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>> do you wish she hadn't have gone? >> no. she was a good citizen. as a good citizen she decided to show up. >> in 2008 she was arrested at a water park where she worked and found guilty of using a fake social security number. she was allowed to stay because she wasn't considered a security threat. under new rules president trump made any criminal offense criteria enough for deportation. >> all she was doing was try to work to support herself, support her children. >> her lawyer says the new rules
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could easily apply to many other immigrants. >> you're saying it will push people into hiding? >> undoubtedly. who is going to show up? >> 14-year-old jacqueline just wants her mom to return home. >> do you think she will be back here some day? >> i hope so. >> in a statement immigration and customs enforcement says she had no legal basis to remain in the u.s. they say they will continue to focus on identifying felons like her and deport them. >> carter, thanks. today in the northeast a blizzards howled in from the west. 50 million people were in its path. some got up to a foot and a half of snow and thousands of flights were cancelled. many schools closed and offices too. anna warner is in massachusetts. >> reporter: people here have been in the thick of this blizzard for most of the day with heavy snow and high winds
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not only whipping up those waves but leaving many people here without power. >> vehicles large and small were slipping and sliding on the snow covered roads in plymouth, massachusetts. >> it is snow on top of ice. >> wind gusts estimate at 65 miles per hour knocked out power to 1,200 homes. when this fire chief drove through town to see how residents were coping in blizzard conditions. >> hopefully everybody would stay off of the road. eventually you won't be able to see a couple feet in front of the vehicle. it will be a complete white out. >> rob worried about her 13 month old baby, connor. >> we have the gas down and at least we have heat now for our son. >> reporter: they said more than 55,000 massachusetts homes and
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businesses lost power during the day. along the coast 6 foot waves battered homes. in south boston where some 12 inches of snow fell schools and some government offices closed. in new york city at least 9 inches of snow fell. due to this blizzard schools will be closed far second day tomorrow. >> anna warner with today's toughest assignment. chris has the travel mess. >> reporter: crews battled to keep pace with the snow piles up where more than 70% of flights were cancelled. it quickly became a you can't get there from here kind of day for weary fliers. flights cancelled as the storm raged virtually halting flights. greg bell is trying to get to
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d.c. after flying 12 hour frs israel. >> reporter: the roads were treacherous as the snow and wind reduced visibility, but amtrak saw a spike in riders as it continued normal operations in the busy northeast corridor between washington and boston. >> i'm a little frustrated, but what can you do? >> reporter: scott gralnick came to new york's penn station after his flight was canceled. he's trying to make it to his own bachelor party. >> we're going to catch a 2:00 train to philly and then we're going to head out. we have a 6:15 p.m. flight to arizona, and maybe i'll be able to begin my bachelor party weekend. >> reporter: still a lot of red on this board, but some flights are moving again. scott, the airlines expect to be back to normal by the weekend. >> thanks. coming up next on the "cbs evening news," more than 1,000
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tonight, many prospective parents are grieving for children they may never have. the adoption agency that they entrusted with their hopes, and their savings, went out of business. mireya villarreal has this. >> "i love you, mama, and i love you, my wonderful child." >> reporter: brandi daveiga thought by now she'd be reading this book to her son or daughter. two years and $15,000 later, brandi and her husband received this email from the independent adoption center saying that the company filed for bankruptcy and closed its doors with little notice. >> i'm angry. that it's gone. i'm angry that we wasted a lot of time. >> reporter: nearly 1,900 clients nationwide got the same message. in a statement, independent adoption center president greg cole said, "the climate of adoption has changed radically
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in recent years, and there are fewer potential birth parents." that's especially true for international adoptions, which dropped 75% in a decade from nearly 23,000 to under 6,000, while the number of adopted infants under two remains around 18,000 in the u.s. national council for adoption c.e.o. chuck johnson says the rise of the internet makes it easier to secure an adoption without an agency. >> there have been a substantial number of closings of agencies within the last several years. so you have this huge demand by americans to adopt, and in terms of infant adoption and intracountry adoptions, there aren't many options. >> reporter: you wanted to be a mom for so long. what does this do to you? >> my hope is gone. i'm like, "that's it. i'm not meant to be a mom," and it was really hard. >> reporter: daveiga said the shock has turned to determination. >> our dream is to have a family.
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our dream is to be parents, and i can't let somebody else destroy that dream for us. >> reporter: the daveiga family joined the bankruptcy case out of sacramento, california, as a debtor. scott, they don't believe they will get any of their money back, but they will be in court, representing all of the affected families that can't travel here. >> mireya villarreal in our los angeles newsroom. thank you. up next, dramatic rescues in the west.
