ming next. have a great day. good morning to our viewers in the west. this is thursday, december 31st, 2015. welcome to "cbs this morning." bill cosby faces sexual assault charges. his attorney says the comedian will be exonerated. >> reporter: floods rise to record levels. and a moment overnight and the mother of the so-called affluenza teen arrives back in the u.s. we begin with a look at today's "eye opener." your world in 90 seconds. >> for many of my clients, seeing him, having to face trial, is the best christmas present that they have ever

received. >> bill cosby charged with felony sexual assault. >> he was fingerprinted and released on bail. >> we expect him to be fully exonerated. >> missouri governor jay nixon says the mississippi river will hit all time record high levels. >> rivers in kentucky and arkansas are still rising and threatening to break levees. >> the so-called affluenza teen's mother comes back to the u.s. her son who killed four people in a drunk driving crash is still in mexico. >> an air canada plane crash left 21 people hurt. >> everything went to the ceiling that wasn't anchored. >> brussels has cancelled its public new year's celebration out of security concerns. paris cancelled its annual fireworks show. >> n ychypd will have extra security. >> enrique marquez who allegedly supplied assault rifles to the san bernardino massacre couple

is indicted on terrorism charges. >> the ball boy stole a game ball. >> trump has a beef with president obama. >> it's a war on hairspray. >> you can't use hairspray because it will affect the ozone. they want me to use the pump because the other one, which i really like better than going bing, bing, bing. >> all that matters. >> in sydney fireworks lit up the sky to ring in the new year there. >> on "cbs this morning." >> how many world leaders do you think are just completely out of their minds? >> a pretty sizable percentage. at a certain point, your feet hurt and you're having trouble pe evaluating. >> announcer: this morning's "eye opener" is presented by toyota. let's go places. welcome to "cbs this

morning." i'm jeff glor with kristine johnson of our new york station wcbs. charlie rose, norah o'donnell, and gayle king are off today. legal troubles have caught up with bill cosby. he's free on bail in a sexual assault case. >> the criminal charges are the first against the man once known as america's dad. this year, dozens of women accused him of past sexual misconduct. theresa duncan is in elkins park, pennsylvania, just north of philadelphia. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the arraignment lasted less than ten minutes. bill cosby appeared composed while he was in that courtroom. he paid the required 10% of his $1 million bail and was ordered to turn over his passport. with two attorneys at his side, bill cosby carefully stepped out

of a black suv wednesday to face criminal charges of sexual assault. >> mr. cosby, do you want to say anything? >> reporter: gripping a cane, the 78-year-old stumbled on the curb as he was led into the courthouse in elkins park, pennsylvania. the accusations date back to 2004, when andrea constand says cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in his pennsylvania home. according to the 23-page complaint, cosby gave her three blue pills he claimed were herbal, and within a half hour, constand says she experienced blurred vision and difficulty speaking. >> mr. cosby urged her to take pills that he provided to her and to drink wine. the effect of which rendered her unable to move or respond to his advances. >> reporter: constand stated she awoke the next morning partially undressed. cosby gave her a muffin, walked

to the front door, opened it, and said, "all right." at the time the district attorney said there was not enough evidence to charge cosby. in 2005, constand filed a civil suit, which was later settled privately. but this past july, investigators decided to reopen the case after a judge unsealed portions of depositions in which cosby admitted to giving drugs to at least one woman. constand's attorney asked cosby, "when you got the quaaludes, was it in your mind that you were going to use these quaaludes for young women that you wanted to have sex with?" cosby replied, "yes." he later said he misunderstood the question. monique presley is cosby's attorney. >> it's sad for his legal team, for his family, that he would be dragged into this. we're 12 years after an alleged assault that was fully investigated. >> reporter: for victoria valentine k

valentino, one of 50 women who have accused cosby, it's validation. >> it means people have been link listening to us and hearing us. >> reporter: cosby only shook his head at reporters as he left the courthouse yesterday. with cameras and helicopters following his every move, he was taken to a local jail to be fingerprinted and booked. he's due back in court for a preliminary hearing next month. if convicted, he could spend up to ten years in prison and face a $25,000 fine. >> thank you very much. cosby's attorney monique presley is with us from washington. ms. presley, thank you for being with us. >> good morning. >> what was your client's reaction when you heard he was being charged? >> this didn't come as any surprise to us. we've been cooperating with the montgomery county d.a.'s office.

>> they are saying there's significant evidence in this testimony that was unsealed by the judge. >> everyone can see that testimony. your network has had it available as well as all others. you know that this was deposition testimony that was the subject of a confidentiality agreement and what is supposed to be remain sealed, not just the portions that were improperly released based on the judge's decision, judge robreno. but also the information illegally gained through the release of a court reporter to a media entity, the entire deposition is out there. there is nothing in that deposition where mr. cosby admits to committing any crime. in fact he denies it vehemently and speaks specifically with respect to this incident. >> however he does admit to buying quaaludes to use on women, obtaining these i'm jeff glorh obt women. how are you going to defend that in court? >> why would we have to defend

that in court? that's an admission that he makes about offering quaaludes to two specific individuals in the 1970s. ten years ago, quaaludes weren't even being made anymore. they are literally off the market. it's not something that could even be obtained. i'm certain even this hungry d.a. isn't going to assert that mr. cosby has hiding in his medicine cabinet quaaludes that are 30, 40, 50 years old, and that that's what was offered to ms. constand. >> more than 50 women have accused your client of similar acts regarding sexual assault. >> that's incorrect. more than 50 women have not accused my client of similar acts. it's easy for people like yourselves to say that more than 50 women have done that. but that is not true. >> well, 50 women have come forward and publicly stated through the press that mr. cosby

