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>> give it [captioning made possible by warner bros. domestic television distribution]ill schlesinger, thanks. well, today oil was up 72 cents, and that revived wall street from its recent swoon. the dow gained 227 points. and in an echo from the financial crash of '08, today goldman sachs agreed to pay $5 billion to atone for its role in peddling rotten mortgages. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. with three simple words. my name is chris noth
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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 volunteers 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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yemen were released from guantanamo bay and sent to the persian gulf nation of oman. the prison, on a u.s. navy base in cuba, was created to hold terrorism suspects, particularly from the battlefield in afghanistan. many have been held for years without charges. in 2009, president obama said he was ordering the prison closed but congress refused. 93 prisoners remain, down from nearly 700. isis says it was behind the attack today in jakarta, indonesia. bombs and bullets killed two and wounded at least 26. but the five attackers had bigger plans. seth doane is following this for us tonight. seth? >> reporter: good evening, scott. this is another example of isis trying to extend its reach. as more details are emerging, we're learning that the attack, which involved a series of explosions and a gun battle in
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much worse. images from the scene show cars with bullet holes and attackers wearing suicide vests. one of those attackers detonated his vest inside a starbucks, but a law enforcement source tells us another attacker died when his vest detonated by accident. indonesia has more muslims than any other country in the world, but it is a country that's known for its mainstream teaching of islam, and the fear here is that isis may be gaining a foothold in southeast asia. >> seth doane in beijing for us tonight. seth, thank you. the attempted assassination of a philadelphia police officer last thursday is also being investigated as terrorism. but fbi director james comey said today there is no evidence the gunman, who you see there, who professed allegiance to isis, belonged to a larger terror cell. officer jesse hartnett remains in critical but stable condition.
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chicago has seen a dramatic spike in shootings this month. since january 1st, the city is averaging a shooting every three hours. adriana diaz is looking into this. >> reporter: just two hours into the new year, 24-year-old deandre holiday was gunned down after a fight at a new year's eve party, the first homicide of a bloody 2016. >> shots fired. i hear shots fired. >> reporter: since january 1st, 110 people have been shot compared to 37 during the same time last year. a nearly 200% increase. >> in terms of crime, it's been a little bit of a frustrating start. >> reporter: john escalante is the acting superintendent of police. his predecessor, garry mccarthy, was fired in december. >> a lot of it is gang conflicts, but also heavily driven by social media. >> reporter: feuds that play out on sites like facebook and
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while overall crime was down before the new year, gun violence is soaring. one factor, police officers may be holding back in fear of being the subject of a viral video, a point chicago mayor rahm emanuel was overheard making to attorney general loretta lynch last fall. >> reporter: do you think the police is doing enough? >> i don't know if you can do enough. >> reporter: raydell lacey's 19- year old grandson, eric, was one of the 21 people killed by guns this year. he had just started a job two weeks ago, and hoped to join the navy. saturday, he was shot in the head in an apparent ambush. lacey said he wasn't in a gang. >> before he passed, they say, he said, "we good, we good, y'all?" then they didn't hear anymore. and he was slumped over.
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oh, god, oh, god. >> reporter: to try to curb the violence, the acting superintendent has decentralized the police gang unit. now smaller teams are permanently based in communities known for gang activity. scott, the goal is to try to stop conflicts before they start. >> adriana diaz in chicago tonight. adriana, thank you. well, here's a rarity -- a winter hurricane bearing down on the azores, 1,700 miles off portugal. "alex" is the first january hurricane since 1955. forecasters say it could hit the azores tomorrow with 85-mile-an-hour winds. we don't know who the powerball winners are yet, but there are at least three who will share the largest jackpot ever, $1.6 billion. the tickets were sold in the working-class town of munford, tennessee, the l.a. suburb of
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beach, florida. the lottery boasts that the billions it rakes in goes to help public schools in most states. we wondered how that's working. turns out in michigan, not too well. anna werner is in detroit. >> reporter: photos from detroit's public schools tell the story of dilapidated buildings, many in need of emergency repair, and pest problems. a student shot this video today of a mouse roaming a district high school. patrick bosworth's eighth grade son attends a language magnet school where he says classes are either way too warm or freezing cold. >> he's gone from one class to the other, where he's wearing a short-sleeve shirt, and then he's putting on his winter coat. >> reporter: lottery dollars were designed to help schools like these in detroit. they're often advertised as giving a big boost to education, but often that's not the case. 27 states give lottery funds to schools, but only eight spend it
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like grants and scholarships. the 19 others, including michigan, do not use lottery profits as additional funding for public schools. instead, it's used to fund the existing budget. michigan state representative sherry gay danygo. do you think it is misleading to people? >> absolutely. it is misleading. >> reporter: so people who buy tickets thinking, i'm helping education, do you think they're doing as much as they are? >> absolutely. they believe they are but they're absolutely not benefiting education. >> reporter: more than $740 million lottery dollars are given to michigan schools each year. gay danygo says there's no reason the buildings should be in such bad shape. >> i think that our priorities and our values are not aligned. i think we need to dispel the myth that the lottery is helping to improve education because it hasn't. >> reporter: michigan has the 11th largest lottery in the country, with revenues of some $2.6 billion last year. so, scott, that's $740 million
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small portion of that. >> anna werner in lansing tonight. anna, thank you. today a memorial was held at arlington national cemetery for a tuskegee airman missing in action since 1945. second lieutenant samuel leftenant was in a midair collision while escorting bombers over austria. soldiers carried an empty casket representing his remains and leftenant's sister accepted this flag in his honor. once again there is controversy over the oscar nominations. and, there's big news and we mean big for dinosaur lovers. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. they say when mr. clean saw all the different things his n n smart phone does... ...it reminded him of his magic eraser. it's not just for marks on walls... it's tough on kitchen grease... and bathroom grime too. he's your... ...all around-tough-cleaner, mr. clean.
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the oscar nominations were announced today. "the revenant" led with 12, including best picture, along with "the big short," "bridge of spies," "brooklyn," "mad max: fury road," "the martian," "room" and "spotlight." there were some inspiring performances by black actors, so it surprised many today that all 20 nominees for acting are white. john blackstone says it's the
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>> what an exciting morning. >> reporter: the announcement of the academy award nominations this morning was as notable for those who were left off the list as for those who were on it. >> and sylvester stallone in "creed." [ applause ] >> this is bigger than they are. they have to listen to us now. >> reporter: will smith was not nominated for his performance in "concussion." nor were idris elba and abraham attah chosen for their critically-acclaimed roles in "beasts of no nation". likewise, tessa thomson and michael b. jordan were ignored for highly praised performances in "creed." instead the oscar nominationon went almlmt exclusively to whihi actors and directors. only the director of "the revenant," alejandro innaritu from mexico, broke into the all- white crowd. the response was immediate. on twitter, hahatag "oscars so white" went viral. it should not have come as a surprise after the same criticism last year. this is how neil patrick harris openen the awards show. >> welcome to the 87th oscars.
