The message it says if you really scare us, we will do what you want. Sony pictures pulls out of the interview. The christmas release cancels. The studio says it has no plans to release the movie at all. The u. S. Plans to implicate north korea for the cyber attack. What are we doing here . Lets let the guys come in here and have their way. Alan gros, a prisoner for years back on u. S. Soil. This president is the single woeft negotiator, basically giving the cuban government everything it asks for. A deadly crash in california. One person is killed when a car plows into a group of people. I saw two people hit each other and one car fly away. Defending actions in crimea. He promises the economy would recover. Christmas light display out of thisw images from nasa showi Holiday Light from space. Which one of these is not a piece of jewelry symbolizing the love between two people . B. He landed an interview with the one and only sting. I can see you tried your best. You can be proud of yourself. Bile proud of myself, if you say so. The u. S. Prepares to cut loose the shalks. A Better Future for the cuban people and the american people. Announcer this mornings eye opener presented by toyota. Lets go places. Captioning funded by cbs welcome to cbs this morning. Anger and outrage this morning after Sony Pictures pulls the controversial movie the interview. One commentator said the United States lost its first cyber war. Sony backed down from hackers threats of violence and potential release of damaging more internal documents. Cbs learns u. S. Could soon blame north korea for the Cyber Attacks about the movie. The movie plott is about north koreas leader. Elaine quijano is here with the most dangerous cyber attack ever. Corporate america, hollywood, and the u. S. Government agree the sony hack attack has been unprecedented and the white house is considering a wave of options. You want us to assassinate the leader of north korea in. Yes. Whaaat . In the end it turns out the picture is no laughing matter. There will soon be an investigation into whether north korea is behind the hacking attack. Its incredibly difficult for the u. S. Government to respond in part because the North Koreans are playing a game of brinksmanship and they know there arent many options for the u. S. Government. This comes after the cyber group guardians of peace threatthreat ened a 9 11style attack on christmas day. Thousands of theaters say they wouldnt have show the film and sony was facing pressure from other studios. Sony realized this was going to affect others and this would affect their bottom line. Finally sony decided to cancel it all together saying i have never seen a studio just say we are pulling the publicity, we are pulling the movie, no video on demand. Its as if the interview never existed. While sony says it stands by their right to express, critics have been vocal. Newt gingrich says america has lost its first cyber war. This is a very, very dangerous precedent. Personally allowing a ruthless dictator of another country decide what americans can or account no see in our own k country is against everything we stand for. Its scary, man. Emails and its your private stuff. I dont know. The whole towns scared. Everybodys got to be scared. The ripple effects continue. A steve carell movie reportedly about korea has been canceled. Its possible the interview may never see the light of day and sony wants to distance its from the controversy as much as possible. Pulling the film and loss of the infrastructure could easily run into the hundreds of millions. Elaine, we thank you. In the next half hour, a hackers take. Why a onetime hacker of a group says it doesnt blame north korea. President obama said wednesday he will restore relations between the two countries. Those ties were cut in january 1961. Scott pelley is in cubas capital and well speak to him in a moment. First Major Garrett is at the white house where the president made the historic announcement. Major, good morning. Reporter good morning. President obama said it was time to end the experiment and isolation that dates back to a the eisenhower administration. Critics said the president was misinform and naive. We will end an outdated approach that for decades has failed to advance our interests. Reporter the white house negotiates the release of u. S. Aid worker alan gros unjustly jailed in cuba for five years at the same time it worked on normalizing relations with havanas communist government. The pope urged them to resolve and initiate a new phase in relations. The president sealed the deal with castro in an oval Office Phone Call tuesday. Freedom for gross triggered the lifting of certain travel and trade restrictions but only congress can remove all barriers between the u. S. And cuba. Democrat Robert Menendez is the outgoing chairman of the Foreign Relations committee. I think it stinks. I think its wrong. Im disappointed in the president. Marco rubio said the white house gave up too much. This president is the single worst negotiator weve had in the white house in my lifetime who has basically given the cuban government everything it asks for and received no assurances of any advances in democracy and freedom in return. Reporter gross was flown back to america. The policy that weve had in place for the past 50 years has done more in my view to keep the castro regimes in power than anything we could have done. Reporter republicans who will run Congress Next year have vowed to do everything in their power to block the lifting of a decadesold economic embargo with florida. Antisentiment has run high and both parties have tried to exploit it. With president obamas move now the policy could be the dividing line for the race to the white house in 2016. Gayle . All right, major. Thank you. It was a surprise but the white house has worked for years to bring home alan gross. Margaret brennan has more. Good morning. His first words to his two daughters are im free. He had been in jail for 15 years and charged with crime against the cuban state. A mob of wellwishers greeted alan gross just after he landed in washington, d. C. A he get blessed. Its the first day of hanukkah. He was charged for crimes against the cuban state and sentenced him to 15 years. Hed lost 100 pounds, vision in his right eye and five of his front teeth. God bless you and thank you. It was drushl my survival knowing that i was not forgotten. Reporter after a few false started, over 18 months of talks a final deal was brokered this week. In exchange the castro regime released an unnamed Cuban National who had served 20 years in jail for working as a u. S. Spy. Alan grosss imprisonment helped pave the way toward a diplomatic opening. President obama announced the first step will be allowed cuban americans to send more money to families in cuba and u. S. And credit and debit cards will be used. It shows such bilge ranns inhilkts better judgment. Two wrongs never make a right. Gross was greeted aet the airport by john kerry who said he looks forward to being the first secretary to visit in 60 years. Theres no step yet and its going to take at least another six months to release the terror related sanctions. The two cubans released at the same time are all accused of spying. Theyre considered heroes. Castro embraced them when they got off the plane in havana. Scott pelley is in havana, cubas capital. