story. >> reporter: can i talk to you for a second, derrick. the manager of the ghost ship refused to answer our questions early tuesday morning. almena was leasing the building at the time of the fire for $4,500 a month and renting out space to musician and local artists. >> i am incredibly sorry. >> reporter: almena called the ghost ship his dream, a place that brought people together. he defended the space, telling nbc his own family lived there. >> should i be held accountable? i can barely stand here right

now. >> reporter: almena and his family were not in the building at the time of the fire. the ghost ship was the subject of numerous code complaints. former tenants like shelley mack say she lived here because it was cheap but there were no fire alarms, sprinklers or proper electricity. >> this is all illegal. there's no heat. it's filthy. >> reporter: court records show almena was on probation after pleading no contest in january after receiving stolen property. danielle boudreaux was close to the family. >> these children were living in squalor and i called everyone i could and their families to get those children out of that environment. >> reporter: just hours after the fire ripped through this oakland warehouse, almena posted on his facebook page. confirmed, everything i have worked for is gone, it's a

dream, that everything i had is filled with self worth. >> he didn't take the time to put sprinklers, to put fire alarms, to put fire extinguishers, to put any kinds of signs to where the back stairs were. >> reporter: while almena could face charges, the owner of the building is also being investigated. he has yet to surface. scott, throughout the day there has been a steady procession of people coming by this memorial right here. they've all left different messages of love and support with different wording but all with the same sentiment: we will never forget. >> pelley: mireya villareal, thanks. the upper midwest is being hit by an arctic blast tonight. north dakota is getting the worst of it. schools, highways, and airports have been closed. omar villafranca is in bismarck. >> reporter: it's only fall, but winter is here in the great plain. in douglas city, minnesota, drivers battled nearly zero- visibility highway conditions. in bismarck, north dakota, with wind gusts topping 60 miles per hour, whiteout conditions and

icy roads made driving nearly impossible. >> you can see a semi turning the wrong way here. >> reporter: residents are digging out of a blizzard that blanketed parts of the state in 19 inches of snow. bismarck resident corrie guerts woke up to a seven-foot snow drift blocking her door. the arctic blast is on the move. the cold front is sweeping across eastern montana to minnesota, widespread subzero wind chill temperatures. western north dakota is getting punched with the lowest wind chill-- all the way down to 30 below zero. the wind chill is 14 below zero because of these 40-mile-per- hour gusts. and, scott, residents expect this white stuff to stick around until the spring. >> pelley: omar villafranca with the big chill. thanks.

today, the supreme court dealt a blow to apple. the justices sided unanimously with samsung in a long-running patent dispute. the court found that samsung did copy some of the apple's design for the iphone, but not enough to hand over all of its profits from samsung devices. a lower court will now decide how much samsung does owe. coming up, we'll bring you this story, a good night's sleep can be a matter of life and death. and later, 75 years after pearl harbor, "arizona" honors the crew of its namesake battle ship.

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let's end this. oh, that's lovely...so graceful. the corkscrew spin, flawless... ...his signature move, the flying dutchman. poetry in motion. and there it is, the "baby bird". breathtaking. a sumo wrestler figure skating? surprising. what's not surprising? how much money heather saved by switching to geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. >> pelley: how much sleep are you getting? your life could depend on the answer. a study out today found getting behind the wheel on four or five hours' sleep is just as dangerous as driving drunk. here's errol barnett. >> reporter: look closely at the bottom of the screen and you'll see it this driver's eyes are closed. at the top, the approaching

light post. this sleeping driver woke up when his car left the road. in a new study, a.a.a. found 35% of u.s. drivers get less than the recommended seven hours of sleep daily. sleeping just five to six hours left drivers almost twice as likely to be involved in an accident. four to five hours meant four times as likely. and driving on less than four hours' sleep increased the crash risk by nearly 12 times. >> teenagers, older adults, and people who have a sleep debt are among the highest risk groups. >> reporter: jake nelson is with a.a.a. >> one in five crashes where somebody dies in that crash involved a driver who was drowsy or hadn't earned enough sleep the night before. >> reporter: 18-year-old tyler warne was one of them. six years ago he died in a crash after falling asleep at the wheel in the middle of the day. he was about to graduate from

high school. >> he didn't recognize that he was too tired. >> reporter: his mother, kerrie, said he was getting an average of five hours of sleep. >> i never once talked to him about drowsy driving or what that would look like. i didn't know. i didn't know to do that. >> reporter: best way to avoid this danger, a.a.a. says, is to get off the road, even if you feel slightly drowsy, to have a passenger who can take turns driving if possible, and, scott, avoid heavy foods before you hit the road. >> pelley: errol barnett for us tonight. thanks, errol. still ahead, beyonce's grammy record.

