>> reporter: several emergency management officials say it is still too early to know the full extent of the damage. scott, that's because they say about half the properties along the shore are vacant until the spring. >> jericka duncan reporting. thank you. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. >> we ask on every story is it right, fair, honest. that's when we know we can report the facts. >> announcer: the cbs "evening news" wi scott pelley.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

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essentlly in a dead heat. here is nanay cordes. >> let's go get them. >> reporter: with a week to go, bernie sanders is trying to emulate president obama's winning formula from eight years ago down to the feel-good ads, and army of young volunteers. >> we are from the bernie sanders campaign. >> reporter: in a pod cast interview with politico, the president rejected the comparison. >> no, i don't think that is true. >> and gushed about his former secretary of state. saying her skills are being overlooked. >> she has been in)the public eye for a long time and in a culture in which new is always better. >> right. >> and -- you know, you are always looking at the bright, shiny object that people don't, haven't seen before. >> reporter: that bright, shiny

democrats that he understand how they feel. compared to 65% who say that about clininn. in iowa falls today, kerry aldridge opened to sanders about her struggle to get by. >> i'm waiting for disability to come through. so my parents have to support me. it's just so hard. >> thank you. thank you. >> we are one week away. >> reporter: it is clinton who has won the endorsement of iowa's largest newspaper. she is not a perfect candidate. "the des moines register" says, but no other candidate can match the depth or breadth of her knowledge or experience. an argument clinton makes at every stop. >> we need a president who understand and can do all parts of the job. >> president obama isn't officially endorsing either candidate. but he made it pretty clear where he stands.

and saying "she was a fierce competitor in 2008" who o ke ginger rogogs had to do everything he did just backwards and in heels. >> the old ross perot line from '92. nancy, thank you very much. the race among the republicans nearar as close. our battleground tracker p pl shows donald trump ahead of ted cruz, but within the polls margin of error. here is major garrett. >> we're in the final spriri. 2 hours. >> reporter: ted cruz and donald trump locked in a bitter fight for first in iowa. cruz tried to lighten the mood with a joke about trump's recent erroneous effort to second corinthians as 2 corinthians. >> well, two corinthians walk into a bar. >> reporter: there is thing lilit about this ad questioning trump's credentials. >> i'm pro-choice in every respect. >> does this sound conservative. >> i am pro-choice in every

>> reporter: trump hid cruz saying he would not support him as the the gop nomee. >> i wouldn't voteor him. i cab tell you that. 2> reporter: trump reversed course on backing cruz and offered this odd praise of his loyalists. >> i have the most loyal people. did you ever see that? where i could stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot somebody. i wouldn't lose any voters, okay, like incredible. >> i will introduce someone who is very near and dear to my heart. >> reporter: iowa, joni ernst appeared with marco rubio. it gave momentum to a campaign vying for a strong third in r home state. >> she made a promise. i respect that. i was glad she was here to introduce us to the people of iowa. >> rubio supporters, define a strong finish in iowa anything above 15%. scott, that is a figure they argue would separate rubio from bush, christie and kasich and give him a shot at second place in new hampshire. >> major investigate, thanks.

billionaire, flirting with the presidential run, former mayor michael bloomberg, democrat turned republican, turned independent. so we will turn to our cbs news political director and anchor of "face the nation" john dickerson. what do we know about bloomberg's plans? >> he is seriously considering jumping into theheace. long wanted to run for president. he would run if it looks like it is gng to be a general election race beeen donald trp or ted cruz and bebeie sanders. he believes those representatives s the wings of the two parties would create an appetite for a candidate in the middle who is fiscally conservative and socially liberal. the challenge is to collect the signatures to geon ballot process starts march 1. there may not be a clear signal about either party by that date. >> what are some obstacles? >> he has no parar the he has no organization. he would have to build all of

democrats and republicans start with a huge lead in electoral college votes in a lot of the states that traditionally vote for those parties. bloomberg would have to compete on a much bigger playing field than democrats or republicans because he starts with no states in his column. and that kind of a campaign would require a brushfire, tended by a charismatic politician who couou rouse people and keep them excited for months. that's not the kind of politician he is. he is more known for his policy ideas than his stirring speeches. >> john dickerson, anchor of face the nation. watching you sunday. thank you, john. late today in houston, a grand jury investigating allegations of wrongdoing by planned parenthood, , dn't find any. instead, the jury indicted planned parenthood's accusers. two anti-abortion activists who shot undercover video of planned parenthood employees discussing the sale of aborted fetal tissue for research. the charges include, tampering with a government record, but the dadaouldn't say today whwh

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>> yeah. >> just no way to live. >> reporter: the order came this afternoon. notices going up that the building is unsafe. monica montoya has to be out by tonight. >> we have no clue. >> how long have you been here? >> two months. just got in. got my place. housing. just moved in. >> reporter: el nino powered storms, high surf and heavy rains destructive along much of the california coast this year. but nowhere has the damage been more threatening than in pacifica. >> i love it here. this has been my dream all my life to live by the ocean. like right by it. >> reporter: pacifica has sese it all before. in 1998, the last time, major el nino storms hit california. the bluffs here eroded so quickly. residents fled before one home tumbled into the ocean. other houses were knocked down before they too fell off the cliff. in 2010, two of the apartment buildings on the bluff were evacuated and condemned. the building condemned today

again began falling away. the powerful winter storms that have been hitting california are predicted to continue into march. that's good news for easing the drought, scott, but bad news for places like pacifica, threatened by coastal erosion. >> john blackstone reporting. john, thank you. >> an explorer left a haunting message when he realized he would not make history in

that's next. a british ex-plrer died today of organ failures, days

while trying to become the first to cross the antarctic alone. henry worsley was 30 miles from completing a 1,000 mile journey when on friday he called for help and was air lifted to chile. in his final message he said "i have run out of time and physical endurance." worsley was 55. the hunt is on for three men who broke out of an orange county california jail. awaiting trial for violent crimes. on friday, they cut through a metal grille, then steel bars, and climbed down five stories on bed sheets. noticed. the schools were closed today in d.c., so flurries of children fell on capitol hill. a 140-year-old ban on sledding was lifted there. and our photographer, brian thuske got into the action. >> you all right? >> yeah. thank you.

