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came to $3.4 billion. >> liz palmer for us tonight. liz, thank you. we now know the identities of four of the five people who were shot to death at the airport in fort lauderdale on friday. they ranged in age from 57 to 84. all were either on their way to or returning from a cruise. five others remain in the hospital. the gunman made his first court appearance today. he was assigned a public defender and denied bail. david begnaud is in fort lauderdale. >> reporter: with a steely stare, esteban santiago was
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escorted into a federal courtroom. feet shackled, hands cuffed, and shaking at times. he did not explain his motive and said he only had $5 to $10 in his bank account. this video obtained by tmz appears to show santiago firing randomly at fort lauderdale airport on friday. santiago shot 11 people, killing five. when he ran out of ammunition, he dropped his weapon and surrendered. a law enforcement source tells cbs news santiago used this nine millimeter handgun in the shooting, it is the same gun the iraq war veteran had with him when he went to an fbi office in anchorage, alaska, last november claiming his mind was being controlled by u.s. intelligence. he said he was being forced to watch isis videos. santiago was committed for four days to be mentally evaluated. one month later he petitioned to get the gun back from anchorage police. without a judge's order to commit him, police say they had no choice but to return it. karen loeffler is the u.s. attorney for the district of alaska.
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>> there is a federal law with regard to having a gun by somebody who is mentally ill, but the law requires that the person be "adjudicated mentally ill." this is not somebody that would have been prohibited based on the information they had that law enforcement acted within the laws that they had. >> reporter: david weinstein is a former federal prosecutor. was enough done with this guy? >> my gut tells me that they didn't go quite enough. they should have dug a little bit deeper to find out exactly what was going on inside his head when he gave them the gun and then when he asked for it back. >> reporter: in court today, santiago said he spent the last few years in anchorage, alaska, working as a security guard. scott, prosecutors say he confessed to planning this attack and apparently chose fort lauderdale at random. >> david begnaud for us in fort lauderdale. david, thank you. well, in orlando, the police department badly shaken by the massacre at the pulse nightclub is now dealing with the pain of losing an officer today.
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a manhunt is under way for her killer, and omar villafranca is there. >> reporter: orlando police officers stood at attention and saluted as the flag-draped body of master sergeant debra clayton was removed from the orlando regional medical center. orlando mayor buddy dyer. >> she'll be missed as a mother, as a wife, as a daughter, a sister. >> reporter: clayton was a 17-year veteran of the force. the 42-year-old volunteered for police community events, especially when kids were involved. this morning clayton was on duty at a wal-mart when she confronted this man, 41-year-old markieff lloyd, wanted in the murder of his pregnant girlfriend in mid-december. orlando police chief john mina. >> there was a short foot pursuit, and as soon as she said "stop," he basically opened fire on her. >> reporter: the killing set off a countywide manhunt with swat teams and officers combing through neighborhoods.
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during the frantic search, orange county sheriff's deputy norman lewis was killed when his motorcycle was struck by a van. the manhunt is now in its eleventh hour, and police are now focused on a nearby neighborhood where the suspect fled after he carjacked a vehicle from this parking lot. scott, the reward for lloyd is now $60,000. >> omar villafranca, thanks.
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a week of heavy snow and rain in northern california and nevada has led to the worst flooding in a decade. three people were killed near carter evans is in the flood zone. >> reporter: from the yuba river in northern california, to the trukee river, crews are still bracing for floods in the town of wildwood east of reno with more rain headed their way. tom whiteman lives next to the river. all these guys sandbagging along here now, you think it can hold this river in? >> no. if the river wants to go, it will go. there's nothing you can do about it. >> emergency workers evacuated about 400 homes in reno and schools were closed after nevada declared a state of emergency. in california, hundreds were forced to flee the flooding and cars were crushed by falling trees.
