Banks. Winds, 100 Miles Per Hour. At least 25,000 people have lost power. The rest of the east coast trying to figure out if it will affect the summers biggest holiday. Justin ross harris will stand trial for leaving his 22monthold son, cooper in a hot car. A detective tell a judge the father had been texting nude photographs as that its one was dying. The most common term would be sexting. A violent encounter between a california Highway Patrol officer and a woman captured on woman. Blows to the head. The pentagon has now grounded all of its f35s after one of the fighters caught fire on a florida runway. Hurricane cant stop the folks in boston. Yesterday officials moved up the fireworks display and concert. Recreate the famous picture. Whew its getting hot in here. Italian police have released underwater footage of the Costa Concordia. They are expected to remove the ship later this month. A hiker got stranded 100 feet up on a cliff east of seattle. All that a japanese politician busted for embezzling. He apologizes and wow. If you are not getting your mail, maybe its because this is your delivery guy. The postal worker caught tossing packages into the bushes. And all that matters. The nathans hot dog eating contest. Contestants took part in the traditional weighin. Her teeth are like razors her jaws like a vice grip her eyes very angry. On cbs this morning. Last year a gentleman by the name of Joey Chestnut set a world record by eating 69 hot dogs in ten minutes. His parents must be whats the opposite of proud . This mornings eye opener is presented by a lets go places. Captioning funded by cbs welcome to cbs this morning. Charlie rose Norah Odonnell and gayle king are all off, but were here. Im Anthony Mason with margaret brennan, happy fourth of july. Good to celebrate with you, anthony. America is celebrating its 238th birthday as you wake up in the west. Hurricane arthur is weakening. Minutes ago the National Hurricane center downgraded arthur to a category 1. The storm hit North Carolina with 100mileanhour winds and heavy rain but arthurs top winds are down to 90 miles an hour as it races up the east coast. Our correspondents are stationed along the Atlantic Coast this morning. We begin with Susan Mcginnis in nags head North Carolina near the eye of the storm. Susan, good morning. Reporter good morning, and good morning to our viewers in the west. Thousands of people here in the outer banks are waking up this fourth of july to survey the damage after hurricane arthur came ashore here late last night. Overnight arthur swept through eastern North Carolina strengthening into a category 2 hurricane. It is a devastating mix. Winds gusting over 100 Miles Per Hour and torrential rains are pummelling the outer banks. Late last night officials tracking the storm were not expecting arthur to change course pushing deeper into the state and putting thousands more in its destructive path. So most people who have been concerned have been directly on the coast. Now we have concerns about people inland who may be impacted by potential flooding and rivers going over their banks. Reporter more than two dozen counties are in a state of emergency. Look at that. Reporter with the threat of serious flooding thousands have been forced to leave. Many are now set up in shelters waiting for the worst of the storm to pass. We didnt know what was going to happen on the beach. We didnt want to take any chances so we figured wed come here. Reporter as hurricane arthur barrels its way along the coast, people are being urged to stay inside and stay safe. This is a serious storm. Please be safe be smart and well all get to enjoy the wonderful fourth of july weekend. Reporter it will still be a few hours before officials here can get a real sense of the damage from this hurricane. It may be hard to believe, but its expected to be a beautiful rest of the weekend saturday and sunday. Some reward. Susan mcginnis, thanks susan. People on the outer banks have seen hurricanes before but never on the fourth of july. Colin browder is in kill devil hills, North Carolina, where the storm hit hard. Reporter good morning from kill devil hills. Were still seeing some very strong wind gusts here. You can see the angry ocean behind me but conditions have been improving. Weve been battered for the past few hours, but as arthur moves offshore here, things are starting to improve. Reports of sporadic Power Outages up and down the outer banks. The big concern, sound side flooding as we get deeper into the daylight well certainly be able to better assess any damage there. The story of this storm, clearly how quickly it has moved through. People were out here enjoying the beach at sunset. They hope to be out here again later on today and then hope to get on with their Holiday Weekend. Thanks. New pictures taken from the International Space station show the size of this wellorganized storm. It will affect the weekend weather for tens of millions of people. Chief meteorologist eric fisher of our boston station wbz is tracking arthur. Eric, good morning. Wheres this headed . Reporter arthur made landfall as a category 2 storm. The first cat 2 since 2008 making landfall and now its working its way off toward the north and east rapidly. That will take another close path to land by this evening. After 8 00 or 9 00 its just off to the southeast of nantucket and then as a category 1 hurricane it continues its track up towards nova scotia. It will be a major storm very late tonight and into the day on saturday. That wind field pulling away from North Carolina, but in the yellow youve got your Tropical Storm force winds. They will come across nantucket and Marthas Vineyard this evening. Not as bad as