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if you were a hippie in the '60s, you need to know. it's the dawning of the age of aquarius. yeah, ansomething else that's cool. what? osteoporosis is preventable. all: osteo's preventable? right on! if you dig your bones, protect them. all: cbs cares! todada we learned why a texas grand jury investigating planned parenthood indicted two of its critics instead. the anti-abortion activist went undercover to shoot controversial videos of planned parenthood employees. here is jan crawford. >> reporter: the undercover vide were explosive. >> don't lowball it, tell me what you really -- >> $75 a specimen. >> reporter: they sparked criminal investigation as cross
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parenthood was illegally selling aborted fetal tissue. the surprise indictment by a texas grand jury said undercover activist, sandra merritt and david dalieden broke the law when they they allegedly usesefake californrn driver's licenses and posed as buyers of fetal parts. daledein says their undercover techniques were the same as journalists underscored by constitutional scholars like cornell university's michael dorf. >> this could set a precedent and chill undercover investigations by legitimate journalists. >> reporter: tactics often used by citizen journalisis activists from environmentalists to animal rights groups seeking to expose wrongdoing. just last summer activists within a significant free speech victory when a federal judge struck down an idaho law banning
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dairy industry. judge lynn windmililreferenced "the jungle" when upton sinclair went undercover in the chicago meat packing industry, exposing cruelty to animals and unsanitary conditions of meat processing plants in the 1900s. >> a lot of these institutions are operate in secret so you need somebody to go under false pretens because otherwise there is no way the public will get access to them. >> reporter: it also raises a question of who is a journalist? activists as oppose to reporters from a news organization. now, scott, everyone can post things online and say "this also is journalism." >> jan crawford tonight. jan, thank you. now, we have a cbs news investigation into a charity for wounded veterans. what caught our attention is how the wounded warrior project spends donations as compared to other long-respected charities.
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american veterans charitable service trust spends 96% of its budgets on vets. fisher house devotes 91%. but according to public records reported by charity navigator, the wounded warrior project spends just 60% on vets. where's the rest of the money going? chip reid and producer, jennifer janisch found out. with a gift of $19 9 month you can join wounded warrior project. >> reporter: in its commercials, they appeal to the arican public's generosity. and it works. in 2014 alone, the group received more than $300 million in donations. >> their mission is to honor and empower wounded warriors. what the public doesn't see is how they spend their money. >> reporter: army staff sergeant came home from iraq with a bronze star and purple heart and traumatic brain injury and ptsd. initially admired the charity's
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he got a shout out from the president. >> staff sergeananeric milette. >> he took a job as public speaker with the organization, but quit after lavish spending for parties for executives and staff.@ >> you are using our injuries, our darkest days, our hardships, to make money. so you can have these big parties. let's get a mexican mariachi band, get it catered, have a big old party. staying at a lavish hotel at the beach here in jacksonville, one ocean. and requiring staff that lives in the area to stay at the hotel. >> reporter: cbs news spoke to more than 40 former employees who described a charity where spending was out of control. the two former employeesesere so fearful of retaliation they y asked us not to show their faces.
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dinners and alcohol and just total access. >> reporter: for a charitable organization serving veterans, all this expensesen, expensive resorts and alcohol, it seems. >> what the military calls fraud, waste and abuse. >> reporter: according to charity tax forms, spending on conferenceand meetings went from $1.7 million in 2010 to $26 million in 2014, the same amount the group spend on combat stress recovery. its top program. former employees say spending skyrocketed since steven took over. many point to colorado springs as his style. >> he rappelled down the building. >> to make a grand entrance. >> he has come in on a segue, a horse. >> reporter: 500 staff members attended the four day conference
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the price tag $3 million. >> don't want t u to have a $2,500 bar tab. donors don't want-up to fly every staff member once a year, to a five star resort and woop it up and call it team building. wounded warrior project, declined interview requests for nardizzi, but offered, captain ryan kules. he denend there was excessive spending on conferences. >> it's the best use of donor dollars to provide services and programs to our warriors and their families. and the highest quality. >> reporter: why go to a five star resort in colorado when you could do it in jacksonville and save money and spend money on wounded warriors? >> like i have said, the reason thth we are providing those conferences to ensure we are aligned able to build as a team
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>> you are just going to keep saying that no matter what" i ask about all-hand conferences. >> okay. >> wounded warrior project and donor dollars trained me to speak and be a voice. that's exactly what i am doing. i am sorry, i will be damned if you will take hard working americans money and drink it and waste it. >> ryayakules of wounded warrior project told us the charity did not spend $3 million on the colorado conference but was not there and was unable to tell us what it did cost. scott, he also denied the charity spend money on alcohol or engages in any other kind of excessive spending. >> chip reid breakininthe investigation tonight. chip, thank you. by the way, tomorrow, cbs "this morning" will continue chip's former employees say that the comprehensive help to veterans. today a medical advisory panel recommended all pregnant women and new w thers be screened for depression. this is based on new evidence that suggests postpartum depression often begins during pregnancy.
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suggested that all adults, men and women be screened because nearly 7% of americans suffer depression. another concern tonight, for pregnant women, the e ka virus is spreading. today the cdc added u.s. virgin island and dominican republic in its travel warnings. 12 cases repord in puerto rico. the mosquito born virus islinged to a serious birth defect, our dr. jon lapook is joining us. what do we know? >> reporter: the medical mmunity is watching zika closely because it spread to 20 countries around the world with more than 1 million cases in brazil alone. pregnana women warned not to travel to these places. zika causes mild or no symptoms in most people. but in pregnant women linked to baby's born with microcephal ycht, abnormally small head. a dozen cases of zika infection in the u.s. since last year. all patients are believed to
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before coming here. >> so, no infections originated in thehe.s. tell us about concerns that that could happen? >> it could happen. an infected mosquito could bite someone in brazil. that person could come to the united states. the virus stays in the blood stream seven days. now an uninfected mosquito in the u.s., bite the infected person. pick up virus. turn around and bite an uninfected person. now the virus spreading in the united states. there is no treatment. no vaccine. experts are urging prevention and definitely research. >> jon lapook. thank you very much. stay right here with us. jon will be right t ck with a new study on why women are more likely than men to die of heart attacks. also ahead, a marathon dog. so stay. stay. it's not always as easy for me as it is for him... it's easy for me cause look at her. aw... so we use k-y ultragel. it enhances my body's natural moisture
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men and women are not equal when it comes to heart attacks. often the symptoms and causes are different. according to a new statement by american heart association. here again, is dr. jon lapook. >> looks fantastic in thth. >> reporter: two years ago, 54-year-old vanessa noel a shoe designer started having what she called episode. >> i felt chest tightening more than thehehest tightening it was radiating up to my bottom jaw. >> three doctors missed the diagnosis. four months later while in the middle of an ultrasound of her heart, the cause became very clear. >> i was told i had a heart attack. and that i was a very lucky girl. that i got there so quickly. if i h left her office, the doctor told me, and did this on ththstreet, i wouldn't have survived. >> heart disease in women is underresearched, underdiagnosed and undertreated.