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best and whitest -- sorry, brightest. >> reporr: today on "the talk," kevev frazier blamed the demographics of academy voters. >> the academy voters still 94% white, 76% male, and their average age is 63. >> reporter: those voters did lect one african-american themed movie. "straight out of compton" was nominated for best original screenplay. the writers are white. john blackstone, cbs news, san francisco. a classically trained actor
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we come back. alan rickman was a born movie villain with a sinuous sneer and a ice that rolled in like a malevolent fog. >> how nice to make your acquaintance. >> rickman's hans gruber tormented bruce willis in "die hard." >> do yoyoreally think you have a chance against us, mr. cowboy? >> yippee kai-yay. >> mr. potter. our new celebritit >> rickman appeared in eight "harry potter" films as severus snape, hogwarts' seemingly sinister professor who ultimately swore his undying love to potter's late mother. >> always. >> alan rickman died of cancer today in london. he was 69. there was a bibipremier in new york city y day, really big.
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the skeleton is 122 feet long, too big to fit in its room. the head and neck poke into the hallway. it probably weighed 70 tons, as much as ten african elephants, when it roamed the forests of south america 100 million years ago. up next, the historic powerball drawing. someone who bought a ticket here hit the jackpot. woman: what does it fefe 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 dizziziss 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. ke 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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as we mentioned, one of the three winning powerball tickets was sold in chino hills, california, and mireya villarreal is there. >> chino hills, chino hills, chino hills! >> repororr: you would think someone here actually won the lottery, but most of these people like mike gradilla didn't win anything. they just showed up to celebrate one of the winning tickets b bng sold here. do you think the winner could be here tonight? >> it's hard to say. if i won i wouldn't be here. >> reporter: 7-11 owner balbir wal came here in 19898without knowing a word of english. the outpouring of support you're getting, how great is that? people? >> reporter: you can ask them. >> how do o u guys feel? [ applause ] >> reporter: because atwal's store sold the winning ticket,
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$1 million. he plans to shshe it with his employees. >> we were the number one lottery in the nation as far as sales go. >> reporter: california sold 386 million dollars worth of powerball tickets, at one popot selling 37,000 per minute. winning tickets were also sold in munford, tennessee, and at a publix store in melbourne beach, florida. >> i was watching the news and just screamed out loud, "oh, my god, my store!" >> reporter: there were also eight $2 million winners and 73 $1 million winners, tickets with only five e tching numbers. last night's losers can still dream. saturday's powerball jackpot is a mere $40 million. mireya villarreal, cbsbsews, chino hills, california. and that's the "overnight news" for this friday. for some of you, the news continues.
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news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm scott pelley. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com this is the "cbs overnight news."
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news." i'm don dahler. the biggest lottery jackpot in history is in the books. the only mystery now is who won the powerball? winning tickets were sold in florida, tennessee, and just outside los angeles. when the winners come forward, they'll didide a jackpot of $1.6.6 billion. united nations nuclear inspectors are in iran, working to verify the iranians have removed the core of their nuclear reactor. it's'she next step in the nuclear deal with the west which was almost scuttled this week with the capture of ten u.s. sailors in the persian gulf. david martin has the latest on that.. >> reporter: t t speedy released of the sailors is being portrayed by the administration as the product of years of pain sting diplomacy with iran. but critics are describing the incident as just one more iranian provocation. although administration officials publicly described it as a rescue at sea, video
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like the american sailors s d been capapred. forced to kneel with their hands behind their heads and placed in front of a camera to confess. >> it was a mistake. it was our fault and we apologize. >> reporter: that seemed at odds with secretary of state kerry's praise for how the iranians handled the incident. >> i also want to thank the iranian authorities for their cooperation and quick response. these are always situations which, as everybody here knows, have an ability, if not properly guided, to get out of control. >> reporter: both sides agreed the two boats accidently strayed into iranian territorial waters. exactly how remains unclear. after being held for 16 hours in the persian gulf, the crew was allowed to get back in their boats and sail out to this american warship. the release came after a series of phone calls between secretary kerry and iran's foreign minister, who had developed a workininrelationship during the
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which iran agreed to suspend its nuclear program in return for relief from economic sanctions. the iranian foreign minister tweeted he was happy to see dialogue and respect, not threats and impetuousness, swiftly resolve the sailor's episode. but some have been critical of the obama administration, saying this is less a diplomatic success than a case of iran too. >> on the one ha, they're giving the people back in an expeditious manner, which oh by the way, they're required under international law to do, and take credit for that. but on the other hand, they released domestic press, which makes it sound like it's the americans screwing up, it's really their fault. >> reporter: iran's desire not to derail the nuclear deal between the two countries may really be what resolved this. under that deal, the u.s. is expected to begin releasing about $100 billion in frozen iranian assets in the next few days. the actress who set up sean
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most wanted drug lord said people are lying about her role in the case. kate del castillo is speaking out as new information is released on how badly el chapo wanted to meet here. manuel bojorquez reports. >> reporter: when mexican marines raided the house holding el chapo guzman, there was no sign of the drug lord. left behind in his hideout, a stack of dvds featuring actress kate del castillo. who arranged the interview with sean penn. now for the first time since guzman's capture, del castillo is speaking publicly, tweeting -- >> reporter: the statement comes after text messages obtained by a mexican newspaper appeared to
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in one exchange, el chapo writes -- >> reporter: del castillo responds, i'm so moved that you say you'll take care of me. no one has ever cared for me. as for actor sn penn, guzman dn't seem to know who the academy award winner was. asking his lawyer in one message, what was the actor's name? and later confessing to looking up penn on the internet. the text messagegealso showed guzman's concerns that people who knew him were being monitored. turns out, he was right. the trail for guzman had gone cold until telecommunication intercepts, along with penn and caststlo's travel to meet el chapo, helped u.s. and mexican law enforcement narrow down the drug lord's location. manuel bojorquez, dallas. cheap gas and low interestst
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record sales year in 2015. 17.5 million vehicles sold in america. the latest models are on display right now in detroit at the international l to show. kris van cleave is there. >> reporter: it has the feel of a fashion show. but the models are measured in tons, and the designs, think metallic chic. just unveiled, the return of lincoln's famed continental. it will be the flagship of ford's luxury brand. ceo mark fields. >> we're using the lincoln continental to express what we call quiet luxury. >> reporter: lexus wasn't being quiet with this debut. voo and mercedes are pushing safety. the e-300 sedan can even do much to have driving for you. concept cars like this one from buick are fan favorites. part of the reason more than 800,000 people come to this show. but also on display this year are fundamental changes going on in the auto business.
