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as we go into a bitter cold night. and it is enough to bust out those shovels period some folks sent us this video of the cruise removing snow from the airport with some flight delays and if you cancellations. the dave is on interstate 70 and dave, we even see fog out that way. >> reporter: looking at the fog, we are either in the city - - interstate 70 and visibility is about 300 yards that way. and we have seen the bridge behind me and then the fog pulls back and then into the night it is cold enough. there is enough moisture in the atmosphere that the fog to get stick. tonight radiation cooling will allow that fog to build up dance
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we had the official stick here, just under 3 inches of snow in this location, we've seen up to five around this spot. and we want to start you off with longmont, four-point five - - four-point five there and over three in brighton. holly has 3.5 inches of snow. and in denver, we picked up two points six inches of snow. - - two and half inches of snow. it will cool off here and in the city as well and there is still some snow to be had on the doppler. evergreen is in the weather center. - - evergreen - - >> you can see the snow going
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advisories and storm warnings continue for that part of the area, don't self our showers and storms with good thunder storms in eastern texas all as a part of the system that is moving out of the area. you can see those winter storm warnings off to the east and the winter weather advisory that goes until 11:00 tonight. we have an hourly forecast and good sunshine tonight and in the afternoon, skies clear afternoon, skies clear and here are some reports from long tree air force account he - - air force academy and wellington. we will talk about how cold it will get tonight and when we finally get above freezing. developing no, the investigation after police arrested a arrest a suspect after more smash and grab burglaries near hampton avenue. three businesses were hit overnight, one near hampton and emerson. two more were hit on southbound
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- - file - - followed footprints to make the arrest period investigators . investigators want to know if this suspect is tied to other similar crimes period > > that . >> that is exactly what we want to know. we called the police for more details and we have not heard back. one victim involved this electronics store. the owner is relieved that an arrest was made and $4000 he says was stolen in cell phones it could have been much worse, only a bottom portion of this door was smashed and the thief had to crawl inside like a dog and then he could only take smaller items. they traced footprints in the snow to make an arrest nearby. >> i feel safe i feel safe now, i really feel safe.
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those footprints outside of a hair salon. they lost $800 worth of products. is this the last arrest or are there more to be made? >> we will be following along, howard, along, howard, thank you. new developments in the case of a teenager attacked with a machete. one suspect will spend the rest of his life in prison for trying to kill a teenager with thought he was his friend. and later caught a 16-year-old accomplice attacked him after hiking into the woods near breckenridge. and his hand and he did manage to escape. a passing sheriff deputy found him bleeding on swan mountain road. and now the latest on a man who a man who ambushed a police officer in philadelphia has
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officer's patrol car with a weapon drawn and then he shoots the cop at point blank range. the officer was it three times and radioed for help period > > i have been shot . >> he believed that police defend laws that are contrary to the teachings of the koran . >> edward archer was arrested - - arrested and said he shot the officer in the name of islam. and the officer is seriously wounded but expected to survive. medical examiner: the examiner: the death of a jail inmate michael marshall died last month after being restrained by deputy - - deputies. rick salinger is joining us from the detention center where family members of the inmate are among those demanding to
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>> reporter: it is being labeled a homicide. that does not necessarily mean a crime was committed. michael marshall was a mentally ill homeless man who suffered from schizophrenia. he got in an altercation with another inmate. deputies restrained him on the ground where he threw up, suffocated and suffered a heart attack. family members and others called for release of the incident. >> it is profound brutality and it is unimaginable. >> we have committed to letting them
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our possession. when we get all of the material back from the district attorney, we plan attorney, we plan to sit down with the marshall family. >> reporter: this is the second time that an inmate here has died while under restraint by deputies. the previous incident involved marvin booker years ago period no . no criminal charges were filed in that case. the family was able to win a civil suit in federal court and the city had to pay out millions. hundreds of denver police are trying to work the beats with body campus. officers in district six, traffic operations and the gang unit of the first to get them. which video the public can see depends on the circumstances. >> we recognize there is some video
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the public to see. officer involved incidents, officer involved shootings, that is the kind of video we recognize that the community has an interest in seeing. >> reporter: the cameras can hold nine hours of footage. denver police will rollout cameras the entire force throughout the year. an update on the record jackpot for powerball which climbed today up to $800 million on estimate. suzanne is in denver and despite that huge amount of everyone is enticed into buying a ticket. people came in and someone came in with $1200 to buy tickets and still call your chances with that many are not very good and some say it is good not to be stuck with all of that money. customers are buying tickets by the fistful, filled with the
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win will buy them happiness. but statistics show 44% spend their winnings within five years and there are apparently other drawbacks to being suddenly rich. >> when this person wins the lottery got they become a global target. people will put them on a list to try to sell bad investments and try to take their money. >> reporter: some say they have no interest in money or millions. >> why not try for all of this money? money? >> i wouldn't know what to do with it. and people who struggle after winning the lottery do things like quit their jobs and buy an island and move to it.
