And we begin opener, you mike flynn tune. If youre not do you need imy for . President trump backs mike h hunt. Th what it is. Hunt. Got their airport screeners to try to test devices. William on the drive. Pullup. She got it. Show got it, she got it upsets history Mississippi State has ended 111 not good enough. Erupt outside virginia deali with possible tornadoes. Look at the damage. Dumped hail. An avalanche as its happening. A resintjuneau, the sail boat that slammed efrin and all that tt buzzer by the littlest p t again uconn is an incredible. Them is unbelievable. Im still in shock right now. On cbs this morning saturday. April fools day . Are you trying to fool somebody . The day we try to fool somebody by telling an outrageous lie. Or, as trump calls it, tweeting. Welcome, everyone. Im alex mason along with isis has made more progress in sneaking bombs inside laptop computers. Last month passengers flying to the u. S. Direct from eight muslim majority countries were banned from carrying on any electron ek ic devices larger ta cell phone. Terror groups are using Airport Security technology to test out their theories. Reporter u. S. Intelligence officials tell cbs news al qaeda is testing and perfecting a bomb to get past airport scanners. Exactly one week ago a ban went into place barring laptops, tablets and other Large Electronics from carryon luggage from flights to the airport and u. K. And north africa. U. S. Officials were concerned about a repeat of this. Last february a bomb concealed in a laptop detonated on board a somali airliner. U. S. Officials have been gathering information on the threat for some time. Some supporting intelligence was obtained in january in the u. S. Military raided yemen that killed ryan owens. For more on this threat were joined by ron hoscoe, a former assistant director of the fbi. Hes in our washington bureau. As you just heard kris van cleave say, how would terrorist groups get ahold of airport scanners . With the rapid expansion of isiss territory three years ago, it could be from some airport they took, some place like mosul, where one of these scanners or devices would have been in use. Could it be this werable to steal one through an insider, one that was to be delivered at an airport and it was never properly accounted for and it just drove away in the back of a truck and is being tested . And i think also we have to look to the opportunity for those associated with isis or particularly aqap, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, who has been focused and a pick name abraham al siri. They tried to kill him in drone strikes, thought he was dead but no proof of it. So there are real kerps that possibly terror insiders are testing in an ongoing manner in airports with either insiders or perhaps in small levels of these devices to see what gets through. Ron, the department of Homeland Security is working both seen and unseen. Do you have a sense of what those are . Sure. There are many layers. You think in terms of video coverage. They have behavior detection experts that are looking as we queue up in lines. They have viper teams. Certainly within the United States with us and the brits and other countries is a piece of that. The checking of flight manifests to see whos on and terror watch lists and the joint terrorism watch list all serve on the front end to prevent terrorists from getting in and share intelligence that might suggest a viable threat at a particular location directed toward a technical flight. Ron, thanks. My pleasure. Pressure continues to mount for former adviser, mike flynn, to testify. President trump said its nothing but a witch hunt. Reporter while President Trump tries to make progress on policy goals, hes facing head winds into russian interference. General mike flynn, fired from the white house for misleading the Vice President says he wants protection from prosecution so he can tell congressional investigativettknows and that h washington wondering what exactly that could be. The theft of american prosperity will end. Reporter President Trump signed two executive orders friday saying it strengthens the United States against trade abuse, but the president refused to comment on revelations that his former National Security adviser, Michael Flynn, is seeking immunity. Were you trying to tell the Justice Department to grant many immunity to Michael Flynn . The president did fire off this tweet asking that flynn should ask for immunity because the investigation was a witch hunt. Sean spicer dodged kwes when asked if he was trying to influence the decision. He said he wand hted him to immunity. Flynns lawyer released a statement saying flynn has a story to tell and confirmed negotiations are under way between his client and the house and Senate Intelligence committees. But even if flint is granted congressional immunity, he could still be prosecuted by the Justice Department. When you are given immunity, that means you probably committed a crime. During the campaign, both flynn and trump said immunity related to Hillary Clinton meant you were guilty of a crime. Good. The witch hunt, i dont buy that either. Were just trying to get to the facts. Congressman adam schiff, the tom democrat on the House Intelligence Committee called flynns immunity why a grave and momentous step. Shi schiff went to the white house to review the evidence previously provided to devin nunes. Schiff called for the documents to are shared with the full intelligence committees. More challenges lie ahead. Next week President Trump meets with the chinese president at the maralago report in florida. President trump has already