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the president elect's busy weekend. chris christie, rudy giuliani and mitt romney, parade of prominent republicans meeting with trump, who landed a job. insults fired in the trump-hamilton duel. president obama face to face with vladamir putin in peru, how did that go? >> and the thanksgiving getaway is under way. airport workers threaten to strike at o'hare airport, snow and bitter cold blow into the east. how will it impact holiday travel. >> trying to beat the rush by going a few days earlier. this is the cbs "overnight news."
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president elect trump and his transition team had a busy sunday. meeting with candidates who could fill jobs in the trump administration. the meetings took place about an hour from new york city. at trump national golf club in bedminister, new jersey. >> reporter: rudy giuliani arrived at donald trump's golf club as a leading contender for secretary of state. >> and other things. >> reporter: saturday, mitt romney met with the president elect along with vice president elect mike pence for the same job. governor romney is under active and serious consideration to serve as secretary of state of the united states. >> reporter: trump is interviewing a parade of potential picks for key posts in his new administration. new jersey governor chris christie, who was recently demoted from the transition team is also on the list of interviewees today. >> very talented man. great guy. trump named alabama senator, jeff sessions as his nominee for attorney general, but there are questions abut his past
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statements and his civil rights record. >> i wouldn't want to support him unless i was convinced we would have a strong civil rights division in the justice department. >> during a break from the transition process this weekend, pence was greeted with boos and some cheers at a performance of "hamilton" as well as direct message from the cast. >> we truly hope this show has inspired you to uphold our american values and to work on behalf of all of us. >> that set off a tweet storm from donald trump. the cast and producers of hamilton which i hear is highly overrated should immediately apologize to mike pence for their terrible behavior. on face the nation, pence saw no reason for any apologies. >> i wasn't offended by what was said. i will leave to others whether it was the appropriate ven to to say it. >> high profile interviews include robert johnson, founder of bet and congresswoman, and the trump transition team says meetings will continue into tuesday with some nominations
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possibly monday. >> craig boswell in washington. thank you. aaa says more than 48 million americans are traveling at least 50 miles from home this holiday week. that is a million more travelers than last year. jamie yuccas has more on the thanksgiving get away. >> pack for patience. especially if you are holiday travel brings you through chicago. travel site orbitz.com predicts o'hare airport will be the busiest airport this thanksgiving holiday. tomorrow, about 500 workers including aircraft cabin cleaners and janitors could walk off the job. workers voted to take action over wages and working conditions there last week. almost 4 million people will travel wednesday through sunday. jim and his son are already on their way. what do you anticipate moving forward? >> today is easy. a lot lighter than i expected. come tuesday wednesday, it is going to be massive. >> nearly 90% of thanksgiving
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travelers will drive to gram mas this year. drivers will see savings at the pumps with gas prices expected to be the second cheapest since 2008. when the national average was just a dollar 85. today it is $2.14 per gallon. google checked travel times and found today was the best day to hit the road. if you want to avoid gridlock coming home, the search engine says leave on black friday at 6:00 a.m. if you are hitting the rails remember the tuesday and wednesday before thanksgiving and the sunday are the busiest days to travel. nearly 750,000 people will take amtrak to and from their destination. after long lines and major complaints, the tsa says it added staff. the agency says it is now ready for the additional 55,000 passengers a day over the thanksgiving holiday. but elaine, they still recommend arriving two hours early for a domestic flight. >> good advice. jamie, thank you. just in time for the holiday
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exodus wintry weather blew into the east. the first snow of the season fell across parts of maryland, pennsylvania and new jersey. these snowy scenes are from buffalo, new york. new england got hit as well. now, let's get the holiday travel forecast from pamela gardner at wbz in boston. pamela? elaine as we get toward thanksgiving. we are tracking a couple systems that could bring tricky travel and cooler temperatures. especially compared to last week. well for monday starting off with wind and snow in the northeast and out of the four corners, area of low pressure will bring rain and wintry mix perhaps snow in the northern plain states. high pressure and control to the southeast and also to the west until the system moves in from the pacific northwest. and affecting friend in seattle. oregon and california. perhaps some snow in the mountains. then area of low pressure. tracks into the new england states, for thursday. bringing some, light flurries, but not as potent as we once thought. high pressure and control to the south and west. and looking okay for