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ruin my life. and the weather headline, snow is moving out and bitter cold is moving in. a deep a deep-freeze all weekend? >> it will stay below freezing all weekend. clearing skies, temperatures drop, i will tell you when it is all gone and i i will tell you how low it does get tonight. the dangerous search is over and the mexican drug lord who escaped last year has escaped custody. and we will drop in and see when we will notice some of the big improvements.
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feels slighted. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, developing out of the fugitive drug lord el chapo is back in custody. he skipped a mexican - - maximum security prison. the justice department wants him attractive here. the mexican - - a mexican marine was hurt in the mission. authorities confiscated a lot of weapons. new video shows a man station to learn there was a backseat. he ordered her out of the car and she ran across the street
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found her and called police. >> that was her angel, somebody saved. >> reporter: the carjackers still on the run with the same stolen vehicle. the unemployment rate stayed at 5% for the third straight month indecember. the events are underway and this could be the last show for the c omplex. jeff todd is in denver and big changes are coming. >> reporter: denver voters overwhelmingly approved the ballot. it was an extension of the tax bill, and we want to know what is happening with the money and
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like this that are more than 100 years old. s n o o z e the stock show will forever be maintaining current course. we will have the one tenth 11 - - one tenth this year and 112 and it will continue without interruption. >> construction is planned for a $1 billion real - - revitalization of the complex. first the city has to by about 70 acres. >> we will begin the commission of facilities. this time next year we will do some demolition and site rooted - - remediation. >> the city is trying to get another real line moved away and then there will be years of construction period >> the . >> the overall project will take a decade. my hope is in 20 eighteen, we
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initial improvements over what we will be doing. >> the hope is that a new complex will bring a return on investment. >> we are celebrating and looking into global food safety issues period >> many of the events are starting tomorrow. because this ballot initiative passed, gym, that is the day you will want to be here because admission to the grounds will be free period i am going to look for a turkey leg. >> or hop on able. it green is joining us with the colorado forecast. >> we have watches, watches, warnings, and advisories and you can see the winter storm water - - warning and advisory continues until 11:00 with no winding down and clearing skies near cheyenne, partly cloudy skies cheyenne, partly cloudy skies with fewer snow showers in the mountains. >> continues to go on and you
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beginning to shrink. out of the area and it will continue to take snow with it. ahead of it gets warmer showers and thunderstorms moving into portions of louisiana, and here is the hourly forecast, not much going on, but i i will roll it into skies over the eastern plains and send it to sunshine over the eastern plains, scattered snow showers at the higher elevations. you can see it is kind of foggy, cold temperatures and fog come along with all of that and the snow is pretty much over. here is rocky mountain national park with a lot of snow going on over here, and here is mesa verde. 29's - - 29 29 and 30 is the best we can do. at 2:00 in the morning, for the temperatures from overnight,
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settled in and this - - this is where we hovered all afternoon in the lower to middle 20s. and 23 23 and 21 right now cotner the seven for the wind, the risingbarometer, and jackie sent this in . here is the ramp and you can see the cars waiting to get on this crowded highway period it was . it was a little tricky this morning. stephen took some good shots here. temperatures tonight are mostly in the single digits and the teams over the eastern plains. out west, temperatures in the single digits and the teens period tomorrow, a chilly day with teens, twenties, were 30 for the use got to the authorities for the mountains, 20s and lower 30s out west. and tonight, we will look for him mostly cloudy sky, fog in some places confidence in
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clouds, clouds, on the chilly side. then we start to warm up incrementally at best. we do see sunshine and we will get into the 40s as we go into next week. the broncos are weighing in on the pro bowl.
