We will fight and come back. Isis militants make new gains and gather recruits. Islamist militants are with the british fighters urging people dom to the region to wage war. The president announced this week that up to 300 military advisers will be deployed. This is not a combat mission. In the midwest, a desperate race to pile up sand bags as the water rise. Entire towns and acres of farmland are under water. Unfortunately theres more rain in the forecast. Weve been here for years and years. Ive never seen it that bad. A brushfire destroyed several homes. The flames swinds pushed the flames so quickly, the firefighters couldnt keep up with it. The head of the irs getting grilled by the committee ore missing emails. What i didnt hear in that was an apology. I dont think an apology is owed. Outofcontrol lance man attacking a Greyhound Bus driver in phoenix. All that they have taken down one of the giants. And all that matters when youve landed the leading lady updating their selfie still looking fantastic. On cbs this Morning Saturday. Former Vice President dick chaney slamming the president. And worst of all, americans are watching soccer. Captioning funded by cbs and welcome to the weekend, everyone. Im Anthony Mason along with vinita nair. Good morning. Happy summer. No kidding. We have a great lineup of guests, the first day of summer including chef gill wilson. He earned high honors from bon appetite magazine. One of the most influential groups, the feliz brothers here to make their National Tv Debut in our saturday session. First the top story this morning the deteriorating situation in iraq. The al qaedainspired militant group known as isis now is at a keyboarder crossing. Theyre near a 200miles east of baghdad. They seized the site yesterday in day long battle that left at least 30 iraqi troops dead. It comes as thousands rallied in baghdad this morning. Iffer the latest on the situation, we go to Clarissa Ward in the iraqi capital. Clarissa, good morning. Reporter good morning. The seizure of that Border Crossing is a huge strategic advance for isis because it means they can now easily move heavy weapons back and forth across from syria to iraq. In the shiite stronghold of saddersadr senior in baghdad, theyre membership of mite. Their sleerd radical antiamerican cleric. Many fear this parade will only heighten sectarian tensions when things are spiraling out of control. We traveled across town to visit a sunni neighborhood in baghdad. Getting into this neighborhood like many sunni neighborhoods is incredibly difficult because the entire area is surrounded by these large blast walls and theres just one way in and out and thats guarded by a major checkpoint. We met taxi daughter ali and his wife and daughter. They told us shiite militias have recently begun a campaign of intimidation. I situation he said the situation in sunni neighborhoods in general is not good. Why is it bad . My brother was arrested a month ago and we cant find him, ali told us. The day before yesterday they dropped a dead body on our highway near the neighborhood. Ali said he and his family are trapped. If they had enough money, they would leave the country. What will happen to iraq . I swear he said there is no future in iraq. There is now a huge amount of pressure on iraqi Prime MinisterNuri Al Maliki to try to win back the trust of people like ali and his family and build an inclusive unity government. There also is great deal of skepticism here that he can achieve that. Vinita . Clarissa ward in baghdad. Thank you. The goal is to set up a strict islamic regime in iraq and syria. In an interview president obama talked with norah odonnell. Would that have existed if we backed the rebel forces in syria . Yes. I think this notion that somehow there was this readymade moderate syrian force that was able to defeat assad is simply not true. We have spent a lot of time trying to work with a moderate opposition in syria, but as i said yesterday, when you get farmers and dentists and folks who have never fought before going up against a ruthless opposition in assad, the notion they were in a ruthless position to suddenly overturn, you know not only assad but also ruthless highly trained jihadists, if we just sent a few arms is a fantasy. You can see morf you can sigh more of nora odonnells interview tomorrow on face the nation on cbs and monday on cbs this morning. U. S. Military assessment teams in iraq could be up and running within days. But the pentagon said they wont be there to fight iraqi forces as they pwaltsz a rage insurgency. We have a look at where this is all headed. Good morning. 370 members are in embassy facilities. The president authorized up to 300 more and special Operations Forces to provide iraqis beleaguered government intelligence. The u. S. Is already preparing for their arrival. The u. S. Launched 24hour manned and unmanned surveillance flights with land and seabased aircraft over parts of iraq. To get a better idea of the strengths of isis Islamic State of iraq in syria. Isis has captured major swagts of territory. Look, everybody shares the proper sense of urgency. Everybody is work on this hard. General kirby said two initial u. S. Assessment teams will gauge the status of iraqi forces. The situation on the ground and how u. S. Advisory teams made of special Operations Forces might beat back the insurgency. Kirby took pains to stress one point. This is not a combat mission. This is not a combat mission. Thats just the way it is. It is not a bat mission. This is not a bat mission. They are not there on an combat mission. Its not an occupation. More than 4,400 troops gave their lives in iraq during the eightyear war. White house spokesman josh earnest said the president is mindful of the loss even as he approved sending some u. S. Forces back. There is a willingness that has been demonstrated to act where necessary to