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WUSA CBS This Morning March 9, 2017

To own a stamp that remains hidden for 100 years. We begin with todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. Reporter these winds are incredible tense. Reporter trees have been crushing down to homes, power lines and homes. Reporter dangerous wind storms sweep across the midwest. Reporter toppling trucks, leaving out power, leaving the Michigan Basketball team banged up after a plane stormed off the runway. That continues to the northeast. If you think winter is over, youre wrong. Reporter crews are battling several wildfires across several plain states should get some relief. We begin this is the beginning of the end of obamacare. It looks like chaos, why is that . We are going through typical growing pains from being an Opposition Party to a governing party. This effort on thare pt of the republicans is an absolute disaster and healthcare in macro. They are in march income honor of inttiernaonalen wom s day. You are the leaders. Never lose your optimism, your resistance. No one was injured when a fire broke out an a passenger at Ohare Airport in chicago. In new jersey, an elderly woman is hit in traffic in the middle of the tracks. Cr all that, a huge cruiseship eeped way too close to one florida couples home. It started like any other City Council Meeting until the interpretive dancing began. What was this . And all that matters. Right before midnight, Lady Libertys lights went out. There is something about 2017 that turns a woman off. We have a closeup of her when the lights came back on. Its trying to push it through through. Roberto is the hero of the game and he is the greatest Champion Team knockout comeback of all time this mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Lets go places. Good morning, welcome to cbs this morning. Charlie rose is off, so Anthony Mason and alex wagner of cbs this Morning Saturday are here. Hello. The weekend is coming almost. Its not saturday yet, though. I know. We will get to lots of news this morning. First this, the obamacare cleared a key hurdle before drawn the house ways an Means Committee approved an important provision at 4 30 eastern time. This, still debating the bill. Democratic party delays kept the members working oall night. But the Health Care Bill also faces growing opposition from hospital groups, the American Medical Association and other powerful advocates. Chip reid is outside the room where the debate continues. Chip, good morning. Well, thats right. Reporter the debate is going on, so far, its been going on for more than 20 hours, democrats say theyre just getting started. Weve gone 12 hours on the first amendment. I know we have at least 100 more, buckle in. Reporter democrats spent all day and night attempting to delay the overhaul of obamacare by proposing a series of amendments to the bill. My amendment would change the title to the republican pay more for less act. Reporter and insisting the 123page legislation be read out my objection. All right. Then the clerk will read the bill. Members need to know, this will take a couple of hours. Reporter after hours of gridlock, republican frustration became clear. If were really serious about fighting for the american people, then lets be serious and quit wasting everybodys time. Will the gentleman yield . No, not now, im kind of on a roll. Reporter before worrying about the control, they will need to convince all it will work. We all ran on repealing and replacing obamacare. Reporter House Speaker tried to persuade them the plan is everything constituents wants. It repeals obamacare spending and medicare spending and subsidies. Reporter yesterday an Influential Group of Health Care Providers sent a letter to congress expressing significant concerns that the plans medicaid restructuring will result in the loss of coverage for current enrollees. The aarp says t dramatically increase Health Care Costs for americans age 50 to 64 in the individual market. Everyone has some concern. Reporter members of the deeply conservative Freedom Caucus also remain unconvinced. Its the product we got to get right. We dont have the product right in this thing. Reporter democrats say that this bill shouldnt even be considered until the Congressional Budget Office says how much it will cost. You know, a hospital lobbyist who has been monitoring this entire hearing came out a little while ago and told me that theyre on amendment 7 out of more than 100. He said he calculated that at this pace, if they keep going at this pace, theyll be here for 19 days. Alex. Chip, thanks. Congressional leaders investigating President Trumps claim of campaign wiretapping want the Justice Department to produce any evidence that might back it up. That formal request focuses on warrants and court orders that would have authorized under surveillance of the Trump Campaign. The president says phone taps at trump tower but havent offered any proof of that claim. Major gore ret is at the white house, where the press secretary struggled to get his message out yesterday. Major, good morning. Reporter good morning. Congress, fought surprisingly, requested a briefing from james comey on President Trumps startling spying allegations. Comey was talking yesterday about Cyber Security t. Closest he came to discussing this confrontation with