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>> reporter: she wears a lot of pink. and has an infectious giggle. but there is another side to mahiro takano. she has a black belt in karate and three time national champion in japan. >> you are so sweet to talk with. but you look so serious, so scary when you are out there. >> translator: when i am training or competing i am concentrating she said. there is a lot at stake for this 9-year-old who stands about 4 feet tall. i am an ambassador for karate she said, hopefully it will become an olympic sport. she has raised karate's profile ahead of japan's 2020 olympics. she appears on commercials. in a music video.

sport of warriors. which dates back centuries. at a competition outside tokyo, we saw her, poise, power, and precision. we had to ask about the ki-al, the guttural noise that shows strength. scan you make the sound for me now, sitting here. go ahead. aye! >> wow, you can do it at any time. >> i am scared. >> reporter: you get scared of her? >> yes. >> as the coach? >> yes. takano kikuchi who coaches mahiro's older brother.

>> when she started at my dojo. she was different from the start. >> reporter: mahiro would be too young to participate if karate gets a slot at the 2020 olympics. that's all right she wants to compete at the olympics after that. she may wear a lot of pink but tells us her favorite color is gold. seth doane, cbs news, nagaoka, japan. that's the "overnightnews" for tuesday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back a little later for the morning news and of course "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm scott pelley. welcome to the overnight y news. the manhunt continues in southern california for three inmates who made a daring prison break that could have been

the men cut through metal, crawled through plumbing tunnels, and dropped down from the prison roof using bed sheets. it happened at the maximum security orange county central jail in santa ana. danielle knotting ham reports. >> reporter: jail officials say the men were accounted for friday morning security check. guards didn't realize the men were gone until a second body check at 8:00 p.m. jailers warn the three accused felons should be considered armed and dangerous. investigators say this grainy surveillance video shows the three men on an unguarded area of the roof of the orange county central men's jail. shortly after a 5:00 a.m. friday security check. from there, they were able to to their escape.

sophisticated operation. where they were allowed to go through some security access points. and had some tools that allowed them to do that. >> reporter: jail officials say the inmates cut their way through a steel screen inside their dormitory y yle cell and made their way into plumbing tunnels. from there the men bypassed three security areas. and gained access to the jail's roof. and used a make shift rope braided to reach the ground. the three men were in county custody facing charges for serious crimes. one was held on $1 million bail for charges including murder. the 37-year-old was held without bail, charged with kidnapping, torture and burglary. the 43-year-old faces charges of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and ex-felon in possession of a firearm. the first escape from this jail in more than two decades. >> escapes do occur from time to time. people in jail have a lot of time to sit around and think about ways to defeat our systems. >> reporter: investigators don't know what tools the inmates used, how they got the tools or

local and federal officials are appealing to the public and the u.s. marshals and the fbi have joined orange county law enforcement in the search offering a reward up to $50,000. on the presidential campaign trail, the iowa caucuses are less than a week away. the cbs news battleground tracker find bernie sanders leading hillary clinton by one point in iowa. 47% to 46%. but in new hampshire, the senatofrom neighboring rmont, holds a 19-point lead. as for the republicans, donald trump is back on top in iowa. with a five-point lead over ted cruz. in new hampshire, it's trump with 34%. cruz at 16%. followed by marco rubio and john kasich. both at 14%. major garrett has more. cheers and applause ] >> reporter: donald trump stormed across iowa and gave supporters an uncommonly combing compliment. >> i have the most loyal people, i could stand in the middle of fifth avenue, shoot somebody.

it's incredible. >> reporter: not exactly the new york values everyone has been talking about. trump supporters s sw up in droves as he stumped with the republican senator charles grassley. wasn't an endorsement but a blow to senate colleague ted cruz. the cruz campaign took aim at trump on another front, embrace of government power to seize private property. >> i take eminent domain is wonderful. >> it made him rich. >> reporter: the essence of the campaign ad, that trump tried to bulldoze the home of an elderly woman to pave e e way for casino parking lot. >> a false commercial. never took the house. eminent domain is a positive thing not negative thing. >> cruz continued to question trump's recent conversion to conservatism. >> if a republican candidate for president supported barack obama's stimulus and said the only problem it need to be

is there any chance on earth that individual would actually stand up to the cronyism and cartel in washington? >> reporter: a message amplified by conservative radio host glenn beck. >> if donald trump wins, it's going to be a snowball to hell. >> reporter: "the des moines register" the late's largest newspaper looked past trump and cruz and endorsed rubio, a candidate who could d art a new direction for the gop. the register guessed the nominee correctly in the last four republican caucus endorsements. >> the tsunami in 2011 is still fresh in the minds of many people. could it happen here? some communities in the pacific northwest aren't taking any chances. don dahler reports. >> repepter: during their regular earthquake and tsunami drills, stududts at this elementary school in westport, washington practice going to the top floor. with the pacific ocean a few thousand feet away, scientists

because the tsunami could be higher than the school. that's why construction workers are rarang to finish this vertical evacuation structure. the first of its kind in north america. the shelter sits on the roof of a new school. rising 44 feet high, with 14 inch thick walls. it could save thousand of students and resididts seeking refuge. like the japanese earthquake and tsunamis in 2011. that killed nearly 16,000. seismologists say there is an impending disaster coming this way. 70 miles off america's pacific northwest from northern california to vancouver island, sits the fault line, the cascadia subduction zone where the oceanic plate is being forced under the north american plate. buckles.

until after a few hundred years it has to let go. >> reporter: for 25 years, oregon state earthquake geologist chris goldfinger warned of the possibility y disaster. he and other scientists have been selecting core samples of sediment from the ocean floor. >> sand layers you can see are, we believe, past earthquakes. >> reporter: they discovered major earthquakes happen here, every 240 years. the last m mor cascadia earthquake was 315 years ago. the big one scientists say is overdue. >> there is nothing that compares to magnitude 9 earthquake that north h erica has experienced in human history. >> reporter: similar to what happened in japan, fema estimates in that case a tsunami could hit some areas within 15 minutes. collapsed roads and bridges could cut off coastal towns and main your cities look portland, olympia and seattle potentially stranding 7 million people. kevin murphy is the fema regional administrator.

