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private burial ceremony as russian police try to head off more protests over his death. "they want it done secretly," she said. "i don't agree with that." a defiant putin flexed his muscle today, flying on a nuclear-capable strategic bomber even as the u.s. and its allies prepare to unveil new sanctions tomorrow aimed at hobbling his military. at a california fund-raiser last night, president biden called putin a, quote, crazy s.o.b. putin shrugged it off in an interview with state tv. "we understand what is happening there from a domestic, political point of view," he said. "and this reaction is absolutely adequate." tonight we are getting a better sense of the scope of the sanctions president biden is set to announce tomorrow. cbs news has learned that these sanctions will target nearly 600 banks, companies, and
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individuals both inside and outside russia. norah. >> very severe sanctions, nancy. i also want to ask you about these new developments in the case of that ex-fbi informant who lied to investigators about hunter biden. what do we know tonight? >> reporter: that's right. alexander smirnov, who was just freed on bond two days ago, has been rearrested in las vegas. federal prosecutors considered him a flight risk. they wanted him detained. in court documents, they said that he has been, quote, activoli peddling new lies that could impact u.s. elections. and they said, norah, that he had met with russian intelligence contacts as recently as november. >> nancy cordes, thank you very much. now to a terrifying attack on board an alaska airlines flight. federal authorities have charged a man with assault with a dangerous weapon after he allegedly stabbed another passenger during a flight between seattle and las vegas last month. cbs's carter evans reports this is just the latest in a series
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of mid-flight incidents in recent weeks. >> reporter: it happened on an alaska airlines flight on approach to las vegas in january. investigators say julio alvarez lopez bound pens together with rubber bands before the flight and used the makeshift weapon to stab the man sitting across the aisle. photos show the victim with cuts and bruises. a federal grand jury indicted lopez wednesday. court documents say he planned on attacking and killing the man and felt the mafia had been chasing him. sam vinograd is a cbs contributor. >> based upon just the sheer number of incidents we've been seeing over the past few years is that we really do need a new approach to airline safety. >> reporter: just this week, passengers had to forcibly restrain a man who allegedly tried to open the door on this american airlines flight to chicago. >> he was saying, like, i got to get off this plane. get me off this plane. >> reporter: passengers also helped break up a fistfight on
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this southwest flight to hawaii earlier this month. >> tsa continually tries to think about how the threat environment is evolving. but what's clear is that we're behind the curve. >> reporter: now, even though these unruly passenger incidents seem to be increasing in intensity, the number of them is actually on the decline since a peak in 2021. but i want to put it all into context for you. the numbers we're seeing these days are still double what we saw before the pandemic. norah. >> important context. carter evans, thank you so much. a u.s. army doctor will be arraigned in washington state tomorrow for what could be one of the largest sexual assault prosecutions in the army's history. cbs's jonathan vigliotti has our investigation, including exclusive interviews with two of the accusers. >> reporter: videotaped interviews made by the armiary criminal investigation division and on intaed by cbs news, detail disturbing accounts. >> he said, no, i need you to
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drop trou. >> i'm thinking what the hell is this for? >> reporter: they say they're survivors of sex crimes at the hands of their doctor. major michael stocken, a pain management an thesologist at joint base lewis-mcchord in washington state. charging documents obtained by cbs news shows stocken faces more than 50 counts of sexual misconduct while treating 42 patients, all of them men. >> being in the military at the time for 19 years, i trusted the medical doctor i was seeing. i trusted dr. stocken. >> we sat down with two of his accusers, who are sharing their stories publicly for the first time. they asked to speak anonymously out of fear of retaliation. >> i knew something wasn't right after the first interaction, the first procedure i had with him. dr. stocken was face level with my groin, and he started touching my -- my genitals. >> you went in for a longstanding chronic issue of shoulder pain. what is a doctor doing
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inspecting you in an area down there near your groin? >> exactly. i was -- i was very confused. >> reporter: both men now retired from the army, completed three combat tours. >> in the military there's a term to put what happens to you into your duffel bag, shove it down and continue to march on. so i was willing to do that. i was willing to shove it into my duffel bag and march on. >> reporter: the army told cbs news the investigation remains open. >> i think there are victims out there that might not even know they're victims. >> reporter: the scale of the case is historic for the military according to their attorney, ryan gills. >> how many potential victims are we talking about in this case? >> hundreds. i'm convinced it's hundreds. >> reporter: in a statement to cbs news, stocken's lawyer stated he is presumed innocent, adding this legal fight is just getting started. jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, los angeles. a popular former talk show host is declarationed with the i'm jonathan lawson, here to tell you about life insurance
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>> reporter: intuitive co-founder steve al tim ma showed us the lander up close in houston. his company envisions a $100 billion lunar market. >> we're delivering scientific payloads but not the humans themselves. >> you believe the moon is the next economic frontier? >> the moon is certainly that next step for space exploration. >> reporter: odysseus landed near the lunar south pole carrying less than 300 pounds of cargo, including six instruments for nasa an intuitive customer. the space agency hopes to have astronauts moonwalking there by the end of the decade. some critters there never see light, so cold they may contain ice, and water is critical to long-term space exploration. >> nasa plans to basically hire these companies to send payloads to the moon like you'd call an uber or lyft. but these companies have to make it work first, and that's what we're seeing today. >> reporter: not since the end of the apollo era has an
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american lander parked itself on the surface of the moon. this mission will last roughly a week until lunar night freezes the solar batteries. quite an achievement. norah. >> yeah, really, really exciting. mark strassmann, thank you so much. "heart of america" is next with a look at the woman who made history in barbie world and beyond.
