the leader ammon bundy tweeted, we have no intentions of using force upon anyone, but if force is used against us, we will defend ourselves. they're demanding an inquiry into why ranchers dwight and steven hammond were ordered back to prison for setting fires on federal land after they had already served prison time. >> it has been left to us to decide whether we allow these things to go on or whether we make a stand. other people across this country. >> reporter: but many in the area who support the hammonds oppose the occupation. >> it's so imperative that we find ways to address these

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in arms that reports that the latest murderous spokesperson for the islamic state was arrested sick times in england on terror-related offenses. he was released each time and by the time the british government sent him a letter ordering him to surrender his passport, he was already on his way to syria. we have more from london. >> reporter: dahra converted to islam as a young man. in 2014, he was arrested with choudary on suspicion of encouraging terrorism but leased on lack of evidence and immediately made a break for syria and joined isis tweeting, what a shoddy security system britain must have to allow me to

later using his isis name, he posted a photoof him holding a gun and his fifth child. in a recent video that shows the execution of five men, the man thought to be dhar is masked. in it, he taunts the british government. >> how strange it is that a leader of a small island -- >> dhar's sister says she can't be sure the masked man is her brother. >> i think it's a bit hard to say gwynn what i've seen. i'm not entirely convinced that it is. my honest opinion is that it might not be. >> reporter: but many other people who knew dhar think it probably is. one of the hundreds of british citizens now in syria, including this little boy, who appears at the end of the video. he's thought to be about 4 years old. to establish the identity of that masked man conclusively, british intelligence services are going to examine as much as

mask and also compare his voice with samples that they already have on file. this year's powerful el nino is bringing drenching rain up and down the california coast, but so far it's done little to end the state's four-year-long drought. nearly 90% of california is suffering under severe drought conditions. ben tracy took to the sky to see for himself the effects on the state's forests. >> reporter: we took off from an airfield near sacramento. minutes later, we saw this -- reservoirs at record lows and forests dying after four years of drought. >> there's a lot of red on this screen, which is a sign that we're over an area that's in trouble. >> reporter: gray gazner is director of the garn ghee air observatory. hez lap lab scans 15 acres of forest every second. it's like having x-ray vision that produces vivid immechanicals of the health of

>> our systems are seeing beyond the dead trees and seeing the trees that are stressed. >> reporter: the cutting-edge technology, funded in part by "avatar" director james cameron, throughout the entire state. the red areas on this map are severely drought stressed. blue areas are healthier. your equipment reads how much moisture is in each individual tree? >> yeah. the measurement is focused on how much water is in the foliage itself. it's like getting a blood test. it's one of the key indicators on the health of the tree. >> reporter: and the dat a released this week shows california's forests are in very bad shape. 58 million trees are severely drought stressed and could die. an astounding 888 million have seen measurable water loss since the drought began in 2011. jew you're basically saying the drought has impacted nearly 1 billion trees in california? >> that's correct. >> reporter: the u.s. forest service says more than 29

>> here's the trees that have totally succumbed. >> reporter: these maps will help the forest service know which areas are most vulner able and wildfire fishes to know where the greatest risks are. the severely stressed trees, are they past the point of no return or are they recoverable? >> we don't know if a stressed tree is absolutely going to succumb and be gone or if it's going to bounce back over time. >> reporter: el nino-fuelled storms are expected to bring much-needed rain. experts hope that turns the golden state a bit more green. ben tracy, sacramento. environmental activists are plotting a new law that outlaws microbeads that are in personal care products. how they are polluting our lakes and rivers. >> reporter: the bill known as the microbead free waters act is designed to eliminate tiny bit

us use every day. >> microbeads are found in many health and beauty products, incruding soap, body scrub and toothpaste. they are generally used to exfoliate or add polish. no bigger than a grain of salt, these microplastics are a big concern for environmental scientists. they say the tiny particles are a farmful. this scientist and his team study plastic pollution in waters around the world. he's found microbeads in the san francisco bay and in high concentrations in the great lakes. not all water treatment plants are able to filter them out. >> they're absorbing industrial chemicals, pesticides from farms, even oil drops from cars will stick to these microplastics and microbeads. at that point, they can enter the food chain.