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year's huge data breach where hackers working for a foreign government believed to be china downloaded nearly 22 million personnel files. there is no word on when the new system will come online. meantime, private u.s. companies are also feeling the heat from china's online espionage. lesley stahl reporor for "60 minutes." >> they're targeting private companies. not a fair fight. a private company can't compete against the resources of the second largest economy in the world. >> reporter: the assistant attorney general for cyberattacks and increasingly economic espionage. >> this is a serious threat to our national security. our economy depends on ability to innovate. if there is a dedicated nation state using intelligence apparatus to steal day in, day out what we are frying to develop. >> reporter: what is their

government's ultimatatgoal? >> they want to develop certain segments of industry and instead of trying to out innovate, outresearch, outdevelop, they are choosing to do it through theft. >> reporter: all you have to do he says is look at the economic plans published periodically by the chinese politboro. they are according to the report, invent ip, in effect blue prints of what industries and what companies wililbe targeted for theft. >> we see them put out the strategic plan. then we see actions follow that plan. we see, intrusion after intrusion on u.s. companies. >> do you have of a number of u.s. companies that have been hit? >> it is thousand of actually companies. >> thoususd of u.s. companies.s. >> u.s. companies. >> reporter: getting ceoeofrom the companies to talk is

most have business in china and don't want to be cut of of its huge market. daniel mcgann, head of amemecan susur conductor is an exception. his firm spent years and millions developing advanced computer software for wind turbines that mcgann says china looted nearly putting him of business. he is talking because he wants to fight back. >> i a apersonally never going to give this up. too many lives were affected. too many families were damaged through this. we can never give of on this. >> reporter: you had to fire 600 people. >> yes. >> reporter: out of how many jobs? >> at the time we were almost 900. >> so how much did you lose in share value? >> total loss is well over $1 billion. >> reporter: today his factory floor is largely silent. a shadow of the once thriving company. >> i think part of the strategy in all of this was to kill us. >> reporter: set out to kill you? >> kill the compy. >> reporter:ow can he be sure? well his story begins when china passed a clean energy law in 2005 calling for creation of

country. the law made china the hottest wind power market in the world. so mcgann partnered with a small chinese firm, sinovel partly owned by the government. sinovel made skeletons of the turbines and american superconduduor, the gadgetry and computer code to run them. they actually built the turbine. >> they make the turbine we make the controls. >> did they make the turbines with your brains in them? for the entire country of china? >> yes. >> reporter: when he went into business there, china was already notorious for poaching american intellectual property. so he says he did everything he could think of to protect his technology from being stolen. >> we made sure that any software, any, any -- pieces of the code, were restricted and used, to be able to be accessed

company. >> reporter: once they got everything over there, couldn't they reverse engineer it? >> we believe that's what nay tried to do. what they learned the encrypted protocol was in the way didn't understand how it worked couldn't reverse engineer it. >> everybody knows if it is on the internet some brilliant hacker can get at it? >> it wasn't accessible through the internet. >> you kept it off the internet? >> yes. >> it sound look you built a little fortress around your, your precious codes. >> we certainly tried. >> reporter: initially business boomed in china for american superconductor with sales skyrocketing from $50 million a year to nearly half a billion. >> we were going through exponential growth. it is what every technology company wants to get to. is this high level growth. we were there. >> reporter: then in 2011, his engineers were testing the next generation software in china on sinovel's turbines.

down after the test. but the blade didn't shut down they never stopped spinning. >> so we said why? we didn't really know. the team looks at the turbine and saw running on our hardware a version of software that had not been released yet. >> that's when you realized. >> realized something is wrong. so then we had to figure out how could this have happened. >> reporter: to find out he launched an internal investigation and narrowed it done to this man, an employee of american superconductor based in austria. he was one of the few people in the company with access to its proprietary software. he also spent a lot of time of in china working with sinovel. >> what they did is they used cold war era spy craft to be able to turn him. >> they turned him. >> and make him into an agent for them. >> do you know any specifics what they offered him? >> offered him women. offered him an apartment, money. a new life.

included a $1.7 million contract that was spelled out in e-mails and instant messages that gann's investigation found on his company computer. in this one, from him to a sinovel executive, he lays out the quid pro quo. all girls need money. i need girls. sinovel needs me. sinovel executives showered him with flattery. couragement, you arerehe "best man like superman." man lake superman." >> did they say we want the source codes? >> all most like a grocery list. can you get us a, can you get us b, can you got us c? >> i have seen one of the messages, text message. in which he says, i will send the full code of course. >> the full code for operating their wind turbine. >> he eventually confessed to authorities in austria. and spent a year in jail. not surprisingly, the chinese

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the super bowl returns to cbs when the denver broncos take the field against the carolina panthers a week from sunday. the super bowl match up comes after a pair of exciting conference championship games. one featured perhaps the final version of peyton n nning versus tom brady. the other the emergence of the panthers potential mvp quarterback, cam newton. james brown s a look.

