the british invasion." good evening, everyone, tonight my interview with the state senator from virginia whose son stabbed him multiple times and how the tragedy could have been prevented. will tomorrow's state of the union address be president obama's last chance to shape his agenda? what is it like aboard the latest nightmare cruise ship where only the germs appear to be going first class. this afternoon, i was about two hours south of here in richmond, virginia. the pain for this father is still raw. virginia state senator creed deed's was slashed and stabbed and almost killed by his mentally ill son gus who took his own life. he talked about it a little last night on 60 minutes, tonight we

go indepth in a way he's never spoken about it before. >> people have been so kind to me, they reach out and they don't understand sometimes that i just have to be left alone, because i have to focus on the good things. these pictures and the facebook page set up for gus. there's so many good pictures and good memories, that's what i have to focused on. i'm determined that gus not be remembered just for his illness. he was such a good boy, a good man, he had a good heart, he loved people. >> gus was senator deeds only son, he was loved deeply by a father who did everything he could to get him the help he so desperately needed. this manning, a senator no less could not get that help. he failed his son and he's speaking out tonight because he wants you to know about the boy he loved, about the young man

with a bright future, a future taken away by mental illness. early on the morning, november 19th, police received a 911 call. the victim creigh deeds. he was stabbed repeatedly with multiple slashes across his face. the attack happened on deeds' property just outside his home. the assault was shocking enough, but the identity of the attacker was beyond comprehension. it was deeds' son gus who turned a gun on himself after the attack. >> senator deeds' son age 24 also of mill borrow was found inside the residence suffering from life threatening injuries associated with a gunshot wound. despite efforts by troopers and first responders at the residence, he died at the scene. >> senator deeds was found by a cousin on the highway in front of his home.

critically injured, deep in shock, and unaware that his son was dead. >> he worked -- >> deeds is a well known democratic politician in virginia. he launched a campaign for governor with his son gus on the campaign trail with them. the two were close, gus the oath boy in the family. they lived a seemingly normal happy life, at some point in his early 20s, gus began to change. his parents feared he was bipolar, maybe even schizophrenic. a month before the attack, gus dropped out of college. creigh deeds took his son to the hospital for a mental health evaluation. a magistrate issued a custody order, which meant they found gus unable to care for himself. the hospital had no psychiatric beds available for gus, and released him. under virginia state law six hours is the maximum time a person can be held in emergency

custody without a bed. the next morning, gus attacked his father. since the attack three area hospitals confirmed they had beds available but said no one called them to check. creigh still lives at the same house where the attack happened just over two months ago. he's returned to his seat in the state senate with a new purpose, mental health reform in virginia, to help fix the system he says failed him and his son. >> that's the motivation for the state senator, the need for reform extends far beyond virginia, there's so much stigma surrounding mental illness in this country. people speak about it in hush tones if they speak about it at all. tonight we want you to hear creigh deeds, the son he loved, the son he lost and the pain too many families in this country face all alone. what do you want people to know

about gus? >> gus was a sensitive kid. he was sometimes overly sensitive, and very -- he was the kind of kid that sometimes kept count of rights and wrongs and who got what. he was very conscious of that growing up. he blossomed as a teenager, and then when he was 20, after the campaign didn't work out, gus was kind of just astray, he decided i'll sit out another semester of school. his mother called me one morning, she said, i got up this morning and there was nothing but a note from gus that said, i'm taking a ride. he rode cross country to wyoming. he came back with a renewed commitment of faith. it wouldn't be too much to say he was probably over the top

with it in many respects. >> was that the first indication to you that there was something wrong? >> i don't know that i knew anything was wrong. it's easy to react to something like that and say, something's wrong with him, but my children have been raised in church, raised in face. he came back with a renewed religious impact. it seemed strange that he was almost that fanatical. he was distant, he started making knives out of scrap metal. i think his mother had him -- in october of 2010, late september had him in a halfway house in charlottesville, he was there for a week or two, he came back and we got him a job at the homestead washing dishes. this kid with unlimited intellectual capacity, was really just kind of doing menial