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cardiologist with perlman heart institute at new york presbyterian. >> not surprising once a woman gets diagnosed with heart disease she will do worse and likely die from it than a man. >> reporter: the statement find 26% of women die in the first year after a heart attack compared to 19% of men. during treatment, complicationon rates are e gher for women. and while chest pain is still the most common symptom for men and women, women are more likely thun men to have atypica symptoms, fatigue, nausea, or pain not in the chest. in fact, 42% of women with heart attacks experience no chest pain. >> women are harder to diagnose, but even if they're diagnosed
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likely to receive all of the guideline derived medications to treat this dease. >> reporler: diagnosis in women is more challenging, symptoms like fatigue and nausea won't point directly to the heart. there is also undertreatment after a heart attack. less than 20% of womom get cardiac rehab, which is kidded standard therapy, scott. >> jon lapook, thank you doctor. >> what's being hidden by one of rome's most famous museums? we'll show you next. woman: what does it feel like when a woman is having a heart attack? chest pain, like there's a ton of weight on your chest. severe shortness of breath. unexplained nausea. cold sweats. ththe's an unusual tiredness and fafague. there's unfamiliar dizziness or light-headedness. unusual pain in your back, neck, jaw, one or both arms, even your upper stomach, are signs you're having a heart atatck. don't make excuses. make the call to 9-1-1 immediately. learn more at womenshealth.gov/heartattack. when the twins were about 10 days old, the doctors told us
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news tonht of a major cover-up in rome. wooden p pels were placed over ancient nude statues so as not to offend iran's president, hassan rouhani in town to round up business deals now that the economic sanctions have been lifted. >> a hound dog let out of her house in elkmont, alabama the other day because she had to go
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wandering into a 13-mile half marathon. ludivine strayed off course, once to check out a dead rabbit. with twice as many legs as other runners she managed to finish seventh and earn a medal. no one was more surprised than her owner, april hamlin who said ludivine was really lazy and apparently dog tired. finally tonight, few people could say as much as saying nothing as abe vigoda. it was that face. the deadpan that could crack an audience up even before he opened his mouth. the actor was best known as ever-suffering detective phil fish, on the sitcom "barney miller." >> who are you going to listen to, me or your computer? >> doesn't look good. >> you won't believe this according to their record, i'm
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>> it's probably a mistake. >> abe vigoda was mistakenly reported dead decade ago and his status dead or alive became a running gag the rest of his life. >> vigoda first came to prominence in a serious role on the other side of the law as the mobster who betrayed michael corleone. >> tell mike it was only business. i always liked him. >> he died today at 94. and that's the "overnight news" for this wednesday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us just a little later for the morning news and of course "cbs this morning."
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yoyo city, i'm scott pelely. the many kinds of stories, big and small all affect you one way or anoth. 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. the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley, week nights. >> announcer: this is the e s overnight news. welcome to the overnight news. a state of emergency remains in effect in pacifica, california ere parts of the towoware in danger of falling into the sea. pacifica, a beach front community south of san francisco with commanding views of the ocean. but thcliffs are crumbling under the rerentless pounding of waves and driving rain. evacuations ordered.
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>> reporter: at a cliffside apartment building in pacifica, california, police posted notices telling people they have to go. danger had become too great as the cliff started falling dramatically into the ocean. >> got to do what we got to do. we've got to get out. >> reporter: michelle moved in two months ago to an apartment with an unparalleled ocean view. >> reporter: where are you going to go? >> i have no clue. the cliffs in pacifica can rise 100 feet. when the base is pounded by high surf, the bluff is undermined why big boulders have been brought tine slow erosion. when powerful winter storms hit, the cliffs take a beating, and left buildings teetering on the edge. two apartment buildings have been sitting empty since 2010. when they were deemed dangerously uninhabitable. since then, four years of drought in california meant few storms, and the cliffs remained stable. until this winter when heavy
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pacifica has seen this before. in 1998, the last big el nino years, constant winter storms washed away the cliffs leaving several houses hanging on edge. one collapsed on to the beach below. others had to be torn down. bard willoughby knew the biddingng where he lived w wld one way meme the same fate. >> here it is. the saying goes if you are not living on the edge you are taking up too much space. >> reporter: the order to evacuate the building was criticized by the building owner at a city council meeting last night. >> to throw all the residents and tenants out in a couple hours is really unfair.
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and i am going to be filing an appeal on this decision made by the city. >> reporter: the city manager insisted the danger is real. >> we knew this day was going to come. we didn't know when the we were trying to put it off as long as possible. not an action we took lightly. >> reporter: michael mchenry had his belongings in boxes and was anxious to move. told the city council he is now homeless. >> how am i supposed to keep my job and eat in the process of this. a little unfair. >> reporter: a fate more pacifica citizens could face. 5,000 people here live in the city's threatened coastal zone. half pacifica's businesses are located there too. john blackstone, pacifica, california. >> in southern california the manhunt for three inmates who escaped. frfr a maximum security lockup. the people who live in and around santa ana are becoming increasingly worried as details of the men's alleged crimes becomes public. >> reporter: all three men are now facing federal charges of escaping jail. authorities say they could still be in this area and are considered armed and dangerous. investigators have served 30 search warrants and have come up empty.y. we do want to warn you some of what you are about to hear is considered graphic. >> we know somebody out there knows something. >> reporter: the orange county
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public for help monday. [ speaking foreign language ] and sent a message to the vietnamese community. >> extremely important for them to reach out let nice where they're at. they're armed and dangerous. 20-year-old jonathan tieu, facing murder charges is linked to a vietnamese gang. and bac duong thought to have gang ties. 37-year-old, hossein nayeri accused of kidnapping and torture. in 2012, nayeri with an accomplice, allegedly, tortured a man with fifi. >> also poured bleach all over him and in the end he cut his penis off. >> i'm scared. >> people who live in the community near jail are frightened. >> these people are that bad. how did they get out of jail? >> he is incredibly violent. >> reporter: orange county prosecutor heather bro says that his trial its set for next month. >> the acts that he committed are nothing short of diabolical. to lose him to this at the last
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>> reporter: authorities believe the men escaped from central men's jail friday morning. held in a cell with at least 60 other inmates. the escapees cut their way through a steel screen and then into the building's plumbing tunnels. law enforcement says the group rappelled down five floors using a rope made of linens. if the men are found, they are facing new 15-year federal charges for escaping jail. right now investigators are also looking into how they got their tools. and if they got help. but so far, no one here at the sheriff's department has been put on leave or has been suspended. the countdown has begun as people of iowa prepare for the first in the nation presidential caucuses monday. the polls seem to change daily. one conducted by fox news shows hillary clinton with a six-point lead over bernie sanders in iowa. 48%-42%. on the republican side, donald
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ted cruz. and marco rubio third. the presidential hopefuls are pressing flesh i iiowa ahead of major garrett reports. >> donald trump is essentially tied here in iowa. ahead in new hampshire and south carolina. which means a victory here could make trump's once improbable bid for the republican nomination hard to stop. ted cruz comes to places like this urging rural iowans to scrutinize trump's record and urge issues that hobbled front-runners in this state before. >> you know this its now crunch time. right. >> in the final sprint. 172 hours. >> reporter: that much donald trump and ted d uz agree on. >> wow. >> campaigning in new hampshire. trump urged supporters many of them newly engaged in the political process to focus o o voting. you have to bring it home, right? we have to have a mandate. have to do well. we have to -- get big numbers. >> february 9th. >> get out and vote.