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thanksgiving. all around. no major issues. temperatures will be quite chilly for the northern half of the u.s. black friday, looking ahead to shopping season. kicking off chicago. wintry mix. 41. sun in dallas. high of 66. elaine. >> pamela, thank you. president obama wrapped up his final overseas trip. as president today. meeting with world leaders in lima peru. the president met face to face with his russian counterpart, vladamir putin. errol barnett is there. >> it was a brief and somber exchange between president obama and russian president vladamir putin. according to the white house, the four minute meeting focused on ukrainian sovereignty and push for further cooperation in syria. this is the first meeting of the two men since the election of donald trump who was repeatedly praised putin's strength. >> we demonstrated what is possible when our two countries work together. >> in a formal meeting with chinese president, mr. obama put
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an optimistic spin on cooperation between the nations. with the president's transpacific partnership deal on life support the chinese are pushing their own economic trade agreement here to fill the void. throughout his three nation tour this week, the president has had to assure other world lead ears but president elect trump. mr. obama told a young audience in peru, isolationism doesn't work. >> if we think only about, very narrow terms about -- our borders and what's good for us and -- and ignore what's happening everywhere else. eventually, it will have an impact on us, whether we like it or not. because, the world is just much smaller than it used to be. >> the president suggested mr. trump may be willing to adjust current trade deals. and that the world should give the president elect time to develop his policies. but privately the white house its deeply concerned, much of
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a police officer was murdered today outside of police headquarters in san antonio, texas. the officer was in his patrol car, writing a tick it when another cop pulled up behind him. a man got out and fired twice at the officer killing him. police are searching for the gunman. the death toll continues to rise after a train crash. killing 115 people and injuring 150. the cause is under investigation. a renewed assault on syria's largest city, aleppo in recent days, has left about 300 people dead. syrian government forces backed by russia, are pounding areas held by rebels. call the in the fighting are dozens of children. jonathan vigliotti has the the
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latest. >> rebels killed eight children in a school in the government held of aleppo. a barrel bomb launched by the syrian regime killed a family of six living on the rebels' side. two medics with rescue group said the bomb was packed with chlorine gas and suffocated. the victims. the government denied the claims. hundred of people many civilians have been killed since tuesday. the regime and allies refocussed efforts to take control of rebel held aleppo. the white helmets scrambled to find victims buried in the rubble. many who survived had nowhere to go. hospitals have become targets. on friday alone, air strikes hit four. dramatic footage shows what appears to be a waiting room at one hospital, as people milled about. the air streak then hits. turning the room into a swirl of
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gray dust. another surveillance camera shows what appears to be the street outside the hospital before at take. a man is seen walking, a second later a huge explosion, and orange fire ball. this weekend the world health organization reported that bombings had disabled every hospital in east aleppo. it is unclear when they'll reopen to treat those caught in the cross fire of a bloody six-year civil war. the syrian observatory for human rights which monitors the war could not confirm if clr een gas was used to day. elaine, the united nations has said syrian government forces have used chlorine gas in barrel bombs at least three times during the war. >> jonathan vigliotti, thank you. coming up next, the post-election battle over so-called sanctuary cities.
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president elect trump said he will cancel dollars to dozens of u.s. sanctuary cities until local police start cooperating with federal immigration officers to detain and deport undocumented immigrants. ben tracy says it is turning into a nationwide political battle.
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students across the country are taking a stand for undocumented immigrants. during the campaign, donald trump promised to go after so-called sanctuary cities that he says give the undocumented a free pass. trump mentioned the killing of kathleen steinley in san francisco, an illegal immigrant deported five times accused of her murder. >> we will cancel all federal funding for sanctuary cities. immigration. >> reporter: there are more than 300 u.s. cities and counties that limit their cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. several mayors all democrats plan to defy president elect trump. chicago's rahm emmanuel. >> it will be a sanctuary city. >> new york's bill de blasio. >> we are not going to sacrifice a half million people who live amongst us.