allegedly sexually assaulted them, many of them have the exact same stories. how do you plan to defend that in court or will you try to stop that from being admissible in court? >> it certainly isn't admissible in court. but again, 50 women have not come forward and said they had the exact same story. someone saying that he rubbed against them or the front of their breasts at a party is not the same thing as saying that they were in an ongoing consensual adult relationship and then one evening, after multiple interactions, i believe i was drugged. those aren't the same thing. what this d.a. has to do is prove the facts of this case. >> but ms. presley, as you know, the prosecutors could persuade the judge to allow evidence from other cases into this one. you have to be prepared for that. >> there aren't previous other cases. what you mean -- >> there are allegations, as you know. and a wide range of allegations, as you know. >> yes, and those are all allegations for which there's no

corroborating evidence, allegations from decades ago, allegations from women who never bothered to go in and make a complaint to police. and in most instances claimed they didn't tell another living soul. if a judge chooses to consider from a prosecutor such testimony, then we will deal with that at that time. >> he took a cane with him to court. is his current health status part of your defense? >> his current health status doesn't have anything to do with the defense for this unsubstantiated charge. he's a 78-year-old blind man who they have chosen to charge. that's not a defense to a crime. that's just a fact. >> monique presley, thank you very much. the mother of the texas teenager involved in the so-called affluenza case is back in the u.s. tonya couch landed at los angeles airport overnight. she's accused of fleeing the country with her fugitive son.

ethan couch was on probation after a deadly drunk driving crash. he's still in mexico. ben tracy is at l.a.x. with a look at the legal maneuvers delaying his return. ben, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. mother and son were separated in new mexico when tonya couch was deported back to the united states. she arrived here at l.a.x. early this morning. when she did, she had plenty of company. handcuffed and flanked by u.s. marshals, tonya couch was escorted out of los angeles international airport early this morning. her son ethan left behind in mexico. video from cbs dallas station ktvt appears to show the 18-year-old clad in a dark baseball hat and coat, being moved to a larger immigration facility in mexico city. on monday, mexican immigration officials detained the pair, calling for their deportation. according to u.s. marshals, the mother and son obtained local

representation, who filed a protection order called an appeal. >> it's a request that the court issue an order to stop the proceedings. >> reporter: mexican officials deported tonya couch for being in the country illegally, while ethan is going through a more complicated deportation process that could keep him there for several weeks. >> the couches have legal counsel. it seems to me if they wanted to, they could pay as much money as they wanted to to drag this out. >> reporter: surveillance video captured the pair in puerto vallarta before they were taken into custody. couch filled four people in a young driving accident in 2013. his defense argued that he suffered from the controversial condition "affluenza," claiming his lack of responsibility was a result of his privileged up bringing. a judge sentenced him to probation. he's expected to serve time in a

juvenile city until april, when he turns 19. >> welcome to juvenile law in texas. it doesn't make sense. >> reporter: ethan couch will likely remain in mexico for at least a couple of weeks. he was just granted an injunction against his deportation, which will allow him to remain in that country. >> ben, thank you very much. parts of the midwest are under mandatory evacuation orders this morning ahead of historic flooding. already the rising water is blamed for at least 20 deaths in missouri and illinois. rivers are cresting today at record levels. more than a dozen levees are threatened. anna werner is south of st. louis where flooding just closed a major highway. anna, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. as you just said, a major highway has been shut down. interstate 55 through st. louis shut down by officials early this morning because there's several feet of water over that highway. that leaves one route with all these roads shut down, one remaining route from one county

to another for people living in this area. this water back here, compared to what we were dealing with yesterday, this is a lot more water. what you are seeing is this is the meramec river coming in and flooding this area. and what's happening is, there are many neighborhoods just like this one where people had to evacuate as the waters rise higher than before. in fenton, raging waters washed away this home. in st. louis last night, cars slogged through a flooded i-55, as the meramec river swelled, traffic on the interstate was backed up for miles. >> there was nowhere you could go. it's water, but if there's enough of it, you can't do anything. >> reporter: the levels have not been seen in 30 years. the flooding has killed more than a dozen people in missouri, submerging homes, bridges, and

prompting dozens of rescues. >> they're our homes. they're my neighbors. we've done everything we can and we still can't beat it. >> reporter: in arnold, they're preparing for the worst flooding this area has ever seen. but their efforts may not be enough. >> we're to the point now that the sandbagging, it's not going to hold it back. we're going to lose probably anywhere from 100 to 150 homes that will be affected by this flood, if not more. >> reporter: along the banks of the meramec, in valley park, more than 300 families were ordered to evacuate because the water could breach a levee. the severe weather has killed another five people in oklahoma. in the carolinas, floodwaters have torn through roads and forced swift water rescues and evacuations. now, this morning the national weather service is reporting that the meramec river, which is the one flooding this area, has actually crested in another part close to here called valley park. that's good news for the people

living in that area. but the mississippi river has yet to crest. flooding continues in many areas. and officials say it could be several days before the flooding recedes and life can go back to normal. >> anna werner, we hope for the best. thank you. new year's celebrations are under way on the other side of the world. fireworks lit up the sky above auckland, new zealand when 2016 arrived just a short time ago. it's one of the first countries in the world to usher in the new year. security is tight in new york city's times square. a million people or more will gather there to watch the ball drop tonight. and security is also higher than usual across europe due to fears of terrorism. brussels even called off the new year's eve fireworks show. elizabeth palmer is tracking a threat from london. elizabeth, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. that's right, things are already gearing up here in london for the big celebration tonight. that's decidely not the case in

