I cant even get out of my house. This area is devastated. Flash flood, destruction in Southern California. The wicked weather shut down parts of several freeway and highways and mud and rock slides closed parts of i5 north of los angeles. A top aide sent a letter to former staffer saying if biden enters the race, he will need their help. The republican front runners are threatening to pull out of the next debate if its longer than two hours. Apparently they are worried about answering questions for three hours. Officials say a isislinking hark hacker is custody. The flames destroyed 34 homes. The new york mets are going to the National League championship series we got the with wins that we needed and we are going to go party for a little while. New york, baby, new york blasted audio from an xrated movie . What is going on at target right now . Boris johnson barreled over a 10yearold during a game of touch football. All that. Wide open for the touchdown. Nobody covers ben watson. The saints played a clean game and they win it. Back to hogan and how about this for stanford in did he catch that . Incredible that may be the play of the year and all that matters. Have you ever been in handcuffs . Yes. I dont know exactly what you mean by that. Its all right. Its all right. On cbs this morning. The democratic debate, that was two hours and it was too long. Everybody was bored at the end. Donald trump threatening to pull out of the next gop debate and Lincoln Chafee is threatening to pull out of the next democratic debate if there is going to be questions announcer this portion of cbs this morning sponsored by welcome to cbs this morning. Some of the busiest highways in Southern California are closed after a storm triggered mudslides that covered interstate 5 and stranded hundreds of cars and trucks and some trapped drivers were there. No one was reported hurt. Carter evans is on the interstate northwest of los angeles following this. Carter, tough morning there. Reporter for sure. These are the northbound lanes of interstate 5. Crews are making progress. At one point, this part of the road was covered in up to five feet of mud it happened so fast that cars were swamped and there were reports of people standing on top of their vehicles to escape the floodwaters. 911 help reporter violate thunderstorms lashed Southern California thursday. Torrential rains fell 4 to 6 inches per hour and flooding streets and powerful mudslides, leaving drivers helpless. Are we stuck yet . We are stuck. This area is devastated right now. Reporter californias busy interstate 5 became a river of mud, burying cars and leaving hundreds of drivers stranded. Firefighters rescued people trapped in their vehicles and in homes swallowed up by the mud. Traffic came to a complete stop. Mud just started powering down the mountain, down the road, and just kind of engulfed everything. Oh, my gosh run for your Life Reporter thousands of cars and trucks were backed up for miles. Ive been out here for 24 years, now. And ive never seen this much water in 24 years. You really cant tell how fast that is moving and how safe it is. Reporter the powerful system pounded the city of palm dale with golf ballsized hail and 60mileperhour winds. Nya glenn said she only had 20 minutes to rescue their horses when the flood came. We went to pull them out immediately and within 45 seconds the mud was three feet higher. Reporter the vehicles had to be dug out and towed away. This shut down this road and parts of this road is expected to be remain closed throughout the day. House committee investigate be the deadly 2012 benghazi attack interviews huma abedin this morning. Nancy cordes is on capitol hill. Nancy, good morning. Reporter good morning. Abedin is interviewed behind closed doors and if anyone knows what Hillary Clinton was doing and thinking the night of the benghazi attacks, it is her. Aide and been at her side for 20 years. Abedin climbs the ranks to become clintons near constant companion. Recently emails show the secretary of state communicated with her more than anyone. The Benghazi Committee wants to ask her about the events leading up to and during and after the attacks on the u. S. Facilities. I think its pretty clear what their obvious goal is. Reporter clinton has gont bolder about criticizing the committee ever since House Majority leader Kevin Mccarthy bragged about the investigation was hurting her in the polls. This committee is basically an arm of the Republican National committee. She got backup this week from new Yorks Richard hanna who said in a radio interview. This may not be politically correct, but i think there was a big part of this investigation that was designed to go after people and an individual, Hillary Clinton. Trey gowdy fired back in a statement, it is unfortunately when claims are made by those who do not know what the committee has done, why it has done it, or the results of its work. Committee member mike pompao defended their work too. We have want to settle the riddle of how this led to the death of four americans and no one, to this date, has been held accountable for. Reporter republicans on the Senate Judiciary committee accused abedin for salaries from Clinton Foundation and foundations with ties to the clinton during her last six months at the state department. The Benghazi Committee will not get into abedins employment outside the scope of their work bun insist they are doing serious nonpartisan