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WUSA CBS This Morning February 22, 2017

Opener, your world in 90 seconds. I am tired of the right trotting out his daughter and soninlaw as talking points against the president s ant antisemitism. The president takes a hard line. Threatsar tnggeti our Jewish Community reminds us of work that still must be done against prejudice of hate and evil. Aggressive enforcement of immigration laws. Ou y think, wows thi guy lived up to his campaign promise. What he has proposed is not going to make your life better. San jose, california, major flooding on the streets. Hundreds of residentsav he to be rescued from the fastmoving water. Water starting to come in, more and more and more and more. Lakers cleaned house tonight. Turning control of the team over to Magic Johnson as president of operations. I cant turn around tomorro right . Risking their lives to rescue a driver trapped inside a burning car. Were now sgeein how close harrison fords plane got to a passenger jet landing on the taxiway. A 6yearold born with one arm outhits some pro golfers. He challengedm the in a closest to the pin contest. And all that matters. Dr. Ben carson, ill tell you whachlt we really starting something with ben. Trump really started something by hiring ben carson. Its the greatest achievement for africanamericans since about four weeks ago when we had a black president. Official state visit, meet with the queen, stay at the palace, the whole shebang. Hopefully, that would get filmed because it sounds like the greatest sitcom of all times. Trumpets this thursday. Announcer presented by toyota. Lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning. Charlie rose is off and feeling fantastic. Anthony mason is in. Are you feeling fantastic . Me, too. Good to see. Welcome, anthony. The white house is spelling out its plan to fight illegal immigration. Immediately putting 11 million undocumented immigrants at greater risk of deportation. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson and secretary john kelly will discuss these policies in mexico city. Jeff pegues, good morning. Good morning. They dont create new laws, just allow the enforcement o it is expected to cost billions of dollars to implement and expand the number of people who could face deportation, whether theyve commit aid serious crime or not. Secretary john kelly and the department of Homeland Security provided the road map tuesday for executing the Trump Administrations orders on immigration. Two dhs memos show how the government will authorize the deportation of anyone in violation of u. S. Immigration laws, expedite the removal of any undocumented imgranlt migra the country for two years with no court hearing, immediately capture those at the border and hire 15,000 border and immigration officers. But they stress the directives are not intended to be mass deportation. The president wanted to take the shackles off individuals in these agencies and say you have a mission. Also move to end the practice known as catch and release, which allows certain immigrants to be free while their proceedings were pending. Under the new directive, local police are also empowered to take in anyone they think could be a risk to Public Safety or National Security. White House Press Secretary sean spicer says the dhs directive is based on existing immigration laws. Everybody who is here illegally is subject to removal at any time. The memos leave in place an obamaera program known as daca, which granted work permits to people known as dreamers, brought to the country illegally as children. Still, democrats in Congress Called the guidelines of cruel blueprint for mass deportations that will tear families apart and make america less safe. Anthony . Jeff pegues. Thanks, jeff. Rex tillersons visit to mexico is trip since becoming secretary of state. Som state Department Officials are raising concerns about staffing cuts and being kept from key meetdings. Margaret brennan is at the state department with a closer look at tillersons approach. Margaret, good morning. Good morning. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson has largely been silent during his almost three weeks on the job. He hasnt held any news conferences. Many of his meetings and phone calls with foreign leaders are not being publicly disclosed. There also havent been any daily briefings which, for decades, has been how they got their message out. Foreign governments are also describing american policy rather than the u. S. Itself. Perhaps more serious for diplomats, state Department Officials were completely shut out of President Trumps meeting with the israeli Prime Minister last week. While mr. Trumps soninlaw, jared kushner, who has no experience in foreign affairs, did sit in. But state department insist tillerson isnt being shut out. He is going to meet with the president today and he often speaks with him by phone. Officials here tell me that tillerson is being careful and deliberate. Hes trying to turn President Trumps rhetoric into policy, all while flying under the radar of a highprofile administration