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>> reporter: los angeles police chief, charlie beck recently made headlines when he said it is not his department's job to help deport people. >> if your job is to enforce the law, why would you not cooperate with efforts to remove people who are here illegally? >> it is not the primary job of local law enforcement to endorse civil or federal laws. i think it would barareak down connections with immigrant communities. >> reporter: sanctuary city that refuse to cooperate could lose billions in federal funding. washington, d.c. mayor could lose 20% of her budget. >> his immigration stance could really make his new hometown less safe. >> the police chief in los angeles says if his officers become an immigration force they will lose the trust of in grant communities. and the fear is that people will stop reporting crimes or cooperating with investigations. ben tracy, cbs news, los angeles. up next, california prepares for the next big one.
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back seat chefs peer inside your oven. but you've cleaned all baked-on business from meals past with easy-off, so the only thing they see is that beautiful bird. go ahead. let 'em judge.
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scientists are warning of an earthquake danger in california. officials aren't taking any chances. nearly 1,200 emergency responders took part in a massive earthquake drill last week. mireya villarreal has the the story. >> reporter: a magnitude 7.# earthquake hits california and the clock is ticking. national guardsmen are working to pull a trapped man from an elevator shaft while a especially trained dog searches for stranded survivors. this drill is meant to help emergency responders prepare for the real thing. >> you want to be the best prepared. best trained, and most efficient as possible. >> but these extreme scenarios could easily become reality. usgs scientists discovered that two of the country's most dangerous faults, once thought to be at least two miles apart, are actually connected, creating one massive, 11-mile-long fault. using this device they confirm
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the hayward fault reaches the fault in the san pablo bay near san francisco. >> the longer a fault, the larger earthquake. if the faults went together along their length it would be magnitude 7.4. >> reporter: what kind of damage are we talking about here? >> maw in 1906 the great quake leveled san francisco neighborhood killing thousand. in 1989, the quake killed 64 people and caused $6 billion in damage. folks in the bay area need to be prepared for a strong earthquake. the team is trying to predict the future by studying when earthquakes appeared here in the past and how often. when an earthquake occurs, the sediment along the fault line shifts which creates a time stamp in the mud. watts' team drops down the long tubes into the bay floor to collect samples. the cores are pulled from the water and cut. >> pull this look a cheese
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cutter. sliced open. >> wow. >> awesome. >> and photographed. >> think of it as looking down through time. we can find a date for flat layers on top. then the layers that are offset. bracket in. theage of when that earthquake happened on that fault. >> watts' research will help scientists belter understand the two faults as their potential for damage makes emergency preparation like this even more essential. mireya villarreal, cbs news, california. still ahead, faith and flying. they go hand in hand at most (achoo!) you can pick up the flu from surfaces for up to 48 hours. it's like having a sick family member in your home. but lysol kills 99.9% of germs including 8 cold and flu viruses. to help protect your home lysol that.
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faith and flying go hand in hand. boarding a plane you are putting faith in the pilot and crew. but majerle hall found that religious acts of faith are becoming more common at america's air ports where chapels help travelers stay grounded before they fly. >> reporter: he is floog ying t morocco for business. his nearly 12 hour journey began at islamic center at john f. kennedy international airport. by doing this i am fulfilling my duties. >> reporter: this small mosque filled with travelers and airport employees. imam says attendance is growing. >> for muslims it is very important to have a sas lipace, they can go inside.
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not disturb anybody. >> reporter: more than half air ports have dedicated space for worship. most are interfaith. here at jfk, four chapels, one for each major religion. the islamic center, a synagogue and catholic and protestant church side by side in terminal 4. our lady of the skies. >> there is a full-fledged con dp congregation? >> jfk its a city that employs about 36,000 employees that's bigger than many parishes. >> the father spends most of his time reaching out to passengers on the go. he calls it sweeping the terminal. >> i'm looking for any sign of distress. >> most of the time people want directions. others need more. >> people are very stressed when they enter the airport. and we find that the chapel is a place where they can find some peace. >> reporter: for many travelers it's time well spent.
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we close in the black hills of south dakota where it was round up time for a herd of buffalo. some of which were auctioned off this weekend. chip reid saddled up for this report. >> reporter: the earth rumbles as 1,100 buffalo stampede across the south dakota prairie while about 60 volunteer cowboys and girls ride herd. including -- >> 81-year-old bob lindt. >> didn't care who.