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Those three cubans returned here to a heros west coast. Cubans wachled them on Television Last night greeting their neighbors as the streets around them filled with what appeared to be adoring crowds and they thanking everyone for keeping the faith and bringing them home. The castro brothers had always said this country would never rest until those three cuban spies were returned from the United States. As the sun rises this morning over the island, cubans are waking up to a new reality. Now that the sweeping changes have finally been announced. These negotiations went on for 18 months in secret. When raul castro announced it to his people at the same time president obama spoke new state. Nearly evan was watching. At first there was silence but that soon turned to joy. People broke out in song and danced to celebrate the news. Church bells rang and cars and Motor Vehicles honked their horns as they drove through the streets. Although its far too early for people to feel any sort of impact, theres a sense that this can only be a good thing. People here feel that Economic Conditions will improve as trade restrictions loosen and visits by american tourists are made easier. Diplomatic relations between cuba and the United States have been virtually nonexistent since they broke off in 1961. And when you look around a city like this, like havana, the city almost feels frozen in time, but this might change things now that ties have been reestablished. You cant overemphasize what this news means to families here. An entire generation of cubans have watched their children either leave the island or attempt to leave the island and theres a sense here now that if the economy improves and the government opens up more freedoms, families may stay together, people may want to stay here in cuba. Charlie . Scott, thank you so much. President jormg w. Bush supported the embargo. So did secretary powell. He joins us from washington. Good morning. Good morning. How are you all . Youre a veteran of diplomacy. Do you totally support the steps the president has done, the plans he has made and the deals hes made . Yes, i support it but theres a long road to be traveled. I had a flashback when i heard the announcement yesterday. Flashback in 1962 when i was a young captain of vietnam whelp suddenly i got instructions to go to ft. Hood because we may invade cuba. That didnt happen. Over the years ive watched this policy unfold and ive been a part of it. The i think its time to turj the page of history. I dont see anything wrong with opening diplomatic relations with cuba. We have diplomatic relations with other nations. Its a way to talk, make your point. Theyre not going to get off the sanctions list any time soon. Congress isnt going to do that. But its good to have an ambassador there who tells cubans, this is what will come if you respond in a positive way. It think its a positive way. And as scott pelley just noted, there is optimism within the cuban people by this change and therefore i think lets start it, lets get the process going, lets not have any illusions. This is not a terrible regime but we dont like what theyre doing. Thing with the relegislations weve had with soviet union, vietnam and others, we can look forward to change. Youre recommending they lift the embargo . No. I recommend they take it under advicement. If they reach a point where they think progress has been made, then congress should consider it. This is just the beginning. Were not lifting the sanctions yet and theres a lot of pressure made on the castro brothers and should be made on them until they start to show the kind of positive movement that we want to see. Releasing political prisoners, opening up the economy, making life easier and more open for the cuban people. And so this is just one step and there are a lot of steps that have to be made to make this work. General, can you address the criticism that president obama by taking this action has vindicated the brutal behavior of the cuban government, a castro government that has been so oppressive, a long list of human rights abuses . No, i dont think hes done that at all. Nor is that necessarily the case just because you opened an embassy and started to make some movements. I hope that our government will continue to speak out against that kind of behavior and i hope our ambassador going in makes sure we give that message to them at every opportunity. Weve got through the same thing with a lot of other countries and my experience in all of this is once you Start Talking to someone, youre almost inserting a poison pill into the system where they have to start responding to the pressures that theyre still under. And so i thing this is a positive step and lets not overemphasize all thats going to happen in the months and years ahead. Its a long process, but i think a page of history has been turned and its appropriate to do so at this time. General, i want to turn to the sony hack attack and reports that the north korean government is behind it. What do you make of that and if true, what are the implications of that . Well, i think if it is koreans and i understand the American Government will announce that its a very serious issue. But, you know, this is a problem all of us have to face in this internet age. But if we can identify that the North Koreans did it and if we can be specific as to who did it within north korea, then i think appropriate action has to be taken. I cant tell you what that is. Were rather limited. Ill wait and see what the Administration Announces and then well go from there. Secretary powell. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. Coverage on the cyber attack continues tonight on the cbs evening news. Scott pelley will be anchoring from havana. Russia president Vladimir Putin says hes confident his countrys economy will rebound. He ee hosting his annual news conference. Putin puts part of the blame for the fall of the ruble on western sanctions. Translator what theyre trying to do at the moment is to maintain our sovereignty and our independence. And if you do it, then the problems were facing in our economy at the moment are the results of the sanctions, and it is partially true because you know about 25 of the problems we are facing at the moment, 20 , 25 , are due to the sanctions. Well, putin says russia is not the aggressor in International Conflicts and in protecting the interest he accuses the United States of meddling in russias affairs. Security stepped up at the courthouse in boston. Tsarnaev is expected in court. He has not been seen when he still had visible injuries at the time. The defense motion to move the trial from boston is pending. New video shows the tense moments as iraqi officers try to defuse a suicide belt strapped to the boy. He surrendered to authorities instead. Sources tell cbs news the boy is 13 years old and from syria. Iraqi officials appear to have successfully defused the bomb. And it is 7 19. On cbs this morning well ask announcer this National Weather report sponsored by kohls. 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