what they saw in North Carolina. The rain is another issue. There will be flash flood concerns particularly in southern new england on the fourth of july. Very disruptive weather. Eric thanks. Now to the georgia father who left his toddler son in a hot car for hours. He will stand trial for murder. Justin ross harris remains jailed this morning after a judge denied bail thursday. Prosecutors in marietta laid out evidence they say proves the death was no accident. As Mark Strassmann reports, part of their case was that harris was living a double life. Reporter Justin Ross Harris says it was a terrible mistake when he left his 22monthold son, cooper sealed inside an suv on a broiling day last month. I think the evidence now is showing intent. Reporter detective Phil Stoddard testified as little cooper died his father was exchanging lewd messages and photos with six different women, including a teenage girl. These conversations that he was having of what nature of them. The most common term would be sexting. Reporter prosecutors say before the toddlers death, harris made suspicious internet searches into Better Living without children and how to survive in prison. Harris and his wife also in the courtroom, had taken out two Life Insurance policies for their son. And the day cooper died she showed up at his regular day care to be told the boy was never dropped off. And in front of several witnesses, all of a sudden she states, ross must have left him in the car. Reporter detective stoddard said neither parent showed much emotion. He talked about losing his job, what are we going to do ill lose my job. Ill be charged with a felony. Did his wife ever say anything to him about what he said to police. She said him sit down and she starts going through this and she said did you say too much. Reporter a defense witness at the scene testified that harris seemed genuinely upset. He was saying oh my god, oh my god my son is dead. Oh, my god, my son is dead. Reporter and defense lawyer Maddox Kilgore insisted harris made a tragic unintentional mistake. The results were terrible awful, and that man is going to have to live with those for the rest of his life as is his wife, as is his family as is the community. But that dont make it a crime. Reporter but the murder charge will stand, and harris could face the death penalty. For cbs this morning, Mark Strassmann, atlanta. Such a troubling story. Were also following clashes in jerusalem this morning near a religious site sacred to jews muslims and christians. Israel is bracing for retaliation after the murder of a palestinian teenager whose funeral is being held today. Alex ortiz is on the mt. Of olives in East Jerusalem where a violent situation is unfolding. Reporter hundreds of mourners filled the streets of East Jerusalem today for the funeral of a murdered palestinian teenager. His body was carried through the crowd surrounded by a sea of people. In other parts of the city Palestinian Protesters clashed with israeli police, who fired tear gas to disperse them. Jerusalem has been on lockdown ahead of the first friday prayers of this ramadan. Tensions remain high following mohammeds murder. His family says this grainy cc tv footage appears to show the moment he was taken. A car pulls up outside his house. Two figures get out, then the car speeds away. 17yearold mohammeds body was found by police in a nearby forest, burned so badly it needed dna identification. Israeli Authorities Say theyre still investigating the killing, but it follows the kidnapping and murder of three israeli teenagers. Their deaths set off angry calls from some israelis for revenge. His cousin showed us the room he shared with his brothers. His backpack ready for school. Until wednesday, he took the lower bunk. She told us his death has already mobilized the palestinian community. Its anger. This is the word i can say, its anger. Everyone has that feeling inside. Why . Why mohammed . Why are you doing this to us . Reporter the recent killings of children have been the latest spark for this most recent round of violence, but there are long simmering tensions here and mohammeds cousin also told us that hes just the latest victim in an endless cycle of violence thats gone on for decades. Anthony . Alex thanks. The california Highway Patrol is investigating this morning after an online video showed a chp officer hitting a woman repeatedly. This happened along the santa monica freeway, interstate 10 in los angeles tuesday evening. The woman does not appear to be resisting. The driver who captured the video believes the officer used quote, excessive and brutal force. Its not clear what provoked the confrontation. The video starts with the officer trying to detain the woman. She moves away before he gets her to the ground. At one point a plainclothes officer arrived on the scene to help place the woman in handcuffs. In a statement the chp says it reviews any case where one of its officers uses force to determine whether it was appropriate. The va this morning is dealing with new fallout from its health care scandal. Documents released by the House Veterans AffairsCommittee Show more than 2. 8 Million Dollars in bonuses were paid to va officials for their performance last year. Some of the money went to executives in charge of the same va facilities now under investigation over claims of falsifying records dealing with wait times. Wyatt andrews is in washington where lawmakers are following the money trail. Wyatt, good morning. Reporter good morning. So here is that va bonus list. It is seven pages, single spaced. 