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>> they're seeing the writing on the wall that as autonomy comes out, they're going to be interacting. it's going to be a whole different world for them. >> reporter: gm designed its new chevy bolt for that different world. it can travel more than 200 miles on a charge and costs under $30 grand. >> electrify case is the basis to layer on additional capabilities. >> reporter: getting a slice of the $5.3 trillion transportation service's pie means smarter cars collecting your personal data. >> we're a technology company and more and more we're becoming an information company. >> reporter: are you talking about tracking where i'm going and what i'm doing? >> well, this is not about tracking individual customers. this is about customers electing to share their data with us so that in the aggregate, we can discern patterns there. >> reporter: pattetes in a business where everything is changing. kris van cleave, detroit, michigan.
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nation. about 2 million americans are hooked on prescription painkillers. in 2012, 259 million prescriptions were written. that's one bottle for every american adult. so how can that be? jim axelrod and producer ashley velly found out in west virginia, a state that's attempting a drastic solututn, allowing addicts to sue the doctors who got them hooked. >> reporter: so you would spend $1,000 a speak? right. >> reporter: 17 years ago, willis duncan's life changed forever, when a coal mining accident left him with a crushed sternum and broken ribs. >> if i didn't have ten pain pills, i wouldn't go to work. bottom line. >> reporter:r:hanged your life? >> changed everyththg. >> reporter:r:uncan developed a life-long addiction to painkillers when his doctor's only treatment was a never-ending supply of pills. >> the only time that you went in to see a doctor was to get ur pills. >> reporter: hang on a second. you would go in to get looked
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done by a doctor? >> no. >> reporter: duncan would wait for hours to be seen for just a few minutes at this clinic where 150 patients line up every day for pain med prescriptions. did you ever say to a doctor, this has gotteteout of hand, and i need help? >> no. because you done got used to them and you didn't know how to function without them. >> reporter: this cash-only operation allowed doctors to clear as much as $100,000 a week. >> we're in mingo county, west virginia, executing a search warrant. >> reporter: the clinic was raided and shut down in 2010. >> there's the exam room. >> reporter: these are what past for exam rooms. >> main office. >> reporter: piles of trash and files, loose prescription pads, syringes. and starving birds stuck in roach-infested cages. hundreds of patient records were
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updated and presigned prescriptions for addicted pain meds like vicodin, xanax. the doctor in charge went to jail for six months for negligence. do a drive-by and take a look at the place. >> reporter: dea agent gary newman is investigating dozens of doctors, pharmacies and distributors throughout the state. >> we are talking in a certain sense drug traffickers and they are doing nothing but writing and cranking out prescription after prescription after prescription. >> reporter: they're pushers. they truly are. >> reporwer: west virginia has the highest rate of overdose deaths in the nation. each year, doctors write the equivalent of one painkiller prescription for every man, woman, and childn the state of 1.8 million. in the last year, the west virginia department of health inspected 19 pain clinics. 12 were told to shut down. >> you can actually be so stressed that you cat sleep at night.
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chael kastenko. seen here lecturing patients. he's written more than 40,000 pain pill prescscptions over the last two years at his coal country clinic. he was among those ordered to stop operating as a pain clinic, but remains open. after weeks of trying to reach him, we drove out to coal country clinic, located at the end of this narrow two-mile logging road. instead of finding the doctor, we came face-to-face with a rottweiller. shutting down these clinics can often take years, because these are licensed doctors, writing legal prescriptions. >> therein lies the problem. you have to be ablto prove in cosrt that their prescribing was r a nonmedical necessity or in such an aegregious amount that it was negligent.
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in parartwo of his investigation, jim axelrod goes back to ground zero. west virginia. it's so bad there, the state is suing, accusing pharmacies and drug distributors of making millions, pushing narcotics to anyone who wants them. >> reporter: nstate has had more trouble with prescription pain pills than west virginia. and no town in west virginia more trouble than kermit, population 400. this undercover video o kermit's maiaipharmacy shows scores of people picking up prescriptions inside, and at the drive-through window. >> they fill more scripts for oxycodone than all but 21 pharmacies in america. >> reporter: in the country? >> in the country. >> reporter: jim cagle represents the state in the groundbreaking lawsusu against ll mills and wholesale drug distributors. >> what you have is some bad
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willing to turn a blind eye because of the money that's involved. >> reporter: more than 3 million doses of hydrocodone was ordered by a kermit pharmacist, james woolly, in one ar. he paiddrug distributors hundreds of thousands of dollars, while netting more than $6 million in profit. in 2012, he lost his license and served sixonths in prison for illegally dispensing drugs. but cagle told u uthe problem persists. this pharmacy, tug valley, is now being sued for negligently filling prescriptions. records show tug valley was filling more than 150 pain prescriptions a day from one clinic alone. we decided to ask the owner about the charges. so yououname is in a lawsuit, alleging substandard care. you have nothing to say to me directly? >> no.
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direction, he wouldn't respond. >e would think that a aalarm bell would go off. >> reporter: west virginia secretary of health karen bowling says until now, the drug distributors have escaped scrutiny. >> if you are a distributor, providing medication, you know, to pharmacies, that someone would say, you know, wow, this is a lot. what do we need to do about it? >> reporter: that's the premise behind the unprecedented lawsuit. under west virginia's law, distributors are legally bound to report suspicious orders from pharmacies. >> if that distributor has good reason to believe that the prescriptions that are being filled are not for legitimate medical purposes, they are not to make that delivery. >> reporter: they have an obligation? they have a duty, yes. reporter: amerisoururbergen is the third largest drug wholesaler in the country and one of 11 defendants in the state's case.