a new president was to talk about his own job security. You are stuck with me for about another six and a half years. Reporter without addressing the president s evidencefree wiretapping accusation for a second straight day, fbi director james comey insisted he will be finishing out his tenyear term. President trump said nothing publicly, since setting the story. Leaving the questions to White House Pressing is sean spicer. He has asked the house and Senate Intelligence committees to use their resources and their processes to exa reporter spicer was asked if the president was a target of a counterintelligence investigation the kind that might justify a wiretap warrant. I think thats what we need to find out. Theres, obviously, a lot of concern. Reporter near the end of the briefing, spicer was handed a piece of paper. He then tried to clarify his remarks. I just want to be really clear on one point, which is there is no reason that we should that we have to think that the president is the target of any investigation, whatsoever tlochlt is o tlochlt. Reporter there is one thing they are certain about, they want the congress to investigate. Lindsey graham and rhode island democratic senator Sheldon White intere whitehouse asked for court order frs of Trump Campaign or trump tower. If there is no warrant, thats something we need to know f. There was a warrant, i need to understand why one was issued. President trump has alleged something very im willing to get to the bottom of it. Reporter amid questions about Trump Campaign contacts with russian operatives, bs confirmed he offered the u. S. Ambassador to russia to john huntsman, he was unanimously confirmed of president obamas ambassador to china in 2012. Nor he tweeted criticism saying he gave our country away to china. And now hell be a part of the administration. Major garrett, thank you very much. The fbi launched an investigation into the theft of alleged cia documents, theyre posting on wikileaks. They published more than 8,000 pages on tuesday. They apparently detail some of the cia cyber tools and the agency can access smartphones, tvs and cars. We have the cias response, jeff, good morning. Reporter good morning, an official tells cbs news u. S. Intelligence was aware valuable information had been stolen as a result of suspicious activity in the weeks before wikileaks released what appears to be an investigation is under way. Among the pressing questions, whether someone working for the cia handed the data to the antisecrecy group and why wikileaks published the information on tuesday. Intelligence sources pointed to other wikileaks disclosures over the last eight months and note they usually appear to be timed to coincide with certain events. In a statement the cia says the disclosures were designed to damage the Intelligence Communitys ability to protect america against terrorists and that they jeopardize u. S. Personnel and operations. The wikileaks disclosures highlight another Security Breach in the Intelligence Community and so far investigators have not ruled out the possible involvement of a state act in some way. Earlier this year, u. S. Intelligence agencies assessed with high confidence that wikileaks conspired with the russian government to release Damaging Democratic Party emails. Antony. Thanks, jeff. Hawaii is the sue the Trump Administration over its revised travel ban. The state filed papers late last night amending its previous lawsuit against the original ban. The lawsuit says the order involving six countries damages hawaiis muslim population, tourism and foreign students. State attorneys want a judge to issue a temporary restraining order. A hearing is scheduled the day before the new ban goes into effect next week. The secretary of Homeland Security says illegal border crossings have seen an unprecedented decline under President Trump. John kelly says illegal crossings on the u. S. Mexico border are down 40 for january and february. Immigration officers apprehended fewer than 19,000 people. Kelly says the big drop coincides with the president s executive orders to enforce immigration laws. A Human Rights Monitoring Group says the u. S. Led coalition killed at least 23 civilians in an airstrike n the syrian city of irrajka. A military spokesman confirms to cbs news, 400 additional u. S. Troops are being deployed to syria. They are a part of an intensified effort to push isis out of rajka, the defacto capital. They will have various u. S. Backed factions along the front lines. Marines will set an outpost with heavy artillery. Hundreds of thousands of people are working without power this morning after deadly storms ripped through part of the countr country. 80mileanhour winds toppled trees in upstate new york. Schools in the season are closed today. In the midwest, more than 60mileanhour gusts tore rooves from buildings and knocked over trees, Michelle Miller is in michigan, where strong winds fueled a deadly fire. Good morning. Reporter good morning, this is what people in the midwest are waking up to, winds three stories high. This one landing just between two homes and even taking part of the sidewalk out with it. More than 670,000 people are without power this morning. The head of the Largest Power Company says this is the worst weather event for outages hes ever seen. Winds whipped the midwest tuesday pulling roofs off buildings and ripping trees out of the ground. 