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snow and cold and a good day to be indoors. >> good use of that. the broncos will practice again tomorrow before taking sunday off in return for a normal game week on monday. and miller celebrated by taking a a selfie with media today. it is his second overall. and he probably missed the first team because of one bad game against the steelers. and to only have two selections? >> i i had number one pass
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son is gone. the chilly side midweek and a seasonal 44 degrees and a lot of sunshine. >> the fistfight over it - >> rose: they got him. the most wanted drug lord in the world wanted no more. also tonight-- >> rose: a philadelphia cop ambushed by a gunman inspired by isis. >> that is chilling, absolutely chilling when you watch that. >> rose: a grandmother gives birth to a granddaughter. >> they pulled her little head out, and that was the most amazing thing i've ever seen in my life. >> rose: and steve hartman with the most efficient power source we have ever seen. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news"
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>> rose: good evening. scott is off tonight. i'm charlie rose. the drug lord known as "el chapo" was captured today six months after he broke out of a mexican prison for the second time. joaquin guzman, once the most powerful drug kingpin if the world, was arrested after a shoot-out with mexican marines. guzman is wanted in the united states. the state department posted a $5 million reward for his arrest. and chicago branded him public enemy number one. ben tracy begins our coverage. >> reporter: the man with the towel over his head is believed to be el chapo, being led by mexican authorities to an airplane bound for mexico city. after a massive operation in the town of los mochis early this morning, mexican marines captured the drug lord. undershirt and did not appear wounded. he may have tried to escape through the sewer after a tip led authorities to this white house. inside they found a small army
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these are just some of the weapons seized, including a loaded rocket-propelled grenade launcher. five of el chapo's men were killed during a violent firefight with marines. [gunfire] mexican president enrique pena nieto announced el chapo's capture on twitter saying, "mission accomplished. we have him." on television he called el chapo's capture the result of days and nights of unequivocal commitment to bringing him to justice. six months ago, joaquin "el chapo" guzman escaped from the most secure prison in mexico. this surveillance video shows his last moments in his cell before he walks into his shower stall. that's when he climbed into this mile-long tunnel when he hopped on a retrofitted motorcycle and rode these tracks to freedom. this was his second escape from prison. arturo fontes is a former f.b.i. agent who investigated el chapo
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>> reporter: el chapo, which means shorty, may just be 5'6", but he was also one of the biggest and most violent drug lords in the world. he's run the notorious sinoaloa drug cartel, worth about $3 billion. the cartel is responsible for much of the violence that has plagued the streets in parts of mexico. it also controls nearly half the illegal drugs flowing from that country to the united states. guzman is believed to be responsible for as many as 34,000 deaths. sources tell cbs news that the tip that led to el chapo's arrest came from u.s. law enforcement. he is wanted in six states in this country on drug-related crimes, and, charlie, in chicago he is considered public enemy number one. >> rose: thanks, ben. for a "60 minutes" report, bill whitaker got a look inside the
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>> reporter: during the last manhunt for el chapo, his pursuers discovered this. it's a tub. look at this. a tunnel entrance also concealed in the plumbing, in this case beneath the tub. that's amazing. chapo devised ingenious smuggling methods. he packed drugs into fake cucumbers and bananas and mixed them in with shipments of real produce. but the thing he worked hardest on was making sure he could always get away. guzman was the first mexican drug trafficker to hire architects and mining engineers to build elaborate super tunnels complete with ventilation systems, electricity and railways to ferry drugs under the u.s.-mexico border. mexican authorities led us to a tunnel they found unfinished and just short of the border fence in tijuana. this tunnel was discovered just a couple weeks after el chapo's great escape.