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finally, tonight's "heart of america." and in honor of black history month, we introduce you to the woman who created the first black barbie more than 40 years ago. cbs's elise preston now on the doll's lasting impact on girls and women around the world. >> reporter: a big curly fro, bold gold jewelry, and a bright red dress looks dynamite on this brown-skinned barbie. >> everything that barbie was, i
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wanted black barbie to be the opposite. >> reporter: kitty black perkins, now 76, designed mattel's first black barbie, which debuted in 1980 after calls from doll collectors. >> they were asking for more black dolls. >> reporter: in the '60s and sets, the only diverse dolls in barbie's world were sidekicks. >> she's a little bit shapelier. >> reporter: but this doll, made more in the image of black women, would bear the mark yi name. >> i wanted her also to be able to do the same things that the white doll did. >> yeah. >> reporter: perkins, mattel's first black designer, grew up in the jim crow south. >> did you have any black dolls growing up? >> i did not. and i would actually color the skin of the paper dolls. >> why? >> because i wanted them to look like me. >> reporter: kansas mom sonia larsen collects black barbies. >> people don't understand that
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being able to see yourself in a doll, it's everything. >> reporter: perkins retired from mattel as chief barbie designer. ♪ today barbie is more inclusive than ever and taking over hollywood. but for perkins, black barbie was the mold to break the mold. elise preston, cbs news, los angeles. and that's the overnight news for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs mornings" and follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from here in the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. this is "cbs news flash." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. at&t says an initial review shows that it was a software issue and not a cyberattack that knocked out cell service for nearly 74,000 people yesterday. the company says full service has been restored. south carolina will hold its
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republican presidential primary tomorrow. both candidates were on the campaign trail last night. nikki haley in her home state and donald trump in nashville. haley has vowed to stay in the race through super tuesday. and gabby douglas' return to gymnastics is going to have to wait. the 2012 olympic gold medalist is pulling out of her first meet in eight years after testing positive for covid-19. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. tonight, massive cell service outage. >> some of our customers are experiencing wireless service interruptions this morning. >> the widespread blackout for america's largest wireless provider. the mystery behind what could have caused the problem for tens of thousands of at&t users. >> it was like radio silence from the moment i woke up. >> i see an sos. now i can't even use my gps, my music.
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>> we apologize for this inconvenience. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." good evening. i'm norah o'donnell, and thank you for being with us. we want to begin tonight with that nationwide at&t outage that left a lot of people scratching their heads, wondering what is going on and leading to confusion and concern about the ability to dial 911. the ripple effect inundating emergency centers from new york to los angeles. at&t tonight is apologizing, but they are not explaining what happened. the fbi, the fcc, and the department of homeland security are now investigating the cause, and the white house says there is no evidence that a malicious attack was behind the network shutdown. but there are still so many questions. the outage also highlighting concerns about how the lack of communications could impact us all in a real emergency and renewing concerns about
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cybersecurity in the u.s. the top republican on the senate intelligence committee tonight has a dire warning, saying a chinese cyberattack will be 100 times worse. here's cbs's senior business and technology correspondent jo ling kent. >> reporter: a rude awakening for tens of thousands of at&t customers. >> i woke up this morning, turned on my phone, and no internet. >> checked my phone, and it's like what's going on? i see an sos. now i can't even use my gps, my music, call my wife, tell her where i'm going to be. >> reporter: from chicago to dallas, boston to los angeles, more than 74,000 users reported widespread problems. >> so on a personal level, it was definitely confusing and uncomfortable, but it wasn't the end of the world. >> reporter: late today, at&t apologized to customers and said service had been fully restored. nearly three-quarters of adults live in households without a land line, so losing cell service in a disaster can cripple communications. that was the case in the maui wildfires.
