. >> julianna goldman. thank you very much. >> major trucking route in southern california will remain closed several days. a mile long stretch is buried in mud up to 6 feet deep. maria villareal. >> reporter: from the sky you get the impact of thursday's 30 minute downpour where three inches of rain turned a dry landscape into a mud pit leaving nearly 200 cars and 300 people stranded. truck driver david noe was one of them. >> i have been through hurricanes, floods, tornados, but this is a fir forsst for me after 31 years of driving. >> reporter: in the initial river of mud there were dramatic rescues like this one. a driver pulling his girlfriend to safety. it is believed everyone trapped in this mess got out. but emergency workers are checking out. as quickly as they found themselves stuck, getting unstuck is proving tedious. for now, all drivers can do is wait and see what's next for the highway that appears to be frozen in time. maria villareal, cbs news, los >> john kerry said today he will meet separately this week with israeli prime minister net and mahmoud abbas. during a cycl

apparently with trump's blessing. julianna goldman has the story. >> they have these things called super pacs. no one knows what the hell they are, what they mean. it's the dumbest thing i've ever >> reporter: railing against the pacs and the cndidates who have them are regular attack lines in donald trump stump speeches. >> they want to take these people like little puppets and they want to say you do as i told you because i gave you $5 million and you'd better do it. >> reporter: trump made those comments last night amid a flurry of questions stemming from a "washington post" article on whether one of the groups based in denver, the make america great again pac, was operating with trump's approval. people familiar with the campaign's initial planning tell cbs news that before trump was an official candidate his team discussed whether to sanction a dedicated super pac and to call it "make america great again," a phrase trump has trademarked. one republican operative tweeted that she had been invited to meet with the campaign in june, ahead of his announcement. she said in those meetings she

weekend began with a wild boat chase. julianna goldman has this story. >> reporter: the high-speed chase began early christmas eve when authorities were alerted to a boat theft in ft. myers beach, florida. the men tried to ram into the sheriff's boat and then fled, skimming across the gulf of mexico for nearly 20 hours at speeds of over 70 miles per as the boat approached international waters, the coast guard was called in with three aircraft, the small boat crew, and the coast guard cutter "william trump." that was the ship that finally stopped the stolen boat on christmas morning. the suspects had led authorities for more than 345 miles and ended up about 65 miles off the northwest tip of cuba and about 125 miles east of cancun, mexico. >> these folks that were taking part in the illicit activity, they weren't going to quit and neither were we. >> reporter: today the coast guard returned the three suspects to shore in handcuffs. julianna goldman, cbs news, washington. >>> coming up, peyton manning slams a report accusing him of using human growth hormone. a lucky survivor from the aust