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filled orders for over 118 million for hydrocodone and oxycodone pills, enough to supply every west virginn 13 pain pills every year. that's'scary math. >> yes, it is. it is actually the product of what i would refer to as a business plan. a business plan by people that are not honorable people. >> reporter: we reached out to lawyers foamerisourcebergen. they told ushey couldn't comment. this trial is set to begin i october. jim axelrod, cbsbsews, new york. in just over a month from now, the music industry will honor its brightest stars at the grammys. anthony mason sat down with one of the fresh faces up for best neneartist award, james bay. >> reporter: only a few years ago, 20-year-old james bay was playing loloon pubs, just trying
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but 2015 changed all that. you had a pretty amazing year. >> 2015 was pretty strong. i hahaa good time, yeah. it was great. >> reporter: his debut album, which features his hit song "hold back the river," went to number one in britain. he performed his other hit single "let it go" with ed sheeren. and he impressed the rolling stone's ronnie wood. >> new people don't often do that to me. >> reporter:`who gave him britain's gq award for breakthrough artist, then joined him on stage at a london concert. >> these surreal things. it's hard to talk about them as they happened but they did. >> reporter: at the end of the year, he heard he got a grammy
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>> we were in the back of the car, losing our minds. they phoned up and they said, did you see about the other two? and we were like, what, there's two more? 2015 was great. >> reporter: tough to top it. >> yeah, but we're going to try. >> reporter: now he's the latest british musical export trying to make it in america. >> it's a big prize. that's exciting. i can't get away from that, and i n't know if it ever makes me sound naive or anything. at the end of the day, i'm willing to take it on. >> reporter: it's a little like guitar nirvana in here. >> it really is. >> repepter: bay, who we met at the gibson show room in new york -- >> i'm always drawn to the weird color. >> reporter: this is a beautiful color. he picked up his first guitar when he was 11. in hitchen, a town about an hour north of london, he taught himself to play and joined a local band. >> seeing your name up here was
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this is the holy grail of gigs in hitchen. >> reporter: but bay had greater ambitions. >> giving myself a shot at something more than the buzz we got from playing in a pub to a lot of people. >> reporter: he started performing solo. >> when i firsrsgot in front of a mike on stage and it was just me, i started to, you know, find out about what i could do. >> reporter: did you like being up there? >> yeah. yeah, i really did. >> reporter: then a fan posted a video to youtube. >> it had like 20 plays on youtube, 22 maybe. but we got the call from a record label in new york who found it somehow. and really liked it. >> reporter: what were you thinking at that point? >> i was thinking, new york? real?
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records, suddenly james bay was on his way did you have a plan b? >> no. well, drawing. not the best plan b, i don't think. i still love it. >> reporter: he still draws on the road. band m!tes, rock heroes, selfies, featuring his n n signature hehegear. where did the hat come from? everybody asks. >> where did the hat come om? it was a very sortrtf kind of teenage fashion move. [ laughter ] no other way to put it. >> reporter: and you just liked it and it stuck? >> exactly. it comes off. it's not really stuck. i would like to hang around a little longer than i've already hung around and i'll go in tt way as an artist and mess about with other stuff..
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been affected in 25 states.. adriana diaz is in chicago, site of the first outbreak of that virus. >> reporter: here in chicago, the flu spread so quickly last year, that some shelters had to close their dodos to prevent it from spreading. here they've treated more than 300 sick dogs and housed some temporarily while th recover. all of these dogs are healthy, but vets are paying close attention to make sure none develop symptoms. ashley lease walks dogs in the seattle area- she's paying extxt close attention to her four legged friends. after warnings about the new strain of dog flu. >> they can get sick just like us. i know how much i hate being sick. >> reporter: county health officials say up to 90 dogs in this kennel may have been exposed to the virus. two have tested positive for the flu, but further tests are needed to cocoirm it's the new strain.
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immunity to fight it off, so you see large numbers of dogs getting ill when the virus startstso circulate. when dogs are going to dog daycares or dog parks or boarding overnight in fennel facilities, it can spread rapidly. >> reporter: cases showed up last march in chicago and spread quickly. around 2,000 dogs in 24 states have been infected. a vaccine was made available in november. vets say the disease is rarely fatal, but owners should see a vet right away if their dog shows symptoms. >> if your dog doesn't eat well,l, miss a meal, you see coughing, just being tired, moping around, it could be a sign of a fever. if you see that, give your local verinarian a call, schedule an appointment, because they'll need to get on some special mediditions for it. >> reporter: pet o oers in the seattle area are concerned. the health department says their facebook posts outlining the symptoms has been viewed 189,000 times since tuesday. lwcal vets are now stocking up
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while the virus is no laughing matter, this viral video features a chicago pup named herbert who is putting on a brave face while recovering from the flu. >> dogs are household members and often times they're like kids in the family and people want to take care of their pets and keep them safe. >> reporter: humans can't contract the virus, but they can spread it to healthy dogs after close contact with a sick dog. by the way, all of these puppies are available for adoption. so guys, just let me know which one you like. >> that's the "overnight news" for this friday.
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news." >> >> gop presidential hopefuls gathered in south carolina last night for one of their final debates before next month's iowa caucuses. was a smaller cast on t t main stage,e, just seven candidates. and at the center of it all was the front runner, donald trump. here's some of what they had to say. >> you know, back in september, my friend donald said he had had his lawyers look at this from every which way, and there was no issue there. there was nothing to this birther issue. w, since september, the constitution has. changed. [ laughter ] but the poll numbers have. [ applause ] and i recognize -- i recognize that donald is displayed that his poll numbers are falling in iowa.
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are quite clear, under long standing u.s. law, the child of a u.s. citizen born abroad is a natural born citizen. if a soldier has a child abroad, that childs a natural born citizen. that's why john mccain, even though he was born in panama, was e@igible to run for president thth's why george romney was eligible to run for president even though he was born in mexico. at the end of the day, it's straightforward. but i would note that the birtrtr theoriess that donald has been relying on, some of the more extreme ones insist you must not only be born on u.s. soil, but have two parents born on u.s. soil, under that theory, i would be disqualified, marco rubio would be disqualified, and interestingly enough, donald j. trump would be disqualified.
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because donald's mother was born in scotland. she wasnaturalized. now, donald -- >> but i was born here. >> on the issue of citizenship, donald, i'm not going to use your mother's birth against you. >> because it wouldn't work. >> you're an american, as is everybody else on this stage, and i would suggest we focus on who's best prerered to be commander in chief, because that's the most important question facing the country. [ applause ] >> and if, for some reason he beats the rest of the field, he beats the resesof the field -- see, they don't like that. [ crowd booing ] no, they don't like that he beats the rest of the field, because they want me. [ laughter ] but if for some reason he beats the rest of the field, i already know the democrats are going to be bringing a suit. you have a big lawsuit over your head while you're running.