contain up to 300,000 nonbiodegradable microbeads. in september, california banned sales of product containing microbeads. richard bloom authors the congress is following california's lead. >> it's very significant. you're going to have 50 states doing the same thing. i have no doubt this is going to spread now to other country. and the longer we have these pollutants in the environment, to effectively clean up after >> reporter: the law passed surprisingly quickly, but it's not immediate. the law prohibits the manufacture of products containing microbeads as of july

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tom jones -- make that sir tom jones sold 100 million records over his remarkable six decade career. in his new memoir "over the top and back" jones recounts how he rose from his roots in the coal fields of whals to become an international singing star and an honorary knight of the realm. the 70-year-old singer sat down with a chat with anthony mason. >> you really kieb ofnd of wanted to be a white wilson pickett. >> yeah. i met otis redding and he said

meaning the soul singers. i said i'm trying to do what you do. >> reporter: tom jones was 24 when he left wales and moved to london to break into music. within a year, he had a number one hit. it's not unusual to be loved by anyone >> the first time you heard "it's not unusual," you knew it was something for you? >> yes. i said i have to have this song. i've got to have it. >> reporter: the problem was that jones' manager, gordon mills who co-wrote the song wanted to give it to another singer. but jones was told he could record the demo. >> he said oh, i can write a million of those. he never did. he never wrote another one like that. >> reporter: but when that other singer, sandy shaw, turned down the tune, jones got his chance. >> peter sullivan, my recording manager said we've got to wrap this up. you've got to rip into it.

it's not unusual to be loved by anyone so we had to have somebody go bad da bam. i said brass. it's the most important record to me because it changed my life. >> reporter: his next hit would be the theme song to a woody allen film, written by burt bacharach. what's new pussy cat snent. >> the fist time you heard what's new pussy cat, what did you think? >> i thought that burt bacharach was joking with me. it's a really strange melody. you know what i mean? i was 25 then. and i thought, what is this?

i said i know that. >> reporter: a string of hits through the '60s made him a star. >> this is tom jones. >> reporter: but it was the abc tv series "this is tom jones" that made him a household name. is "this is tom jones" really what turned you into a sex symbol. >> i think i was a sex symbol as soon as i started singing. let's really start to leave >> do women still throw understood wear at you? >> no. it started in new york. >> reporter: that's where it started? >> in '68. this woman stood up and, you know. just handed them to me like this. so i didn't miss a beat. i said hope you don't catch cold like that. you' got to sort of roll with it.

it backfired. i wasn't being taken seriously as a singer. they showed that more than what they heard i was singing. >> reporter: at one point you got opposite advice from frank sinatra and elvis presley. >> elvis didn't like an album of standards he released. there. he said we leave that to frank. we. but he said we. i thought wow. >> putting me in the same -- >> yeah, exactly. that was a big compliment to me. then i would be talking to frank sinatra. at the galleria bar in caesar's palace. and he said you've got a great jazz voice, tom. leave that pop stuff. you' got to come with me. i said frank, i love it all. i do. >> that obviously worked for you, but sometimes it's probably worked against you, too. because people don't know where

>> exactly. that's the problem. i always used to think my versatility would be an asset. but sometimes, people say well, what is tom jones. i'm not in the rock 'n roll hall of fame. >> do you want to be? >> i would like to be, yeah. because i'm basically a '50s rock 'n roll singer. >> reporter: he may not be in the hall yet, but since 2006, sir tom jones has been a member of an even more exclusive club. >> uh yo eve had a knight hood, which i know means a lot to you. >> oh, yeah. when you neil -- kneel there and the queen puts the sword on your shoulder e, that's something i

