>> that's the "overnight news" for this wednesday. for this wednesday. from the cbs broadcast c c c captioning funded by cbs for this wednesday. from the cbs broadcast c c c it's wednesday, january 4th, 2017. this is the "cbs morning news." with a rocky day one in the books for the new congress, lawmakers today are in for a battle between the president and the next vice president over obamacare. overnight turkish police arrested several subjects linked to the attack at the nightclub but they're still looking for this person. and the cops slammed a girl to the ground in a cafeteria.

what they said moments before the takedown. good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. well, the just sworn-in senate is expected to take the first vote toward repealing the affordable care act next week. replacing obamacare is a top republican priority. today president obama and vice president-elect pence head to the hill. henna daniels is here in new york. good morning. >> good morning, anne-marie. gop leaders hope to approve legislation in the next few weeks or months, dismantling much of the law, but it could take years to replace legislation. president obama will meet with the house and democrats. >> the president's motivation is

rooted in looking out for the interests of the 22 million americans whose health care would be taken away. >> vice president-elect mike pence will also head to capitol hill. it's one of president-elect donald trump's main campaign promises. >> i'm asking for your vote so we can repeal. >> it's also a high priority among the newly sworn in and republican controlled congress. >> the first job the new congress will have is to repeat obamacare. we can't do better than obamacare, we might as well look for another line of work. >> while democrats try to save the law. >> it is not acceptable to repeal the law, throw our health care system into chaos, and then leave the hardwork for another day. >> and yesterday house republicans voted to weaken the office of congressional ethics

only to change their mind 19 hours later. the reversal came after a strong public outcry and mr. trump added to the pressure, urging his party to focus on tax reform, health care, and so many things of far greater importance. meanwhile the american medical association wants republicans to show how they would replace obamacare before congress votes to repeal it. in a letter to congressional leaders, the ama wrote lawmakers should show in reasonable detail what will replace current policies. anne-marie? >> hena daniels here in new york. thank you so much, hena. headlines at trump tower, the president-elect says he'll hold his first conference a week from today. mr. trump has already waited longer than any other president-elect in the modern

era to hold his first news conference. this friday mr. trump will be briefed by officials. trump has continually voiced his skepticism concerning russian hacking. a u.s. intelligence official says that's not the case. and mr. trump kept his focus on the auto industry, targeting general motors as ford canceled plans to build a factory in mexico. last month trump took on ford for its plans to move its production of its focus to mexico. ford is still heading to mexico, but instead of building a new plant there, it will create a michigan plant creating 700 jobs. and yesterday in a tweet trump threatened gm for importing cars from the u.s. to mexico. bill and hillary clinton will attend the inauguration of mr. trump.

she's avoided public appearances. they'll join former presidents george w. busch and jimmy carter and his wife. it's a tradition. ahead, a petition to stop college marching bands from performing at trump's inauguration. demonstrators were arrested. the demonstrators from the naacp stage adsit-in in an office in mobile yesterday. they refused a request to leave when the building closed and police were called in20-some pe been detained on the attack in turkey. jonathan vig lottie has more.

>> reporter: police have still not released the gunman's name. what they do know is he arrive at the club by taxi striking at 1:15 in the morn. he killed a police officer at the entrance and barely missed owner. i was thinking of jumping on him but he seemed so professional and flexible. inside he moved methodically and ammunition clips. in his wake, 39 dead, nearly 70 injured. many of them tourists. police say he left the club in another taxi heading to an apartment near the airport only to walk casually away. police er r i er isearched the and found nothing. this allows them to release crucial photos of the suspects while giving them deniability if

they don't catch him. jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, istanbul, turkey. we have some disturbing video, a police officer slamming a high school student to the ground. the eight-second video shows the officer throwing the female high school student down tuesday and then pulling her up. police say the officer was responding to a fight. the mother of the student who was thrown to the floor says her daug being charged with assaulting a police officer, disorderly conduct, and other related charges. craig boswell has the story. >> reporter: cell phone video captured a female police officer repeatedly hitting a 16-year-old

girl in west philadelphia monday. the girl says she has a concussion and bruises. >> i feel like it's really wrong. i'm still a minor and she's a cop. the way she approached me, that's not the way she should have did it. >> reporter: in the video it shows the girl putting her hands on the officer many times. the city's police chief say they responded to someone with a weapon and a fight. police say jonet refused to follow instructions and struck her many times, breaking her glasses and bruising her. the video doesn't show that happening. >> you cannot see that on the video where tshe struck the officer. that's not on the video. >> i'm getting a lawyer and i'm suing her. >> reporter: craig boswell, cbs news. the pentagon is backing down and tell 15g,000 california

national guard soldiers they do not have to repay the military for enlistment bonuses they received. many of the soldiers who served in iraq or afghanistan were told to repay the bonus of $15,000 or more after they completed their military service. the "los angeles times" reports many of the repayment demands resulted in lost records or administrative mistakes. about 1,000 soldiers still have to repay the money though. the penalty phase of dylann roof continues. he faces the death penalty and he's representing himself. he says he will not call witnesses or present any evidence. an in-air scare for passengers aboard a southwest airlines jet headed to orlando. flight 3556 flew through a storm after leaving san antonio monday night and lost cabin pressure. oxygen masks dropped down and

the plane made an emergency landing in jacksonville. there were 133 passengers on board. coming up on the "morning news" now, another turbulence fright. a passenger is booted off the plane after an outburst is caught on video. and the famous rockettes air their concerns to management in the wake of more inauguration backlash. this is the "cbs morning news." see me. see me. don't stare at me. see me. see me. see me to know that psoriasis is just something that i have. i'm not contagious. see me to know that... ...i won't stop until i find what works. discover cosentyx, a different kind of medicine for moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. proven to help the majority of people find clear or almost clear skin. 8 out of 10 people saw 75% skin clearance at 3 months.