60mileperhour wind gusts swept through the detroit area, knocking out 3,000 power lines, demolishing store fronts and uprooting trees. This ripped the back of a car in the air t. Winds fueled the fire that tore through the apartment building, five people died, four were hurt. We had people jumping out of the windows in the back. Fire was driving into the building by the wind. So it was a her ren discuss into irto fight. I become. Reporter his car and crush and house was crushed in kalamazoo. The basketball teams plane was broken off the runway at Willow Run Airport southwest of detroit. The coach john beeline says some of the players have minor cuts and bruises. The gym tomorrow has still a lot of meaning, but certainly, our kids will look at it much differently. Reporter michigan wasnt the only state swept up in the wind. Next store in chicago, 55mileperhour winds broke a building window, showering the street below in glass and smashing this car windshield. And strong gusts made driving a truck nearly impossible. West of indianapolis, this armored bridge truck flipped over, killing the driver. In toledo, ohio, a tractor trailer tipped on its sides, skidding along an interstate bridge, another careened off a highway in wisconsin. You got to slow down. That way you dont put yourself in a bad situation. The worst this inc. That happen is your truck gets blown over. Reporter crews are working to restore power, theyre working 16 hours a day to restore power. As far as you, march madness fans are concerned the Michigan Basketball team, well, they are heading to washington for the big east tournament. They are set to land just in time for the noon tipoff. Wow. We are glad they are okay. Michelle milner detroit, thanks, michelle. Bad weather in north dakota left amtrak passengers way behind schedule. The empire building train from seattle to chicago with 1 learn passengers aboard got stuck in a 25 foot high snow bank yesterday. A passenger on the train shot this video. It took 13 hours for work crews to dig out the train. . What a nightmare t. Strong winds that fuelled wildfires in the Southern Plains have calm this morning. Dashcam video from a patrol car shows flames surrounding a major families in clark county return home to find almost nothing left. 85 of the land there burned. Six people died in wildfires, thousands were evacuated in colorado, kansas, oklahoma and texas. The federal Communications Commission investigated why at t customers were unable to call 911 across several states t. Outage reportedly lasted for about an hour. At least four states and the district of colombia had issues with their systems. The texasbased company says it was fixed late last night. A day of rallies around the world, thousands of women in the u. S. And more than 50 countries took action yesterday by staying home from work, joining demonstration or simply by wearing red. The outpouring on International Womens day was meant to show the importance of women to the economy. We have one girl making a symbolic stand. Jamie, good morning. Reporter good morning, alex. This girl girl. As you can see, she is staring down the iconic bull on wall street. She was placed here tuesday by an Investment Firm to mark the future empowerment of women, one of the many calls to action at yesterdays rallies. A day without a women is a day without me. Reporter women across the u. S. And around the world walked off the job on wednesday to rally for equality and demonstrate their influence in the work place. Were under represented in leadership positions across the board. I think its time to change that. Reporter if women took one day off from work, one study projects it would cost the economy nearly 21 become. Hundreds of teachers did just that, forcing schools in at least three states to shut down. About threequarters of teachers in the u. S. Are women. Its my job to teach my students as to stand up for themselves and to be good humans. Reporter democratic lawmakers in walk highlighted out themselves. When women succeed, the world succeeds. The movement was not without criticism of president donald trump. Outside Trump International hotel in new york city, at least 13 people were arrested as they sat in the street blocking traffic. On twitter the president acknowledged the Critical Role of women in america and around the world. At the white house, First Lady Melania Trump hosted a luncheon for about 50 women. Also in walk, former First Lady Michelle Obama surprised a group of student and Hillary Clinton spoke to a crowd of female leaders. I believe in every woman and girl here tonight and billions more who are not along with men and boys who understand and support that we are not asking for anything extra, we are asking for never, ever cease. Reporter now critics of the demonstration say that yesterdays rallies were for privileged women, who could afford the skip work and find child care, norah. All right, jamie, what a live shot there. Thank you so much. Phone scammers are pretending to be trustworthy government officials to steal your money. Ahead the n new threats against jewish institutions are fueling calls for a steppedup police response. Ahead the challenges of trying to find the perpetrators forcing evacuations and creating fear t. 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