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mary. we found the origins in paris. >> this was an old bar that had been shipped to paris. harry bought it after the first guy went broke. >> from shipping that bar to paris. >> anyway, this obvious american bar has a singular, one might even say historic distinction. back in the 1920s, a bartender here mixed worcester sauce with tabasco, salt and pepper, mixed it -- i love the way he does this, look. don't forget the vodka. and tomato juice. that's key. harry's is where the bloody mary

the bloody mary, it's a brunch staple for when you need some of the hair of the dog. well it's a bloody mary morning in the 1920s as prohibition closed bars in the united states, some american bartenders came to france looking for work. they brought a new idea to the french, cocktails, mixed drinks, to a country used to drinking wine. at the same time, paris was a refuge for a lot of russians escaping the communist revolution back home. and they brought this new stuff called vodka. now, there are a lot of different versions of how the drink was created. the most widely accepted is that a barman at harry's found vodka too bland. so he added tomato juice and spices to give it some flavor, as the henry family from massachusetts can attest to. >> very good. >> perfectly spiced. >> it's bloody because of the tomato juice. and mary is believed to have been someone's girl friend. but

remembers the details. it's a versatile drink that inspires many interpretations. at a mexican restaurant, it's made with tequila. >> blood by maria. >> at a sake bar, it's made with a japanese vodka and wasabe. three generations later, harry is still owned by the same family, and they claim that last year, they told more than 12,000 bloody marys. >> everyone wanted to try the bloody mary at the bar. >> with silence more powerful than words.

gun violence and takes action to stop it. also tonight, a rolling disaster, mississippi flood waters swallow up more of the heartland. a popular documentary about a convicted killer brings demands for his freedom. >> this has been one of the biggest entertainment campaigns we have seen on the platform. >> and a teacher of the year in the video of the week. >> this is the cbs overnight news. >> it was a sight we rarely see. the tears of the most powerful man in the world powerless to get the united states congress to tighten gun control laws. the president was announcing what he would do by executive action without congress when the memories of these victims, 20 first graders from newtown, connecticut, 6 or 7 years old

mid-sentence. >> every time i think about those kids it gets me mad. and by the way, it happens on the streets of chicago every day. >> there have been 13 mass killings during the obama presidency, each time republicans voted against gun legislation. last month after san bernardino, mr. obama decided to act on his. given the limits of his power, his actions are not sweeping. the most significant expands background checks for gun sales online or at gun shows. currently about 40% of sales have no background checks at all. chief legal correspondent jan crawford is at the white house. >> from every family who never imagined that their loved one would be taken from our lives by a bullet from a gun.

>> we maybe can't save everybody, but we can save some. >> a political call to action. >> the gun lobby may be holding them hostage, but they cannot hold americans. we do not have to accept this. >> the president repeatedly called the executive actions common sense steps that respected the second amendment and expressed solidarity with the people who surrounded him on the the white house. a father who lost a 7-year-old, the daughters of the pastor at a charleston church and a congresswoman nearly killed after being shot in the head. >> it's our right to worship freely and safely. that right was denied to christians in charleston, south carolina. that was denied jews in kansas city and that was denied muslims in chapel hill and sikhs in oak creek. they had rights too. >> they focused on the system of

requiring all gun dealers even those who sell firearms at gun shows and on the internet to be licensed and conduct background checks. improving the current system by hiring more investigators to make background checks more efficient and effective. increasing mental health treatment and reporting to the background check system. although the issue of stricter gun laws is highly divicive, 92% of americans support background checks. the president in the wake of the sandy hook shootings failed to get legislation through that would expand them. he wants to kick supporters out of office. >> this is not that complicated. the reason congress blocks laws is because they want to inelections. if you make it hard for them to win and they block the laws, they will change course, i promise you. >> now the president could face

these actions exceed his presidential authority. the nra in a statement indicated it may hold off as saying these actions don't really appear to change anything and are simply political theater. >> jan crawford at the white house. thank you. if it is political theater, republican presidential candidates played the president's proposals as high drama today. nancy was in the audience. >> obama wants your guns. that was the warning on the presidential campaign website for sex as senator cruz on a mock up of the president in military garb. cruz's fellow candidate marco rubio called the plan unconstitutional. >> barack obama is obsessed with undermining the second amendment. >> paul ryan accused him of a dangerous level of overreach. the texas republican whose subcommittee controls funding

