Expected to blame north korea and make some of that evidence public. George clooney tried to get the head of other major studios to sign a petition in support of sony. All refused, clooney said because they were afraid of the hackers. Another tragedy from australia. Eight children have been murdered. Australias Prime Minister calls it heartbreaking. A panel of experts says the secret Service Needs new leadership. An independent review says they just need better training. Stephen colbert signing off from the colbert report. I guess ill be gone forever. Well always be there for the american people. Yeah, but arent you canadian . Arson is to blame for the massive fire in l. A. Last week. Investigators would like your help identifying two men seen near the fire. Boston marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Was in federal court for the First Time Since almost a year and a half ago. All that jacksonville is going to take it. Marks gets the sack worth 600,000. Show me the money. And all that matters the white house leaving the door open for a future visit by cuban president raul castro. There was a 30minute phone call. Another success for eharmony. Com. Its christmastime. Theres a real hole in the theater schedule. Do you think to yourself more cheese for me or what do you think . Ill say this. My movie is very koreanfriendly. Announcer this mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning. President obama this morning is weighing options for retaliation after the sony hack attack. North koreas considered to be the main culprit. The Obama Administration calls the cyberattack a Serious National Security matter. Sony lost tens of millions of dollars after pulling the movie the interview. Major garrett is at the white house with new details on how hacker caused so much damage. Major, good morning. Reporter good morning. Investigators suspect hackers gained entry to Sony Pictures main frames through information stolen from a sony systems administrator. The fbi will have more details on this later today. President obama was briefed on the situation here at the white house yesterday. And will take questions on the likely u. S. Response at his end of the year News Conference scheduled for 10 30 a. M. Pacific right here in the briefing room. Sources tell cbs news the sophisticated and damaging cyberattack occurred in north korea and flowed through a vast array in other countries, that in an attempt to hide its origin. Senior Officials Say iran is another suspect although others may have been involved. And evidence is still being sifted. The activity that were seeing here is destructive with clear malicious intent. Reporter in addition to finding the source of the biggest shot fired so far in a cyberwar on his watch, president obama has been reviewing retaliatory options. Top Officials Say they would be proportional but not necessarily noticeable. We believe that, you know, destructive activity merits an appropriate response. I would acknowledge an appropriate response is not something thats always obvious. You want us to kill the leader of north korea . Yes. Whaaat . Reporter the biggest casualty, the canceled Christmas Day release of the interview, a slapstick farce in a plot to kill north Korean Leader kim jongun. Arizona senator john mccain called the cyberattack a wakeup call. For government and business. Its remarkable a country like north korea can have that capability, and if theyre able to disrupt a film you can imagine what they are doing or attempting to do to our National Defense capability. Reporter California Republican ed royce, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs committee, faulted hollywood for failing to stand with Sony Pictures. The other studios should come behind sony and offer their support. And at this point, no more capitulation. No more cancellation of scripts. Reporter state Department Officials at sonys request reviewed the script of the interview and watched a rough cut of the movie and offered no objections to the portrayal of kim jongun or the underlying satire but did offer some input on possible north korean reaction. At no time Officials Say that the state Department Officials dictate changes to the script. Norah . All right, major. Thank you so much. Were going to bring you the president s News Conference. In a cbs news special report. It is scheduled for 10 30 this morning pacific time. And well also have live coverage on our cbs News Digital Network cbsn on cbsnews. Com. Hollywood is sounding off. More stars from tv and film are slamming the studios movie. Elaine quijano is here with how many are concerned with the Chilling Effect that that could have. Elaine, good morning. Reporter good morning. In tinseltown the reaction is mixed. Some stars are voicing their concerns over whether this decision will set a dangerous precedent in hollywood, with major consequences for expression and personal liberty. While others say sony had no other options. The billboards for sonys the interview are gone but the outcry over the studios controversial decision to pull the film is really just beginning. When you really start to think about it, the ramifications of this, wow. As an artist in this industry i feel awful that any kind of creative expression has been shut down. In any way, shape or form. Its something that just shouldnt happen. Im so disappointed. I wanted to see the movie. I think this is the wrong thing to do. Thats it . So kim jongun gets to decide what movies we make . Were going