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who the hell know it is you can even serve in office. so you should go out, get a declaratory judgment, let the urts decide. >> why now? why are you raise thing issue now sp >> because now he's doing a little bit better. i no, i didn't care before, no, it's true. hey, lo, he never had a chance. now he's doing better. he's got probably a 4 or 5% chance. >> thank you, mr. trump. >> the fact is, there's a big overhang. there's a big question mark on your head. >> listen, i've spent my entire life defending the constitution before the u.s. supreme e urt and d ll tell you, i'm not going to be taking legal advice from donald trump. >> you don't have to. >> now on the democratic side, it doesnsn get much tighter than this. the latest poll in iowa shows
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ahead of bernie sanders. here's nancy cordes. >> and i have felt for the last several weeks that we had the wind at our back. >> reporter: sanders' feelings re confirmed today, and the latest poll brought back vivid memories of 2008, when clintnt's commanding lead in iowa slipped away at the end. >> i congratulate senator obama. >> reporter: then and now, her powerful campaign, and its war chest, were supposed to overpower insurgent opponents. but it's sanders who is holding larger rallies while clinton sticks to town halls. >> i will fight for you. i will work for you. >> reporter: sanders is also airing more tv ads, reaching voters like tim pool of topeka, iowa. >> i totally agreeith senator sanders. you can't have 2% of the people of this country making 400 times more than everybody else. >> reporter: today, sanders
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that seemed to be aimed at her. >> there are two democratic visions for regulating wall street. one says it's okay to take millions from big banks and then tell them what to do. >> reportete the clinton campaign accused him of violating this longtime promise: >> you're looking at somebody who has never run a negative tv ad in his life and never will. >> reporter: clinton campaign manager robby mook convened a conference call with reporters to drive the point home. >> reporter: but even that was reminiscent of 2008, when clinton routinely tried to convince voters that senator barack obama wasust another politician, not a visionary. scott, she can take heart in the fact that she's still leading in iowa by ten points among those who say they will definitely caucus on february 1st. >> nancy cordes, thanks. of course, the campaign will
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today oil closed at just over $31 a barrel. since june of 2014, the price has fallen about $75, taking the price of gasoline along for the ride. cbs news business analyst jill schlesinger is with us. jill, that's good news for most people. >> reporter: absolutelel nsumers reap a greatatenefit from low oil. last year, the average household saved $660 at the pump. it's like an unexpected tax refund. and cheap gas prices, along with low ininrest rates and an improving job market, helped boost auto sales. last year, automakers sold a record 17.4 million cars and light trucks. >> but for a lot of folks in the country, it's bad news, too. >> reporter: absolutely. you know, after a big boom from 2010 to 2014, there is pain in the energy sector. the mining industry -- that includes oil, gas and coal -- lostst29,000 jobs last year. and that's just the direct hit. industries that serve miners, like a waitress working in a restaurant near a fracking site,
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or a convenience store worker near an oil well had to be let go. but the ripple effects go even deeper. today, realtytrac released its final foreclosure numbers for 2015. while activity is down nationally, it is up in places like texas, nonoh dakota and oklahoma, states that rely at least in part on the energy industry. so che oil might help our wallets, but when it comes to the overall economy, the news is mixed. >> jill schlesingege thanks. well, today oil was up 72 cents, and that revived wall street from its recent swoon. the dow gained 227 points. and in an echo from the financial crash of '08, today goldman sachs agreed to pay $5 billion to atone for its role in peddddng rotten mortgages. [ vocalizing ] [ buzzing ]
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today, ten prisoners from yemen were released from guantanamo bay and sent to the persian gulf nation of oman. the prison, on a u.s. navy base in cuba, was created to hold terrorism suspts, particularly from the battlefield in afghanistan. many have been held for years without charges. in 2009, president obama said he was ordering the prison closed but congress refused. 93 prisoners remain, down from nearly 700. isis says it was behind the attack today in jakarta, indonesia. mbs and bullets killed two and wounded at least 26. but the five attackers had bigger plans. seth doane is following this for us tonight. seth? >> reporter: good evening, scott. this is another example of isis trying to extend its reach. as more details are emerging, we're learning that the attack, which involved a series of explosions a a gun battle in
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much worse. images from the scene show cars with bullet holes and attackers wearing suicide vests. one of those attackers detonated his vest inside a starbucks, but a law enforcement source tells us another attacker died when his vest detonated by accident. indonesia a s more muslims than n any other country in the world, but it is a country that's known for its mainstream teaching of islam, and the fear here is that isis may be gaining g foothold ininoutheast asia. >> seth doane in beijing for us tonight. seth, thank you. the attempted assassination of a philadelphia police officer last thursday is also being investigated as terrorism. but fbi director james comey said today there is no evidence the gunman, who you see there, who professed allegiance to isis, belonged to a larger terror cell. officer jesse hartnett remains in critical but stable
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the gunman was arrested. chicago has seen a dramatic spike in shootings this momoh. since january 1st, the city is averaging a shooting every three hours. adriana diaz is looking into this. >> reporter: just two hours into the new year, 24-year-old deandre holiday was gunned down after a fight at a new year's eve party, the first homicide of a bloody 2016. >> shots fired. i hear shots fired. >> reporter: since january 1st, 110 people have been shot compared to 37 during the same time last year. a nearly 200% increase. >> in terms of crime, it's been a little bit of a frustrating start. >> reporter: john escalante is the acting superintendent of police. his predecessor, garry mccarthy, was fired in december. >> a lototf it is gang conflicts, but also heavily driven by social media. >> reporter: feuds that play out on sites like facebook and twitter. while overall crime was down
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violence is soaring. one factor, police officers may be holding back in fear of being the subject of a viral video, a point chicago mayor rahm emanuel was ovovheard making to attorney general loretta lynch last fall. >> reporter: do you think the police is doing enough? >> i d d't know if you can do enough. >> reporter: raydell lacey's 19- year old grandson, eric, was one of the 21 people killed by guns this year. he had just started a job two weeks agag and hoped to join t t navy. saturday, he was shot in the head in an apparent ambush. lacey said he wasn't in a gang. >> before he passed, they say, he said, "we good, we good, y'all?" then we didn't hear him anymore and he was slumped over.