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mudslides kept road crews busy on the pacific coast highway and interstate 80, where it took dave wood and his crew ten hours to clear the mess. >> this is where the mudslide was at. it's five feet deep, 80 feet wide and 1,000 feet long. >> reporter: california also lost one of its oldest residents. the storm toppled a famous giant sequoia carved into a living tunnel in the 1880s. the truckee river is now slowly beginning to recede. at the height of the storm, the water here in this park where i'm standing was another four or five feet higher and it's not necessarily over just yet. scott, there are another two storms headed this way. >> carter evans for us tonight. carter, thank you. coming up next, what happens when you cram all your exercise
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jon lapook tells us tonight new research shows that you can still benefit from working out, even if it's not an everyday thing. >> open those hips on the squat. >> reporter: georgia kopani an elementary schoolteacher, spends two hours a week at her local gym working up a sweat, but the rest of the time, not so much. >> it's not easy because, you know, the only thing after a long day that you want to go and just sit down and rest. >> reporter: so she hired new york sports club trainer stephen ferguson to get her off the couch. >> 50 jump ropes. >> 50? >> i'm not getting sick so often. i feel better with my body. my confidence is better. >> reporter: kopani is a so-called weekend warrior, cramming all her exercise into one or two workouts. a study in jama internal medicine compared workouts and found over nine years weekend warriors had
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a 30% lower risk of death that inactive people. those who exercised three or more times a week had a 35% lower risk of death. both groups got at least the recommended weekly 2.5 hours of moderate activity or 75 minutes of vigorous activity. >> if you're jogging, walking where you can still have a conversation, that's moderate exercise. >> reporter: dr. jordan metzl practices sports medicine at the hospital for special surgery in new york city. >> when you do nothing and then put 60 or 90 minutes of a workout together as the only thing you're doing, you certainly are at more risk for overuse injuries. >> reporter: so you shouldn't jump into being a warrior, you should ease into it? >> we prefer a gentle warrior, somebody that eases into what they do. exercise is the most powerful, safe and effective drug across the human condition. >> reporter: this is good news for weekend warriors, but, scott, there's still reason to do exercise on a regular basis, which helps a number of medical problems and just plain makes you feel better. >> dr. jon lapook. doctor, thank you. well, hollywood stars spent
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donald trump will join ronald reagan as the only presidents with a star on the hollywood walk of fame. mr. trump did not have many fans among hollywood's elite last night. entertainment tonight co-host kevin frazier was there. >> reporter: from the golden globes' opening moment, the presidential election shared the spotlight. >> this is one of the few places left where america still honors the popular vote.
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>> reporter: but it was eight-time golden globe winner meryl streep who thrust it front and center. >> it was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight back. >> reporter: streep never mentioned president-elect donald trump by name but was referencing when he mimicked disabled "new york times" reporter serge kovaleski at this november 2015 campaign rally. >> you got to see this guy. i don't know what i said, i don't remember. >> reporter: this morning mr. trump in a series of tweets called the three-time oscar winner one of the most overrated actresses in hollywood and a hillary flunky, adding, "he did not mock kovaleski but showed him groveling. >> when the powerful use their position to mock others, we all lose. >> reporter: reaction from
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social media also poured in. actress alyssa milano called streep a true inspiration while meghan mccain tweeted, "this meryl streep speech is why trump won." but actress viola davis, who introduced streep and won a globe for "fences" took a more reflective position backstage. >> there is no way that we can have anyone in office that is not an extension of our own belief system, so then what does that say about us? >> reporter: we've seen celebrities take on presidents in a public forum before, but, scott, this is probably the first time hollywood has seen a politician so eager to fight back. >> kevin frazier, thanks. and that's the "overnight news" for this tuesday. 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 this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm scott pelley.
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this is the "cbs overnight news." hi, everyone. welcome to the "overnight news." i'm demarco morgan. a page whether be turned tonight in chicago as president obama delivers his farewell address to the nation. thousands stood in line for hours in the bone-chilling cold to get a tick tote the speech, which is a presidential tradition, dating back to george washington. unlike former presidents, mr. obama will be giving his farewell address in his hometown. and he calls it "a chance to say thank you for this amazing journey." but for many people, that journey is already over, and they are looking forward to the trump administration. confirmation hearings get under way today for several of the president-elect's cabinet nominees. nancy cordes has the story.