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we end tonight with a woman who just achieved the dream that she had long kept on ice. here's chip reid. >> reporter: it's not every day you see the washington capitols, who have the best record in the national hockey league, practicing with a woman. meet 27-year-old fatima al ali, captain of the united arab
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emirates women's national team who discovered hockey six years ago. >> the speed, the scoring, the passing-- everything about it is amazing. >> reporter: you love scoring. >> i love scoring. i'm known back home for doing crazy celebrations. >> reporter: and that's not the only crazy thing. she also does this: >> wow. >> reporter: peter bondra, a former capitols all-star who was in abu dhabi on a good will trip, saw her and was mesmerized. >> i said, "wow, what's this?" >> reporter: he recorded it, posted it and it went viral. the capitols invited her to d.c. and this week she watched her first nhl game, saw alex ovechkin score a goal, and then... >> alex, nice to meet you. >> reporter: ...she met ovechkin, her hero, face to face. it was a moment she will remember for a lifetime. the next day it got even better. they skated together. >> let's switch sides. >> reporter: do you feel like you're having a dream?
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>> it's better than a dream. >> reporter: she loves hockey so much, that back home, she even referees men's games. >> and my last two games before coming here, we had two fights. the first one did not end up well. >> reporter: really? >> i got punched in the face. >> reporter: but nothing deters her from her mission to tell the world, especially girls and young women, how important it is to find your passion. >> just set a goal and keep chasing it. >> reporter: set a goal, she says, and never give up. chip reid, cbs news, washington. check back us later for the morning news and be sure not to miss cbs this morning. i'm scott pelley.
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and welcome to the overnight news. the white house says president trump has not lost faith in his supreme court nominee. he said trump's criticism was disheartening and demoralizing. the white house insists his words were misrepresented and he wasn't specifically talking about the president. margaret reports.
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the meeting came a day after he hemented the attacks. criticism the president said was made up. >> his comments were misrepresented. >> former senator had just hours earlier confirmed gorsuch had n indeed said he found it disheartening and demoralizing. >> he got a little bit emotional and he said that, "any attack or any criticism of his brothers and sisters of the robe is an attack or a criticism on everybody wearing the robe." >> courts seem to be so political. >> reporter: mr. trump has lashed out at federal judges who have questioned his immigration order. white house spokesman sean spicer:
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>> in other words, the president will continue to speak like that. >> of course, he will. the president's going to speak his mind. it goes back to thomas jefferson, that presidents have commented on judicial nominees. >> reporter: earlier today, the president hit back at republican senator john mccain for his criticism of a u.s. raid against al qaeda in yemen, which killed navy seal ryan owens and several civilians. mccain said the operation was not a success. on twitter, trump wrote, "mccain should not be talking about the success or failure of a mission. he's been losing so long, he doesn't know how to win anymore." now, those words could backfire on the senate overseaing the pentagon. on gorsuch democrats say his comments may simply be a employee to show his independence. >> president trump's top adviser got a talking to after she urged people to go out and buy ivanka
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trump products during an interview on fox news. it started with in ordnordstrom dropped her line. they claim the stuff wasn't selling. >> you can find it online. >> it was a sales pitch more suited to a sales pitch. >> he says his staff was told on day one that an employee shall not use his public office for the endorsement of any product or for the private gain of friends. >> it's a wonderful line. i own some of it. >> within hours the office revealed it received contacts from citizens and the republican chair called conway's comments
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wrong, wrong, wrong. clearly unacceptable. >> reporter: the white house appeared to agree. press secretary sean spicer: >> kellyanne has been counseled, and that's all we're going to go with. she's been counseled on-- on, on that subject, and that-- that's it. >> reporter: the controversy comes a day after president trump himself blasted the retailer nordstrom for dropping ivanka's brand. conway repeatedly an attack that never happened. >> i would like to know what the counseling was. it would have been the bare minimum that would have happened. >> the top republican sent a letter to ethics calling on whether conway should be discipli disciplined. the president will have the final say but they noted he has
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a conflict of interest because conway was hawking his daughter's products. a new attorney general, jeff sessions of alabama. >> so help me god. >> i wish the rise we are seeing in crime in america were some sort of aberration or a blip. having been involved in criminal law enforcement for many years is that this is a dangerous permanent trend. >> sessions was sworn in by mike pence and later made his first stop at the justice department which he will now lead. it was a drawn out angry affair. more now from nancy. >> now that sessions is leaving he has advice for the battle
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scarred senators he is leaving behind. >> in the future maybe the intensity would die down. >> in what now passes one democrat joined every republican in voting to confirm sessions for attorney general. he urged excolleagues to treat them with less heat than they did his. zbli think it's not a healthy trend for our body. >> but the rest of the senate is not in the mood for healthy discourse. >> the democrats are angry and they are out of their minds, foaming at the mouth practically. >> reporter: the decision to bar elizabeth warren only drove both sides further into their own camps. democrats said she was silenced. republicans like south carolina's lindsay gram said she
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had it coming. >> the bottom line is it was long overdue with her. >> i don't understand how he can say that. >> they say he broke a senate rule when she read aloud from a 30-year-old letter. >> mr. sessions used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens. >> the rules are very clear you don't impugn another senator. >> for warren the ensues drama had some upsides. >> reporter: you did send out a fundraising letter shortly after this happened. how much have you raised from all of this? >> i have no idea but i'll tell you lot of people have seen king's letter. it is part of our living history again. >> the cbs overnight news will be right back.
