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an act of hero wichl, a lot bigger than anything we should expect from a 15-year-old. 2k3wr5e9er love hath no man than this, than a man who lays down his life for his friends. >> there hars been an aest in the death of xavion dobson. we'll be right back. almost 60 million americans are affected by mental illness. together we can help them with three simple words. i will listen. from maine to maui, thousands of high school students across the country are getting in on the action by volunteering in their communities. chris young: action teams of high school students are joining voluntntrs of america and major league baseball players to help train and inspire the next generation of volunteers. carlos pea: it's easy to start an action team at your school so you, too, can get in on the action.
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it's the dawning of the age of aquarius. yeah, and something else that's cool. what osteoporosis is preventable. all: osteo's preventable? right on! if you dig your bones, protect them. all: cbs cares! there's also been an arrest in the shooting death of a college student in den ton, texas, in what m m been an act of road rage. the suspect is a marine corporal, eric johnson, arrested today in yuma, arizona. he's accused of gning down a 20-year-old early newew year's'say as she drove with friends home from a party. in another big story today, floodwaters are reseeding along some parts of the mississippi, but rising in others. tonight, 23 illinois counties
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areas. >> this is where the mississippi river is p pring into one of the poorest counties in the state of illinois -- alexander county. i'm standing on a small levee which failed four days ago, andd now that breach is nearly a mile wide. more than 125 properties in alexander county have been flooded. vid willis owns three of them. the mississippi river is at his front door. >> looks like you built this in the middle of a lake. willis w w one of the people in a flood zone who accepted a state buyout and agreed to leave. when did they offer you the buyout? >> right after the floodwater wentdown. >> reporter: in 2011? >> yes. >> reporter: and you took it? >> yes. >> reporter: and you haven't gotten the money? >> nope. >> reporter: he had the money to move away and have the state reimburse him.
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>> i told my wife, we can't afford to move. you can't just up and move like that. >> reporter: johnson says he doesn't have&the money to start over. the median income in alexander county is $27,000 per year, less than half of the state's median income. as for david willis, whether or p not heets his money, he's made up his mind. do you think you'll ever come back? >> nope. >> reporter: because of that? >> because of that. >> reporter: that's the levee that was breached because of floodwatat that started f fther nonoh and killed 25 peopop in illinois and missouri. it may be two years before this breach is repaired. it could be two weeks before the flooded areas are dry. but the good news is the watat is reseeding,g, bahhing into the mississippi river, which is above flood stage from here to louisiana. >> thanan. the warming pacific current known as el nino is powering
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>> here's ben tracy. >> reporter: the rain came downn hard, up to an incnc an hour, snarling roadways and covering part of the 101 freeway in mud. this mini cooper was no match for the mega rain. the e iver jumped to higher ground. people living in areas charred by wildfires were encouraged to evacuate. steel netting had beennstalled to catch large debris. hal hyman liveses belolo the mountains and decided to leave. >> at nighttime, i don't want to go to sleep wondering if the debris is going to come down again. >> bill passert is a kiemtologist. >> the fact of the matter is we need all of this rain. >> this is going to bebe fantastic affect on drought. we can anticipate anywhere from four to six inches of rain here in los angeles, which is normally double what we get in
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>> the l.a. river is rushing tonight, sending billions of ocean. the good news is that is what prevents losngeles from there is more rain in the forecast expected to h h southern california tomorrow. >> ben tracy reporting this weekend, thank you. >> today in afghanistan, one u.s. service member was killed, two o oers were wounded in n a fierce battle neaea the southern city of marja. the taliban had been advancing. american special operations forces are supporting the afghan military. in the race for the next commander-in-chief, ronald reagan once said the 11th commandment is tthou shall not speak ill of the another republican. he wouldn't recognize the melee just four weeks before iowa. here's major garret. >> reporter: this ad from a super pac backing ted cruz mocked marco rub's foreign policy toughness. >> i know i have a debate, but i
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football thing right. >> reporter: sananrum ridiculed rubio for filibusters. >> if you want to defeat isis, rick santorum is your president. >> reporter: the super pac branded chris christie an out of step liberal. >> chris christie, liberal energy-loving, obama care medicaid expanding president is enough. >> rubio and crurusell themselves as positive candidates who don't attack their opponents, leaving that job to their million dollar funded super pacs. the super pacs are supposed to operate independently from the campaigns, although rubio today says he does support his group's message. >> these are serious policies. >> supup pac ads don't necessarily tip the scale. the group backing jeb bush spent
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bush's poll numbers tumble, leaving bush to scramble for attentntn on live tv. today, vowing he's been tougher than anyone on donald trump. >> i tjnk that's my job. you ve to take on the bully head on and that's what i'm doing. >> christie told "the washington post" that rubio can't slime his way y the white house. those attacks came from a super pac and not rubio himself was a distinction lost on christie, as it may very well be for voters. >> major garret on the muddy campaign til. thanks very much. in new york, in the democratic race, bernieie sanders took aim today at front-runner hallry clinton over her ties to wall street. he said wall street's greed is destroying the fabric of the nation. >> and here is a new year's resolution that i will keep if elected president and that is,
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greed, we will end it for them. >> sanders also vowed to break up the country's biggest financial firms. a dom tear leads t ta campaign release a convicted murderer. and a ceremony at west point marks a milestone for women. we'll be right back. york apartment, but the rent is outrageous. gogo thing geico offers affordable renters insurance. with great coverage it protects my personal belongings should they get damaged, stolen or destroyed. [doorbell] uh, excuse me. delivery. hey. lo mein, szechwan chicken, chopsticks, soy sauce and you got some fortune cookies. have a good one. ah, these small new york apartments... protect your belongings. let geico help you with renters insurance. hey buddy, let's get these dayquil liquid gels and go. but these liquid gels are new. mucinex fast max. it's the same differencece ththe are multi-symptom. well so are these. this one is max strength and fights mucus.
