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do another attack. >> police discover 13 bombs as investigators look for ties to terrorism, we see the faces of the victims and hear the stories of survivors. >> i saw my colleagues running around, screaming, crying. >> and what do we tell our children? >> you just want to like be the mother hen and put them in your laps and hold them forever and hope that they're safe. this is the "cbs overnight news." it's hard to imagine the massacre in san bernardino could have been any worse, but yesterday the police revealed that the husband and wife murder team brought this bomb to that social services building. it was rigged to a remote control toy car to act as a wireless trigger. police say they also found this bag of pipe bombs in the
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of ammunition. syed farook and his wife opened fire on farook's coworkers, county department of health employees, at a holiday office party. 14 were killed. among them, daniel kaufman, who ran a coffee shop in the building. nicholas thalasinos was remembered for his compassion, and michael wetzel leaves behind six children. 19 were wounded plus two law enforcement officers who were hurt in the shootout with the suspects. we have extensive coverage from a team of correspondents, and first we'll go to carter evans in san bernardino. carter? >> reporter: scott, the fbi has flown in a special team from washington to reenact and reconstruct the crime scene. they're also going to be analyzing digital evidence to try and get a better understanding of why this married couple opened fire on a crowd of innocent people.
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>> oh, my gosh. >> reporter: the rampage ended on a residential street in a hail of gunfire. [ sirens blaring ] when it was over, the two suspects were dead. police say the couple left behind an arsenal of weapons, 6,700 bullets inside their home along with 12 pipe bombs and enough materials and tools to build several more, according to san bernardino police chief jarrod burguan. chief, do you believe they were planning another attack? >> we don't know. clearly they were equipped and they could have continued to do another attack. we intercepted them before that happened. >> reporter: but police say syed farook and his wife tashfeen malik parked a rented black ford expedition at 11:00 a.m. in the parking lot behind the south building of the inland regional center. they walked through unlocked doors, directly into the room where the holiday party was underway. investigators say the two were
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clothing armed with semiautomatic rifles. >> when they entered, fired somewhere between 65 and 75 rounds from their rifles at the scene. >> reporter: did they appear to be targeting anyone in particular? >> they sprayed the room with bullets. i don't know there was any one person they ultimately targeted. >> reporter: but sources tell cbs news health department managers were the first ones shot. the couple left behind three pipe bombs tied together and connected to a remote control car. police believe it malfunctioned. there was no explosion. witnesses who worked with farook told police he attended the party but left early. >> where that came from was another person that was in the building that knew him that identified him by name expressed some concern over his behavior prior to the event. >> reporter: police put his home under surveillance and gave chase when they spotted the black suv. cell phone video captured the gunfire that erupted. >> holy [bleep]. >> reporter: the couple fired at
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total of 23 officers returned fire with 380 rounds, killing farook and his wife. inside the suv, officers found two ar-15 semiautomatic rifles and two nine millimeter pistols along with 1,600 rounds. now initially, police thought a third suspect might still be on the loose, but, scott, today they are confident there is no remaining threat at this time. >> carter evans, thanks. so what was the motive? our chief legal correspondent jan crawford is following that part of the investigation. jan? >> reporter: well, scott, the fbi won't call this a terrorist attack yet, but it is leading the investigation because the case has some hallmarks of terrorism. officials stress they still don't know the motive. officials tell cbs news syed farook was not on any u.s. watch list, but two law enforcement sources say they have found evidence farook had contact with a person in the u.s. and people overseas with suspected ties to terrorism. investigators are focusing on
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whether farook may have been influenced or possibly radicalized. law enforcement sources tell cbs news what they do know so far: farook, a u.s. citizen, born in chicago to pakistani immigrants, graduated from california state san bernardino in 2010. he went to work for the local health department and then turned to online dating sites in search of a wife. he found tashfeen malik. they met and became engaged in 2013 when farook made a trip to saudi arabia during the annual muslim pilgrimage known as the hajj. farook returned to saudi arabia in july 2014 to bring her to the u.s., and earlier this year, the couple had a baby. the court documents reveal other parts of farook's family life were turbulent. in november 2014, farook's father threatened suicide in front of farook and his brother. last february farook's mother took out a restraining order against his father, saying he
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all this is now being looked at by the fbi, which seized computers, thumb drives and other electronic devices and shipped them to washington for now farook's wife did pass counterterrorism screening as part of her visa application process. but scott, until law enforcement determines the true motive in this attack, whether it's terrorism or workplace violence, it's not clear if warning signs were actually missed. >> jan, thank you. ten victims remain in two hospitals. two of them are in critical condition. john blackstone spoke with some of the families. >> reporter: jennifer stevens, 2 2, who graduated this summer, and took a job with the san bernardino county health department. >> it's devastating. >> reporter: lisa stevens is jennifer's mother, who got the kind of phone call every parent dreads. >> she said, mommy, i've been shot and they took the phone from her.