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it looks like beyonce will be getting plenty of screen time at the grammys. she picked up nine nominations today, including record of the year for "formation." she is also the first to be nominated in the rock, pop, r & b, and rap categories all in the same year. the grammys will be handed out in february right here on cbs. and you may have noticed that this broadcast has a new look. we now come to you from studio 57 at the cbs broadcast center in new york, the longtime home of "cbs this morning." we joined our a.m. colleagues here for election night coverage and we liked it so much, we elected to stay. up next, the university of arizona's unique memorial to the crew of the u.s.s. "arizona."

>> pelley: the date lives in infamy -- december 7, 1941. 75 years ago tomorrow, the japanese launched a surprise attack on pearl harbor. tonight, barry petersen shows us a unique new memorial to the 1,177 crew members who died aboard the u.s.s. "arizona." >> i have watched the ship blow up hundreds of times on television, and every single time i've watched that explosion, i felt a little pang in my heart.

>> reporter: bill westcott was named after an uncle he never met who died aboard the u.s.s. "arizona." >> his name is william percy westcott jr. >> reporter: may i see the picture? >> you may. >> reporter: three years ago, he started work on an idea for this-- a thin red outline across the bustling commons at the university of arizona. it is something new to remember something old-- the exact measurement of the doomed battle ship's main deck. >> the fourth bomb came down in this area here. >> reporter: david carter, who restores historic buildings, studied the ship's blueprints and discovered a perfect fit, like it was meant to be. >> in the initial outline of the ship, 597 feet long, and we had five-eighths of an inch to spare. >> reporter: five-eighths of an inch. >> yes. >> reporter: wow. in the middle, a structure like

the ship's bridge with a medallion for each man who died, more than 700, 22 were under college age. students of today, like elizabeth quinlan, can meet the young men of that terrible day. >> it's very humanizing, so you start realizing that there's actual names and faces that go to these different incidents. >> reporter: the last medallion was for william westcott, signed by bill. >> now and forever. >> reporter: the memory of every lost sailor now passed to a new generation. when you see your uncle's name, what's in your mind? >> i think about the scale of the ship and the scale of the loss. >> reporter: and a debt of honor to a fallen uncle now paid in full. barry petersen, cbs news, tucson, arizona. >> pelley: and that's the cbs evening news for tonight. for some of you the news continues for others check back

with us a little bit later for the morning news. and be sure not to miss cbs news this morning. from the broadcast center, i'm scott pelley. >> this is the cbs overnight news. president-elect donald trump continues his victory tour. he and vice presidential-elect mike pence held a rally in north carolina. and at last night's rally, mr. trump announced james mattis to run the pentagon. meanwhile, mr. trump kicked up dust over the boeing 747 in the works, he called the number ridiculous and wants the contract cancelled. nancy cordes has the story.

>> reporter: mr. trump's tweet before the opening bell caused the stock to plunge. boeing is building a brand-new 747 air force one, he wrote, costs out of control. more than $4 billion. cancel order. >> i think it is ridiculous, i think boeing is doing a little bit of a number. we want boeing to make a lot of money but not that much money. >> the two planes that currently serve as air force one are more than 25 years old, the last of the passenger jets still in use in the united states. the air force contracted with boeing last year to begin to design two or three replacements, slated for completion in 2023. mark rosinger over saw the acts. >> it is cheaper to buy a brand-new aircraft, bring it into the 21st century, than to try to maintain the aircraft built in the '80s. >> it was unclear what triggered

mr. trump's comments today, but it came just moments after they posted these comments regarding boeing's ceo when it comes to trade with china. the president-elect has also signalled a preference for his own jet insisting last summer that air force one is a step down in every way. although his 757 can't refuel mid-air or deflect missiles. >> it's a beautiful aircraft, but can't serve the president of the united states. >> a for hoew hours later, mr. praised this company, softbank. >> and he just agreed to invest $50 billion in the united states and 50,000 jobs. >> now president-elect trump had sticker shock over the air force one, but wait until he hears what the embassies across the world are costing.