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two people. >> ain't in there and charging you ain't riding. >> reporter: this spur jingling, chaps wearing buckaroo participated in the nation's biggest buffalo roundup of its kind for the past 45 years. what's the best part of the roundup, bob? >> to me, it's the run is the, you know when we are actually pushing the buffalo and they're running just as hashrd as they n run. we are running. an adrenaline kicking son of a gun. tell you that for a fact. >> a lot of fun, yes. but a buffalo can weigh 2,000 pounds. and some of them have an attitude. just ask first timer, chris. >> i had a bull come at me on my horse. we had to boogie out of there pretty quick. made for a memorable event. >> reporter: more than 30 million buffalo once roomed the u.s. in the 1800s they were slaughtered by pioneers all most to extinction. today one of the largest herds,
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calls custer state park home. >> there is a purpose to the roundup? >> for the health of the herd? >> health of the herd. to hold the herd in manageable number so they don't overgraze the land. >> ready. >> after the roundup they're vaccinated, calves are branded. some cows are sold. for landis it never gets old. >> when you quit during your thing that you look to do, you are going to die. >> spread out across here. >> reporter: for this cowboy, living a good long life pleenz making your home where the buffalo room. chip reid, cbs news, in the black hills of south dakota. that's the overnight news for this monday. for some, the news continues. for others check back with us a little later for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm elaine quijano.
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>> announcer: this is the cbs "overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news," i'm elaine quijano. it is thanksgiving week, the bidsiest travel week of the year. if you are not hosting the holiday feast you may want to make your travel plans now. triple a says more than 4 million americans will be moving by planes, trains, and automobiles between now and next weekend. that is about a million more travelers than last year. jamie yuccas has more on the thanksgiving getaway. >> pack your patience if your holiday travel brings you through chicago. travel site, orbitz.com predicts o'hare airport will be the busiest airport this thanksgiving holiday. and tomorrow, about 500 workers including aircraft cabin
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cleaners, and janitors could walk off the job. workers voted to take action over wages and working conditions there last week. almost 4 million people will travel wednesday through sunday. jim and his son are already on their way. >> what do you anticipate moving forward. a lot lighter than i expected. come tuesday wednesday, it is going to be massive. >> nearly 90% of thanksgiving travelers will drive to gram mas this year. drivers will see savings at the pumps with gas prices expected to be the second cheapest since 2008. when the national average was just a dollar 85. today it is $2.14 per gallon. google checked travel times and found today was the best day to hit the road. if you want to avoid gridlock coming home, the search engine says leave on black friday at 6:00 a.m. if you are hitting the rails remember the tuesday and wednesday before thanksgiving
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and the sunday are the busiest days to travel. nearly 750,000 people will take amtrak to and from their destination. after long lines and major complaints, the tsa says it added staff. the agency says it is now ready for the additional 55,000 passengers a day over the thanksgiving holiday. but elaine, they still recommend arriving two hours early for a domestic flight. >> good advice. jamie, thank you. now let's get the holiday traveler forecast from pamela garden at wbz in boston. >> as we get close to thanksgiving, couple systems that could bring cooler temperatures compared to next week. for monday. wind and snow in the northeast. out of the four corners, area of low pressure will bring rain and mix, perhaps snow in northern plain states. high pressure and control to the southeast and west. until the system moves in from the pacific northwest affecting friends in seattle, oregon and
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california. perhaps some snow in the mountains. then, area of low pressure tracks into new england states for thursday. bringing some, light flurries, but not as potent as, we once thought. high pressure and control to the south and west. looking okay for thanksgiving. all around. no major issues. temperatures will be quite chilly especially for the northern half of the u.s. black friday looking ahead to the shopping season, kicking off chicago. wintry mix. 41 degrees with sun in dallas. high of 66. elaine. >> pamela, thank you. president elect trump and transition team had a busy sunday. meeting with candidate who could fill top jobs in the trump administration. meetings took place an hour from new york city at trump national golf club in bedminister, new jersey. craig boswell has the the latest. >> reporter: rudy giuliani arrived at donald trump's golf club as a leading contender for
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secretary of state. >> and other things. >> reporter: saturday, mitt romney met with the president elect along with vice president elect mike pence for the same job. governor romney is under active and serious consideration to serve as secretary of state of the united states. >> reporter: trump is interviewing a parade of potential picks for key posts in his new administration. new jersey governor chris christie, who was recently demoted from the transition team is also on the list of interviewees today. >> very talented man. great guy. trump named alabama senator, jeff sessions as his nominee for attorney general, but there are questions abut his past statements and his civil rights record. >> i wouldn't want to support him unless i was convinced we would have a strong civil rights division in the justice department. >> during a break from the transition process this weekend, pence was greeted with boos and some cheers at a performance of "hamilton" as well as direct message from the cast. >> we truly hope this show has inspired you to uphold our american values and to work on behalf of all of us. >> that set off a tweet storm from donald trump.