safeguard the National Security interest of the United States manipulate and that applies in this situation too. The pentagon said three to five additional u. S. Assessment teams could be begin arriving in iraq the next week for a temporary stay and no decision on air strikes has yet been made. Mark albert in washington this morning. Thank you. For more on iraq, we are joined from washington by mike ohanlon at the brookings institute. Good morning to you, michael. Good morning. Nice to be with you. Give us a bigger sense of whats happening here. The United States has invested so much in building a government in iraq. Right now is that government in danger . The government is the danger in many ways. The way i would put it is when people see the iraqi army melt down and wonder how that can be helping after u. S. Investment politics Trump Military training. And right now the units that are up in the north and west have basically dissolved because they did not want to fight for a man Prime Minister maliki that many of them call now the shia saddam. They liken him to saddam hussein. They consider him to be a dictator only out for the broader Shia Community and his specific cronies and khraoebg. You see him drive all the sunni virtually together. And they even cole rate this al qaeda spinoff this isis group because they prefer working with that group to working with the government of their own country. When youre in that situation, you just cant be successful. Thats got to change. As you point out the enormous difference we made what can 300 advisers make at this point . Not very much in the absence of political reform. Your answer was spot on. What was being described by mr. Kirby and others is appropriate but i wouldnt have expect them to do anything significant until we get preliminary reform. Its to size things up anticipate next steps but they cannot be successful whether its American Forces or iraqi forces. Im sure it will be iraqi forces under any circumstances but they cant be successful until theres political reform until they bring some of the sunni leaders. Were also seeing a new recruitment video basically telling them they should be a part of this attack in both syria and iraq. What do thy make of the video . What are they trying to do . Ads you mentioned, there are videos out there. The most encouraging thing is the top shia leader the top religious leader in iraq and a couple of days ago he encouraged many shia membership on the street to join militias to defend in a sectarian way part of the country and now hes realize that was a mistake, misinterpreted and he seems to be calling for two things in a much more constructive way. For maliki to shape up or design and then to volunteer or join the police but not to go off and fight like radicals on their own. So i think that kind of recruiting, that kind of video or commentary from the ayatollah is potentially constructive, and well have to hope so. Michael, very quickly. What you do think the odds of maliki stepping aside are . Pretty small, but i hope in failing that by conversation well persuade him. Hes got to bring in good sunnis and kurds into his administration and restore the iraqis. Otherwise theres no good to come here. Michael ohanlon thank you. Youre welcome. Minnesota is expecting more rain. Minnesota is expected to ask for federal help after record rain caused flooding and money slides. More than 4 inches fell on thursday the most ever recorded for a day in jeune and the Mississippi River in the twin cities is now expected to rise higher hitting major flood stage this weekend. The Severe Weather has been relentless this week with thunderstorms and flooding all across the northern plains. More is expected to come. For more we turn to barry blans from wbbz in boston. Good morning. Happy summer. It finally did arrive. Therell be scattered showers and thunderstorms here but the man focus for some Severe Weather preps on the carolina coastlines and also northwestward from indianapolis to des moines up to portions of the dakotas and nebraska. Up here strong damaging wind gusts are possible. Strong hail and isolated tornado may exacerbate some of the flooding along the rirns here as well. These going on for today. Mainly into the afternoon and evening hours. Beautiful new england and beautiful out on the west coast. Thats it for now. Lets go back to you. Vinita anthony . Meteorologist Barry Burbank of our boston station w withbbz. Thanks barry. A fire is contained this morning. Black smoke could be seen for several miles. Several homes and outbuildings were damaged or destroyed. One firefighter was injured. The cause of the fire has not been determined. A big cleanup is under way in ft. Collins, colorado where 7,500 gallons of oil leaked into the river, it ruptured yesterday. Absorbant material is being used to clean up the spill. The centers for Disease Control is investigating how and why lab workers were exposed to deadly anthrax material. At least 84 workers and three labs may have been exposed. And as vicente arenas reports it may have come down to failure to follow proper procedures. The centers for Disease Control says the scientists in the lab were using a method they hadnt used before to deactivate anthrax. They failed to wait 48 hours to make sure the back tire ya were not a threat. Dozens of workers were potentially exposed when the anthrax was sent to other labs. Ileana arias is the cdcs principleprince principle director. The cdc is investigating every decision made during the handling process. Weve had missteps in the past. In every situation weve identified things that could be changed, weve placed those fixes into account and we dont see those things happening again. Reporter the cdc handles diseases far more deadly and contagious and that anthrax and Deputy Director arias called the mistake deadly worrisome. The usda will conduct