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but today's outage inundated emergency call centers with people dialing them up to test their phones. massachusetts state police posting that many 911 centers were flooded with calls. and in san francisco -- >> please don't call 911 to verify if your phone works if you don't have an emergency. >> reporter: the fbi is in contact with at&t and the fcc is actively investigating. the national security council says there's no reason to think that this was a cybersecurity incident. >> does this incident worry you about the future? >> i always worry about our dependency on technology. i think it's also a good wake-up call and just a reminder that we can't depend 100% all the time on the technology that we depend on 100% of the time. >> reporter: in case of emergency during an outage, experts recommend using the emergency call or text function on your phone or go find wi-fi to make a call. you always want to have an
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emergency list as well of your neighbors and your family and friends and as a total last resort, experts say you can always go in person to your local fire or police department. norah. >> that's good advice. jo ling kent, thank you so much. there's more fallout tonight from that controversial supreme court ruling in alabama giving embryos the same rights as children. two fertility clinics in two of the largest cities in the state paused ivf treatments today over the potential legal risks, bringing the total in the state to at least three. we get details now from cbs's caitlin huey-burns. >> reporter: tonight, gabby goidel and her husband spencer say they're in a state of desperation, leaving their home in alabama and rushing to catch a flight to texas, where she'll now have to continue her ivf treatment. >> our clinic called us this morning and let us know that they are no longer going to be providing services or doing any transfers. >> reporter: goidel was halfway through her ivf cycle.
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>> i just kind of broke down into tears, and then we had to suck it up and start making a game plan because it is such a time-sensitive issue. >> reporter: goidel's provider, alabama fertility, was one of two clinics in the state that paused ivf treatment today, writing in a social media post, "we are working as hard as we can to alert our legislators as to the far-reaching negative impact of this ruling on the women of alabama." and the other clinic, mobile infirmary, said, we understand the burden this places on deserving families who have no alternative options for conceiving. in michigan, today vice president kamala harris addressed the issue during the white house's fight for reproductive freedoms tour. >> the access to reproductive health care through ivf is being taken from countless individuals and families. >> reporter: and on the presidential campaign trail, after nikki haley said in an interview yesterday embryos babies, she clarified her
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position. >> i didn't say that i agreed with the alabama ruling. i do think that if you look in the definition, an embryo is considered an unborn baby. >> reporter: a republican state senator in alabama is planning to file a bill that he says could add protections for ivf because it would clarify that embryos are not viable until they are transferred into the uterus. but, norah, reproductive rights advocates say that is not a solution. >> we're going to be following this story. caitlin huey-burns, thank you so much. nearly 55 years after neil armstrong took one small step for man, a private u.s. company has taken one giant leap for mankind's future of space exploration. cbs's mark strassmann report on today's historic moon landing. >> reporter: tonight, the odyssey of odysseus has ended on the moon. the first american-made spacecraft kicking up lunar dust in more than a half century. >> our equipment is on the surface of the moon.
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>> reporter: jubilant, mission control of intuitive machines in houston, the first commercial moon landing ever. [ applause ] the final descent from 18 miles above the lunar surface, a continuous engine burn for ten minutes. by touchdown, "odysseus" had slowed to two miles per hour. >> this is the assembly room. >> reporter: intuitive co-fouder steve altemus showed us the motorcycle -- moon lander up close last year in houston. his company envisions a $100 billion lunar market. >> we're delivering scientific payloads, engineering demonstration payloads, but not the humans themselves. >> you believe the moon is the next economic frontier? >> the moon is certainly that next step for space exploration. >> reporter: "odysseus" landed near the lunar south pole carrying less than 300 pounds of cargo, including six instruments for nasa, an intuitive customer. the space agency hopes to have astronauts moonwalking there by the end of the decade. some critters there never see light, so cold they may contain
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ice, and water is critical to long-term space exploration. >> nasa plans to basically hire these companies to send payloads to the moon like you'd call an uber or a lyft. but these companies have to make it work first, and that's what we're seeing today. >> reporter: not since the end of the "apollo" era has an american lander parked itself on the surface of the moon. this mission will last roughly a week until lunar night freezes the solar batteries. quite an achievement. norah. >> yeah, really, really exciting. mark strassmann, thank you so need to be at your best? mark strassmann, thank you so much. you need an antiperspirant that goes beyond. dove men with 72 hour protection, plus care for your skin. so you can forget your underarms and focus on being unforgettable. dove men. forgettable underarms. unforgettable you.