work and not discussing their findings in public because of the sensitivity of the subject a message from joe bidens inner circle is raising new ambitions with the Vice President s ambitions. A letter from the former senator came out two days before the first democratic president ial debate and urges the supporters to keep the faith while the Vice President decides whether he will run. Julianna goldman has more. Reporter the Vice President s core supporters are pushing back against the narrative that Hillary Clintons strong debate performance might have dissuaded him from getting in, but an assignment he may be readying for a possible campaign, he is putting former staffers on notice that a decision is expected soon. Are you running for president . [ inaudible ]. Reporter on the steps of his home at the u. S. Naval observatory, Vice President joe biden couldnt escape a barrage of questions about his political future. Have you made your decision yet . I cant hear you. Reporter have you made your decision yet . Reporter but he was on official business. Greeting the south korean president and the press looked for a better shot, he gave no indication about his latest thinking. Biden has spent the last few days reaching out to Top Democrats in early voting states lix iowa, new hampshire, and south carolina. People familiar with his deliberations say he and his team are aware of upcoming ballot deadlines. Im not just running because i would be the first woman president , im running because i have a lifetime of experience. Reporter they say the first democratic debate was not a deciding factor for him. Last night, former senator ted kaufman, who has known biden for more than four decades sent a letter to a network of former staffers readying the cavalry and detailing a piece of his potential platform. In this dear friend email obtained by cbs news, kaufman wrote that the Vice President is aware of the practical demands of making a final decision soon. He has been in public and political life a long time and he has a good grip on the mechanics around this decision. He detailed the kind of Campaign Biden would run. An optimistic campaign. A campaign from the heart. A campaign consistent with his values, our values, and the values of the American People. And i think its fair to say knowing him as we all do, that it wont be a scripted affair. After all, its joe. Kaufman closed with lets stay in touch. If he decides to run, we will need each and every one of you yesterday. This weekend the Vice President will be in new york city accepting a human rights award. One source told us bidens decision could come in the next few days but cautions he hasnt stuck to previous selfimposed deadlines. Candidates newest fundraising report includes a surprise from donald trump who is using contributions in his own campaign. Campaign said he would pain for hi campaign out of his own pocket. Ben carson raised 24 million in the Third Quarter and more than any other republicans and jeb bush was next with 13. 4 million. Latest National Poll shows trump and carson well ahead of the republican field and one point apart. 24 to 23 . Ted cruz is third followed by marco rubio. Jeb bush is in fifth place. Governor bush joins us now here in the studio 57 and we are pleased to have him back at this thank you. You know, when many people look at this campaign before it really began, you were the guy they thought would be the frontrunner. The first vote doesnt take place until february. But people look at those numbers that i just repeated and say, what happened to jeb bush . Well, i wasnt one of those that thought i was a frontrunner. I know i have to go tell the jeb story. They dont know that i was an effective conservative governor that disrupted the old order in florida and made big changes. I tell that story each and every day and it resonates. But why cant you have more res nonsense from telling the jeb bush story . What is the problem with talking about it . Its not the problem. You go into the super tuesday states and we are building an organization in all of those places. I feel pretty confident where we are right now. You know, during the democratic debate, Bernie Sanders said the American People are sick and tired of your damn emails to Hillary Clinton. Are you sick and tired of donald trump . He seems to be getting all of the attention in the race and all of the other candidates are saying, look, we are over here, we have something to say. How are you and your team dealing with the donald trump candidacy . First, i admire the fact he is a little politically incorrect. I think we are uptight as a nation and admired that he what else do i admire about him . Let me think. Im running out of things. He has a great family. Is it frustrating now that i got that out of the way. Look. Ultimately people want to know who is going to sit behind the big desk and who is going to be making decisions that impact millions and millions of americans. Are we going to be safe . Are we going to create a climate where people can rise up to . Is there anything about donald trump think we may not be he was there . I have no idea. If he talks how putin ought to take care of isis and the week before, isis ought to take care of assad. These are serious times. I think you need a person who has the temperament when the leadership skills to fix the things that are broken and do it with passion and conviction but also have the skills to lead. Over the