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said cruz's inflexibility would doom his agenda. >> look, at a certain point. you have got to make deals. we can't have a guy who stand on the senate floor and every other senator thinks he is a whack job, right. >> republicans will participate in their final televised debate. before the iowa caucuses. 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 cow barn i never felt closer to the particular part of the did you know there's a cough liquid that lasts for twelve hours? try delsym twelve hour cough liquid. its advanced formula releases powerful medicine that acts fast
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years on death row. >> life is not always what we think it is. >> 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 whether you did 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. 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.
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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 30. he was 57 when the u.s. supreme court ruled 9-0 his defense had been ineffective. a new ballistics test found that the gun was not the murder weapon. stood up. and said -- i sentence you to die.
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no one had the decency to say -- mr. hinton we sorry for -- we sorry for what took place. one have said it. reporter: what did the state alabama give you to help you t back up on your feet? >> they dropped all charges that was it. >> 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 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.
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overturning false convictions. >> they need support. economic, housing, medical, mental health care, they need to know that their victimization, 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, 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 on connecticut's parole board. >> at some point in your life, sir, you have to step up.
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>> 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 wn. ere have been nights where i rricaded myself in a walk-in oset. ept in there, thinking, that meone 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 easier is a connecticut law that compensates the wrongly 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
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at all. one is julie bahmer's home, michigan. >> other than the time what have you lost? >> 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 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 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.
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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 the truth. and in my case, i never got phone calls back. >> 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 lost. >> this isn't luck. this was a system, this was actually our justice system. it was our tax dollars who paid for the police officers who arrested mr. hinton.
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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 mmit. this has nothing to do with luck, but everything to do with the way we treat those who are vulnerable in our criminal justice system. >> see scott's full report on our web site. cbsnews.com. the overnight news will be right back. get fast-acting, long-lasting relief from heartburn with it neutralizes stomach acid and is the only product that forms a protective barrier that helps keep stomach acid in the stomach where it belongs. for fast-acting, long-lasting try gaviscon . 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 so i can get into the swing of it a bit quicker. and when i know she's feeling like that, it makes me feel like we're both... when she enjoys it, we enjoy it even more. and i enjoy it.
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against the carolina panthers. for many of those watching the game is just a side show for the real entertainment, the super bowl ads. this year, 30-second spot is 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 be as great as possie. >> you are playing 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
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>> it's become, you know, must see viewing for everybody, really. >> go back and look over the earliest super bowls, the commercials, it's amazing. >> my shave cream. last night was rougher than i thought. >> wasn't much pressure for vertisers to stand out from e clutter. mpletely 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 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.
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that had everything. it had great music, it was sexy, and hot, but funny. your love >> is that a great new pepsi can 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 produce. 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.
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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 see me. >> introducing the all natural burger. >> 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 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.
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want to see the 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 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 what 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. that's when we know we can
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the "cbs 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
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first in with customizable kiosk, a jiendgiant ipad that lets you order the way you would like it. one more way mcdonald's is trying to keep up with millenial's changing tastes. >> savor breakfast any time you like. reporter: more than three nths after mcdonald's made eakfast 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 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: those, use included criticism for the restaurant's super size menu and allegations of using unhealthy unethically
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facing stiff competition from premium chains like shake shack and chipotle. since steve easterbrook took over mcdonald's the company 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 suggests 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 mbinations. taco bell app allows you to eorder. >> the idea you can have something the way you want is millenial and distinctly american now. used to being able to do things exactly the way we want them.