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government, which has been holding up sweden's membership for a year and a half, will vote monday to allow it in. as part of the deal, hungary will purchase swedish military equipment. meanwhile, swedishish forces are already training with nato and taking part in the biggest military exercises since the end of the cold war. charlie d'agata reports from poland. >> reporter: u.s. live fire combat exercises in northern poland close to russian territory. the scenario an unnamed adversary has launched an attack on nato's eastern flank. the mission for the soldiers of the 3rd infantry division from georgia is to recapture this ground and force an enemy retreat. bradley fighting vehicles roll in. infantry troops roll out. explosives take out the minefields. soldiers advance. exercises like these aren't just meant to make sure that individual soldiers are ready
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for combat, but the military is ready in case there's an incursion of a regional enemy. and there's a reason the war games are being played out right here. to military planners, this gap is nato's achilles' heel, just 40 miles separates the russian enclave of kaliningrad and putin allied belarus. if the kremlin launched an incursion here, it would cut off the baltic states from other nato countries. and troops are preparing for any eventuality, says lieutenant colonel timothy decker. >> we remain engaged in our training to develop our tactical proficiency and, you know, remain a lethal force that is capable of deterring aggression. >> reporter: but that training could be in jeopardy with the ukraine funding package stalled in congress. the u.s. army has been footing the bill not just for exercises like these but training and
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supplying ukrainian forces. >> worst-case scenario, we're out of funds by the summertime. >> reporter: u.s. army europe and africa spokesman colonel martin o'donnell. >> how crucial is it right now? >> there's a lot of risk right now. if we don't get money, what we do, what the u.s. army does on two continents, europe and africa, and what we do to support ukraine, it's at risk. >> that's fundamental, that's the bottom line. >> fundamentally, yes, absolute risk. >> reporter: colonel o'donnell told us if that ukraine funding package is not approved soon, the u.s. army in europe will run out of money as early as may or june. that will severely impact not only the flow of weapons to ukraine but critical u.s. army operations throughout this region. >> that was charlie d'agata reporting. closer to home, the u.s. army is facing what could be one of the largest abuse scandals in its history.
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cbs news is investigating the case of an army doctor who is accused of sexual misconduct. major michael stockin faces allegation from 42 male patients who say he abused their trust. jonathan vigliotti sat down with two of the alleged victims, whose identities we are not al
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but i want to put it all into . >> reporter: now, even though these unruly passenger incidents seem to be increasing in intensity, the number of them is actually on the decline since a peak in 2021. but i want to put it all into context for you. the numbers we're seeing these days are still double what we saw before the pandemic. norah. >> important context. carter evans, thank you so much. a u.s. army doctor will be arraigned in washington state tomorrow for what could be one of the largest sexual assault prosecutions in the army's history. cbs's jonathan vigliotti has our investigation, including exclusive interviews with two of the accusers. >> reporter: videotaped interviews made by the army's criminal investigation division and obtained by cbs news detail disturbing accounts. >> he said, "no, i need you to drop trou."
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>> i'm thinking what the hell is this for? i'm here for my neck. >> reporter: they say they're survivors of sex crimes at the hands of their doctor, major michael stockin, a pain management anesthesiologist at joint base lewis-mcchord in washington state. charging documents obtained by cbs news show stockin faces more than 50 counts of sexual misconduct while treating 42 patients, all of them men. >> being in the military at the time for 19 years, i trusted the medical doctor i was seeing. i trusted dr. stockin. >> we sat down with two of stockin's accusers, who are sharing their stories publicly for the first time. they asked to speak anonymously out of fear of retaliation. >> i knew something wasn't right after the first interaction, the first procedure i had with him. >> dr. stockin was face level with my groin, and he started touching my -- my genitals. >> you went in for a longstanding chronic issue of shoulder pain.
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what is a doctor doing inspecting you in an area down there near your groin? >> exactly. i as -- i was very confused. >> reporter: both men, now retired from the army, completed three combat tours. >> in the military there's a term to put what happens to you into your duffel bag, shove it down and continue to march on. so i was willing to do that. i was willing to shove it into my duffel bag and march on. >> reporter: the army told cbs news the investigation remains open. >> i think there are victims out there that might not even know they're victims. >> reporter: the scale of the case is historic for the military according to their attorney, ryan guilds. >> how many potential victims are we talking about in this case? >> hundreds. i'm convinced it's hundreds. >> reporter: in a statement to cbs news, stockin's lawyer stated he is presumed innocent, adding this legal fight is just getting started. jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, los angeles. a popular former talk show host is diagnosed with the same form of dementia as bruce
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co-founder steve altemus showed. us the historic moon lander up close last year in houston. his company envisions a $100 billion lunar market. >> we're delivering scientific pyloads, engineering demonstration payloads, but not the humans themselves. >> you believe the moon is the next economic frontier? >> the moon is certainly that next step for space exploration. >> reporter: "odysseus" landed near the lunar south pole carrying less than 300 pounds of cargo, including six instruments for nasa, an intuitive customer. the space agency hopes to have astronauts moonwalking there by the end of the decade. some critters there never see light, so cold they may contain ice, and water is critical to long-term space exploration. >> nasa plans to basically hire these companies to send payloads to the moon like you'd call an uber or a lyft. but these companies have to make it work first, and that's what we're seeing today. >> reporter: not since the end of the "apollo" era has an
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american lander parked itself on the surface of the moon. this mission will last roughly a week until lunar night freezes the solar batteries. quite an achievement. norah. >> yeah, really, really exciting. mark strassmann, thank you so much. "heart of america" is next with a look at the woman who made history in barbie world and beyond.
