Living under warning. Missouri is grappling with what officials there are calling historic white house conditions from the northeast to the midwest. Thousands of travelers are stranded. We dont even know if we are going to get on a flight. George pataki announced the suspension of his campaign and donald trump is ramping up his fight against hillary. Madam president , can you imagine . If it has to be a woman, which im all in favor one day, it shouldnt be hillary. The u. S. Military says Iranian Naval vessels conducted rocket tests near u. S. War strips in the strait of hormuz. A 4. 4 magnitude earthquake widely felt across southern california. Everything started shaking really bad. The fbi is investigating the fatal crash of a plane into an Anchorage Office building. The pilots wife worked on the sixth floor. Iron mike tysyn on his sons hoverboard and the latest to hit the deck. Might come out with big moves. In rhode island. My brother and i will whoop both of their booties if we ever step in the ring with them. Guns n roses will be reunited with the bad coachella. It is a joy to watch a babys first step but a riot to see this baby eating bacon for the first time. Thank you dada [ screaming ] announcer this portion of cbs this morning sponsored by toyota. Lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning, im jeff glor with Margaret Brennan. Chilly rose and gayle king and Norah Odonnell are off. Millions of americans face the threat of flooding in illinois and missouri. Mandatory are under way at this hour and in missouri the flood is blamed for 13 deaths. The Mississippi River could each 14 feet above its flooding stage in st. Louis. The flooding could affect 18 million in its path from illinois to louisiana. Anna werner has more. Reporter this is what youre seeing around st. Louis or they are waiting for it to happen. This is river water coming this way. It looks kind of just like a generic area or a field. This is supposed to be the southbound lane of u. S. 67, but as you can tell, there is no divided highway here, because of the severity of this flooding. The National Guard has been activated statewide to help fight the floods. The water has surrounded west alton, missouri, where residents were told tuesday, its time to leave. We got everything out of our basement of anything important and cleaned out the house of clothes. Reporter as the Mississippi River threatens st. Louis county, it took team work to fill 20,000 sandbags. Officials pleaded for help and the community responded. Just like the movie field of dreams, if you build it, they will come. Reporter the army corps of engineers is monitoring 19 vulnerable levees on the rising Mississippi River and its tributaries. In the shadow of st. Louiss majestic gateway arch during the citys wettest year, the Mighty Mississippi is expected to crest at over 43 feet close to its second highest level ever. Missouri governor jay nixon. Water levels in some locations are predicted to succeed the historic crest during the great flood of 1993. Reporter this was hannibal, missouri, in july 1993 when the river crested 22 feet above flood stage. Nine states saw flooding and 50 people died and nearly 150 major rivers and tributaries were affected. The floodwaters caused a spectacle. I drove in from kansas last night just to come over here and look at this. Reporter after flooding pushed untreated sewage into this plant into nearby rivers and streams, residents of high ridge, missouri, fortified their treatment plan to keep the flood out of the Drinking Water supply to thousands. In union, missouri, water crept over porch steps as river boats crept by and cindy says her area is not broken to flooding. They would not sell me Flood Insurance so ive never been concerned about it. Reporter this is not the usual time of year for the Mississippi River to come over its banks. Its been more than 20 years since this kind of event has happened in the area, but all of that december rainfall is all winding up down here. Margaret . Anna, thank you. Some areas could suffer from the effects of the storm system for days. Chief weather caster lonnie quinn of our new york station wcbs shows us what to expect. Reporter good morning, everybody. What is interesting to note you take a look at the satellite image for the entire u. S. A good portion of the country that is having this catastrophic flooding is getting a pretty calm day today. But, remember, a lag effect from when the big rains come and when the river crests. Take a look at the number of rivers we have river flood warnings in effect. 18 states have a flash of green out here. Each and every urnship one a river flood warning. You saw the pictures in st. Louis. Here is the deal. For st. Louis, flood stage is 30 feet and 31 feet will cause a problem and right now its 41 feet and it will crest tomorrow at 43. 