oversight committee chairman jason chaffetz has thoughts on it. >> he has accused them of taking a risky approach to building embassies, taking too long and spending too much. now the next secretary of state will have to determine how to build the fortresses. >> reporter: a striking building in london has a sizeable price tag, the building will soon exceed its more than $1 billion projection, according to house chair jason chaffetz. >> i feel very misled by the state department, because if we are not opening the doors, the cost is high for staying open. >> the existing u.s. embassy will be used to house our personnel until the new london

embassy is ready. according to a new release, they account for a $22 million cost increase. the house oversight committee found quibbling over a glass wall in indonesia caused tens of millions and change over the request, and millions spent over art in pakistan. one of the biggest bills came from mexico, where the u.s. paid hundreds of millions on the lot and 56 million on the mission. chaffetz, who visited the site, said costs will cost more than the $93 million estimate. >> something has to change, they're building them slower, coming in over budget, and not necessarily secure. >> so the next secretary of state, will it be the top of the list. >> i'm glad we have mr. trump coming in, i think he will fix it quickly. >> but the strict standards is

not your typical real estate project. state department deputy spokesperson mark toner. >> do you have a time line as to when these embassies will be both secure and finished? >> all i can say is our diplomatic security bureau and our management work hand in hand to make sure that safety is the main issue. >> they are mindful of how looks impact perception of the u.s., but they insist that despite the delays the projects will remain within budget. >> and a new study shows that driving while drowsy is as bad as driving drunk. err errol burnett has more. >> they want to make sure people drive with enough sleep, because they have a hard time keeping their eyes open which is proving

to be deadly. >> these videos show how quickly a drowsy driver can lose control. >> i remember screaming at the top of my lungs and sort of collapsing because that could not be true. >> cary's 18-year-old son tyler was killed after he crashed his car, months after graduating high school. he was on a mid-afternoon drive, when a witness saw him flip and go through three lanes and crash into a tree. six years later, his family still is full of grief. >> definitely cheated, it is so unfair. >> it's hard every day. i mean, it's been six years. but little things come in and it is very difficult. >> police found no signs of control or drugs in tyler's system. the lack of skid marks led investigators to conclude that tyler fell asleep at the wheel. his family said he was getting

four to six hours of sleep a night. >> i knew about texting and driving and distracted driving and joy riding and impaired driving, all of those things we're educated about. but not once was there a conversation about young adults and drowsy driving. >> teenagers, older adults and people who have a sleep debt are among the highest risk groups. >> jake nelson is aaa's director of advocacy and research. >> one in five crashes where somebody dies in the crash, involve a driver who was drowsy or had not had enough sleep the night before. >> in a new study, it shows that people are twice as likely to be in an accident when they get five to six hours of sleep. more than four times as likely with five hours, and more than 12 times likely with less than four hours. >> driving with having only earned four hours of sleep in a

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75 years ago today, the japanese launched their sneak attack on pearl harbor, survivors of the attack have gathered in hawaii for today's memorial. lee cowan has the story of the date that will live in infamy. >> reporter: pearl harbor, a tranquil place. that was dorinda nicole's childhood home. she was just 6 years old, that sunday in 1949, born in hawaii, her family was civilian and lived near the dock for the

famous pan am clippers. the idea of war coming to this remote pacific outpost seemed to most here about as likely as a white hawaiian christmas, but at 7:55 a.m. on december 7th, a storm did indeed come. >> they were coming right over the house. >> and when you came outside then you looked up, they were right there? >> right overhead. >> six japanese aircraft carriers had sailed to within 300 miles of the hawaiian islands, loaded with more than 350 planes that were on oahu like a storm of mosquitos. dorinda's family fled to the sugar cane fields. but others had nowhere to go. >> 2 or 300 yards over there was where i was. >> he had joined the navy at 19,