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finally, tonight's "heart of america." and in honor of black history month, we introduce you to the woman who created the first black barbie more than 40 years ago. cbs's elise preston now on the doll's lasting impact on girls and women around the world. >> reporter: a big curly 'fro, bold gold jewelry, and a bright red dress looks dynamite on this brown-skinned barbie.
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>> everything that barbie was, i wanted black barbie to be the opposite. >> reporter: kitty black perkins, now 76, designed mattel's first black barbie, which debuted in 1980 after calls from doll collectors. >> they were asking for more black dolls. >> reporter: in the '60s and '70s, the only diverse dolls in barbie's world were sidekicks. >> she's a little bit shapelier. >> reporter: but this doll, made more in the image of black women, would bear the marquee name. >> i wanted her also to be able to do the same things that the white doll did. >> yeah. >> reporter: perkins, mattel's first black designer, grew up in the jim crow south. >> did you have any black dolls growing up? >> i did not. and i would actually color the skin of the paper dolls. >> why? >> because i wanted them to look like me. >> reporter: kansas mom sonia larsen collects black barbies. >> people don't understand that
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being able to see yourself in a doll, it's everything. >> reporter: perkins retired from mattel as chief barbie designer. ♪ today barbie is more inclusive than ever and taking over hollywood. but for perkins, black barbie was the mold to break the mold. elise preston, cbs news, los angeles. and that's the overnight news for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs mornings" and follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from here in the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. this is "cbs news flash." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. at&t says an initial review shows that it was a software issue and not a cyberattack that knocked out cell service for nearly 74,000 people yesterday. the company says full service has been restored. south carolina will hold its republican presidential primary
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tomorrow. both candidates were on the campaign trail last night, nikki haley in her home state and donald trump in nashville. haley has vowed to stay in the race through super tuesday. and gabby douglas' return to gymnastics is going to have to wait. the 2012 olympic gold medalist is pulling out of her first meet in eight years after testing positive for covid-19. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. 2024. this is "cbs news mornings." home state showdown. on the eve of the south carolina primary, former governor nikki haley is touting a new poll to win over voters, while donald trump says he's too far ahead. new charges in connection with the deaths of two navy s.e.a.l.s last month. what we know about the men arre
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of sexual abuse at the hands of their doctor, major michael stockin, a pain management anesthesia gist at joint base lewis-mcchord. according to the charging documents obtained by cbs news, stockin faces over 50 counts of sexual misconduct that spans more than two years while treating 42 patients, all of them men. >> i trusted dr. stockin. >> reporter: we sat down with two of stockin's accusers, patients who saw him at mad i gann army medical center, who are sharing their stories publicly for the first time. they asked to speak anonymously out of fear of retaliation. >> he would take a knee, and that's where he would kind of conduct his examination. everything was pretty much mid-calf to waist level. >> when you say waist, you mean groin? >> groin area, yes. myself and dr. stockin were left alone in the room. he first checked my shoulders, and then he asked me to stand up. dr. stockin, he was face level
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with my groin, and he started touching my -- my genitals. >> you went in for a longstanding chronic issue of shoulder pain. what is a doctor doing inspecting you in an area down there near your groin? >> exactly. i was -- i was very confused. >> reporter: both men, now retired. each spent more than 20 years in the army, both completing three combat tours. >> even with my wife, i couldn't bring myself to talk through what happened to her. it just felt very uncomfortable. >> in the military, there's a term to put what happens to you inside your duffel bag, shove it down and continue to march on. so i was willing to do that. i was wilting to shove it into my duffel bag and march on. >> reporter: stockin's pattern of behaving calls to mind infamous gymnastics doctor larry nassar who preyed on patients under the gooirz of treatment. in thissis ca, patients say they tried to give the doctor, an army major, the benefit of the doubt. >> being in the military at the
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time for 19 years, i trusted the medical doctor i was seeing. >> i think there are victims out there that might not even know they're victims. >> reporter: the scale of the case is historic according to their attorney, ryan guilds. >> we are aware of cases like the gymnatics case. we're aware of cases where medical professionals have abused trust. that's not unk to the military. but the scope and scale of it, for a doctor to have been alleged to abuse that trust for so very many victims is unprecedented. >> how many potential victims are we talking about in this case? >> hundreds. i'm convinced it's hundreds. >> reporter: male service members are much less likely to report sexual assault than their female counterparts according to the defense departmnt. guilds, who is representing seven of stockin's accuser pro bono says the army failed to support victims. >> it's the actions that matter, and these unforced errors in failing to care for our survivors undermines the credibility of the army and is a real shame. >> reporter: the army told cbs
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news that the investigation will remain open through trial, and it will further investigate should additional victims come forward. in the meantime, stockin has been suspended from patient care. in a statement to cbs news, stockin's lawyer stated that his client is presumed innocent, adding "this legal fight is just getting started." both men we spoke with intend to share their story again at the court martial scheduled to begin in october. >> it's emotional. it's not something i'm used to. i can deal with a lot of things. i can deal with anger. i can deal with combat. but emotions and things like that, it's -- it's personal. >> reporter: and all of these charges relate to stockin's time in madigan army medical center. but the investigation is ongoing. stockin had previously been assigned to duty stations in assigned to duty stations in maryland, hawaii, and for nourished, lightweight hair, the right ingredients make all the difference.