292 Senior Executives at the va got performance bonuses in february. Most of them were earned under the rules, but congressional investigators are questioning whether why 20 of the awards may have gone to executives connected to mismanagement or who supervised hospitals that falsified wait times for veterans. A bonus of more than 9,000 went to Sharon Helman the director of the va in phoenix, where 18 patients died waiting for appointments. Helman has since been suspended and her bonus rescinded. Almost 9,000 went to the phoenix regional director susan bowers, despite two ongoing whistleblower investigations. And 8200 went to cynthia mccormack, the hospital director in cheyenne wyoming, despite a formal va finding that the hospital had reported false wait times. Weve gone in and flagged probably 20 individuals who were in fact at troubled facilities and they continued to get bonuses year after year. Reporter in phoenix, debbie allen believes her husband, mel, died because of bonuses. Mel allen died of Bladder Cancer after waiting eight months for care, but she says officials would not report long delays because that would cost them money. And now theyre covering up the coverup which is really a disgusting thing to do. For money, you know for bonuses. Reporter we could not reach Sharon Helman the suspended director in phoenix, for comment. Susan bowers who has since retired, told us in a phone interview she was not aware of findings of manipulation of data and that her 2013 bonus was based on the many positive things done while i was there. Cynthia mccormack referred us to va headquarters which said mccormack met her performance standards and got her bonus based on Information Available at the time. We have suspected for a long time that bonuses were basically being given out like candy. That they were an entitlement to many of the supervisors at the va. Reporter the va has suspended its senior Level Bonuses for this year. As for the backlog of appointments, the va says over the last two months its contacted 140,000 veterans to get them into care but 46,000 vets remain on official wait lists. Margaret . Wyatt, thank you. Stock markets are closed this morning for independence day, but when trading resumes on monday, the dow is expected to open above 17,000 for the first time. That, thanks to a surge after yesterdays betterthanexpected employment report. The economy added 288,000 jobs in june. It was the fifth straight month of gains of above 200,000. The Unemployment Rate fell to 6. 1 the lowest since 2008. President obama trumpeted the numbers thursday. It gives you a sense that the economy has built momentum that we are making progress. Weve now seen almost 10 million jobs created over the course of the last 52 months. Max wolff is the chief economists at citizen. Vc a Financial Advisory firm. Max, good morning. Thank you for having me. Is the economy Building Momentum here max . Its unambiguously good news. Especially after that long winter we had this year. When you hear the idea of momentum, though, it leads to the question about the longterm unemployed. Theres still around 3. 1 million of them. Why arent they benefitting . So were seeing those numbers fall but mostly because these people are falling out of the count and out of the economy, which is terrible. But its a tough job market. Weve done a lot of studies and know the following. If youve been out of work a long time you get kind of discriminated against and it gets that much harder to get back in the labor force. Two, your skills run off, you dont know the new software the new techniques so you get kind of shunned and you lose that magic that helps you get over the hump in a competitive job market and be the selected candidate. These job numbers which are encouraging, we still have no substantial wage growth do we . Were basically where we were last year, up 2 but thats about inflation. Its a great point. It obviously depends about what you think about substantial. The average american got a whopping 1. 38 raise across the month of june. Its possible they were underwhelmed by that lordly sum, especially if you filled up your gas tank once even part of the way, you lost your entire raise. So we havent seen actually any wage growth in over six years now and thats beginning to weigh on people because thats how you dig out, especially after a long rough patch we had coming out of 2008. So its good news but not exactly like people are feeling it. Most people probably only know the economy got better from reading it. I think when some people read it or see it on your cbs this morning some folks see it as a taunt so a lot of folks are left behind here. They want to see it in my paycheck. Thank you. In Washington State a hiker is safe this morning after clinging to a mountain outside seattle. He was saved monday after calling 911 on his cell phone. Hes just above the snow line. Reporter a sevenmember rescue team, all volunteers helicoptered in to make the daring rescue. Hes sitting on a threefoot ledge or so. Reporter more than 100 feet above the jagged rocks, this stranded hiker managed to hold on for more than an hour as he waited to be rescued along washingtons chair peak. Were going to land and come back in there with our rescue team. Reporter 32yearold miles mcdonna was lowered out to grab the hiker. He said this was the most difficult rescue. Let him know Just Keep Holding to the rock dont grab me. Everything is going to be all right. Reporter the entire mission lasted about 30 minutes and ended with the hiker and the entire rescue team back on solid ground, with no injuries. Ahead on cbs this morning an ambulance driver falls asleep on the job and crashes. This morning why the cdc is warning d lots of sunshine coming our way but patchy fog over russian hill toward the Golden Gate Bridge more of that in the eveni