syria. david martin reports. >> reporter: the sharp spike in the number of american special forces in syria will begin within the next two weeks and should, if it goes according to plan, produce more of this. the liberation of this syrian crossroads town from isis earlier this year was accomplished by local fighters advised by americans on the ground and backed by air strikes from above. until now, small band of 50 u.s. special forces has been trying to coordinate 30,000 local fighters along a 300-mile front stretching across syria. by sending in another 250 americans, president obama is attempting to turn that rag tag force into an army that could push isis out of its capital of raqqah, which is defended by an estimated 5,000 to 8,000 fighters. announcing the decision during a speech in germany, the president vowed none of the americans, most of them green berets, would be engaged in combat. >> they're not going to be leading the fight on the ground, but they will be essential in providing the training and assisting local forces they continue to drive isil back. >> reporter: with ord

poland, one of the largest since the end of the cold war. david martin, cbs news, the pentagon. >>> microsoft is suing the u.s. government over privacy rights. microsoft says a 1986 law that allows authorities to demand access to user e-mail or online files is unconstitutional. in some cases, the court orders microsoft to turn over customer files and prevent the company from notifying the customer. >>> workers demanding a $15 an hour minimum wage protested around the country. >> what do we want? when? >> now! >> reporter: from atlanta to florida to colorado, the fight for 15 campaign has gained momentum. there have been strikes and protests backed by the service employees international union. yesterday's demonstration were part of the nationwide tax day protest. >>> coming up on the "morning news." a step towards freedom. a member of the manson family could be released after decades in prison. >>> and coming to a theater near you, movie go-ers may soon be allowed to text. this is the "cbs morning news." see me. see me. don't stare at me. see me. see me. see me to know that psor

days. the white house has called the simulated attack passes unsafe. cbs 2's david martin has more. >> lower the bridge wing. below the bridge wing. >>reporter: the russian planes raced by the u.s. navy destroyer low and fast over and over, these pictures taken from on board the ship showed just how dangerously close they came during some of those passes. >> over the bow, right turn, over the bough. with the commander of the u.s.s. donald cook described as a simulated attack profile, although they carried no weapons under their wings. a total of 31 runs over two days. on monday the cook was preparing to conduct helicopter flight operations in the baltic sea, in international waters 70 miles off the coast of the russian enclave of kalinninggrad. this is a foreign policy expert for the pentagon. >> this is really dangerous behavior. they're prying with fire here. i'm sure that u.s. ships and other non-russian ships have been just as close in the past, and even if they hadn't, again, they're in international waters. there's nothing provacative about what we're doing, unlike the russia

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blamed on human error, a violation of combat rules, and equipment failures. david martin has more. >> reporter: the 3,000 page investigation into the destruction of the hospi miscommunications whose only excuse was the fog and fatigue of war. the report called the strike by the devastating gunpower a disproportional response to a threat that didn't exist. the actions of the commander who called in the strike were not reasonable under the circumstances. the overall commander of the war in afghanistan said the litany of human error did not in his opinion add up to criminal negligence. >> there was no intention on any of their parts to take a shortcut and they were attempting to do the right thing. unfortunately, they made a wrong judgment in this particular case. and ended up targeting this doctors without borders facility. >> reporter: the gun ship was given the coordinates of a government building taken over by the taliban. the targeting system zeroed in on an open field instead. that air crew picked out closest building that resembled the one they were supposed to hit. they were

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video of the jets flying extremely close to the ship more than 30 times over two days. david martin is at the pentagon. david, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the u.s. intends to file a diplomatic protest but russia made its point. it resents american forces operating close to russian territory and intends to push back. >> the bridge wing! below the bridge wing! >> reporter: russian planes rush by the u.s. navy destroyer low and fast over and over. pictures taken from on board the ship showed just how dangerously close they came during some of those passes. >> over the bow. right turn. over the bow. >> reporter: they were flying with the "uss donald cook" described as a simulated attack profile, although they carried no weapons under their wings. a total of 31 runs over two days. on monday, the cook was preparing to conduct helicopter flight operations in the baltic sea in international waters 70 miles off the coast of the russian enclave of kaliningrad. evelyn farkas is a former policy expert for the pentagon. >> this is dangerous behavior. they are playing with fire here. i'