the last match up between tom brady and peyton manning. as you mention about carolina, there is a star in cam newton who is shining very brightly. >ere is brady. rolling ouou rolling. throwing. tipped in the air. and it is intercepted. >> this may have been peyton manning's most satisfying victory in a long, storied, nfl career. not because he beat tom brady and the patriots team that always seems to have his number, but becacae the the 39-year-olol manning doesn't always beat teams with his arm anymore. >> can you believe it he has a first down. >> he beats them with his experience. >> look at the disbelief. >> quarterback tom brady who always seems to thrive under the brightest of lights was harassed by a stifling denver defense all afternoon.n. >> he is taken down. this will be manning's fourth super bowl appearance. now the oldest quarterback to lead a team to the big game in nfl history. >> going to our second super bowl in four years is very

and, just, also, our entire team. what an incredible effort by the patriots to beat that te today. very s scial win. >> he is in for the touchdown! >> reporter: but football is a young man's game. and the carolina panthers may have t t best young quarterback in the natioiol football league. >> newton steps into it. >> reporter: 26-year-old cam newton and carolina panthers dismandateled -- dismanteled the cacainals in the e c championship game e 34 points. setting up a showdown between signal callers, a generation apart. peyton manning is 13 years newton's senior. the largest age difference between super bowl starting quarterbacks in nfl history. >> i don't know who we are playing yet. we will be ready to go in two weeks. >> playing denver and peyton manning. ever think in the super bowl you would oppose him. >> an way we are going to live

and be excited. frozen in place. >> it is the worst i have ever seen. >> the road to recovery is buried under snow and ice water. also tonight, a real cliffhanger. homes at risk of falling into the pacific. the candidates agree on one thing. >> we have a week to go. >> one week away. >> 172hours. and a pint-sized martial

heart of a usually unflappable reporter. >> can you make that sound for me now? >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." the nation's capital and the nation's'sargest city are struggling to recover from a blizzard they will be talking about for years. the storm is blamed for at least 45 deaths in 11 states. mostly from car accidents and snow shoveling. nearly 27 inches of snow rose on the sidewalks of new york. parts of washington got 22. but glen gary, west virginia, population 277 takes the prize with 42 inches. we have a team of correspondents on the blizzard of '16. first kris van cleave in d.c. >> be careful! >> reporter: washington, d.c.'s government is using everything

nearly 2 feet of snow. man, machine, even bigger machine to scoop it up and haul it away. in some areas it barely made a difference. people were toto to stay home. many schools remain closed until at least wednesday. some streets have yet to be touched by snowplows. d.c.'s metro worked to clear the tracks as it tries to restore ll service sometime tutuday. >> we want the city back now. just like everybody else does. >> reporter: emergency management director, chris geldart. you look at manhattan got m me snow t tn d.c. andhey in much quicker order were back to school in session, roads being clear, there is more that should have been done here in the district? >> here in the district, we know our conditions and what our roadways look like and for our residents and children out there making the best decision we can make here. >> reporter: robert greffenius' wife is 39 weeks pregnant. spent the day shoveling a path to the car.

fun? >> uh, about 20 minutes ago, probably. >> reporter: one block over, the only thing moving was a snow-loving dog. mara fedele, a bit of an island surrounded by a sea of snow. >> somebody needed to gipt. ambubunce, firetrtrk, doesn't look like any time soon. >> reporter: in the suburbs where more snow fell, 70-year-old steve melnikoff spent five hours, shoveling his driveway when a plow left him this. >> i am almost so outraged by the state, libel to have a stroke thinking abut it rather than shoveling it. >> repepter: the city admits it could take all week to finish the clean-up. the snow they have removed ends up here. and there is a lot of it but the big unanswered question here, will the city be ready when commuters come back to work. scott, another snow-induced gridlock could take frayed patience and turn night ager. >> the mayornnounced the

schools on wednesday. thanks very much. in new york, the biggest snowfall ever in a single day. david begna has found it is a royal pain in the borough of queens. david. >> reporter: this street looks like a ski slope, two days since the blizzard moved through here. look at the cars they're still stuck. people waiting to get out of here and get to w wk waiting on the city to bring in a snowplow, worry the snow will turn to ice and plowing nearly impossible. 62-year-old gicu tudora spent45 minutes shoveling snow around her vehicle. neighbor dennis mooney has seen front-end loaders clearing snow around queens. >> the worst i have ever seen. never seen anything g ke this before in my life. >> reporter: 22-year-old caterina cusenxa needed her car to got to work. >> this is a little ridiculous.

city streets have been plowed following the storm. but the streets of maspeth in queens are not among them. gino fazos sent 30 employees home for unpaid day off. >> we don't understand why always this area neglected every time there is a major storm. >> reporter: the storm dropped 27 inches in 24 hours. at times it was falling nearly 3 inches an hour. but most of new york city recovered quickly. bill deblasio. a lot of good work happened. you can get around the city by and large. lot to be proud of. if i'm living on one of the blocks i am going to be upset. i want to get my block cleared. >> reporter: back in maspeth, marie terrrrova is waiting to be plowed out. in new york city, ten people died while shoveling snow. scott, so much snow left to shovel, the city is hiring emergency shovellers the iff you

to work for $13.50 an hour. they want you. >> thank you very much. speaking of queens the two big airports there, la guardia and j.f.k. had 400 flights canceled today. but that is down from 1,300 yesterday. since friday the blizzard forced cancellation of more than 13,000 flights. throughoututhe country.y. >it may be that the biggest destruction was along the jersey shore. which was inundated at high tide. and jericka duncan is there. >> reporter: this iss what west wildwood avenue looked like when the storm hit. 2 feet of water flooded homes and businesses. in nearby cape may, there were record tides. more than a half a foot highehe than when superstorm sandy hit in 2012. so you lost everything? >> yes. >> reporter: sue maxwell of wildwood says she ran to a neighboror house. >> i could hear gurgling, and the water rushed up, didn't come in, it came up.

shore, the powerful storm surge slammed many coastal communities. drivers were left stranded as chunks of ice floated down the streets. close to 100 people were evacuated. even army humvees at times the only vehicles that could roll through. on sunday, governor chris christie gave an early assessment. >> the high tide this morning was survived very well by the people in cape may county. only minor to moderatee flooding. mostly street flooding. we dent see any significant property damage happening in cape may county. >> reporter: turns out christie spoke too soon. today his lieutenant-governor, kim gaudagno had to clarify for her boss. >> was there more damage that you and the governor originally thought along the shore? >> there are going to be dayay when you havav really ugly tides. that doesn't make it any easier on anybody. i lived through sandy. i lost half my house in sandy. i know how hard it is for people