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she texted me, i'm okay. in the side. when her mother came to visit -- >> she said i saw people die. >> reporter: also among the wounded, a health inspector with san bernardino county. she was shot at least twice after arriving at that holiday party, to be honored as employee of the year. nicholas thalasinos did not survive. tonight he leaves behind a widow, jennifer. a schoolteacher. >> he was so kind to everybody. just my whole life has been basically turned upside down. he just had an enormous heart. >> reporter: nicholas thalasinos occasionally posted views on social media critical of islam, but his wife says she had no idea syed farook ever saw those postings. >> john, thank you. almost sixty million americans are affected by mental illness. together we can help them with three simple words. my name is chris noth
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united states on a visa specifically for fiances. norah o'donnell, co-host of "cbs this morning," spoke to the lead investigators in san bernardino. norah? >> reporter: scott, she was the most unlikely accomplice, a 27- year-old mother with an infant at home, and now involved in one of the deadliest mass shootings. authorities say tashfeen malik was clad entirely in black tactical gear. her face was obscured by a ski mask. along with her husband, syed farook, they fired 65 to 75 rounds in the inland regional center before fleeing in a black suv. once the car was surrounded, police chief jarrod burguan says she fired out of the back, taking aim at law enforcement. what do you know about her? was she shooting as much as she was? >> she was engaged in a gun battle with our police officers, and there were two shooters at the scene, so, yes, she fired
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>> reporter: she fired rounds? >> how many she fired versus him, i don't know. she fired at our officers, i know that for sure. >> there's one guy down. there's one guy in the back of a car. >> reporter: i can't get my head around the fact that a 27-year-old mother of a 6-month-old is firing off as many rounds like she is. >> i think the entire event doesn't make a whole lot of sense to be honest with you, and it's kind of hard to wrap your head around why anybody would do anything like this regardless of who they are. >> reporter: authorities know little about tashfeen malik. she was not an american citizen but was here on a k1 visa according to fbi special agent david bowdich. >> she was here on a pakistani passport. >> reporter: she's here on pakistani passport? >> correct. >> reporter: isn't it highly unusual to have a mother of a 6-month-old, engaged in a shootout? >> i would think it's unusual. >> reporter: scott, police say she had no criminal record and was not on any terrorist watch
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>> norah o'donnell, thanks. now, with some insight into all of this, we turn to michael morrell, former number two at the cia and our senior security contributor. michael, we now know that farook went to saudi arabia twice, went to pakistan once, was in communications with people that the fbi was watching for being islamic extremists. >> right. >> what does that add up to? >> what it adds up to me is this was a guy who was probably radicalized by either isis or al qaeda, a guy, given the amount of weapons and explosives that he had, that he was planning something significant. >> something bigger than what we actually saw? >> perhaps. perhaps. he obviously didn't take all of what he had. so either it was going to be a series of events or he was planning something bigger and this took its place because of the office anger that he had. >> a dozen pipe bombs left behind in his home. >> exactly. >> does it matter anymore whether these things are
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directed by extremists? >> scott, i think it matters a lot. when it's just inspired, you're usually talking about one or two people and the number of casualties is limited. it's a relatively small number. when it's directed, you have the potential for much more. when it's directed, you have the potential for multiple operatives, simultaneous attacks, killing much, much larger number of people, like paris. >> just like paris. michael morrell, former number two at the cia. michael, thanks as always. was farook radicalized? our david begnaud spoke with a coworker who narrowly missed the shooting. >> reporter: a san bernardino health worker christian nwadike says he and four other men were in the restroom when first shots were fired. >> so when the blast came in, i lost every feeling. i thought, this might be life or death. >> reporter: you thought you
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>> yes. strongly. >> reporter: how long did you lie on the floor? >> i would say ten minutes. >> reporter: what could you hear as you were lying on the floor? >> there were cries. there were shots. >> reporter: nwadike, who is originally from nigeria, sat in a cubicle next to syed farook for five years. >> when he came back from saudi arabia, he started growing beard. that was the change. >> reporter: do you believe he was radicalized? >> yes. >> reporter: was he ever violent? >> no. >> reporter: was he ever rude? >> never. >> reporter: was he talkative? >> he rarely talks. >> reporter: do you feel like you missed something about his personality? >> i couldn't believe it. that's what i'm missing. there's no way i can look at him and see him attached to this. but it happened and it was him. >> reporter: mr. nwadike says his coworker turned mass shooter who lived just down the street behind me in an apartment was