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>> the man behind the hollyweed sign is revealed. those are some of the headlines on the "morning news" stand. "marie claire" reports on the tension between members of the rockettes and their performance. at a private meeting last week many dancers expressed concern and pointed to backlash they encountered. one rockette suggested they were being asked to tolerate intolerance. their boss james dolan called the performance an opportunity and they should be toll rant of dichlkt opinions. >> the "washington post" reports on a good-bye bash at the white house for president obama. sources tell the paper friday's party will feature guests like stevie wonder, bradley cooper, and oprah winfrey. the president heads to chicago next week to present his address. a man was hospitalized for

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♪ facebook's ceo mark zuckerberg is resolving to visit all 50 states this year. it's his vow to listen more. he acknowledges the benefits of modern technology but also its challenges, for instance, the fake news problem that plagued the presidential election. he probably has a lot of vacation time racked up, you know. on the "cbs moneywatch," the fast food controversy, and it's time to put in your girl scout cookie order. jill wagner is at the new york exchange with that and more. >> good morning. the dow gained 119 points, the s&p added 19. the nasdaq finished nearly 46 points high jeer a burger brouhaha at of all places, the

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she had a good delivery. congratulations. >> the granddaughter of richard bur rejected a kiss from the vice president during a ceremony yesterday but he continued chatted with the little girl. she was not impressed. late late show host james corden shared a touching tribute to the late pop star last night. he revealed the arrival of his coming to be ing ting to broadc the start. ♪ baby, i'm your man baby, i'm your man ♪ ♪ if you're going to do it do it right right do it to me ♪

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more than a century after the titanic sank in the the titanic sank in the north atlantic, there are new clues to the cause of the disaster. researchers say it wasn't just ice but fire. mark phillips reports. >> she was the largest ship ever built. >> reporter: the documentary gives a new twist to an old story. >> and yet her maiden voyage would be her last. >> reporter: everybody knows why the titanic went down. she hit an iceberg and despite being supposedly designed as unsinkable, she sank and took 1,500 lives with her. but that, the filmmaker says, isn't the whole story. the whole story involves a fire that had been smouldering for

days in one of the vessel's coal storage bunkers, a fire whose heat may have severely weakened the ship and hastened its sinking. the new includes come from old photos of the ship's launching. he had been working on the fire theory for years. he said the dark patch on the titanic's hull says the coal was burning even as the ship was being launched. >> the intensity of the fire not only weakened the forward bulkhead, but may have caused the deformity and the ship put to sea with an out-of-control fire and require 12 men to tackle it during the maiden voyage. >> reporter: the smouldering fuel was dug out and burned in the ship's boiler. but maloney said the need to get rid of that burning coal quickly may have been one of the reasons

the titanic kept going at high speed despite knowing there were icebergs around. almost 105 years later, there's still enough doubt and interest to keep the story of the world's most famous maritime disaster alive. mark phillips, cbs news, london. >> pretty interesting. here's another look at this morning's top stories. the new congress could take its first votes toward revoking the affordable care act next week. this morning president obama travels to capitol hill to discuss with congressional democrats a strategy for protecting obamacare. vice president-elect mike pence meets with republicans. yesterday house republicans dropped their plans to gut the presidential ethics board. and president-elect donald trump says he'll hold his first news conference a week from today. mr. trump says he'll be briefed by intelligence on russian interference on friday.

coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," a look at president-elect trump's public criticism of companies and whether it's effective. plus from dna editing to connected health devices, dr. david agus shows us medical advances expected in 2018. and in the series "a more perfect union," we go to boston to see how police and young people are finding common ground. that's the "cbs morning news" for this wednesday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

good morning. a live look at the pyramid in san francisco. are you sick of the rain yet or are you glad that it's good for the environment? you can debate among

yourselves. good morning, i'm kenny choi. >> i'm michelle griego. it's wednesday, january 4. we have been getting drenched for nearly 24 hours. more rain is on the way. along with that comes dangerous driving conditions and flooding concerns so be careful out there. >> yeah, i'm sick of it. >> already? >> already. >> well, roberta will tell you, it's just getting started. >> i have to cancel cycling, tennis, all those outdoor activities. >> it was rough driving across the bridge. we had wind gusts overnight at 60 miles per hour especially in the mount diablo area. bands are moving through on the wake of our latest area of low pressure. here's the deal. see all that yellow and orange? michelle had to drive through that this morning. that's moderate to heavy downpours towards the sacramento area. light to moderate rainfall san rafael ug