Eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Why did you cancel . Nothings been canceled. It reaches a fever pitch. Its very obvious the white house wanted this meeting canceled. If they hadnt canceled, she would have testified today. We have no problem with her testifyi testifying. Plap and simple the report from the Washington Post, false. Coming from sean spicers mouth. If its coming from sean spicers mouth, the opposite is probably happening. Its spinning really fast. Oh, my fosh. Its right in front of me. Tornados, rain and wind and hail hitting texas, arkansas, and louisiana. Its going to be another storm maker. Britain begins its official exit from the European Union. The first major piece of Public Diplomacy in a battle that will last two years. Hillary clinton speaking to businesswomen in san francisco. Theres no place id rather be than here with you other than the white house. A storm slammed the queensland coast. A plane veered off the runway during a fourrced landing in pe. Luckily no one was hurt. Check this out. Ive got news for you. When this guy wants to play through, you let him play through. Three seconds left. Za ga. He gets it in. And they win the game. And all that matters. If the russian president puts russian salad dressing on his salad, thats all the same. Its not the same. 17th most popular dressing in america. 17th. If he was using it, yes, that would be suspicious. Wait a second. The president put russian tressing on his salad tonight . Thats huge news. Trump ate a salad . Announcer this mornings eye opener presented by toyota. Lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning. A cbs news poll out this morning finds Many Americans disagree with the president when he says the trump russia story is a hoax. 59 say it is very likely or somewhat likely that Trump Associates had Improper Communications with russias government. 40 of people in our poll approve of President Trumps job performance, and that is nearly unchanged from last month. The white house tried to block sally yates from testifying in front of congress. Trump fired her. Jeff pegues is on capitol hill with the new controversy over sally yates. Jeff, good morning. Good morning. The house investigation has been officially stalled, bogged down by fingerpointing. The latest testimony was to be of sally yates who also informed the white house that former National Security adviser Michael Flynn had misled the Vice President about his contacts with the russian ambassador. The white house did not respond and took no action that prevented miss yates from testifying. They sought to delay former attorney general sally yates from testifying. We encouraged them to go aheading but to suggest in any way, shape, or form that we stood in the way of that is 100 false. Reporter cbs news has testified. It warns that there is a limit to what she could reveal in her testimony and that she needs to consult with the white house. On the same day she received this letter, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee congressman devin nunes canceled yates testimony. It gets stranger and stranger and frankly more bizarre every day. Since it showed intercepted communications, the house intelligence kmietd tee investigation into russian meddling has been in disarray. Politics get heated but im not going to involve myself. On tuesday he nationed more questions with whether he was working with the white house while tlaing the investigation while also dismissing calls to step aside. Are you going to stay as chairman to run h investigation . Why would i not . This is what coverup behavior looks like. Eric swoe well who sits on the Committee Says he expresses doubt about whether he can lead the investigation. Right now america wants transparency and theyre getting more and more smoke bombs. There was one hearing on russia. No others currently scheduled. The Intelligence Committee is expected to hold its first meeting tomorrow and a press conference today. Thank. He is urging tevin nunes to reschedule the open hearing with former acting attorney general sally yates. The congressman joins us from washington. Good morning. Good morning, charlie. Do you have any evidence that the white house urnged and took part in the denying of the opportunity for sally yates to testifisome. I dont have any particular evidence. The timing certainly raises a lot of questions and the fact that the hearing was canceled abruptly without any explanation causes a lot of us to ask roys going on here, why arent we Going Forward with this hearing. I have to think the hearing we had monday of last week in which the director announced they were under investigation for possible coordination with russia and the fact that the directors rebutted the white house claims about illegal wiretapping by barack obama had something to do with the cancellation of the second open hearing. I think white house probably felt that didnt go well for th them, but its otherwise hard to understand why the cancellation. I think it has a lot to do with sally yates. Do you believe the white house is cooperateding with the chairman and therefore robbing this committee of the hearing if. He was an important member of the Transition Team and i think hes maintained that position with the white house and that has caused a lot of questions to be raised about whether he can fairly and impartially lead in this investigation. They called it so seriously into question that he really ought to recuse himself, in particular if hes raising an issue about whether members of the Transition Team were incidentally collected. He was a member of the team and i think theres a real conflict of interest. So i think it would be in the best interest of the investigation Going Forward if someone else on the committee were to lead it. But we really need to get this back on track and i think the majority can start out by rescheduling this hearing. Weve urged them to to that, but we have yet to hear back. Congressman, lets talk about the substance, what you wanted to hear from former attorney general sally yates. She was the acting attorney general. She warned the council Michael Flynn made comments that were perhaps untruthful. What did you want to hear directly from her . I certainly wanted to hear the events that led up to Michael Flynns firing. What concerns me is according to newspaper accounts she brought information to the white house that indicated that mike flynn had lied about a conversation he had with a russian ambassador, and not just about any topic. This was on the subject, at least apparently according to reports of the sanctions president obama imposed on russia to help donald trump, is these obviously a very significant conversation. It led to his firing when it led to the firing and he misled the country. You have a period of time, it looks like some weeks, in which the president was aware Michael Flynn had lied and he had misrepresented the country and the president did nothing about it. Do you think the white house counc counsel didnt inform the president . I would like to know. I certainly think they did. Why didnt the president look into it . Only took action with mr. Flynn after it was brought out many public by the Washington Post. That suggests that real crime here was the publication of mr. Flynns lie, not at the fact that the country was misled. And i think those facts were facts the white house did not want to come out in this