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KPIX CBS This Morning June 3, 2014

Period. Questions and controversy for Sergeant Bowe bergdahl. Some of those who served with bergdahl are calling him a deserter. Who put his fellow soldiers lives in jeopardy. To be perfectly candid, Sergeant Bergdahl has a lot of explaining to do. Confirms a source coming up the nationwide manhunt for a fugitive wanted is over. Ryan chamberlain ii was found after police saw his car at the golden gate bridge. The president is kicking off a fourday trip. The president is expected to urge leaders to keep up the pressure on russian president putin over ukraine. Evacuations are under way in colorado after a river breach. Floodwaters rushed into the street, swamping neighborhoods. Dan marino is spearheading the latest concussionrelated lawsuit filed against the nfl. It seeks money for medical treatment and compensation for longterm or chronic injuries. A big raise for thousands of workers in seattle. The city Council Voted to raise the minimum wage to 15 an hour, the highest in the nation. A wild scene in a florida courtroom. The judge reportedly punched out the public defender. Lets go out back. A close call. A lowflying single engine plane barely missed a german sunbather. The longest running female jeopardy champ, 20 days in a row, her run came to an end. That is incorrect. And all that matters. The King Juan Carlos announced hell an dibait the throne. Today Prince Charles said hint, hint, mother. President obama said all he wants to do is go for a walk and not be bothered. I thought, well, he and i have that in common. I cant go anywhere. People think that im bob sheifert. Its crazy. Hey, bob bob this mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning. Gayle king is on assignment. Good morning, norah. Good morning, charlie. We begin with the controversy over army Sergeant Bowe bergdahl is widening. This morning some of his former comrades in afghanistan are calling him a coward and even a traitor. Bergdahl was freed saturday in exchange for five highlevel taliban prisoners. A short time ago, the president , who is in warsaw, said it was the right time to make a deal and hes making no apologies. Let me just make a very simple point here, and that is regardless of the circumstances, whatever those circumstances may turn out to be, we still get an american soldier back if hes held in captivity, period. Full stop. We dont condition that. In terms of potential threats, the release of the taliban who were being held in guantanamo was conditioned on the qataris keeping eyes on them and creating a structure in which we can monitor their activities. We will be keeping eyes on them. David martin is at the pentagon where there is controversy over bergdahls release. David . Reporter good morning. Bergdahl could be flown to a u. S. Army hospital in texas as early as the end of this week where he could be reunited with his parents and come face to face with the controversy surrounding his release. I kind of made an agreement with my platoon mates and other people in my unit that once this happened, if he was coming home a hero in the way that he was, that we were going to tell the truth. Reporter former Army Sergeant josh korder is just one of the soldiers from Bowe Bergdahls unit speaking out. He chose to take off his gear, put down his weapon, and walk away during the middle of the night. He betrayed everything. And thats just not forgivable. Reporter on monday, Facebook Pages attracted tens of thousands of viewers with headlines like Bowe Bergdahl is not a hero, and Bowe Bergdahl is a traitor. And showing pictures of other soldiers killed in the days of heightened tension following bergdahls disappearance. Greg leatherman, shown here in the center with bergdahl on his left, started one of those pages. We talked to him by skype. I think people deserve and especially the families of those guys who were killed subsequent to him leaving, deserve to know the truth about what happened. Reporter bergdahl has not been charged with anything by the army and actually received two promotions during his five years in captivity. But an investigation conducted after he disappeared in 2009 found he had slipped away from his guard post on this hill overlooking a small town, leaving his weapon and body armor behind. Leatherman believes he was setting off on a long hike. He gathered up some water, a compass, a knife, his diary that he always kept with him, and those are the things that he kept with him when he left. Reporter some argue that five years captivity is punishment enough for abandoning his post, but a pentagon official says many in the military want bergdahl to face a courtmartial for leaving his post in time of war. Sergeant korder is pushing for an investigation. I think probably at best hes a deserter. At worst, hes a traitor. Reporter the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey, posted on his own Facebook Page that questions about bergdahls conduct are separate from the militarys obligation to recover any american soldier held by the enemy. And then dempsey added, our armys leaders will not look away from misconduct if it occurred. In other words, norah, bergdahl could well end up facing a courtmartial. Indeed. Interesting, david martin, thank you so much. President obama said this morning his administration has told congress for some time that a guantanamo prison transfer was possible. Members from both parties are criticizing the white house for not telling lawmakers ahead of time about the deal to free Sergeant Bergdahl. Nancy cordes is on capitol hill where a powerful Senate Committee gets a secret briefing on the case today. Nancy, good morning. Reporter good morning. That briefing is scheduled to take place at 11 30 a. M. Pacific. We are starting to hear from the first democrats who say they too believe that congress should have gotten advance notice of this prisoner swap. California senator dianne feinstein, the chair of the intelligence committee, told