described these upcoming meetings as very difficult and has previously labeled china as a currency manipulator. Thanks, errol. The communication between President Trumps Campaign Team and russian elements are apparently increasing. Now it turns out the investigation has been going on even longer. Reporter cbs news has learned that fbi agents are looking into whether Trump Campaign associates were coordinating with russian operatives as early as march of 2016. Sources say agents are examining whether individuals sympathetic to the Trump Campaign directed hackers to specific information in democrat beiic Party Compute systems. At the time both mr. Trump and Hillary Clinton had emerged as their partys most likely nominees. According to this intelligence assessment, it was month when Russian Hackers began Cyber Operations and had stolen data from the dnc. Starting in june gucifer and wikileaks began hacking documents. Roger stone tweeted about john podesta trust me, it will soon be podestas time in the barrel. Then on october 7th, wikileaks began publishing podestas personal emails. It was the same day the director of security and nas intelligence publicly accused russia of carrying out the siecyber attac. Today sources say the fbi investigation is no where near over. It involves dozens of agents in washington, new york and london. The nsa and cia are also gathering intelligence from inside russia. Despite his denies, investigators believe the operation was authorized by russian president Vladimir Putin himself and involved both Cyber Attacks and information warfare. This is actually what happened to us. Reporter according to testimony yesterday before the Senate Intelligence committee, 15,000 operatives world wide participated in spreading false information and conspiracy theories online. Law enforcement sources say one theory is Trump Associates could have been motivated by money. Sources tell us the fbi wants to get the investigation absolutely right so that the public will trust the result, whatever that turns out to be. F for more on the trump investigation and the trump presidency, were joined by gabriel, National Political reporter. Good morning. Good morning. Flynns lawyer says he has a story to tell. What do you think is going on here . He clear lily has a story to tell but he is trying to make clear to people hes in the middle of all this and hes really the good guy in the situation. Well see a lot of jockeying to determine whether or not to give him that immunity. We need to see what story hes going to tell because Michael Flynn is at the center of the investigation. It has been a rocky week for devin nunes. Heeps resisted calls to himself. I think youre going to see continued divisions between the democrats and republicans on the house side. The democrats have essentially called for nunes to step aside, theyre saying hes too partisan, too tied to the white house and his actions moving forward are not going to be credible. So were not likely to see much coming together. U thiyou think he stays on a say why are we going to how does if you cre going to. Hoe press briefing, press secretar sean spicer remained efiant as to the allegations twitter that t his team. San spicer thth. Quote, very, veryad any p the white house knovet never been before of people around the country. M this. Sort been side lined by. To repeal obamacare, how much dj has that don to the idea of tax reform . Part of Obamacare Repeal was going to be using the numbers from the baseline. The white house is having a harder time dealing with republican members of congress that theyre going to need for tax reforms and democrats are even more hardened in their resistance to the white house. So it not impossible but its a pretty big climb. The president drktry took on members of the Freedom Caucus via twitter. How does that relationship go given he needs them to pass any of his legislate of priorities. I think youre going o see a lot of back room stuff where the white house is going to try and reach out to these folks. Realstically if that doesnt work, youre going to continue to see ratcheted up emotions on both sides, especially as lawmakers go home to their districts and hear from their actual constituents. The white house is in some case even suggesting maybe primary challenges are in order. High stakes chicken, if you will. Gabriel, thanks for being with us this morning. Thank you. Breaking overnight, remnants of a power storm. Two people have been reported dead. The storm struck on tuesday, leaving a 600mile disaster road. Roads were washed away, some bridges were destroyed. More than 100,000 homes are without power. Here in the u. S. Parts of the east are drying out from heavy rains. In virginia at least 12 homes were destroyed and a church left in ruins tornado struck chesapeake. Winter is not done with new england where as much as a foot of snow fell in some places. Good morning. Its the 1st of april but this is no april fools joke. The northeast being hit by all this snow today. We have winter storm warnings up throughout the day today. We could see anywhere from three to six. Six inches in boston. You can see storms that blow up later today and tonight add tomorrow some powerful storms moving to the east here. For today we have a slight risk for severe storms and a marginal risk in the groon area burr tomorrow all the way up to a moderate rest being for severe storms and thats through the day on sunday. Alex . Meteorologist ed curran of our chicago station, thanks, ed. The biggest march madness surprise in years happened earlier this year on the 1st day of april, but we are not fooling. The uconn women