the accusation that has washington bugging out. the white house is demanding a congressional investigation into president trump's explosive claims that president obama had him wiretapped. democrats and republicans are shocked and bewildered. >> to make that type of claim without any evidence is, i think, very reckless. >> i'm not sure what it is that he's talking about. also tonight, u.s. marines under investigation for allegedly sharing nude photos of female service members on facebook. near seattle, a sikh man says he was shot by a gunman who told him, go back to your country. the battle for mosul. our holly williams is in iraq. and an around the world

record. this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the "overnight news." i'm elaine quijano. washington is bugging out over president trump's ununstan shated claim this weekend that president trump bugged his new york office before the election. the president made the accusation early saturday on twitter and followed it up with an official white house statement sunday requesting a congressional investigation. the "new york times" reports fbi director james comey is asking the justice department to publicly reject mr. trump's claim. the president is back at the white house after spending the weekend at the so-called winter white house, the mar-a-lago resort in palm beach, florida. errol barnett is there. >> reporter: president trump was here in florida 1,000 miles from washington when he launched a series of tweets claiming that former president obama ordered a

wiretap of trump tower in new york. no evidence was provided and president obama denied it. so democrats and republicans have been trying to figure out if the explosive accusations have merit or if president trump is a thousand miles from reality. president trump spent some time at his golf course before returning to washington sunday, while aides tried to explain his saturday tweet storm. the white house wants congressional intelligence committees, already looking into russian election interference, to determine if investigative powers were abused by the obama administration. >> he's asking that we get down to the bottom of this. >> reporter: trump administration spokeswoman sarah huckabee sanders did not reveal the source of the wiretapping information. >> i think the bigger story isn't who reported out but is it true? and the american people have a right to know if this happened. if it did, this is the largest abuse of power i think we've

ever seen. >> i'm not sure what he's talking about. if it's true, we're going to find out very quickly. if it suspect, obviously he'll have to explain what he meant by it. >> reporter: democrats across the board are incensed by the president's suggestion. >> to make that type of claim without any evidence is, i think, very reckless. >> reporter: james clapper, the outgoing director of national intelligence, denied knowledge of any court order that would allow covert surveillance at trump tower. >> part of the security apparatus that i oversaw, there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president, the president-elect at the time or as a candidate or against his campaign. >> reporter: saturday night, president trump dined with attorney general jeff sessions who on monday will submit written amended testimony to the senate. sessions has recused himself

from any investigations into the trump campaign's contact with russia. elaine? >> errol barnett, thank you. a number of u.s. marines are being investigated for sharing nude photos of female service members on social media. paula reid has the story. >> reporter: the secret "marines united" facebook group had hundreds of marines as members. reportedly thousands of photographs were shared on the page, where users made obscene comments. it was taken down within hours of the start of an ncis investigation one month ago. in a statement, marine corps sergeant major ronald l. green said in part, we must do a better job of teaching marines what we expect of them in the social media realm. i expect all marines to treat one another with dignity and respect, whether it be in public, behind closed doors or online. a marine corps official said investigators are most concerned about the victims, many identified by their rank, full name, and military duty station.

the online activity was first posted by the war horse, a nonprofit news organization run by a marine veteran thomas brennan. within hours, he became the target of online threats, like water board this pos. and i'll pay $500 to the dude that can get good news of his girl. >> i scroll by things like this on facebook before. this is a good gut check for a lot of people. we have all scrolled past things we shouldn't tolerate on social media. >> reporter: this comes two months a of the first female infantry marines headed to camp lejeune. in late 2015, former defense secretary ash carter opened all military positions to women, including combat roles. in 2013, congresswoman jackie spear alerted defense officials of facebook pages like just the tip of the spear which he says contributed to a culture that seems to encourage sexual assault and abuse.

the marines posted guidelines for responsible social media behavior. if a marine shared a photo of another person taken without content and under circumstances under which that person had a reasonable expectation of privacy, the marine could be subject to criminal proceeding. e layne? >> paula reid, thank you. police in washington state are investigating a suspected hate crime against a u.s. citizen of indian descent. he was shot in a suburb of seattle and follows the shootings of two engineers from india in kansas. here's mireya villarreal. >> reporter: police in kent, washington, a superb of seattle, are investigating the shooting of a 39-year-old sikh man. >> to think this could happen in our community was very surprising and extremely disappointing. >> reporter: the victim was wearing a turban when he was shot friday night. a neighbor says he was working on his car when another man came up and shot him in the arm. >> he told him to go back home.