>> reporter: several emergency management officials say it is still too early to know the full extent of the damage. scott, that's because they say about half the properties along the shore are vacant until the spring. >> jericka duncan reporting. thank you. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. [ vocalizingng [ buzzing ] [ tree crashes ] [ wind howling ]

well today president obama clinton. seven days before the first president. this may be one reasonhy our new cbs news battleground tracker poll in i ia shows clinton and bernie sanders

here is nancy cordes. >> let's go get them. >> reporter: with a week to go, bernie sanders is trying to emulate president obama's winning formula from eight years ago down to the feel-goo ads, and army o young volunteers. >e are from the berniee sanders campaign. >> reporter: in a pod cast interview with politico, the president rejected the comparison. >> no, i don't think that is true. >> and gushed about his former secretary of state. saying her skills are being overlooked. >> she has been in the public eye for a long time and in a culture in which new is always better. >> right. >> and -- you know, you are always looking at the bright, shiny object that people don't, haven't seen before. >> reporter: that bright, shiny object has convinced 85% of iowa democrats that he understand how they feel. compared to 65% who say that

in iowa falls today, kerry aldridge opened to sanders about her struggle to get by. >> i'm waiting for disability to come throroh. so my parents have to support me. it's just so hard. >> thank you. thank you. >> we are one week away. >> repororr: it islinton who has won the endorsement of iowa's largest newspaper. she is not a perfect candidate. "the des moines register" says, but no other candidate can matat the depth o o breadth of her knowledge or experience. an argument clinton makes at every stop. >> we need a president who understand and can do all parts of the job. >> president obama isn't officially endorsing either candidate. but he made it pretty clear where he stands. calling clinton "wicked smart" ansaying "she was a fierce

everything he did just backwards and in heels. >> the old ross perot line from '92. nancy, thank you very much. the race among the republicans nearly as close. our battleground tracker poll shows donald trump ahead of ted cruz, but within the polls margin of ererr. here is major garrett. >> we're in the final sprint. 172 hours. >> reporter: ted cruz and donald trump locked in a bitter fight for first in iowa. cruz tried to lighten the mood with a joke about trump's recent erroneous effort to second corinthians as 2 rinthians. >> well, two corinthians walk into a bar. >> reporter: there is nothing light about this ad questioning trump's credentials. >> i'm pro-choice in every respect. >> does this sound conservative. >> i am pro-choice in every respect. >> reporter: trump hid cruz saying he would not support him as the the gop nominee.

i can tell you that. >> reporter: trump reversed course on backing cruz and offered this odd praise of his loyalists. >> i have the most loyal people. did you seefr that. where i could stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot somebody. i wouldn't lose any voters, okay, like incredible. >> i will introduce someone who is very near and dear to my heart. >> reporter: iowa, joni ernst appeared with marco rubio. it gave momentum to a campaign vying for a strong third in her home state. >> she made a propmise. i respect that. i was glad she was here to introduce us to the people of iowa. >> rubio supporters, define a strong finish in iowa anything ove 15%. scott, that is a a figure they argue would separate rubio from bush, christie and kasich and give him a shot at second place in new hampshire. >> major investigate, thanks. anoththew york

presidential run, former mayor michael bloomberg, democrat turned republican, turned independent. so we will turn to our cbs news political dirececr and anchor of "face the nation" john dickerson. what do we know about bloomberg's plans? >> he is seriously considering jumping into the race. long wanted to run for president. he would run if it looks like it is going to be a general election race between donald trump or ted cruz and bernie sanders. he believes those representatives of the wings of the two parties wouldld create an appetite for a candidate in the middle who is fiscally conservative and socially liberal. the challenge is to collect the signatures to get on ballot process starts march 1. there may not be a clear signal about either party by that date. >> what are some obstacles? >> he has no party the he has no organization. he would haveeo build all of that from scratch. democrats and republicans start with a huge lead in electoral college votes in a lot of the

for those parties. bloomberg would have to compete on a much bigger playing field than democrats or republicans because he starts with no states in his column. and that kind of a campaign would require a brushfire, tended by a charismatic politician who could rouse people and keep them excited for months. that's not the kind of politician he is. he is more known for his policy ideas than his stirring speeches. >> john dickerson, anchor of face the nation. watching you sunday. thank you, john. late today in houston, a grand jury investigating allegations of wrongdoing by planned parenthood, didn't find any. instead, the jury indicted planned parenthood's accusers. two anti-abortion activists who shot undercover video of planned parenthood employees discussing the sale of aborted fetal tissue for research. the charges include, tampering with a government record, but the da wouldn't say today what

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>> let's talk trade. >> how do you think this debate will shake things up? >> how many american troops would you leave on the ground? nomination. >> well we just saw what the ocean hassone to the jersey shore. but in the west, after four years of drought, el nino kicked in wit crushing waves and pounding rains that have left homeowners on the edge. here's john blackstone. >> as the cliffs in pacifica lifornia collapse dramatically into the notion an apartment building teeters on the edge comes closer to falling in as well. for residents living in the building the sea view from their balconies presents more danger than beauty. >> we heard a boom, boom, what is that? walking out the door. >> reporter: michael mchenry was packed to leave at short notice. >> i can't continue to have a professional work life and social life as well as not know when i come homom my property will be ththe. >> yeah.

