Transcripts For KPIX CBS This Morning 20170515 : vimarsana.c

Transcripts For KPIX CBS This Morning 20170515

We begin with a local eye opener in 90 seconds. Its not just us against them anymore. You will see the entire International Community sis late north korea and let them know this is not acceptable. Just i think it will be a day of using pen and paper. A cyber attack is likely to get bigger. This is something we havent seen before. The global reach is unprecedented. If there are any tapes they have to be turned over. You cant be cute able tapes. Members of parties to call on the president to turn over secretly recorded conversations. The notion that the president can throw out these kind of claims and then not either confirm or deny them, is outrageous. What advice would you give the president before his first big foreign trip . Thats a good question. The key will be to limits spon ta nayty. I advise him to stick to the script. The pomp and ceremony is over and the hard work begins as he starts his first full day on the job. Your eyes and ears are not deserving you. This is russian president Vladimir Putin playing a grand piano. All that. The new miss usa has been crowned. District of columbia an uninvited guest comes crashing through a texas familys front door. And all that matters. After a wild week in washington, saturday night live had no shortage of material as Melissa Mccarthy reprised her role as White House Press secretary sean spicer. Spicy is back, sarah is out. On cbs this morning. The new york yankees honored former captain derek jeter. Just a kid from kalamazoo, michigan, who turned himself into a legend in new york city. I got a chance to play for a firstclass organization and in front of the greatest fans in the history of sports. This mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning. North korea celebrating the newest advance in its weapons program. The north overnight said it successfully tested a missile capable of carrying a heavy nuclear warhead. Analysts and south korea say it flew higher and longer than any other from the north. The countrys seventh missile test of the year was launched from north koreas west coast yesterday. The missile landed in the sea of japan near the russian coast. Adriana diaz is in beijing following the growing threats and tension. Adriana, good morning. Reporter good morning. North korea says the missile was a new model. Kim jongun oversaw the launch and according to state media he warned that u. S. Territories are within reach and also claimed that north korea is capable of a retaliatory strike. The kn17 missile lifted off near the countrys west coast reaching an altitude of more than 1300 miles. North korea says the missile was intentionally fired at a high angle out of consideration for its neighbors. It traveled more than 400 miles before splashing down into the sea of japan, roughly 60 miles from russia according to u. S. Intelligence. If launched at a normal trajectory it could have reached u. S. Military bases in guam. International condemnation was quick. South koreas newly elected president moon jaein said the launch was a reckless provocation while the white house called for stronger sanctions and noted the missiles proximity to russia saying that President Donald Trump cannot imagine that russia is pleased. The timing could not have been worse for chinese president xi jinping whos hosting World Leaders including Vladimir Putin at a global forum in beijing. Putin called the test counter productive and dangerous. North korea has tested dozens of banned missiles in the last year. Though this was the first success after a string of recent failures. North korea is capable of continuing to develop longer range missiles. Reporter physicist david wright says the regimes longest test to date shows theyre inching closer to a missile capable of reaching the u. S. Mainland. An important step, a window for trying to negotiate with north korea capping its nuclear and missile programs at a point its much less of a threat to the United States. Reporter over the weekend, a Senior North Korean official said theyre open to talks with washington, under the right circumstances. Echoing a similar statement made by President Trump. But u. S. Officials say that missile launches like this one shatter the prospect of dialog, at least any time soon. Gayle . Adriana diaz, reporting from beijing, thank you. Concerns are growing about a potential new wave of global Cyber Attacks as the world heads back to work. Starting on friday, an unprecedented hack attack disabled Computer Networks in at least 150 countries, including the u. S. The socalled ransom ware takes computers hostage and demands payment. Charlie dagata is outside of london one of the dozens hit by the attack. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Here the scale of the attacks began to emerge and spread to places like spain, germany, the United States, soon it was everywhere. Hackers capitalizing on weakness first exposed by the nsa and then leaked online. The trouble is most Big Companies will shut down Computer Systems over the weekend. What happens when all of those users log back on. Unprecedented, escalating and sweeping the globe. The latest count is over 200,000 victims in at least 150 countries. Reporter widespread disruptions were reported today throughout asia. The frozen screen warnings are much the same that started here in bryn aitain and spread acrose world. Employees found their files encrypted no longer readable with hackers demanding 300 in ransom to key de code them or they would be destroyed. The Malware Program called wannacry first uncovered in documents stolen from the national