open hearing and the timing certainly raised a lot of questions about whether the white house preference had a lot to to with changing where this investigation was headed. Well, congressman schiff, thank you. Were out of time, but we do have more questions for you, so we hope you return in the future. Sure. President trump is reversing course and say hell have a health care deal, quote, very quickly. They could reach a bipartisan agreement over a potential future plan. According to the cbs news poll, no one blames anyone. Half of the people say the bill failed because it just wasnt popular. Margaret brennan is at the white house. Good morning. Good morning. The president appeared newly confident that hell strike a deal with senate leader. Last night he told a Bipartisan Group of 61 senators and their wives he wants to negotiate. I have no doubt about that. Thats an easy one. I have no doubt its going to happen. Weve all been promising that to the american people, so i think a lot of good things are coming there. Thats a stunning change from friday when President Trump vowed to let the Health Care Bill fail. Speaker ryan said tuesday hes not giving up and some lawmakers want him the keep negotiates. In the meantime the white house is testifying new strategies including moving obamacare into a more conservative direction and that option of working with the democrats wont be easy, fwail, because theres so much pressure from their own base the resist collaborating with President Trump. All right, margaret, thank you. The former democratic president ial candidate spoke last night at a businesswomens conference in san francisco. She called the gop bill disastrous and said those who make decisions that affect other peoples lives should put themselves in others shoes. Thats what was so maddening about the debate over the health care revisions. I mean, really . Take away Maternity Care . Really, take away Mental Health and Substance Abuse care . I mean who do these people talk to . Do they not have any idea about the necessity and the suffering goes on . Hillary clinton said the other side never quits so democrats and their supporters will need to keep fighting back. Tomorrow norah will have the first extended interview since it was pulled from house floor. Theyll also discuss the future of the gop agenda. You can see that conversation here tomorrow right here only on cbs this morning. Nearly 50 Million People in texas and parts of the southeast face a new threat of Severe Weather. Tornados ripped across parts of texas yesterday. At least 14 were reported. The violent system also brought damaging hail, some almost as big as tennis balls. As the storm movies east, states from plains to the gulf coast are at risk. They could face dangerous conditions today, including the possibility of a tornado. Omar, good morning. Reporter good morning. This is the second round of Severe Weather to blow through texas. Just this week last nights storm had straight winds, gusts of more than 70 miles per hour. People are waking up to this, pieces of their roof lying many the street, fences blown over and trees split in half. Overnight severe storms swept across texas and oklahoma with damaging winds, heavy rain, and pounding hail. On tuesday, tornados tore through the western part of the state. Tornado on the ground. Tornado on the ground. More than a dozen twisters were reported, including this one near stanford. Oh, my gosh. That triggered warning sir sirens. Get over here. Lets go inside. Reporter further in abilene area, a fubl funnel cloud darkened the zye. 100 miles north three Storm Chasers died after they collided with a car that ran through a stop sign. A blinding combination of rain and hail created brutal conditions on the road. Some hail was large enough to smash through car windows. My back windshield busted out and got all over my kids and hit my daughter in the back of the head. Reporter outside lubbock pellets impaled the ground and semitrucks blew over on the highway. The worst of the storm will blow through arkansas and louisiana today. The people in north texas, theyre weaking up in the dark. More than 150,000 people still to not have power and there are more storms in the forecast for this weekend. Norah . Thank you so much. Two years of brexit negotiations begins this morning. Britains Prime Minister is about to trigger her withdrawal from the European Union. Heres a live look at the house of commons where theresa may is taking questions from lawmakers while delivering her statement on brexit. Jonathan vigliotti is outside parliame parliament. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Its a nice way of saying filing like any split, leaving the eu wont be pretty. The sun has risen on a breakup many in the uk and throughout europe hoped wouldnt happen, but later ihe the European Union is headquartered, the divorce papers will be filed. Prime minister theresa may signed the official letter tuesdayle in a statement she said, its my fierce determination o get the right deal for every Single Person in this country. Later saying that includes eu nationals who have, quote, made this country their home. British news is already counting down the 730 days to separation right to the second. This twoyear divorce process could require britain to borough as much as 73 billion dollars. On the line, the relationships and free passage to the 27 other member nations. Negotiating between countries will be as complicated and historic as it sounds. What is full certain is were getting back full control of our country. When we get things right or get things wrong, we will be in charge. Reporter it was narrowly voted on this summer and those who left were tricked. Prime minister may has already found a helping hand many the process from President Trump who told her the brexit would be wonderful. They evaded the entire firmament of it. Reporter two nations may not be enough. The ua hoping they feel the pain, gayle, to send a clear message to other nations who may be thinking about leaving. Thank you, Jonathan Vigliotti reporting from london. Reporter there is a fair chance an american air strike played a role. Its the fullest acceptance of responsibility of the air strike. American officials are also investigating whether isis is to blame. The u. S. Led coalition not doing enough to protect civilians. At least 300 have been killed if mosul since february. A passenger plane skidded off the runway. Thick black smoke poured from the jet as crews tried to put out the fire. Everyone was able to get off safely. They were trying to get off the airport. 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Is there also a 74,000 reward for information on the vandals now lets send it over to kate for a check of the forecast and we may see we may see a little bit of susarine bright just yet but it will turn that way with time and more than anything, cloud cover served as aeat from yesterday, so right now we are only in the 40s and a lot of spots, chillie the poconos but our own Early Morning low is in the 30s. We are off to a mildern rebound to 62. I promise these cloud will break for more sunshine. Tomorrow looic new storm brings soaking rain, by friday ,. Katie, thanks very much. Were still talkinab i95 north, in the delaw has, wr talking about another serious between route 130 and hamilton ramp , 195 westbound is nowell. Very slow moving around there, rahel. Nex update 7 55. Next this