1 the third highest in history. I dont see it being a record because that would be up to like six feet above that. Two more inches of rain will fall in the southeast so that is problematic as well. If you take a look at how things will change by the time you get to new years eve to new year day colder air for the norman tier of country and Midatlantic States have chillier air. In new york city, youre dealing what is the warmest december in our history going back to the late 1800s and start on a different note as we go into the new year. That is the latest. Now back to you. Lonnie, thank you very much. Airlines are scrambling this morning to get back on track after days of weather delays. More than 160 flights are cancelled so far today and 170 delayed. Yesterday, more than 7,300 flights were cancelled or delayed. Adriana diaz is at chicagos Ohare Airport, one of the hardest hit airport. Good morning. Reporter good morning. If youre trying to get through security at this checkpoint this morning you have to get on this line. It is eight rows deep and starts a hundred yards in that direction. Some of the passengers on this flin are frustrated and weary. They are just trying to get home after weather delays from two days ago backed up flights. Our flight was at 5 30 and its 10 00 and they cancelled it now they wont speak to someone this is bull [ bleep ] its such a bull [ bleep ] reporter emotions are running high at chicagos Ohare Airport as travelers struggle to get to their destination. This woman is trying to get back to northern virginia. How long does this even go . Oh, my god. This is actually this is for security . Reporter yes. The airport set up 400 cots last night for people calling these terminals home and hope pfizer and Scott Millman found a spot on the floor. They described the situation as chaos. They wouldnt tell us that our flight had been delayed for an hour and then they would just continue to tell us its been delayed for an hour. Finally, they move your gate and tell you its cancelled. Reporter flightaware. Com ceo daniel baker says flights are packed so rebooking the stranded take time and when it gets airlines to pony up for a hotel. The airlines doesnt have an obligation to put you up at once. If you put enough pressure on them and you have a good reason you probably could pull that off. Reporter that couple we met sleeping on the floor, they are now at a hotel. They were rebooked on another flight but it doesnt leave until next year on new years day. Wow. Adriana, thank you. We have breaking news this morning from New Hampshire where four secret Service Agents were involved in a deadly car crash. Local police say the agents car was hit by another car that strayed across the center line in wakefield along the main border. The driver of that car was killed. The four agents are being treated for serious, but nonlifethreatening, injuries. Donald trump says he is ready to put more money to work in the republican president ial race. The billionaire has led the polls for months. Even though other candidates have outspent him. He told reporters, though, he will ramp up spending in the new year. Major garrett in washington looks at trumps plans for the final weeks before republicans start voting. Major, good morning. Reporter good morning. Donald trump played squire aboard his appointed private jet inviting reporters for an onboard press conference but reminding them not to scratch anything. Trump promised to spend 2 million over campaign ads the next month and republicans running far behind trump ignored the frontrunner and started attacking each other. Madam president , can you imagine . Believe me. Women, if its got to be a woman, which ill all in favor of someday it shouldnt be hillary. Reporter at an iowa rally next month, trump aimed most of his barbs at Hillary Clinton but made a pitch to evangelical christians who made up more than half of the gop caucus turnout in 2012. To the best of my knowledge, not too many evangelicals come out of cuba. Okay . Just remember that. Just remember. If all fairness, here we are. Reporter rubio and cruz who are cuban descent are trumps rivals. Trump says he will soon hit the air waves because he doesnt want to risk losing momentum. I will be spending a minimum a week of 2 for ads in iowa, South Carolina, New Hampshire. Reporter the others battled each other. The super pac supporting jeb bush denounced rubios absenteeism. Rubio admits National Security hearing and missed more votes than any other senator. Millions of dollars in spending and not changing his fortunes, he is becoming his attack is not new. Reporter another ad criticized kasich and christie. Christie joined the jousting, questioning his rivals qualifications. We do not want another president who sits in a chair in the oval office on the first day and spins around and says, gee whiz, isnt it great im president . Reporter George Pataki quid the field yesterday and reducing the republican candidates to 12. Pataki rarely made a ripple in the undercard televised debates. Spies captured private conversations between members of congress and israeli officials and happened despite president obamas promise to end routine eavesdropping on national allies. Wall street journal reports nsa targets netanyahu and his advisers during the iran nuclear talks. The journal said officials believed listening to