u. S. Security agency exposing a vulnerability to microsoft operating systems. It crippled Britains National health service. Patients expecting scheduled operations were turned away. The worldwide attacks could have been far worse if not for a pair of Cyber Security researchers including darien huss from michigan, who stumbled on a kill switch hidden in the domain name the hackers were using. Even though the kill switch has been activated, there were at the very least thousands and possibly hundred thousand infections that occurred before the kill switch was activated. Reporter it may have stopped the malware from spreading to millions more computers. Its hard to feel like a hero i think because, you know, i just documented my analysis. Its kind of what i do on a daytoday basis, so for me, it was just another day at the office i guess. Reporter but Cyber Security experts warn whats happened so far is nothing compared to what might be coming. That might be unstoppable. The concern being that potentially a new variant of this ransom ware can show up on monday and it would take a lot more effort to try to stop that next wave of attacks. Reporter microsoft president brad smith said this should serve as a wakeup call to governments in a scathing statement over the weekend, an equivalent scenario would be the u. S. Military having its tomahawk missile stolen. Charlie dagata in london, thanks. Cbs News National security contributor Michael Morell was acting and Deputy Director of the cia and joins us from washington. Good morning, mike. Good morning, charlie. Let me ask you this, how serious is this . What is it that should scare us about this . I think two things. One is the breadth of it. We have never seen a cyber attack with this kind of breadth as charlie said, 150 countries, 200,000 users. I think the second thing is the sophistication. There was two pieces to this. One was, basic finishiphishing to get in networks but the second piece was lateral movements inside of a network once youre inside. It spread very, very rapidly. And that is very unusual and frightening. Is the suspicion this was a nation state or nonnation state actor . So i dont think this was a nation state, charlie. I think this was an organized crime. I think this is cyber crime. I think the fact that theyre demanding ransom in order to free up the data that they are encrypting i think that is what underscores that. But, so that makes it the largest cyber crime attack we have ever seen before. Compared to the damage done to other countries the u. S. Came out okay. Why do you think that is . I think two reasons. One, gayle, is that our Cyber Security is better than any other place in the world. Second, is that we have appropriate and uptodate versions of microsoft. In other parts of the countries the versions are very old and, therefore, they cant be patched or number two, theyre using pirated versions of microsoft. Thats one of the reasons russia was hit so hard. Pirated versions cant be patched. Those are the two reasons why the u. S. Wasnt hit as hard. Shifting to north korea, and their most successful missile test to date, the North Koreans say this could carry a nuclear warhead. Is this a game changer . So im not sure its a game changer, norah, for two reasons. One is you have to be careful of taking the North Koreans at face value. Theyve made claims before in the past that havent been true. I think, though, it does underscore that their Missile Development is accelerating, not slowing and its not going to stop. They are willing to sit down and negotiate with us, but they are not willing to give up these weapons or the missiles. Okay. Mike, the president is about to choose a new fbi director. Is there anybody that stands out to you . Nobody stands out in particular, gayle. I think whats important, and i think this is widely recognized, the individual chosen has to be has to be nonpartisan, has to be objective, has to be seen as such by both democrats and republicans. And that is the only way this is going to work. Thank you, Michael Morell. Always good to see you. Good to see you. President trump says he will choose that new fbi director before the end of this week. The Justice Department interviewed eight possible replacements over the weekend including former republican congressman mike rogers, republican senator john cornyn and cbs news contributor thats fran townsend. She was president george w. Bushs Homeland Security adviser. Jeff pegues is outside fbi headquarters right now and spoke to former National Intelligence director James Clapper about james comeys firing. Jeff, good morning. Good morning. In our interview director clapper was pretty blunt in his assessment of comeys firing. The bottom line is he didnt like how it was done and he made those comments with the white house parade of candidates to replace comey on full display at the Justice Department. Reporter ousted fbi director james comey is keeping a low pro financial at his virginia profile at his have va home while a steady stream of candidates to replace him filed in and out of the department of justice for interviews all weekend. President trump suggested the search for a new fbi director wont take long. I think the process is going to move quickly. Theyve been vetted over their lifetime. Reporter top contenders include former congressman mike rogers an fbi agent himself and previously head of the house intelligence committee. He has been endorsed by the fbi agents association. Acting fbi director Andrew Mccabe is not likely to stay in the top job. Investigation over whether he should have recused himself from the probe into Hillary Clintons private email server. In an interview with cbs