>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." tonight, former president donald trump has his eyes set on

michigan this tuesday for what he hopes will be another victory after sweeping the primaries so far. his challenger, nikki haley, is defying calls to drop out. at last check, her campaign says she is planning to head to the great lakes state after suffering a major blow in her home state that elected her twice as governor. here are the numbers. with nearly all the votes counted, trump won in south carolina by about 20 points. nicole sganga joins us tonight with the details. nicole, what are you hearing about what's likely to be next for these two candidates? >> reporter: good evening, jericka. another decisive win for former president donald trump. for the gop front-runner, it's also another hurdle cleared along that road to secure the 1,215 delegates needed to clinch the republican nomination. in columbia, south carolina, former president donald trump declared victory, sweeping his fourth straight primary by

double digits. >> wow. that is really something. this was a little sooner than we anticipated. >> reporter: leaving his opponent, former south carolina governor nikki haley and her home state advantage, thwarted. >> today in south carolina, we're getting around 40% of the vote. i'm going to count it. i know 40% is not 50%. >> reporter: but still defiant. >> but i also know 40% is not some tiny group. >> reporter: roughly 800,000 south carolinians voted saturday. trump bested haley among most key demographic groups winning majorities of both men and women plus all age groups according to cbs news exit polls. >> i thought that nikki was a stronger candidate in a lot of ways, and we needed a new generation. >> reporter: despite an unclear path to victory, haley has doubled down on her promise to stay in the race as her opponent

faces multiple legal challenges. >> the mug shot. we've all seen the mug shot. and you know who embraced it more than anybody else? the black population. >> reporter: taking aim at the former president for comments made in front of conservative black voters. >> trump drives people away, including with his comments just yesterday. >> reporter: haley now heads to michigan before the state's primary contest tuesday. >> onward! >> reporter: michigan is just one of a dozen super tuesday states voting on march 5th. now, haley has vowed to stay in the race until then, when over one-third of the republican delegates will be awarded. jericka. >> that's right. 16 states up for grabs there. nicole sganga, thank you. today israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says a cease-fire deal with hamas can be within reach. netanyahu appeared on cbs's

"face the nation," where he told our margaret brennan that hamas first needs to drop its, quote, delusional claims. >> hamas started out with just crazy demands. if they do abandon them and get into what you call the ballpark -- they're not even in the city. they're on another planet. but if they come down to a reasonable situation, then, yes, we'll have a hostage deal. i hope so. >> netanyahu also says israel's anticipated ground operation in rafah would put his nation within weeks of total victory. right now six americans are among the more than 100 hostages believed to be in hamas captivity. the white house has warned israel from advancing on rafah without a detailed plan to limit civilian casualties. more than 1 million palestinians are currently living there. for the first time ever, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy publicly acknowledged that 31,000 ukrainian soldiers have been killed more than two

years since russia's invasion. he appealed to the west to boost military aid as kyiv suffers setbacks. cbs's charlie d'agata is there tonight. >> reporter: with an historic train station, a church, and neighboring homes in flames and ruins from an overnight russian missile bombardment, year three of the full-scale invasion began a lot like day one. ukrainian defenses overwhelmed by a better-equipped enemy. ukrainian leaders pleading for help from the west. "whether ukraine will lose depends on you, on our partners, on the western world," president zelenskyy said tonight. "if we will be strong with weapons, we will not lose. we will win." and while congress wrestles over that $60 billion ukraine funding package, cbs news has learned that the lack of money severely

impacts u.s. army operations on nato's eastern flank with the country and beyond. just last week, u.s. soldiers from the 3rd infantry division out of georgia held live-fire exercises in neighboring poland. military planners have identified this region as especially vulnerable to attack with russian territory to the west and kremlin-allied belarus to the east separated by a 40-mile strip of nato territory. but the cash-strapped army has not only been footing the bill on training and equipping ukrainian troops, spokesman colonel martin o'donnell says the lack of funding also puts in peril exercises like these. >> critical exercises. >> critical exercises, yeah. not only exercises that, you know, maintain our readiness, but should the need arise, our ability to stand, you know, side by side with our nato allies to

deter, should deterrence fail, aggression. >> reporter: aggression from regional enemies, namely russia. ukrainian leaders and military analysts alike have repeatedly warned that if russia achieves victory here, that puts u.s. and nato partner poland squarely on a new front line. nobody wants this war to end more than the ukrainians themselves, jericka. asked tonight whether it was time to negotiate with russian president vladimir putin, president zelenskyy said, "is it possible to address a deaf person, a person who's killing his opponents?" >> charlie d'agata in kyiv, thank you. today, millions of you are under weather alerts as a winter storm is set to move across this country. meteorologist lynette charles with our partners at the weather channel is tracking it all for us tonight.