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a new documentary has turned viewers into amateur detectives, and many are going to bat for a man serving life for murder. dean reynolds has this. >> reporter: thanks to a show on netflix, the website changerg has a big hit on its hands. >> we have stephen avery in custody. >> reporter: in less than a month, more than 250,000 people around the world have gned a petition on the site, demding ustice for a man in prisonnor life and featured in a netflfl documentarar mike jones is with change.org. >> for it to go from a few thousand signatures to upwards of 250,000 signers is phenomenal. really shows that this pe
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conversation. >> i didn't know how to handle it. >> reporter: it's all due to this series, "making a murderer" launched last monthhich tellsls the ststy of stephen avery.. he's the wisconsin man who seed 18 years in prison b bore being exonerated, only to find himself in prison again on a murder conviction in 2007. since its debut, millions of viewers have spent hours binge watching it and discussing the case in online chat rooms. many viewers concluded avery was framed by authorities who lied and planted evidence" ken kratz who prosecuted avery and is now receiving death threats says the series is misleading. >> stephen avery is right where he needs to be. that's in prison for the rest of
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>> reporter: avery's lawyer dean strang says the reaction to the series has included useful information fullback the defense. >> we can't afford not to at least sift and consider something that might be useful to one human being who right now is facing a slow death in prison. >> reporter: here in wisconsin, governor scott walker has the power to pardon someone, t during two terms in office, he has never used it. and scott, his aids say he cannot going to change that strategy now. >> dean reynolds, thank you very much. the justice department t tes action after a cbs news
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that's next. we have an update tonight on our investigation of a compounding pharmacy outside dallas which mixes custom drugs. last year, jim axelrod and producer emily rand discovered downing labs sent people millions of dollars in medications they did not order. the lab was also investigated for unsanitary conditions. well, yesterday the department of justice filed an injunction that forces downing to stop mixing drugs until an outside expert inspects the facility. in a first for the u.s. military academy, today brigadier general dianene holland was sworn in as commandant of cadets. she's a 1990 graduate of west point and served in iraq and afghanistan.
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>> ron clark, a former teacher of the year founded the ron clark academy in 200. it's a private nonprofit middle school, part hogwarts, part harvard. learningomes to life at warp speed here for kids who are academically diverse and often lower income. the viral video stars include seventh grader jaden lindndy. >> the m msage to get outut there was to say that we can do fun things while learning at the same time. >> repepter: every student but one in the school's history has gone on to college. >> it's very indescribable the amount of love that is shown from the teachers towards us, and it really motivates us to pupu ourselves, be great academically and just be amazing citizens. >> reporter: is there a message in the video? >> i think the message in this video is something about who we are. at the ron clark academy, we're all about relationships with kids, building bonds and showing kids that you care, because when
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them where they are, and you're willing to work with them at their culture and ininract with them in a pososive way, they're going to respect you more and work harder. >> reporter: by breaking the mold, ron clark and his kids keep busting the right moves. cbs news, atlanta. and that's the overnight news this wednesday. for somef you, the news continues. for others, check back with us just a little bit laterer for the morning news. and, of course, cbs this morning.
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york city, i'm scott pelley. >> welcome to the overnight news. the%latest political battle over gun control have both sides of the issusu locked and loaded. an emotional president obama announced his new executive actions in the east room of the white house surrounded by family members of those killed in gun violence. but on capitol hill, republican leaders s e promising a court fight and vow to undo the president's actions if and when they retake the white house. jan crawford reports. >> and from every familyyho
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one would be taken from our lives by a bullet from a gun. >> reporter: it was an emotional appeal. >> we maybe can't save everybody, but we can save some. >> reporter: andnd political caca to action. >> so the gun lobby may be holding congress hostage right now, but they cannot hold america hostage. we do not have to accept this is the price of security. >> reporter: the president called the actions common sense steps that respected the second amendment, and he expressed solidarity with the people who surrounded him at the white house -- a father whoho lost a a 7-year-old, the daughters of the pastor at a charleston church, and a congresswoman nearly killed after being shot in the head. a. >> the right to worship freely andsafely, that right was denied to christians in charleston, south carolina.
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and that was denied muslims in chapelelill and seikhs in oak creek. they had rights, too. >> the directives focused largely on background checks including, requiring all gun dealer, even those who sell fire armts at gun shows and the internet to be licensed and conduct background checks. improve the current system to hire more to make background checks more efficient and eeffective. although the issue of stricter gun laws remains highly divisive, 92% of americans support background checks. but the president in the wake of the sandy hook shootings failed to get legislation through congress that would have expanded them. today, he says he wants voters to kick ardent gun rights supporters out of office.
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the reason congress blocks laws elections. and if you make it hard for them to win an election, ifhey block those laws, they'll change course, i promise you. >> now the president could face constitutional challenges that these actions exceed his presidential authority. but the nra in a statement indicad today that it may hold off, saying the actions don't and are simply political theatre. jan crawford, cbs news, the white house. the president's new gun control initittives are all the talk on the campaign trail. hillary clinton called the executive actions a crucial step forward on gun violence. but republican ted cruz says they aren't worth the paper they're written on. major garret is in manchester, new hampshire, where five republican candidates spent the day stumping for votes. >> the battle for the republican nononation has reached a crucial and long anticipated turning point. the candidates are now turning
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meanwhile, bill clinton tried to deflect some of donald trump's tougher rhrhoric, telling voters here, he's just a happy grandfather who isn't angry at anyone. >> i do not believe in my lifetime anyone has run for this job at a moment of great importance who was better qualified by knowledge, experience and temperament to do what needs to o done now. >> reporter: in new hampshire, on political ground, theclinton family made his first ssolo trip on his wififs behalf. the former president picked up with voters where he left off from hillary's 2008 primary victory in the granite state.