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♪ ♪ stand up for your rights ♪ >> reporter: -- he knew it needed one thing above all, authenticity. >> he has to be a part of his own story. ♪ >> reporter: that authenticity is heard throughout the film. ♪ as the reggae legend's real vocals weave throughout with the one love". >> it's about bob marley singing in his own film. ♪ >> talk to me about the genesis for this product. >> i mean there's been many instances of people coming to the family throughout the years wanting to do this project. i'm mature enough now where i can take this on as a part of my responsibility. >> reporter: ziggy, now 52, was just 12 years old when his father died of skin cancer.
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♪ the film chronicles bob marley's rise to fame during the 1970s. the biggest challenge, marley says, was picking the right actor to play his father. kingsley ben-adir landed the role and nailed it. >> some people look just like bob, talk like bob, but you don't have that emotional connection, then it can't work. so we went with the emotional connection, you know? >> you didn't think i had my own opportunities, huh? >> reporter: and marley told us it was a certain kind of familiarity that won the role for lashawn na lynch, who plays his mom, rita, in the field. >> she knew the culture, and she kind of reminded me of my mother. >> your mother is also a producer on the film, and you do explore that he did have instances where he was unfaithful. >> the spiritual bond that they have is what is more stronger than the physical bond.
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but there's a -- it's a love that is grown from the commonality of what they've been through together. >> reporter: those trials and tribulations include an assassination attempt on bob and rita marley amid violent unrest in jamaica. >> his own people, his own community. he was very up set that they tried to hurt him and hurt his wife. ♪ redemption songs ♪ ♪ these songs are freedom ♪ >> reporter: but iconic songs by bob marley and the whalers may be the film's biggest draw. >> at one point in the film when he's asked about redemption song, he said he's been writing it his whole life. what did he mean? >> all his experiences he's been through, especially the internal stuff. i'm not talking about the concerts and the crowds and the records since. that song didn't come from that. that song came from something inside of him. so whatever he's been through all his life has led him to finally create this -- this masterpiece. ♪ these songs are freedom ♪
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♪ it's all i ever had ♪ >> when you write that. >> all my life. >> i'm watching you watch it, and you seem incredibly moved. >> yeah. i mean i don't even see that as an actor. the actor gone. >> it's your dad? >> yeah, i'm here at this place watching my father singing to, you know, me and my mother. it's like we're hearing bob singing that, you know. it's powerful, yeah. we're not just marketing a movie. we're marketing a consciousness for the people of the world. one love. unify, less divisiveness. we need it.
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this is americn heart month, and one of the best ways you can care for your heart is through exercise. stephanie stahl has this father/daughter workout story.
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>> walking up hills. >> yeah. >> reporter: it's a journey of survivor for jeff perez, working out with his daughter stephanie in northeast philadelphia. >> i feel better. i feel stronger. >> reporter: for 12 years now, the 62-year-old has been struggling with cardiomyopathy, a weak heart muscle. >> i was having chest pains and shortness of breath. >> reporter: with his heart failing, jeff says he'll knead a heart transplant. for now he's being kept alive with an external heart pump. >> these are the batteries. >> reporter: there are thoz of people like jeff waiting for transplants. he's hoping to improve his odds by being in the best shape he can. stephanie, the general manager of this plaept fitness, is overseeing her dad's fitness routine. >> it's really nice to just have him here. >> what do you do to keep him motivated to work out? >> rough him up. no, i always check on him. >> reporter: jeff is also carefully monitored by his doctors at temple, who have told him these daily workouts are critical. >> i got scared at first.
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then i remember my dad, what he went through before he passed away. he was 63 when he died of the same thing. >> reporter: fighting heart disease is a family affair with stephanie now paying attention to her own heart health while being focused on her dad. >> he's always done everything for me, so i want to return that as much as i can. >> reporter: staying in lockstep, working out, hoping for a brighter future and having fun together. >> do you guys like working out together? >> yeah. >> no. >> reporter: mixing laughter with fitness for stronger hearts. stephanie stahl, cbs news, philadelphia. and that's the overnight news for this friday. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm caitlin huey-burns. this is "cbs news flash." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. at&t says an initial review shows that it was a software
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issue and not a cyberattack that knocked out cell service for nearly 74,000 people yesterday. the company says full service has been restored. south carolina will hold its republican presidential primary tomorrow. both candidates were on the campaign trail last night, nikki haley in her home state and donald trump in nashville. haley has vowed to stay in the race through super tuesday. and gabby douglas' return to gymnastics is going to have to wait. the 2012 olympic old medalist is pulling out of her first meet in eight years after testing positive for covid-19. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm shan . tonight, massive cell service outage. >> some of our customers are experiencing wireless service interruptions this morning. >> the widespread blackout for america's largest wireless provider.
