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KPIX CBS This Morning May 15, 2015

Kathmandu. Nepal locates the remains of a missing u. S. Helicopter. Military teams on the ground inspecting that crash site. The American Chopper vanished tuesday while carrying six marines. The thrill is gone the king of blues b. B. King died at his home in las vegas. The blues was the devils music as far as the church was concerned and my mother head a left hook that rifled mike tyson. The eighth victim of amtrak 188 was discovered yesterday. And the first funeral is being held today for Justin Zemser. Flash flood watches in southern california. A virtual river floeing in hollywood. Possible heavy tornados from nebraska down to the southern plain states. As suspected, tom bradys appealing his fourgame suspension for will hear that appeal. At the white house, a california man was flying a small drone. The suspect is being charged with violating a federal order. And United Airlines flight made an Emergency Landing at l. A. X. After reports of smoke in the cockpit. All that a tennessee fisherman jumped into action to rescue a man who was drowning. And all that matters. To be an innovator with longevity, i think the list is dave. David letterman was and is the gold standard. Thank you for changing the game day. Have a great final week my friend. Wait, no, no okay. Wait a minute. Nope, nope nope. [ applause ] no, no. No. George, is this something left over from the bachelor days . [ laughter ] this mornings eye opener is presented by welcome to cbs this morning, officials in nepal say there are no chances of any survivors in the crash of the a United States marine helicopter. Search crews found the wreckage and several bodies overnight about 50 miles northeast of nepals capital, kathmandu. The helicopter carries six u. S. Marines and two nepalese soldiers. They were delivering aid following two devastating earthquakes in that country. Seth doane is tracking this unfolding story from beijing. Many new details came overnight. Seth, good morning. Reporter good morning, the u. S. Military is now confirming that that, indeed, is the wreckage of that missing huey helicopter. Theyve sent in a special ops parachute team to investigate further. After three days of searching with u. S. , nepalese and indian aircraft supported by hundreds of troops on the ground wreckage of the helicopter was located about halfway between kathmandu and mount everest, not far from nepals border with china. The wreckage was found high up in the mountains at an altitude of 11,200 feet. The u. S. Marines uh1y huey was last seen near the hardhit region of charikot which nepals Prime Minister visited thursday. The six u. S. Marines and two nepalese soldiers on board were delivering rice and tarps on tuesday when they lost contact. U. S. Troops were deployed to nepal to help with humanitarian aid and Disaster Relief following the april 25 earthquake. Earlier this month, we watched a huey being off loaded at kathmandus airport. Theyd been used to reach remote regions. Earlier this week, a u. S. Military official said that an indian helicopter had picked up radio chatter from that missing huey that had suggested a possible fuel problem. Gayle, the u. S. Military says now a complete investigation will be conducted. Seth thank you. The first funeral will be held this morning for a victim of tuesdays amtrak crash. 20yearold Justin Zemser a Naval Academy midshipman from queens, new york, was one of eight passengers killed. He was an only child. The trains engineer has agreed to be interviewed with his attorney present. Chris van cleave is near the crash scene in philadelphia with new information on the trains final moments. Chris, good morning to you. Reporter good morning. Amtrak train 188 began rapidly accelerating 65 seconds before the crash. The National Transportation safety board says it was going twice the posted speed limit for that chunk of track and now we know a frontfacing dash camera shows the instant the brakes were applied just seconds before the derailment. New Surveillance Video captures the flash and fire of the impact at over 100 miles an hour. Amtrak 188 came barrelling into that curve according to the National Transportation safety boards robert sumwalt. 65 seconds before the end of the recording the train speed went above 70 miles per hour. 16 seconds before the end of the recording, the train speed was going through 100 miles per hour. Reporter Bruce Phillips an amtrak employee, has filed a lawsuit claiming he was violently hurled about the rail car and sustained serious and permanent personal injuries. Amtraks president and ceo took us to the crash site. Is amtrak safe . Absolutely amtrak is safe. Its been 28 years to have a derailment like this where you have loss of life. Reporter Brandon Bostian was at the controls tuesday night. His lawyer says he suffered a concussion and had 14 staples put into his skull. An engineer since 2010 he submitted his blood for a drug and alcohol screening. Bostian was often critical of the Railroad Industry for failing to implement safeguards against human error. One posting from 2011 read at any point over the previous 80 years the railroad could have voluntarily implemented some form of this technology. On thursday cadaver dogs located an eighth victim bob gildersleeve, among the trains tangled wreckage. The federal Railroad Administration says this was amtraks ninth derailment this year. In 