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>> meanwhile in iowa, the candidate herself hillary clinton continued her campaign, turning over a new trumpian leaf. >> i'm going to let him live in his alternative reality and i'm not going to respond. >> donald trump was battling his rivals, needling ted cruz for copying his immigration plans. . >> he says we're going to build a wall. here's a good thing. he's a politician so he wouldn't know where to start. i know how to build a wall. >> don't engage in the mud slinging, don't engage in the games. >> rubio's action took on chris christie, a threat to rubio now in new hampshire. >> one high tax common core liberal energy l ling obama care medicaid expanding president is enough. >> reporter: trump took heat for showing border crosses in morocco in his ad discussing illegal immigration in america. >> that was just video footage. it's just a display of what our
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we're like a third world country. we're a dumping ground. >> reporter: republicans battling the trump campaign said video gaffe is going to tarnish trump or his tv ad. details for trump supporters they said is much less important than an overall message o o strereth in the face off perceived danger. one other thing, about the trump ad, it doesn't attack any republicans, only the president and hillary clinton. >> it turns out the militiamen occupying a refugee office in oregon didn't come prepared nor a long siege. it started out as a protest against the arrest of two now the occupiers have taken to facebobo asking for snacks and even clean socks. don blackstone has the latest. >> reporter: there was not a single law enforcement officer to be seen for miles in the wiwierness that surrrrnds the wildlife refuge headquarters. but the county sheriff david ward had a message for those
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>> you said erp h he toelp the citizens of thee county. that help ended when a peaceful protest became an armed occupation. the hammonds have turned themselves in. it's time for you to leave our community. >> reporter: the armed group says it has no plans to leave. they even showed us around the compound they took over. how many people are living in here? they refused to say how many have joined the group thehe called citizens for constitutional freedom. the leader ammon bundy tweeted, we have no intentions of using force upon anyone,e,ut if force used against us, we will defend ourselves. they're demanding an inquiry into why ranchers dwight and stevenammond were ordered back to prison for settingires on federal land after they had already served prison time. >> it has been left to us to decide whether we aow these things to go onr whether we make a stand. so they will not happen to other people across this
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>> reporter: but many in the area who support the hammonds oppose the occupation. >> it's so imperative that we find ways to address these issues that are peaceful, that are legal and that are productive. so that kind of lees the occupiers out. >> the morning of august 6, i looked over at the big screen tv and i saw breaking news. 30 navy s.e.a.l.s. killed in a helicopter crash. >> i looked over and saw my wife coming through the front door. as soon as i turned and sawhat navy chaplain, i knew that he was dead. >> he was the heart and soul of our family. >> my dad, he was always the rson to go help other people. he loved being a navy s.e.a.l. i was really proud of him and everything that he did.
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he enjoyed helping others. the british parliament is up in arms that reports thatthe latest murderous spokesperson for the islamic state was arrested sick times in england on terror-related offenses. he was released each time and by the time thehe brirish government sent him a letter ordering him to surrender his passport, he was already on his way to syria. we have more from london.
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islam as a young man. in 2014, he was arrested with choudary on suspicion of encouraging terrorism but leased on lack of evidence and immediately made a break for syria and joined isis tweeting, what a shoddy security system britain must have to allow me to breeze through europe to the islamic state. later using his isis name, he posted a photoof him holding a gun and his fifth child. in a recent video that shows the execution of five men, the man in it, he taunts the british government. >> how strange it is that a leader of a small island -- >> dhar's sister says she can't brother. >> i think it's a bit hard to say gwynn what i've seen. i'm not entirely convinced that
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my honest opinion is that it might not be. >> reporter: but many other people who knew dhar think it probably is. one of the hundreds of british citizens now in syria, including this little boy, who appearsrs at the end of the video. he's thought to be about 4 years old. to establish the identity of that masked man concluluvely, british intelligence services are going to examine as much as they can of his face behind the mask and also compare his voice with samples that they already have on file. this year's powerfufu el nino is bringing drenching rain up and down the california coast, but so far it's done little to end the state's four-year-long drought. suffering under severe drought conditions. for himself the effects on the state's forests. airfield near sacramento. minutes later, we saw this --
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forests dying after four years of drought. >> there's a lot of red on this screen, which is a a gn that we'r'rover an area that's in trouble. >> reporter: gray gazner is observatory. hez lap lab scans 15 acres of forest every second. it's like having x-ray vision that produces vivid immechanicals of the health of every single tree. >> our systems are seeing beyond the dead trees and seeing the trees that are stressed. >> reporter: the cutting-edge technology, funded in part by "avatar" director james cameron, creates 3d maps of the forest throughoututhe entire state. the red areas on this map are severely drought stressed. blue areas are healthier. your equipment reads how(much moisture is in each individual tree? >> yeah. the measurerent is focused on how much water is in the foliage itself. it's like getting a blood test. it's one of the key indicators
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>> reporter: and the dat a released this week shows calilirnia's forests are in very bad shape.e. 58 million trees are severely drought stressed and could die. an astounding 888 million have seen measurable water loss since the drought began n 2011. jew you're basically saying the drought has impacted nearly 1 billion trees in california? >> that's correct. >> reporter: the u.s. forest seseice says more than 29 million trees have already died. >> here's the trees that have totally succumbed. >> reporter: these maps will help the forest service know which areas are most vulner able and wildfire fishes to know where the greatest risks are. the severely stressed trees, are they past the point of no return or are they recoverable? >> we don't know if a stressed tree is absolutely going to succumb and be gone or if it's going to bounce back over time. >> reporter: el nino-fuelled storms are expected to bring
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golden state a bit more green. ben tracy, sacramento. environmental activists are plotting a new law thattoutlaws microbeads that are in personal care products. how they are polluting our lakes and rivers. >> reporter: the bill known as the microbead free waters act is designed to eliminate tiny bit of plastic from products many of us use every day. > microbeads are found in many health and beauty products, incruding soap, body scrub and toothpaste. they are generally used to exfoliate or add polish. no bigger than a grain of salt, theses microplastics are a big concern for environmental scientists. they say the t)ny particles are a farmful.