brussels, where prosecutors have announced they've detained six people in connection with a suspected plot to attack the new year's celebrations. workers had no sooner built the stage for the traditional fireworks display than it was taken down again. the expected crowd of tens of thousands was judged just too big a risk. after the arrest on tuesday of two men suspected of planning a terrorist attack on the new year's eve celebrations. and this morning, as soldiers were out and on patrol in public areas, there was news of yet another arrest in the brussels suburb of molenbeek, linked to the terrorist attacks in november. it was home to salah abdeslam, the one attacker still on the run. belgium's stepped-up security is a sign that police are working to disrupt the terrorist attack

networks. the capital is tense. that don't mean people won't come together to ring in the new. this man manages a brussels nice club. >> i really believe the people from brussels need to go out and party and gather, to bond together. >> reporter: and ken kinsella agrees. >> it's buckling to the threat of terrorism. we should stand up to them. >> reporter: in paris, where the memory of the attacks is still fresh, a planned fireworks display has been cancelled. thousands are expected to come out anyway, according to tradition, to welcome in the new year on the champs elysee. they'll be out here in london too, 100,000 people will be standing right where i am a few hours from now to welcome 2016. >> elizabeth palmer, thank you very much. 21 air canada passengers are recovering this morning from injuries caused by heavy

mid-flight turbulence. flight 88 diverted to calgary on wednesday after hitting the rough air. passengers say it was terrifying. >> we felt we were dying. like you see in the movies where they all go up to the ceiling. everything went to the ceiling that wasn't anchored. >> whoever didn't put their seatbelts on was flying up. >> my legs were shaking when it started. i was like, i don't know, like flying. like you were in midair. i just fell back down. >> some of the passengers were taken off the plane on stretchers. none of the injuries are considered life-threatening. >> thankfully. some of your favorite toothpaste and soaps are in for a change. ahead, the tiny ingredient that will soon become illegal in order to help the environment.

bill cosby and his accuser appear in court in a couple of weeks. ahead, rikki klieman on the

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♪ >> 5-4-3-2-1! happy new year! >> they do have to make sure this works which is why they do rehearsals. times square underwent last-minute checkup on wednesday. i wonder if people get confused when they are in that area. you don't know what time it is, whatever else. the ball weighs about six tons and put in 32,000 l.e.d. lights and millions of people are expected to gather in times square to see the ball descend at midnight tonight. it's already new year's in other parts of the world. >> it is supposed to be mild tonight. >> supposed to be great the next

few days. welcome back to "cbs this morning." this half hour, bill cosby was charged with sexual assault nearly 12 years after an encounter with his accuser. legal expert rikki klieman is in our toyota green room. good morning. we will ask her why prosecutors took so long to file the case. a new law bans microbeads used in every from body scrubs to toothpaste. ahead, how the tiny ingredient is threatening america's waterways. time to show you some of the morning's headlines from around the globe. >> iran officials say it would violate a landmark nuclear deal. it targets companies in iran and hong kong and united arab emirates. >> enrique was charged on

wednesday. he was also charged with marriage fraud. marquez faces up to 50 years in prison. the "new york post" reports on the funeral for the new york city detective killed by a suicide bomber in afghanistan. thousands of people in uniform lined the streets of manhattan on wednesday to say farewell to joseph lemm, he was one of six american troops killed ten days ago. lemm's 4-year-old son saluted his father's casket as it was carried into the st. patrick's cathedral. advocates say it could have prevented the amtrak crash in philadelphia that killed eight people in may. a bill signed this month extends a deadline to install the speed control system until the end of 2020. amtrak says the system is working on its tracks that it owns between washington and new york. "the washington post" says north pole temperatures reached the melting point on0 degrees ae

for late december. we want to go back now to the bill cosby case. it is the first criminal charge filed against him. cosby is accused of drugging and groping a woman in 2004. the 78-year-old seemed frail as he made his way into court on wednesday. he carried a cane and stumbled on a curb. cbs news legal expert rikki klieman is with us now. she is a former prosecutor and a defense attorney. good morning. >> good morning. >> we heard his defenseton pretty much shrug off the issue about obtaining the quaaludes that he admitted in his deposition, said that she didn't need to defend that. do you agree with that? >> i think what you have in his defense lawyers are great

lawyers who are really fierce advocates and doing what they should be doing now. when you look at the quaalude issue, the deposition that became public in july from a civil case brought by this complaining witness, this alleged victim andrea constand, does not say that he sexually assaulted her by the use of drugs. what it does say is that he did get quaaludes to use with women for sex. now, that takes us in a whole, what the lawyers would call a frolic of their own. that is not a facetious comment but a lawyer comment. because back in the '70s and '80s, quaaludes were often used by consenting adults so that is what this lawyer is talking about. however, i think the quaaludes are least of anyone's worries when defending bill cosby today because there is so much else that the cosby lawyers have got

to attempt to keep out of evidence, and what about all those prospective jurors have heard 40 or 50 men allege some kind of sexual conduct. >> is that an issue? >> i think it's an issue because you have to have people who have not heard of this or people who simply say i've heard about all of this but i can cast it aside. it is very hard to cast aside the notion that there are 40 or 50 other women out there. it even came up in your interview with the lawyer, because the vast majority of the public believes that all of these other alleged victims are people who suffered exactly the same fate that this woman, andrea constand, said she suffered, even though the details may be different. and, by the way, the devil is in the details here. so you're a defense lawyer in this case. if you are the defense lawyer, what do you have to do?