netanyahu could help oppose his plan to block any deal on the iran. Ned price of the National Security council, quote. We are joined by juan zarate who was a National Security adviser to president george w. Bush. Juan, you said you think that continuing to collect information on israeli leaders is a good decision . Absolutely. I think we have to collect on heads of state and certainly the israeli Prime Minister is fair game in that regard. That said, the white house is going to have to answer to whether or not they engage in intelligence collection for political purposes. The context here matters. It was during the height of the debate around the Iranian Nuclear deal where the political process was central. It was in the wake of the white house having taken on ownership of determining who and at what times heads of state would be collected on for signals intelligence purposes. And it was also the white houses understanding that they would get the collateral benefit of understanding the political discussions happening in congress and certainly within the United States at the time of this collection. So the white house is really going to have to answer to what is a very serious and important question. Juan, you know, you look at what the u. S. Has recently done with releasing an american spying for israeli, Jonathan Pollard and they had bugs in negotiating rooms in hotels where the Nuclear Negotiators were staying overseas to get inside what the u. S. Is doing. In essence is this fair game but to disclose about an ally . Absolutely fair game. I think the big boys and girls of the intelligence world understand they are being listened to. I think one of the challenges of what the administration has done is to sort of unilaterally sdarm disarm on collecting on certain allies and not others and puts the white house in a uncomfortable position not to collect on Angela Merkel but collecting on allies like netanyahu. Police in turkey this morning may have foiled suicide attacks planned for new years eve. Officers raided a house in ankara. The suicide attackers were reportedly going to blow themselves up in the capital city. Police believe the suspects were working with isis. Less than 24 hours more than a Million People will pour into midtown manhattan for the biggest new Years Eve Party in the country. Organizers ran a confetti test tuesday with colorful paper raining down on times square. Don dahler is in times square where the police unveiled their security plans. Reporter good morning. The new York Police Department began preparations for this years new years eve when the last piece of confetti fell last year. With the threat of global terrorism looming, security is more intense than ever before. Some measures, you can see. Some measures, you cant. When the clock strikes 12 00 this new years eve, the new York Police Department wants times square to be the most secure place in the world. We are very, very confident that new years eve in new york city will be the safest place in the world to be. Reporter roughly 6,000 Police Officers are guard the heart of manhattan. Hundreds of them with long guns and Radiation Detector and bomb sniffing dogs. Rooftop snipers and nypd helicopters will be on patrol. At a new Operations Center in downtown, manhattan, officers will monitor thousands of cameras. This year the nypd also set up a specialized counterterrorism unit with more than 500 highly trained cops and Officials Say there are no Credible Threats to new york city, deadly attacks in paris and San Bernardino have raised the level of fear. We are aware that the threat picture has changed because of isis. Thats why we have enlarged our capabilities here in the city with these additional units. Reporter spectators will not be allowed to bring in large bags, backpacks, nor alcohol. Now, this year, the nypd issued some 20,000 smartphones to their officers so that they could have quicker response and share information about any potential threat. Jeff . Don, thank you. One of the most successful rock groups in history may be planning a comeback. Guns n roses is reportedly considering a reunion tour next year and could signal the end of disputes among the bands founding members. Welcome to the jungle reporter welcome back to the jungle may be in the future for this famous rock group. Billboard magazine says members including axl rose and guitar slash plan to headline a Coachella Music Festival in april and a music tour is in the works. One of the most successful rock groups of all time, gnrs 1987 album upended the slash left the band in 1996. The two havent performed on stage together in more than 20 years. Rose snubbed an invitation to the bands rock n roll hall of fame induction in 2012 but earlier this year, slash talked to cbs this morning about burying the feud with rose and the possibility of the band reuniting. A lot of the attention youre talking about is we dont have all of those issues any more. Not a lot of controversy. Its something that is more per p per pep waited by the media. Would you want to do it . 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