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against his top opponent, ted cruz, backed by reliable voters. >> he's falling. nervous. concerned and should be. >> rolling through`the greatest hits of his favorite cru attacks. >> the canadian, man from canada. guys like ted for amnesty. >> he e dn't report that he e s loans from, goldman sachs. >> reporter: amidst of advertising cruz fired back with a new commercial hitting trump on an issue historically vital to iowa's social conservatives. abortion. >> i am pro-choice in every respect. in iowa, cruz is claiming the mantel of underdog, branding trump establishment darling, one gop power brokers are trying to turn. >> trump will cut a deal x expand government spending, expand the debt. >> trump who celebrates "the art of the deal." said cruz's inflexibility would doom his agenda. >> loooo at a certain point.t. you have got to make deals. we can't have a guy who stand on
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>> ray hinton's life was never what he thought it would be after 1985 when he was misidentified by a witness who picked him out of a mug shot book. his picture was in there after a theft conviction. when police found a gun in his mother's house, a lieutenant told him that he had been arrested in three shootings. including the murders of two restaurant managers. >> i said you got the wrong guy. he said, i don't care whetetr you did or d d't. he said you are going to be convicted for it. he said you know why? i said no. he said we got a white man. they're going to say you shot him. going to have a white da. you are going to have a white judge. you are going to have a white jury more likely. and he said, all of that spells conviction. conviction, convictiti. that's what it doesn't matter that i didn't do it. he said not to me. >> reporter: the lieutenant denied saying that. but hinton was convicted at age
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he was 57 when the u.s. supreme court ruled 9-his defense had been ineffective. a new ballistics test found that the gun was not the murder weapon. >> 30 years ago, a judge proudly stood up. and said -- i sentence you to die. 30 years later. no one had the decency to say -- mr. hintnt we sorry for -- we e sorry for what t tk place. no one have said it. >> reporter: what did the state of alabama give you to help you get back up on your feet?
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>> reporter: no money. no suit of clothes. >> nothing, no. >> reporter: and that is where many states are failing the growing number of exonerated prisoners. it turns out in alabama, if ray hinton had committed murder and was released on parole, he would have been eligible for job training, housing assistance, and a bus ticket home. but most states offer no immediate assistance to the innocent whose convictions can be embararssing because of misconduct or incocoetence by police or prosecutors. >> you can't traumatize someone, try to kill someone, condemn someone lock someone down for 30 years and not feel some responsibility for what you have done. >> reporter: attorney brian stevenson worked on ray hinton's case for 16 years. stevenson started equal justice initiative, organizations overturning false convictions. >> they need support. economic, housing, medical,
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know that their victimization, their abuse, has been taken seriously. >> just absolutely unimaginable, i couldn't even explain the horror of f . >> ken ireland lost 21 years. he was misidentified by witness whose collected a $20,000 reward. convicted in a 1986 rape and murder, dna proved his innocence. >> good morning. >> good morning, sir. >> reporter: because of the rare perspective of an innocent man who has done hard time, the governor put ireland o o connecticut's parole board. >> at some point in your life, sir, you have to step up. >> so this is your new cell? >> yeah. for eight hours a day. >> reporter: it took five years to got this job. at first he lived with his sister and he found work as a counselor for troubled kids. >> i got a small apartment in town.
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barricaded myself in a walk-in closet. slept in there, thinking, that someone is going to come kick down my door and drag me back. >> reporter: you slept in a closet? >> yeah, yeah, a few times i have. are you over that now? six years later. >> i don't have the issues now. >> reporter: one thing that made it eier is a connecticut law that compensates the wrongly convicted. a year ago ireland was the first to get a check. what did the state give you? >> $6 million. >> $6 million. >> more than most states are giving. >> it comes to something like $300,000 a year. >> right. >> for every year you spent in prison. >> yeah. >> you say it is not worth it? >> absolutely. give me $5 million every year. still wouldn't be worth it. >> reporter: ken ireland was fortunate. 20 states offer no compensation at all. one is julie bahmer's home, michigan.