espionage. edward lynn faces multiple charges for allegedly passing secrets to china. david martin at the pentagon confirms lynn has been in custody since last year. david joins us with details from the highly secretive case. david, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. a u.s. official calls this a serious case of espionage. edward lynn is originally from taiwan. he became a naturalized american citizen in 2008 and served aboard a navy spy plane, which among other things eves dropped on chinese communications. heavily redacted charges documents accuse edward lin of five counts of espionage and attempted espionage. three counts of making false official statements and five counts of communicating defense information to a person not entitled to receive said information. specifically, the charging documents say lynn communicated secret u.s. defense information to a foreign power. u.s. officials identified that foreign power as china. lynn is also charged with engaging in prostitution and adultery while on active duty, also violations of military law. he worked as a flight officer on th

passing secrets to china. the u.s. naval says linhas been in custody since last year. david martin has more. >> reporter: the u.s. official calls this a serious case of espiona espionage. edward linis originally from taiwan and wbecame a u.s. citizen. documents accused edward linof espionage and attempted espionage and three counts of making false official statements and five counts of communicating defense information to a person not entitled to receive said information. specifically, the charging documents say lincommunicated secret service information to a foreign power and that was identified as china. linis charged with engaging in prostitution and of adultery. u.s. officials say lin's job gave him access to the details of that eavesdropping. information that could help adversaries develop counter measures. details of the information linallegedly gave china and for how long remain unclear. it is now up to a navy admiral to decide whether or not there is enough evidence against linto court-martial him. >>> donald trump is condemni ii how the republican party chooses its nominees. h

. martin. david elliot le us. brenda washington. come on up. >> you don't have to speak in the order i called you. but if you called your name, please come on up. >> good afternoon i'm here as the president of officers for justice to say we completely support the reinstatement of suzy loftus to the police commission. she has shown that she is a courageous woman who supports and understands impress it biased policing. she understands the need for accountability in situations likes text-gate. she supports reform and procedural justice. she responding to our domestic violence calls and enhantsing the technology that is currently used by the police department so we can deliver more quality police service to the citizens that we serve. she has advocated as i and the officers for justice have done consistently that police officers learn to treat people with dignity and respect. and that we're truly accountable for our actions. and that this department must be transparent. i have attended many police commission meetings where i've heard her not only take on the chief, she would take on police

up and temperatures climb into the 70s. 59 degrees in pottstown. 59 in saint davids. quakertown, 60. martins creek, 61. chester, 61. glass borough up to 66 degrees. 61 in hammonton, vineland anne woodbine. 58 in atlantic city. 59 in surf city. satellite and radar, upper level low pressure system spin across the mason dixon line. we have to get that through before the skies begin to clear. that will takes place around the midday area. once it hits the coast west to east we'll see the cloud deck swing out to sea and the sunshine returns. double scan live, most of south jersey and delaware are in the clear. city of philadelphia, a couple of spritzes and sprinkles nothing heavy. western suburbs picking up showers. every now and then we pick up an embedded downpour. you see that in berks and lancaster counties. the afternoon will look much, much better. the day planner, 67 degrees by 11:00 a.m., mostly cloudy, leftover showers. 1:00 p.m., same thing. 2:00 p.m. you'll notice peeks of sunshine and temperatures climbing into the low to mid 70s. 73 is the forecasted high for philadelphia tod

today is gina martin adams, making us sound a lot smarter today. david: and because of larry fink . larry fink was really interesting. he really went after the bank of japan. they have gone as far as they can go. it isroadly, he is saying the end of the effectiveness of monetary policy. there's a lot of parallels, a lot of consistency between the bank of japan and the u.s., monetary policy becoming too integrated and the need for fiscal policy to step it up. david: the luck with that. -- good luck with that. the whole process of what japan was trying to do was restimulated the economy through aggressive monetary policy, but the second phase -- erik: what option do you have right now? larry: he has to talk to the prime minister and say i ran out of runway. smart,u are getting very mainstream leaders of financial institutions saying low rates might be the problem. does that resonate at all with anyone at the federal reserve? gina: it doesn't seem to so far. maybe we need a bigger movement. the fed does seem particularly worried about the negative impact they will have about increasi