lynette, good evening. >> good evening, jericka. we do have a potent storm system that's going to start west and work its way to the east. through your tuesday, pacific northwest could see about one to two inches of rain moving in through the area. there it is on the west coast, and it's going to continue to work its way on off towards the east. this big bundle of energy is going to pose a big problem before it's all said and done. so we're talking about tuesday into your wednesday, we will be dealing with severe thunderstorms, damaging gusty wind, tornadoes, and also hail from chicago, indianapolis. st. louis could see this. and this will continue to make its move on off towards the east. along with this, we are going to be dealing with plenty of wind moving across the area as well. jericka. >> all right, lynette. thank you. head & shoulders is launching something huge. the bare minimum. anti-dandruff shampoo made with only nine ingredients - no sulfates, silicones or dyes and packaged with 45% less plastic - giving you outstanding dandruff protection

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the leaders of 20 european nations will gather in paris today to show their support for ukraine in its ongoing war with russia. the conflict is entering its third year, and moscow's recent success on the battlefield has the kremlin insisting its victory is inevitable. the conference is designed to send a different message to vladimir putin that ukraine will win. imtiaz tyab looks back on the two years of conflict with a journalist who's been covering it from the very start. ♪ >> reporter: our enemies will vanish like dew in the sun is a line from the ukrainian national anthem, composed in 1862, a time when the russian empire denied the existence of ukrainian people just as russian president vladimir putin does today. it's inspired the title of the new book by "the wall street journal's" chief foreign affairs correspondent, jaroslav, who we

met in london, which is being called the definitive eyewitness account of the first year of russia's invasion of ukraine. >> i think it was the third day of the war when zelenskyy came out of his palace and recorded this video saying, we are all here. we're not fleeing anywhere. and that motivated very many ukrainians to pick up arms and fight. >> reporter: and rallied support for ukraine at a time when western leaders and intelligence officials expected the ukrainian military to collapse in a matter of days. >> if you look at all the conflicts we've had to cover, i don't recall any other that had this moral clarity. here it was a clear-cut case of a country that hadn't done anything to russia, hadn't done anything to provoke this war. >> there were good guys and bad guys. >> exactly. >> for him, despite his many years covering wars around the world, this was the most personal. ukraine is his country of birth. the capital, kyiv, the city he was raised in. >> obviously it's much harder

when it's your own country and when the bombs are falling, you know, on the park. >> reporter: but vladimir putin's invasion quickly stalled. russia hadn't just underestimated its adversary but its own military readiness. and ukraine's successes on the battlefield hinged on weapons from the west, lots of them. the u.s. has supplied the most, but not fast enough says trove move. >> why do you think they were so slow? >> putin very successfully used nuclear blackmail to throttle western support. and by playing for time and winning time, he also exploited the political calendar in the west. the republicans in congress have stopped the military aid for ukraine for now, and russia agin is on the offensive. >> reporter: still, ukrainians remain determined to keep fighting despite the staggering losses. >> you know, the cream of the

ukrainian society joined the fight to protect the country. and very many of these soldiers unfortunately have been killed. russia, on the other hand, emptied its prisons. >> reporter: the kremlin has sent tens of thousands of russian fighters, many convicted murderers and rapists, to front lines with promises of freedom. >> you close with this thought that a long and grueling fight is ahead. >> people talk about peace talks. people talk about some sort of prospects of negotiated solutions. but you can't negotiate your own extincti

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ross in "lady sings the blues". >> you want my own follow-up? >> reporter: then again three years later in mahogany. >> success is nothing without someone you love to share it with. >> i decided to become a romantic figure on the screen. >> so that was a literal decision to become -- >> yeah, yeah. i've always wanted to be. i used to tell my mom, i want to be like rudolph valentino. >> reporter: billy dee williams didn't stop at rudolph valentino. he added a little errol flynn, a suave swash buckler in a cape in the empire strikes back. >> hello. what have we here? >> reporter: that line became the title of his new memoir. it details his public and personal life, his close friendship with james baldwin, backstage conversations with laurence olivier, his love of being in love. >> the way you wrote about it, you go, i had a weakness when it came to love and romance. the first moment of eye contact,