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>> everything. everything. my life is nothing as it was. >> reporter: in 2003, bahmer was a mortgage broker raising her sister's baby. he became ill. she took him to an emergency room. doctors there suspected the boy habeen shaken until his brain was damaged. she was convicted of child abuse. she was ininer fifth year in prison when new evidence showed that the boy had suffered a natural stroke. she was retried, acquitted, and the judge apologized. after she was released for a time, she was homeless. how did you start over? >> it was very, very, very rough. you start from the bottom. reclaiming your identity. i didn't have an i.d. after i jumped over that hurdle, you start applying for jobs. then you have to go through, okay, now there is a five year gap on your resume, why is this? you tell your potential employer
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and in my case, i never go phone calls backck >> there was no support for you of any kind? >> no. >> julie bahmer works for a detroit area parish. >> thank you, god bless. >> hopefully my testimony. >> in her spare time lobbying michigan's legislature for a compensation law. >> no amount of money can ever bring back everything that i have lost. >> no one can fail to see the injustice in these cases, but when it comes to compensation there are people watching this interview who are saying, you know, it was just bad luck. and, and we don't necessarily owe them for the life that they >> this isn't lu. tually our justice system. it was our tax dollars who paid arrested mr. hinton. our tax dollars paid for the judge and the prosecutor that prosecuted him, paid for the experts who got it wrong, paid to keep him on death row for 30 years for a crime he didn't commit. this has nothing to do with luck, but everything to do with
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selling for $5 million. we spoke to four people in the know about some of most memorable ad from past years. >> the stakes are high. >> you have that big viewing audience. everybody has the pressure on to as great as possiblbl >> you are playing like betty white out there. >> that's not what your girlfrfrnd said. >> a super bowl commercial makes everyone bring their a game. >> for me super bowl was just about commercials as a kid. >> it's become, you know, must
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really. >> go back and look over the earlst super bowls, the e commercials, it't'amazing. >> my y ave cream. laststight was rougher than i thought. >> wasn't much pressure for advertisers to stand out from the clutter. completely different universe. >> if you don't buy rca, you may be buying obsolete color tv. >> looking at the story, history, evolution, start with the apple ad.. >> from the industry point of view, completely changed the game. >> for the first t te people realize we need to do something that is going to have buzz value, get talked about. we are going to have to take more risk. >> i still get chills thinking abut the experience of seeing the ad for the first time. just one look >> many years ago i was invited to do a commercial for pepsi and it was to launch their new can. it was one of the commercial that had everything. it had great music, it was sexy, and hot, but funny. your lo
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or what? >> i think that's why people loved it. >> four of five dentists surveyed would recommend trident. >> my favorite was a spot we did for trident. >> would you recommend -- >> why didn't the fifth dentist recommend trident? >> it only cost $200,000 to pruce. it was in the top ten for the super bowl that year. the super bowl is a career making move. career making move for people in the advertising. it can introduce new talent. >> before the commercial i was pretty much just modeling wanting to kind of get my foot in the door for acting. and tv. and so, that was just like -- the big boom. duringngt i was wearing nudede underwear and a nude bra. at the end of the scene when you see me.
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>> what's criteria. i don't know but i have it. >> anheuser-busch has been one of the great advertiser that comes back every year. >> think what's up, right? >> what's up. >> what's up? >> what t arted to do was do advertising on the super bowl that didn't just excite people watching the game. >> the language in that t advertising made its way to pop culture. >> one of most famous ad ever made was the budweisererlyde dale ad called we'll never forget. think what they did with the clyde dales after 9/11. serious for the super bowl, but it was the right thing to do at that moment. > think for super bowl you want to sesethe commercials as much as you want to see the game. >> this is the motor city. this is what we do. >> if i am a cultural anthropologist, 100 years om now first thing i do is look at
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mcdonald's making a big come back. after years of falling market sharks the -- share, the fast food giant credits its all day breakfast for a jump in sales in last quarter of 2015. inside a mcdonald's on manhattan's eastside to try to keep up with what the customers want. >> reporter: this want any old mcdonald, this is one of the
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kiosk, a jiendgiant ipad that lets you order the way you would like it. one more way mcdonald's is trying to keep u` with millenial's changing tastes. >> savor breakfast any time you like. >> reporter: more than three months after mcdonald's made breakfast an all-day affair. >> all day breakfast. >> reporter: the move appears to be satisfying customer cravings and wall street's appetite for profits. the fast food giant reported on monday that u.s. same store sales jumped 5%, make up for loststround against burger king, wendy's and taco bell. >>his is an organization closing in on serving something like 70 million people a day. turning a battleship is very, very hard. give them credit f f some of the speed at which they have dealt with these, use. >> reporter: those, use included criticism for the restaurant's super size menu and allegations of using unhealthy unethically raised ingredients. facing stiff competition from premium chains like shake shack
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since steve easterbrook took over mcdonald's the compmpy has become more transparent about its ingredients, simplified its menu and beefed up how customers can use it. >> there is one. there is two. >> reporter: rolling out a value menu, a digital app to help find deals, and kiosks that let you create your ownburgers. >> customization issue is a big deal. the idea of customization susgests the food is fresher that it hasn't been sitting under hot lights all day. >> reporter: the tailored customer experience is a new twist on an old idea. >> now that's the way to do things. our way. sunset have it your way >> reporter: and the trend is gaining momentum. starbuck's offers 80,000 drink combinations. a taco bell app allows you to preorder. >> the idea you can have somemeing the way you wantnts millenial anandistinctly american now. used to being able to do things exactly the way we want them.
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>> reporter: customer trumppets key endorsements before iowa. six days to go, it is a battle to win, place, or show. >> can you win this thing? >> also tonight,ews about two threats to women's health. zika virus and heart disease. cbs news exposes questionable spending by the nation's largest veterans' charity. >> using our injuries, our darkest days, our hardships to
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>> and, he turnene deadadn into an art form. remembering abe vigoda. >> what's your anniversary? >> sometime in february. >> announcer: this is the cbs overnight news. the first votes in the presidential election are five days away and the republican race inowa is a tightht as it can be. in a new poll, donald trump is leading ted cruz by two points in iowa. essentially a tie. marco rubio, the only other candidate in double digits. here is major garrett. >> reporter: donald trump won endorsements from evangelical leader jerry falwewe jr. and arizona sheriff joe are pie yo giving trump credibility on both abortion and immigration. >> so many incredible endorsements. i would love to win iowa, doing very, very well with the evangelicals. >> ted cruz argued he is most
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issues. >> who stood, defended life, marriage, liberty, defended the second amendment. >> reporter: his campaign is running this ad attacking trump. >> i am pro-choice in every respect. >> i can do it betterer >> reporter: marco rubio currently running third in iowa polls is fighting to be the party's mainstream alternative. can you win iowa caucuses? >> i can tell you we are going to do well in iowa and new hampshire and we will be the nom kneel. >> reporter: in a video, trump threat tuned boycott thursday's debate because of fox news derator megyn kelly. >> megyn kelly is really biased. >> reporter: kelly's only offense, asking trump tough questions. >> you called women you don't likefat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals. >> fox is standing with kelly. scott, just moments ago here, trump said he will most likely not participate in the fox debate for a campaign that knows
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its the riskiest strategy imaginable. >> major garrett reporting. thank you. on the democratic side, hillary clinton leads bernie sanders nationally by 12 points. and thth is the first time she has been under 50%. we have more now on their battle for iowa from nancy cordes. >> reporter: sanders got a heroes welcome at steel workers union hall in des moines where his pro worker message clearly found some fans. >> you are rea for a radical idea? >> yeah! >> we're going to c cate an economy that works for working families, not just billionaires. >> reporter: union members make up 10% of iowa's work force. and can provide key manpower in a campaign's homestretch. sanders has locked up support from the u.s. postal workers, and national nurses united. clinton is backed by american fed ration of teachers, and t t service emploloes union.