and was part of the flying boats out of the naval air station at fort island. >> how close were the bombs falling? >> within 100 yards. >> reporter: he went to a nearby ditch for cover. >> and when i first went in there, i was laying in the bottom of it. and another fellow came jumping in right on top of me, and landed right on top of me. and he was sail hail marys as fast as he could say them. i said well that takes care of that part. i don't have to do that. >> reporter: but then, a japanese pilot spotted him. >> this fellow says well you may as well turn over and watch this. dumb me, i turn over and look at the dive bomber coming right over us. >> straight at you? >> oh, yeah, looked right down in the ditch. and i could look him right in the eye. >> hangar 79, just one down from where dick was, still bears the

scars, the bullet holes from the bright window panes remain, shattered on a quiet sunday. >> were you mad or confused? >> i don't really recall if i was angry or not. a lot of people ask if i was scared. i'm sure, i was, if i went, something was wrong with me. >> and nearby, the assault continued, nearly every american war bird was blown up before every taking flight. but japan's real target was battle ship row. >> the utah is shown capsized and partially sunk. >> within minutes, the california was sinking and the oklahoma had also capsized, trapping hundreds in her hull. >> the whole side, clear down to the arizona, is covered with flames. people in the water. swimming, trying to get out. it was a terrible, terrible

scene. >> 95-year-old delton wally was standing high in a patrol tower that day and saw it all unfold. >> can you imagine how i'm feeling now when i watch my great navy stuffed down my throat? i'm devastated. man. >> and it got worse, not far away, the shaw, a destroyer, was exploded so strongly it sent pieces flying a half mile away, a moment captured in this iconic photograph. >> that moment knocked us off the tower. >> but it was the arizona know got the worst of it. hit by the armor-piercing bombs, it exploded, carrying 1,177, the single largest loss of life in naval american history. her hull is still in the mud where she sank.

>> the ships remained, 23 sets of brothers, families dying shoulder to shoulder in a war that had not even been declared. >> when we talk to people they will say oh, my father or grandfather would not tell us anything until he was 60 or 70 years old. they were told to forget about it to just get on with their lives and forget about it. >> reporter: craig nelson spent the last five years putting together one of the most recent accounts of pearl harbor, published by simon and schuster, he argues that day was as important as july 1776. >> it completely transformed the united states. at that moment, we were 14th military power in the world behind sweden. >> so it served really as a rallying cry in a way? >> it made us put on our big boy pants and become a world leader. >> the u.s. did bounce back double time. all but three of the ships

damaged, or sunk on december 7th were raised or repaired. and later, every japanese aircraft carrier was destroyed. >> this is the greatest generation in the world. and we're down to a handful left. >> thank you for your service. >> reporter: wally, like mogst f the other 40,000 or so enlisted on oahu that day, was just a too large. >> reporter: and daniel martinez has worked here for 32 years and with each passing anniversary he worries the collective memory of december 7th is fading. >> most of the young people that come here don't have a clue what happened in this place and don't even know who won the war. how will we remember world war ii after they're gone? >> this was a huge open part of

the harbor. >> reporter: dorinda nicoleson now lives in kansas city, missouri, but has made the trip here every anniversary to tell her story, sometimes bringing with her the tiny gas mask that she and her brother wore as children in the days after the attack. >> so why did you keep these after all of these years? >> it's my history. >> reporter: it was history that changed her life and ours. the cry, remember pearl harbor, sounds pretty ominous, but the challenge for the next generation is to really remember, absent those who will no longer be here to remind us face to face. >> they are my heroes, and i will tell their stories as long as i live. >> we'll have more on the pearl harbor anniversary in two from the first moment you met