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president trump's choice of scott prut is coming under fire from the people who used to work there. 450 retirees sign add letter calling to reject the nomination. pruitt is famous for suing while he was oklahoma attorney general. he is a well known skeptic of climate change. most americans don't feel the effects of rising temperatures in their every day lives but it could soon effect your favorite coffee. mark phillips traveled to a mountain in uganda in the climate diaries. >> the nomination of skeptics may have renewed old arguments in washington. i have just come back from a
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place where there is no argument. the facts are clear. they effect people there and anybody any where who starts their day with a hot brown bevera beverage. >> to many it's the other dark liquid, coffee. because of the damage being done to the planet by the primary dark liquid, oil, along with other fossil fuels, coffee is in trouble and so are the farmers who grow it. >> is this a good harvest year or not so good? >> it is not so good. >> up here in the mountains of eastern uganda coffee is the most important thing they grow. anthony's family has been growing it on their farm about 4,000 feet up the slopes for generations. lately though they have been having problems they have never had before. it turns out coffee is as fussy as the people who drink it. it like it is right altitude,
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right amounts of rain and sunshine in the right order. it is the goldie locks of crop that is likes things just right. >> not enough rain, too much sunshine, bad fruit. >> yes. too much sunshine produces bad fruit. >> and this year too much sunshine? >> yes. >> another farmer, another farm, another problem. this fine white powder is produced by the stem bore beetle. this ruins the plan it looks like. >> it completely ruins the plant. >> reporter: they say the warming weather has brought pests and disease up the hillsides. >> ten years back it was not here. >> ten years -- in the past ten years you have been invaded? >> yes. invaded. most have been destroyed completely. >> reporter: prices are up by as much as 30% in some areas since last year.
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more than just the consumer's morning pick me up is threatened. the farmers are caffeine dependent for another reason, from picking the berries to processing them to drying and sorting the beans and getting them to market this is a family business where every member of the family contributes and where the cash from selling the coffee provides the only income to pay for schools for the kids and more medical care. coffee production supports an estimated 120 million of some of the world's poorest people. there's actually an imbalance in the coffee world. the retail is controlled fwi big brands, big distribute distribu. if production fails here big boys can go somewhere else. these people can't go any where. the latest estimates warn that climate change may mean as much as half of the land used for
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coffee production around the world may no longer be suitable for it by the middle of this century. for the people who consume coffee it's about a drink. for the people who produce it and depend on it it's about life. >> it isn't just effected in afri africa, same things in central and south america and in southeast asia. one more thing that may be the cruellest, the type of coffee hit worts is the arabica bean. it's the most coveted and most at risk. fbi and secret service launched a manhunt for hackers that took control of the washington d.c. security cameras days before the inauguration. >> reporter: what we know is that the secret service was racing trying to figure out who was behind the cyber attack. this security breach effected traffic and street cameras, security cameras around
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washington like that one right up there. federal officials tell us that the hackers injected malicious code into the system and it crippled about 70% of washington's camera network. the cyber attack that hit washington's damras targeted the system that was part of the security in place to monitor several kilo cases on inauguration day including the parade route. they quickly isolated an ip address and traced it to britain where two people were taken into custody. officials say despite the arrests the search for suspects is expanding. chris is leading the investigation. >> at this point in time we are pursuing all available leads. >> authorities trying to determine if the cyber attack was part of a larger plot. secret service agents are now working the case. the secret service is
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increasingly being called upon to investigate cyber attacks. in washington there's a cyber operations center where they can track malicious codes which can effect water companies, power grids and air-conditioning of buildings which could have an impact on the president's security. in this case hackers took control of the d.c. security cameras using ransomeware. they have targeted hospitals, cities or countries by holding data hostage to extort money. >> america first. >> for now the secret service would not reveal the motive for the cyber attack. >> did the people behind it make any sort of demand? >> i can't speak about what they found at that point. >> if they did you can't talk about it? >> that's correct. >> no ransome was paid. cameras were back up and running
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ok, it says you apply the blue one to me. here? no. ah ok, here? maybe you should read the directions. have a little fun together, or a lot. k-y yours and mine. two sensations that work together, so you can play together. k-y yours and mine. the grammy awards will be handed out this sunday. you can catch it right here on cbs. the award for song of the year will go behind writers of one of these five catchy tunes.