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friend in the white house. >> reporter: at a forum, clinton- was confronted by a young sanders voter. >> i i fact heard fromm quite a few people my age that they, think you are dishonest. >> you know, look, i have been around a long ti. people have thrown all kind of things at me. >> reporter: we e ked sanders what he thought? >> do you view secretary clinton as dishonest? >> i have known secretary clinton for 25 years. this is a distinguished woman years. i like secretary clinton. we have differences of opinion on important issues. >> sanders warned his supporters today he can only win here in iowa if turnout is better than average. that is an acknowledgement, scott, many of his fans are younger people who make for less reliable caucus goers. >> and worth remembering, iowa is just thth starting line in a process that will go long into the spring. nancy cordes, thank you very much. washington's mayor plans to
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evening. for now theeity is still moving at half-speed with the streets clogged. the same in baltimore. which led to a dangerous situation overnight. here's kris van cleave. >> reporter: the snow didn't start this fire in baltimore. but it spread to five rowhouses when firefighters couldn't get their trucks to the unplowed street. residents had to help drag fire hoses through the snow. joe keebler and deborah fetchik's mother lost her homom >> nearly 72 hours after the storm stopped, frustration in washington, d.c. is growing. >> i think d.c. government snow removal plan is called spring. and gil schwartz has had enough of the walk down the path. >> three days is really outrageous. it really should be cleared off. there are elder people here. people who really r ry upon
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>> reporter: others took to twitter using #snowstuck. a staffer wrote it's come to this. this woman posted 50 of her parents neighbors are shoveling and snow blowing the street instead of waiting for aplow. the clean-up remains an aroundd the clock effort. d.c.'s chris geldart. >> they said any body over a certain age, able-bodied w we will pay-up to come help dig the city out. >> i don't care where you are in the nation. 24 inches of snow in urban environment requires clean-up. that what we will see overhe next 48 hours going into the end of t t week. >> reporter: d.c. schools are set to open tomorrow. other school districts could remain closed through the rest of the week. scott we heard from national park service today they have removed enough snow off the national mall to fill the washington monument.
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today, we learned why a texas grand jury investigating planned parenthood indicted two of its critics ininead. thee anti-abortion activist went undercover to shoot controversial videos of planned parenthood employees. here is jan crawford. >> reporter: the undercover videos were explosive. >> don't lowball it, tell me what you really -- >> $75 a specimen.
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the country into whether planned papanthood was illegally selling aborted fetal tissue. the surprise indictment by a texas grand jury said undercover activist, broke the law when they allegedly used fake calilirnia driver's licenses and posed as buyers of fetal parts. daledein says their undercover techniques were the same as journalists underscorere by constitutional scholars like cornell university's michael dorf. >> this could set a precedent and chill undercover investigations by legitimate journalists. >> reporter: tactics often used by citizen journalists activists from environmentalists to animal rightsroups seeng to expose wrongdoing. just last summer activists within a significant free speech victory when a federal judge struck down an idaho law banning undercover operations in the dairy dustry.
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"the jungle" when upton sinclair went undercover in the chicago meat packing industry, exposing cruelty to animalsnd unsanitary conditions of meat processing plants in the 1900s. >> a lot of these institutions are operate in secret so you need somebody to go under false pretenses because otherwise there is no way the public will get access to them. >> reporter: it also raises a question of who is a journalist? activists as oppose to reporters from a news organization. now, scott, everyone can post things online and say "this also is journalism." >> jan crawford tonight. jan, thank you. now, we have a cbs news investigation into a charity for wounded veterans. what caught our attention is how the wounded warrior project spends donations as compared to other long-respected charities. for example, the disabled american veterans charitable
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budgets on vets. fisher house devotes 91%. but according to public records reported by charity navigator, the w wndedarrior project spends just 60% on vets. where's the rest of the money going? chip reid and producer, jennifer janisch found out. >> with a gift of $19 a month you can join wounded warrior project. >> reporter: in its commercials, they appeal to the american and it works. in 2014 alone, the group received more than $300 million in donations. >> their mission is to honor and empower wounded warriors. what the public doesn't see is how they spend their money. >> reporter: army staff sergeant came home from iraq with a brnz star and purple heart and traumatic bin injury and ptsd. initiallyydmired the charary's work and participated.
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>> staff sergeant maric me ic eric milette. >> he took a job as public speaker with the organization, but quit after lavish spending for parties for executives and staff. >> you are using our injuries, our darkest days, our hardships, to make money. so you can have these big parties. let's get a mexican mar if aiachi band, get it catered, have a big old party. staying at a lavish hotel at the beach here in jacksonville, one ocean. and requiring staff that lives in the area to stay at the hotel. >> reporter: cbs news spoke to more than 40 former employees who described a charity where spending was out of control. the two former employeye were so fearful of retaliation they asked us not to show their faces.
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dinners and alcohol and just total access. >> reporter: for a charitable organization serving veterans, all this expense on, expensive resorts and alcohol, it seems. >> what the military calls fraud, waste and abuse. >> reporter: according to charity tax forms, spending on conferences and meetings went from $1.7 million in 2010 to $26 milllln in 2014, the same amount the group spend on combat stress recovery. its top program. former employees say spending skyrocketed since steven took over. many p pnt to colorado springs as his style. >> he rappelled down the building. >> to make a grand entrance. >> he has come in o a segue, a horse. >> reporter: 500 staff membebe attended the four day conference
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the price tag $3 million. >> don't want you to have a $2,500 bar tab. donors don't want-up to fly every staff member once a year, to a five star resort and woop it up and call it team building. wounded warrior project, declined intervw requests for nardizzi, but offered, captain ryan kules. he denied there was excessive spending on conferences. >> it's the best use o donor dollars to provide services and programs to our warriors and their families. and the highest quality. >> reporter: why go to a five star resort in colorado when you could do it in jacksonville and save money and spend money on wounded warriors? >> like i have said, the reason that we are providing those conferences to ensure we are aloinda aligned able to build as a team and be able to be aligned. >> you are just going to keep saying that no matter what" i ask about all-hand conferences.