work. >> he was adrift? >> he was adrift. he came to live with me twice in the summer of 2011. he said things that made me -- and he said he -- he admitted that he was considering killing himself. and so i didn't take that lightly. >> for a parent that's a horrific thing -- >> gus had unlimited ability and it was just every day for the last few years, it's been very tough. >> it's also -- i mean, it's terrifying for a parent to suddenly start to see things in their child at that age. especially in a child who's so accomplished and has had -- >> and the thing is, once they're 18, you lose a lot of control -- >> you didn't even really know anything he had been diagnosed with because of privacy laws? >> i never had access to any of that. after he came to live with me, when he admitted suicidal

thoughts twice, i went to magistrate twice i had him committed, so i was the bad guy, but i kept him alive. >> did you suspect he was perhaps schizophrenic? >> the reading i've done, i'm convinced he was schizophrenic. i'm not a professional in the health care field, i don't know. but it certainly, what i've read about schizophrenia, i think he was. >> certainly the age that people start to exhibit signs of schizophrenia? >> yes, he went back to school in the fall of 2012, and he was deans list again, fall of 2012, spring of 2013, when he came home, i was a little worried that perhaps he wasn't taking his medicine. i confronted him about it, he said -- >> his thoughts were kind of racing, he was -- >> well, he's just a little more -- he was a little more distant, a little less open, and then in early october he started posting things on facebook about the teachers -- or the professors combining forces

against him. consolidating, they were -- >> plotting against him. >> yeah, yeah. and i -- i just sent him a message on facebook, i said, gus, what's going on? is there anything i can do to help? he said, this will pass, don't worry. the next day he called me and wanted to come home. >> my brother did the exact same thing. one day he called my mom and said, i want to come home, he came home and -- when i heard that, i was terrified. >> i told gus, i said, you and i need to work on our communication skills. we need to work on our relationship, and sit down with this lady. >> you were hoping by involving yourself in it, that would get him to at least be able to talk to a psychiatrist? >> absolutely. and we went and talked, spent an hour with her. and later on, that was like a saturday morning.

later on she called me and said, gus is delusional, i'm really worried now, and on the first of november, i went to ireland. while i was in ireland for two weeks, he never responded to an e-mail, never picked up the phone when i called him. gus's whole attitude, his delusions had taken over, his whole attitude had changed toward anything. >> would he express the delusions? >> he was just -- you know, delusions of grandeur almost that he was a demagog almost. i was a slave. >> there was a religious cast -- >> yes. >> people have delusions in different ways, his had a religious -- >> it did. i looked in his book, and i saw things that concerned me, he was looking around for -- that maybe -- to be concerned about guns and i -- >> a journal he had been keeping? >> yeah.

>> the next morning i -- monday, the 18th, when i got to work, i called -- after they were open, i called the csb, and i talked to a fellow there who said -- i explained to him the problem, he said, you need to get to a imagine industry and get an eco issued. >> eco is? >> emergency custody order. my concern is that he's only held for 48 or 72 hours, he comes home and i have the same problem again. this guy said don't worry, we'll try to work with you to get placement at western state. that cuts you to the core when you hear your son might be hospitalized long term, at least he would be alive. at least where there's life, there's hope. i went to the magistrate, i got the cs -- i got the thing issued, eco.

i went to the house, i sat with gus while he was playing the banjo. he was surprised, deputy sheriffs came, they picked gus up. >> was he angry about that? >> he was surprised about he was frustrated. as the day wore on, i knew he was upset. the csb worker was to -- you know, he didn't think gus was suicidal, he's trained in those things, i'm not. his plan, he said they have space for gus at this crossroads, halfway house, crisis intervention in charlottesville, but they were a little concerned about his behavior, he needed to be a little more stable. and they thought he would perhaps be more stable in the morning, the plan was to take him to the csb in the morning and get him over to charlottesville to the halfway house. >> he was very agitated? >> he didn't sit down all afternoon. he would pace the floor, stop

and hold his chin in his hand and look at me and smile. just this little closed up smile, and then he would pace some more, and pace a little while and look at me again. as the time slipped away, i knew there would be a confrontation. i had no idea it would be violent. i had no reason -- i mean, gus and i -- i had no reason to think there would be violence. >> csb where he took his son is a community services board. when we come back, he talks about the attack that nearly killed him. >> when i turned around, i could see he had something in his hand that was coming at me, but i didn't really, i had no idea what was coming -- it was in his left hand. i couldn't tell, you know, i thought it was a screw driver, i had no idea what it was. he kept coming at me with stuff, i said, what's going on. i said, gus, i love you so much, don't make this worse than it is.