martins creek. barely above freezing in quakertown. 36 in saint davids, 43 in center city. in the suburbs in new jersey you're in the blow 20s, hammonton, 29. vineland, 29. glassboro, freezing mark. a little bit above that in cinnaminson. 34 in dover. chilly again, satellite and radar showing we have high clouds out there, we have mostly clear skies in philadelphia and we are once again going to have a nice afternoon with lots of sunshine. it will be better than yesterday as far as temperature we got to 58 degrees. closer to average, the temperatures go up to here. today, 62 degrees. >> reporter: i got mr. matt pellman this morning. i'm going for sir matt pellman has a nice ring, doesn't it? >> reporter: no. >> reporter: you'll love this, early on the the blue route at 476. we have construction crews approaching the schuylkill expressway coming down from mid county looks like they should be out out of here before too long. eastbound by the boulevard there was a broken down tractor-trailer that truck got moving along, the police were assisting, but they have taken off. construction crews h

, my man eric here, he got his look-alikes, david hasselhoff and dean martin. >> a very classic cool guy. >> he's totally the hoff, okay? >> he was, he was, i had his son on famous kids. and he -- >> he called in. it was fun, it was a fun show. >> is this about you or me? >> polling, i think you should sit out one of your pictures again. remember the time when you had the blanco gordito. >> the -- >> yeah. the shirtless thing. >> i don't know. the, thats with the first i heard. i have heard the hasselhoff one before but i never heard the dean martin one. >> get the hasselhoff one. >> i think you look like the "homeland" damian lewis. >> you know when people tell you you look like somebody famous, they assume that it's a compliment. even if the somebody famous isn't attractive. if somebody said you look a lot like don knotts, if he wasn't famous, that wouldn't be a compliment. >> there was a female guest on maury who was a dread ringer for ted cruz. >> let's not go there, dana will scold me again. >> and finally me, i got tony orlando and groucho marx. >> tony orlando and i used to al

david's 73 and center city 74 and 75 in martins creek and chester county in the 70s, as we head to the south, warmer here with a southwesterly wind. 76 hammonton and 76 in browns mills and right along the immediate shore a bit cooler with the wind catching in off the water, temperatures in the lower 60s. as we look at satellite and radar a broken line of showers down to the south and west and the low pressure is still in the ohio valley and all of this needs to push off to the east and it's slowly working its way through, future tracker 6 at 3:00, again some sunshine towards the shore communities. as you can see very little happening in the way of any rainfall. but as you go through the evening hours at 6:00, number one you have the rush and number two there are a lot of proms here this evening, people want to get the outdoor pictures? if are you in the wrong spot you could see a downpour but most of it will occur during the evening hours, here is one cell along i-95, and it's close toward midnight and 2:00 in the morning as we get the brought of the rain and now low pressure is slowin

console david that vote. does had you have a chance of beating hillary clinton there in wisdom martin? >> looks like it. hillary clinton seems to more or less conceded state. she said that. she's moved on to new york where really that's going to be more critical state for her. bernie sanders is newspaper wisdom martin and a couple points just a couple it's going to be a horse race it looks like. cruz -- or sanders has done quite a bit to reverse fortune there's in wisdom martin. at one point hillary clinton had a huge lead and does not anymore. >> quickly if bernie sanders were to win damaging is it for hillary clinton's clam pain. >> her campaign is saying the delegate map is just not there for sanders. what sanders is hoping for to win wisdom martin and build momentum and then knock clinton off in new york which you know is clip ton adopted home state. she has a lot of connections there and so does sanders he's down considerably he has to turn things around quickly. >> indeed he does. polls opening soon. we'll see how it shapes up tomorrow. doug luzader on capitol hill for us

they can't hit. jose fernandez no slouch himself but this is martin prado scoring d. gordon. gordon reached on 16 pitch at bat and proved to be the winner. 2-1. >>> orioles and red sox. david ortiz, they gave away chains commemorating his 500 career home runs. he's got 506 now after that one. third this season. >> new chains. >> but j.j. hardy was the man. he did ortiz one better. he put two over the wall in right field at fenway park and the orioles continue rolling. they roughed up clay buchholz and baltimore is now 7-0. the only unbeaten team left in the major leagues. >> yeah, just a reminder wednesday, "sportscenter," pretty much just lock in it all day. okay, because the whole team is bringing it. >> back to you. >> thank you. >> so we don't deal with high school lacrosse but had to show you this. it happened at a guy in ohio monday. >> the goalie from the team in white has a ball. he gets in some trouble and launches it downfield 75 yards later, it flies into the other team's goal. the goalie's reaction there is absolutely priceless. his team losing by eight goals. >> i used