news former director of National Intelligence James Clapper was critical of the way the president fired comey. Well i think it was pretty shabby. Pretty shabby. There is a graceful way to end someones tenure. Reporter on friday cbs news confirmed comey had refused to pledge his loyalty to the president in a dinner meeting at the white house. In response to reports about the dinner, mr. Trump tweeted james comey better hope there are no tapes of our conversations. Well i interpreted it as a not so subtle threat. You thought it was a threat . I did. I dont know if theres a tape that exists or not. Reporter clapper says the tweet and other actions by the president , as well as russian meddling in the election suggests an erosion of trust in institutions. I worry about our institutions, which i think are under attack both from external sources and for that matter internal. Reporter that statement was aimed at the president. Clapper says he expects comey to testify on capitol hill. He says he will likely talk about the firing and the dinner with the president , but in an open hearing, not behind closed doors. Norah . All right. Jeff, thank you so much. Democrats in congress are threatening to vote against any fbi nominee unless a special prosecutor is appointed to take over the russia investigations. Lawmakers from both parties are asking President Trump to hand over any recordings of his conversations with james comey. If they exist. Major garret is at the white house. Major, good morning. Good morning. Robert gates a former defense secretary and head of the cia said this weekend when a president fires a Top Administration official he better have solid reasons and the ability to explain them. Without both, motives are questioned and thats exactly what Congressional Democrats and some others are doing to President Trump. The president is the ceo of the country. He can hire and fire whoever he wants. Reporter u. N. Ambassador nikki haley one of the few Top Administration officials sunday defending President Trump in the face of claims he asked fbi director james comey for his loyalty. As a former governor i can tell you loyalty and trust is everything. When youre a ceo. So i can totally understand why hes looking for loyalty and trust. Reporter in an interview taped friday, the president put loyalty into a national rather than personal context. Did you ask that question . No. No, i didnt. But i dont think it would be a bad question to ask. I think loyalty to the country, loyalty to the United States is important. Reporter congressman adam schiff ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee, condemned talk of loyalty and made multiple investigations into Trump Campaign ties to russia. Highly unethical at a minimum unethical if he was trying to impede the investigation in any way, maybe beyond unethical. Reporter after tweeting on friday he might have tapes of his conversations with comey the president later dodged the question. That i cant talk about. I wont talk about that. Reporter if there are tapes of the president relevant to the russia probe republicans and democrats say they should be turned over. If, in fact, there are such recordings, i think those recordings will be subpoenaed and i think they will probably have to turn them over. There may exist private tapes and we want to make sure those tapes are preserved because we will want to take a look at them in congress. Reporter Top Administration Officials Say talk of a white house staff shakeup is real. Said one, everyone knows its coming. The question is, now, or august . Things cant keep going the way they are. Sean spicer the secretary and Communications Director mike dupe ki are under the microsoft and the next 48 hours could be pivotal for both. The Syrian Regime of Bashar Al Assad is almost in control of damascus over 500 years. Hundreds of rebel fighters are evacuating. Seth done is in damascus with how the fight is affecting life there. Seth, good morning. Good morning. Reminders a reminders are everywhere that syrian president assad is in control for a regime that does not shy away from propaganda one of its biggest victories may be closer than ever, controlling not just the center of the city but outskirts too. Assads syrian army has been bombarding the suburbs of damascus. Destroying his own city to root out the opposition. Those who werent killed were given the chance to surrender. Thousands of rebels and civilians boarded busses near damascus over the weekend destined for other oppositionheld areas. 400,000 people are believed to have been killed in this war. It makes these scenes from the main souk in damascus four miles from the front line seem surprisingly normal. Residents here do have security. But war has affected that. Abu mohammad has been selling tamarind juice out of this contraption for nine years and prices have skyrocketed. The fighting also affects us psychologically, he admitted. We are strong as long as our leader assad is strong. Nearby this ice cream parlor was packed in the 90degree heat as syrians indulged Bashar Al Assad watched on. And student wael alasfar supports him. Maybe americans think all the people here under siege or under attack or rockets and missiles. Its not like that. Reporter at least its not like that here in central damascus. And those are the scenes the regime wants to get out. Stability and security where assad has control. Norah . Great reporting. Seth done in damascus, thank you. The same facial Recognition Technology used by facebook can help doctors diagnose rare disorders. Ahead, how new technologies can solve medical mysteries in children and provide fa

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