Sandbags line the streets and schools across the bay area are closed today. Powerful winds lead to powerful power outages. These Beachfront Homes basically gone. On the east coast, up to 20 inches following it. There are demands for new investigations, prosecutions, and firings. Excuse me. I said who yesterday. Youre on cable. Thats okay. Roger goodell announced a new personal misconduct policy. Any player charged with a Violent Crime will be on paid leave. Theyd you so much, ladies and gentlemen. David letterman has set a day for hit final show. May 20th. Mark your calendar. If you dont have meryl streep on your show, you really dont have a show. New york city, its a miracle no one was killed. Driver in custody after her car jumped a curb. A bmw suv ran into this home. The driver ran away from the scene. All that wizards win it at the buzzer. What a play. Alaska. Cody townsend came straight down a ridiculously deep and narrow shoot. Thats got to be the most insane ski run ive ever seen. And all that matters. President obama and Michelle Obama helped sort gifts for the toys for tots day. This happened on a pbs show. The guest was on fire and the sound effects guy kept adding funny noises. Announcer this mornings eye opener is presented by toyota, lets go places. Captioning funded by cbs welcome to cbs this morning. Gae king is off, so were pleased to have our pal jeff glor with us zbhood morning. California this morning is bracing for the strongest storm to hit the west coast in more than six years. Dozens of scores are closed this morning. Heavy rains and winds threaten to bring trees and power lines down. The worst of the storm is expected to hit throughout. Some could see up to a foot of rain over the next two days. Bigad shaban is in sacramento where people are preparing anyway they can. Bigad, good morning. Reporter good morning to you. The heavy rain isnt expected to fall here for a couple of hours but it should last through the day. Right now the biggest concern along the Sacramento River is the creeks and rivers that fed into it are already swollen from the storm last week which only increases the risk for flooding. The rain clouds over Northern California opened up overnight. There was a downpour people havent seen in years. In some communities up to 8 inches of rain are expected by this evening. Kimmy and her son filled sand bags to line along her home because of worries along the Sacramento River. We hear theres a big storm and so were going to be ready. I think we even done all that we can. This is the last bit. Along the california coast, Near Hurricane Force Winds threatened to knock out power for thousands. Victor jenkins helped his 87yearold neighbor prepare for the storm. Physical labor is not what i do . I sit behind my computer. This is one of those systems we dont see very often. Reporter Michelle Meade is a National Coordinator with the National Weather service. It will do little to help the droughtravaged state. In the whole scheme of things its not going to do a lot. No. Its a little drop. Reporter but the potential for high surf is causing big concerns along beaches in los angeles. Crews built sand berms to prevent flooding since waves could reach two stories tall. Now, despite all these precautions, the wet weather is also being welcomed here in california which is in its third year of drought. Jeff, back to you. Bigad, thank you very much. Huge waves are pounding the coast. Already theyve swept homes into the water. Evelyn is tracking all of it. Evelyn, good morning. Good morning. Indeed, were looking at dangerous surf up and down the coast. Rain expected, 3 to 4 inches but in the higher elevations, up to maybe 10 inches. And snowwise, 1 to 3 inches in the sierra. We could see very gusty conditions, up to 120 Miles Per Hour along some ridgetops. For futurecasts, youll see rain work into the bay area for the remainder of the day. As we head into the afternoon and early evening hours were going to see rain along the Central Coast of california and finally Southern California getting hit in the overnight and Early Morning hours for tomorrow. For the east, things starting to dry out for the next couple of day s and warm up. Evelyn, thank you. Heres a look at new york, 2 feet in syracuse. Bringing down power lines. It forced an interstate to close most of wednesday. An Al Qaeda Group in yemen said it attacked an air base used by americans. They say it was revenge for failure to attempt to rescue luke somers. David martin is at the pentagon. Good morning. Good morning. They refused to say whether any u. S. Military personnel were even at the base at the time of the attack. Al qaeda said they fired a half dozen rockets at the american part of this sprawling base located near the area where luke somers was held. A relatively small number of special