threatened to cut the purse strings. >> he overstepped authority and i will take action to restrain him. i will not wait for a court order or a lawsuit. the second amendment rights are too precious. >> the nra reacted with a hail of tweets in realtime. saying president obama's executive orders will do nothing to improve public safety. the group issued this warning to any lawmakers thinking of siding with the president. fyi, all nra grades are subject to change. >> that is what i have come to expect. >> this congresswoman is a democrat whose district includes sandy hook elements where students and teachers were gunned down in 2o 12. >> what do you say to those who said he doesn't have the right to take action? >> it's not good enough.

proposals, but for god's sake do something! >> they don't control congress and if he wants more money for things like additional atf agents, he will have to win over republicans and right now, scott, that seems unlikely. >> nancy, thank you. we want to note that demand for guns is soaring. the fbi said it conducted a record 23 million background checks last year. mr. obama cited a hero in the battle against gun violence. an innocent teenager who found himself in the way of a gang shooting. >> dobson was a sophomore at fulton high school in knoxville, tennessee. he played football and was beloved by classmates and teachers. the week before christmas he headed to a friend's house to

he had not made a bad decision. he was exactly where any other kid would be. your kid. my kids. and then gunmen started firing. and he was in high school, had not gotten started in life. he dove on top of three girls to shield them from the bullets. he was shot in the head. he gave his life to save theirs. an act of heroism a lot bigger than anything we should ever expect from a 15-year-old.

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the shooting death of a college student in what may have been an act of road rage. he's a marine corporal who was arrested in yuma, arizona. he is accused of gunning down 20-year-old sarah early new year's day as she drove with friends home from a party. in another big story today, floodwaters are receding along parts of the mississippi and rising in others. tonight 23 illinois counties have been declared disaster areas. we are in olive branch. >> this is where the mississippi river is pouring into one of the poorest counties in the state of illinois. alexander county. i'm standing on the small levy that failed four days ago and now that breech is nearly a mile wide. >> nearly 125 properties have been flooded. david owns three of them.

>> looks like you built this in the middle of the lake. >> 30 years ago this didn't happen. >> he was one of the people who accepted a state buy out and agreed to leave. >> when did they offer you the buy out? >> after the floodwater went down. >> in 2011? >> yes. >> and you took it. >> have you gotten your money? >> nope. four years, seven months. nothing. >> he moved away and waited for reimbursement. this truck driver turned it down. >> we can't afford to move. you just can't up and move like that. >> johnson said he doesn't have the money to start over. the median income is just under $27,000 a year. less than half of the stayed's income. as for david willis, whether or not he gets his money, he made up his mind. >> have you made up your mind? >> nope. >> because of that?

>> it started further north and killed 25 people in illinois and missouri. >> it may be two years before this breech is repaired and could be two weeks before the flooded areas are dry. the good news is the water is receipting into the mississippi river above flood stage from here to louisiana. >> thanks. in the west, storms are going to hit one after another, powered by the warming pacific current known as el nino. here's ben tracy. >> it's literally raping cats and and dogs. >> snarling roadways and covering the 101 freeway in mud. this mini cooper was no match for the mega rain. the driver jumped to higher ground. people living in areas charred by wildfires were encouraged to evacuate. steel netting has been installed to catch debris.

decided to leave. >> night time i don't want to go to sleep wondering if the debris is going to come down again. >> bill is a nasa climateologist. >> we tend to focus on the negative impacts, but the fact of the matter is we need all of this rain. >> this is going to be a fantastic down payment on drought. we can anticipate anywhere between four and six inches of rain here in los angeles. it's normally double what we get in january. >> the l.a. river is rushing tonight, sending billions of gallons of water out to the ocean. that is what prevents los angeles from flooding. there is more rain in the forecast. expected to hit southern california tomorrow. >> ben tracy reporting this evening. thank you. today in afghanistan, one service member was kill and two others wounded in a fierce battle near the southern city of

the taliban was advancing american special operations forces and supporting the afghan military. in the race for the next commander in chief, ronald reagan once said the 11th commandment is thou shall not speak ill of another republican. he wouldn't recognize the melee just four weeks before iowa. here's major garrett. >> this a d'backing ted cruz mocked the foreign policy of toughness. >> i know i have a debate. >> cruz took his own fire from rick santorum who ridiculed his pension for filibusters. >> you want someone to read a bedtime story? ted is your guy. if you want to defeat isis, rick santorum is your president. >> they branded chris christie