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before the break we were talking to creigh deeds about the son he loved. he tried to get him for him. now in part two of our conversation, what happened next. when you came home that night -- >> i stopped -- i needed gas to get home, i stopped for gas. i'm going to get something to drink, a bottle of pop and a candy bar.

can i get you anything? he liked coke and wanted a snickers bar. down the road i thought, well, we don't really have anything to eat at the house, why don't i stop and get a sandwich. i thought if i could get him in the restaurant the it would at least diffuse the situation a little bit. but he didn't want to come in the restaurant. i got a sandwich and he ate it, a lot of it on the way home. when we got home, i sat at one end of the dining room table, i sat at the other end. he was writing furiously in his journal. after i ate my sandwich, i said night gus, night bud. he said good night. and he was still writing away the next morning -- gus was stronger than me, he's better looking, stronger, smarter. he's everything you would want

in a son. if gus were arrested, if gus were arrested and had his heart 100% into something, i would have been toast. >> he could have killed you? >> he could have killed me. the next morning i got up, i was a little nervous, i knew the job of taking him to lexington -- there would be some confrontation, i didn't think there would be any balance. there would be discussion. i got ready. i was feeding him, i had some of them in the barn. i had another feed tray in my hand for this thoroughbred that belongs to my oldest girl.

he was coming across the yard. i said, hey, bud, how did you sleep? i didn't waive my hand because i had feed in my hands. he said fine i turned around and i took it twice in the back. >> he stabbed you twice in the back? >> yeah. >> did you know what was happening? >> no, i had no idea. i had no idea -- nothing coming -- i couldn't tell -- i thought it was a screw driver, i had no idea what it was, he kept coming at me. i said, what's going on. don't make this any worse than it is. he kept stabbing. i think he either knew i was disabled enough i couldn't interfere with whatever else he wanted to do, he decided at some point i said after i loved him, i didn't need to die after all

or he thought from the amount of blood that he had already done some damage. the first blow to my back was pretty close to a spot where he could have drawn a lot of blood. the second one punctured a long. it's possible that -- i don't -- there was a good bit of blood. but i like to think that gus at some point in that attack, the old gus came back. i like to think that, i want to believe that. >> he certainly wasn't himself when he started? >> no, no, he wasn't himself about. >> that's not your son? >> no. whatever took my son, the bipolar disorder, the schizophrenia, whatever illness there was, took my son and worsened in the last few months, he was on medication and he wasn't keeping appointments, there was very little i could do

to turn that around, i had done everything i could the day before, i had taken him to the -- it's not like, you know he's my son, so i could automatically enroll him in the hospital somewhere, he's an adult. everything i had done the day before, we tried and had been rejected. my son was allowed to suffer. >> and he was suffering for a long time? >> he was suffering for a long, long time. i mean, that's -- at least he's at peace now, but it's the price to pay. >> so i think -- i always feel like, if somebody has cancer, they're suffering from cancer, somebody's suffering from leukemia. >> that's it. >> people -- there's a real disparity in this country between mental illness and what

we consider physical illness. physical illness we treat, mental illness we hide behind. >> there's still such a stigma about it, people don't talk about it. >> they don't talk about it, they're embarrassed about it, people who are mentally ill don't -- they don't want to be considered, they don't want to be considered ill people, they have mental illness in their family, they want to look the other way and pretend it will go away, a lot of people in my own life would say, well gus will grow out of it, it will work out just fine. gus will be all right. he had so much ability. but the problem is, there's -- you know, he wouldn't -- he needed treatment, he needed medication many. >> it's also in this society, it's seen as like a defect as opposed to something that has taken your son. i mean, it's not -- people don't view cancer as oh, that person is guilty or they've done something wrong or they're weak,