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baby girl. scott, some of the coworkers who had to dodge the shooters' bullets actually helped to raise money for the shooter and his wife just six months ago to congratulate them on the birth of their baby girl. >> david begnaud reporting. david, thank you. muslims were quick to denounce the massacre. we spoke today with hussam ayloush, the executive director of the consul of american- islamic relations in los angeles. >> as soon as we heard the suspect might be of muslim background, we started witnessing the anti-muslim sentiment and rhetoric. threats. we felt it was important for our fellow americans to know where we stand. we stand together in condemning unequivocally such behavior. coming next, norah o'donnell with a survivor. >> after the 12th body, i
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>> and later, elaine quijano on
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...now in a dry antiperspirant spray. back now with norah o'donnell, co-host of "cbs this morning," who has a compelling interview with one of those who survived. norah? >> reporter: scott, timmy hilliard is a social worker at the inland regional center, and he was in his office on the third floor when the shooting
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as police moved in, hilliard took out his phone and started recording. >> i got a text from a colleague stating there was an active shooter. i opened my door, went in the hallway and saw my colleagues running around, screaming, crying. >> reporter: you had a bird's-eye view of the entrance and the exit that the shooters went in. >> correct. >> reporter: what did you see first? >> at first what i saw was a s.w.a.t. team coming into the back door, about five or six, looking for an active shooter. in the back there was a gentleman, deceased on the bench i assume, as well as a female about ten to 15 feet away laying in a pool of blood deceased, as well. >> reporter: you think they were trying to flee and then were shot when they were trying to flee? >> correct. the female i assume, given her positioning and the way she was with her back to the billing, she was fleeing. >> reporter: i think the most disturbing thing is to see them bringing some of the bodies out. how were they doing that?
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they could, arms, feet, they had them in chairs, just trying to get them out of harm's way and seeing if they were critical and/or deceased and just trying to clear out as much as they could. >> reporter: when did you realize how grave this situation was? >> probably about the sixth body coming out, just seeing the effect of it all. at first i saw the two bodies, okay, two bodies, saying "it's not bad, but it's two bodies, may not be that bad." by the 12th body i stopped counting. >> reporter: you saw 12 bodies? >> at least. >> reporter: when you hear this is now the worst mass shooting since sandy hook, what do you think? >> it's intense. you don't realize what it is until you get out of the situation. >> reporter: what lessons will you take from this? >> so many. don't take anything for granted. i mean, i have a 2 1/2-year-old daughter. sorry. i thought about her. >> reporter: you thought about your daughter? >> yeah. >> reporter: hilliard and other survivors were taken to a church
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building, where they were able to reunite with colleagues and loved ones. and, scott, hilliard says he can't wait to spend more time with his daughter. >> norah o'donnell, thanks. there's other important news tonight, including an historic
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next. in minneapolis this morning, police and firefighters tore down a protest encampment outside a police station. the protesters had been there almost three weeks. later in the day, they demonstrated at city hall over the fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer. at issue is whether the suspect was handcuffed when he was shot. the u.s. military is looking for
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today, defense secretary ash carter ordered the armed forces to open all combat jobs to women. he said any woman who meets the standard should be allowed to serve on the frontlines and in special forces. all branches have until january 1st to submit plans for the historic change. a south african appeals court today found oscar pistorius guilty of murder. throwing out his conviction on the lesser charge of manslaughter. pistorius, the olympic athlete known as "the blade runner," shot and killed his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp. he served just a year on his original conviction. he could face 15 when he's resentenced next year. in a moment, explaining violence to children when we struggle to understand it ourselves. woman: what does it feel like when a woman is having a heart attack? chest pain, like there's a ton of weight on your chest. severe shortness of breath. unexplained nausea.
