This Morning from CBS News: Sept. 25, 2014
New tactic
The latest strikes came on the third day of a U.S.-led air campaign aimed at rolling back ISIS in Syria, and as CBS News' David Martin reports, they didn't target ISIS militants and weapons as the attacks earlier in the week, but infrastructure used by the militant group to rake in money. Martin says 12 small-scale oil refineries were hit in the eastern desert of Syria.
Saudi allies
Prince Turki Al-Faisal, former Saudi Arabian ambassador to the U.S., tells CBS This Morning Anchor Norah O'Donnell, he hopes the airstrikes that include Saudi planes against ISIS are the first step in ultimately removing Syrian leader Bashar Assad and does not see any reason why they shouldn't send in Saudi ground troops if necessary.
Refugees hope
CBS News Correspondent Holly Williams found Leyla Rasul sitting in the dust grieving for her home, and her village - both now captured by ISIS. She ran for her life on Saturday with all the belongings she could carry, and she's now safe in Turkey. But like 150,000 other Syrians who have streamed across this border over the last week - she has nowhere to go. And Leyla told CBS News she wants the U.S. to drive ISIS out.
Khorasan origins
U.S. and foreign intelligence first tracked a small number of senior al Qaeda terrorists, Khorasan that found sanctuary with al Qaeda's Syria-based affiliate al-Nusra. And as al-Nusra battled to carve out operating space, Khorasan took advantage of the safe haven to begin plotting external attacks against Europe and the U.S. Sources tell CBS News Correspondent Bob Orr, that Khorasan, with the help of al Qaeda bomb-makers, is working on developing concealable explosives that could be smuggled aboard airplanes.
Terror worries
As many as 51 percent of Americans said in a CBS News/New York Times poll released last week that they think a terrorist attack in the U.S. is very likely or somewhat likely to happen in the next few months. Most are dissatisfied with President Obama's handling of the threat of terrorism. It's unclear at this point whether Republicans can seize on the issue -- the president's stepped up military action in recent days may undercut attempts to do so. Still, the GOP is testing out the strategy in some races.
Manning on Rice
For New York Giants Quarterback Eli Manning the video of Ray Rice knocking out his bride-to-be was hard to watch. He tells CBS This Morning Anchor Gayle King that domestic abuse is a problem in the NFL that has to be attacked. The two talked on the eve of tonight's Giants game against Washington.
Seizing refunds
CBS News Correspondent Wyatt Andrews first met Mary Grice in April after her tax refund of almost $3,000 dollars had been confiscated, she said, without notice. It turned out the Social Security Administration had seized her refund, claiming her family received too much in death benefits after Grice's father died - in 1960. Grice, who was five years old at the time, says she never got a penny and calls the loss of her refund an injustice. And CBS News found that Grice is not alone.
Turtles victory
Thanks to the 1960s' rock band The Turtles, Sirius XM could soon be forced to pay royalties on music it's been using for free after being on the losing side of a federal judge's ruling. The decision concerns a gap between federal and state copyright laws, with federal law applying only to recordings made after 1972. The satellite radio provider has never paid royalties for songs recorded before 1972, which account for about 10 percent to 15 percent of the tunes it plays on its commercial-free stations.
Cyber criminals
In the last five years, hackers have been responsible for at least 236 million reported corporate data breaches. In his lab at the University of Southern Maine, Charles Largay asks his classroom to identify the biggest difference between the Home Depot and Target breaches. CBS News Correspondent Jim Axelrod reports, in the war on cybercrime, Largay's students are the next generation of cops on the beat. And Largay is the wise old detective training them.
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