whereas mental illness there is that belief. >> there is, and that -- that's just -- it's too bad. gus had -- >> to me, the strength of somebody who's fighting mental illness, the strength of gus to get through a day is extraordinary. >> and he had such a talent, such love inside that this illness was nothing voluntary, it's not like he did something to deserve this sort of condition. and as society, we need to genuinely look at the way we treat the mental illness as -- because it's one of the great problems of our age in equity, between the way we treat the physical illnesses and the way we treat mental illnesses. i've read that mental illness is another physical illness, it's just another chemical imbalance

in the brain. that's another way to look at it, mental illness is a physical illness. >> after the attack, how did you hear about what finally happened to gus? >> well, see gus was in just slash it away. and then suddenly you just turn around, i think he thought i was bleeding enough, i don't know. i staggered through the barn along a ridge, i just -- i didn't have much -- i didn't have much strength in my right side, my arm was disabled. soy didn't open the gate, i climbed it, staggered out to this road, my husband had taken some hunters back to the national forest, and he saw me coming through the field bloody,

and he got his hunters out of the truck, put me in, took me back up to his house, his wife is a nurse at the university of virginia hospital. they got a rescue squad and helicopter and with instructions for me to go to the hospital. either in the rescue squad or the helicopter, i heard a scanner report there was a second victim with a gunshot wound to the head. at that point i was worried about gus, when i got -- my cousin took me up to his house, there was a trooper up there, i said, he was going down to the house. because i told him i thought that's where gus had gone back to. i said, please don't hurt him. because i had no -- honestly, i didn't know even at that time that gus was trying to kill me. i couldn't -- i didn't want to think that. and i certainly didn't think he was going to hurt himself. i said, please don't hurt him.

and when i heard that on the scanner, i worried -- i was worried about gus, i knew there weren't any bullets in the house, so there was no ammunition for that 22 rifle in the house that i was aware of, i didn't think it was possible for it to be gus. so when i woke up, after surgery the next day or something, i woke up and i got that thing out of my mouth, i asked, i said, gus, i didn't have any voice, and shah von told me then what happened. >> one of the things that i think is so horrible about suicide -- at least for me, i often get stuck thinking how my brother ended his life as opposed to how he lived his life. i'm wondering if you -- do you think about that?

>> yeah, i do. and, you know, people have been so kind to me, and they reach out, and they don't understand sometimes that i just to be left alone, because i need to focus on the good things. these pictures and the facebook page that was set up for gus, there's so many good pictures. so many good memories. and that's what i want to focus on. i'm determined that gus not be remembered for his illness or in this life, it's nothing. he was such a good boy. a good man, he had a good heart, he loved people. i ran for statewide office twice, and neither time i didn't win. gus was a constant on those campaigns. he nicknamed all the kids that worked for me. he loved those kids, they loved him. he would entertain them with the

banjo or the harmonica. he would name all the cats. we have a barn, there's lots of cats that come in there and i've been known to not turning them away, and gus loved cats. and loved -- and dogs and -- we had just about every kind of animal, gus always named the animals, he nicknamed people, he was so full of love, i'm determined that he not be remembered by the end of his life, but he be remembered by all the goodness, he was just this unbelievable guy, he could sing, dance. he could shake his booty like nobody else. and he would entertain people with just his dancing as a young man. when he was in high school, he got the spirit award, for a couple times, he got a senior award. >> he was valedictorian of his high school class?

>> he was valedictorian. gus was something special. all my children are. >> for me, it was a long time that i was able to talk about my brother. the fact that you're able to talk about him is so nice. >> you have no choice, life goes on. there's a little bit of focus on mental illness. if we can make a change that's going to save lives, we have to do it, you know, we have to -- i have no choice. and besides that, i've got to work, i've got to keep going, life is short. >> the only way to break the stigma of mental illness in this country is to break the silence that too often sur rounds it. we want to thank senator creigh deeds for talking about his son's mental illness. among the things the state senator is trying to do is to extend the period of time that a family could keep somebody under observation. right now it's 4 to 6 hours, he would like to extend it to 24 hours.