2016 is going to be the year of motions in this case. the defense has got to be fast and furious and slow and deliberate all at the same time. every single thing that they do not want in this case, they have got to go to the court early and say keep it out. try the numbers. only what happened between andrea constand and bill cosby. >> one of the things that makes this case so interesting two cases here. the wider umbrella case with all of the allegations from all of the other women and the particulars of this case. monique presley doesn't want to talk about any other women right now. >> of course, she doesn't. >> the question is how much do they have to? >> the real question is how this judge will rule. a conservative judge would like to get a conviction that does not get reversed on appeal. so will a conservative judge say i'm keeping out what we call all of the prior bad acts and all of the other alleged victims and only let that in should mr. cosby testify, or will a more

open judge say, hey, it's a common scheme plan and it's all going in. >> my suspicion we may be talking to you more about this case in 2016. >> i'm keeping the file. >> rikki klieman, thank you very much. happy new year. >> happy year. >> activists are applauding a new law signed by president obama this week. it outlaws microbeads that are used in personal care products. demarco morgan shows us how the particles making us clean are making the rivers dirty. >> reporter: it is known as the microbead free water asked and passed congress by bipartisan support and to eliminate tiny plastics many of us use every day. microbeads are tiny pieces of plastics found in many health and beauty products including soap and body scrub and toothpaste and used to exfoliate or add polish. they are are a big concern for environmental scientists. they say the tiny particles are

a source of ocean and lake pollution. >> we know the fish from our great lakes is in their bodies and ts going back tour face and body. >> reporter: he 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 are absorbing industrial chemicals, pest sides from farms and even oil drops from cars will stick to these micro plastics and microbeads. at that point, they can enter the food chain. >> reporter: a single cosmetic product can contain up to 300,000 nonbiodegradable microbeads. in september they were banned. assembly member is thrilled that congress is following california's lead. >> it's very significant, because you're going to have 50 states doing the same thing.

i have no doubt that this is going to spread now to other countries and the longer we have these pollutants in the environment, the harder it is to take action to effectively clean up after them. >> reporter: the law passed surprisingly quickly but not immediate. the new federal law prohibits the manufacture of products of microbeads july 1st, 2016. >> i read that microbeads can cover a tennis court daily. >> these products are all over the place. >> but i do like them. therapy great for the skin. >> something wrong with everything. let's he just put that out there. >> italy's government is fighting the mafia. "60 minutes" takes us inside the fight against a good one.

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♪ italy is known for its high quality food products including extra virgin olive oil but some bottles may not contain what is on the label. and the mafia is to blame. knockoff ofs olive oil and fine wine and cheese and bread is part of a 16 billion dollar a year food fraud industry. italian authorities call it the agro mafia. bill whitaker went to italy to meet the police who are standing up to the mob. >> reporter: leave it to the italians to fight the mafia with good taste. this panel certifies the authenticity of extra virgin olive oil. a favorite target of the agra mafia.

they can tell at first sip whether extra virgin has been diluted with cheap sunflower oil or canola. why do they make that sound like they are sucking in air? >> they need it to meet it on the back of the throat. >> reporter: suck it in to the back of the throat? >> they have to suck it in. >> reporter: major sergio tero is considered one of the top investigators of food fraud in europe. think eliott ness in a uniform designed by giorgio armani. >> most of it's been sdloverdis. >> reporter: their skills are to expected italian reports will accept taste results as evidence. he has 60 cops trained to do this too. and 1,100 more inspecting fraud investigations. on the day we visited headquarters, officers were

monitoring wiretaps and live video placed in suspected warehouse around italy. this looks like the fbi. >> yeah, we can call us the phifbi of food. >> watch "60 minutes" to see more. that is sunday right here on cbs. you want to get what you paid for, right? >> absolutely. >> some of this olive oil is very expensive. >> i've never sipped olive oil for that. >> i hear it's wonderful for your complex. >> complexion. >> it's my secret. don't tell anybody. a photographer looks back on the year that was. ahead some of his favor photos of

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and bringing love where it's needed most. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. some parts of the world. h's a look at the stroke of midnight in sydney, austral. good morning it's:new year's eve. i'm anne makovec. it is now 2016 in some parts of the world. here's a look at the stroke of midnight in sydney, australia about three hours ago. here in the pacific standard zone we are still about 16 hours away and if you are celebrating in the bay area tonight, some transit agencies offering free rides starting at 8:00. they include caltrain, which will run until 2:15 tomorrow morning. free rides continue until 5 a.m. on vta, samtrans, ac transit and muni. bart is also extending service but is not free. coming up in the next half- hour of "cbs this morning," president obama appears on jerry seinfeld's show,.

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good morning. i'm gianna franco. let's jump to 280. we have troubles, a fire. delays northbound sluggish there. 101 seeing stop-and-go conditions as well but you might use that instead of 280 in the meantime. south 101 in the north bay at central san rafael we have reports of a car fire off to the right side of the road. not too far from there westbound right at 101. look out for an accident. black ice on 37 so delays right around atherton. chp on scene. let's go to san jose where we have clear skies, visibility unlimited. it's been a cold start to the day. what we're experiencing right now is pretty much what you can experience at midnight tonight. temperatures in the 30s and 40s. we have 37 degrees in concord. it's freezing in santa rosa with areas of patchy fog and frost. 50s everywhere again today. slight breeze up to 5. ditto