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>> reporter: two of the nominees go before the senate on tuesday, four on wednesday and four on thursday. they have been preparing for weeks now, doing mock hearings, involving mock senators and mock protesters. the real senators are just as prepared, especially the democrats, to challenge them. >> thank you. >> reporter: starting tomorrow, the polite meet and greets will give way to a grilling. >> mr. johnson, you're the head person on this entity, have you investigated this charge? >> reporter: first up, alabama senator jeff sessions, the nominee for attorney general who knows the drill. nine others will follow this week alone, a pace that's drawn fury from democrats. >> there is no real chance to vet these nominees. >> reporter: democratic leader chuck schumer wants a delay. you had seven people confirmed the day president obama took office. pthey had complied with all of the rules. these nominees have not. >> reporter: he says the office of government ethics has not had
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time to examine each nominee's finances for potential conflicts of interest. the director of that office expressed great concern last week, warning that he had not received even initial draft financial disclosure reports for some of the nominees. part of the challenge is that so many of mr. trump's picks are multimillionaires, even billionaires with vast holdings. the sole billionaire nominated by mr. obama took six months to vet. >> i think they'll all pass. >> reporter: the president-elect met at trump tower today with the senate's republican leader, mitch mcconnell, who said there will be no change to the schedule. >> everybody will be properly vetted, as they have been in the past, and i'm hopeful that we'll get up to six or seven, particularly a national security team in place on they one. one of president obama's final orders as commander in chief was to send a huge combat brigade to europe. the build-up is designed to
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deter vladamir putin from potentially testing the incoming president militarily. elizabeth palmer was at the dock when the tanks rolled off. >> reporter: since the end of the cold war, the united states has been steadily drawing down its military presence in europe. but here in northern germany, right now you can see that's no longer the case. in fact, it's quite the opposite. all the massive hardware of a combat brigade arrived in germany over the weekend and started rolling east toward poland where 4,000 american soldiers will be waiting for it. this is the first buildup of american soldiers and weapons in europe in nearly 30 years. this impressive display of military might is designed in large part to reassure america's nervous european allies that the u.s. military will be there, standing with them against russian aggression. aggression and land grabs, like
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the 2014 invasion of crimea, when russian troops landed in what had been ukraine and seized it for the kremlin. america's response has been to increase both its own force in europe and its support of nato. though president-elect donald trump has called nato obsolete and says he wants to restore good relations with russia. major general timny mcgwire. how quickly could the new president, as a gesture of good will to russia, turn this whole thing around and pull you all out again? >> i'm not going to speculate on what the incoming president may or may not do, but i will tell you, this is in the interests of the united states army to build readiness. >> reporter: the commander in chief would reverse all this, but it would make months or even years. meanwhile, vladamir putin has already implied this buildup is pointless. it's stupid and unrealistic, he says, to think that russia would attack anyone.
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but the american military and its nato allies believe a little extra deterrence won't hurt. once the new combat brigade has reached its final destination in eastern europe, it will start large, multinational military exercises with the armies of other nato countries. democrats in the house and senate introduced legislation to create an independent commission to investigate russia's attempts to influence the presidential election. retired general michael hayden is a former director of both the cia and the national security agency. he discussed the issue on "cbs this morning." >> charlie, from the intelligence point of view, the influence on the campaign, did it affect votes, is not just not known, it's unknowable through intelligence techniques. but i was quite stunned that the community at large, with high confidence judgments, the russians did this. they did this to erode confidence in our processes. they preferred to punish
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secretary clinton. they then shifted as the campaign went on and became a bit more successful, that they began to prefer president-elect trump, and then all three major agencies, although only one with moderate confidence, the other two high confidence, concluded they were actually moving in the direction to help him win. that's a stunning summary. >> okay. so do you think the united states should have reacted aggressively earlier? >> yes, we should have. and look, the members of congress were briefed around october when that first public report came out, and based upon public reporting, charlie, it was the republican leader of the senate that refused to join consensus. and without bipartisan consensus to push back, president obama, in essence, kept his powder dry. i think that was an incorrect decision, but i understand it. >> put this in context for us. there's a great piece in "the
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new york times" yesterday from people who said what's the big deal? trump supporters who voted for him said people complaining are sore losers, that it's not a big deal because everybody does it. can you put this in context on why this matters and why this is a big deal? >> sure. after the formal briefing, the statement from the trump campaign kind of pushed this into, you know, we've got a really big cyber problem box and talked about the russians and the chinese and non-state actors and so on. i totally agree, we've got a cyber problem over here. but this was not, at its heart, a cyber problem. this was a russia problem. this was not an isolated incident from the russian federation. what i did not get from the transition team was a seriousness or an acceptance that we do indeed have a problem overall with the pattern of russia behavior. we just pushed it over here into the well-known cyber thing, and i'm going to appoint a committee
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the u.s. military has been using drones to hunt and kill enemies for years now. they can be operated from miles away or from the other side of the world. but the newest generation of drones won't need an operator at all. they'll use artificial intelligence to locate targets and call in weapons. they'll be in the air, on the ground, and at sea. david martin reports for "60 minutes." >> reporter: this swarm over the california desert is like nothing the u.s. military has ever fielded before. each of those tiny drones is flying itself. humans on the ground have given them a mission to patrol a three-square mile area. but the drones are figuring out for themselves how to do it.