>> reporter: india's foreign minister posted the identity of the victim and an update after speaking to his father. >> reporter: police in kansas say this man shot two indian men in a bar last month, killing one. witnesses say before the suspect fired he shouted "get out of my country." the friend who survived spoke out at a peaceful protest in kansas city. >> it was rage and malice in an individual's heart that killed my friend, killed our friend. >> reporter: the national sikh coalition is asking the washington shooting be classified as a hate crime, an offense motivated by bias of race or religion. the fbi is working with the kent police department and says they are committed to investigating crimes that are potentially hate motivated. elaine, in most case where is there is conviction of a hate

crime, almost always the sentences are longer. >> mireya villarreal, thank you. th,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

45,000 people have fled from western mosul in recent weeks as iraqi forces, backed by the u.s. military, try to retake the city from isis. more than 200,000 have been displaced in the battle over iraq's second largest city. holly williams is in northern iraq. >> reporter: there were reports today of heavy clashes in western mosul between u.s. backed iraqi forces and the isis militants they're trying to drive out of the city. the extremists used at least six suicide car bombs according to the iraqis. those are vehicles laden with explosives and driven at high speed towards the front line. a new isis propaganda video shows them being deployed, and improvised and deadly weapon that isis has relied upon in the

street-to-street fighting in mosul. 12 people, including children, are being treated for possibl exposure to a chemical weapon in mosul. the symptoms are consistent with those inflicted by a blister agent, including vomiting, coughing, and blisters. the battle to retake mosul from isis began in october, two years after the extremists captured the city. isis was pushed out of the eastern half of mosul in january, and the fight for the western half began just over two weeks ago. deadly clashes have already forced more than 200,000 people from their homes in mosul, according to the united nations. the fighting is now moving closer to the city's historic center, and to the mosque where isis leader al baghdadi preached in july 2014, declaring himself the leader of a so-called islamic state. that state is now in retreat, under assault in both iraq and syria, by local ground forces

and u.s. coalition air strikes and losing territory and fighters. lieutenant general steven townsend, the top u.s. commander here in iraq, recently predicted isis would be defeated in both mosul and raqqah in the next six months. elaine? >> holly, thanks. they flew on the wings of history, a group of women who worked for air india say they're the first all-female flight crew to fly around the world. they jetted across the pacific to san francisco, and then back to new delhi across the atlantic. in addition to the all-female cockpit and cabin crew, all of the ground staff and even the air traffic controllers were women. they're hoping to land next in the guinness book of world records. coming up next, norah o'donnell talks to kellyanne conway in a cbs morning profile.

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kellyanne conway, counselor to president trump, sat down with norah o'donnell of "cbs this morning" for a cbs sunday morgue profile.

she talked about some of the controversy and criticism surrounding her and what life is like at home with her husband and children, as they get ready to move to washington. >> what time do you get in, in the morning? >> around 7:30. >> what time do you leave? >> it varies. not early. it really vary yis. usually not before 8:00, 9:00. but i have a very hermit-like existen existence. part of it is because if i want to go out, it's photographed and talked about, what did she eat, what did she do, what was she wearing? it's kind of weird. i'm not a celebrity. i've been trying to keep a much lower profile here. >> reporter: which is why she tells us we're seeing less of her these days. she says she's trying to cut back on scream time. >> people should not look at me as somebody who "goes on tv." that was 5% of what i did. someone wrote a flattering

