escaped for one day before being caught. Now investigators are focusing on the paper trail that helped walker and jenkins elude authorities. The convicts are not cooperating with officials, but their families are being cooperative. Dna and fingerprint testing is also being done to help determine who prepared the fake documents which may have been purchased for thousands of dollars each. As this investigation continues, state lawmakers are now calling for a hearing. They want to get to the bottom of what happened. They say this is an embarrassment and that the public needs to be protected. Charlie, norah . Thank you. A suicide bombing attack on a bus in russia is raising concerns this morning about security at the upcoming olympics. The russian city of sochi is preparing to host the winter games in february. Mark phillips is in london. Good morning. Reporter good morning, charlie and norah. This bombing was not the deadliest of whats been a string of terrorist bombings in russia but it has three crucial elements that make it stand out. It kills people it was apparent licaried out bay woman suicide bomber, and it was captured on a video camera. Watch the bus. A dashboard camera of the sort in common use in russia captured the explosion. It killed at least six people and wounded dozens. The attack took place in the Southern City formerly stallen grad close to the region of southern russia still seething with resentment over moscows suppression of the militant separatist movement there. A spokesman for the russian investigating agency identified the suicide bomber as nadia, a socalled black widow. Known to be involved in the militant movement in nearby dagestan. Ment. Shes not the first black widow and the russians fear she wont be the last. The russians are calling the bombing a test shot ahead of the upcoming sochi winter olympics. Militant groups they say, want to create an atmosphere of fear and panic. And the russians may have another reason to worry. Blowback for the says cbs news Security Consultant wavn zarate. You have the militant and terrorist groups that have operated for a number of years in the caucuses that present a threat like we saw in this bus bombing. But we also see future threats emerging out of syria where russia is playing the role of the lead villain, where militants and jihadis from around the world may decide they want to attack russia. Reporter sochi is already shaping up as possibly the tightest olympic security operation ever. Attacks like this one arent going to make the atmosphere any lighter. Thank you. Time for this mornings headlines from around the globe. The San Francisco chronicle says the b. A. R. T. Strike is over a

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