a glance indicating interest, a mischievous smile, a sexy walk, a playful touch -- that was my song. >> yeah. well, that's all very true. >> reporter: yet for all that charm and sex appeal, williams convinced me he's shy. >> i'm really very insecure. >> it's strange considering what you do, right? you give yourself in front of a camera with all these people watching. you become someone else. you emote. you cry. you get angry. >> well, maybe that's why i become someone else, because i'm really insecure. >> easier to be someone else. >> yeah. >> than to be billy dee williams. >> yeah, because i don't really like to talk about myself, and i like to keep to myself. >> reporter: still, he's written a pretty revealing memoir, discussing his relationships, his children, his three marriages. >> did that contribute, you think, to some relationships not working out long-term, your sort of unwillingness to open snup. >> no. i'm just a philanderer. >> or there's that. was it a big change moving out

here? >> oh, yeah, absolutely. are you kidding? >> reporter: williams moved to los angeles in 1970, but he's a new yorker. he grew up across the street from central park. his parents called him sonny. his dad worked three jobs, and his mother had a beautiful singing voice. she's the one who wanted to be in show biz. >> i never really looked to be an actor. >> reporter: he set out to be a painter. he was good too, landed a scholarship at the national academy of design. then a chance meeting with a cbs casting agent led to an acting gig. the roles just kept coming. >> and all of a sudden i find myself going in that direction. i always said, you know, every time i wanted to go right, something would say, no, no, billy. go left. >> here you go. >> thanks. >> reporter: he went left, then cut back right in 1971, landing a part that changed his life, playing chicago bears running back gayle sayers in the tv movie "brian's song".

>> that whole experience for me, as i described it, was an act of love. >> reporter: brian's song is the true story of the relatinship between sayers and a teammate, brian piccolo, played by james kahn. sayers and piccolo became friends and the first interracial roommates in the nfl. then came piccolo's terminal cancer diagnosis. >> i love brian piccolo, and i'd like all of you to love him too. >> reporter: 55 million americans tuned in. it soy it had an impact is an understatement. >> you've had people come up to you and say, i never thought i could connect with a black guy like that. >> there was a gentleman that i ran into who was a bigot, who would not socialize with black folks. he was so deeply touched, it changed his whole perspective on things. >> reporter: perspectives in hollywood, though, changed slowly. after his success in the early

'70s, williams expected job offers to pour in. after all, he'd earned the nickname "the black clark gable." >> but it wasn't true because you lacked something that clark gable had, right? which was opportunity. you write about it. >> it was frustrating. there's no question about it. but, you know, you take a negative and try to see what you can do with it and maybe turn it around in some kind of an interesting fashion. >> reporter: williams did more than turn the situation around. he just kept looking for compelling characters to play. >> i wanted to do the full spectrum of colors. you know, that's how i see myself. >> reporter: he found such a character when george lucas called with an offer to work in a galaxy far, far away as lando caloriesian in the empire strikes back. >> look, someone's up there. >> reporter: the first black character in the "star wars" universe. williams, though, saw him as something else. >> how did you think of lando? >> well, you know, when i heard

the name caloriesian, i said, whoa, car mienian. let me see what i can do with this. then i got the cape, and i thought, whoa, errol flynn. >> reporter: by the end of the movie, lando is clearly a good guy. but millions of "star wars" fans still saw him as the villain who handed han solo to darth vader. >> i had no choice. they arrived right before you did. i'm sorry. >> i picked my daughter up from school. kids running up to me, you betrayed han solo. i'd go on an airplane, and i'd have a flight attendant, you've betrayed han solo. i mean it was crazy. >> reporter: crazier still is that this talented actor with a 60-plus-year career might be best known to a certain generation, my generation, for a string of beer commercials in the 1980s. >> there are two rules to remember if you want to have a good time. rule number, never run out of -- >> -- quote 45.

number two, don't forget rule number one. i've remembered that. >> the other one was, if works every time. >> you still got it. ♪ >> reporter: he still had it at 77 on "dancing with the stars" and at 82, returning to fly the millennium falcon as lando kalrizian. >> hold on, chewy. >> reporter: for a shy and insecure man, billy dee williams sure has plenty to say. >> in a sense, i'm surprised you wrote the book. >> i said, okay, you're getting on in years. i started thinking legacy. >> yeah. >> i want to leave something for the grandkids and the kids that come after that. >> right. that they understand who billy dee williams was? >> yeah. and i want people to know that i didn't approach life feeling like a victim. i just went out and had an

adventure. >> that, again, was josh mankiewicz with billy dee williams, and this is the "cbs overnight news."