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nation's largest veterans' charity. >> using our injuries, our darkest days, our hardships to make money. >> and, he turned deadpan 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 in iowa is as tight 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 falwell jr. and arizona sheriff joe are pie yo giving trump credibility on both
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endorsements. i would love to win iowa, doing very, very well with the evangelicals. >> ted cruz argued he is most conservative candidate on social 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 better. >> 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 moderator megyn kelly. >> megyn kelly is really biased. >> reporter: kelly's only offense, asking trump tough questions. >> you called women you don't like, fat pigs, dogs, slobs and
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>> 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 turnout is vital to victory that its the riskiest strategy imaginable. >> major garrett reporting. thank you. on the democratic side, hillary clinton leads bernie sanders nationally by 12 points. and this 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 ready for a radical >> yeah! >> we're going to create 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
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and national nurses united. clinton is backed by american fed ration of teachers, and the service employees union. >> you will know that you have a friend in the white house. >> reporter: at a forum, clinton- was confronted by a young sanders voter. >> in fact heard from quite a few people my age that they, think you are dishonest. >> you know, look, i have been around a long time. people have thrown all kind of things at me. >> reporter: we asked 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.
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is just the starting line in a process that will go long into the spring. nancy cordes, thank you very much. washington's mayor plans to lift the snow emergency tomorrow evening. for now the city 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 home. >> nearly 72 hours after the storm stopped, frustration in washington, d.c. is growing. >> i think d.c. government snow
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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 rely upon being able to get out. >> 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 a plow. the clean-up remains an around the clock effort. d.c.'s chris geldart. >> they said any body over a certain age, able-bodied 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's what we will see over the next 48 hours going into the end of the week. >> reporter: d.c. schools are set to open tomorrow. other school districts could remain closed through the rest of the week.
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park service today they have removed enough snow off the national mall to fill the washington monument. more than 18 times. kris van cleave, thank you very much. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. we ask on every story, is it right, fair, honest? that's when we know we can report the facts.
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videos were explosive. >> don't lowball it, tell me what you really -- >> $75 a specimen. >> reporter: they sparked criminal investigation as cross the country into whether planned parenthood 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 california 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 journalists. >> reporter: tactics often used by citizen journalists activists from environmentalists to animal wrongdoing. just last summer activists within a significant free speech
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struck down an idaho law banning undercover operations in the dairy industry. judge lynn windmill referenced "the jungle" when upton sinclair went undndcover 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 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
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other long-respected charities. for example, the disabled 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 a month you can join wounded warrior project. >> reporter: in its commercials, they appeal to the american 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
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star and purple heart and traumatic brain injury and ptsd. initially admired the charity's work and participated. he got a shotout from the president. >> 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
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the two former employees were so fearful of retaliation they asked us not to show their faces. >> it was extremely extravagant. 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 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.
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>> to make a grand entrance. >> he has come in on a segue, a horse. >> reporter: 500 staff members attended the four day conference in colorado. 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 interview requests for nardizzi, but offered, captain ryan kules. he denied 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 that we are providing those conferences to ensure we are
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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. >> 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. >> ryan kules of wounded warrior project told us the charity dido cf1 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
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and new mothers be screened for depression. this is based on new evidence that suggests postpartum depression often begins during pregnancy. 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 1 million cases in brazil alone. pregnant women warned not to travel to these places. zika causes mild or no symptoms in most people.
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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 have gotten the virus abroad before coming 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 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 back with a new study on why women are more likely than men to die of heart attacks. also ahead,
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source of people who know. that's when we know we can report the facts. >> the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. 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
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>> heart disease in women is underresearched, underdiagnosed and undertreated. >> reporter: dr. holly anderson 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, 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 chest pain. >> women are harder to diagnose, but even if they're diagnosed correctly, they will be less likely to receive all of the guideline derived medications to treat this disease.
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house in elkmont, alabama the other day because she had to go and she went. 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
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>> doesn't look good. >> you won't believe this according to their record, i'm deceased. >> 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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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 -- 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. captioning funded by cbs it's wednesday, january 27th, 2016. this is the "cbs morning news."