>> one high tax common core obama kadcare expanding president is enough. >> they attack their opponents and leaving that to the funded super pacs. . >> the super pacs are supposed to operate independently from the campaigns, although rubio said he does support the group's message. >> these are serious policies. there nothing in the ads that enact. >> the super pac ads do not necessarily tip the scale. the group spent tens of millions only to see push's poll numbers tumble, leaving bush to scramble for attention on live tv vowing he has been tougher than anyone on donald trump. >> that's my job. you have to take on the bully head on. that's what i'm doing. >> he told the post that rubio cannot slime his way to the white house. those attacks came from a rubio

was a distinction lost on christie as it may be for voters. >> on the muddy campaign trail. thanks very much. >> in new york in the democratic race, bernie sanders took aim today at front-runner hillary clinton over ties to wall street. he said wall street's greed is destroying the fabric of the nation. >> and here is a new year's resolution that i will keep if elected president and that is if wall street does not end its greed, we will end it for them. >> he vowed to break up the country's biggest firms. a documentary leads to a campaign to release a convicted murderer.

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serving life for murder. >> thanks to a show on netflix, the website change.org has a hit on his hands. >> in less than a month, more than a quarter of a million people around the world signed a petition on the site demanding justice for a man in prison for life and featured in a netflix documentary. mike jones is with change.org. >> for it it go from a few thousand to a few million signers, it shows this is tapping into a national conversation. >> i didn't know what to do and how to handle it. >> it's due to this series, making a murderer. launched last month that told the story of steven avery. he's the wisconsin man who served 18 years in prison for rape before being exonerated in 2003. >> we find the defendant guilty. >> only to find himself in

conviction in 2007. since its debut, millions of viewers spent hours binge watching it and discussionsng the case in online chat rooms. they said he was framed by evidence. ken kratz who prosecuted said the series is misleading. >> steven avery is right where he needs to be. that's in prison for the rest of his natural life. >> avery's lawyer said the reaction to the series has included useful information for the defense. >> we can't afford not to at least sift and consider something that might be useful to one human being who right now is facing a slow death in prison. >> here in wisconsin, scott walker has the power to pardon

office, he has never used it. scott, his aides say he is not going to change that strategy now. >> dean reynolds, thank you very much. the justice department takes action after a cbs news

that's next. we have an update on a compounding pharmacy that mixes custom drugs. last year they discovered downing labs sent people millions in medications and they did not order. the lab was investigated for unsanitary conditions.

justice filed an injunction that forces downing to stop mixing drugs until an outside expert inspects the facility. in a first for the u.s. military academy, general diana holland was sworn in as commend ant of cadets. she is a 1990 graduate of west point and served in iraq and afghanistan.

their way to success. tonight we saved the last dance for mark strausman in atlanta. >> this is the hip hop dance challenge. you also wonder, who is that little aged dude who can do it like them. are once we started, i said i'm so bad. let's film y'all. they said no, you have to be this it. >> ron clark, a former teacher of the year founded the academy in 2007. it's a private middle school, part hog wards and part harbor. learning comes to for kids academically diverse and often lower income. the viral video stars including seventh greater jayden lindsay. >> the message is to say we can

the same time. >> every student but one in the school's history has gone on to college. mason calhoun is another seventh grader. >> it's indescribable the amount of love shown from the teachers towards us. it motivates us to push ourselves and be amazing citizens. >> the message is about who we are. to show kids that you care. when kids know that you are willing to meet them and learn about your culture and interact with with them,y that will work harder. >> by breaking the mold, ron clark and his kids keep busting the right moves. cbs news, atlanta. >> and that's the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others check back with us