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good morning to ow our viewers in the west. it's thursday december 31st, 2015. more news ahead including the start of the new year. 2016 has all right arrived in australia. we'll show you more of the celebration, but first today's eye opener at 8:00. he paid the required 10% of his $1 million bail and was ordered to turn over his passport. >> there was nothing in that deposition where cosby admits to committing any crime. he denies it vehemently. there are many neighborhoods just like this one where people had to evacuate as the waters rise higher than before. mother and son were

separated when tanya couch was extradited to the united states. >> brussels police have announced they have arrested six people in connection with new year's eve plots. >> and some people are recovering this morning from heavy mid flight turbulence. look, look, they get it down the line. what a pass! what a pass from pasol? happy new year too! there it is, happy new year, everyone. a happy new year in sidney, australia. >> good day to our mates down there. >> indeed. no new york, charlie, gayle

and norah are off. bill cosbcosby's attorney says will be acquitted of charges. the attorneys walked the entertainer into the courthouse outside philadelphia. more than 50 women have accused cosby of some kind of sexual misconduct. this case focuses on andrea constand. she first told police about her alleged encounter with cosby more than a decade ago. the complaint says cosby invited her to his home in 2004 to discuss herr future career plans. he allegedly gave her three blue pills. within a half hour, constand says her legs felt jelly like, he can't remember anything because everything became blurry and dizzy. >> and he committed aggravated, indecent assault upon her. >> investigators reopened this case after a judge unsealed portions of his deposition earlier this year, in them cosby

admitted to obtaining drugs to give to women. we asked cosby's attorney about that earlier this morning. >> he does admit to buying quaaludes on women. how are you going to defend that in court? >> why do you have to defend that in court? he says he offered quaaludes to two women in the 1970s. quaaludes are off the market, they cannot be obtained anymore. they are not hiding in his medical cabinet. >> cosby now 78 years old, faces up to 10 years in prison and a $25,000 if convicted.

los angeles police are holding the mother of the teenager in the so-called after flue after flew wen a case. she's facing charges for allegedly helping her son flee to mexico. >> a video captured the pair in a puerto vallarta taco shop. video appears to show ethan couch who's on probation after a deadly drunk driving crash. he's still in mexico, undergoing a more complicated deportation process. and rising rivers in the midwest are seeing flooding not seen in more than a decade. the meramec river river south of st. louis is more than 20 feet above flood level. it forced i-55 to close this morning. more than a dozen levees could be breached. hundreds of families were

ordered to evacuate in valley park, missouri. emergency crews have performed dozens of water rescues there. presidential candidates are squeezing in all the campaigning they can before the end of the year. donald trump attacked president bill clinton again in his final rally of 2015. jan crawford in washington looks ahead at how the campaigns are preparing for 2016. jan, happy new year and good morning. >> thank you, happy new year to you and good morning. what we have got here is basically every republican candidate who's not named donald trump is scramble to become the trump alternative. >> the husband is one of the great abusers of the world? give me a break. >> reporter: in south carolina donald trump bragged about his latest dust up with hillary clinton. >> he's demonstrated a penchant, i demonstrated a penchant for

sexism. can you believe it? me. nobody respects women more than donald trump. that i can tell you. nobody. >> reporter: trump had fired back that the real sexist is clinton's husband bill, a point that has the democratic front under changing her tune. >> she gets up and makes a speech that doesn't even mention anything about sex issism or anything else. i wonder why. >> reporter: before his presidential run, trump over the years genuinely defended bill clinton. in 2008, he called the impeachment hearing in the wake of the affair with white house intern monica lewinsky, he said it was his choice, it was monica. i mean terrible choice. i mean other republican candidates stuck the to more traditional attacks against one another. continuing his bus tour across iowa, marco rubio pushed back against chris christie's

allegations of him shirking responsibilities. christie stood behind his attack. >> it would be nice if he took a day and showed up. that's all. >> jeb bush had a built of a hard time as he cancelled $20 billion in campaign ads and he jokingly called katrina sheeny hurricane katrina. he called it a light hearted comment about her forcefulness, he said. seattle's space needle is an icon of the 1960s. 50 years later, see how cutting edge,,

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the white house. president obama headlined last night's season premier of jerri signfeld's online series, comedians in cars getting coffee. chip reid is traveling with the president in honolulu. chip, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, usually jerry seinfeld only invites comedians to appear with him on this show that was taped at the white house earlier this month. and jerry seinfeld says the president has delivered just enough funny lines to qualify. >> you ready? >> i got some stuff to do. >> reporter: if you were expecting a conversation percolating with domestic and foreign policy. well, that's just not jerry seinfeld's brand. >> are these washed? >> a lot. let's go. let's go get some coffee. >> reporter: not that there's anything wrong with that. >> i do really well with the zero to 8 demographic.

>> oh, really? >> oh, yeah, definitely. partly because my ears are a little bit big and i look a little bitlike a cartoon character. and little kids won't say my name, but it's all one big name. it's barackobama. >> jerry wasn't the only one with an american muscle car. >> you don't have this here. it's a cool feature. >> reporter: a leader of the comedy world strolls the white house grounds with the leader of the free world and like the coffee, the conversation flowed. >> how far can you wanter around up there in your underwear? how far can you get before there's like people and it's not cool? >> it's not cool generally wandering around in my underwear. first night, and we're sleeping in the white house. >> right. >> it's not like a hotel room.

so you're looking around, you're like, what the hell is this, right? >> now it's a museum. >> that's how it feels for probably the first week. >> reporter: the 61-year-old comedian pulled back the curtain on the 44th commander in chief with a surprisingly candid conversation. >> how many world leaders do you think are just completely out of their mind? >> a pretty sizable percent. you know, you eve made like a ridiculous amount of money. >> so much more than you. and yet, how do i seem to you? do i seem spoiled? out of touch? >> well, i don't know. >> you have a pretty good instinct for people. >> right now you seem like a completely normal guy. >> i'm putting on an act, just like everybody else does for you. >> that's my point. >> watch out people. >> and when you're at the president's house, it's only polite to let him drive. >> i like the hand hanging over the wheel.