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they are operating autonomously, and the pentagon's dr. will roper says what you're seeing is a glimpse into the future of combat. >> it opens up a completely different level of warfare, a different level of maneuver. >> on my count -- >> reporter: the drone is called perdix, an unlikely name for an unlikely revolution. roper, head of a once secret pentagon organization called the strategic capabilities office, remembers the first time he saw perdix, which is named after a bird found in greek mythology. >> it's about as big as my hand, and i said really, this is what you want me to get excited about? it looks like a toy. >> reporter: it flies too fast and too high to follow. so "60 minutes" brought specialized high-speed cameras to the china lake weapons station in california to capture it in flight. developed by 20 and 30
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somethings from lincoln labs, it's designed to operate as a team. which you can see when you follow this on a computer screen. >> we've given them a mission, which is fly down the road. >> and they're talking to each other? >> they are. >> by what? >> so they've got radios on and each telling each other not just what they're doing but where they are in space. >> how frequently are they talking to each other back and forth? >> many times a second when they're first sorting out. >> it looks helter-skelter. >> you want them to converge to a good enough solution. it's faster than a human would sort it out. >> reporter: cheap and expendable, it tries to make a soft landing. but it's no great loss if it crashes into the ground. it can be used as decoys to confuse enemy air defenses or equipped with electronic
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transmitters to jam their radar. this looks like it has a camera. as a swarm of miniature spy planes fitted with cell phone cameras that can hunt down terrorists. >> there are several different roads, you can tell them search all the roads and tell them what to search for. let them sort out the best way to do it. >> reporter: the pentagon is spending $3 billion a year on autonomous systems, many of them much more sophisticated than a swarm of perdix. this fair of air and ground robots runs on artificial intelligence. >> i'm going to say start the reconnaissance. >> reporter: they're searching a mock village for a suspected terrorist. >> the ground robots are continuing on its mission while the arrow bot is searching on its own. >> reporter: the robots are slow and cumbersome, but they're just test beds for cutting edge software for machines that can
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act as advanced scouts for a foot patrol. >> i would want to use a system like this to move in advance of me to give me early warning of enemy in the area. >> reporter: this time i'm the target. the computer already knows what i look like, so now we'll see if it can match what is stored in its memory with the real thing as i move around this make believe village. the robot's artificial intelligence had done its homework the night before, learning what i looked like. >> we were able to get every picture of every story you've ever been in. >> how many pictures of me are there out there? >> when we ran this through, we have about 50,000 different pictures of you that we were able to get. had we had more time, we probably could have done a better job. >> so because you've to the 50,000 images of me, how certain would you be? >> very.
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>> now it's looking at me. >> it recognized you instantly. so what we reported today on our scores were about a 1 in 10,000 chance of being wrong. >> reporter: while the robot was searching for me inside an auditorium in quantico, virginia -- >> this will give us a technological advantage. >> reporter: lieutenant commander rollie weather was watching from a boat. >> i was turning over control of the weapons system to the autonomous systems that you've seen on the floor today. >> reporter: had he given permission to shoot, the missile would have struck my location using coordinates given to it by the robots. >> they were controlling a remote weapons system, with me supervising. >> reporter: it will be about three years before these robots are ready for the battlefield. by then, they will look considerably different. >> will those robots, when they
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reach the battlefield, will they be able to defend themselves? >> we are looking into that. we have looking into defensive capability for a robot, armed robots. >> shoot back? >> correct. >> reporter: this pentagon directive states autonomous systems shall be designed to allow commanders and operators to exercise appropriate levels of human judgment over the use of force. what that means, says general paul selva, vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and the military's man in charge of autonomy, is that life and death decisions will only be made by humans. even though machines can do it faster, and in some cases better. >> are machines better at facial recognition? >> all the research i've seen says machines got better at image recognition than humans. >> can a disguise defeat machine recognition is >> if you think about the proportions of a human body,
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there are several that are discrete and difficult to hide. the example i will use is the distance between your pupils. it is very likely unique to you and a handful of other humans. a disguise cannot move your eyes. >> so a ski mask doesn't help? >> not if your eyes are visible. if you have to see, you can't change that proportion. >> so if the machine is better, why not let it make the decision? > this goes to the ethics of the question of whether or not you allow a machine to take a human life without the intervention of a human. >> do you know where this is headed? >> i don't. >> reporter: virtually any military vehicle has the potential to become autonomous. the navy has begun testing sea hunter, an autonomous ship to track submarines. when you no longer have to make room for a crew, you can buy a