us, quote, should we have gotten advance warning . I actually think so, because we had participated in a number of briefings some time ago on this issue and there was considerable concern that a swap of this nature would give terrorists incentive to take americans hostage. And theres Something Else that is angering republicans in particular and that is the administrations argument that it had to act so fast because bergdahls health was at risk. Well, republicans say theres no evidence that bergdahl had an acute Health Problem and they argue that the president simply broke the law by not giving congress 30 days notice that he was removing prisoners from guantanamo bay. So they are calling for hearings on the house side. Now, last night Hillary Clinton came to the president s defense. She was asked about this issue at a forum in denver. Heres what she had to say. This young man, whatever the circumstances, was an american citizen. The idea that you care for your own citizens and particularly those in uniform i think is a very noble one. Charlie. Nancy, thanks. Cbs news Senior Security analyst mike morell is a former deputy cia director. Mike, good morning. Good morning, charlie. Good morning, norah. Let me begin with this. Suppose you were still the director of the cia. Would you have advised the president to go ahead with this deal . So what i would have done, charlie, is outline what i saw as the security risks associated with his release, and i think there are two of them. One has to do with the five individuals being released. Lets not sugar coat this. They are senior taliban officials and they are idea logically hardened. They are bad guys. I do have confidence, charlie, that the qataris will hold them at least a year. I think the emirs commitment to the president is meaningful. I think theyll live up to that. The question is what happens at the end of the year. I think they go home. I think they resume the fight. And well still be in country for a year and a half after that, so i think they do pose some risk to the u. S. A year from now. I think the other issue, charlie im sorry, go ahead. I think the other issue, charlie, that im actually more concerned about is what signal this sends to militants across the world who may not have considered kidnapping americans who may now do so as a result of this. Thats my bigger concern. Let me ask you, mike, because you point out that they could be a continued security threat. As one republican senator said, theyre the taliban dream team. We just heard the president say in warsaw, though, that he believes were going to keep our eyes on them and we have confidence well be in a position to go after them. Do you have that same confidence . I have that confidence that well be able to watch them, that the qataris will be able to watch them in qatar, but once they leave a year from now for sure and if they were able to sneak away earlier than that, once they get to afghanistan its going to be much harder to find them. Mike, theres some reason to believe based on whatley aun leon panetta has said, this is a circumstance that they refused to make these deals before but that was the factor that led the administration to agree to this deal. You know, before the issue was as much getting Sergeant Bergdahl back as it was getting peace talks started with the taliban. That to me was the real snag in earlier discussions. And that doesnt seem to have been part of the discussion this time around. Do you think theres a real possibility something could come out of this now, further discussions with the taliban . I dont think so, charlie. I dont think so, charlie. You know, were two and a half years from all the u. S. Troops leaving afghanistan. It seems to me the taliban has absolutely no incentive to negotiate. Their incentive is to wait us out and then continue the war against the afghan government. Mike morell, good to see you. Thank you so much. And as we noted, the bergdahl case is following president obama as he travels through europe and is in poland this morning. Bill plante is in warsaw, the first stop on the president s fourday european visit. Bill, good morning. Reporter good morning to you, norah. The white house had expected opposition to the release of those taliban leaders, but it was pretty much blindsided by the charges from bergdahls fellow soldiers that he may have been a deserter. That controversy threatens to overwhelm the reason for the president s trip here to poland, which is to give some reassurance to americas allies and friends around the black sea and baltic areas that it will indeed protect them against any aggression from russia. The president called the security here the cornerstone of our own security. He said it is sacrosanct, and today he is announcing that he will ask for a billion dollars to increase the number of u. S. Forces training around the black sea and the baltic. He meets later today with nato members and members of neighboring countries to give them more of these reassurances. Even though russia has withdrawn from the ukrainian border, they fear they will continue to meddle behind the scenes. Its possible that president obama and president putin could run into one another later this week at the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the normandy landing, but its not on the schedule. Charlie . Bill, thanks. Now to the end of an fbi manhunt. Agents feared the San Francisco suspect carried explosives. This morning ryan chairmmberlais in custody after his takedown at crissy field. John blackstone is in San Francisco with the social media posting that could unlock answers. John, good morning. Reporter good morning. Ryan chamberlain was the subject of a nationwide manhunt but he was found just less than three miles from his apartment in San Francisco. Now thats where the fbi said they discovered material that could be used to build bombs. 