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On cbs this morning. Its a stressful time for wealthy americans. Its hard to find the perfect present. This is called a cats paw. Thats it. Is this for a child . Announcer this mornings eye opener presented by toyota. Lets go places. Captioning funded by cbs welcome to cbs this morning. A threat of terror this morning to anybody who goes to see a controversial new movie. Thursdays new York Premiere of the interview was reportedly canceled. The hackers said the world would be full of, quote, fear if moviegoers go to the movies. North korea is outraged by the movie but denies any connection to the threat. Bob orr is in washington with how Law Enforcement is respojds. Good morning. Good morning. The fbi and department of homeland are busy working to determine if this is some kind of scare ak tick, angry rhett wick, or perhaps a real warning about a pending atachlk still police are on guard. Los Angeles Police chief charlie beck says the lapl d take extra precautions after an online message warned of a bitter fate for movie goers who seek terror. Remember 9 11. We recommend you to keep yourself distant from the places at that time. If your house is nearby, youd better leave. As a result, at least two theater chains have reportedly opted out of screening the film. When reaching by cbs this morning, representatives from the largest chain would not comment. Sonys new comedy the interview star stars james fro and seth rogan. Its set to hit theaters nationwide on christmas day. At this day sony is leaving the decision whether to show the film up to individual theater owners. I dont think people should be afraid to go to the theaters to see this movie. That achieves the goal the hackers set. Its released everything from top Financial Information and topsecret scripts to embarrassing emails bashing hollywood alisters. Tuesday they released more emails from Michael Linton and the hackers are threatening to do more damage. They call this just the beginning of a Christmas Gift saying, quote, whatever comes in the coming days is called by the greed of Sony Pictures entertainment. Now, this new message does not shed any particular new light on whos responsible, but Law Enforcement sources tell us the evidence points to hackers inside north korea or outside surrogates who are acting at the direction of the communist regime. North koreans for their part are denying any part in it. Charlie . Bob, thanks. Good morning. Good morning. The question is next. Whats going to happen when the movie opens in theaters and the larger question, what are the implications of this . Its a frightening time for hollywood, for studios like sony. Everybody is waiting for the next shoe to drop. Carmiche. Will Movie Companies be intimidated not to show a film because of coming threats from somewhere. Exactly. Sony says theyre Going Forward with the release but theyre leaving it up to theater chains whether theyre going to show the film. Clearly its worked. How much money do they stand to lose . Thats a great question, gayle. The film itself cost 40 million to produce, tens of millions to promote and advertise. If they dont show it at the theaters, that impacts all kinds of ancillary details such as television. Its going to cost sony tens of millions of dollars just for that film. How is sony fighting back . Well, right now theyre trying to get in front of this story. Theyre trying to line up with supporters, working on a statement for solidarity. Theyre threatening legal action in terms of Media Outlets that public that use these stolen documents to write and report on. What about the future for amy pascal, the head of sony picture . Thats a good question. Amay pascal certainly on the rope. Those emails certainly embarrassing and shes got a lot of Fence Building to do. Were seeing dramatic image this morning from on board an American Airlines fliechlt extreme turbulence rocked the plain for 45 minutes. 14 passengers were hurt. They made an Emergency Landing in tokyo yesterday. Michelle miller shows us what happened. Reporter this video posted to youtube is said to show the terrifying moments the boeing 777 encountered a harsh winter storm over japan. Show me the bowl that hit your head. American Airlines Flight 280 with 255 and 14 crew members was on an 11hour trip when the turbulence hit. Mark stanley of texas said the shaking which lasted 45 minutes caused the plane to buck like a broncho. All of a sudden there was a big drop and food and plates and everything started flying all over the place. These pictures show the destruction. An overturned meal cart. Beverages splattered on the overhead luggage bins. Crews helped the injured off the plane. Five people were taken to the hospital. And although the airline conf m confirming none of the injuries are lifethreatening, passengers were left rattled. Ive flown millions of miles. This is the worst ive ever seen. Now the dallasbound passengers are hoping for a less eventful trip. For cbs this morning, michelle miller, new york. This morning were getting our first look inside a school where taliban gunmen massacred more than 100 children and burned female teachers alive. Clarissa ward is in london. Good morning. Good morning. Pakistans Prime Minister has lifted a moratorium on the Death Penalty as three more Staff Members died from their injuries, and in schools across the country this morning we have seen children gathering and praying together for those who lost their lives. As families continue to bury their dead, three days of mourning begin. Terrorist attacks are all too common in pakistan. Few have been quite as deadly or as brutal as this one. Almost all of those killed in yesterdays eighthour siege were students. One boy who escaped described the attacks. Suddenly there was gunfire behind us, he said. Some kids were killed and i was shot in the back. The attack began at around 10 00 a. M. At least seven men stormed into the military run School Opening fire indiscriminately on teachers and students with guns and grenades. Soon after Pakistani Army command others arrived on the scene. Gunfire and explosions were heard heard from inside. When it was over, more than 140 people were dead leaving a nation reeling. What did we do wrong, the schoolboy from peshawar asked. Were not from the school or army but they killed small kids. The taliban claimed it was revenge for Ongoing Military Operations in northern waziristan which have claimed more than 1,000 lines by the armys own count. One of the many funerals being held today is for the schools principal mrs. Tahera kazi. An employee told cbs news she told her attackers to use all the bullets on her instead of on the children. She was shot more than 50 times. Just to hear a student say what did we do wrong. And the principal to say ill take the bullets for the children and does so. We have new information about the deadly siege. Were learning about the man who held the hock tstages inside th cafe was on a terrorist watch two years ago. Ben tracy is in sydney