long haul, i think that that is the lane im going to stay in and i believe im going to be effective at i dont know about Donald Trumps views of leadership because he talks about himself the whole time, rather than what he would do. Governor, i want to ask you a questions. First you talked about being your own man. Do you see your brother george w. Bush coming out on the campaign trail for you . I dont know. He has been helpful raising money for me and giving me advice and the last republican to have been elected and the one before that. He is the one guy that i rely on, you know, the ebbing and flowing of politics because its pretty wild and he has done it. Let me talk to you about afghanistan the front page of the papers today. President Obama Leaves Office in 15 months and essentially saying the drawdown will be left to his successor. You said obama is short changing our military commanders so how Many American troops would you leave in the ground in afghanistan . I would take the recommendation of the general that was responsible for it who is now the chairman of the joint chiefs. 10,000 troops or 9,800 troops i think the is proper place to be. Do you agree with president obama . You need a time line. When you create a time line your enemies are organizing for waiting you on ut and thank you is the proper thing to do. Situations has changed and i think the president has made the right decision to keep troops on the ground and it looks politically and cut it in half and off we go. Youre right the drawdown will take place in 2016 7 and the next president will make a decision based on a longterm strategy. We have none in the middle east and we are react to go events and it looks pretty ugly. Speaking of that. At what point do you think the president has to react more and presentation in presence in syria . I should have earlier because that void now is filled. We see even cuban generals in syria. We see the iranians. What should he do . I think we need to create safe zones to have a safe harbor for refuges and allow u. S. To Syrian Free Army and we need to engage the arab world to provide support for a unified effort and we need to have no fly zones. The argument well will get into the conflicts with russia. Maybe russia shouldnt want to be in conflict with us. I mean, this is a place where American Leadership is desperately needed. Russia is there to prop up assad. We are there to deal with both assad and isis. And we should we should garner the support of europe in the middle east countries to do just that. All right. Your advice to joe biden this morning is what . Continue to speak korean as effectively as he does. Thank you. Thank you for joining us today. This morning, escalating violence in israeli has many People Living in fear. Protesters are clashing with demonstrators. Palestinians threw bombs at another site and some believe is the tomb of joseph in the west bank. Smoke and fired poured from the stone structure. Johnathan vigliotti is at the Temple Mountain in jerusalem are Security Forces are preventing some worshipers from entering. Reporter good morning. We are standing outside one of the key Access Points to this mosque here in jerusalem. Muslim Prayer Services have wrapped up for the afternoon. Hamas has called to a day of rage following prayers and now israeli officials and guards are on heightened alert, concerned palestinian protests could turn into violence. The last day of rage was on tuesday, sparking four separate attacks on israelis and clashes between Israeli Security and palestinian youth. Already, overnight in the west Bank Israeli DefenseOfficials Say dozens of palestinians set fire to josephs tomb, a sacred jewish site. This mosque is at the heart of recent violence after rumors israeli officials wanted to limit access to palestinians. In the last three weeks, palestinians have attacked israelis at least a dozen times. Israelis say they have no other option but to defend themselves. And jerusalems mayor has called on Israeli Citizens with gun permits to carry out their weapons in public. Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has condemned the torching of that tomb in the west bank. He has called for peaceful resistance. Israeli guards, meanwhile, are patrolling on horse and foot as they try to prevent any violence. Thank you, johnathan vigliotti, in jerusalem. This morning, the mets are baseballs king of new york. The 02 pitch. Swung on and missed. Strik three put it in the books the new york mets are going to the National League championship series the mets eliminated the dodgers with last nights 32 win in los angeles. Daniel murphy was the unlikely star. He scored the tying run after stealing an extra base on a walk. Home run in the sixth inning. The mets play the cubs for the National League pennant starting tomorrow night. All of us cant wait. That is going to be good. Congratulations to them. Their fans are very happy today. Nevada tells Fantasy Sports websites to get out. Ahead why gambling regulators are cracking down on an industry that now faces an fbi inquiry. Good morning, everyone. Happy friday. Im meteorologist danielle niles. The clouds are thickening up and light rain showers moving in from west to east here. Have the umbrella on stand by. It wont slow you down a whole lot, but it will come through early afternoon and far eastern massachusetts. Upper 50s for the evening drive. 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