2008, Congress Mandated a Safety System known as positive train control be installed across amtrak by the end of 2015, yet only a fraction of the nations lines have it. On thursday boardman said hes committing to meeting that requirement along the northeast corridor amtraks busiest stretch, but needs support from congress. This is not a republican or democrat railroad. This is a railroad that everybody uses just like any infrastructure in this nation. Reporter the engine that powered amtrak 188 was a relatively new engine, it had only been in service over a year and had no reported history of unintended acceleration. This morning much of the wreckage has been removed from the tracks. Crews are rushing to finish repairing the rails. Amtraks ceo told me hes looking at having normal operations restored on the northeast corridor by tuesday. Chris, thank you. The engineer who was speeding when a new york city commuter train crashed in 2013 will not face criminal charges. That accident killed four passengers and injured more than 70. Metronorth engineer William Rockefeller fell asleep at the l kro s controls. He was found to suffer from sleep apnea. He says hes happy prosecutors found there was no criminal intent. The thrill is gone for mills ss s millions of music fans. B. B. King died last night in his las vegas home. He was 89. The man known as king of the blues was one of the most influential musicians of the last 50 years. Anthony mason is here to remember the life of a oneofakind artist. Anthony, good morning. Good morning, charlie. B. B. King was the last of the legendary blues men who came out of the michigan delta. The sunon of sharecroppers, riley b. King was born in mississippi at 22 he hitchhiked to memphis where he picked up his nickname blues boy, or b. B. How would you describe the blues . Its good for me when im feeling bad and good for me when im feeling good. Its 3 00 in the morning, cant even close my eyes reporter the 3 00 blues was his first big hit in 1952. King famously named every guitar he played lucille after, he said, a brawl over a woman of that name caused a fire that almost destroyed his first guitar. He toured black clubs endlessly. in 1956 you played 342 days. 342 onenighters. Reporter but didnt play to a white audience until 1967 at bill grahams philmore west in San Francisco. I was scared. The kids didnt know me they knew the music. And he said ladies and gentlemen, b. B. King and everybody stood up. That was the beginning of b. B. King in rock n roll. Reporter two years later he scored his biggest hit. The thrill is gone reporter b. B. King influenced hendrix, opened for the stones and played with eric clapton and u2. When we met him in 2013 he was 88 and didnt walk easily. But on stage his fingers still flew. Rolling stone ranked you number three guitar player of all time. I dont believe that. Reporter you dont no. No, but i aint gonna tell them. [ laughter ] im gonna do this till i die, folks reporter he pretty much did. He said he didnt know the meaning of the word retirement. He toured right up until he fell nil april. Its simple he told me. If i stop i dont get paid. Wow. He once said anthony, if he didnt die on his stage he wanted to die in his sleep. His influence with guitars was what . Buddy guy described it in an interesting way. He said it was the tone he got out of his guitar the way he shook his left hand and the way he squeezed the strings. It didnt sound like anybody else. Influence sod many great musicians. Nobody like him. This morning, the nfl says commissioner Roger Goodell will personally hear tom bradys appeal of this fourgame suspension. The new England Patriots star quarterback was benched after an investigation commissioned by the league. It found that he probably knew that Team Employees were deflating his footballs. Anna werner is outside Team Headquarters at Gillette Stadium in foxborough, massachusetts. Anna, good morning. Reporter good morning, gayle. Thats right, brady will have to convince the League Commissioner himself he did nothing wrong. Hes hoping his appeal will put him back on the field for week one of the nfl season. I feel like ive always played within the rules. I would never do anything to break the rules. Reporter patriots Quarterback Tom Brady insists he knew nothing about those deflated footballs. But the nfl decided bradys actions merited suspending him for a quarter of the season a punishment brady is now fighting. And the Nfl Players Association argues further that given the nfls history of inconsistency and arbitrary decisions in disciplinary matters, its only fair a neutral arbitrator hear this appeal. But that wont be the case. Brady will make his argument too goodell and top League Executives and attorneys and the nfl says goodell will make the final decision. Brady is entitled to have his own attorney at the hearing, as well as his agent members of the Players Union and a union attorney. The appeal will be heard probably early june. So probably two or three weeks from now. After that maybe another week for the decision. Reporter bone ven volen covers the nfl and patriots for the boston globe. Its going to take convincing to get tom bradys appeal bumped down from four to possibly two or zero games by somebody who handed out the punishment. Reporter on thursday, the patriots issued a 20,000 word rebuttal to the wells report challenging some of the investigations findings. The patriots will poke many many holes in the