another. That investigation l take much longer. For cbs this Morning Saturday, im vicente arenas atlanta. The chief director of irs was grilled about missing emails and he failed to apologize. Executive director lois lerner and. Nancy cordes has more. I dont believe you. This is incredible. Reporter republicans like wisconsins paul ryan were not in the mood for explanations today. I have a long career, thats the first time anybody has said i dont believe you. I dont believe you. Thats fine. We can have a disagreement. Reporter John Koskinen took over last december. He said lois lerners system crashed in 2011 well before the dwgs ran and read emails from i. T. Staffers at the time to prove it. Unfortunately its not good. The sectors on the hard drive were bad which made your Data Recovery unavailable. I am very sorry. Everyone involved tried their best. Reporter but Committee Chairman dave camp was not convinced. What i didnt hear in that was an apology to this committee. I dont think an apology is owed. Reporter republicans long felt loiswis lerner was involved in the holdups of small groups. How about 51 out in roswell new mexico where all those space aliens allegedly came. Did you ever have spot for that . No. Hes been able to comb through other employees accounts and retrieve about 20,000 emails to and from lois learn over that questionable time period and 67,000 lerner emails overall. For cbs this Morning Saturday im nancy cordes. The National Gas Price is 3. 68. Its the highest this year since 2008. Violence in iraq is pushing up the price of gasoline nationwide and depriving motorists of the usual price break between memorial day and july 4th. The Consumer Price index climbed 0. 4 . Lets talk about how this affects consumer spending. Michael, good morning. Good morning. This is kind of being led by food, isnt it . Yes. Food is one. Gas lean. Food especially meat produce, fresh food have been drive constrained because of the drought. Yes. Its a terrible time for us. You have food going up gasoline and airlines going up. Exactly. So youre getting pinched. Inflation in general has not been a big problem. Its not been a big problem in a bhiel and now youre seeing its merge. At this point the levels of inflation arent high. As we mentioned, its in the things that you generally need. Is the gas price increase do you think short term and largely related to iraq . Largely short term. Yes, oil prices are up on iraq tensions even carrying over from ukraine. But theres been relatively strong demand. Theyre gasoline exporter. So, yes, its probably gas related. We were here in 2008. The economys bigger. You have higher wages to some degree over that span of time and were driving less and more fuel efficient so it probably shouldnt bite as bad as it did a few years ago. When you look at the market when do you see things pivoting . It does seem as if the summer is going to have upward pressure on gasoline. So i think that might be something were dealing with for a while. What about food prices . How long are we going to link with this . Its very hard to know. We have to know about the harvest and everything else. We should point out its really fresh food. Its meat and produce and things that domestically we produce and buy pretty quickly. Packaged foods, also foods eaten out is not driving higher in terms of price. Always hope these segments will be uplifting. Michael santilli thanks so much. The Presbyterian Church is tryinging to melt the icy divide. They narrowly voted at its convention in detroit to divest from three companies that it says provides israel with equipment. The wall street journal says the National Park service is banning drone aircraft from 400 parks. The use of drones in the parks has grown recently. The agency said the parks are meant to be enjoyed for their quiet and Natural Beauty not the noise and did traction made by drones. The Los Angeles Times says stephanie kwolc ekwolek has die. She created kevlar used in armoire. She was 90 years old. Tiger woods sidelined by recent back surgery. He plans to be on the tee at the quicken loans national in maryland last week. Woods has been injured for years. Hes only played three time this season. Im sure a lot of people are eager to see him. E im sure hes eager to get back. Its now 7 22. Heres a look at the weather for your weekend. Coming up to catch a thief. A father and daughter chase after an alleged burglar and they film the whole thing. And later its been credited with creating the middle class. Well look at the 70th anniversary of the g. I. Bill and show you how its rippling effect forever changed one mans life and family. Youre watching cbs this Morning Saturday. Advertising, many think kids are being directly targeted. Well show you how even the movie frozen is being roped into the advertising with electronic rules. Different rules for advertisin jie think everybody agrees raising the bar is a good thing, improving education is a good thing. But this has even devielded the republican party. You have jeb bush who supports common core and bobby jindal governor of louisiana. I mean he compare this to russian centralized planning. Well Governor Jindal was a passionate supporter before he was against it. This is about politics not education. Frankly, thats part of the problem. We need to put all of that to the side. We need to help all of our children to be suckful snow go to why people really oppose it. You obviously support it. Having high stand dard sard, i think its necessary. There are legitimate questions there. Change is really, really hard. Yo see them trying to move in the right direction. Lots of progress but change is difficult. Given the politics of things we want to go directly to the teachers. We asked one of the schools who does this what they would do. Heres a question from dr. Lynnette alexander the principal of a school in alabama. What would t