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>> wounded warrior project and donor dollars trained me to speak and be a voice. that's exactly what i am doing. i am sorry, i will be damned if you will take hard working americans money and drink it and waste it. >> ryan kules of wounded warrior project told us the charity did o cf1 o not spend $3 million on the colorado conference but was not there and was unable to tell us what it did cost. scott, he also denied the charity spend money on alcohol or engages in any other kind of excessive spending. >> chip reid breaking the investigation tonight. chip, thank you. by the way, tomorrow, cbs "this morning" will continue chip's investigation. former employees say that the programs don't provide comprehensive help to veterans. today a medical advisory panel recommended all pregnant women and new mothers be screened for depression. this is based on new evidence that suggests postpartum
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government researchers also suggested that all adults, men and women be screened because nearly 7% of americans suffer depression. another concern tonight, for pregnant women, the zika virus is spreading. today the cdc added u.s. virgin island and dominican republic in its travel warnings. 12 cases reported in puerto rico. the mosquito born virus islinged to a serious birth defect, our dr. jon lapook is joining us. what do we know? >> reporter: the medical community is watching zika closely because it spread to 20 countries around the world with more than 1illion cases in brazil alone. pregnant women warned not to travel to these places. zika causes mild or no symptoms in most people. but in pregnant women linked to baba's born with microcephal ycht, abnormally small head. a dozen cases of zika infection in the u.s. since last year. all patients are believed to
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before comingg here. >> so, no infect tgss s infections originated in the u.s. tell us about consrnz it could happen. >> an infected mosquito could bite some one in bra zblichlt that person could come to the united states. the virus stays in the blood stream seven days. now an uninfected mosquito in the u.s., bite the infected person. peck up virus. turn around and bite an uninfected person. now the virus spreading in the united stes. there iso treatment. no vaccine. expertrtare urging prevention and definitely research. >> jon lapook. thank you very much. stay right here with us. jon will be right back with a new study on why women are more likely than m m to dieie of heart attacks. also ahead, hey buddy, let's get these dayquil liquid gels and go. but these liquid gels are new. mucinex fast max. it's the same difference. ththe are multi-symptom. well so are these.
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men and women are not equal when it comes to heart attacks. often the symptoms and causes are different. according to a new statement by american heart association. here again, is dr. jon lapook. >> looks fantastic in this. >> reporter: two years ago, 54-year-old vanessa noel a shoe designer started having what she called episode. >> i felt chest tightening more than the chest tightening it was radiating up to my bottom jaw. >> three doctors missed the diagnosis. four months later while in the middle of an ultrasound of her heart, the cause became very clear. >> i was told i had a heart attack. and that i was a very lucky girl. that i got there so quickly. if i had left her office, the doctor told me, and did this on the street, i wouldn't have survived. >> heart diseasese in women is underresearched, underdiagnosed and undertreated. >> reporter: dr.@ holly anderson
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institute at new york presbyterian. >> not surprising once a woman gets diagnosed with heart disease she will do worse and likely die from it than a man. >> reporter: the statement find 26% of women die in the first ar after a heart attack compared to 19% of men. during treatment, complication rates are higher for women. and while chest pain is still the most common symptom for men and women, women are more likely than men to have atypical symptoms, fatigue, nausea, or pain not in the chest. in fact, 42% of women with heart attacks experience no chestst pain. >> women are harder to diagnose, but even if they're diagnosed correctly, they will be less likely to receive all of the guideline derivededications to treat this disease. >> reporter: diagnosis in women is more challenging, symptoms like fatigue and nausea won't point directly to the heart. thereris also undertreatatnt after a heart attack.
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news tonight of a major cover-up in rome. wooden panels were placed over ancient nude statues so as not to offend iran's president, hassan rouhanin town to round up business deals now that the economic sanctions have been lifted. >> a hound dog let out of her house in elkmont, alabama the other day because she had to go and she went. wandering into a 13-mile half
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ludivine strayed off course, once to checkck out a dead rabbit. with twice as many legs as other runners she managed to finish seventh and earn a medal. no one was more surprised than her owner, april hamlin who said ludivine was really lazy and apparently dog tired. finally tonight, few people could say as much as saying nothingg as abe vigoda. it was that face. the deadpan that could crack an audience up even before he opened his mouth. the actor was best known as ever-suffering detective phil fish, on the sitcom "barney miller." who are you going to listen to, me or yourcompmper? >> doesn't look good. >> you won't believe this according to their record, i'm
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>> it's probably a mistake. >> abe vigoda was mistakenly reported dead decade ago and his status dead or alive became a running gag the rest of his life. >> vigoda first came to prominence in a serious role on the other side of the law as the mobster who betrayed michaelel corleone. >> tell mike it was only business. i always liked him. >> he died today at 94. and that's the "overnight news" for this wednesday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us just a little later for the morning news and of course "cbs this morning."
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york city, i'm scott pelley. the many kinds of stories, big and small all affect you one way or another. we ask on every story --s 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. the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley, week nights. >> announcererthis is the cbs overnight news. welcome to the overnight news. a state of emergency remains in effect in pacifica, california where parts of the town are in danger of falling into the sea. pacifica, a beach front community south of san francisco with commanding views of the ocean. but the cliffs@are crumbling under the rerentless pououing off waves and driving rain. evacuations ordered.
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>> reporter: at a cliffside apartment building police posted notices telling p pple they have to go. danger had become too great as the cliff started falling dramatically into the ocean. >> got to do what we got to do. >> reporter: michelle moved in twoonths ago to an apartment with an unparalleled ocean view. >> reporter: where are you going to go? the cliffs in pacifica can rise 100 feet. when poundededy hi surf the bluff is undermined why big boulders have been brought tine slow erosion. when powerful winter storms hit, the cliffs take a b bting, and left buildings teetering on the edge. two apartment buildings have been sitting empty since 2010. since then, four years of drought in california meant few storms, and the cliffs remained stable. until this winter when heavy rain returned.
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in 1998, the last big el nino years, constant winter storms washed away the cliffs leaving several houses hanging on edge. one collapsed on to the beach below. others had to be torn down. bard willoughby knew the bidding where he lived would one way meethe same fate. >> here it is. the saying goes if you are not living on the edge you are taking up too much space. >> reporter: the order to evacuate the building was criticized by the building owner at a city council meeting last night.t. >> to throw all theesidents and tenants out in a couple hours is really unfair. it is very hard on them. and i am going to be filing an appeal on this decision made by the city. >> reporter: the city manager insisted the danger is real. >> we knew this day was going to come. we didn't know when the we were ying to put it off as long g possible ssible. not an action we took lightly. >> reporter: michael mchenry had his belongings in boxes and was
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told the city council he is now homeless. >> how am i supposed to keep my job and eat in the process of this. a little unfair. >> reporter: a fate more pacifica citizens could face. 5,000 people hereive in thehe city's threatened coastal zone. half pacifica's businesses are located there too. john blackstone, pacifica, california. >> in southern california the manhunt for three inmates who escaped. the people who live in and arou santa ana are becoming word reas details of the men's alleged crimes becomes public. >> reporter: all three men are now facing federal charges of escaping jail. authorities say they could still be in this area and are kidded armed and dangerous. investigators have served 30 search warrants and have come up empty. we do want to warn you some of what you are about to hear is kidded considered graphic.