science of deplate inde deflate deflategate. Its very convincing. Reporter the patriots also attempted to explain the deflator reference in a text between jim mcnally and equipment assistant john jastremski. The patriots claim mcnally is a larger man and this banter and mcmcnallys goal of losing weight meant mr. Mcnally was the deflator. There was nothing complicated or sinister about it. It makes the patriots look weaker. They think that the public isnt very intelligent. Reporter brady has hired lawyer Jeffrey Kessler to battle here. Kessler has done this before. He successfully fought the nfl in previous cases. Norah . Anna thank you very much. Droughtstricken california seeing more rain than it can handle. Wet weather is moving through san diego this morning. Floodwaters flowed down streets and sidewalks. People rushed to move their cars before they were submerged. Theres also flooding around los angeles. An Instagram Video shows stars on the hollywood walk of fame all underwater. Rising water continues to threaten homes outside of houston, more wet weather is expected in texas today. Scott padgett of our dallasfort worth station ktvt is tracking the threat. Scott, good morning. Good morning, flooding rains continuing through the weekend, possibly two and a half to four inches of rain falling as a cold front works its way into very warm air. So were going to continue to keep our eyes on that as all these storms will be popping up into the afternoon hours ahead of a cold front thats working its way into the central plains. There is an enhanced risk of severe storms southern kansas through central oklahoma also in parts of nebraska for large hail, damaging winds and maybe isolated tornados and flooding rains with some of those supercell storms. For you folks out west well deal with a Flash Flood Watch through the day today into the evening hours for rainfall rates of a half inch of rain per hour maybe mud and debris flows in the recently burned areas is the highest threat as well see more rain through the day today. Scott thanks. Jeb bush heads to iowa tomorrow after a week of scrutiny on his views of the iraq war. Heres the deal if were all supposed to answer hypothetical questions knowing what we know now what would you have done i would have not engaged i would not have gone into iraq. The comments in arizona thursday marked his fifth attempt this week to explain his position. Bush was all but certain to run for president , explained why he hesitated to provide a clear answer. He cited loyalty to his brother, president george w. Bush and respect for the families of fallen troops. This morning, many middle eastern allies of the United States are showing their unease over u. S. Negotiations with iran. President obama pledged a commitment to the security of gulf nations yesterday during a meeting at camp david. Margaret brennan is at the state department. Margaret, good morning. Reporter good morning. President obamas claim to have arab support for a nuclear deal with iran appears far from certain as gulf allies fear it may come at their extent. It was meant to be a summit with heads of state from six key arab allies. But in a sign of their frustration with u. S. Policy only two showed up. The others sent deputies. One noshow, the king of bahrain, was scheduled to attend a london horse show with the queen of england instead. President obama sought to reassure gulf allies that the u. S. Commitment to them is ironclad, even if the u. S. Signs a nuclear deal with iran their longtime adversary. The United States will stand by our partners against external attack and will deepen and extend the cooperation that we have when it comes to the many challenges that exist in the region. Reporter the u. S. Pledged to expedite arms sale increase joint military exercises with the gulf states and integrate their Missile Defense system. But the president did not deliver what many of the countries wanted a written security pact pledging that the u. S. Military would come to their defense if threatened by iran. On thursday irans navy opened fire on a commercial vessel in the persian gulf. A similar incident happened just two weeks ago. Its the type of harassment that has countries like saudi arabia concerned. The Saudi Foreign minister spoke at camp david. I dont know if theyre doing this in order to flex muscle i dont know if theyre doing this in order to be provocative. For whatever reason theyre doing it its got to stop. Reporter saudis also concerned if sanctions are lifted as part of a nuclear deal, iran could use that money to fund proxy wars in syria and yemen. But, norah, the white house is betting irans more likely to use that money to bolster its crumbling economy. All right, margaret thank you very much. A white house lockdown is lifted this morning after a new drone scare. Secret Service Agents detained a california man. Authorities say 39yearold Ryan Mcdonald operated a small Unmanned Aircraft thursday. The drone hovered about 100 feet above Lafayette Park next to the white house. President obama was away at camp david. Mcdonald is free this morning while he faces a Court Appearance just one day earlier the faa launched a new campaign the goal reminding people drones are banned hello, over the nations capital. And especially near the white house and capitol hill. Charlie, youre right, a bad idea. I guess mr. Mcdonald didnt get that memo. Duly noted. 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