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the mystery behind what could have caused the problem for tens of thousands of at&t users. >> it was like radio silence from the moment i woke up. >> i see an sos. nw i can't even use my gps, my music. >> we apologize for this inconvenience. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." good evening. i'm norah o'donnell, and thank you for being with us. we want to begin tonight with that nationwide at&t outage that left a lot of people scratching their heads, wondering what is going on and leading to confusion and concern about the ability to dial 911. the ripple effect inundating emergency centers from new york to los angeles. at&t tonight is apologizing, but they are not explaining what happened. the fbi, the fcc, and the department of homeland security are now investigating the cause, and the white house says there is no evidence that a malicious
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attack was behind the network shutdown. but there are still so many questions. the outage also highlighting concerns about how the lack of communications could impact us all in a real emergency and renewing concerns about cybersecurity in the u.s. the top republican on the senate intelligence committee tonight has a dire warning, saying a chinese cyberattack will be 100 times worse. here's cbs's senior business and technology correspondent jo ling kent. >> reporter: a rude awakening for tens of thousands of at&t customers. >> i woke up this morning, turned on my phone, and no internet. >> checked my phone, and it's like what's going on? i see an sos. now i can't even use my gps, my music, call my wife, tell her where i'm going to be. >> reporter: from chicago to dallas, boston to los angeles, more than 74,000 users reported widespread problems. >> so on a personal level, it was definitely confusing and uncomfortable, but it wasn't the end of the world. >> reporter: late today, at&t apologized to customers and said
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service had been fully restored. nearly three-quarters of adults live in households without a land line, so losing cell service in a disaster can cripple communications. that was the case in the maui wildfires. but today's outage inundated emergency call centers with people dialing them up to test their phones. massachusetts state police posting that many 911 centers were flooded with calls. and in san francisco -- >> please don't call 911 to verify if your phone works if you don't have an emergency. >> reporter: the fbi is in contact with at&t and the fcc is actively investigating. the national security council says there's no reason to think that this was a cybersecurity incident. >> does this incident worry you about the future? >> i always worry about our dependency on technology. i think it's also a good wake-up call and just a reminder that we can't depend 100% all the time on the technology that we depend on 100% of the time.
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>> reporter: in case of emergency during an outage, experts recommend using the emergency call or text function on your phone or go find wi-fi to make a call. you always want to have an emergency list as well of your neighbors and your family and friends. and as a total last resort, experts say you can always go in person to your local fire or police department. norah. >> that's good advice. jo ling kent, thank you so much. there's more fallout tonight from that controversial supreme court ruling in alabama giving embryos the same rights as children. two fertility clinics in two of the largest cities in the state paused ivf treatments today over the potential legal risks, bringing the total in the state to at least three. we get details now from cbs's caitlin huey-burns. >> reporter: tonight, gabby goidel and her husband spencer say they're in a state of desperation, leaving their home in alabama and rushing to catch a flight to texas, where she'll now have to continue her ivf treatment.