>> reporter: the order came this afternoon. notices going up that the building is unsafe. monica montoya has to be out by night. >> we have no clue. >> how long have you been here? >> two months. just got in. got my place. housing. just moved in. >> reporter: el nino powered storms, high surf and heavy rains destructive along much of the california coast this year. but nowhere has the damage been more threatening than in pacifica. i love it here. this has been my dream all my life to live by the ocean. like right by it. >> reporter: pacifica has seen it all before. 1998, the last time, major el nino storms hihi califofoia. the bluffs heree eroded so quickly. residents fled before one home tumbled into the ocean. other houses were knocked down before they too fell off the cliff. inin2010, two of the apartment buildings on the bluff were

the building condemned today seemed safer until the cliff again began falling away. the powerful winter storms that have been hitting california are predicted to continue into march. that's good news for easing the drought, scott, but bad news for places like pacifica,hreatened by coastal erosion. >> john blackstone reporting. john, thank you. >> an explorer left a haunting ssage when he realized he antarctica. that's next. >> many stories, big or small al affect you one way or another the we ask on every story -- is it right? is it fair? is it honest? we are going to the original source. the people who know. and that's when we know we can report the facts.

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to cross the antarctica alone. henry worsley was 30 miles from completing a 1,000 mile journey when on friday he called for help and was air lifted to chile. in his final message he said "i have run out of time and physical endurance." worsley was 55. the hunt is on for three men who broke out of an orange county california jail. crimes. on friday, they cut through a metal grille, then steel bars, and climbed down five stories on bed sheets. it was 16 hours before anyone noticed. the schools were closed today in d.c., so flurries of children fell on capitol hill. a 140-year-old ban on sledding was lifted there. and our photographer, brian thuske got into the action. >> you all right? >> yeah. thank you.

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kid. seth don'tane met h h in japan. >> reporter: she wears a lot of pink. and has an infectious giggle. but there is another side to mahiro takano. she has a black belt in ka rarate and three time national champion in japan. >> you are so sweet to talk with. but you look so serious, so scary when you are out there. >> translator: when i am training or competing i am concentrating shehe said. there is a a lot at stake for this 9-year-old who stands about 4 feet tall. i am an ambassador for karate she said, hopefully it will become an olympic sport. she has raised karate's profile ahead of japan's 2020 olympics. she appears on commercials. in a music video. and is a fresh face for this sport of warriors. which dates back centuries. at a competition outside tokyo,

precision. we had to ask about the ki-al, the guttural noise that shows strength. scan you make the sound for me now, sitting here. gogohead. aye! >> wow, you can do it at any time. >> i am scared. >> reporter: you get scared of her? >> yes. >> as the coach? >> yes. takano kikuchchwho coaches mahiro's older brother. says she boosted popularity. >> when she started at my dojo. she was different from the start. >> reporter: mahiro would be too young to participate if karate gets a slot at the 2020 olympics. that's all right she wants to compete at the olympics after

she may wear a lot of pink but tells us her favorite color is gold. seth doane, cbs news, nagaoka, japan. that's the "overnightht news" for tuesday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back a little later for the morning news and of course "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm scott pelley. welcome to the overnightt news. the manhunt continues in southern california for three inmates who made a daring prison break that could have been written in hollywood. the men cut through metal, crawled through plumbing tunnels, and dropped down from

it happened at the maximum security orange county central jail in santa ana. danielle knotting ham reports. >> reporter: jail officials say the men were accounted for friday morning security check. guards didn't realize the men were gone until a second body check at 8:00 p.m. jailers warn the three accused felons should be considered armed and dangerous. investigators say this giny surveillance video shows the three men on an unguarded area of the roof of the orange county central men's jail. shortly after a 5:00 a.m. friday security check. from there, they were able to rappel down nearly five floorss to their escape. >> it appears to be a very sophisticated operation. where they were allowed to go through some security access points. and had some tools that allowed them to do that. >> repepter: jail officials say the inmates cut their way through a steel screen inside their dormitory style cell and

tunnels. from there the men bypassed three security areas. and gained access to the jail's roof. and used a make shift rope braided to reach the ground. the three m were i county custody facingharges for serious krielzcrimes. one was held on $1 million bail for charges including murder. the 37-year-old was held without bail, charged with kidnapping, torture and burglary. the 43-year-old faces charges of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and ex-felon in possession of f firearm. the first escape from this jail in more than two decades. >> escapes do occur from time to time. people in jail have a lot of time to sit around and think about ways to defeat our systems. >> reporter: investigators don't know what tools the inmates used, how they got the tools or whether they had any help. local and federal officials are

u.s. marshals and the fbi have joined orange county law enforcement in the search offering a reward up to $50,000. on the presidential campaign trail, the iowa caucuses are less than a week away. the cbs news battleground tracker find bernie sanders leading hillary clinton by one point iniowa. 47% to 46%. but in new hampshire, the senator from neighboring vermont, holds a 19-point lead. as for the republicans, donald trump is back on top in iowawa with a five-point lead over ted cruz. in new hampshire, it's trump with 34%. cruz at 16%. followed by marco rubio andohn kasich. both at 14%. major garrett has more. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: donald trump stormed across iowa and gave supporters an uncommonly combing compliment compliment. >> i have the most loyal people, i could stand in the middle of

i wouldn't lose any voters. it's incredible. >> reporter: not exactly the new york values everyone has been talking about. trump supporters show up in droves as he stumped with the republican senator charles grassley. wasn't an endorsement but a blow to senate colleague ted cruz. the cruz campaign took aim at trump on another front, embrace of government power to seize private property. >> i take eminent domomn is wonderful. >> it made him rich. >> reporter: the essence of the campaign ad, that trump tried to bulldoze the home of an elderly woman to pave the way for casino parking lot. >> a false commercial. i never took the house. eminent domain is a positive thing not negative thing. >> cruz continued to question trump's recent conversion to conservatism. >> if a republican candidate for president supported barack obama's stimulus and said the only problem it need to be bigger. is there any chance on earth