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sheriff department asked the public for help monday. and sent a message to the vietnamese community. >> extremely important for them to reach out let nice where they're at. they're armed and dangerous. >> reporter: the 20-year-old facing murder charged linked to a vietnamese gang. and bac duong thought to have gang ties. 37-year-old, hossein nayeri accused of kidnapping and torture. nayeri with an accomplice, allegedly, tortured a man with fire. >> also poured bleach all over him a a in the end he cut his penis off. >> i'm scared. >> people who live in the community near jail are frightened. >> these people are that bad. how did they get out of jail? >> he is incredibly violent. >> reporter: orange county prosecutor heather brown says that his trial its set for next month. >> the acts that he committed are nothing short ofdiabolicic.
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>> reporter: authorities believe the men escaped from central men's jail friday morning. held in a cell with at least 60 other inmates. the escapees cut their way through a steel screen and then into the building's plumbing tunnels. law enforcement says the group pa rel rappelled dodo five floors using a rope made of linens. if the men are found, they are facing new 15-year federal charges for escaping jail. right now investigators are also looking into how they got their tools. and if they got help. but so far, no one here at the sheriff's department has been put on leave or has been susuended. the countdown hasas begun as people of iowa prepare for the first in the nation presidential caucuses monday. the polls seem to change daily. one conducted by fox news shows hillary clinton with a six-point lead over bernie sanders in iowa. 48%-42%.
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trump with a o-point lead over ted cruz. and marco rubio third. the presidential hopefuls are pressing flesh in iowa ahead of the debate. >> donald trump is essentially tied here in iowa. ahead in new hampshire and south carolina. which means a victory here could make trump's once improbable bid for the republican nomination hard to stop. ted cruz comes to places like this urging rural iowans to krut into is from's record and urge issues that hobbled front-runners in this state before. >> you know this its now crunch time. right. >> in the final sprint. 172 hours. >> reporter: that much donald trump and ted cruz agree on. wow. campaigningn new hampshire. trump urged supporters manan of them n nly engaged in the political process to focus on voting. >> you have to bring it home, right? we have to have a mandate. have to do well. we have to -- get big numbers. >> february 9th.
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>> gop front-runner railed against his top opponent, ted cruz, backed by reliable voters. >> falling, nervous, consrnd and ould be. rolling through the greatest hits of his favorite cruz attacks. >> the canadian, man from canada. guys like ted for amnesty. >> he didn't report that he has loans from, goldman sachs. >> reporter: amidst of advertising cruz fired back with a new commercial hitting trump on an issue historically vital to iowa's social conservatives. abortion. >> i am pre choice in every respect. in iowa, cruz is claiming the mantel of underdog, branding trump establishment darling, one gop power brokers are trying to turn. >> trump will c c a deal x panned government spending, expand the debt. >> trump who celebrates "the art of the deal." said cruz's inflexibility would doom his agenda. >> look, at a certain point. you have got to make deals.
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the senate floor and every other senator thinks he is a whack job, right. >> republicans will participate in their final televised debate. trump may not be there threatening a boycott of fox moderator megyn kelly. fox isn't backing down. and as we know. trump threatened boycotts before and participated in every debate. i could tell you being here in a co did you know there's a cough liquid that lasts for twelve hours3 try delsym twelve hour cough liquid. its advanced formula releases powerful medicine that acts fast while its extended release medicine lasts for 12 hours. try delsym . degree motionsense is theeworld's first deodorant activated by movement. as you move, fragrance capsules burst to release extra freshness all day. motionsense. protectn to keep you moving. degree.it won't let you down. it's not always as easy for me as it is for him... it's easy for me cause look at her. aw...
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eye opener to this day. >> cbs this morning. week days. about tenimes a month an innocent person is freed from an american prison. they're exonerated, sometimes evidence. analysis.. the road from a jail cell to freedom can be a difficult one. scott pelley and the 60 minutes crew spoke to three people walking the trail. one them, ray henson spent 3 3 years on death row. >> life is not always what we think it is.
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what he thought it would be after 1985 when he was misidentified d a witness w w picked him out of a mug shot book. his picture was in there after a theft conviction. when police found a gun in his mother's house, a lieutenant told him that he had been arrested in three shootings. including the murders of two restaurant managers. >> i said you got the wrong guu. he said, i don'tare whether youid or don't. he said you are going to be convicted for it. he said you know why? i said no. he said we got a white man. whey're going to say you shot him. going to have a white da. you are going to have a white judge. you are going to have a white jury more likely. and he said, all of that spells conviction. convnvtion, nviction. that's what it doesn't matter that i didn't do it. he said not to me. >> reporter: the lieutenant denied saying that.
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he was 57 when the u.s. supreme court ruled 9-0 his defense had been ineffective. a new plisices test found that the gun was not the murder weapon. >> 30 years ago, a judge proudly stood up. and said -- i sentence you to die. 30 years later. no one had the decency to say -- mr. hinton we sorry for -- we sorry for what took place. no one have said it. >> reporter: what did the state of alabama give you to help you get back up on your feet? >> they dropped all charges that was it. >>eporter: no money. no suit of clothes. >> nothing, no. >> reporter: and that is where
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growing number of exonerated prisoners. it turns out in alabama, if ray hinton had committed murder and was released on parole, he would have been eligible for job training, housing assistance, and a bus ticket home. but most states offer no immemeate asssstance to t t innocent whose convictions can be embarrassing because of misconduct or incompetence by police or prosecutors. >> you can't traumatize someone, try to kill someone, condemn someone lock someone down for 30 years and not feel some responsibility for what you have done. >> reporter: attorney brian stevenson worked on ray hinton's case for 16 years. stevenson started equal justice is nsh initiative, organizations overturning false convictions. >> they need support. economic, housing, medil, mental health care, they need to
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their abuse, has been taken seriously. >> just absolutely unimaginable, i couldn't even explain the horror of it. >> ken ireland lost 21 years. he was misidentified by witness whose collected a $20,000 reward. convicted in a 1986 rape and murder, dnaa proved his innocence. >> good morning. >> good morning, sir. >> reporter: because of the rare perspective of an innocent man who has done hard time, the governor put ireland on cocoecticut's parole board. >> at some point in your life, sir, you have to step up. >> so this is your new cell? >> yeah. for eight hours a day. >> reporter: it took five years to got this job. at first he lived with his sister and he found work as a counselor for troubled kids. >> i got a small apartment in town. there have been nights where i rricaded myselfn a walk-in closet. slept in there, thinking, that
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down my door and drag me back. >> reporter: you slept in a closet? >> yeah, yeah, a few times i have. are you over that now? six years later. >> i denton't have the issues now. >> reporter: one thing that madee ititasier is a connecticut law that compensates the wrongly convicted. a year ago ireland was the first to get a check. what did the state give you? >> $6 million. >> $6 llion. >> more than most states are giving. >> it comes to something like $300,000 a year. >> right. >> for every year you spent in prison. >> yeah. >> you say it isisot worthit? >> absolutely. give me $5 million every year. still wouldn't be worth it. >> reporter: ken ierreland was fortunate. 20 states offer no compensation at all. one is julie bahmer's home, michigan. >> other than the time what have you lost? >> everything. everything.