>> i mean, you got to do that. you can't be doing that. i'm and appreciably cooler than i was two minutes ago. >> reporter: usually when the president does quirky tv shows, he squeezes in a plug for his health care law, but he does very little of that. by the way that car was a 1963 corvette stingray which was a treat for the president who usually gets to drive nothing but a golf cart. >> that was so funny seeing him behind the wheel. >> especially just doing circumstance isless around the white house. one of america's most famous buildalin buildings is flying higher than ever. >> reporter: i'm on top of

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♪ one mor look at the midnight fireworks over sydney, australia. the first major city to start the new year. happy new year to our friends over there. the display kicks off a wave

of massive pyrotechnic shows around the world. seattle will present america's largest structured launched fireworks display and that structure is the world famous space needle and ben tracy shows us how the tower, built more than 50 years ago is using high tech to build a promising future. ♪ >> reporter: for more than 50 years, it has towered over seattle. a needle in a haystack of downtown buildings. the space needle was built as the centerpiece of the 1962 world's fair. ♪ ♪ see you in seattle >> reporter: millions came to marvel of the technologies of the future and touch tone dialing and satellite transmission made their debuts here. and the space needle seem to literally point towards progress. >> early '60s, they are doing

the race to put a man on the noon. anything is possible. >> reporter: karen olson is a marketing executive who used to work for microsoft. she was hired by the space needle to make sure this vision of the future doesn't get stuck in the past. two years ago, this onetime temple of high tech didn't even have an app. >> more and more guests come with a computer in their pocket, either a smartphone or a tablet. >> what you had with this? >> the largest ipad in seattle. >> reporter: now visitors log into a 20-foot long digital guest book. my name is there and then it shows your hometown on the map. >> it will give you a countdown. >> reporter: of course there are selfies. the regular version or the extra, extra, extra wide taken from a camera mounted on a downtown rooftop, a half a mile away. >> that is pretty cool. >> reporter: up on the needle's point is a panoramic camera that will record a time lapse of seattle for the next 50 years.

but some areas are still pretty low tech and off limits for a good reason. so here we are in the bowels of the space needle. it's about to open this door, which apparently is going to take us outside. only a handful of people have ever been allowed out here. i'm just kind of crawling my way out. >> yeah, yeah. >> it's called the halo walk but getting to the halo is more of a terrifying crawl. am i standing up in. >> yes. >> reporter: they use this platform to do routine maintenance. i tried to simply maintain my lunch. ♪ they call this the halo of the space needle. it's 520 feet off the ground anand it is one of the best views in all of seattle but let's be honest. most people won't be out here and won't let you out here any way. you can now have this experience and this view thanks to technology. >> we are ready. please go.

>> reporter: these experts at aerial and panoramic photography are capturing the thrill of the halo walk without the vertigo. michael frantz creating the space needle's virtual reality pieces and end up as an app. >> today we use array of six cameras all pointing out in a different direction. what we will do is then take all of those, put them into a software program and ditch it all together and create a unique experience. >> reporter: using one of these viewfinder, you can see the halo walk while keeping your feet on the ground. you not only get the sensation of walking around it, but you look down and it's as if you're looking down at the ground. >> yes, that is exactly it. we want to give people an experience of somewhere that they can't get. ♪ >> reporter: and trust me, this is one walk where you may prefer the virtual version to the reality. although the view is hard to

beat. 16... new gun law changes go into effect. you can't ca less happy new year. it's 8:25. i'm frank mallicoat. in the headlines, starting in 2016, tomorrow, new gun law changes go into effect. you can carry a pellet or -- or you can't carry a pellet or bb gun unless it's a bright color. and gun owners will no longer be able to carry concealed firearms on college campuses. oakland police want to remind everyone that gunfire is not an acceptable way to ring in the new year. extra officers will be patrolling parts of the city tonight. they are looking for people shooting off illegal fireworks. coming up on "cbs this morning" sticking with your new year's resolutions. kansaiens help the "new york times" science -- can science help? the "new york times" science

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good morning. let's go straight to the south bay right now where we're dealing with an accident or trouble spot northbound 280 at race street. a fire is causing delays as you work your way northbound 280. 101 though you can use that instead. no delays out of the south bay into san francisco for your ride there. south 101 at central san rafael that accident in the clearing stages. a car fire over to the right side of the road.

we are seeing slight delays southbound 101 and word of an accident westbound 37 as you work your way towards 101. also first reports of a wreck on 37 near lakeville. we have lots of reports this morning from viewers as well as chp for black ice along highway 37. foggy there as well so use caution this morning as you work your way through there. >> did you say fog? >> did i. >> i'll show you some fog. it's our live weather camera from the transamerica period from angel island and alcatraz. can you see it? we have areas of patchy frost as well this morning. it's still freezing in santa rosa. 33 in livermore. 42 san francisco. today everyone in the 50s. a cool day with bright sunshine. ditto on friday. increasing clouds saturday. an inch of rain is expected on sunday with a lingering shower into your monday. tuesday more storms in the bay area with gusty winds and up to 2" of rainfall. a lingering shower and breezy continue on wednesday.