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the cast and producers of hamilton which i hear is highly overrated should immediately apologize to mike pence for their terrible behavior. on face the nation, pence saw no reason for any apologies. >> i wasn't offended by what was said. i will leave to others whether it was the appropriate ven to to say it. >> high profile interviews include robert johnson, founder of bet and congresswoman, and kathy mcmorris rodgers. elaine, the trump transition team says meetings will continue into tuesday with some nominations possibly monday. >> craig boswell in washington. thank you. at the vatican, pope francis celebrated end of the holy year of mercy. part of the weekend festivities, elevating 17 bishops from around the world to cardinals. the list includes three americans. seth doane has the story from st. peter's basilica. cardinals are informal advisers to the pope their most important role its to elect the next pontiff. elevating cardinals to their
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post is a significant moment within the katrina lecturech and comes with all of the pageantry you might imagine. st. peter's basilica provided a magnificent backdrop as the so-called princes of the church were crowned with their signature cardinal colored skullcaps. among them, those three americans, including indianapolis archbishop joseph tobin, just apin tpointed to ne new jersey. he clashed with indiana governor, vice president elect, mike pence over helping refugees and migrants resettle in the u.s. another now cardinal is chicago archbishop, blaze supich who tweeted a picture of his gift to the pope, a cubs' hat following the world series win. the third, former bishop of dallas, kevin farrell, learned he made cardinal as he watched the pope live on tv. >> i did not honestly think that
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there would be more than one american on the list. >> reporter: then the pope named you. >> about five names later, he named me. and i was just -- did i hear that correct? >> reporter: you were surprised? >> very surprised. i was shocked. >> reporter: farrell arrived in rome to take on a new job running the vatican department at family life. how significant is it to have three americans be made cardinal? >> well it is significant in the sense that it shows the holy father's love for the people of the united states. >> this is one place. >> reporter: greg burke is director of the holy sea press office. we asked if it was a political statement to choose the cardinals? >> what you can see is the new american cardinals are concerned about the samer use the pope is concerned with. one of them is immigration. >> reporter: this morning the pope spoke of polarization and
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thanksgiving is just three days away. a good bet your holiday feast does not include either moss or ants. well one restaurant that many consider the best in the world, does have both on the menu. we paid a visit to copenhagen, denmark. >> reporter: flowers. moss. ants. not exactly what you might expect to find on your plate. unless of course, you're at noma. this restaurant in copenhagen not only has two mistars but wa named best restaurant in the world in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2014. >> never did i expect or dream
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up that it became what it is today. i mean, never. >> reporter: 3-year-old chef redzeppi opened noma in 2003. limiting himself to ingredients found in the nor dick region. back then it was a tall order. >> if you were not cooking french or italian. forget it. everything else was stupid. >> reporter: norma, nordic and mo, danish word for food looked for culinary inspiration from the land itself. foragers like michael larson collect ingredients every day. rain or shine. >> so the berry here itself will, you can use it to make jam. that's so many thing you can do with this one. >> what's wrong with grabbing a bunch and sticking it in the freezer, drying it. >> yeah, i think that might be the difference between fine dining and there mall dining.