that is facing no shortage of diplomatic challenges. Norah . Certainly worth watching. Margaret, thank you so much. The commander of u. S. Forces in the middle east will ask President Trump if he wants more american troops in syria. Overnight, general joseph votal told our david martin on a trip to the region that the u. S. May have to take on a larger burden against isis. The president has ordered the pentagon for a new plan for fighting isis, which has its headquarters in the city of raqqa. Members of congress are on recess. The political debate has shifted from capitol hill to their home districts. Voters are crowding townhall meetings, shouting down each other. Lines run out the door at some of the meetings, full of people challenging the Trump Administrations agenda. The president claimed on twitter last night, quote, angry crowds are actually in numerous cases planned out by liberal activists. Sad. Nancy cordes is in melorie, outside new orleans. Reporter when and where these town halls are taking place, like the one that will be held at this town hall later today. People showing up are just from used voters and constituents who want to put the brakes on President Trumps agenda, they say. The American People have made it very clear, they want obamacare repealed. Reporter to a courthouse gathering in iowa. Every single one of us walks around with a preexisting condition. Reporter to blackstone, virginia, gop lawmakers got an earful yesterday. A lot of the angst centered around the push to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. I dont know why people are booing when you say you want to replace. President trump has said he wants everyone to be covered. Reporter others railed against the proposed travel ban, which remains in legal limbo. I am a person from a muslim country. And i am a muslim. Who is going to take me here. Reporter senator Chuck Grassley embraced his outspoken constituents. We learned that we got issues that people feel very strongly about and we have to try tol reporter as does Senate Leader mitch mcconnell, who faced protesters before giving a speech in his home state of kentucky. I respect their right to be there. And to express themselves, because thats what we do in this country. Reporter it will be interesting to see what kind of reception senator cassidy gets today, one of the few republicans who actually put forth a plan to replace obamacare that hasnt gotten a lot of support from his gop colleagues yet, anthony, because theres still so much disagreement within the party about what an obamacare replacement should look like. Nancy, thanks. President trump denounced antisemitism on his first comment in a series of threat against Jewish Community centers. The president called the threats sbhoshl painful. After touring the National Museum of africanamerican history and culture. The leader of one Jewish Organization isnt satisfied, though. The executive director of the ren frank center for mutual remarks a bandaid on the cancer of antisemitism that has infected his own administration. Major garret is at the white house with the president s comments. Major, good morning. Reporter good morning. On this issue, the white house contends President Trump has spoken out against hate and on behalf of unity. In a general sense, he has. In the face of nearly 70 bomb threats called into Jewish Centers across the country, the president held specific condemnation until yesterday. We have to fight bigotry, intolerance and hatred in all of its very ugly forms. Reporter President Trump used a tour of washingtons National Museum of africanamerican history and culture to address for the first time as president threats against Jewish Community Centers Across the u. S. The antisemitic threats targeting our Jewish Community and Community Centers are horrible and are painful. Reporter mr. Trump has been scrutiny to condemn antisemitism. 11 Jewish Centers have received bomb threats according to the Jcc Association of north america and hundreds of headstones were damaged at a cemetery in st. Louis. A very sad reminder of the work that still must be done to root out hate and prejudice and evil. President remained largely silent on the issue. There are people who are committing antisemitic acts at last weeks press conference, the president cut off an Orthodox Jewish reporter. And at the press conference with benjamin netanyahu, the president said this. So many jewish people, friends, a daughter who happens love. Youre going to see a lot of love. Reporter senior political adviser steve bannon who sits on the elite National Security Council Committee once ran breitbart news, rightwing that was once accused of sorry for the lawn mowing here at the white house. Separate homegrown terror plots. 