clinton begin looking for a running mate? here for a fair and balanced debate, david, gopac chairman and we have former campaign manager for martin o'malley. as we look forward to tuesday, five primaries. mr. clinton is up in all of the states. if clinton wins all five states, is it time for sanders to drop out and have this general election pivot by the clinton campaign? >> i don't think sanders should drop out. he's made this race so much better. look at the exit polls from new york that came out last week after the primary which was that our base is definitely energized. we have 7 out of 10 voters said we're excited about this election. we're excited about the primary. right now hillary clinton is running a two-prong campaign. she's the presumptive nominee but can't claim it just yet. it's a difficult place to be. she's leading by pledged delegates. she's leading in the popular vote. bernie sanders as he should is still in the race because he has really galvanized this base, these critical young voters and his message is resonating. >> young voters say i won't vote for hillary cli

right there to the my right where i'm pointing. marianne. ya londa williams. martin. david elliot le us. brenda washington. come on up. >> you don't have to speak in the order i called you. but if you called your name, please come on up. >> good afternoon i'm here as the president of officers for justice to say we completely support the reinstatement of suzy loftus to the police commission. she has shown that she is a courageous woman who supports and understands impress it biased policing. she understands the need for accountability in situations likes text-gate. she supports reform and procedural justice. she responding to our domestic violence calls and enhantsing the technology that is currently used by the police department so we can deliver more quality police service to the citizens that we serve. she has advocated as i and the officers for justice have done consistently that police officers learn to treat people with dignity and respect. and that we're truly accountable for our actions. and that this department must be transparent. i have attended many police commission meeti

. marianne. ya londa williams. martin. david elliot le us. brenda washington. come on up. >> you don't have to speak in the order i called you. but if you called your name, please come on up. >> good afternoon i'm here as the president of officers for justice to say we completely support the reinstatement of suzy loftus to the police commission. she has shown that she is a courageous woman who supports and understands impress it biased policing. she understands the need for accountability in situations likes text-gate. she supports reform and procedural justice. she responding to our domestic violence calls and enhantsing the technology that is currently used by the police department so we can deliver more quality police service to the citizens that we serve. she has advocated as i and the officers for justice have done consistently that police officers learn to treat people with dignity and respect. and that we're truly accountable for our actions. and that this department must be transparent. i have attended many police commission meetings where i've heard her not only take on the ch

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our center on private sy and technology and we now have the honor of hearing from david gar row. david gar row is professor of law and history and distinguished faculty -- >> pittsburgh. >> university of pittsburgh law school. he's best known for writing the pulitzer prize winning biography of martin luther king, the definitive biography of martin luther king. best known for that now. next year at this time he will probably be best known for writing the definitive biography of barack obama. that will be published in winter of 2016, 2017. and it's a special honor to have mr. james a. baker. he is the general counsel of the fbi. i can tell you, it's not easy to get law enforcement officers to talk about these issues. we've reached out to mr. baker hoping that he would want to take a place in this because we were really interested in hearing from law enforcement as well as from activists and scholars and historians. and to our great delight he said, yes. and in saying yes, he actually continued a tradition that the fbi has started in coming to georgetown and talking about race and

martins creek, 23 in pottstown, 21 in coatesville, 25 in saint davids. in levittown 25, 32 degrees in center city. normally we'd see an overnight low of 41. we are well below that. 20 in vineland, 32 in sea isle city and 28 degrees in dover, delaware and that's why the national weather service has this freeze warning still in effect for a few more hours until 9 o'clock. and we're certainly seeing widespread freeze. satellite6 and action radar showing we are dry. we are clear for now. we can see some of those clouds up to the north and the west trying to creep in. that will be more of a factor tomorrow. s a rainy day for us but today we're dry. we've got bright beautiful sunshine to start us off. by 9:00 a.m., it's still cold and 38. but by 11:00 it's feeling a little better, 45 with bright sunshine. by 1:00 p.m. 50 with mostly sunny skies. by 3:00 p.m., 53. shortly after that we'll hit a high of 54. we'll be backing down from that at 6 o'clock. it will be about 53 degrees so it's going to feel better than it did yesterday. the winds aren't as bad. temperatures about 10 degrees bett