former president jimmy carter has defied the odds his wole life. the 39th president is now 99 years old and has been in hospice care for more than a year. well, jason carter has some thoughts on the life of his

grandfather. >> my grandfather was born in 1924, had no running water, no electricity, and he grew up plowing fields behind a mule. he's lived to see both his life and this world transformed in so many ways. and through all of those changing times, he truly has clung to his unchanging principles -- faith, respect for human dignity, equality, human rights, and the commandment that above all else, you should love your neighbor as yourself. >> the mri showed that there was a cancer -- >> nearly a decade ago, he had five melanoma tumors in his brain and liver. and we quoted the old gospel song that said he's going to stay on the battlefield. and he has. for his whole life, he's been on the battlefield for peace, for human rights, for democracy, for the alleviation of human suffering, putting his faith and love into action for others. he has lived to see the carter center deploy an army of health workers, human right workers,

and democracy workers who are fighting disease, waging peace, and building hope. after 77 years of marriage, he was there for my grandmother until the end. >> and how many on your voters list here? >> reporter: he's seen democracy threatens at home and abroad, and he lived to see one of the most important projects of his life, peace for israel and palestine at the brink. after a year in hospice, on a daily basis we have no expectations for his body. but we know that his spirit is as strong as ever. and that is the overnight news for this monday. reporting from the cbs broadcast center in new york city, i'm jericka duncan. this is "cbs news flash." i'm matt pieper in new york. officials say the suspect in the murder of a georgia nursing student entered the country illegally. police arrested jose ibarra on

friday in the death of 22-year-old laken riley, who was found dead the day before. ibarra hails from venezuela and was arrested crossing the border in 2022 and again in new york last year. at&t is paying customers affected by last week's outage back a little bit. the company is issuing a $5 credit to the accounts of people who lost service thursday after a tech issue caused a nationwide outage. and everything little thing is all right at the box office fo "bob marley: one love. it led the way for the second weekend in a row and has now brought in $120 million globally. > for more news app on your cell ph or connected tv. i'm matt pieper, cbs news, new york. trounced by trump. >> we got double the number of votes that has ever been received in the great state of south carolina. >> the former president projected to beat nikki haley in

the south carolina primary. she's now 0 for 4 in primaries but doubling down on staying the course. >> onward! >> as we head towards super tuesday. >> i don't believe donald trump can beat joe biden. also, delusional demands. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu calling on hamas to get serious about negotiating. >> then we'll have the progress that we all want. >> we'll have the latest on the talks. and later, the power of play. the evolution of dolls over generations telling the story of the black experience. >> re-imagining the doll. that was really important. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." tonight, former president donald trump has his eyes set on michigan this tuesday for what he hopes will be another victory after sweeping the primaries so

far. his challenger, nikki haley, is defying calls to drop out. at last check, her campaign says she is planning to head to the great lakes state after suffering a major blow in her home state that elected her twice as governor. here are the numbers. with nearly all the votes counted, trump won in south carolina by about 20 points. nicole sganga joins us tonight with the details. nicole, what are you hearing about what's likely to be next for these two candidates? >> reporter: good evening, jericka. another decisive win for former president donald trump. for the gop front-runner, it's also another hurdle cleared along that road to secure the 1,215 delegates needed to clinch the republican nomination. in columbia, south carolina, former president donald trump declared victory, sweeping his fourth straight primary by double digits. >> wow.

that is really something. this was a little sooner than we anticipated. >> reporter: leaving his opponent, former south carolina governor nikki haley and her home state advantage, thwarted. >> today in south carolina, we're getting around 40% of the vote. i'm going to count it. i know 40% is not 50%. >> reporter: but still defiant. >> but i also know 40% is not some tiny group. >> reporter: roughly 800,000 south carolinians voted saturday. trump bested haley among most key demographic groups, winning majorities of both men and women plus all age groups according to cbs news exit polls. >> i thought that nikki was a stronger candidate in a lot of ways, and we needed a new generation. >> reporter: despite an unclear path to victory, haley has doubled down on her promise to stay in the race as her opponent faces multiple legal challenges. >> the mug shot. we've all seen the mug shot.