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>> our clinic called us this morning and let us know that they are no longer going to be providing services or doing any transfers. >> reporter: goidel was halfway through her ivf cycle. >> i just kind of broke down into tears, and then we had to suck it up and start making a game plan because it is such a time-sensitive issue. >> reporter: goidel's provider, alabama fertility, was one of two clinics in the state that paused ivf treatment today, writing in a social media post, "we are working as hard as we can to alert our legislators as to the far-reaching negative impact of this ruling on the women of alabama." and the other clinic, mobile infirmary, said, we understand the burden this places on deserving families who have no alternative options for conceiving. in michigan, today vice president kamala harris addressed the issue during the white house's fight for reproductive freedoms tour. >> the access to reproductive health care through ivf is being
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taken from countless individuals and families. >> reporter: and on the presidential campaign trail, after nikki haley said in an interview yesterday embryos are babies, she clarified her position. >> i didn't say that i agreed with the alabama ruling. i do think that if you look in the definition, an embryo is considered an unborn baby. >> reporter: a republican state senator in alabama is planning to file a bill that he says could add protections for ivf because it would clarify that embryos are not viable until they are transferred into the uterus. but, norah, reproductive rights advocates say that is not a solution. >> we're going to be following this story. caitlin huey-burns, thank you so much. > w to some breaking news. the justice department just unsealed charges against four foreign nationals for their alleged part in an operation that left two navy s.e.a.l.s dead. cbs's david martin is at the pentagon with the latest news. >> reporter: the four were arrested after navy s.e.a.l.s
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boarded this vessel off the coast of somalia and found missile parts, including a warhead the u.s. says were being smuggled from iran to the houthis in yemen. two navy s.e.a.l.s, petty officers chris chambers and gage ingram, were lost at sea while attempting to board in rough seas. the boarding occurred last month on the same date the u.s. and britain launched its first round of strikes against houthi targets in yemen, strikes which have yet to put an end to attacks against commercial shipping. >> we've certainly seen in the past 48, 72 hours an increase in attacks from the houthis. >> reporter: the criminal complaint unsealed today says the four suspects carried pakistani identification cards and that the alleged captain of the crew had a satellite phone on which he communicated with a member of iran's revolutionary guards. after the vessel was searched and its cargo of missile parts discovered, the crew was taken aboard the uss polar and
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transferred to jail in richmond, virginia. four charged with crimes and eight others held as material witnesses. the u.s. coast guard has since intercepted another ship carrying arms to yemen. >> we know that the houthis maintain a large arsenal. they are very capable. they have sophisticated weapons, and that's because they continue to get them from iran. >> reporter: the u.s. military is conducting its own investigation into the boarding which resulted in the loss of those two navy s.e.a.l.s to determine, among other things, if it should have been attempted in such rough seas. norah. >> david martin with that breaking news, thank you. there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news."
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president biden today met with the widow and daughter of russian opposition leader alexei navalny, who died last week in prison under mysterious circumstances. it comes as russian authorities are pressuring navalny's mother to agree to a secret burial of his body without mourners. cbs's nancy cordes is traveling with the president in california. >> reporter: the pictures show president biden embracing and sitting with alexei navalny's widow and daughter in a san francisco hotel room one week after navalny's suspicious death in a russian penal colony. >> he was a man of incredible courage, and it's amazing how his wife and daughter are emulating that. >> reporter: navalny's daughter, dasha, is a student at nearby stanford university. her mother flew to california to comfort her after meeting with european leaders and vowing to carry on her husband's work. "by killing alexei, putin killed half of me," she said.
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in russia, navalny's mother said today that she had finally been taken to a morgue to see the body. she was told he died of natural causes and said that she was being pressured to hold a private burial ceremony as russian police try to head off more protests over his death. "they want it done secretly," she said. "i don't agree with that." a defiant putin flexed his muscle today, flying on a nuclear-capable strategic bomber even as the u.s. and its allies prepare to unveil new sanctions tomorrow aimed at hobbling his military. at a california fund-raiser last night, president biden called putin a, quote, crazy s.o.b. putin shrugged it off in an interview with state tv. "we understand what is happening there from a domestic, political point of view," he said. "and this reaction is absolutely adequate."
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tonight we are getting a better sense of the scope of the sanctions president biden is set to announce tomorrow. cbs news has learned that these sanctions will target nearly 600 banks, companies, and individuals both inside and outside russia. norah. >> very severe sanctions, nancy. i also want to ask you about these new developments in the case of that ex-fbi informant who lied to investigators about hunter biden. what do we know tonight? >> reporter: that's right. alexander smirnov, who was just freed on bond two days ago, has been rearrested in las vegas. federal prosecutors considered him a flight risk. they wanted him detained. in court documents, they said that he has been, quote, actively peddling new lies that could impact u.s. elections. and they said, norah, that he had met with russian intelligence contacts as recently as november. >> nancy cordes, thank you very much. now to a terrifying attack on board an alaska airlines flight. federal authorities have charged
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a man with assault with a dangerous weapon after he allegedly stabbed another passenger during a flight between seattle and las vegas last month. cbs's carter evans reports this is just the latest in a series of mid-flight incidents in recent weeks. >> reporter: it happened on an alaska airlines flight on approach to las vegas in january. investigators say julio alvarez lopez bound pens together with rubber bands before the flight and used the makeshift weapon to stab the man sitting across the aisle. photos show the victim with cuts and bruises. a federal grand jury indicted lopez wednesday. court documents say he planned on attacking and killing the man and felt the mafia had been chasing him. sam vinograd is a cbs contributor. >> based upon just the sheer number of incidents we've been seeing over the past few years is that we really do need a new approach to airline safety. >> reporter: just this week, passengers had to forcibly
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restrain a man who allegedly tried to open the door on this american airlines flight to chicago. >> he was saying, like, "i got to get off this plane. get me off this plane." >> reporter: passengers also helped break up a fistfight on this southwest flight to hawaii earlier this month. >> tsa continually tries to think about how the threat environment is evolving. but what's clear is that we're behind the curve. >> reporter: now, even though these unruly passenger incidents seem to be increasing in intensity, the number of them is actually on the decline since a peak in 2021.

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