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study plastic pollution in waters around the world. he's found microbeads in the san francisco bay and in high concentrations in the great lakes. not all water treatment plants are able to filter them out. >> they're absorbing industrial chemicals, pesticides from farms, even oil drops from cars will stick to these microplastics and miobeads. at that point, they can enter the food chain. >> a single cosmetic product can contain up to 300,000 nonbiodegradable microbeads. in september, california banned sales of product containing microbeads. richard bloom authors the legislation and is thrilled that congress is following california's lead. >> it's very significant. you're goioi to have 50 states doing the same thing. i have no doubt this is going to spread now to other country. and the longer we have these pollutants in the environment, e harder it is to tata action to efffftively clean up after
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>> reporter: the law passed surprisingly quickly, but it's not immediate. the law prohibits the manufacture of products contaiaing microbeads as of july 1, 2017. >> we'll be right back. plumpify your lashes with new plumpify mascara a ginormous lash boosts lashes to 50 times the volume and lifts lashes new plumpify mascara from easy breezy beautiful covergirl so how ya doing? enough pressure in here for ya? ugh. my sinuses are killing me. yeah...just wait 'til we hit ten thound feet. i'm gonna take mucinex sinus-max. o late, we're about to take off. these dissolve fast. they're new liquid gels. and you're coming with me... wait, what?!
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in his new memoir "over the top and back" jones recounts how he rose from his roots in the coal fields of whals to become an international singing star and an honorary knight of the realm. the 70-year-old singer sat down with a chat with anthony mason. >> you really kieb ofnd of wanted to be a white wilson pickett. >> yeah. i met otis redding and he said man, we all try to do what you do. meaning the soul singers. i said i'm trying to do what you do. >> reporter: tom jones was 24 when he left walesnd moved to london to break into mumuc. within a year, he had a number one hit. it's not unusual to be loved by anyone >> the first time you heard "it's not unusual," you knew it was something for you? >> yes. i said i h he to have this song. i've got to have it. >> reporter: the problem was that jones' manager, gordon mills who co-wrote the song
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but jones was told he could record the demo. >> he said oh, i can write a million of those. he never did. he never wrote another one like that >> repororr: but when that other singer, sandy shaw, turned down the tune, jones got his chance. >> peter sullivan, my recording manager said we've got to wrap this up. you've got to rip into it. the demo was like it's not unusual to be loved by anyone so we had to have somebody go bad da bam. i said brass. it's the most important record to me because it chaed my life. >> reporter: his next hit would be the theme song to a woody allen film, written by burt
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what's new pussy cat snent. >> the fist time you heard what'sew pussy cat, what did you think? >> i thought that burt bacharach was joking with me. it's a really strange melody. you know what i mean? i was 25 then. and i thought, what is this? blues song. i said i know that. >> reporter: a string of hits through the '60s made him a star. >> this tom jones. >> reporter: but it was the abc tv s sies "this is tom jones" that made him a household name. is "this is tom jones" really what tururd you into a sex symbol. >> i think i was a sex symbol as
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let's really start to leave >> do women still throw understood wear at you? >> no. it started in new york. >> reporter: that's where it started? >> in '68. this woman stood up and, you know. just handed them to me like this. so i didn't miss a beat. i said hope you don't catch cold likekehat. you' got to sort of roll w wh itit but it was written up in the newspaper, you see. it backfired. i wasn't being taken seriously as a singer. they showed that more than what they heard i was singing. >> reporter: at one point you got opsite advice from frank sinatra and elvis presley. >>lvis didn't like an album of standards he released. >> he said tom, we don't go there. he said we leave that to frank. we. but he said we. i thought wow. >> putting me in the same --
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that was a big compliment to me. then would be talking to frank sinatra. at the galleria bar in caesar's palace. and he said you've got a great jazz voice, tom. leave that pop stuff. you' got to comom with me. i said frank, i love it all. i do. >> that obviously worked for you, but sometimes it's probably worked against you, too. because people don't know where to put you. >> exactly. that's the problem. i always used to think my versatility wowod be an asset. but sometimes, people say well, what is tom jones. i'm not in the rock 'n roll hall of fame. >> do you want to be? >> i would like to be, yeah. because i'm basically a '50s rock 'n roll singer. >> reporter: he may not be in the hallll yet, but since 2006, sir tom jones has been a member of an even more exclusive club.
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which i ow means a lot to you. >> oh, yeah. when you neil -- kneel there and the queen puts the sword on your% shoulder e, that's sething i never dreamed of in my wildest dreams that i would becoco a knight. >> pretty cool. >> yeah. >> when the engines failed on the plane ias flying, i knewewhat to do to savavmy passengers. but when my father sank into depression, i didn't know how to help him. when he ultimately shot himself, ve left our family devastated.
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some of america's favorite cocktails were actually invented overseas. take, for instance, the bloody mary. we found the origins in paris. >> this was an old bar that had been shipped to paris. harry bought it after the first guy went broke. >> from shipping that bar to paris. >> anyway, this obvious american
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even say historic distinction. back in the 1920s, a bartender here mixed worcester sauce with tabasco, salt and pepper, mixed it -- i love the way he does this, look. don't forget the vodka. and tomato juice. that's key. harrrrs is where the bloody mary was born. the bloody mary, it's a brunch staple for when you need some of the hair of the dog. well it's a bloody mary morninin in the 1920s as prohibition closed bars in the united states, some american bartenders came to france looking for work. they brought a new idea to the french, cocktails, mixed drinks,, to a country used to drinking wine. at the same time, paris was a refuge for a lot of russians escaping the communist revolution back home. snd they brought this new stuff called vodka. now, there are a lot of
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drink was created. the most widely accepted is that a barman at harry's found vodka too bland. so he added tomato juice and spices to give it some flavor, as the henry family from massachusetts can attest to. >> very good. >> perfectly spiced. >> it's bloody because of the tomato juice. and mary is believed to have been someone's girl friend. but after a few of these, who remembers the details. 's a versatile,drink that inspires many interpretations. at a a mexican restaurant, it's made with h quila. >> blood by maria. >> at a sake bar, it's made with a japanese vodka and wasabe. three generations later, harry is still owned by the same family, and they claim that last year, they told more than 12,000 bloody marys.