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on building his escape tunnel. they continued building these drug tunnels at the same time. >> rose: our intrepid reporter bill whitaker. he'll be at it again this weekend. bill will take us to the main russian air base in syria for an inside look at russia's battle against the enemies of dictator bashar al-assad. that's this sunday on "60 minutes." a muslim man from suburban philadelphia is in custody tonight after he allegedly attempted to assassinate a police officer. he apparently was inspired by isis. jericka duncan is in philadelphia. >> reporter: surveillance video shows the horrifying moment when 33-year-old philadelphia police officer jesse hartnett was ambushed at point-blank range. >> reporter: police say the suspect, 30-year-old edward archer, fired at least a dozen times.
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the patrol car. even though officer hartnett was struck three times in the left arm, he bravely exited his vehicle and pursued the suspect on foot, firing his weapon and wounding the perpetrator. philadelphia police commissioner richard ross. >> that is chilling, absolutely chilling when you watch that. and if that doesn't just make the hairs on your neck just raise when you see that, it's scary. that's all i can say. >> reporter: police say that archer admitted guilt, identified himself as a muslim, and pledged allegiance to isis. >> according to him he believed that the police defend laws that are contrart to the teachings of the quran. >> reporter: commissioner ross says that his biggest regret was that the firearm used was stolen from a fellow police officer's home in 2013. how concerning is it when you hear that that gun that the suspect used was that of another
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>> things happen, but it cuts even deeper. >> reporter: hartnett remains in the hospital in critical but stable condition. his father robert hartnett says his son always wanted to be a police officer. >> he's a tough guy. he's a tough dude. he's an actual philadelphia officer. >> reporter: cbs news has learned that the suspect traveled to the middle east in 2011 and 2012, but, charlie, officials say it is still too early to know for sure whether the suspect had any direct connection to a terrorist organization. >> rose: thanks, jericka. new fuel has been added to the debate over allowing refugees fleeing middle east wars to settle here in the u.s. two have been arrested on charges related to terror, one in texas, one in california. here is jeff pegues. >> reporter: omar al hardan appeared in a texas courtroom today to face charges that he attempted to provide material support to isis. the 24-year-old, an iraqi refugee, who lives in houston,
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in sacramento, agents arrested another iraqi refugee, aws al- jayab. and in court papers they say he had traveled to syria to fight with rebels opposing president assad. the 23-year-old came to the u.s. in 2012, but investigators alleged soon after he was communicating via social media with terrorist organizations in syria. in march and april of 2013, he messaged: in november of 2013, he flew from chicago to turkey and then traveled to aleppo in syria where investigators say he took up arms with terrorist organizations and concealed that conduct from immigration authorities when he returned to the u.s. the next year. investigators call al-jayab a foreign fighter. according to u.s. intelligence officials, more than 36,500 foreign fighters have traveled
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250 have come from the u.s. the two arrests have re-ignited the political debate over admitting refugees from the region into the u.s. house homeland security chairman michael mccaul. >> they're ticking time bombs. how many ticking time bombs are we going to bring in, in this refugee program without a proper vetting system in place? >> reporter: the white house today called the current screening process rigorous. lawyers for the two suspects could not be reached for comment. charlie, according to court papers, the two communicated through social media and discussed going to syria to fight. >> rose: thanks, jeff. the governor of maine is under fire for remarks he made while talking about the state's heroin epidemic. republican paul lepage spoke at a town meeting wednesday night. >> these are guys that are named d-money, smoothie, shifty, these type of guys that come from connecticut and new york. they come up here. they sell their heroin. then they go back home. incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young, white girl