to north korea reporter the film was slated to debut in thousands of theaters nationwide on Christmas Day, but that changed after five major theater chains canceled their screening. I am the great kim jongil reporter in an apparent show of defyiancedefiance select theaters announced they would replace the world with Team America World police, another film that depicts the north korean dictator. According to paramount pictures, those films were pulled on thursday. Kim masters who covered the Hollywood Reporter said in the end studios are making call k u lated decisions with their investments. Theyre not trying to be creators for free speech. What theyre trying to do is make money for their shareholders. Reporter Actor George Clooney took aim at hollywoods elite for protecting their own interests, rather than standing with sony against the hackers. Clooney revealed hed been working behind the scenes for a week circulating a petition that argued against giving into the attackers demands. No one would sign. For now, sony has dashed hopes of a video on demand release option. Neither of the stars of the movie, seth rogen or james franco, have cometed on social media since the films release was canceled. Charlie . Thanks. A scathing report this morning says the u. S. Secret service is starved for leadership. An independent panel says the agency needs to make immediate changes to the white house fence. Bill plante is on the white house lawn with concerns about protecting the president. Bill, good morning. Reporter good morning. And good morning to our viewers in the west. Its been a pretty rough patch for the secret service. Charges of misconduct some embarrassing security lapses like that fence jumper who made it into the white house last fall. That 7 1 2 foot fence around the white house grounds is all too easy to scale. The report recommends replacing it as soon as possible with a fence four or five feet higher and carved at the top. On november 19th, suspect Omar Gonzalez made it over the fence and into the east room of the white house before he was apprehend. The agencys acting director Joseph Clancy addressed that incident and a host of other issues the agency faces at a hearing last month. I openly acknowledge that a failure of this magnitude, especially in light of other recent incidents requires immediate action and longer term reform. Reporter but, say the panelists, the problems exposed by recent events go deeper than a new fence can fix. What the secret Service Really needs, says this latest report is new leadership. Because its too insular and needs to strengthen the culture of accountability. The rank and file and very senior members do not have confidence that discipline is imposed in a fair and consistent manner. The Panel Recommends that the next director be someone from the outside but with a Law Enforcement or military background. Both the Uniformed Division that protects the white house grounds and the agents who protect the president and top officials are shortstaffed. The report calls for 200 more uniformed officers and 85 agents plus increasing regular, on the job training which has now fallen below acceptable levels. The panel made many other recommendations about technology and operations which are classified. They also suggested candidates to take over as the new director. And an appointment thats expected very soon. The report notes that some of the changes were suggested years ago. And not acted on. Homeland security secretary jay johnson says this time must be different. All right, bill, thank you. Important report. Sources tell cbs news three isis leaders were killed in iraq. One of them is identified as hazi mutazz a highranking official in the terror group who used to be an iraqi army colonel under saddam hussein. Attacks over the past month also killed the head of isis operations in iraq and a midlevel commander in the Northern City of mosul. Defense officials believe the strikes significantly weaken the isis leadership in iraq. This morning many u. S. Businesses are making plans to get into cuba. Theyre hoping for a big boost in trade after that historic decision to restore diplomatic relations between the two countries. Adriana diaz is there. In havana right now where cuban also expect great things from closer ties with the u. S. Adriana, good morning. Reporter good morning. While American Companies can look forward to one day doing business with cuba an unbrideled sense of optimism has unleashed on the streets of havana, where the future now looks more promising than ever. Oliga hernandez owns a restaurant near the center of havana. For Business Owners like her, the gravity of raul castros speech is starting to set in. Its such a huge step, she said. For cuba, it will be very good. With a business dependent on dollars, he shops more will visit cuban shores once travel restrictions are lifted. We started off with room for 25. Now we can seat 50 and maybe in a few years well seat 100. Its not just cuban entrepreneurs that are optimistic. Major American Companies including mastercard, cisco, marriott, pepsi, and Major League Baseball have all shown interest in doing business in cuba. Its a move that could rapidly transform a country virtually frozen in time since the u. S. Embargo was imposed in 1960. The u. S. Embargo has hurt cuba tremendously. It has hurt the average cuban on the streets. Reporter this man remembers cuba before the embargo. Were really grateful to the u. S. Government, he says, to president obama and