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protesters and authorities in oregon turned bloody. one person is killed when when the fbi and state troops close in on the occupation of federal lands. fox news is getting dumped by trump. the republican presidential front-runner says he is not taking part in the cable's channel debate ahead of the iowa caucuses. and tragedy in indiana. a beloved principal puts her life on the line, pushing young students out of the way of a school bus, before it hits and killed her. r 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. this morning, the leaders of the armed group occupying a federal wildlife refuge in oregon are under arrest. the situation at the wildlife refuge itself remains fluid. the fbi and oregon state police stopped the group on a highway
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fired and one member of the militia killed and another wounded. andrew denver of our portland station from burns joins us on the phone. andrew, what did you tell us. >> reporter: ammom bundy and some of his top ranking officials left the refuge late tuesday afternoon for a scheduled meeting in john day, a town a hundred miles north of the wildlife refuge. that is when federal authorities made their move. one man was killed and eight others were arrested. reports are suggesting that lavoy finnegan, arguably the number two guy in all of this, was the one to be killed but that is yet to be confirmed by authorities. i can say that finnegan has said many times he would rather die than go to jail. the militia arrested including ammon bundy and his brother and cox and payne and joseph donald shawn shaughnessy.
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arrested and streaming on his youtube page but he is not accredited with any media affiliation and often referred to as bundy's right hand man. john rightshimer another one involved in the occupation is believed to have turned himself in. all of the arrested are facing federal conspiracy felony charges. as for the rest of the militia to still be occupying the malheiur wildlife refuge the county judge is asking them to leave peacefully. one thing important to understand in all of this bundy and his followers frequently left the refuge coming and going as they pleased so it wasn't out of the ordinary for them to think they could get in a truck, leave for a meeting and come back. they have done that several times the last couple of weeks but this time, the fbi shut them down.
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>> andrew denver in burns, oregon, thank you for bringing us up-to-speed. coming up on "cbs this morning," we will have the latest on the arrest of the leaders of the oregon wildlife refuge occupation. republican front-runner donald trump plans to skip tomorrow's gop presidential debate. it is the final gop debate before next week's iowa caucuses without trump, seven candidates will take part. the debate is being broadcast by fox news. trump says he has issues with fox moderator meghan kelly. don champion has more. >> reporter: a series of war had been going on for trump. republicans will finally start voting on who they want to be their presidential nominee. the latest escalation and tensions came after fox news released this press release tuesday saying, in part, we learned from a secret back
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putin both intend to treat donald trump unfairly when they meet with him if he becomes president. the statement set the republican presidential front-runner off. >> when they sent out the wise guy press releases a little bit ago done by some pr person, along with roger ayos i said bye-bye. >> reporter: you call overweight women pigs. >> reporter: just yesterday, the billionaire candidate took to instagram, asking his followers if he should participate in yet another debate moderated by her. >> trump is not used to not controlling things, but the truth is he doesn't get to control the media. >> reporter: in a statement, the network says trump is still elcome at thursday night's event and will be treated fairly. >> this is all about his not being willing to defend his record. >> reporter: locked in a tight
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is now offering to debate trump one-on-one. >> 90 minutes, you and me, monoamono, lincoln/douglas style and if that scares you, then we can do a iowa town hall. >> reporter: this is the seventh of the campaign season for the gop. instead of attending the debate, trump says he, instead, will be holding a fund-raiser for veterans and wounded warriors. >> don champion here in new york, thank you, don. democratic presidential hopeful bernie sanders is scheduled to meet with president obama this morning at the white house. the white house says there is no formal agenda for the meeting, but the little known senator from vermont has become a surprising factor in the democratic nominating process. a milwaukee man is under arrest. the fbi says sammy mohammed hahnza had been under
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he told fbi informance his group planned to shoot everyone they saw at the temple and hoped to kill at least 30 people. he was arrested monday by undercover agent after he paid for two automatic machine guns and silencerses. he is charged with gun possession. two people were killed and three others wounded when gunfire broke out at a homeless camp in seattle. it's unclear what triggered last night's shooting. one victim died at the scene, another at the hospital. seattle police say they do not believe the shootings were random. >> we do have at least two persons of interest. we believe this was a targeted incident. we have no reason to believe anyone else is in danger at this point. >> one of the victims remains in critical condition. police believe the victims were targeted because of who they are, not because they were homeless. president obama was briefed on the potential threat of the zika virus. yesterday, the world health organization predicted the
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