stand up to the cronyism and cartel in washington? >> reporter: a message amplifyied by conservative radio host glenn beck beck. >> if donald trump wins, it's going to be a snowball to hell. >> reporter: "the des moines register" the late's largest newspaper looked past trump and cruz and endorord rubio, a candidate who could chart a new direction for the gop. the register guessed the nominee correctly in the last four republican caucus endorsements. >> the tsunami in 2011 is still fresh in the minds of many people. could it happen here? some communities in the pacific northwest aren't taking any chances. don dahler reports. >> reporter: during their regular earthquake and tsunami drills, students at this elementary school in westport, washington practice going to the top floor. with the pacific ocean a few

say the drills might be futile because the tsunami could be higher than the school. that's why construction workers are racing to finish this vertical evacuation structure. the first of its kind in north america. the shelter sits on the roof of a new school. rising 44 feet high, with 14 inch thick walls. it could save thousand of students and residents seeking refuge. like the japanese earththake and tsunamis in 2011. that killed nearly 16,000. seismologists say there is an impending disaster coming this way. 70 miles off america's pacific northwest from northern california to vancouver island, sits the fault line, the cascadia subduction zone where the oceanic plate is being forced under the north american plate. buckles. pushed backward like a spring. until ter a few hundred years

>> repepter: for 25 years, oregon state earthquake geologist chris goldfinger rned of the possibility of disaster. he and other scientists have been selecting core samples of sediment from the ocean floor. >> sand layers you can see are, we believe, past earthquakes. >> reporter: they discovered major earthtuakes happen here, every 240 years. the last major cascadia earthquake was 315 years ago. the big one scientists say is overdue. >> there is nothing that compares to magnitude 9 earthquake that north america has experienced in human history. >> reporter: similar to what happened in apan, fema estimates in that case a tsunami could hit s se a aas within 155 minutes. collapsed roads and bridges could cut off coastal towns and main your cities look portland, olympia and seattle potentially stranding 7 million people. kevin murphy is the fema

what's the best case scenario for an 8.0. >> at least 10,000-plus killed. from the sue namy. >> reporter: numbers go way up with 9.0r grgrter? >> tremendously go up. talking numbers that this nation i am not sure is really prepared to deal with. >> reporter: some cities in the northwest require new buildinin beonstructed to with stand a major earthquake. most of those laws don't apply to older buildings. federal state and military officialso have response plans in place. don dahler, cbs n n my son and i used to watch the red carpet shows on tv now, i'm walking them. life is unpredictable one thing i need to be predictable is to be flake free. because i have used head and shoulders for 20 years. used regularar, it removes up to 100% of flakes keeping you protected every week, every month, every year you ready ma? always life is unpredictable, so embrace it!

ld what is happening and why. this is your eye opener to this day. >> cbs this morning, week days. the obama administration is overhauling the security clearance system used to screen federal workers and contractors. it is opening a new office called the national background investigations bureau which will be designed and run by the pentagon. the overhaul comes after last

hackers working for a foreign government believed to be china downloaded nearly 22 million personnel files. there is no word on when the new system will come online. meantime, private u.s. companies are also feeling the heat from china's online espionage. lesley stahl reports for "60 minutes." >> they're targeting private companies. not a fair fight. a private company can't compete against the resources of the second largest economy in the world. >> reporter: the assistant attorney attorney general for cyberattacks and increasingly economic espionage. >> this is a serious threat to our national security. our economy depends on ability to innovate. if there is a dedicated nation state using intelligence apparatus to steal day in, day out what we are frying to develop.p. >> reporter: what is their ultimate goal, chinese government's ultimate goal?

segments of industry and instead of trying to out innovate, outresearch, outdevelop, they are choosing to do it through theft. >> reporter: all you have to do he says is look at the economic plans published periodicay by the chinese politboro. they are according to the report, invent ip, in effect blue prints of what industries and what come pans will be targeted for theft. >> weee them p p out the strategic plan. then weep see actions follow that plan. we see, intrusion after intrusion on u.s. companies. >> do you have of a number of u.s. companies that h he been hit? >> it is thousand of actually companies. >> thousand of u.s. companies. >> u.s. companies. >> reporter: getting ceos from the come pans to talkpanies to talk is impossible. most have business in china and don't want to be cut of of its huge market.

super conductor isn exception. his firm spent years and millions developing advanced computer software for wind turbines that mcgann says china looted nearly putting him of business. he is talking because he wants to fight back. >> i am personally never going to give this up. too many lives were affectcd. too many families were damaged through this. we can never give of on this. >> reporter: you had to fire 600 people. >> yes. >> reporter: out of how many jobs? >> at the time we were almost 900. >> so how much did you lose in share value? >> teeotal loss is well over $1 billion. >> reporter: today his factory floor is largely silent. a shadow of the o oe thriving company. >> i think part of the strategy in all of this was to kill us. >> reporter: set out to kill you? >> kill the company. >> reporter: how can he be susu? well his story beginsshen china passed a clean energy law in

mega wind farms throughout the country. the law madehina the hottest wind power market in the world. so mcgann partnered with a small chinese firm, sinovel partly owned by t t government. sinovel made skeletons of the turbines and american superconductor, the gadgey and computer code to run them. they actually built the turbine. >> they make the turbine we make the controls. >> did they make the turbines with your brains in them? for the entire country of china? >> yes. >> reporter: when he went into business there, china was already notorious for poaching american intellectual property. so he says he did everything he could tnk of to protect his technology from being stolen. >> we made sure that any software, any, any -- pieces of the code, were restricted and used, to be able to beccessed by a few people within the company. >> reporter: once they got

they reverse engineer it? >> we believe that's what nay tried to do. what they learned the encrypted protocol was in the way didn't understand how it worked couldn't reverse engineer it. >> everybody knows if it is on the internet some brillnt cker can get at it? >> it wasn't accessible through the internet. >> you kept it off the internet? >> yes. >> it sound look you built a little fortress around your, your precious codes. >> we certainly tried. >> reporter: initially business boomed in china for american superconductor with sales skyrocketing from $50 million a year to neaeay half a billion. >> we were going through exponential growth. it is what every technology company wants to get to. is this high level growth. we were there. >> reporter: then in 2011, his engineers were testing the next

sinovel's turbines. thth software progrgrmed to shut down after the test. but the blade didn't shut down they never stopped spinning. >> so we said why? we didn't really know. the team looked at the tur bean and saw running on our hardware a version of software that had not been released yet. >> that's when you realized. >> realized something is wrong. had to figuree out how could this have happened. >> repepter: to find out he launched an internal investigation and narrowed it done to this man, an employee of american superconductor based in austria. he was one of the few p pple in the company with access to its proprietary software. he also spent a lot of time of in china working with sinovel. >> what they did is they used cold war era spy craft to be able to turn him. >> they turned him. >> and maked him into an agent for them. >> do you know any specifics what they offered him? >> offered him women. an apartment, money.