25yearold Robert Lorenzo hester jr. Made an appearance after his arrest in an undercover sting. Charged with attempting to provide Material Support to isis. Federal prosecutors say hester thought he was part of an isissponsored plot to attack mass transit in kansas city. In north carolina, garret grimesley was arrested, accused of makin commit mass murder against nonmuslims near raleigh. An informant tipped off the fbi sunday. Within hours, agents coordinated a raid on grimsleys apartment, finding an ak47 Assault Rifle and more than 300 rounds of ammunition. Dangerous flooding has prompted hundreds of water rescues in san jose, california. New mandatory Evacuation Orders went into effect overnight. Entire neighborhoods have been submerged in northern california. John blackstone has the latest. John, good morning. Reporter good morning. Overnight, floodwaters spread into new neighborhoods here in san jose. Even though the rain has stopped with the runoff coming off the hills around here, creeks and rivers continue to rise. Coyote creek hit a record flood stage tuesday, overflowing its banks and overwhelming a san jose trailer park. Hours earlier, contaminated water inundated a get out quickly. Theyre being decontaminated because its polluted water. It could be sewage, gasoline, motor oil from cars that are under water. Reporter crews working in che chestdeep water spent the day using boats to rescue dozens who were stranded. San Jose Fire Department said more than 30 homes flooded and more than 200 people were taken to dry land. Any time were showing up with boats to get people out of homes theres been a failure. Well have a lot of time the next week or two to take a look at the lessons that are to be learned. Reporter submerged cars, stranded horses, even a skunk. People here are keeping a close eye on news reports. The water may rise a little more and hopefully start to go down but who knows. Reporter the flooding is partially the result from overflow from anderson dam upstream, which also shut down the northbound lanes of the busy 101 freeway in s c county. We knew we were going to have flooding in san jose. We did not know how bad it was. Reporter the weather created problems in other parts of the state. Sierra nevadas heavy storms left a 40foot long hole in a major thoroughfare between sacramento and lake tahoe. We have dry weather in the forecast the next three days here in california. But after that, over the weekend, more storms are headed our way. Norah . John, thank you so much. Malaysian police are searching for two new suspects in the apparent assassination of half brother of north korean dictator kim jongun. Surveillance video captured the attack. One of those suspects is a highlevel diplomat living in malaysia. Kim jongnam died last week after an attack at Kuala Lumpurs international airport. Two women accused of being assassins are already in custody. New details with the investigation, adrianna diaz, good morning. Good morning. He also said the two female attackers may have been in on the plot. According to police, kim jongnam suspected female assassin seen grabbing his face in the security footage knew the liquid in their hands was poisonous. You see the lady moving away with her hands like this towards. So she knew very well it was toxic and she needs to wash her hands. Reporter both women, police say, practiced the attack several times before last mondays assault and were instructed to wash the liquid off quickly. The women said they were pulling pranks for what they thought was a hidden camera tv show. We strongly believe they have been trained to do that. This is not something, just shooting movies. Reporter the training likely came from these four men, all North Koreans, who fled the country the day of the attack. Police believe theyre back in pyongyang. The Inspector General of police also announced theyre searching for two more North Koreans in malaysia. One, a highlevel diplomat at the north Korean Embassy there. The other, an employee for north korea stateowned airline air koreo. They have asked North Koreans to cooperate in their investigation but so far havent complied. Meanwhile kim jongnams body is under tighter security this morning. No next of kin has come forward to claim the body. Malaysian authorities have asked north korea for dna samples from his relatives, including kim jongun, to identify the body. The female suspects were supposed to be released today. The judge granted an extension even though they havent been charge d. As for i koreans say the females are innocent and should be freed immediately. Anthony . Adriana diaz in beijing. This story gets more and more mysterious. A spacex cargo ship docking at the International Space station overnight. Dragon capsule will try again tomorrow. There was a problem with the onboard computer. The commercial ship is carrying food, clothing and scientific equipment for the astronauts. It was launched sunday from the Kennedy Space center in florida. Some diabetes patients are literally begging doctors for free samples of lifesaving insulin. The federal lawsuit against drugmakers accusing them of new video shows the moment that harrison fords plane came dangerously close to hitting a passenger jet that was on the ground. How air Traffic Control aidio about what type of aircraft he was flying. Youre watching cbs this morning. My sweethearts gone sayonara. This scarf all thats left to remem. 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