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there's an unusual tiredness and fatigue. there's unfamiliar dizziness or light-headedness. unusual pain in your back, neck, jaw, one or both arms, even your upper stomach, are signs you're having a heart attack. don't make excuses. make the call to 9-1-1 immediately. learn more at womenshealth.gov/heartattack. while i was on a combat patrol in baqubah, iraq, a rocket-propelled grenade took my arm off at the shoulder. i was discharged from the army, and i've been working with the wounded warrior project since 2007. warriors, you don't have to be severely wounded to be with the wounded warrior project. we do have a lot of guys that have post-traumatic stress disorder. being able to share your story, i guess it kind of helps you wrap your mind around what did happen over there. my name is norbie, and yes, i do suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder,
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we end tonight with a question that parents are asking -- what do we tell our children about the steady stream of violence that we feel powerless to stop? innocent boys and girls, who trust us to keep them safe. here's elaine quijano. >> reporter: like many parents, sharon marcus is worried about how to talk to her six and seven-year old daughters about yet another mass shooting. >> i'm put in this position of having to always know the right thing to say, and it's so much pressure. but i just try to do my best. >> reporter: in the last month alone, dozens have been killed in places most consider safe. at a concert, a cafe, an office holiday party. we watched a father in paris try to calm his young son's fears
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telling him about the goodness of flowers. >> reporter: but many parents are struggling to explain this emerging new reality to their children. child psychiatrist harold koplewicz. >> i think it's perfectly normal to want to shield our kids from grief and from pain, and so while it's counterintuitive, i think it's very important that parents take the lead in breaking the news when something bad happens to their kids. >> reporter: koplewicz advises parents to reassure their children that they are safe and loved, explain that violent events are rare, and calmly review safety plans. when bad things happen, sharon marcus and her husband david choose to emphasize the good. >> i can't stop living and i can't stop enjoying my life, and i have to give my children a childhood where they can go to the park and not be worried
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you now, we stay smart, but we have to go on and live. >> reporter: something that seems to work with kids. elaine quijano, cbs news, new york. that's the "overnight news" for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us a little bit later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm scott pelley. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com captioning funded by cbs
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it's friday, december 4th, 2015. this is the "cbs morning news." a stockpile of guns, ammunition, and explosives discovered in the home of the california shooting suspects. this morning, questions remain about the shooters' motives and how they obtained weapons, while families of those lost in the attack start to grieve. a seismic shift for the military. pentagon announces it's opening all combat jobs to women. and call it the motor city miracle. the green bay packers stun the detroit lions and their fans on the last play of "thursday night football"! >> richard rodgers! good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you.
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federal investigators are still trying to figure out what prompted the mass shooting in california that left 14 people dead. gunman syed farook had been in contact with islamic extremists on social media. farook and his wife had an army of weapons and explosives. the pipe bombs police discovered at the scene and at their home resembled the design available of al qaeda's magazine "inspire." but officials say as of yet, there is no official link to terrorism. chris martinez is in san bernardino. chris, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. european diplomatic source is telling us this morning, it appears this couple may have been trained somewhere in the use of firearms and explosives before plotting to pull off this massacre. still, this morning, police here say there is no clear motive.
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candlelight and prayer vigil last night to remember those who were killed in san bernardino, the investigators are wondering how farook and malik could conduct such a mass murder. >> we are so much in shock. >> this lady and her husband were related to the suspects who died in a shoot-out with police. >> i can never imagine my brother or my sister-in-law doing something like this. that's because they were happily married and had a beautiful 6-month-old daughter. >> reporter: investigators say farook traveled to saudi arabia and pakistan last year and came to the u.s. with malik on a visa. while they were not on a watch list, farook had been in contact with people both in the u.s. and overseas with possible ties to terrorism. >> when it adds up to me was this was a guy who was probably radicalized by either isis or al qaeda. >> reporter: officials recovered thousands of bullets and more than a dozen pipe bombs inside
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cbs news has learned those devices remain from christmas tree lights and radio-controlled toys. >> clear, they were equipped and they could have continued to do another attack. we intercepted them before that happened. >> reporter: authorities are now searching for the person they say legally bought two military-style rifles used in the massacre. regarding those bombs, those ones that were very similar to the explosives found in that al qaeda magazine, police are telling us this morning that four of them that they found in the house were totally, completely made, ready to go and they had well more than a dozen others that were in some state of construction at that point. be live in san bernardino, california, i'm chris martinez. anne-marie, back to you. >> chris, thank you very much. it appears at least one of the 14 victims killed in the shooting had a contentious relationship with syed farook. nicholas thalasinos was a jew and is being remembered as a passionate debater of religion. he was a restaurant inspector
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a friend of thalasinos said the two had a heated discussion about islam while on the job just a few weeks ago. she tells the associated press that thalasinos called her during that argument and doesn't agree that islam is not a peaceful religion. jennifer thalasinos says her husband was defined by his religion. >> i knew my husband would go down fighting, so i figured for him, he would have gone down fighting and he just had, like, the biggest faith and i feel he was martyred. >> it's not clear if the religious debate was a factor in the attacks. nicholas thalasinos was one of 14 victims identified in california by county officials on thursday. danielle nottingham is with a look at some of lives lost. >> reporter: they range from age from 20 to 60 years old. they included a woman planning her wedding.