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>> rose: today lepage told reporters it was a slip of the tongue. he did not mean to inject race into the discussion, but he also said this. >> instead of saying, maine women, i said white women. if you... i'm not going to apologize to the maine women for that because if you go to maine, you will see that we're essentially 95% white. >> rose: the head of the regional n.a.a.c.p called the governor's comments terrible and divisive. overnight the state department released nearly 3,000 more pages of e-mails from hillary clinton's personal account. one of these e-mails is receiving extra scrutiny. it contains an unusual request. here's nancy cordes. >> reporter: republicans argue the newly released e-mail proves that former secretary of state knowingly shared sensitive information on her private
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in an exchange from 2011, a top aide alerts clinton that staffers are having issues, sending her some talking points via secure fax. clinton responds, in other words an e-mail with no identifying heading and send non-secure. the topic and sensitivity of the talking points are not clear. that part is redacted. still, the republican chair of the senate judiciary committee called the exchange disturbing and called for a criminal inquiry. late this afternoon, the clinton campaign told cbs news it is false that hillary clinton asked for classified material to be sent over a non-secure system. the exchange was among 2,900 pages of clinton's e-mails released by the state department at 2:00 a.m. this morning. the agency said it is simply trying to keep up with an ambitious schedule established by a federal judge. just this week the state department's own internal
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responses to questions about clinton's e-mails have been inaccurate and incomplete. state department officials say they just don't have the resources to keep up with all the requests from the public and the media, charlie. >> rose: thanks, nancy. to the economy now. more employers are putting out the help wanted sign. they added 292,000 jobs last month. and the unemployment rate held steady at 5%. more about that now from our senior national correspondent anthony mason. >> reporter: charlie, hiring was surprisingly strong in december, and for the year, the economy added 2.6 million jobs. together with the 3.1 million added before, that's the best two-year gain since the late '90s, but wages were flat again in december and manufacturing, which added more than 200,000 jobs in 2014, added just 30,000 last year. and the strong jobs report could not lift the markets out of their funk. the dow, which tumbled again,
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the week, the worst start ever to a new year. turmoil in china and the global economy continues to worry investors. the s&p 500 is down almost 10% from its all-time high set back in may, charlie. >> rose: thanks, anthony. still ahead tonight, a grandmother gives birth to her own granddaughter. and a mystery at the bookstore. five men vanish when the "cbs
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>> rose: this could be a plot for a bestseller. five men who work for a publisher in hong kong have vanished. seth doane reports the only clues may come from the pages of the books they sold. >> reporter: in front of the bookstore tonight, protesters demanded to know why the men went missing. why do you care so much about this issue? "if these five can easily disappear," trin told us, "then
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vanish simply for saying or doing something." the five men were all tied to the now-closed causeway bay books. tucked up a cramped staircase, it doesn't look like much of a threat, but the gossipy, salacious titles on the wall criticized china's leaders. this book talks about the private life of that of peng liyuan, china's first lady, and this book here predicts the collapse of china's president, xi jinping. on december 30th, publisher lee bo never returned home. then days later a faxed letter purportedly written by lee said he was cooperating with an investigation and had made his own way to the mainland. >> we're concerned about an incident of political kidnap. >> reporter: you're calling this a political kidnapping? >> must be. >> reporter: hong kong legislator albert ho worries chinese authorities or their agents illegally snatched lee
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kong? >> this incident is explosive. it really touched the nerve of every ordinary citizen, because y we... it's more than freedom of publication. >> reporter: but a risk these protesters are willing to take to protect their freedom of speech. >> we will fight for our human rights. >> reporter: seth doane, cbs news, hong kong. >> rose: still ahead, steve hartman on the road, but up next, a grandmother's "labor" of
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,,,, >> rose: a grandmother in texas went to great lengths to deliver on a promise she made to her daughter. omar villafranca explains how three generations were bonded by one birth. >> reporter: kelly mckissack calls the birth of her daughter kelcey a miracle. the 28-year-old shared the moment wednesday in the delivery room with her mother tracey.