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>> reporter: in 2003, bahmer was a mortgage broker raising her sister's baby. he became ill. she took him to an emergency room. doctors there suspected the boy had been shaken until his brain was damaged. she was convicted of child abuse. she was in her fifth year in prison when new evidence showed that the boy haduffered a natural stroke. she was retried, acquitted, and the judge apologized. after she was released for a time, she was homeless. >> how did you start over? >> it was very, very, very rough. you start from the bottom. reclaiming your identity. i dn't have an i.d. after i jumped over thathurdle, you startt applyingor jobs. then you have to go through, okay, now there is a five year gap on your resume, why is this? you tell your potential employer the truth. and in my case, i never got phone calls back.
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of any kind? >> no. >> julie bahmer works for a troit area parish. >> thank you, god bless. >> hopefully my testimony. >> in her spare time lobbying michigan's legislature for a compensation law. >> no amount of money can ever bring back everything that i have lost. >> no one can fail to see the injustice in these cases, but when it comes to compensation there are people watching this interview who are saying, you know, it was just bad luck. and, and we don't necessarily owe them for the life that they lost. >> this isn't luck. this was a system, this was tually our justice system. it was our tax dollars who paid for the police office whurz arrested mr. hinton. our tax dollars pai for the judge and the prosecutor that prosecuted him, paid for the experts who got it wrong, paid to keep him on death row for 30 years for a crime he didn't commit. this has nothing to do with
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selling for $5 million. we spoke to four people in the know about some of most memorable ad from past years. >> the stakes are high. >> you have that big viewing audience. everybody has the pressuren to be as great as possible. >> you a a p pying like betty white out there. >> that's not what your girlfriend said. >> a super bowl commercial makes everyone bring their a game. >> for me super bowl was just about commercials as a kid. >> it's become, you know, must see viewing for everybody, really. >> go back and look over the
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commercials, it's amazing. >> my shave cream. last night was rougher than i thought. >> wasn't much pressure for advertisers to stand out from the clutter. completely different universe. >> if you don't buy rca, you may be buying obsoletee color tv. >> looking at the story, history, evolution, start with the apple ad. >> from the industry point of view, completely changed the game. >> for the first time people realize we need to do something that is going to have buzz value, get talked about. we are going to have to take more risk. >> i still get chills thinking abut the experience of seeing the ad for the first time. just one look >> many years ago i was invited to do a commercial for pepsi and it was to launch their new can. it was one of the commercial that hadeverything. it had great music, it was sese,
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your love >> is that a great new pepsi can or what? >> i think that's why people loved it. >> four of five dentists surveyededould recommend trident. >> my favorite was a spt we did for trident. >> would you recommend -- >> why didn't the fifth dentist recommend recommend trident? >> it only cost $200,000 to produce. it was in the top ten for the super bowl that year. the super bowl is a career making move. career makinin move for people in the advertising. it can introduce new talent. >> before the commercial i was pretty much just modeling wanting to k kd of f t my foot in the door for acting. and tv. and so, that was just like -- the big boom. during it i was wearing nude underwear and a nude bra. at the end of the scene when you
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>> introducing the all natural burger. >> what's criteria. i dent know theon't know but i have it. >> anheuser-busch has been one of the great adverser that comes back every year. >> think what's up, right? >> what's up. >> what's up? >> what started to do was do advertising on the super bowl that didn't just excite people watching the game. >> the language in that advertising made its way to pop culture. >> one of most famous ad ever made was the budweiser clyde dale ad called we'll never forget. think what they did with the clyde dales after 9/11. serious for the super bowl, but it was the right thing to do at that moment. >> i think for super bowl you want to see the commercials as much as you want to see the game. >> this is the motor city.
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>> if i am a cultural anthropologist, 100 years from now first thing i do is look at super bowl advertising. >> hey, ralph can i have a dorito? >> sure, when pigs fly. >> a way to understand w wt we were about at any given time. >> the cbs overnight news will be right back. we are going to the original source. the people who know. th barrassed by a prostste 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? because i get paid. und... on this side of t glove i know prostate exams can save lives. so, if you are a man over 50, talk to you doctor to see if a prostate exam is right for you. if we can do it, so can you.
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mcdonald's making a big come back. after years of falling market share, crediting its all day breakfast for a jump in sales in last quarter of2015. inside a mcdonald's on manhattan's eastside to try to keep up with what the custome want. >> this is one of the first in the nation with cususmize bulky osing, a giant ipad that lets you order the way you would like it. one more way mcdonald's is
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millenial's changing tastes. >> savor breakfast any time you like. >> reporter: more than three months after mcdonald's made breakfast an all-day affair. >> all day breakfast. >> reporter: the move appearsrs to satisfying customer cravings and wall street's appetite for profits. the fast food giant reported u.s. same store sales jumped 5%, make up for lost ground against burger king, wendy's and taco bell. >> this is an organization closing in on serving something like 70 million people a day. it is a battleship. turning a battleship is very, very hard. give them credit for some of the speed at which they have dealt with these, use. >> reporter: thosos use included criticism for the restaurant's super size menu and allegations of using unhealthy unethically raised ingredients. facing stiff competition from previous chains like shake shack
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since steve easterbrook took over mcdonald's the clmpany simplified its menu andeefed up how customers c c use it. >> there is one. there is two. >> reporter: rolling out a value men to. digital app to find deals. and kiosks that let you create your ownburgers. >> customization issue is a big deal. the idea of customization suggestshe food is fresher hasn't been sitting under hot lights all day. >> reportete the tailorere customerer experience is a new twist on an old idea. >> now that's the way to do things. our way. sunset have it your way >> reporter: and the trend is gaining momentum. starbuck's offers 80,000 drink combinations. a taco bell app allows you to preorder. 2> the idea you can have something the way youant is millenial and distinctly american now. used to being able to do things exactly the way we want them. and i think it is here to stay.
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satisfaction is improving. the actual number of people who visit a mcdonald's is on the decline. why they're launching new men items, for example in select stores in ohio, try mac and cheese.. couple stores in texas try out sweet potato fries. >> that's the overnight news for wednesday. for some 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. trump gets key endorsements before iowa. six days to go, it is a battle to win, place, or show. >> can you win this thing? >> also tonight, news about two threats to women's health. zika virus and heart disease. cbs news exposes questionable spending by the nation's largest veterans' charity. >> using our injuries, our darkest days, our hardships to
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