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KPIX CBS This Morning October 29, 2014

This is the first commercial disaster since nasa ended its shuttle program. Its a tough time to use a launch vehicle like this. Lava flowing from hawaiis kill kilaueas volcano is inching towards pahoa. Its eliminated its first obstacle. Its very sad. Government suing at t for allegedly misleading millions of customers with unlimited data plans. They say after the customers signed up, they reduced their data speed. The second dallas nurse infected with ebola is now back home and ebola free. Meanwhile Chris Christie remains unapologetic about cover con facing kaci hickox and dismisses her threat to sue. Whatever. Get in line. The leak after a guard was shot at the canadian parliament. Women can have a tough time Walking Around in new york city. A new video aims to prove it. Whats up, girl, how you doing . All that 1989. Because you were born in 1989. I have ties older than you. I knew you were going to do this. Its official. Game seven tomorrow night. Royals win game six, 100. This place is going crazy right now. And all that matters a bold statement on science by pope francis. The pope appeared to endorse evolution and the Big Bang Theory. I wonder what he thinks of two and a half men. Lebron james and his wife just had a baby. The baby was born in cleveland but plans to move to miami if it gets a better offer. Announcer this mornings eye opener presented by toyota. Lets go places. Captioning funded by cbs welcome to cbs this morning. Charlie rose is off so jeff glor is with us. Good morning. Great to have you here. Good morning. Theyre investigating what went wrong with a rocket headed to the International Space station. It exploded last night just after liftoff. No one was hurt but the blast destroyed nearly three tons of cargo and the launch site itself is out of commission. That accident is raising new questions over nasas decision to scrap the Space Shuttle program. Chip reid is at the facility at Wallops Island along virginias eastern shore. Chip, good morning. Reporter well, good morning. Good morning to our viewers in the west. This was the first catastrophic failure for nasa since the Space Shuttle retired. Oh, god, oh, god. Oh, god reporter the violent explosion of an unmanned Orbital Sciences rocket lit up the sky tuesday over nasas wallops flight facility in virginia. The 14story rocket, on a resupply mission to the International Space station, broke apart only seconds after launch, showering debris across the virginia coastline. We dont really have any early indications of exactly what might have failed, and we need some time to take a look at that. Reporter this amateur video shot onboard an aircraft shows the fiery explosion some 3,000 feet above ground. The rocket was carrying a cargo ship loaded with more than 5,000 pounds of gear for six space station crew members including food, tools, and Replacement Parts along with Students Research projects and 32 small nano satellites. The crew has all the food, water and other consumables necessary to support them well into next year. Reporter Orbital Sciences, a private company, holds a 1. 9 billion contract with nasa for at least eight space station resupply flights through 2016. Tuesday nights antares rocket launch was their fourth such mission. Theyre embassied by it certainly disappointed and going to do everything in their power, im sure, to find out what went wrong. Reporter nasas shuttle program, which was responsible for supplying the space station, ended in 2011. Tuesday nights spectacular failure is raising the question, did nasa make the right decision by hiring private companies to go into space . I dont see this as a threat to this commercial model that nasas implemented to keep the space station resupplied. The goal was to lower the cost. As part of that, the risk goes up a little bit. Reporter investigators are expected to be on the scene later this morning looking for answers. The loss is estimated at 200 million. The next flight is scheduled for april, but that could be delayed depending upon the results of the investigation. Chip, we thank you. People in one Hawaiian Village prepare to watch their homes burn this morning. A molten lava flow is moving towards the pahoa village on the big island. Dozens of houses and businesses are in its path and nothing can stop the destruction to come there. Carter evans is in there where residents are getting out. Carter, good morning. Reporter good morning. The lava is approaching the main road that goes right here through pahoa. It could cross the road this morning about 100 yards from where im standing. In the meantime, police are keeping everyone out. As the relentless lava flows, steadily steering its way toward pahoa, it swallowed up a shed on the edge of the village and is now threatening to do the same to dozens of homes. Its already burned through miles of thick brush moving at around 15 yards an hour, and there is nothing that can stop it. Hundreds have already been evacuated, making the decision to leave their homes behind and save themselves. Theyre obviously very sad because they love where they live, but im sure mixed emotions will come out in the community as this continues to unfold because it is a life changing event. Reporter this lava flow began in june during the eruption of the kilauea volcano and is now closing one of the main roads. People have had weeks to prepare but find themselves overwhelmed. Pretty heartbreaking, pretty sad, yeah. We dont know whats going to happen from now on. Reporter with temperatures nearing 2,000 degrees, geologists warn of a dangerous mix forming between the intense