330, i think this is him. The suspect is in custody at this time. Reporter heavily armed officers from the San Francisco Police Department found chamberlain in a parking lot by a beach near the golden gate bridge. This video of his arrest was shot by morgan manos, who was sitting in his car nearby. I reviewed the footage and i was like, wow, this is the guy. Did he seem to be struggling at all, resisting . He did struggle a little bit when they had him on the ground and they were trying to place handcuffs on hill. He had some trouble getting his arm behind his back. Reporter once chamberlain was in custody, a bomb squad examined his white car. The manhunt for chamberlain began saturday with an fbi raid on his San Francisco apartment. A Hazardous Materials team along with two dozen federal agents, local police and firefighters spent most of the day at the scene. Sources say investigators found explosive materials that were sent to an fbi lab. Did you hear him say anything at all . When he was being arrested and he was placed up against one of the police cars while i was filming, he looked up at me and said please help. Reporter chamberlains friends will be relieved that the 42yearold political consultant was found alive and is in police custody. Many who knew him received a long electronic message monday that appeared to be a suicide note. The note listed disappointments with his family, a breakup with a girlfriend and the loss of a job. This one hit me hard. I explored myriad ways i could put an end to what i was going through. Alex clements, a San Francisco political consultant, knows chamberlain and briefly employed him. I think there is a collective astonishment in the San Francisco political world that someone many people had worked with and many people knew is being wanted and chased by the fbi. Reporter chamberlains friends say he could be emotional but they never saw a tendency to be violent. His apparent suicide note held no threat to do any harm to others. John, thank you. Two 12yearold wisconsin girls are being held on attempted murder charges this morning. Prosecutors say they lured a classmate into the woods in waukesha and stabbed her 19 times. The victim survived. The girls she considered friends are charged as adults. Y laelaine quijano shows us how they planned this for months. Reporter the young suspects quickly confessed to kts. They indicated they were motivated by slerndsmnderman, a fictional character they read about on internet horror sites who they seem to believe is real. Some may find the details disturbing. The 12yearolds were shackled and jailed after prosecutors charged them with a gruesome crime that happened 48 hours earlier in a waukesha, wisconsin park. One suspect held the victim down while the other suspect stabbed her 19 times in the arms, legs and torso. Reporter despite stab wounds to major organs, the 12yearold victim was able to get away. A bicyclist found her on the sidewalk covered in blood and begging for help. When asked who attacked her, she said my best friend. Police found the two suspects a few hours later. Once we located the two girls, it quickly became apparent that they were the suspects in this investigation. Reporter detectives say one of the girls explained that the original plan was to kill their friend while she was sleeping, so they did not have to look into her eyes. According to the criminal complaint, they later decided the park bathroom was better because, quote, the floor had a drain for the blood to go down. Ultimately police say the girls distracted the victim with a game of hide and seek, then tackled her and started stabbing. All i heard was screaming, one of the suspects told police. It was weird that i didnt feel remorse. Both girls talked about the myth logical creature slenderman, which they learned about online. We had to kill to prove ourselves worthy, one of the 12yearolds said. The defense attorney for one suspect says Mental Health is certainly an issue, but right now he says the family is still in a state of shock. They dont really know what to feel right now. Its the kind of thing no family can ever imagine being confronted with. Reporter theres still a chance this case will be moved to juvenile court. As for the victim, she is expected to survive. Doctors say her attackers missed a major artery near her heart by just one millimeter. Elaine, thanks. Powerful storms threaten a large section of the midwest this morning. On monday the front brought heavy rain and flooding to parts of colorado. Meteorologist megan glare os os wbbm is watching todays tornado threat. Good morning and good morning to our viewers in the west. Were looking at a possibility of Severe Weather today that could be intense. We define it as a Severe Weather outbreak that could occur from montana all the way through to indiana with the core of the most intense activity centered in the area shaded in red. Strong tornados, large hail, widespread damaging winds all a possibility. You can watch that occurring in the center part of the nation in something called a dura uchu ra. Were looking at dry conclusions across the west coast. San francisco 69, seattle 73 degrees while las vegas should top out at 100. Phoenix, 109. All right, megan, thank you. And its 7 19. Ahead on cbs this morning well look at headlines around the nation, including americas first 15 an hour minimum wage. Plus the videos pitting the nra against other , clouds are a bit thick around the bay area this morning moving well onshore. Even in some of the valleys early on today. Mount diablo has some cloudy skies trying to break up there already. More sunshine by the afternoon. But still, plenty of drizzle approaching the coastline. We have seen a strong onshore push and some pretty good sea breezes right through the delta. This afternoon, sunny skies 70s inland. 60s and 70s inside the bay with 50s and 60s and clouds toward the coast. More sunshine and warmer temperatures the next few days. This nation er report sponsored by comfort inn, truly yours. Your how did i turn a simple trip into an adventure . It started with a great room. 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