privacy and technology. we have the honor of hearing from david garrow, professor of, professor von history distinguished faculty scholar at the university of kent lavinia -- university of pittsburgh law school. he is best known for writing the pulitzer prize winning biography of martin luther king, the definitive biography. i should say he is best known for that now. texture at this time he will be non-definitive biography of barack obama. that will be published in winter of 2016-2017. it is a special honor to have mr. jamesa baker, the general consult of the fbi. i can tell you it is not easy to get one for us than officers to talk about these issues. we have reached out to mr. baker, hoping that he would want to take place it is. we were really interested in hearing from law enforcement as well as activists and scholars and historians. to our great delight, he said yes. and saying as he continued a tradition that the fbi has started coming to georgetown and talking about race and criminal justice. this is just different from the police department lon forstmann agency including th

have to love it to do it. and i do. >> david culver, news4. >> good work they're doing there. >>> some local students took a virtual trip today, a trip to mars. >> it's about as close as you can get to the real thing. boarding lockheed martin's mars experience bus. they use video game technology to simulate what it's like to drive on the surface of mars. lockheed martin is trying to get students excited about science, technology, engineering and math. >> s.t.e.m. jobs are growing so fast that economists project there will be 2.4 million unfilled s.t.e.m. jobs by 2018. and listen to this, s.t.e.m. degree holders earn higher wages regardless of whether they work in s.t.e.m. or non-s.t.e.m. jobs. >> the students rode the mars experience bus to the washington convention center where they got a sneak peek at the usa science and engineering festival. storm team4 meteorologists and the 4 x 4 will be there all weekend. >> that's right. >> what day are you doing? saturday, sunday? >> i am doing sunday. i will be there at 9:00. i'm from there 9:00 to about i'm interviewing will wheaton. from sta

guidance from janet yellen later today. david: crude rally. news that u.s. stockpiles dropped last week. welcome to "bloomberg ." we want to extend a special welcome to our cohost, gina martin adams. great to have you here. jon: also coming up in just a few minutes, blackrock ceo larry fink. do not miss that exclusive interview. let's get the scorecard up on the screen for you. futures in the u.s. down by

of hearing from david, the professor of law and history and the distinguished faculty scholar at the university of pennsylvania -- university of pittsburgh law school. he is best known for writing the pulitzer prize-winning biography of martin luther king, the definitive biography of martin luther king. i should say he is best known for that now. next year at this time he will probably be best known for the definitive biography of barack obama that will be published in the winter 2016-2017. and it's a special honor to have mr. james baker, the general counsel of the fbi. i can tell you it's not easy to get law enforcement officers to talk about these issues. we have reached out to mr. baker hoping he would want to take a place in this because we are interested in hearing from law enforcement as well as from activists and scholars and historians and to our great delight, he said yes and in saying yes he continued a tradition that the fbi started in coming to georgetown and the ways of criminal justice and again this is different for the police departments and law enforcement agencies

smith settling with tom petty over their songs "stay with me" and "i won't back down." versus martin gaye's "give it up." let's kick it >> reporter: vanilla ice explaining how "ice, ice baby" was different from queen and david bowie's "under pressure." >> the little change. >> reporter: court next month, the stakes are higher. to date, "stairway to heaven" brought in more than $500 million as one of rock and roll's most recognizablelsongs. for "today", gadi schwartz, nbc news, los angeles. >>> finally, thelma and louise, believe it or not, mark next month's 25th anniversary. can you believe it? susan sarandon and geena davis are celebrating in a photo spread. where would they be now if they hadn't gone fff the cliff? susan said, well, thelma is not with her husband. one would only hope she found brad and maybe louise became a lesbian. the issue of "bazaar" hits news stands next tuesday. that's the eclectic pop start. the team was ready to go with it. that's throwing them under the bus. >> something for everybody. >> you believe in the people? >> okay. >> with good air bags, i guess.