lost. She got it she got it Mississippi States morgue and willians sank a buzzer beater in overtime to knock off the undefeated huskies. This is connecticuts first loss in a record 111 games. Wow. The upset sends Mississippi State to the National Championship game where they will face South Carolina. And you know who the underdog is in that matchup. I love this. What an amazing story, an incredible moment for this team, especially considering they lost a year ago by 6 points. What a comeback on april fools day. Too took uconn about two and a half years to rack up those 111 victories. The last time the huskies lost was november of 2014 when they fell to stanford. Thats a span of 865 days. In that time they won two National Championships. Time to show you some of this mornings headlines. The New York Times reports on ethics filings released bit Trump Administration last night. They reveal first daughter ivanka trump and her husband, jared kushner, are still beneficiaries of the Trump Organization and are worth more than 700 million and steve bannon rban bann onon earned about 3 million in his efforts with breitbart. And hes going to hit somebody head on or kill his own damn shelf. Somebody needs to get him off the road. He miles. The driver said he was texting while driving. There have been three arrests in connection with the large fire that caused thursdays partial bridge collapse on interstate 85 in georgia. Its believed the materials under the bridge were used to start the fire. Remarkably no one was injured. Officials say it will take months to build the highway. One of the suspects was arrested 19 times sense 1995. And tiger woods will sit out of the masters tournament. Woods says hes not tournament ready. Wood has been fighting back trouble. Its been 20 years since his easing a patients pain is in oo doctors interest but some doctors say theyre feeling an added burden to provide relief. How that may be contributing to an epidemic of pain pill abuse. Now the fight over access to an iconic landmark ahead. Youre watching cbs this morning saturday. Most teams are out, most brackets are busted but there are still plenty of reasons to care about tonights final four. Later well have the story lines that will have you rooting for remaining teams in march madness. Youre watching cbs this morning saturday. With support and tools to help your child thrive. Good morning, everyone im jan car way. Rescuers have pulled a man from the ruble of the collapsed row home in southwest philadelphia, and crews rush to the 6100 block of yocome street earlier this morning where they pulled a 59 yearold man from the debris, he is in stable condition at penn presbyterian medical center, it is in the yet clear what cause that had house to collapse. Now to the eyewitness Weather Forecast with meteorologist justin drabick, hi there, justin. Good morning, everybody. Finally dryer weather returns to the forecast for the weekend tomorrow shaping up to be a great day but even today in the bad compared to yesterday, slow clearing and starting to see cloud break up to the north and west, live look at bernville, 38 degrees, northeast wind at six. Some sunshine today but still cloud will be the rule, maybe a couple of spotty showers, very early this morning a drizzle and spots and in the afternoon it stays dry, we will call it, 54 degrees for the high for philadelphia, near 50 at the shore, still breezy, poconos watch out for freezing, drizzle early this morning otherwise cloudy skies , tomorrow look at that, sunny and 60, something to look forward to, more rain next week especially tuesday and later on thursday, jan, back to you. Looking great, thanks justin. Next update 7 57. See you then. Have a great day. Welcome back to cbs this morning saturday. Coming up, you may be fascinated by esp or other paranormal powers. Well hear about a decades long quest to try to find our hidden human potential. And 68 College Teams were potential National Champions but only a fine foal four remain in running. And a timeless honor thats taken no short time to deliver. Why this weekend could finally unite singer bop dylan with his nobel prize for literature. But we begin this half hour with pressure to prescribe. If youve spent time as a hospital patient, you may recall receiving a survey about your experience. It turns out your answers can impact how much the hospital is paid and in some cases even what your doctor earns. The government mandated Patient Satisfaction survey is meant to reward quality care but some doctors say its had an unintended consequence, fueling americas dependence on pain killers. Reporter good morning. These surveys are part of a major effort in american medicine to pay for effective care rather than just how many procedures are performed and Many Health Care providers say the surveys are helping to do that but a handful of questions are raising concerns because doctors say they seem to encoe pain pills. We met dr. Mark woodard in the. E. R. In eastern tennessee. 2 Million People are picked on pain pills. Overdoses kill more people than homicides. Dryes, on every shift. Seeking but turning away drug seekers can be bad for business, in part because of the rise of Patient Satisfaction surveys. In addition to asking if the nurses are polite and the hospital is clean, the survey has questions like how often did the hospital staff do everything they could to help with you your pain . 28 of doctors are paid bonuses based on Patient Satisfaction according to the Industry Groups if i visiphysicians pr. Do you think its leadiom be addicted . Of course. Yes. Doctors have practiced medicine for a combined 98 year