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oh, god, oh, god. >> reporter: to try to curb the violence, the acting superintendent has decentralized the police gang unit. now smaller teams are permanently based in communities known for gang activity. scott, the goal is to try to stop conflicic before they start. >> adriana diaz in chicago tonight. adriana, thank you. well, here's a rarity -- a winter hurricane bearing down on the azazes, 1,700 miles off f portugal. "alex" is the first january hurricane since 1955. forecasters sait could hit the azores t torrow with 85mph winds. we don't know who the powerball winners are yet, but there are at least three who will share the largest jackpot ever, $1.6 billion. the tickets were sold in the working-class town of munford, tennessee, the l.a. suburb of
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beach, florida. the lottery boasts that the billions it rakes in goes to help public schools in most states. we wondered how that's working. turns out in michigan, not too well. anna werner is in detroit. >> reporter: photos from detroit's public schools tell the story of dilapidated buildings, many in need of emergency repair, and pest problems. a student shot this video today of a mouse roaming a district high school. patrick bosworth's eighth grade son attends a language magnet school where he says classes are either way too warm or freezing cold. >> he's gone from one class to the other, where he's wearing a ort-sleeve shirt, and then he's putting on his winter coat. >> reporter: lottery dollars were designed to help schools like these in detroit. they're often advertised as giving a big boost to education, but often that's not the case. 27 states give lottery funds to
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specifically on new programs like grants and scholarships. the 19 others, including michigan, do not use lottery profits bs additional funding for public schoolsls instead, it's used to fund the existing budget. michigan state representative sherry gay danygo. do you think it is misleading to people? >> absolutely. it is misleading. >> reporter: so people whohouy tickets thinkingngi'm helping education, do you think they're doing as much as they are? >> absolutely. they believe they are but they're absolutely not benefiting education. >> reporter: more than $740 million lottery dollars are given to michigan schools each year. gay danygo says there's no reason the buildings should be in such bad shape. >> i think that ououpriorities and our values are not aligned. i think we need to dispel the myth that the lottery is helping to improve education because it hasn't. >> reporter: michigan has the 11th largest lottery in the country, with revenues of some $2.6 billion last year.
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that went to schools was just a small portion of that. >> anna werner in lansing tonight. anna, thank you. today a memorial was held at arlington national cemetery for a tuskegee airman missing in action since 1945. second lieutenant samuel leftenant was in a midair collision while escorting bombers over austria. soldiers carried an empty casket representing his remains and ftenant's sister accccted this flag in his honor. once again there is controversy over the oscar nominations. and,here's big news and we mean big for dinosaur lovers choose to move freely. move free ultra has triple-action support for your joints, cartilage and bones in one tiny pill. move free ultra. get your move onon and now try move free night. the first and only 2-in-1 joint and sleep supplement.
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the oscar nominations were announced today. "the revenant" led with 12, including best picture, along with "the big short," "bridge of spies," "brooklyn," "mad max: fury road," "the martian," "room" and "spotlight." there were some inspiring performances by black actors, so it surprised many today that all 20 nominees for acting are white. john b@ackstone says it's th second year in a row.
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>> reporter: the announcement of the academy award nominations this morning was as notable for those who were left off the list for those who were on it. >> ...and sylvester stallone in "creed." [ applause ] >> this is bigger than they are. they have to listen to us now. >> reporter: will smith was not nominated for his performance in "concussion." r were idris elba and abraham attah chosen for their critically-acclaimed roles in "beasts of no nation". likewise, tessa thomson and michael b. jordan were ignored for highly praised performances in "creed." instead the oscar nominations went almost exclusively to white actors and directors. only the director of "the revenant," alejandro innaritu from mexico, broke into the all- white crowd. the response was immediate. on twitter, hashtag "oscars so white" went viral. it should not have come as a surprise after the same criticism m st year. this is how neil patrick harris opened the awards show. >> welcome to the 87th oscars.
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best and whitest -- sorry, brightest. >> reporter: today on "the talk," kevin frazier blamed the demographics of academy voters. >> the academy voters still 94% white, 76% male, and their average age is 63. >> reporter: those voters did select one african-american themed movie. "straight out of compton" was nominated for best original screenplay. the writererare white. john blackstone, cbs news, san francisco. >> a classically trained actor became a legendary villain.
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we come back. alan rickman was a born movie villain with a sinuous sneer and a voice that rolled in like a malevolenenfog. >> how nice to make your acquaintance. >> rickman's hans gruber tormented bruce willis in "die hard." >> do you really think you have a chance against us, mr. cow by? >> yippee kai-yay. >> mr. potter. our new celebrity. rickman n peared in eight "harry potter" films as severus snape, hogwarts' seemingly sinister professor who ultimately swore his undying ve to potter's late e ther. >> always. >> alan rickman died of cancer today in london. he was 69. there was a big premier in new york city today, really big. scientists call it a titanosaur.
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too big to fit in its room. the head and neck poke into the hallway. it probably weighed 70 tons, as much as ten african elephants, when it roamed the forests of south america 100 million years ago. up next,t,he historic powerball drawing.
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as we mentioned, one of the three winning powerball tickets was sold in chino hills, california, and mireya villarreal is there. >> chino hills, chino hills, chino hills! >> reporter: you would think someone here actually won the lottery, but most of these people like mike gradilla didn't win anything. they just showed up to celebrate one of the winning tickets being sold here. do you think the winner could be here tonight? >> it's hard to say. if i won i wouldn't be here. >> reporter: 7-11 owner balbir atwal came here in 1981 withouou knowing a word of english. the outpouring of support you're getting, how great is that? >> do you want to ask these people? >> reporter: you can ask them. >> how do you guys feel? [ applause ] >> reporter: because atwal's
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he also gets a piece of the pie, $1 million. he plans to share it with his employees. >> we were the number one lottery in the nation as far as sales go. >> reporter: california sold,386 million dollars worth of powerball tickets, at one point selling 37,000 per minute. winning tickets were also sold in munford, tennessee, and at a publix store in melbourne beach, florida. >> i was watching the news and just screamed out loud, "oh, my god, my store!" >> reporter: there were also eight $2 million winners and 73 $1 million winnene, tickets with only five matching numbers. last night's losers can still dream. saturday's powerball jackpot is a mere $40 million. mireya villarreal, cbsbsews, chino hills, california. and that's the "overnight news" for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back witit us a
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news." >> welcome to the "overnight news." i'm don dahler. the biggest lottery jackpot in history is in the books. the only miss through now is who won the powerball? winning tickets were sold in florida, tennessee, and just outside los angeles. when the winners come forward, they'll divide a jackpot of $1.6 billion. united nations nuclear inspectors are in iran, working to verify the iranians have removed the core of their nuclear reactor. it's the next step in the nunuear deal with the west which was almost scuttled this week with the capture of ten u.s. sailors in the persian gulf. david martin h that. >> reporter: the speedy released of the sailor is being portrayed by the administration as years of diplomacy with iran. though administration ficials publicly described it
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released by iran made it look like the american sailors had been captured. forced to kneel with their hands behind their heads and forced to confess on camera. >> it was a mistake and we apologize. >> reporter: that seemed at odds with secretary of state kerry's praise for how the i inians handled the incident. >> i also want to thank the iranian authorities for their cooperation and quick response. these are always situations whic as everybody here knows, have an ability, if not properly guided, to get out of control. >> reporter: both sides agreed the two boats accidently strayed into iranian territorial waters. exactly how remains unclear. after being held for 16 hours in the persian gulf, the crew was allowed to get back in their boats and sail out to this american warship. the release camam after a series of phone calls between secretary kerry and iran's foreign minister, who had developed a working relationship during the
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which iran agreed to s spend its nuclear program in return for relief from economic sanctions. the iranian foreign minister tweeted he was happy to see dialogue and respect,ot threats and impetuousness, swiftly resolve the sailor's episode. but some have been critical of the obama administration, say thing is less a diplomatic success tn a case of iran having its cake and eating it, too. >> on the one hand, they're giving the people back in an expeditious manner, which they're required under international law to do, but they make it look like it's really the american's fault. >> reporter: iran's desire not to derail the nuclear deal between the two countries may really be what resolved this. under that deal, the u.s. is expected to begin releasing about $100 billion in frozen iranian assets in the next few
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the a aress who set up sean penn's interview with mexico's most wanted drug lord said people are lying about the case. kate del castillo is speaking out. >> rorter: when mexican marines raided the household holding el chapo, there was no sign of the drug line. left behind, a stack of dvds featuring acess kate del castillo, who arranged the interview with sean penn. now for the first time since guzman's capture, del castillo is speaking publicly, tweeting -- >> reporter: the statement comes after text ssages obtained by a mexican newspaper appeared to
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had with del castillo. in one exchange, el chapo writes -- >> reporter: del castillo responds, i'm so moved that you say you'll take care of me. no one has ever cared for me. as for actor sean penn, guzman didn't seem to know who the academy award winner was. asking his lawyer in one message, what was the actor's name? and l ler confessing to looking up penn on the internet. the text messages also showed guzman's concerns that people who knew him were being monitored. turns t, he was right. the trail for guzman had gone cold until telecommunication intercepts, along with penn and castillo's travel to meet el chapo, helped u.s. and mexicic law enforcemenen narrow down the drug lord's location.