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lot of them. >> you can buy 50 or 100 of these for the price of one warship. >> i heard somebody describe this as looking like an overgrown polynesian war canoe. why does it look like it does? >> to go across the pacific ocean without refueling, this was the best thing we could come up with. >> what is its range? >> we can go about 10,000 nautical miles on a tank of gas. 14,000 gallons. >> reporter: sea hunter is at least two years away from being ready to steam across the pacific on its own. it has to learn how to follow the rules of the road to avoid collisions with other ships. when we went aboard, it had only been operating autonomously for a few weeks, and there was still a human crew just in case. when testing is done, this pilot house will come off and the crew will be standing on the peer waving goodbye. from then on, this will be a
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ghost ship commanded by 36 computers running 50 million lines of software code. and these lifelines will have to come off, too, since there's no need with no humans on board. it has a top speed of 26 knots and a tight turning radius to track diesel powered submarines for weeks at a time. >> many countries have diesel submarines. china has them. >> russia? >> russia has them. >> north korea? >> yes. >> i think i get the picture. >> reporter: but of everything we saw, tiny perdix is close to being ready to go operationally. will roper and his team of desert rats are about to fly 100 drones. >> this is one of the most exciting things going on right now in the pentagon. >> reporter: the swarm would be more than three times larger than anything roper has done
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bill ford, executive chairman and great grandson of henry ford at the north american international auto show in detroit. >> reporter: as executive chairman of ford motor company, bill ford is among the few who talked directly with president-elect donald trump on a regular basis. do you have any concerns about a trump presidency? >> any time there's a transition, there's a lot of unknowns. but i'm encouraged by the dialogue we've had. >> reporter: last week ford scrapped plans for a new factory in mexico to invest in an existing michigan plant. general motors and toyota took a beating from trump who threatened make in the usa or pay big border tax. do you have concerns about that or do you think that's just blustery talk? >> well, we'll see. i think nobody wants to start a trade war. when i went to see him this summer, i said we've been in mexico for over 100 years, long before nafta. all the way back to my great
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grandfather. part of his belief is we should build and sell around the world. >> reporter: this morning, ford and mark fields will lay out >> from ouren stad point, any good business has to have one foot in today, one foot in tomorrow. we're looking at the societal trend of more congestion in cities and asking what does that mean for our business? as we expand to an auto and mobility company, it starts with our vision. >> doesn't that mean making fewer cars? >> maybe, maybe not. it will be different kinds of cars, that's for sure. and you're still going to need to move people and move things.
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bit different. just listen. the grapes here are serenaded all day, every day, by classical music. he started pumping mozart into a section of his vineyard. he found the vines closer to the music grew bigger and toward the source of the sound. this is his son, and another winemaker who sounds more like a scientist. >> the grapes closer to the speaker have the highest sugar contempt, so we believe in this idea. >> reporter: it wasn't long before this idea piqued the interest of scientists and turned this vineyard into a laboratory. when you first heard about this guy growing grapes and playing music, what did you think? >> that he was another crazy guy. >> reporter: stefano at the university of florence is a plant scientist. these vines like mozart? >> it's very difficult to say
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plants like classical music. what they are able to do is perceive sounds. >> reporter: he theorizes the vines may grow towards the speakers because frequencies resemble those of running water. they figure the music confuses harmful bugs and it scares away birds and other creatures who feed on grapes. he's proud of the research, not to mention their wines. as for the idea that these vines are reacting simply to sound vibrations, not specifically mozart, well, this is italy. >> i prefer the music. sorry, but i'm very romantic. >> reporter: seth doane, cbs news, italy. >> that's the "overnight news" for this tuesday. for some of you, 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
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york center, i'm demarco morgan. ♪ ♪ it's tuesday, january 10th, 2017. this is the "cbs morning news." this morning -- confirmation hearings get underway for two of president-elect trump's cabinet picks. what democrats say will keep them from casting a vote. tragedy strikes twice in just hours for orlando law enforcement, when a deputy is killed in a crash during a manhunt for a cop killer. severe storms take a toll on a west coast icon toppling california's drive-through sequoias. and
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