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one pill lasts 12 hours, so... looks like i'm good all night! some cough medicines only last 4 hours. but just one mucinex lasts 12 hours. let's end this. americans were in a state of shock 75 years ago on news that the japanese had launched a devastating attack on pearl harbor, in hawaii. but one man, president roosevelt had calmed the nation. >> the japanese have attacked the american naval base at pearl

harbor, hawaii, and our defense, in the philippines. >> the president knew war was coming, but not like this. >> the attack was made on the principal island of oahu. >> on that sunday, he was working on his stamp collection. >> the phone rang on the desk. it's the secretary of navy. >> he is the curator in new york. >> and he tells the president that the pearl harbor naval base is under attack. >> it was 1:47 p.m. washington time. >> and what was the president's first reaction? >> first reaction was to shout into the phone no! sort of in a state of disbelief. >> the critical hours that followed were recorded moment by moment by the people around the president. sometimes in quickly written notes on random scraps of paper now on display for the 75th

anniversary of the attack. >> i want to take people inside the white house on one of the most important days in american history. >> reporter: paul sparrow is director of the library. >> it was the worst day in american history. >> the battleship arizona was completely destroyed and four others severely damaged. >> i think december 7th, 1941, is perhaps the most important day in american history, when we shifted from being an isolationist nation for being a global super power. >> quickly, the president questi convened in his office. >> how do they describe him? >> he is clearly upset, but under control and processing information and not losing his cool. >> reporter: at 3:50, as riverfro roosevelt noted in his on

handwriting, the battle ship has been attacked, heavy personnel casualties and then turned to his secretary, grace tully, to compose the message to the american people. >> she says he lit a cigarette, took a long drag, leaned back in his chair and said he dictated most of the speech without interruption, letting her know where the periods were. after he finished, she left the room, typed it up, brought it back to him, and then fdr himself brought all the own editing in pencil to his own speech. >> and here it is, edited by roosevelt in his own hand. >> and this is our own treasured document. >> it began with one of the most famous lines in american history. >> he took the first sentence, which originally read, december

7th, which will be world history, strikes that, changes it to infamy, and transforms it into one that really resonates throughout the decades today. >> yesterday, december 7th, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the united states of america was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the empire of japan. >> some of the secretary of state leaders wanted to draft a longer speech. >> the president rehashed the speech, roosevelt set the other speech aside and went with his gut. >> the american public wanted to hear we have been wronged and will find a way to victory. >> no matter how long it may take us, to overcome this

over the centuries, millions of americans have fought for our country and many of their names have been forgotten. a florida man has made it his mission to honor their sacrifices. >> reporter: in cemeteries across america you will see them. head stones, blackened by age and the elements. what did some of these tombstones look like? >> you couldn't recognize them, they were filled with moss, they were very dirty. >> and what troubled andrew more was, many belonged to veterans. what disturbed you about that? >> that they were forgotten, i could not properly thank them or understand who they were or what in this about. >> so these were totally black?

>> they were black, you could not read them at all. >> reporter: so loomish made it his life goal to scrub the grime off and let visitors see them. >> if you properly restore the monuments, you can begin an entire conversation and potentially in a figurative sense, bring that person back to life. >> reporter: loomish's regular job is specialty cleaning. although he never worked on a head stone before, he developed his own method of cleaning them. >> i scrub and scrub and get the edges and the letters and numbers. it could take 20 minutes. it could take two hours. >> and his results are stunning. this is what a grave stone from 1917 looked like before he cleaned it and now. >> if i could do this every day i would.

>> reporter: he set up his facebook page titled with his nickname, the good cemeteryian. it's a celebration of those veterans' lives, filled with the stories of the men and women underneath the grave stones. he gets a lot of thanks from veterans and their families for what they does, but has trouble feeling like he deserves it. >> i am appreciative of it. but i'm unworthy of the same respect of someone who chooses to go the route to serve our country. and for someone to approach me to show me that level of respect it's humbling. to say the least. >> bringing back the names and lives of veterans, he says, is just what he does. >> that's the overnight news for this wednesday, for some of you the news continues and for others check back with us a little later for the morning

news and cbs this morning. news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast cenenen captioning funded by cbs it is wednesday, december 7th, 2016. this is the "cbs morning news." >> we just must reject the failed approaches of the past. president-elect donald trump reveals a plan for military policy. searching for answers, as investigators try to figure out what sparked this deadly warehouse fire in oakland. more victims are identified. >> so are you better than me? >> all right. let's go. let's go. >> and tempers fly