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♪ welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up in this half hour, how can science help us keep our new year's resolutions? "the new york times" science columnist john tierney is in our toyota green room with simple strategies. box office critics in 2015 talk about "star wars" phenomenon and other stories you shouldn't miss. time to show you some of the morning's headlines from around the globe. "syracuse post" standard says sprint and verizon customers have a deadline today to submit a refund claim. the company settled allegations of cramming earlier this year. that refers to putting

unauthorized third-party charges on customers' bills. customers who beat today's deadline can get share of the 158 million dollar payout. best loved cars on the road report is released. consumers were asked to answer which are the most testifying. tesla model s is number one and followed by the corvette and caiman. the least satisfied is r re owe and sentra reason. a cat found two weeks ago with a badly damaged leg that had to be amputated and it was adopted wednesday by a couple who decided the cat would be the perfect companion for their 2-year-old daughter scarlett. scarlett's arm was amputated last year after she was diagnosed with cancer. the miami herald says the college football playoffs are taking over new year's eve.

clemson plays oklahoma in the orange bowl this afternoon and alabama takes on michigan state in the cotton bowl and the winners of those games meet on january 11th in the national championship game. a judge dropped charges against a woman who claimed her body is a brewery. her lawyer says his client's blow alcohol level can violate the legal limit even when she has nothing to drink. rare condition is called auto brewery syndrome and caused by high levels of yeast in her digestive system. dark lickers are more likely to cause a hangover. is that true? >> i don't know. >> eat a hardy meal before you start drinking and stop drinking a couple of hours before you go to bed or maybe don't overdrink. >> one glass is good. millions of us this morning are deciding what changes to

make in the coming year. but research shows that 36% of the people will break their new year's rgs esolutions by the enf january and 56% by the end of july. how do we set ourselves up for success with the odds stacked against us? "the new york times" science columnist john tierney is author of "willpower." thank you for joining us. you say we start out with the best of intentions but with the worst of strategies. how do we do this? >> people, too often, overdo it and they overestimate their own wi willpower. the first bit of advice is make one new year's resolution and focus on that and after you do that, do neighbor something else. >> maybe i don't want to lose ten pounds but maybe one pound a week? >> you should set specific goals instead of saying i want to save money or i want to lose weight,

exactly say that i want to save $200 a month and one pound a week. after you set that one very clear specific goal, you have to monitor yourself. that is really as important as setting the goal. so that if you want to spend less money, keep track of it every week. if you want to lose weight, get on the scale every day. that is one of the few clinically proven ways for losing weight. >> baby steps? >> exactly. >> if you overestimate your own willpower can you get help from other people? does that help? >> outsourcing and self-control and controlling your willpower is the key. science used to think willpower was a metaphor. what they found is really is this form of mental energy and it gets depleted as you exert self-control and resist temptation and gets depleted as you make decisions. there is a condition called a decision fatigue and that is we wrote about it in our book. two executives, barack obama and mark zuckerberg of facebook, they both resolve to try to --

try to eliminate small decisions from their lives so they both started wearing the same thing to work every day. one of them would wear a dark suit and the other would wear a gray t-shirt. >> you compartmentalize? >> exactly. by eliminating those decisions that leaves them with more energy with more willpower for the rest of the stuff in their lives. >> we can learn from people who have good self-control because they use less willpower. >> exactly. when they track people throughout the day they found the most disciplined people use less willpower than other people because they structure their lives to avoid temptations. they don't go all you can eat buffets or keep a bowl of candy under their desk. all of us can do that. instead of getting up every morning and deciding whether or not you're going to work out, you can schedule a workout with your friends and then that way you have to show up to do it and it's not a decision that leaves you with a little more willpower -- >> or go to bed in your workout

clothes. you wake up and you have to go! >> exactly. you talk about candy. one experiment that you mentioned that test people's willpower with a bowl of m&ms. what happened? >> some were told they couldn't have any m&ms at all and some said you can have these and just not now. a clever experiment they did the experiment and left them in the bowl afterwards and thinking the experiment was over. they found people who had told themselves i'm not going to have it now but i can have it later, those people were the best at resisting the m&ms because -- that is a strategy when the dessert cart comes around, you know? >> right. >> don't say i'm never having that again. just say not tonight, i'll have it the next time. >> maybe one bite if you can hold back, right? >> yes. >> you say that social media and online roesources can be helpfu for people. >> keeping track of yuourself i one thing but a lot of appears that will do the grunt work for you.

you can post results at facebook groups and people are watching what you do. you can tweet stuff. great appears on a website called the quantified self that will monitor how many steps you take and how many calories you're burning and then websites you can actually post your new year's resolution and have someone monitor it for you and there could be a financial penalty when you lapse. >> the point is that you're putting it out there. >> right. >> you're saying, okay, i'm going to do this and then you sort of feel like, boy, if i don't do it i'm disappointing a lot of people. >> have you people enforcing and they are using their willpower to make you do something and you're outsourcing that self-control. >> do you have a resolution? >> oh, please. my list is like 50. >> just one, just one! just one! >> next 15 minutes we will all come up with our resolution. >> can we meet back here next year to see how we do? >> fail. >> john tierney, thank you for joining us. block busters are packing theaters but smaller movies are