where people continue mourning those victims. Ben, good morning. Gayle, good morning. If you want to see something amazin amazing, look at this. This memorial in sydney has doubled in size as people have come here to pay their respects to those two hostages who lost their lives. Were also learning how terrifying that situation was. This new video from the news room just across the street from the lindt cafe. 30 minutes later the gunfire ended the 17hour standoff. One woman was crying as she held up a black flag in the window. Another trim bling and then collapsing. John obrien was one of the first hostages to escape. He gave a brief statement wednesday. I never felt so much relief when i turned the corner and saw the police waiting for me. Reporter there is growing anger in sydney that the hostage taker man ha roon monis was out on bail for Sexual Assault, attempted murder and having extremist views. Are you concerned that given his criminal background he was out on bail . We were concern thad he got bail from the very beginning. Should he have been watched more closely by the police . If somebody is on a National Security watch list, then we pay particular attention to them. But on this occasion this particular individual was not. Reporter in downtown sydney where streets are now reopened, police have launched what they call operation hammerhead, increeds control throughout the city, but the police are far outnumbered by the thousands still waiting in line to pay their respects at the ever growing memorial. Family and friends of one of the hoss tax Torey Johnson who was killed were visiting on wednesday. Very moving. Thank you for supporting us. Through this terrible time. Reporter now today australias Prime Minister said the hostage taker did have a legal license for the gun he used. He was on a terrorist list in 2008 but for unknown reasons he dropped off of it in 2009. All right, ben. Thank you. This morning a big republican name will spend the rest of this year seriously thinking about 2000167. Jeb bush wrote on facebook i have decided to actively explore the possibility of running for president. Nancy cordes is in washington. Nancy, good morning. Good morning. What that means is bush can start to openly court donors to gain his support but it sounds like he himself may still need some convincing help made it clear he isnt sold on the idea yet. If i can get comfortable with being a candidate that gives people hope that we can fix some of these big problems to take opportunities, thats what im pursuing. Thats not a decision now. Why decide now right before the holidays . He was crosspressured by the mitt romney boon who said, jeb, if you dont get in, i going to go with mitt. He was leads 114 president ial prospects unless mitt romney decides to make a run for presidency. Then bush will be 1502. Theyve already started. Conservative activist brent bozell tweeted tuesday, another bush versus another clinton . Political volume it. While Rush Limbaugh took issue with bushs moderate stance on topics like immigration reform. Here comes jeb announcing hes going to explore via a committee the idea of running for president , and hes going to do it in a unique way. Hes going to do it by ignoring the base. Democrats got in on the act, too, sending out fundraising emails asking are you ready for the nikt president bush . Theres only so much they can take when their own frontrunner Hillary Clinton is pretty connected to a president herself. The white house plans to turn up the heat on sanctions for russia. They dropped another 4 in early trading this morning. Charlie dagata is in moscow where russians are beginning to worry about their finances. Charlie, good morning. Reporter good morning. The ruble continued its backslide today but nothing like the nosedives in the past couple of days. The russian finance miniter says they plan to sell off foreign currencies in order to prop the ruble up. Banks and money exchanges have been packed. Scraping up rubles at cut rate prices after catastrophic losses against the dollar this week. If you have dollars, youre winning, says this shopper, but if you have rubles, you wont have any chance to buy any cheaper. Shopkeepers have had to reprice products by the day. The majority of russians are not so fortunate. Their disposable incomes are disappearing into rubs arctic thin air and all they can do is watch. This woman says she lives on a pension and has had to cut back on food in order to buy medicine. Yesterdays huge hike in the Interest Rate from 10. 5 to a staggering 17 has made borrowing from russias embattled banks to get by a possibility now. Farmer and father of four told us he fears he may face bankruptcy. Must find some money to stop it and i think i dont have enough at the moment. Really. Yeah. What are you going to do . To go to the bank. The percentage is going higher and higher. Reporter and the only forecast is for russia to sink further and further into an expected recession next year. Russian president Vladimir Putin remains defiandefiant. Thank you, charlie. A rounding of suspects in a deadly meningitis outbreak 146789 people connected to the new England Compounding Center face charges that the laboratory is linked to the deaths of 64 patients. Prosecutors say hundreds got sick two years ago after taking steroids contaminated with mold. Its 7 19. 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Lets get over to the Weather Center and check with katie, good morning. Today will be a day of transition for us as we track a cold front passage but thankfully any wet weather is long gone and out of here. Storm scan three meanwhile has been emptying out, over the last few hours. You can see included cover thinning out. What we are finding is very beautiful views because we have a little cloud cover but sunnies also, filtered through you that included cover. So 39 degrees outside kutztown area middle school. Warmer then it was this same time yesterday but that breeze will kick in out there. We will still eventually end up with milder than average day at 50 degrees, and then by tomorrow in the mid 40s where we should be but still breezy tomorrow too. Vittoria. Good morning everyone. Your rush hour commute is out there, it looks like rush hour. On the schuylkill, 95, usual spots. Speaking of the schuylkill were right new on the westbound side of 76 around belmont where you watch an accident being completely cleared out of the way that was the on the shoulder. Maybe in the completely. We still have one more tow truck here but it is in the process have have being completely cleared out of the way. Westbound side of 76 is hit with that residual traffic. Eight is your average there. Thirteen on i95. No delays for mass transit. Our next update 7 55. Up next on cbs this morning a routine traffic stop turned tragedy did police try to cover up a murder. Cbs news anothing the top google searches of 2014 were ebola and frozen. One leaves you with highly infect use that makes it impossible tget out of your system and the other is ebola. Thats