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it's wednesday, january 6th, 2016. this is the "cbs morning news." new nuclear threat from north korea. the reclusive nation announce overnight it's conducted a test of a powerful hydrogen bomb. >> president obama does little to sway the republicans running to replace him in the white house. and powering up. nearly $pooiven500,000 will be up for grab tonight in the jackpot drawing. good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. thorngs north korea says it conductedity first test of a hydrogen bomb.

earthquake was detected close to the north korea test site. if confirmed, it would be north korea's fourth nuclear test and escalation of the nuclear program. seth doane is in beijing where the chinese say they will protest the nuclear test. >> reporter: as you point out, the big question is here if this is, indeed, proven tor a hydrogen bomb test, what north korea claimed it carried out early this morning at 10:00 local time, if, indeed, that is true, it would be a major advance in nuclear technology for the north. hydrogen bomb is far more powerful, much more difficult to make than atomic bombs. through the day, we have seen the south koreans begin to cast doueds on whether this could, indeed, be a hydrogen bomb. they are claiming most recently it could be an atomic bomb. countries in the region are

try to evaluate what, indeed, this may have been. it may be days or weeks, if ever, there is some confirmation of this. the north came out in early december, december 10th and said it will hydrogen bomb capabilities. that claim was widely dismissed by the international community but we saw a handwritten note from kim jong-un are a hydrogen test after making that claim. this test has taken neighbors here in the region by surprise. >> seth, how do we interpret this move? what does it mean? >> reporter: well, it would be a major, major step forward. we were in north korea in october and we had seen really what -- what apparently was a warming in relations between china, the major ally of the north and north korea. china sent a top government

that we attended. china has really been pushing nonproliferation issues here on the korean pens will and a major al lip. it appeared the two were getting closer and the relations were warming but china condemned these tests today, as has south korea and japan. it would be a major step back for stability in the region. >> indeed. seth doane in beijing, thank you. back here at home, rainfall records are falling in southern california. a powerful storm is shifting east after drenching los angeles and the region. the el nino conditions in the pacific promise new rain starting today. heavy downpours swamped streets in san diego. stranded drivers were forced to

roads and intersections. >> i saw cars going through it, so i thought, oh, i'm fine, until i felt my car slightly lift off and then i felt all the water and then i was, like, i can't move, i can't move. >> water poured over a wall into a san diego parking garage leaving cars under water. catastrophic floeds in two dozen illinois counties. water is receded along some parts of the mississippi river. the flooding is blamed for at least 25 deaths, though, in illinois and missouri. health officials are warning about hidden risks from sewage and other pollutants in the water. well, it didn't take long for critics of president obama's plan to curb gun violence in this country to speak up. the national rifle association says the proposal for expanded background checks was right for abuse. the president had tears streaking as he recalled the massacre at the sandy hook

speech was also with fire and anger. >> every time i think about those kids, it gets me mad! >> reporter: president obama let his emotions show tuesday after 13 mass killings during his tenure in the white house. >> and from every farmer who never imagined that their loved one would be taken from our lives by a bullet from a gun. the gun lobby may be holding congress hostage right now but they cannot hold america hostage. >> reporter: the president's reaction require gun dlers, including those at gun shows and online to be licensed and conduct background checks. currently about 40% of sales have no background checks at all. >> we won't be able to operate our website the way we have in the past from here on out. >> we are interested in keeping firearms out of the hands of people who should not have them. >> reporter: no executive order associated with the president's plan, likely making it the

government agencies to complement any changes. but the president's comments have put gun control front and center in election politics. >> he can abuse his power all he wants. he has a phone and he has a pen, but if you live by the pen, be you die by the pen! >> what he is basically doing is issuing things and ignoring the legality of it. >> the second amendment, the second amendment is so important. they are trying -- they are not going to take your guns away, folks, they are not going to take your guns away. not going to do it. they are trying. >> i will take on the gun lobby. >> reporter: the president also wants to increase funding for mental health care and hire more atf agents all that would require approval from the republican-led congress.