>> reporter: the arrangement included a $1.7 million contract that was spelled out in e-mails and itant messages that mcgann's investigation found on his company computer. in this one, from him to a sinovel executive, he lays out the quid pro quo. all girls need money. i need girls. sinovel needs me. sinovel executives showered him with flattery. encouragement, you are the "best man lake superman." >> did they say we want the source codes? >> all most like a grocery list. can you get us a, can you get us b, can you got us c? >> i have seen one of the messages, text message. in which he says, i will send the full code of course. >> the full code for operating their wind turbine. >> he eventually confessed to authorities in austria. and spent a year in jail.

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hank williams jr. back on the music charts his new album "it's about time" is number two on the country charts and # on billboard's top 200. the singer sat down for a candid conversation with jan crawford. are you ready for the contract >> reporter: you may know hank williams jr. as a ruddy outlaw. for or the long time voice of monday night. are y y ready f f some football your cheating heart >> country music royalty, son of one of the most influential figures in american music. the godson of johnny and june carter cash. >> good old john, what a great mentor and friend. >> reporter: you might not know about the anguisis the loss and all of those second chances.

died more than once. >> more than once. >> reporter: you should probably not be alive. >> the doctor said exactly that. >> reporter: because of that williams lives life on his terms. we started out our interview at his favorite barbecue place outside nashville, a town he does his best to avoid. >> there is my godmother june. >> reporter: within hours he insisted we h h the road for his farm in south alabama. here he hunts, fishes and his parents are buried nearby. hank senior died from alcohol and pills at 29. a father williams never knew. cold cold heart >> junior was three his mother image. your cold cold heart wanted. an imitation of his dad. until in his early 20s, the

>> for a long time it didn't matter. but boy you get, you start being a, a young man, you get, that starts working on you. >> repter: you tried to kill yourself? >> yeah, got real bad. real, real bad. i don't want to be a legend i just want to be a man >> reporter: the doctor who treated hihiwas blunt. >> he said, let me just lay it out there for you. you have been taught from, from the time you can possibly remember, to look likel act like, be like, everything, exactly like your legendary father, you know, he said they have done a damn good job. and you are going to be him. you are going to beat him. he died that 29. you are going to die at 26. let me tell you something, folks. from that day on, all that went out the window. >> reporter: just as he charted

literally on a hunting trip he plunged more than 500 feet off a mountain. the injuries and multiple operations left scars to his face and head. >> you got to learn to see, hear, smell, and talk again. and i'm not bull [ bleep ]. i had half of a face. i got a shotgun and a rifle and a four wheel drive and a country boy can survive >> reporter: not only did he survive, he found freedom to be himself. >> reportete his fans felt he spoke for them. the hits and award rolled in. >> the winner is -- ah! hank williams jr.! [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: brought controversy, a 2011 interview when he said this about a golf game between president obama and

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the super bowl returnso cbs when the denver broncos take the fifid against the carolina panthers a week from sunday. the super bowl match up comes after a pair of exciting conference championship games. one featured perhaps the final version of peyton manning versus tom brady. the other the emergence of the panthers potential mvp

james brown has a look. >> f ftball fans may have seen the last match up between tom brady and peyton manning. as the you mention care case, there is a star in cam newton who is shining very brightly. >> here is brady. rolling out. rolling. throwing. tipped in the air. and it is intercepted. >> this may have been peyton manning's most satisfying victory in a long, storied, nfl carere. t because h h beat tomom brady and the patriots team that always seems to have his number, but because the the 39-year-old manning doesn't always beat teams with his arm anymore. >> can you believe it he has a first down. >> he beats them with his experience. >> look at the disbelief. >> quarterback tom brady who always seems to thrive under the brightest of lights was harassed by a stitiing denver defense all afternoon. >> he is taken down. this will be manning's fourth super bowl appearance. now the oldest quarterback to lead a team to the big game in nfl history.

bowl in four years is very special. and, just, also, our entire team. what an incredible effort by the patriots to beat that team today. ry special win. >> he is in for the touchdown! >> reporter: but football is a young man's game. and the carolina panthers may have the best young quarterback in the national football league. >> newton steps into it. >> reporter: 26-year-old cam ewton and carolina panthers dismandateled the cardinals in ththnfc championship game by 34 points. setting up a showdown between signal callers, a generation apart. peyton manning is 13 years newton's senior. the l lgest age diffefence between super bowl starting quarterbacks in nfl history. >> i don't know who we are playing yet. we will be ready to go in two weeks. >> playing denver and peyton nning. ever think in the super bowl you would oppose him. >> an way we are going to live in the moment now.

and excitement certainly is the operative word. two quarterbacks, the first overall draft choices, manning, cam newton, facing each other. but this has all of the potential for an outstanding super wl match up.. that's the "overnight news" for tuesday. for some of you the news continues. 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. frozen in place. >> it is the worst i have ever seen. >> the road to rovery is bubued under snow and ice water. also tonight, a real cliffhanger. homes at risk of falling into the pacific. the candidates agree on one thing. >> we have a week to go. >> one week away. >> 172 hours. d a pint-sized martial artist strikes terror into the