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bloody mary at the bar. >> with silence more powerful than words. the president mourns victims of gun violence and takeses action to stop it. also tonight, a rolling disaster, mississippi flood waters swallow up more of the heartland. a popular documentary about a convicted killer brings demands for his freedom. >> this has been one of the biggest entertainment campaigns we have seen on the platform. >> and a teacher of the year in the video of the week.
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news. >> it was a sight we rarely see. the tears of the most powerful man in the world powerless to get the united states congress tighten gun control laws. the presesent was announcing what he would do by executive action without congress when the memories of these victims, 20 first graders from newtown, connecticut, 6 or 7ears old choked mr. obama in mid-sentence. >> every time i think about those kids it gets me mad. and by the way, it happens on the streets of chicago every day. >> there have been 13 mass killings during the obama presidencycyeach time republicans voted against gun legislation. last month after san bernardino, mr. obama decided to act on his. given the limits of his power,
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the most significant expands background checks for gun sales online or at gun shows. currently out 40% of sales have n n background c ccks at all. chief legal correspondent jan crawford is at the white house. >> from every family who never imagined that their loved one would be t ten from our lives by a bullet from a gun. >> it was an emotional appeal. >> we maybe can't save everybody, b b we can save some. >> a political call to action. >> the gun lobby may beolding them hostage, but they cannot hold americics. we do not have to accept this. >> the president repeatedly called the executive actions common sense steps that respected the second amendment and expressed solidarity with the peopleleho sururunded him on the the white house. a father who lost a 7-year-old, the daughters of the pastor at a charleston church and a
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after being shot in the hehe. >> it's our right to worship freely and safely. that right was denied to christians in charleston, south carolina. that was denied jews in kansas city and that was denied muslims creek. they had rights too. >> they focused on the system of background checks including requiring all gun dealers even those who sell firearms at gun shows and on the internet to be licensed and conduct background checec. improving the current system by hiring more investigators to make background checks more efficient and effective. increasing mental health treatment and reportiti to the background check system. although the issue of stricter gun laws is highly divicive, 92% of americans support background checks. the president in the wake of the
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get legislation through that would expand them. he wants to kick supporters out of office. >> this is not that complicated. the reason congress blocks laws is because they want to inelections. if you make it hard for them to win and they block the laws, they will change course, i promise you. >> now the president could face constitutional challenges that these actions exceed his presidential authority. the nra in a statement indicated it may hold off as saying these actions don't really appear to change anyththg and are simply political theater. house. thank you. if it is political theater, republican presidential candidates played the president's p pposals as high drama today. nancy was in the audience. >> obama wants your guns. that was thearning on the
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for sex as senator cruz on a mock up of the president in military garb. cruz's fellow candidate marco rubio called the plan unconstitutuonal. >> b back obama is obsessed with undermining the second amendment. >> paul ryan accused him of a dangerous level of overreach. the texas republican whose subcommittee c ctrols funding for the department of justice threatened to cut the purse strings. >> he overstepped authority and i will take action to restrain him. i will not wait for a court order or a lawsuit. the second amendment rights are too precious. >> t nra reacted with a hail of tweets in realtime. saying president obama's executive orders will do nothing to improve public safety. the group issued this warning to any lawmakers thinking of f ding th the esident.
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to change. >> that is what i have come to expect. >> this congresswoman is a democrat whose district includes sandy hook elements where students and teachers were gunned down in 2o 12. >> what do you say t t those who said he doesn't have the right to take action? >> it's not good enough. then bring forward your own proposals, but for god's sake do something! >> they don't control congress and if he wants more money for things like additional atf agents, he will have to win over republicans and right now, scott, that seems unlikely. >> nancy, thank you. we want to note that demand for guns is soaring. the fbi said it conducted a record 23 million background checks last year.
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battle against gun violence. an innocentt t tnager who found himself in the way of a gang shooting. >> dobson was a sophomore at fulton high school in knoxville, tennessee. he played football and was beloved by classmates and teachers. the week before christmas he headed to a friend's house to play video games. he had not made a bad decision. he was exactly where any other kid would be. your d. my kids. and then gunmen started firing. and he was in high school, had not gotten started in life. he dove on top of three girls to shield them from the bullets. he was shot in the head.
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>> there has been an arrest in the shooting death of a college student in what may have been an act of road rage. he's aarine corporal who was arrested in yuma,rizona. he is accused of gunning down 20-year-old sarah early new year's day as she drove with friends home from a party. in another big story today, floodwaters are receding along parts of the mississippi and rising in others. tonight 23 illinois counties have been declared disaster areas.
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>> this is where the mississippi river is pouring into one of the poorest counties in the state of illinois. exander county. i'm standing on the small levy that failed four days ago and now that breech is nearly a mile wide. >> nearly 125 properties have been flooded. david owns three of them. the mississippi river is at his front door. >> looks like you built this in the middle of the lake. 30 years ago this didn't happen. >> he was one of the people who accepted a state buy out and agreed to leave. >> when did they offer you the buy out? >> after the floodwater went down. >> in 2011? >> yes. >> and you took it. >> have you gotten your money? >> nope. four years, seven months. nothing. >> he moved away and waited for imbursement. th truck driver turned it
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>> we can't afford to move. you juststan't up and move like that. >> johnson said he doesn't have the money to start over. the median income is just under $27,000 a year. less thann half of the stayed's income. as for david willis, whether or not he gets his money, he made up his mind. >> have you made up your mind? >> nope. >> because of that? >> because of that. >> it started further north and killed 25 people in illinois and missouri. >> it may be two years before this breech is repaired and could be two weeks before the flooded areas are dry. the good news is the water is receipting into the mississippi river above flood stage from here to louisiana. >> thanks. in the west, storms are going to hit one after another, powered by the warming pacific current known as el nino.