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out and that was the most amazing thing i've ever seen in my life ever. >> reporter: kelley and her husband aaron tried for years to have a baby on their own. they experienced three heartbreaking miscarriages. at any point did you think, we're not going to have kids? >> no, that was never an option for us. >> reporter: kelley and aaron had four remaining embryos from their final round of in vitro fertilization when her mom offered another option to, act as a surrogate and give birth to she's like, "i think i need to do this." and i said, "i think you need to think about it." >> reporter: were you hesitant? >> i mean just for her health. >> reporter: tracy was in excellent health, but at 53 she was already seven years into menopause, so dr. joe leveno put her on hormone therapy to enable her to carry a baby. >> she was a star.
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expectations by a mile. she complained probably a fraction of what my average patient does in terms of aches and pains. >> when i was in my 20s and pregnant with her and her brother, it was easy. >> reporter: how was it in your 50s? >> it was difficult. it was exhausting. >> reporter: on the big day, tracey had a c-section and gave birth to her granddaughter, baby kelcey headed home today, grandmother's love knows no bounds. >> a miracle. it was god's little miracle right here. >> reporter: omar villafranca, cbs news, plano, texas. >> rose: up next, steve hartman with pound-for-pound the strongest person in america. >> tonight's "on the road" segment is sponsored by: segment is sponsored by: to love your laxative when that lax loves your body back. only miralax hydrates, eases and softens to unblock naturally, so you have peace of mind from start to finish. love your laxative.
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his weight in olympic gold. steve hartman met him "on the road." >> reporter: at the olympic training center in colorado springs, american weight lifters carry a heavy burden. the u.s. men's team hasn't won a gold medal in 56 years. but coach zygmntu smalcerz says that streak may be ending thanks to one incredible lifter. >> his muscles, they are so this is what he got from the god. >> reporter: so where is this hercules? you won't believe. here at beaufort high school in beaufort, south carolina, 15- year-old c.j. cummings looks like just another kid. in fact, everyone thought he was just another kid, until three years ago, when he walked into his first national men's tournament. >> they thought i was just like a spectator. >> reporter: they thought you were a spectator?
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>> reporter: how well did you do? >> i got second. >> reporter: you got second!? >> yes. >> reporter: at the age of 12. since then he's been dubbed the lebron james of u.s. weightlifting, but even that may be selling him short. last august this 5'4", 150-pound kid attempted the unimaginable. this is 385 pounds? >> yes. >> reporter: picture a kitchen stove on each end of that bar. >> okay. that's good. >> reporter: no american in his weight class had ever done that much in the clean and jerk. that's astounding. at least not until c.j. came along. [cheering] an american men's record set by a boy. after this lift, his personal coach, ray jones, says a lot of people didn't believe the report. i can understand that because if i wasn't, there i don't know if i'd believe it. >> reporter: to that end, a
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medicine set up a bunch of cameras and censors to try to figure out how c.j. is doing this, but thye found nothing special in his technique, proving that c.j. was either sent her directly from the planet krypton or he's just plain strong. and get this: coaches say he's still at least ten years away from reaching his full potential, probably another four until his first olympics. until then he'll be busy inspiring young weight lifters across the country. >> that's what i'm talking about. >> reporter: and exercising a great deal of patience. >> i just want to take it as far as i can go, hopefully get a gold medal for the u.s. >> reporter: have you thought about a wheaties box? >> huh? >> reporter: a wheaties box? >> what's that? >> reporter: what's a wheaties box? >> yeah. >> reporter: i told you he was young. steve hartman, "on the road." >> rose: superman indeed, one part heart, and one part muscle. scott pelley will be back on monday.
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thanks for joining us. see you next week on "cbs this morning." good night.
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