article, you know, maybe she's not that involved in everything, because she's on tv. no, i'm on tv when they're all still sleeping or watching me from bed. i'm already there. i've been up for two hours doing that. and i'm there late at night. >> reporter: that may be just as well, because late night hasn't been kind to conway. not long ago, "saturday night live" depicted her as a stalker. >> i'm not going to be ignored. >> you made up a massacre. we can't have you on. >> but i miss the news. >> look, people really got outraged about that skit. i had people right, left and center coming to my "defense" saying it was over the top. but it's also untrue. >> reporter: so who is kellyanne conway? she was raised in a blue collar new jersey town. her parents divorced when she was young. >> i grew up in a house of all women. my mother, her mother, and two

of their sisters raised me. so these four italian women raised me in this house. there's a certain humility that will never go away. >> reporter: while trump uses social media as an important tool to communicate and sometimes attack, conway tells us she considers it a cess pool, in part because of what her children see on it. >> because it hurts my kids more than anything. they're all online reading. >> what do your kids saying? >> mom, why would people say x, or y, or z about you? because they don't want donald trump to be president. they don't want any of us there. and i tell them, say a prayer for those people, because something has got to really bother you that you feel so bent on criticizing somebody that you hardly know for doing a job that

you can't begin to understand. >> reporter: her husband, george conway, who may join the trump administration as the nation's next solicitor general, is much more camera shy. what do you think of watching kelly ann through this whole thing? >> she's a fighter, she's tough. i don't like everything being said about her, for sure. but it's part of the fact that she's out there for the president and they're going attack her and whoever they see standing up to the president. >> reporter: you talk so passionately about public service and the role that you're crafting in the white house. that naturally evolves into somebody wanting to run your office. >> i feel like i'm in a good place as counselor to the president to have the impact that usually motivates people to run for office. it's not just the fire in your belly anymore. you have to have the bile in your throat. this is why i think many good men and women -- >> bile in your throat? >> just to swallow so much of

the country looks at you through this negative lens, you're lying, you're motivated by power and, you know, the money that can come to you, the wealth that can come to you. and there are really good men and women who truly want to serve. i worked with them in my polling business for decades. some of them make it, most do not. >> is there anything that would cause you to want to leave the white house? >> yes, my children. they're having a hard time with this. i'm not a famous person on tv. it's just different to not have mom there. but it was a decision we made as a family, and we're going to move in here either way, because i'm here to support the president. >> we'll be right back.

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pagea pageant, the national people's congress. our adriana diaz reports from the opening ceremony in beijing. >> reporter: while it's a largely symbolic event, at the opening ceremony, the premier presents the status report, and sets goal for the year ahead, much like our state of the union address. about 3,000 delegates, the largest legislature in the world, packed into the great hall of the people to hear the premier speak. he pledged to tackle china's poor air quality, acknowledge the dangers of rising debt, and pegged gdp growth at 6.5%. while president donald trump wasn't mentioned by name, mr. lee criticized the protectionist policies favored by mr. trump and says china remains committed to inclusive economic globalization. >> we can't continue to allow china to rape our country. >> reporter: mr. trump has had a

rocky relationship with china, after accusing the country of stealing millions of u.s. jobs, and advocating for high tariffs on chinese goods on the campaign trail. during a heavily choreographed press conference saturday, we asked where the u.s.-china relationship is headed. the question topic had to be presubmitted and preapproved. >> translator: we all hope american policy changes have positive effects. but if there are channels, china will face them head on. >> reporter: despite china's economic challenges and at times choking pollution, mr. lee announced that china is suspending roaming charges for calls made in another province. adriana diaz, cbs news, beijing. up next, the revival of a "la la land" land mark. ,,,,,,,,,

we close tonight at a los angeles landmark that's getting new attention thanks to a small part in a big movie. here's carter evans. >> reporter: when they weren't watching emma stone and ryans goaling, fans of "la la land" might have noticed a few quick shots of this. what appears to be a tiny railroad car heading up an incline in downtown los angeles. >> welcome to "la la land." >> reporter: this week the mayor of the real "la la land" reminded the world that this miniature railway is actually one of his city's most historic landmarks. >> back then in 1901, for just a