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they are the less publicized counter parts to the artists who soak up the spotlight on grammy night. their work gets stuck in your head like an unforgettable mem rhode island it is an odd way to make a living. equal parts poet, mathmetit -- ♪ together are responsible for some of the memorable pop music. ♪ ♪ why do i feel this party is over ♪ welcome to my house. baby take control now. we don't have to go out ♪
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by once or twice i mean maybe a couple of hundred times. >> reporter: this dropped after his much publicized break-up with sgomez. >> you're writing and you're almost writing to each of them. >> being aware of what pop culture was viewing him as in that moment i knew an apology would be good. >> so there was no awkward moment working on both? >> no. >> you don't want to get caught in these people's lives. >> it is their real lives. >> they tell you things and those are things you would never say to anybody. >> the video is kind of a confessional? >> it is. ♪ i don't want to be that call at 4:00 in the morning. i'm the only one you know in the
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world that won't be home ♪ >> it's not always someone else's feelings being exposed. when she wrote sober with pink she was inspired by her own teenaged battle with an eating disorder. was that scary for you to expose your own experiences and pain that way? >> song writing is the best therapy that i never paid for. we trade in a commodity of truth, and we have to be really honest with ourselves in order to put that out and have it effect somebody else. when i stopped writing and i would look around and these kids would be singing words that i have written and you realize there's a spiritual element that you do. ♪ >> what they do rarely gets recorded the way it was intended.
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when ross first wrote "my house" it was about the joys of domestic bliss. >> i haven't been to a club in years. it was at the rose bowl and the national anthem and then "my house" comes on. i'm like this is so surreal. this song is about how my wife and i don't go out. >> and that's party there. >> and it's the exact opposite. >> it's a florida credit but he turns to me and he goes trust me. he was right. >> but is it poetry by committee? >> some times. you have to check your ego at the door. if you think you're the best in the room you're probably not.
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>> it is less about inspiration and more about hard work and perseverance, signature in a room 9:00 to 5:00 hammering together lyrics to build something special. >> i think we should do the whole lyric. >> cool. >> they had eight top 20 hits, five that went to number one. >> i was like is it like. ♪ stand up, stand up ♪ >> but it was a seed that grew into a melody. >> that's cool. >> you got to fall, stand up, stand up, stand up. >> it could become the next great pop song at next year. ♪ you got to fall to stand up, to stand up.
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we are celebrating older americans whose zest for life is an inspiration for people of any age. we have one man's story from the gym. >> reporter: at this high intensity workout? new york city he is redefining what it means to be physically fit. for an hour he keeps up with the crossfit routine, jumping on a 24 inch box, doing upside down push-ups and climbing a 15 foot rope all along gym members more than half his age. at 77 years old why push yourself this hard? >> because i like it. i love it. i want to stay out of the
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nursing home. >> he is the oldest man to compete in the crossfit games, going up against men a decade younger. crossfit is the fastest growing fitness movement in the world. in 2008 he stopped training for two months to take on his biggest challenge yet. he was fighting prostate cancer. >> i get a little emotional on this. >> why? >> i have always been in healthy shape. i always watched what i ate, and i came down with prostate cancer and i had it taken out and then i started coming back. >> now he has challenged crossfitters around the world. each year they mark his birthday by doing six exercises like push ups, squats and kettle bell swing to match his age. >> 78 times. >> in one sitting? >> in one sitting.
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>> two years ago when no one would give him a job as a crossfit trainer he got his own clients including luke mason. >> she a testament. he is 77 years old. he has something to teach. >> would you say this is your own fountain of youth? >> yes. i love being strong. i love being able to do a lot of things a lot of young people are not able to do or not willing to do. >> motivation, inspiration, per per ration. >> that's the overnight news for this friday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us later for the morning news and of course cbs this morning.
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captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs it's friday, february 10th, 2017. this is the "cbs morning news." see you in court. a defiant president trump fires back on twitter after three federal judges rule against reinstating his travel ban. republican congressman jason chaffetz faced off with fiery protesters s last night, but te was one thing they agreed on. >> kellyanne conway was wrong. it should never happen again. >> this morning it's back to
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