Operations Forces are in yemen working with yemeni troops in the battle against al qaeda and over the last couple of weeks they conducted two raids in an attempt to rescue somers. In the first attempt, somers was not there, in the second attempt, he and a teacher from south africa were killed by guards. Luke somers body arrived back in the u. S. At the air force base in dover. Jeff. Thank you. Many cannot stop arguing about a scathing Senate Report on the terror attacks on 9 11. One of the targets is responding to the criticism this morning but he said theres not much he can talk about. Nancy cordes spoke with him. Shes on capitol hill. Good morning. Good morning, jeff. Hes a psychologist who spent most of his career as a serviceman. After 9 11 he and his Business Partner came to the cia with an idea on,000 handle prisoners. The report says his methods were inaffective but hes getting some highprofile backup. The former Vice President says the Senate Intelligence report throws intelligence professionals under the bus. What happened here was we asked the agency to go and take steps to put in place programs that were put in place to catch the bastards who killed on 9 11 and make sure it didnt happen again and thats exactly what they did. The cia says one of those professionals was dr. James mitchell. Im not going to confirm or deny that i was one of the persons they contacted. Reporter he was one half of the duo dubbed dunbar and swart. We reached him at home where he said the report drafted by the Senate Intelligence committee is onesided. What i believe is if theres a beef with the cia and senator feinstein and this is just her effort on the way out to smear the men and women there. Reporter the report is unflattering. Neither psychologist had any experience as an interrogator, nor did either have knowledge of al qaeda th. Its just stupid, stupid. Why . Its just false, to have a nondisclosure agreement. I cant even defend myself. Reporter the report says it was mitchell who suggested 12 Different Things including a face slap. He sat down and said many critics of the Interrogation Program had a double standard. To me it seems completely unsensible, slapping people is bad but sending people into a picnic and killing granny and everyone is okay. He said he was never contacted by the office of the report and when i asked why they would turn to outside contractors to divide a program that would seem to be at the heart of the cia responsibilities, he said we would have to ask that question of the cia. Charlie. Thanks. Police in hong kong this morning are clearing the main camp used by prodemocracy protesters. The protests began 2 1 2 months ago. Demonstrators are angry about the governments involvement in choosing election candidates. A protest Organizer Says the fight for open elections is not over. The National Football league says it now has the right framework to address misconduct off the field. All 32 team owners voted wednesday to impose a tough new policy. It applies to everyone. Coaches, player, and employees. And as Roger Goodell reports, the nfl wants to show that rape and violence will not be tolerated. It clearly spells out not only how the league kayes out its investigations but when and what types of punishments will be doled out. One of the biggest changes, nfl commissioner Roger Goodell is stripped of key powers. A new official will be put in charge of investigations and discipline. This will be a highly qualified individual with a criminal justice background, hired as soon as possible. Reporter the eightpage policy covers sex assault, dating violence, child abuse, stalking, assault and battery, cruelty to animals and any conduct that undermines the integrity of the nfl is also banned. Nancy armoire, a sports columnist for usa today welcomes the changes. Really for the past few months there have been kneejerk reactions and plan ace lock the way. The commissioner has final say on appeals. Sex assault and Domestic Violence offenses carry a baseline sixgame suspension. Norah odonnell asked Roger Goodell about that in september. Does the nfl have a Domestic Violence policy. One case is enough. If we have one case, thats something we have to address. If we have multiple, we have to change our training and education to try to eliminate the issue. They were surprised saying their unilateral decision and conduct today is tonal thing thats been consistent over the past few months. You have to have everybody buying in. As t way it stands right now, the players are not going to. They have outside consultants. In the case of Domestic Violence or child abuse, the league will provide critical teams to provide assistance to victims, perpetrator, and their families. Jim, thank you very much. The Dow Jones Industrial fell 250 points on wednesday, the worth since october. The average price of crude oil is now at a fiveyear low. Cbs analyst Mellody Hobson joins us this morning. Good morning. Whats going on . It starts in china. Weve seen it play out in a big way in terms of oil but other commodities as well. If theres not enough demand and those prices go down. Demand is one side of the equation but supply is the other side and supply in america has been amazing. In just six years america has reduced its dependency on foreign oil by 50 . That means that the oil cartel, opec, doesnt have the control and power that it had before and so while everyone resets here, weve seen a very sharp drop in oil prices. Its interesting to see the government is predicting the gaps will be about 2. 