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>> it's literally raping cats and and dogs. >> snarling roadways and covering the 101 freeway in mud. this mini cooper was no match for the mega rain. the driver jumped to higher ground. people living in areas charrrr by wildfires were encouraged to evacuate. steel netting has been installed to catch debris. lives below the mountain and decided to leavav night time i don't want to go to sleep wondering if the debris is going to come down again. >> bill is a nasa climateologist. >> we tend to focus on the negative impacts, but the fact of the matter is we need all of this rain. >> this is going to be a fantastic down payment on drought. we can anticipate anywhere between four a a six inches of in here in los angeles. it's normally double what we get
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>> the l. river is rushing tonight, sending bililons of gallons of water out to the ocean. that is what prevents los angeles from flooding. there is more rain in the forecast. expected to hit southern california tomorrow. >> ben tracy reporting this evening. thank you. today in afghanistan, one service member was kill and two others wounded in a fierce battle near the southern cityf marja. the taliban was advancing american special operations forces and supporting the afgn military. in the race for the next commander in chief, ronald reagan once s sd the 11th commandment is thou shall not speak ill of another republican. he wouldn't recognize the melee just four weeee befefe iowa. here's major garrett. >> this a d'backing ted cruz mocked the foreign policy o o tougugess.
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>> cruz took his own fire from rick santorum who ridiculed his pension for filibuers. >> you want someone to read a bedtime story? ted is your guy. if you want to defeat isis, rick >> they branded chris christie an out of step liberal. >> one high tax common core obama kadcare expanding president is enough. >> they attack their opponents and leaving that to the funded super pacs. . >> the super pacsre supposed to operate independently from the campaigns, although rubio said he does support the group's message. >> these are serious policies. there nothing in the ads that enact. >> the super pac ads do not necessarily tip the scale.
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only to see push's poll numbersrs tumble, leaving bush to scramble for attention on live tv vowing he has been tougher than anyone on donald trump. >> that's my job. you have to take on the bully head on. that's what i'm doing. >> he tolol the post that rubio cannot slime his way to the white house. those attacks came from a rubio super pac and not rubio himself was a distinction lost on christie as it may be for voters. >> on the muddy campaign trail. thanks very much. >> in new york in the democratic race, bernie sanders took aim todayy at front-runner hillary clinton over ties to wall street. he said wall street's greed is destroying the fabric of the nation. >> and here is a new year's resolution that i will keep if elected president and that is if
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. a new documentary turned viewers into amateur detectives and again to bat for a man serving life for murder. >> thanks to a show on netflix, the website change.org has a hit on his has. >> in less than a month, more than a quartrt of a million people around the world signed a petition on the site demanding justice for a man in prison for life and featured in netflix documentary. mike jones is with change.org. >> for it it go from a few thousand to a few million
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tapping in a national conversation. >> i didn't know whahato doo and w to handle it. >> it's due to this series, making a murderer. launched last month that told the story of steven avery. he's the wisconsin man who served 18 years in prison for rape before being exonerated in 2003. >>e find the defendant guilty. >> onl to find himself in prison again on a aurder nviction in 2007. since its debut, millions of viewers spent hours binge watching it and discussioiong the case in online chat rooms. they said he was framed by authorities who lied and planted evidence. ken kratz who prosecucud said the series is misleading. >> steven avery is right where he needs to be. that's in prison for the rest of
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avery's lawyer said the reaction to the series has included useful information for the defense. >> we can't afford not to at least sift and consider something that might be useful to one human being who right now is facing a slow death in prpron. >> here in wisconsin, scott walker has the power to pardon someone, but during two terms in office, he has never used it. scott, his aides say he is not going to change that strategy now. >> dean reynolds, thank you very much. the justice department tes action after a cbs news
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that's next. >we have an update on a compounding pharmacy that mixes custom drugs. last year they discovered downing labs sent people millions in medications and they did not order. the lab was investigated for unsanitary conditions. yesterday the department of justice filed an injunction that forces downing to stop mixing drdrs until an outside expert inspects the facility. in a first for the u.s. military academy, general diana holland was sworn in as commend ant of cadets. she is a 1990 graduate of west point and served in iraq and afghanistan.
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>> ron clark, a former teacher of the year founded the academy in 2007. it's a private middle school, part hog wards and part harbor. learning comes to foror kids academically diverse and often lower income. the viral video stars including seventh gater jayn lindsay. >> the message is to say we e n do fun things while learning at the same time. >> every student but one in the school's history has gone on to college. mason calhoun is a ather seventh grader. >> it's indescribable the amount of love shown from the teachers towards us. it motivates us t t push ourselves and be amazing citizens. >> the message is about who we are. to show kids that youcare.
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willing to meet them and learn about your culture and interact with with them,y th will work harder. >> by breaking the mold, ron clark and his kids keep busting the right moves. cbs news, atlanta. >> and that's the overnight newss for this wednesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others check back with us later for the morning news and of course cbs this morning.
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york city. this is the cbsvernight news. welcome to the overnight news. the latest political battle over gun control has both sides lock and loadeded an e etional president obama announced that it is surrounded by family members of those killed by family members. on capapol hill theyy promise a court fight and vow to undo the president's actions if and when they retake the white house. jan crford reports.