and you know who embraced it more than anybody else? the black population. >> reporter: taking aim at the former president for comments made in front of conservative black voters. >> trump drives people away, including with his comments just yesterday. >> reporter: haley now heads to michigan before the state's primary contest tuesday. >> onward! >> reporter: michigan is just one of a dozen super tuesday states voting on march 5th. now, haley has vowed to stay in the race until then, when over one-third of the republican delegates will be awarded. jericka. >> that's right. 16 states up for grabs there. nicole sganga, thank you. today israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says a cease-fire deal with hamas can be within reach. netanyahu appeared on cbs's "face the nation," where he told our margaret brennan that hamas

first needs to drop its, quote, delusional claims. >> hamas started out with just crazy demands. if they do abandon them and get into what you call the ballpark -- they're not even in the city. they're on another planet. but if they come down to a reasonable situation, then, yes, we'll have a hostage deal. i hope so. >> netanyahu also says israel's anticipated ground operation in rafah would put his nation within weeks of total victory. right now six americans are among the more than 100 hostages believed to be in hamas captivity. the white house has warned israel from advancing on rafah without a detailed plan to limit civilian casualties. more than 1 million palestinians are currently living there. for the first time ever, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy publicly acknowledged that 31,000 ukrainian soldiers have been killed more than two years since russia's invasion. he appealed to the west to boost

military aid as kyiv suffers setbacks. cbs's charlie d'agata is there tonight. >> reporter: with an historic train station, a church, and neighboring homes in flames and ruins from an overnight russian missile bombardment, year three of the full-scale invasion began a lot like day one. ukrainian defenses overwhelmed by a better-equipped enemy. ukrainian leaders pleading for help from the west. "whether ukraine will lose depends on you, on our partners, on the western world," president zelenskyy said tonight. "if we will be strong with weapons, we will not lose. we will win." and while congress wrestles over that $60 billion ukraine funding package, cbs news has learned that the lack of money severely impacts u.s. army operations on nato's eastern flank with the

country and beyond. just last week, u.s. soldiers from the 3rd infantry division out of georgia held live-fire exercises in neighboring poland. military planners have identified this region as especially vulnerable to attack with russian territory to the west and kremlin-allied belarus to the east separated by a 40-mile strip of nato territory. but the cash-strapped army has not only been footing the bill on training and equipping ukrainian troops, spokesman colonel martin o'donnell says the lack of funding also puts in pril exercises like these. >> critical exercises. >> critical exercises, yeah. not only exercises that, you know, maintain our readiness, but should the need arise, our ability to stand, you know, side by side with our nato allies to deter, should deterrence fail, aggression.

>> reporter: aggression from regional enemies, namely russia. ukrainian leaders and military analysts alike have repeatedly warned that if russia achieves victory here, that puts u.s. and nato partner poland squarely on a new front line. nobody wants this war to end more than the ukrainians themselves, jericka. asked tonight whether it was time to negotiate with russian president vladimir putin, president zelenskyy said, "is it possible to address a deaf person, a person who's killing his opponents?" >> charlie d'agata in kyiv, thank you. >> announcer: this i

overnight news." today millions of you are under weather alerts as a winter

storm is set to move across this country. meteorologist lynette charles with our partners at the weather channel is tracking it all for us tonight. lynette, good evening. >> good evening, jericka. we do have a potent storm system that's going to start out west and work its way on off towards the east. but through your tuesday, the pacific northwest could see about one to two inches of rain moving in through the area. there it is on the west coast, and it's going to continue to work its way on off towards the east. this big bundle of energy is going to pose a big problem before it's all said and done. so we're talking about tuesday into your wednesday, we will be dealing with severe thunderstorms, damaging gusty wind, tornadoes, and also hail from chicago, indianapolis. st. louis could see this. this will continue to make its move on off towards the east. along with this, we are going to be dealing with plenty of wind moving across the area as well. jericka. >> all right, lynette. thank you. well, speaking of weather, for some of us, spring cannot come soon enough. and for potential home buyers, it could bring a much anticipated rate break. cbs's elise preston explains.

>> reporter: americans are hoping for a spring thaw on the housing market. rising mortgage rates and higher home prices have kept many would-be buyers on the sidelines. >> when you have mortgage rates above 7%, it's really been a gut punch for the whole real estate market, and that's why there's so much focus on the fed. in this game of poker, when do they start to cut rates? >> reporter: the current rate for a 30-year mixed loan is 7.5% with the average home price hitting a record high of $379,000. dan ives of wedbush securities, a brokerage firm. >> the housing market is essentially at a standstill. i'll call it as a buyer's strike, and sellers -- you know, inventory is starting to increase, but no one is really signing on the dotted line. >> reporter: despite inflation slowing down, americans are spending more than 11% of their income on food according to the u.s. department of agriculture, a number not seen in more than 30 years.