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be here in washington for president obama's state of the union address. here's some behind the scenes pictures. the president meeting with advisers getting ready for the speech. joining me with true politics, jim acosta. the president may have tough words for congress tomorrow night. >> that's right, anderson, they're still working on the speech. he's going to issue a challenge to lawmakers that says if you don't like working with me, you're going to work around me. officials at the white house do caution that the president will still call on congress to pass a few items -- legislative items that are on his priority list, namely immigration reform and the minimum wage. but there are two basic reasons for all of this, one is, look at what happened last year, congress did not move much on his legislative agenda, remember gun control, the other part of this is political.

you have democrats and republicans, a lot of them running scared this year, they're run are for re-election, they don't want to cast votes that will come back to haunt them. more than you ever heard before, the president is going to be talking about executive actions tomorrow night. >> is there a team for the speech tomorrow? >> well, they're talking about expanding opportunity. they're talking about jobs, they're talking about the economy. this is going to be a lot more focused on domestic items than on foreign affairs, officials say. and in recent weeks, you've heard the president talk about how he wants to combat income inequality. he mentioned this in a 6 second vine video, the words are changing at the white house, they're talking more now about expanding opportunity for all americans, but you're going to hear officials say the president outlining some solutions tomorrow night aimed at this issue of income and equality, some of those executive actions will be on job training and retirement security. but there is a political danger,

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welcome back. new threats for olympic athletes in sochi, russia. the olympic flame arrived under very tight security. a number of suspected black widow bombers remain at large, despite a massive search by rush authorities for them, and american athletes have been warned about wearing their uniforms outside olympic venues. many families will not go. the wife of a cross country

skier was planning on attending the games and bringing her 6-year-old daughter. >> we were on board, but then we continued to talk about what circumstances were, where we were going to stay. i could just tell by the look on his face and just his reaction. i finally said, is this going to stress you out us being there? he immediately said yes. >> joining us now with more on that threat, nick payton walsh. the group that posted it made reference to the volgograd attacks. >> this is the same group that posted the video responsibility for the two bombings in volgograd late last year. this particular warning in lengthy, in many ways rambling,

it's not specific in mentioning the olympics at all. the title is, russia has been warned. it mentions the volgograd warnings, one of the reasons it targeted that town is because several of the athletes hail from dagestan. it provides justification from inside the koran for some of the violence they used, particularly against women and children, and goes on to say they will punish russia. nothing specifically about the games, but it comes with a broader threat and warning. these people have a track record of bringing those threats into reality because of volgograd. >> what is the security situation like there? >> it was a bizarre event this

morning in many ways. the torch arriving is supposed to be festive. this was under lockdown, the torch wasn't seen until it arrived at a match mum security airport. the spectators allowed to see the event were bussed in on roads that had been shut down, lined with police. police checkpoints across the city. normal people of the city weren't involved at all. the torch didn't go through the town, it went straight to the stadium. there was a loud and festive display there where people stood in the rain. thousands attending the event. the key signal really from it, was the kremlin's defiance of what they see as the terror threat down here, they know there's an issue of the insurgency here. they still wanted that event to go ahead, to show their ability

to secure this area, but also their defiance of the threats they've been hearing. >> i appreciate the update, thanks. >> joining me now is peter king. i appreciate you being with us. i know you said in the past you can't guarantee 100% safety for u.s. athletes, beyond that, though, how concerned are you about the threats, how real do you think they are? >> i have very real concerns. this is a deadly area. the rushes have not been cooperating as far as sharing intelligence. going back to previous olympics, the greeks did in 2004, the chinese did in 2008. >> are they afraid of revealing methods, sources or losing face? >> one is their fear of losing sources and methods. there is that pride that putin has of not wanting to admit he needs help from the outside.