heat and gases from the lava flow. That gas is mixing in an underground cavern and when it gets to a certain percentage of oxygen and methane ratio and with the heat from the lava flow, it ignites and it explodes. Reporter in an attempt to help residents find some comfort, authorities are allowing people to watch the lava destroy their homes. They hope it will bring them a sense of closure. The initial shock was like youre losing a person, like a loved one in your family. Very emotional. Our community is like a family. We dont want to lose that. Reporter and once the lava crosses the road here, it will cut right through this community burning homes along the way. If it actually makes it all the way down to the ocean, which is very possible, it will cut off all the roads into town. And, jeff, thats going to make it very tough for people to get in and out. Carter, thank you very much. Meanwhile several hundred people are out of their homes in Southeast Ohio because of a large gas leak. This one is at a gas drilling site. Crews damaged a well last night. Natural and methane gases are escaping, leading to fears of an explosion. That evacuation area is a mile wide. A team from texas is expected to arrive this morning to cap that well. President obama updates the nation this afternoon on the battle against ebola, but the administration has faced more tough questions tuesday about the new cdc guidelines. The cbs news poll out this morning thinks most americans thinks the u. S. Should do more. 80 say americans returning from west africa should be quarantined. 27 believe foreign travelers from the region shouldnt be allowed in this country at all. 39 of americans believe the government is prepared to manage an outbreak. And more than 47 approve of president obamas handling of the threat thus far. Major garrett is at the white house this morning with plans and where officials remain under pressure for a major strategy. Major, good morning. Reporter good morning. The white house says theres certain consent on how to deal with infected ebola cases. In reality whats striking is not consensus, but confusion. President obama defended less stringent federal ebola protocols for private citizens than for u. S. Soldiers returning from the ebola hot zone. Weve got to make sure we continue to provide the support of Health Workers who are going overseas to deal with the disease where it really has been raging. We dont expect to have similar rules for military as we do for civilians. Reporter all Army Soldiers coming home from west africa will first spend 21 days in virtual quarantine. Thats already happening with troops returning to a base in italy. The joint chiefs of staff recommended this apply to all branchs of the military. Defense secretary chuck hagel has yet to approve the plan. I think the secretary understands it. Army leadership supported by the recommendations of the joint chiefs of staff want to take a very conservative approach. Reporter more conservative than new cdc rules that recommend voluntary quarantine only for those known to have had high risk of exposure to ebola. You can understand how people might be confused about that. Well, i can understand why people might suggest theres a benefit to applying a military policy that works in a military context and suggesting that it might work in a civilian context. And im just saying thats wrong. The science doesnt back that up. Reporter new jersey governor Chris Christie will stick much closer to the rules of the armys and dismissed a threat of a lawsuit from kaci hickox quarantined in his state over the weekend. Whatever, get in line. Ive been sued lots of times before. Get in line. Im happy to take it on. Reporter addressing that in the east room at about 12 40 pacific time today. Later this week, defense secretary chuck hagel will decide whether all members will follow that of west africa. Theyll make up the majority sent to the hot zone. If hagel were to reverse policy you could probably add controversy to already existing confusion. All right, garrett. Thank you. It is interesting to hear governor christie say whatever. He sounds like a teenage kid. Get in line. This is the thing about the governor. You always know where he stands. You never have to wonder that. There are more legal battles that could be ahead for nurse kaci hickox who you just heard the governor talking about. The state of maine is requiring 21 days quarantine for Health Care Workers returning from west africa. Hickox spent nine days in a tent in new jersey with no signs of ebola. Shes ready to break her quarantine after just two days at home. They call it a Public Safety issue. Meanwhile amber vinson, the second dallas nurse to contract ebola, is free of the disease. She spoke after her release from atlantas emory hospital. Im so grateful to be well. While this is a day for celebration and gratitude, i ask that we not lose focus on the thousands of families who continue to labor under the burden of this disease in west africa. So at this point, dr. Craig spencer is the only person in the u. S. Known to have ebola. Hes in serious but stable condition at a new york city hospital. And washington is on heightened alert this morning on two fronts. The white house says hackers broke into its computer network. And concerns about terror are leading to tighter security at federal buildings nationwide. Cbs News National security analyst juan zarate served under president george w. Bush. Hes in washington. Juan, good morning. Good morning. This is a broad policy. We heard the secretary say theres no specific threat so why this heightened security . Thats right, norah. There are no active plots to trigger this warning. But