>> what is your advice to the average consumer? >> yeah, my advice is we're going to see the fed start to cut as we get into may and june. that's good for consumers. >> reporter: now, some good economic news. the nation's unemployment rate remains steady with more people finding new jobs at the start of the year than experts predicted. jericka. >> all right. we like good news. elise preston, thank you. tonight a duke university basketball star is recovering from a sprained ankle, and it happened on the court but not during play. the incident highlights the controversy over postgame celebrations and the chaos that can follow. cbs's shanelle kaul has details. >> reporter: moments before the buzzer sounded, wake forest fans sprinted onto the court. at least two fans making contact with the duke men's basketball starting center, kyle filipowski. his coach says he suffered a sprained ankle.

>> i absolutely feel like it was personal, you know, intentional for sure. >> reporter: it's the second recent athlete versus fan injury on a college court. last month, a fan collided with ncaa women's top scorer caitlin clark in columbus, ohio. >> and i was absolutely just hammered by somebody trying to run onto the court and basically blindsided. >> reporter: filipowski's coach now calling for a ban on court storming. >> like how many times does a player have to get into something where they get punched or they get pushed or they get taunted? it's a dangerous thing. >> reporter: in a statement, wake forest director of athletics john currie agreed with the call, writing, something must be done about the national phenomenon of court and field storming. a review by espn found fans have been rushing college basketball courts three times a week in the past three months. right now the ncaa lets conferences determine how to penalize schools for these

incidents. some don't fine schools at all. others impose penalties of up to $500,000. but even those fines are not deterring fans. >> one thing certain leagues do is they make it mandatory for their schools to present, you know, a safety plan of sorts. could it be a situation where there is an announcement, for example, saying, you know, wait ten seconds so players can get off the court? >> reporter: with march madness just weeks away, there is growing demand for a national consensus on how to control the crowds and celebrate safely. shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. for nourished, lightweight hair, the right ingredients make all the difference.

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display of some dynamic dolls, defining culture and transcending generations. here's cbs's michelle miller. >> and this is me. it's a self-portrait. >> reporter: in her latest work, artist diana baird n'diaye transforms a childhood memory. >> i got this doll which looked nothing like me. re-imagining the doll with my hair as it actually is and colors that really look good against my skin, that was really important. >> reporter: it's part of the calling, the transformative power of african american doll and puppet making, an exhibition at new york city's lore museum. >> you sit here, and you see the dolls, but you also see the souls of the doll makers. >> reporter: founding director steven zeitlin and curator camila bryce-laporte came together for the exhibition. >> they're using scraps of different things to make the human form and to talk about their existence.

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scientists believe they've, quote, cracked the code on one of the ocean's biggest mysteries, revealing how whales communicate through song. ian lee has more on that story. >> reporter: the wonder of whales can capture the

imagination, not just their majestic movements but the melodies they make below the surface. >> the only way for these animals to communicate underwater is by sound. and so the only way for them to find each other is by sound. >> reporter: sounds like this -- stirring an orchestra of haunting songs in the ocean which have been a bit of a mystery until now. >> larynxes no doubt are responsible for the sound production in this group of whales. >> reporter: danish researchers studied voice boxes from three dead stranded baleen whales, including a humpback, taking their larynxes into the lab, blowing air through them to see what tissues might vibrate. they found whales use a cushion of fat and tissue that no other animal has to sing underwater. >> they did a fantastic job, i would say, at reconstructing the process by which sounds can be produced. >> reporter: scientists also found the shipping industry

drowns out whale songs, preventing the animals from talking to each other over long distances. >> if they can't find each other, they can't mate. and if they can't mate, there cannot be any population growth. >> reporter: researchers hope the findings will strike a chord around the world to keep whales singing their songs. ian lee, cbs news, london. and that is the overnight news for this monday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, make sure you check back later for cbs mornings kwiegs. and of course you can follow us anytime online at cbsnews.com. reporting from the broadcast center here in new york city, i'm jericka duncan. this is "cbs news flash." i'm matt pieper in new york. officials say the suspect in the murder of a georgia nursing student entered the country illegally. police arrested jose ibarra on

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