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this is fine dining. we need to have the best every day. need to be fresh. back in the kitsch than get to work. >> this is sliced rhubarb. >> beautiful. >> cooked with sea wood and sorrel leaves. >> reporter: perhaps what is most impressive about the kitchen, just how fresh everything is. >> wild blue lobster. >> he is alive. >> he is alive. >> how much does it cost to eat at noma? >> i meal with drinks at noma, average around $400 a person. if you were to envision that everybody down the food chain had a pay that would enable them to have a nice home, a car, any meal would be very expensive or more expensive. >> reporter: but the elegance and prestige of noma is a world away from rural macedonia. >> there is no refrigerators. you go out and peck something
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frsomething -- pick something, from the ground, tree, kill an animal if you want a checken. go and grab a chicken. and -- >> redzeppi emigrated to denmark at 12, dropped out of school at 15. began working as a restaurant apprenti a year later. during a much different culinary scene. >> food in the 80s were like microwave food. seriously it wasn't anything amazing at all. look ready made meals most of the time. >> noma changed all that. turning copenhagen into a foodie destination and redzeppi into culinary royalty. for noma a game changer and copenhagen as a city, game changer for the northic region. >> reporter: but noma's story doesn't end there. in a few months the restaurant will move to a new part of town. >> we. space to build a small urban farm. amazing for a cook. to actually be able and pick your parsely a minute before you
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need it. >> reporter: until then, redzeppi will open a pop-up restaurant in mexico, using ingredients unique to the region. a full plate by any means. then again, filling plates is exactly what this man does best. >> you know, i understand this thing that it is just food. food is so much more than that as well. to some, when they -- get a fine meal it is like a real transcendent moment. to others it is a vessel to enjoy the conversation better. i'm perfectly fine with everything. as long as they enjoy their time with us. >> reporter: one of the most famous chefs on television, anthony bourdain has a new cookbook out. he sat down with anthony mason at one of his favorite restaurants. >> mm. magic. >> reporter: after a laf on the road, traveling to parts unknown, eating with no reservations, anthony bourdain is very particular when he gets back home.
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you don't like being fussed over at restaurants? >> no, i don't want to be comped. i don't want extra courses. serve me look any body else. >> reporter: we met at pastrami queen on new york's lexington avenue. this is your place when you come home? >> this is my go to. what i crave. no matter how well i have been eating or where that might be. the first thing i want and need. >> reporter: in his travels, bourdain has eaten everything from rotten shark to sheep testicle. >> is there anything you won't eat? >> eaten a lot of bad, putrefied food. it's when no one cared at all. that's sole destroying. make a take it too seriously. i will really, a really carelessly made burger by a cynical large company, the contempt implicit in that transaction. can, can really send me into a spiral of depression that will
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last for days. >> reporter: actually little seems to slow him down. >> so how many pots do you have on the stove? >> i don't know. a lot. i mean, but all of them are fun pots. >> reporter: they include producing, writing and starring in his cnn series "parts unknown." his web series, "raw craft." authoring a new cookbook. and a speaking tour. how much are you on the road? >> 250 days a year. it's been like this for the better part of 15 years. >> reporter: and you are okay with that? >> i'm -- i have been sentenced to the best job in the world. >> reporter: it started in 1999 when the then struggling chef wrote an article for the new yorker titled don't eat before reading this. which mushroomed into a book deal. >> overnight. >> reporter: kitchen confidential, adventures in the culinary underbelly published in
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2000, turned the restaurant world inside out and bourdain's life upside down. >> reporter: this book changed everything? >> everything. i mean i was, i was 44 years old. uninsured. hideously and hopelessly in debt. behind on my taxes. behind on my rent. >> reporter: the book would sell more than a million copies and launch a new career for the culinary bad boy. how is this guy different than that guy? >> i think when you travel as much as i have, you -- you -- i don't want to say i am more humble. but i think you become a wear of how other people live. how hard their lives are. how big the world is. >> reporter: now this wouldn't be the dish if we didn't have a drink. >> this is some very good 30-year-old whiskey. >> reporter: there is a bad joke in here some where. at bemelman's bar in the carlisle hotel, we sampled some
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of balvenie's best scott. $1,000 a bottle. >> this is very smooth. >> better be. >> reporter: bourdain partnered with the distillery on raw craft to profile great artisans. he had a lot of unlikely encounters in his travels. this season on "parts unknown" bourdain met up with president obama in a hanoi restaurant. not ideal from secret service view. a room this size. i think one exit. second floor of a not particularly clean noodle shop. nice seeing the president of the united states drinking beer out of a bottle. >> was there -- is there any body you would look to have a meal with. >> keith richards. >> trying for years. eat bangers and mash. cooked steak and kidney pie with keith richards.
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can the hug of a child mend a broken heart? steve hartman found out on the road. >> reporter: not long agoen a cemetery outside augusta, georgia, a loving couple was buried. the wife, buried below this white bouquet. the husband, buried above. in a mound of grief.