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rates helped automakers to record sales year in 2015. 17.5 million vehicles sold in america. the latest models are on display right now in detroit at the international auto show. kris van cleave is there. >> reporter: it has the feel of a fashion show. but the models are measured in tons, and the designs, think metallic chic. just unveilil, the return of lincoln's famed continental. lit be the flagship of ford's luxury brand. >> we're using the lincoln contjnental to express what we call quietluxury. >> reporter: lexus wasn't being quiet with this debut. volvo and mercedes are pushing safety. concept cars likik this oneerom buick are fan favorites. part of the reason more than 800,000 people come to this show. but also on display this year are fundamental changes going on in the auto business6
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>> they're seeing the writing on the wall that people are sharing more and more cars and it's going to be a whole different world for them. >> r rorter: gm designed its new chevy bolt for that different world. it can travel more than 200 miles on a charge and costs under $30 grand. getting a nice of the $5.3 trillion transportation service's pie means smarter cars collecting your personal data. >> we're a tececology company and more and more we're becoming an information company. >> reporter: are you talking about tracking where i'm going and what i'm doingsome >> this is not about tracking individual customers butut customers electing to share their data so that in the aggregate, we can discern patterns there. >> reporter: patterns in a business where everything is changing. kris van clelee, detroit, michigan.
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prescription drug abuse is fast becoming a plague in our nation. about 2 million americans are hooked on prescription painkillers. in 2012, 259 million prescriptions were written. that's one bottle for every american adult. so how can that be? jim axelrod and producer ashley vely found out in west virginia, a state that's attempting a drasticcsolution, allowing addicts to sue the doctors who got them hooked. >> reporter: 17 years ago, willis duncan's life changed forever, when a coal mining accident left 4i78 with a crushed sternum. >> if i didn't have ten pain pills, i wouldn't go to work. >> reporter: duncan developed a life-long addiction to painkillers when his doctor's only treatment was a never-ending supply of pills. >> the only time that you went in to see a dtor was to get your pills.
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get looked at, but the examination isn't done by a doctor? >> no. >> reporter: duncan would wait for hours to be seen for just a few minutes att this clinic where 150 patients line up every day for pain med prescriptions. did you ever say to a doctor, this has gotten out of hand, and i need help? >> no. because you done got used to them and you didn't know how to function without them. >> reporter: this cash-only operation allowed doctors to clear as much as $100,000 a wewe. >> we're in mingo county, west virginia, executing a search warrant. >> reporter: the clinic was raided and shut down in 2010. >> tre's the exam room. >> reporter: these are whaha past for exam rooms. >> main office. >> reporter: piles of trash and files, loose prescription pads, syringes. and starving birds stuck in roach-infested cages. hundreds of patient records were
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updated and presigned prescriptions for addicted pain meds likee vividin, xanax. the doctor in charge went to jail for six months for negligence. >> do a drive-by and take look. >> reporter: dea agent gary newman is investigating dozens of doctors, pharmacies and distributors throughout the state. >> we are talking in a certain sense drug traffickers and they are doing nothing but writing and cranking out prescription after prescription after prescription. >> reporter: they're pushers. >> they truly are. >> reporter: west virginia has the highest rate of overdose deaths in the nation. eachchyear, doctors write the equivalent of one painkiller prescription for every man, woman, and child in the state of 1.8 million. in the last year, the westt virginia department of health inspected 19 pain clinics. 12 were told to shut down. >> you can actually be so utressed that you can't sleep at
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>> reporter: one is run by dr. michael kastenko. he's written more than 40,000 pain kill prescriptions over the laststwo years at his clinic. he was among those o oered to stop operating as a pain clinic, but remains open. after weeks of trying to reach him, we drove out to coal untry clinic, located a the end of this narrow two-mile logging road. instead of finding the doctor, we came face-to-face with a rottweiller. shuttingngown these clinics can often take years, because these are licensed doctors, writing legal prescriptions. >> therein lies the problem. you have to be able to prove in court that their prescribing was for a nonmedical necessity or for in such an egregious ount that i iwas negligent.