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imagined their loved one would be taken by a bullet from a gun. >> it was an emotional appeal. >> we maybe can't save everybody, but we can save some. >> a had political call to action. >> the gun lobby may be holding congress hostage, but we do not haveo accept thisis >> the president called the actions commence sense steps that helped the second amendment and expressed solidarity with the people who surrounded him at the white house. a father who lost a 7-year-old and the daughters at the church and a congresswoman nearly killed after being sho in the head. >> the right to worship freely and safely. that right was denied to christians in charleston, south
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that was dend jews in kansas city and denied muslim this is chapel hill and sikhs in oak creek. they had rights too. >> the direct is foced on the system of background checks including reqeqring all gun dealers, even though who sell firearms at gun shows and the internet to be license and conduct background checks and improving the system by hiring morerenvestigateorss to make them more efficient and effective. increasing the treatment and r79ing to the background check system. the issue of stricter laws remaining divicive 92% of americans support background checks. the president in the wake of the sandy hook shootings failed to get legistion through congress that wouldldxpand them. he wants voters to kick gun rights supporters out of office. >> this is not that complicated.
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is because they want to win elections. if you make it hard for them to win an election if they block the laws,s,hey will change course. i promise you. >> the president could face constitutional challenges that these actions exceed his presidential auththity. but t e nra in a statement indicated it may hold off saying the actions doesn't appear to change anything and are simply political theater. jan crawford, cbs news, the ite house. >> the president's new gun control initiatives are all the talk on the campaign trail. hillary clinton called the actions a crucial step forward on gun violence. republican ted cruz said they ararnot worth the papererhey are written on. major garrett is in manchester where five canned states stumped for votes. >> the battle kreechreached a turning point.
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tv ads. bill clinton tried to deflect the tougher rhetoric from d dald trump telling voters he is just a happy grandfather who not angry at anybody. >> i do not believe in my lifetime anynydy has run for this job at a moment of great experience who was better qualified by knowledge, experience, and temperament to do what needs to be done nowow to restore prosperity. >> in new hampshire, the clinton family made his first solo visit on his wi's behalf. the 42nd president credits the state for the campaign's revival in 1992. the former president picked up where he left off from hillary's primary vtory in the granite state. >> i would say every american should have a right to meet at least one president in their lifetime.
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in n hampshire, your odds go up. > hillary clinton continued her campaign turning over a new leaf. >> i will let him live in his alternative reality and not respond. donald trump was battling g s rivals, needling ted cruz for copying immigration plans. >> he said we will build a wall. he is a politician so he would not know where to start. >> don't engage in the mud slinging and the games. >> the made a detour to smack marco rubio as a threat. >> i know i have a debate, but i have to get this fantasy football thing right. >> the thread to rubio now with new hampire. >> common core obamacaca and medicate expanding president is enough. >> he took heat for showing water crossers in morocco discussing illegal immigration in america. >> if that was video footage,
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country is going to look like. we are a dumping-grou. >> republicans battling the trump campaign said it was unlikely that moroccan video will tarnish trump or his tv ad. details for trump supporters are much less important than a message of strength in the face ofof a perceived danger. one other thing is it doesn't attack republicans. only the president and hillary clinton. >> t`e militia men occupying a wildlife office in oregon didn't come prepared for a long siege. it started out as a protest against the arrest of two ranchers for setting fires and now the occupiers have taken to facebook asking for snacks and even clean socks. john black stone has the latest. >> there was not a single law enforcement officer to be seen for miles. the sheriff david ward had a
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>> you said you were here to help the citizens. that help e eedhen a peaceful protest became an armed occupation. they turned themselves in. it's time for to you leave our community. >> the groupaid theyy have no plpls to leave. they even thoughed us around the com bound they took over. >> how many people are living here in. >> they refused to say how many joined the group they call citizens f constitutional freedom. the leader tweeted we have no intentions of using force upon anyone, but if forces used against us, w will defend ourselves. they are demanding an inquiry of why they ordered back to prison for setting fires on federal landfter they already served prison time. >> i i has been left to us to decide whether we allow these things to gon or wheer we make a stand so they will not happen to other people across
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. >> the britisharliament is up this arms over reports that the latest murderous spokesman for thee islamic state was arrested on terror related offenses times. he was released each time and by the time the british government nt a letter ordering him to surrender his passport, he was on the way to syria. we have a report from london. please be to allah.h. >> he was raised a hindu and converted to islam as a young man.
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led by t t extremists. in 2014 he was arrested on suspicion of encouraging terrorism, but released for lack of evidence and immediately made break for syria and joined isis, tweeting what a shoddy security system britain must have to allow me to breeze through europe to the islamic state. later using his isis name, he posted a photo of himself holding a gun and his fifth child. in the recent isis video that apparently shows t t execution of five men, the man is masked. in it he taunts the british government. >> how strange it is that a leader of a small island -- >> his sister can't be sure the man is her brother. >> i think it's hard to say given what i have seen.
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my honest opinion is that it might not be. >> many others who knew him think it probably is. one of the hundreds of british citizens now in syria including this little boy who appears at the end of the voideo, he is thought to be about fr years old. >> to establish the identity of that masked man conclusively, services are going to examine as much as they can of his face behind the task and compare his voice with the samples they have file. >> this year's powerful el nino is bringing drenching rain up and down the california coast, bur so far done little to end the four-year long drought. 90% of california is suffering under severe drought conditions. we will see theffects on the state's forests. >> we took off from an air field near sacramento and minutes
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reservoirs at record lowand forests dying. >> there is a lot of red on the screen which is sign that we're over an area that is in trouble. >> greg is the director of the carnegie airborne observatory. his lab has high tech lasers that scan 15 acrcr of forest a second. it's like having x-ray vision that produces vivid images of the health of the trees. >> our system is seeing the treess that are stressed. >> the cutting edge technology funded in part by "avatar" director james cameron creates one-of-a-kind 3 3 maps. the red areas on this map are severely stressed. blue areas are healthier. >> it reads how much moister is in each tree? >> t t measurements focused on how much water is in the foliage itself. it's like getting a blood test and one of the key indicators.