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a woman who escaped oppression in her native country. their common bond, they all worked in the same office at syed farook. a christian, she escaped >> bennett bad -- bet-baddal escaped persecution and leaves behind three children. they say she had just decorated the family's christmas tree. 31-year-old tin nguyen is known as the glue for her family. relatives say she was supposed to get married in 2017. amazing grace how sweet the sound >> reporter: students at notre dame high school in riverside, california, prayed for a member of their community. damien meins graduated from the school in 1975, but was well known to current students and staff. >> this part of the chain gang, him and some other alum would come to every football game. they were so proud of our boys, especially this year, we were
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of our community. so proud of being an alum of notre dame high school. >> reporter: yvette velasco's relatives frantically searched for her in the hours after wednesday's shooting. the 27-year-old family said she was loved by all who knew her. michael wetzel and his wife had five children from previous marriages and one together. their church is working to raise >> can anyone good come from san what do you say? i say yes! >> reporter: at a vigil last night in san bernardino, all of the victims were remembered. >> this tragedy will not paralyze us and keep us from moving forward. or growing closer together together. >> reporter: the youngest victim 26-year-old aurora godoy leaves behind an infant son. the oldest isaac amanios leaves behind a wife and three
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his cousin, new york giants player nat burhay tweeted to followers to think of the families who were hurting from the shooting. danielle nottingham, cbs news, san bernardino, california. >> we have much more about the victims and their stories on our website cbsnews.com. the san bernardino attack lasted about five minutes. but for the survivors, the memories will last a lifetime. many like chris dickey was sitting at a table five feet from syed farook but left to use the bathroom before the shooting started. >> there was no way that i can look at him and see him attached to this. until it happened and it was him. >> a law enforcement source says there are indications the suspect shot management personnel first. once again, the senate defeated a measure calling for
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gun purchases. the vote was 40-58. the proposal would have required background checks for all online purchases and those at gun shows. before the vote, president obama said it's too easy in america to buy guns. >> it's going to be important for all of us, including our legislatures, to see what we can do to make sure that when individuals decide that they want to do somebody harm, we are making it a little harder for them to do it, because, right now, it's just too easy. >> the senate rejected the same proposal two years ago. the san bernardino shooting and terrorism is dominating the talk on the presidential campaign trail. don champion is here in new york with more on that. good morning, don. >> reporter: good morning. the shooting has turned the heat up on debates over gun control, terrorism, and how the united states should respond to isis. as we reported, authorities still are not certain wednesday's shooting was an act of terrorism, but candidates
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it as such. >> i am convinced that was a terrorist attack. the president continues to wring his hands and say, we'll see. but those folks dressed in tactical gear with semiautomatic weapons came there to do something. >> all of us are deeply concerned that this is yet another manifestation of terrorism, radical islamic terrorism here at home. >> it's becoming clearer that we are dealing with an act of terrorism. >> reporter: now on thursday, donald trump was pushed to defend comments he made this week in which he said he would, quote, take out families of suspected terrorists. >> you said supposedly you would take out families. what does that mean? >> bill, bill. do you think the wives and the families knew exactly what was
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11th? >> i don't. >> i do and i know they did. i think they did. and a take -- what israeli was doing for a period of time, take out means that you have to wipe out their homes where they came from. you have to absolutely wipe them out. it's the only way you're going to stop terrorism. >> reporter: an executive from the council on american islamic relations condemned trump's comments, saying they could lead to hate crimes and violence towards muslims. >> don champion here in new york, thank you, don. coming up on "cbs this morning," we, of course, will have the latest on the california shooting tragedy. coming up on the "morning news." occupy city hall. black lives matter protesters continue their fight after police try to break up their encampment. rock 'n' roll shocker, when an alternative rock star is found dead. this is the "cbs morning news."