>> your completion had said if the threats continued to increase perhaps is there should be talks of cancelling the games, do you agree with that? >> i don't think we're at that stage yet. i think we can do all we can as far as security beforehand. there's a lot of people coming there who have been treated badly by the russians. they're on fertile ground to be used in the attack. you have these well organized terrorist groups over there. there's still going to be venues within the olympic site which cannot be fully protected. we have to assume the terrorists know that and they're going to try to take advantage of it. >> if you were a civilian or an athlete, would you go to the games? >> if i'm an athlete i would go,

as a spectator i would not. >> and would you recommend that to other spectators? >> let's say tomorrow, if my family and i were given free tickets to go to the olympics, i would not go. >> you believe the threat is that real? >> yes, too much of a risk. odds are there will not be an attack, the odds are higher than they've been for any other olympics, probably less than 50/50. that's pretty high when you're talking about a terror attack. >> where is your fear of an attack, inside the olympic venue or outside. >> locations where there are going to be olympic events which i've been told will be too vulnerable to attacks. >> if anyone was killed would you put part of the blame on russian authorities because they

haven't shared intelligence? >> right now you would have to. from all my understanding from the last several days, we are not getting any intelligence from the russians, it's not being shared and they are refusing to do it, so yes. >> thank you. good to have you on the program. um next, nasty sickness strikes a cruise, more than 600 people fall ill, it's happened again. and a deep freeze sets in across much of the united states, minnesota, new orleans and points further east, update ahead. hey guys! sorry we're late.

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welcome back, a royal caribbean cruise is being cut short because more than 600 people on board have gotten sick with a gastrointestinal illness. they made the decision to bring the explorer of the seas back to port two days early and thoroughly sanitize the ship. the company says the symptoms are consistent with noro virus. elizabeth cohen joins me now live. the fact that this spread so quickly, more than 600 people sick in a matter of days. is that part of what is making medical experts think it's noro virus? >> that is one of the things that's making them think this.

it's a common gastrointestinal infection. many of us have had it and didn't know what to call it. the fact that it spread quickly looks like noro virus. he said he wouldn't be surprised if this is a relatively new strain called the sydney strain, because a lot of people don't have immunity to it, that may be one of the reasons why it spread so quickly. >> it can live on surfaces of things for days, and that things like alcohol sanitizer don't even work that well? >> yeah, this is a weird bug in that way, usually sanitizers work just fine, for this one, you really want to wash your hands, sanitizer does not work all that well about and it does live for a long time on surfaces. >> ships are inspected. this ship scored pretty well, so it could pretty much happen on any ship then? >> they did, they scored great,

they got a 98 on their most recent test, here's the thing, you can have a perfectly ship shape ship, but if someone sick walks on to it, you can have an outbreak like this. in some cases it doesn't matter how clean the ship was to begin with. >> one person with the noro virus that's how it can be spread? >> it could just be one person. i'm not saying that's what happened here, but sure one person can really start getting things going, especially if that person is a crew member and is preparing food, again, i'm not saying that's what happened here, but if you have a crew member who's preparing food and didn't wash their hands properly, that's a problem. >> what is the ship line. what is royal caribbean saying to get people medical attention. >> they're doing several things, one is they're bringing in additional equipment, they're bringing in additional personnel, we just talked to a passenger and she said that they made another interesting change, no more buffets, you can't --

buffets where everyone's sort of handling the same serving utensil. no more of those, it's table service. plus, if you are sick in your room, they will bring you ginger ale or the beverage of your choice to get you feel better. susan hendricks is here with a 360 news and business bulletin. >> a big chill has set in across much of the south, new orleans mayor has declared a state of emergency with freezing rain expected on tuesday. much of the midwest and northeast is also shivering, it will feel like negative 30 in chicago tomorrow when you factor in the windchill. a texas hospital has followed a judges order and ended life support for a brain dead pregnant woman, the family of munoz says she may now rest in peace. the state required the family to keep her on life support since she was pregnant. the mother of the maryland mall shooter says she doesn't

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