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by his team shows california's forests are in very bad shape. 58 million trees are severely stressed and could die. an astounding 888 million have seen measurable water says loss since 2011. >> the drought impacted nearly one billion trees? california? >> that's correct. >> thehe.s. forest service has more than 29 million trees have already died. >> trees that have totally succumbed. >> these maps will help know which are vulnerable and wildfire officials know where the greatest risks are. >> the severely stressed trees, are they past the point of no return or recoverable? >> we don't know if they will be gone or bounce back overtime. >> el nino-fuelled winter storms are expected to bring much needed rain. the scientists are hoping that will finally turn the goldenn
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ben tracy, sacramento. >> environmental activists are plotting a new law that outlaws microbeads used in personal care products. how these particles are polluting our lakes and rivers. >> it's known as the mikery bead free waters act. it is designed to eliminate bits of plastic from products many of us use every day. >> they are found in many health and beauty products like soap, body skrup and toothpaste. they are used to add polish. no bigger than a grain of salt, they are a big person for environmental scientists.s. they say the tiny particles are a harmful source to lake and ocean pollution. >> the fish are eating these microbeaea and they go from your
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>> at the institute they studied plastic and pollution in waters around the world. theymicrobeads in the san francisco bay. not all plants are able to filler them out. >> they are absorbing pesticides from farms and they will stick to the microplastics and beads. they can enter the food chain. >> a single product can contain up to 300,000 non-biodegradable beads and in september california banned the sales of products containing microbeads. they are thrilled california is following the lead. >> it's significant because you will have 50 states doing the same thing. i have no doubt this is going to spread now to other countries. the longer we have these pollutants in the environment, the harder it is to take action to effectively clean up after
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records over his six-decade career. in his memoire over the top and back, he accounts how he rose from the coal fields of wales to become an international singing star and honorary knight of the realm. the 70-year-old sat down for a chat. >> you wanted to be a white wilson picket. >> yeah. i met otis redding and he said we try to do what you do. i said whai am trying to do, you do. >> tom jones was 24 when he left wales and moved to london to break into music. within a year, he had a number one hit. it's not unusual >> the first time you heard it, you knew it was something for you. >> yes. >> the problem was jones's manager who cowrote the song
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but jones was told he could record the demo. >> i said i can write million of those. he never did. he never@wrote another like that. >>2when the other singer sandy shaw turned down thetune, jones got the chance. >> the recording manager said we have to rough this up. we have to just rip intoit. because the demo was like -- it's not unusual we had to have something more. ut if i ever find that you change >> it's the most important record that changed my life. >> his next hit would b b the theme song to a woody allen film
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>> what's new pussycat >> what did you think? >> i thought he was joking. i thought that burt was jokg with me. it's reaeay a strange melody even today. u know what i mean? i was 25 en. i thought what is this? he said this is not a rhythm and blues song. i said i know that. she was my woman >> a string of hits through the 60s made him a star. >> this is tom jones! >> it was the abc series this is tom jones that made him a household name. >> this is tom jones really what kind of turned you into a sex symbol. >> i think i was a sex symbol
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let's really start to live >> do women still throw underwear at you? >> no. . it started in the copa cabana in new york in 68. this woman stood up and, you know. handed them to me. i i dn't miss a beat. i hope you don't catch cold. you have to roll with it. it was written up in the newspaper. it backfired. i wasn't being taken seriously as a singer. they show that more than they heard what i was singing. >> at one point you got opposite advice from f fnk sinatra and elvis presley. >> elvis listened to jones's records and didn't like an album of standards he released. >> he said tom, we don't go there. he said we leave that to frank. we. he said we. i thought wow.
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>> putting me in the same. >> that was a a g compliment to me. i had been tucking to frank sinatra at the galleria. he would say you have a great chance. leave that pop stuff alone. you have to come with me. i said frank, i love it all. i do. >> that worked for you, but sometimes it worked against you too. people don't know where to put you. >> exactly. that's the problem. my versatility would be an asast, but sometimes peoeoe say what is tom jones? i'm not in the rock 'n' roll hall of fame. >> do you want to be? >> i would like to be, yeah. i'mm basically a 50s rock 'n' roll singer. she's a lady >> he may not be in the hall yet, but sir tom jones has been a member off an even more
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some of the america's favorite cocktails were actually invented overseas. take the bloody mary. we found the birth place in paris. >> this is harry's new york bar in paris. it's called new york because it really was a bar in new york that the original owner had dismantled and shipped to p pis a little over 100 years ago. >> it's an old bar since the 19th century. >> harry was added later when harry bought it after the first guy went broke. >> probably from shipping that bar to paris.
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has a singular historic distininion. back in the 1920s, a bartender mixed mixed worst shirt with tabasco and salt and pepper. i love the way he does this. don't forget the vodka and to maidto imato juice. this is where the bloody mary was born. it's a brunch staple for when you need h hr of the dog. prohibition closed bars in the united states, some american bartenders came looking for work. they brought a new idea to the french. cocktails. xed drinks to a country used to drinking wine. at the same time paris was a refuge for a lot of russians escaping the communist revolution back home. they brought thiss stutu called
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there a lot of different versions. the most widely accepted is a barman found vodka too bland. he added tomato juices and spices to give it flavor. as this family from massachusetts can attest to >> perfectly spsped. >> it's bloody because of the tomato juice and mary is believed to be someone's girlfriend. after a few, who remembers the details. it's a versatile drink that ininires many interpretatitis like at a mexican restaurant it's made with tequila. >> a bloody maria. >> at a sake bar, it's made with sake and wasabi. harry's is still owned by the family and last year they sold more than n 12,000 bloody marys. >> everyone wanted to try one at harry's bar. >> don't you?
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