president raul for improving relations. Here in the market, shoppers have a sense of relief. Knowing half a century of ams noty may come to a close. More clothes, more food. Much cheaper. For the majority of cubans who have become accustomed to life under the embargo, this weeks news provided hope for future. Its a new beginning because the u. S. Is such a close neighbor, so powerful, so wealthy, so large, and this provides cuba with an opportunity. To begin a new stage in its life. Repairing relations strained by more than 50 years of cold war tension wont happen overnight so for now the embargo remains in place. For that reason many cubans remain cautiously optimistic but take comfort knowing change is finally within their grasp. Stocks are higher again this morning after a big turnaround in the market. The Dow Jones Industrial average is trading around 18,000. It has been a wild ride this week. The index saw big drops before surging wednesday and thursday. It jumped 321 points yesterday alone. Cbs News Business analyst Jill Schlesinger is here. Good morning. Good morning. Whats behind this . I think its A Janet Yellen rally. The Federal Reserve says theyre not likely to increase the Interest Rates any time soon. If youre really parsing the statement, it looks like somewhere in the middle of next year and that was a greats relief to investors who were worried they were going to pull it forward into the first quarter. Were also seeing a little bit of calm around the oil market. Although oil has plunged. Janet yellen said something really important in her press conference. She said Oil Price Drop is transitory meaning its going to be okay, everyone relax about it. And finally yesterday morning, Vladimir Putin actually helped markets i cant believe im saying this because he basically said the russian government would intervene and help prop up the russian currency. That, together gave us a fabulous twoday rally, on track now for a real santa class rally. Boy. We heard him talking about bears that this is affecting the stock market here. So whats your suggestion for investors now . I think its hard. If you bailed out at some point in the last few years, its hard to figure out how to get back in. I would say if you can, develop some sort of game plan and force yourself to get back on track. Now, heres the thing. If youre a longterm investor, these gyrations, who cares. Youre in it for the long term. You dont worry about it. It is part of being an investor. Its interesting what its doing to states across the country texas, which theres talk about a recession in texas. This is interesting. Oil prices plunging 45 in six months. I think a lot of people have predicted oil prices would drop. But its two factors. A slowdown in places like japan, china, europe. But its the production side here in the u. S. Thats huge. And if some of the Big Oil Producers decide to cut back on that production it could hurt big Oil Producing states like texas and north dakota. I thought it was interesting, what you said about the texas realtors association. They came out and said next year, if Oil Prices Stay at these levels next year, oil prices could drop 12 in texas. For homes . For homes. This is really important about this, i dont want to be look at the dark side of this because overall lower oil is good for most consumers. Its not good if you live in texas or dakota. Thank you, jill. Good to see you. This morning one of the late night tvs most original characters, that would be Stephen Colbert, is gone. He ended a nineyear run last night with a final burst of truthiness with some very famous friends. One of them is at the table. Its not you, jill. Hell take over the theatre next year. Vladimir duthiers is outside the studio. Vlad, good morning. Reporter good morning. Good morning to our viewers in the west. When Stephen Colbert takes over the late show for David Letterman. For his last show colbert did not disappoint. A fixture of Comedy Central for nearly a decade. Comedian Stephen Colbert signed off for the final Time Thursday night. If this is your first time tuning in to the colbert report, i have some terrible news. This, in fact, is your last time tuning in to the colbert report. Reporter after over 1,400 episodes, six emmy awards and wide critical acclaim he strayed stayed true to his form until the very end. Nation, i know this is an emotional night for a lot of you. So i want to start the show tonight with something a little more upbeat. Syria. Well meet again reporter the night featured a grand musical number performed by colbert along with a Staggering Number of past guests friends and wellwishers, including our own charlie rose. And president bill clinton. I know well meet again some sunny day colberts Comedy Central run began in 1997 when as a correspondent of the daily show, he created the fictional character he played so well. I say its time to just say no to pagan rituals that lead our youngsters toward the pit of damnation, and anyone else who feels otherwise, the minion of the dark lords. Reporter but colbert will shed that character when he takes over the late show from David Letterman who plans to step down next year. Obviously im thrilled to be taking over. Im thrilled as well. Reporter Stephen Colberts final show may have lacked the emotional goodbye many expected. But it featured many of his piercing sarcasm his fans have grown to love. And if all we achieved over the last nine years was to come into your home each night and helped make your diffic