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the studio has sold $11 billion worth of tickets in 2015. the seventh episode of the franchise could move to number two this weekend on the list of highest domestic grossing movies of all time. as of right now the force awakens trails four films. >> but this morning's box office conversation goes beyond the block busters. the golden globe awards are less than two weeks away. carol leads the film categories with five nominations and followed by the big short and steve jobs all with four and revenant. dana stevens is with here along with matt singer who is managing editor and film critic for screen crush. 2015 is part of 2016 because sgars is still killing it at the box office. no spoilers but till lives up to the hype. >> the stars are at war, we will

say that much. >> the stars are at war but as george lucas pointed out yesterday it's not about spaceships but it's about family. >> "star wars" has gotten a warm reception because finally after 38 years, is that how long since the first one? rings those same bells again and i think it's nostalgic for fans who loved it back then and creates a franchise for new viewers and lets "uus forget abt the early sequels that george lucas created. >> will it go past "avi tar"? >> i think so. i was seeing a picture in seattle had a sign up we are sold out through january for "star wars." so i think it's not going to be very long before it is the all-time grocer, at least domestically. it's a huge, huge hit. >> it probably with win this

weekend, right? >> by this weekend the number one movie of 2015. >> does it enter the best picture conversation at all? it's a good movie. >> a good question. now they have expanded that category to try to include more popular storms like "star wars" maybe but loova lot of contenden space. >> "carol" has the no golden globe nominations. >> that was my favorite single movie of the year and i'm happy and it's getting rewards recognition but doesn't seem like oscar nomination to me because of "the force awakens." i think the golden globes have recognized that and critic groups have recognized that. >> a big year for women on screen. >> i was thinking about making this my top ten list this year. when i looked at who was making the movies, only two of them have been directed by a woman. i don't think there are any big

nominees out there for the oscars that are directed by women, right? >> no. >> no woman up for best director. >> presumably, yeah. that's a hurdle that still has to be cleared for sure. >> we wait on the nominations, spotlight has gotten attention and a lot of people love it. is it the front-runner for best picture? >> i would think so. to me it has the most thing voters tend to look for in a best picture winner. great ensemble and great actors and great screen play and it's about something. "star wars" is great, we love it but i think it's the kind of movie that voters can vote to and say hollywood can do more than "star wars" and do more than super heroes and make a movie that is interesting and compelling but also important and it has a story that has some real value and some substance to it and movies tend to win best picture. >> especially behind the scenes and through every step of what it takes to create the story which may be on paper doesn't sound so sexy. >> it's true. it isn't the kind of movie that is and really grabs you on

paper. but then you watch it and it is so compelling. you know the outcome of the story too. that is the amazing thing is that you're watching it and you know the ending and you're still so invested. >> other ones getting buzz here quinton tarantino's movie. is it out? >> i think it's just coming out now on wide release. >> that is getting a lot of attention. has gotten a lot of attention for a while as all of quinton tarantino's movies get. >> it's cinematically smashing. i suggest you see it the road version they say is old school with an intermission and overture. it's very violent and very gory. if you like tarantino you probably should see it but it's very stomach churning. >> i liked it and it is a movie. feel like in an age people are not watching theaters in the movie as much and watching them on their phones and ipads. this is an event and harkens back to a time when movies were

big, right? you could see this movie on your ipad but you're going to be missing a lot because it's three hours long and overture and an intermission and made twice as big and you need to see it in a theater. >> what felt that way to me is -- >> a great example of the movie that really marries kind of popular art and audience appeal with just beautiful crafts, incredible practical stunts and wonderful special effects. >> and nonstop craziness. on the subject of stomach turning, leo dicaprio. >> very little dialogue for leo. >> if you count aarrgghh dialogue, there is. but you're right. a lot of grunting and groaning! that's true. >> he grunts with the best of them! let's just say that. >> if there was an oscar for best grunting he would be a lock for the century for sure. >> can we talk about one that

made my heart melt and i cried in front of my children inside/out? >> i cried too. >> i'll say it. i cried. let's not -- we talk about it too much, i might start crying again. >> it was a sweet movie. do you think this one will come up at all? >> you know, i think best chances are in the best animated category and that is going to be interesting category because another wonderful movie this year named anoma lisa i loved as well and i feel those two are fighting it out in that category. >> very different movies. >> couldn't be more different. >> two or three movies you're looking forward to in 2016? >> the new cohen brothers movie hail seize you're that is a hollywood comedy. dana? >> pixar, "finding nemo" sequel called "finding dori." >> we will be crying about that one as well. >> batman, superman. thank you both. >> thanks. the new years's resolution

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news about california's wat supply the latest good morning. happy new year's eve. it's 8:55. here's some of the headlines. encouraging news about california's water supply. the latest measurement of the sierra snowpack shows 136% of normal for this time of the year. a far cry from last year. if you are celebrating new year's in san jose, san francisco, oakland, or anywhere in the bay area tonight, some transit agencies are offering free rides starting at i had p.m. they include cal -- starting at 8 p.m. caltrain runs until 2:15 a.m. free rides on vta, samtrans, ac transit and muni. bart is extending service but not free. as for the all the fireworks displays, i guess you better bundle. >> pretty much what we have now is what we'll have at midnight

tonight. we are talking about temperatures in the 30s and 40s with lots of clear skies. here's the scene right now. temperatures still in the 20s in napa. 32 santa rosa with visibility issues due to fog. 32 in fairfield and livermore. fremont. 42 san francisco. later today bright sunshine. temperatures in the 50s. i want to walk you through the next 7 days. we'll see a repeat friday. rain sunday. heavier rain with gusty winds on tuesday. breezy with lingering showers on wednesday.

good morning from the traffic center. live look at the bay bridge right now. we are dealing with nice traffic conditions this morning. in fact we didn't have any delays at all out of oakland into san francisco this morning. no metering lights. you're free-flowing across the span towards san francisco. golden gate bridge looks good, as well. just keep in mind in the north bay highway 37 we have reports of black ice throughout the morning. some slick conditions there so be careful as you work your way through there and the san mateo bridge a nice ride only 13 minutes. not a lot of folks working their way westbound between 880 and 101. so no troubles there. just a heads up 24th street and church that sinkhole is still there. it is causing some delays for muni especially for the j- church and n-judah. other than that, enjoy the rest

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