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>> took me totally by surprise. 82-year-old dan peterson says after mary died he fell into a deep depression. spent days just staring out at the squirrels. what were you living for? >> i was trying to figure that out. frankly. >> reporter: you had no purpose. >> no. >> were you just waiting to die? >> yeah. >> reporter: for six months it was just that bad. then one day you go to grocery store? >> reporter: it all changed inside this publix. dan was nearing the end of the canned vegetable aisle. he hates grocery shopping. and by all accounts the expression on his face confirmed his aggravation. but that's when this unapproachable man, was approached. by a 4-year-old girl named norah wood. in the security footage you can see norah randomly reaching out to him. her mom tara says it was quite
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embarrassing. >> she said, old person, it's my birthday today. >> old person. >> old person. >> hi, old person. >> she says this to the cranky old man. >> yeah. >> reporter: then had the audacity to demand a hug. >> i said a hug, i said absolutely. norah got her hug. asked her mom to take a picture of her with her new friend. >> she zeroed in on him like a missile. she didn't want anything from him. she just wanted to make him feel loved and give him a hug. and his little lip quivered. he teared up. it was just sweet. >> i said you don't know this is the first time for quite a while that i have been this happy. >> reporter: that all happened a couple months ago. and his grin has only gotten wider since. >> hi, sweetheart. come in. come in. today norah visits at least once
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a week. >> how is my sweetie, huh. every time the grocery store all over again. >> i knew i was going to got a hug. >> it's unbelievable. totally unbelievable. >> it's a bridge. >> okay. >> dan does have grand kids of his own. but they're all grown and gone. and norah does have grandparents. but her mom says this a completely different kind of bond. that almost defies explanation. >> she fell asleep holding a picture of them. and what? ha-ha. >> to dan it is equally miraculous. but far less mysterious. he believes norah is quite literally an angel. >> okay. >> she opened me to a love that i didn't know existed. >> reporter: when your wife died, you felt look you didn't have any purpose anymore. do you feel look you have a purpose now? >> of course. norah. watching her grow up.
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i know i made room in my heart for a lot more.,,,,,,,,,,,,
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there is a new animated movie in the works about dutch painter vincent van gogh. animation may not be the right word. the film is made up of more than 60,000 individual paintings all done in van gogh style. jonathan v ifigliotti has the a look. >> reporter: one of cinema's films is under production in a small studio in poland. here with the stroke of a brush, a team of painters brings to life the work of vincent van gogh. the final result, the firsthand painted film ever made. >> we have definitely, without a doubt, invented the slowest form of filmmaking ever devised in 120 years. >> hugh welshman is the
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director. >> using letters written by van gogh, welshman and his wife, tell the story of van gogh's creative genius. and sudden death. vincent van gogh was born in the netherlands in 1853. over the course of his career he painted over 800 canvass. famous teams including sun flowers and wheat fields. at 37 years old, after being released from a mental institution, he took his own life. without any explanation. >> how does a man go from being absolutely calm to suicidal in six weeks? >> reporter: that pivotal question is ex-floored through fictional interviews with the character and lep cases depicted in 150 of van gogh's paintings. >> interesting man. >> he was a genius. >> look a traditional film, loving vintst vincent began wit
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and actors. >> use your initiative. >> an important man, like van gogh. asked around. >> he filmed with live actors on green screens and the shots. van gogh paintings and cut it together like a live action film and projected each on to canvas. >> reporter: as the producer explains, a total of 120 artists recruited from all over the wrurld turned those projections into oil paintings. to be clear, every single frame of loving vincent is painted by hand. all 64,000 of them. the equivalent of 64,000 canvass. >> a nice quiet man. >> loving vincent is a painstaking tribute to van go. a moving kpbt exhibit of his wo unlook any before. jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, london. that's the "overnight news"
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for monday. for some the news continues. for others check back later for for others check back later for the morninggg captioning funded by cbs it's monday, november 21st, 2016. this is the "cbs morning news." the next secretary of state could be a political insider. the trump transition team may be looking to rudy giuliani or mitt romney to fill the spot. we are the diverse america who are alarmed and anxious. >> that is the speech that got the president-elect fired up. the cast of "hamilton" was addressing vice president-elect mike pence who was in the audience. and he had a very different reaction. and president obama had a brief meeting that likely won't

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