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the fire broke out uderneath one of the jet's wings, but the aircraft was not damaged and no one was hurt. on the cbs "moneywatch," the fed weighs in ahead of today's jobs report. and facebook ceo denies tax dodging. jill wagner is at the new york stock exchange with that and more. good morning, jill. >> good morning. a modest stimulus plan from the european central bank sent stocks sharply lower yesterday. the dow lost 252 points. the s&p lost nearly 30. and it's back in the red for the year. the nasdaq fell 85 points. it's expected today's unemployment report will show the economy added 200,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate remains at 5%. fed chair janet yellen told congress that a interest rate hike is likely when with the fed
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even after that first increase in over nine years rates will remain at low enough levels to encourage borrowing. facebook chief mark zuckerberg will not get any tax break by setting up his philanthropic endeavor. zuckerberg and his wife announced they will be donating most of their facebook stock to the llc, but when the shares are sold, they will take capital gain taxes just like everybody else. >> everyone can calm down. no good deed goes uncriticized. geez. jill wagner at the new york stock exchange, thanks a lot, jill. british rock band coldplay will headline the upcoming super bowl halftime show and might be joined on stage by past performers. coldplay's performance will mix the band's hits with popular songs from its latest album due out today. you can watch the super bowl on february 7th right here on cbs. up next, the "thursday night football" thriller. the packers get their prayers
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here's a look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. our fellow americans, whose hearts are heavy tonight, who grieve for loved ones, especially in san bernardino, california, their loss is our loss too, for we are all one american family. we look out for each other, in good times and in bad. >> last night, president obama remembered those who died in san bernardino. moments earlier, he and his family lit the national christmas tree. it was cbs' final "thursday night football" game of the season and what a way to go out. be
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bay throughout the game and despite a late rally, the packers trailed by two points on what appears to be the last play of the game, green bay's aaron rodgers draws a 15-yard penalty and giving the packers one last shot. >> rodgers in trouble. >> it's going to get there. >> he turned 32 yesterday. does he have a vintage moment in him? in the end zone, it is caught for the win! >> richard rodgers comes down with the hail mary pass to give the packers a 27-23 win. the packers snap out of a slump after losing four of five games. >> this one, obviously, ranks up there as one of the greatest joys on the field that we have had together as a team and personally. >> but, of course, it's a bitter loss for the lions who squandered a 20-point lead. coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning,"
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recapping our top story now. investigators are trying to determine if the attack on a california social services center was terrorism. the alleged shooters, syed farook and his wife, killed 14 people and wounded 21 others. syed farook had been in contact with known islamic extremists on social media. the pipe bombs they assembled are similar to designs from the al qaeda magazine "inspire." but the fbi says, so far, there is no official link to terrorism. four guns, two automatic rifles and two handguns, were bought legally and they had enough ammunition so slaughter hundreds over 4,500 rounds. mike madden was one of the first officers on the scene and he says the carnage was unspeakable. >> i tell you, it was something, although we train for it, it's something you're never actually prepared for. it was immediately evident that
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were 100% true. as we entered into the conference room, the situation was surreal. it was something that i don't think -- again, we prepare for and they try to -- an active shooter, we talk about sensory overload, they try to throw everything at you to prepare you for dealing with that. what you're seeing, what you're hearing, what you're smelling, and it was all of that and more. it was unspeakable the carnage that we were seeing, the number of people who were injured and, unfortunately, already dead. and the pure panic on the face of those individuals that were still in need and needing to be safe. the initial 50 people did not want to come to us. they were fearful and they were in the back hallway area and that actually heightened my concern that -- and my fear that
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that hallway holding them hostage and waiting us for to enter into the hallway. we had to tell them several times, come to us, come to us. and ultimately they did and once that first person took the motions forward, it opened the flood gates and everybody wanted to come and get away from that as quickly as possible. so, you know, we can't panic in those situations. these people have already dealt with enough. the last thing they need to see is their police officers panicking. then we went further into the building and that was a difficult choice to have to make as well, passing people that we knew were injured and needing assistance, but our goal at that time had to be trying to locate the shooters and deal with them. there's so many families, as we go into these holiday seasons, that are now going to have to
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left behind by this senseless acts of violence, so that is a little tough to deal with. coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," more on the san bernardino shooting. plus, president obama talks with norah o'donnell about climate change.
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