what you have is a general concern about the threat environment at large. You have the Islamic State calling for attacks in the u. S. , you have flows of foreign fighters in and out of syria that are hard to track, you have the canada attacks, and of course the hatchet attack in new york that we witnessed. And a broader concern we may have copycats or lone wolves that are inspired to attack, in particular, federal buildings. Thats why you have this announcement. There are a lot of federal buildings, close to 10,000 in d. C. What are they looking for . These are federal buildings not just in washington but around the country. So what authorities are going to be looking for are any intelligence threads or threats pointing to an active plot. Theyre going to be looking at suspect individuals who may present a risk, and certainly theyre going to be looking for anomalous suspect behavior. I want to ask you about this suspicious activity at the white house yesterday. I know its an unclassified network, but how concerned are officials . I think, jeff, officials are concerned in general not because of the particulars of this attack. It doesnt appear to be that disruptive, and as you said, this is an intrusion on an unclassified system. That said, youve seen an increase of aggressive and intrusive attacks coming out of russia in particular especially in recent weeks. The attack on the Jpmorgan Bank accounts coming out of russia and this attack seems to have come out moscow as well. And so authorities are worried that these more benign intrusions could morph into more active penetrations and even disruptions of u. S. Systems. All right, juan zarate, thank you. Pope francis is bridging the gap between church and science this morning. The leader of the Catholic Church faces mixed reaction for controversial comments on evolution. Allen pizzey is in rome where the pope defended the Big Bang Theory. Allen, good morning. Reporter good morning. Taking on conservatives, pope francis sided with the science of dogma, in the academy of sciences. In a direct contradiction in the beliefs of creationists, francis says when we read about creation in genesis, the first book of the bible, we run the risk of imagining god was a magician with a magic wand able to do everything, and that is not so. And he hardly condoned the Big Bang Theory that today is considered to be the origin of the universe. The big bang does not contradict the creative intervention of god, the pope said on the contrary, it requires it. Five centuries ago galileo could have used pope francis. Charged as a heretic for saying the earth revolved around the sun. How times change. Pope pious xii called it a development of humans and pope john went further and suggested it was more than hypothesis and effectively proving fact. Even Pope Benedict xvi said scientific theories on the origin of the earth and humans did not conflict with faith, although he said it left many questions unanswered. The churchs reconciliation with science and eplucian isnt revolutionary in the view of professor chester gilles at georgetown university. Science is designed to tell us how science works. Religion is designed to tell you why. Why is there a universe. Why is there anything rather than nothing. And what is the ultimate destination of that. Reporter given his job description, pope francis probably has the answers to those questions. But interestingly, hes not expecting you to take his word for it. At t is conaccused of dialing up confusion for many customers. The Telecom Giant is being sued by the federal government for putting limits on its unlimited data plans. Our Senior Correspondent Anthony Mason is here. Anthony, what is the ftc saying here . Basically, this involves 3 1 2 million customers, jeff. Basically, theyre saying this offered an unlimited plan but when some of these customers used too much data they actually started whats called throttling their data stream down to such slow speeds that in some cases they couldnt even get on the internet. Basically what the fcc is saying here, if youre going to offer an unlimited plan its got to be unlimited. And they failed to adequately disclose to their customers that theyre doing it. They say everyone is doing it. Do they have a point here . They do have a point. Throttling down itself isnt illegal. At t saying these were the most gluttonous customers, they were taxing the web and they were actually helping other customers out. This goes back to 2010 when at t stopped offering the unlimited plan because at t discovered Customers Using so much data. The fcc says if youre calling it unlimited, it kind of has to be unlimited. What are they hoping at t does . A, they want better disclosure on this but more importantly they want to get millions of dollars in restitution for these 3. 5 million customers which at t argues is a small slice of their customer base. Unless you cant get on, its really annoying. Yes. Anthony, thank you so much. And the world series will be decided tonight in kansas city. Andy capp to right center. Blanco will not get there. 70. The royals had to win game six last night and they scored seven runs in the second inning. They shut out san francisco, 100. Kansas city is trying to win its first world series in 29 years. The home team has won nine games nine straight game sevens since the 1980s. There is such a thing as momentum. Kind of looking like kansas city, doesnt it . Cannot wait for this. All right. Its 7 19. Ahead on cbs this morning visual proof of the misery women can face just for watching down the street. How you doing today . See High Pressure strengthening today. 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