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virginians now suing their doctors and pharmacies for enabling their addiction is willis duncan. >> they hurt a lot of people. i mean, it's just a bad deal all the way around. i have nothing for them. nothing for none of them. >> the state of west virginia has begun the process of shutting t tt clinic down. (cell phone rings) where are yoyo well the squirrels are back in the attic. mom? your dad won't call an exterminator... can i call you back, mom? he says it's personal this time... if you're a mom, you call at the worst time. it's what you do. if y y want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what you do. where are you? it's very loud there. are you taking a zumba class? your heart loves o oga-3s. but there's a difference between the omega-3s in fish oil
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in part two of his investigation, jim axelrod goes back to ground zero. west virginia. it's so bad there, the state is suing, accusing pharmacies and drug distributors of making millions, pushing narcotics to anyone who wants them. >> reporter: no state has had more trouble with prescription pain pilling than west virginia. d no town in west virginia more trouble than kermit, population 400. this undercover video of kermit's main pharmacy shows scores of people picking up prescriptions inside, and at the drive-through window. >> they fill more scripts for oxycodone than all but 20 pharmacies in america. >> reporter: in the country? >> in the country. >> reporter: jim cagle represents the state in the ound breaking lawsuit against pill mills and wholelele drug
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>> what you have is some bad doctors and pharmacies who are willing to turn a blind eye because of the money that's involved. >> reporter: more than 3 million doses of hydrocodone was ordered in more than one year. in 2012, he lost his license and served six months in prison for illegally dispensing drugs.s. but cagle told us the problem persists. this pharmacy, tug valley, is now being sued for negligently filling prescriptions. records show tug valley was filling more than 150 pain prescriptions a day from one clinic. we decided to ask the owner about the charges. your name is in a lawsuit, alleging substandard care. you have nothing to say to me directly? >> no.
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direction, he wouldn't respond. >> we would think that an alala bell would go off. >> reporter: west virginia secretary of health karen bowling says until now, the drug distributors have escaped scrutiny. >> if you are a distributor, providing medication, you know, to pharmacies, that someone would say, you know, wow, this is a lot. what do we need to do about it? >> reporter: that's the premise behind the unprecedented lawsuit. under west virginia's law, distributors are legal -- from pharmacies. >> if that distributor has good reason to believe that the prescriptions s at are being filled are not for legitimate medical purposes, they are not to make that delivery. >> r rorter: they have an obligation ligation? >> they have a duty, yes. >> reporter: amerisourcebergen
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state. they filled over 118 million orders for pain pills, enough to supply every west virginian 13 pain pills every year. that's scary math. >> yes, it is. what i would refer to as a business plan. a businesslan by people that are not honorable people. >eporter: we reached out to lawyers for amerisourcebergen. they told us they couldn't comment. this trial is set to beginn october. jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. in just over a month from now, the music industry will honor its brightest stars at the grammys. anthony mason sat down with one of the fresh faces up for best new artist award, james bay. >> reporter: only a few years ago, 25-year-old james bayay was playing london pubs, just trying
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but 2015 changed all that. you had a pretty amazing year. >> 2015 was pretty strong. i had a good time, yeah. it was great. >> reporter: his debut alalm, whwhh features his hit song "hold back the river," went to number one in britain. he performed his other hit single "let it go" with ed sheeren. and he impressed the rolling stone's ronnie wood. >> new people don't often do that to me. >> reporter: who gave him britain's gq award for breakthrough artist, then joined him on stage at a london concert. >> these surreal things. it's hard to talk about them as if they happened but they did. >> reporter: at the end of the
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>> we were in the back of the minds. the other two? 2015 was great. >> reporter: now he's the latest british musical export trying to make it in america. >> it's a big prize. that's exciting. i can'get away from that, and i i n't know if it ever makes me sound naive or anything. at the end of the day, i'm willing to take it on. >> reporter: it's a little like guitarer in nirvana in here. >> i'm always drawn to the weird color. >> reporter: this is a beautiful color. he picked upis first guitar when he was 11. in hitchen, a town about an hour north of london, he taught
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local band. >> it was a big deal. this is the holy grail of gigs in hitchen. >> reporter: but bay h!d greer ambitions. >> giving myself a shot at something more than the buzz we got from playing in a pub to a lot of people. >> reporter: hetarted performing solo. >> when i first got in front of a mike on stage and it was just me, i started to, you know, find out about what i could do. >> repororr: did you like beiei up there? >> yeah. yeah, i really did. >> reporter: then a fan posted a video to youtube. >> it had like 20 plays on youtube, 22 maybe. but we got the call from a record label in new york who found it somehow. and really liked it. >> reporter: what were you thinking at that point?
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>> reporter: signed by republic records, suddenly james bay was on his way. did you have a plan b? >> no. well, drawing. not the best plan b, i don't think. >> reporter: he still draws on the road. band mates, rock heroes, selfies, featuring his now signature headgear. where did the hat come from? everybodyyks. >> where did the hat come from? it was a very sort of kind of teenage fashion move. [ laughter ] no other way to put it. >> reporter: and you just liked it and it stuck? >> exactly. i would like to hang around a little longer than i've already hung around and i'l embarrassed by a prostate exam? imagine how your doctor feels. as a urologist, i have performed 9,421 and a half prostate exams. so why do i do it?
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a new strain of dog flu is
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so far, at least,000 dogs have been affected in 25 states. adriana diaz is in chicago, site of the first outbreak ofhat virus. >> reporter: here in chicago, the flu sprprd so quickly last year, that some shelters had to close their doors to prevent it from spreading. here they've treated more than 303 sick dogs and h hsed somee temporarily while they recover. all of these dogs are healthy, but vets are paying close attention to make sure none develop symptoms. ashley lease walks dogs in the seattle area. shshs paying extra close attention to her four legged friends. after warnings about the new strain of dog flu. >> they can get sick just like us. i know how much i hate being sick. >> reporter: county health officials say up to 90 dogs in this kennel may have been exposed to the virus. two have tested positive for the flu, but f fther testsre needed to confirm it's the new strain.
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immunity to fight it off, so you knee large numbers of dogs getting ill. when dogs are going to dog ycares or dog parks or boarding overnight in fennel facilities, it can spread rapidly. >> reporter: cases showed up laut march in chigo and spread quickly. around 2,000 dogs in 24 states have been infected. a vaccine was made available in november. vets say the disease is rarely fatal, but owners should see a vet rigig away if their dog shows symptoms. >> if your dog doesn't eat well, and this is a meal, you see coughing, just being tired, moping a aund, it could be a sign of a fever. if you see that, schedule an appointment, because they'll need to get on some special medications for it. >> reporter: pet owners inhe seattle area are concerned. the health department says their facebook posts outlining the symptoms has been viewed 189,000
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local vets are now stocking up on the vaccine. while the virus is no laughingg matter, this viral video features a chicago pup named herbert who is putting on a brave face while recovering from flu. >> dogs are household members and often timim they're l le kids in the family and people want to take care of their pets and keep them safe. >> reporter: humans can't contract the virus, but they can spread it to healthy dogs after close contact with a sick dog. by the way, all of these puppies are available for adoption. so guys, just let me know which one you like. >> that'she "overnight news" for this friday. for some of you, the news continueue for others, check back with us a little later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm don dahler.
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