60 a gallon next year. Thats going to save drivers about 120 billion a week. Thats 25 a week in peoples paychecks. Thats a lot of money. Whats the downside . I believe its short term. That is for Oil Companies themselves. Which is why the market really accelerated. Exactly. They represent about 10 of the s p 500. Their stocks are down 50 this year. They have to rightsize themselves now. Just a year ago these companies were booming. So its been this fast fall thats caused a problem but over the intermediate term, this will be a boon to the american consumer. I think of it like a stimulus. For every one penny, its a billion dollars in spending. Whats the future of the chinese economy if its going to impact them . Heres the thing. Were still growing by 7 . This is huge. Its just not the double growth we saw years ago that was at 14 . It wont be this explosive growth that we saw. So, again, everyone is rightsizing themselves at this point. In the u. S. , we still have the recovery we hoped for. Yes. And the u. S. Is expected to do what its doing, which is slow but steady growth and europe is expected to be a slow grower as well. So the bigger story hasnt changed. The global multinationals are in great slap. Im not that worried. Really doctoring. Mellody hobson, thank you so much. And police this morning are investigating whether a driver who plowed through a crowded shopping area in new york city was intoxicated. It happened last night near the macys flagship store. Six pedestrians were hit. The car struck pedestrians before smash into a window. The driver is being treated for nonlifethreatening injuries. David letterman announced his last show will be in may. In his career hes won five emmys, peabody, and expected millions. Vad m Vladimir Duthiers is here with a shift at night. One thing that wont be forgotten. The indelible impact hes had on generations of americans who grew up watching him. The cia torture report is 6 million pages long. Its almost as long as a George Clooney prenup. Reporter his iconic gaptoothed smile and wit has been with us for more than three decades. Theres a whole generation of comics right now including most of the other latenight hosts who were tremendously influenced by lettermen. Aannounced his retirement on one of his late shows. 2015, for the love of god, in fact, paul and i will be wrapping things up and taking a hike. Reporter that date is now official. May 20th. In a statement ceo Leslie Moonves says its going to be tough to say goodbye but i know well all chirish the shows leading up to daves final broadcast in may. His irreverent and often overthetop antics brought him fans and critical acclaim. Next year he will be taking over as host of this program, the late show. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the very talented, the always entertaining Stephen Colbert. Waiting in the wings, comedian Stephen Colbert whos hosted the popular colbert report on Comedy Central since 2005. The impending change was even joked about during the Kennedy Center honors earlier this week. Not yet. Stephen colbert will take over hosting duties at some point in 2015. His last show on Comedy Central will tape next week. As for letterman, he says he wants to spend more time with his family including his 11yearold son. He will be missed. Absolutely. I grew up watching him. So it will be a total bummer to see him go. I know. Big shoes for for colbert to fill. Up next on cbs this morning, a lost fishermans survivor story. He reveals h announcer this National Weather report sponsored by kohls. Find your yes. Kohls. More questions surrounding the alleged victim in the uva rape investigation. I wish i knew sort of why she decided to portray, you know, everybody who, you know, tried to help her, how horrible the animal house frat boys. Ahead, the friends of the woman known as jackie how Rolling Stone got the story wrong. The news is back in the morning on cbs this morning. Stay tuned for your local news. Announcer this portion of cbs this morning sponsored by toyota. Lets go places. 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