Going to survive the mob. Youre going to have to shave your welcome to cbs this morning. Charlie rose and Norah Odonnell are off. Im Anthony Mason along with margaret brennan. Good morning. Good morning. The Holiday Weekend is approaching. And so is arthur. Its now hurricane arthur. The immediate threat is along North Carolinas outer bangs. A mandatory Evacuation Order is now in place. A satellite view shows the size of the system. It plans to threaten tens of millions of americans iechlts expected to move up east coast today and today. Stay or go. Nearby Hatteras Island earlier this morning was put under a mandatory evacuation. As arthur approaches the outer banks of North Carolina may be in for a beating. With 25 coastal counties already in a state of emergency, governor pat mccrory is warning people to take this storm seriously. I want to reiterate dont put your stupid hat on. Most injuries occur right before a storm or right after a storm. Reporter but some of the people we spoke t
Without you. Hurt arthur is aiming at the eco. People are evacuating. I want to reiterate. Dont put your stupid hat on. Cleanup is under way after storms surge through the area. A wildfire in napa, california, 200 homes have been evacuated and more than a thousand firefighters are working it. Crackdown on security at the airport. Theyre developing a new generation of bombs that are easier to smuggle. The fbi arresting a colorado woman accused of providing security support to isis. The poll rates president obama the worst president. He beats out president burb. Testimony of Oscar Pistorius could end as early as today. One day after their tour buses caught fire in philadelphia. All that two boaters photographing whales off the coast of san diego when one came out of the water, causing their boat to overturn. Oh, my body. Lindsay lohan suing the makers of grand theft auto. They say one of the characters is based on her without her permission. Please, im hardly wearing any makeup. And all
With lester holt and erica hi, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Weome to today on a saturday morning. Im lesterolt. Imrica hill. Alongside dylan dreyer and cra melvin who is in this morning for jenna. We want to staith our top story. Weavent seen the full picture of the destruction typhoon haiyan has lef behind. There are more images of e damage coming in throughout the morning. Weo know that entire neighborhoods ve been destrod. Were also learning this morning the storm is responsible for at least 000 deaths. It is a dficult area to get to. The pictures slowly coming t, the aid slowly getting to where it is needed. Correspondent angus walker is in manila and hashis update for us. Angus, good rning. Rorter people here have seen many orms but super typhoon haiyan was much more than thebargained for. Th are beginning to suey the ha than they bargain for. They are beginning to survey the damagen the philippines after onof the strongest storms ever recorded
Good evening. We find ourselves tonight in that period between landfall of a monster storm and then learning how bad it was when communications are back up. There is reason to believe, though, that entire portions of the philippines are cut off tonight and under water after a storm made landfall thats being described as the most powerful on earth ever to hit land. Wind gusts at the core were predicted at over 200 miles an hour. At that speed, nothing can remain attached to the earth. Waves were reported at 50 feet and higher. And after passing through the philippines, the storm that has emerged on the other side is still more powerful than katrina was. This powerful explosion of nature is where we begin tonight. Our report from correspondent angus walker in manila. Reporter winds topping 230 miles an hour. Houses were torn apart. Huge waves crashed ashore. A tidal surge flooded coastal areas. Crew members on this barge had to abandon ship and struggle to get to shore. 12 Million People
senators have left town. why? because they passed a two month extension of the payroll tax cut. they passed unemployment benefits coming to people in the new year. but now the g.o.p. in the house say they re going to kill this thing this morning. 9:00 a.m. is when the showdown will happen today. they re looking for this long-term fix. i get that. is this the right time and place to be doing that? i have a scary suspicion that this is going to fall real hard on the house republicans and the general public isn t going to be happy about it. bottom line is the premise of their argument is correct. you re going to draw the entire political system, for two months, you re going to have a tax cut. we ve gotten this far and we ve agreed on the pipeline. can we at least get a year out of this so we don t have this intramural fight again? what they re going to do is take it up. we told you yesterday at this time, 24 hours ago, they were going to kill it yesterday. that didn t happen