penny a ride, the two cars on the world's shortest railway, opened for business. >> angels flight began its first climb upwards. >> reporter: it was called angels flight and designed to shut it will residents of the city's then exclusive residents of bunker hill to the shopping districts of downtown. by the 1950s, more than 100 million people had ridden the two rail cars. but in the late '60s, the hill top neighborhood was razed to make way for modern skyscrapers and angels' flight was disassembled and put in storage. the railway had a brief renaissance starting in 1996, but two accidents, one in 2001 that resulted in the death of a tourist, doomed the cars to stand idle, where they haven't carried passengers since 2013. >> anyone who has seen "la la land" can tell you, dreams still

do come true in los angeles. we felt again that sense of romance and i was ready to join them. and soon, we will all be able to once again when we reopen angels flight later this year here in los angeles. [ applause ] >> reporter: over the next six months, a group of engineering firms will add new safety features and rehabilitate the 115-year-old landmark, with the goal of reopening it to the public by labor day. and although the track might run for less than 300 meet, its salvation is a historic milestone in a city not known for its preservation of the past. >> the longest journey to the shortest ride ever. >> reporter: carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. >> that's the "overnight news" for this monday. for some the news continues. for others, check back later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm elaine quijano.

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm elaine quijano. washington is bugging out over president trump's unsubstantiated claim this weekend that president obama bugged his new york office before the election. the president made the accusation on twitter early saturday and followed it up with an official white house statement sunday requesting a congressional investigation. "the new york times" reports fbi director james comey is asking the justice department to publicly reject mr. trump's claim. the president is back at the white house after spending the weekend at the so-called winter white house, the mar-a-lago resort in palm beach, florida. errol barnett is there. >> reporter: president trump was here in florida 1,000 miles from washington when he launched a

series of tweets claiming that former president obama ordered a wiretap of trump tower in new york. no evidence was provided and president obama denied it. so democrats and republicans have been trying to figure out if the explosive accusations have merit or if president trump is a thousand miles from reality. president trump spent some time at his golf course before returning to washington sunday, while aides tried to explain his saturday tweet storm. the white house wants congressional intelligence committees, already looking into russian election interference, to determine if executive branch investigative powers were abused by the obama administration. >> he's asking that we get down to the bottom of this. >> reporter: trump administration spokeswoman sarah huckabee sanders did not reveal the source of the wiretapping information. >> i think the bigger story isn't who reported it but is it true? and the american people have a

right to know if this happened. if it did, this is the largest abuse of power i think we've ever seen. >> i'm not sure what he's talking about. >> reporter: republican marco rubio. >> if it's true, obviously we're going to find out very quickly. if it isn't, obviously he'll have to explain what he meant by it. >> reporter: democrats across the board are incensed by the president's suggestion. >> to make that type of claim without any evidence is, i think, very reckless. >> reporter: james clapper, the outgoing director of national intelligence, denied knowledge of any court order that would allow covert surveillance at trump tower. >> for the part of the national security an rat tuls that i oversaw, there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president -- the president-elect at the time, or as a candidate or against his campaign. >> reporter: saturday night, president trump dined with attorney general jeff sessions who on monday will submit amended written testimony to the senate. he will explain why he did not

disclose meeting twice with the russian ambassador last year during his confirmation hearings. sessions has recused himself from any investigations into the trump campaign's contact with russia. elaine? >> errol barnett, thank you. the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee says the president's allegations will become part of the investigation of the russian interference of the presidential election. mark warner around susan collins discussed the charges on "face the nation." >> we've seen an unprecedented attack by a foreign adversary, russia, in terms of meddling in our election. we saw before the election a thousand internet trolls trying to use and place false information. we saw manipulation of certain algorithms so that if you googled certain items you got russia news, other false news. we saw the selective hacking

into dnc and individuals that tried to leak that information to benefit mr. trump. we also saw before the election an unusual change in the republican platform to favor russia. we saw mr. trump himself encourage the russians to hack into hillary clinton, and we saw this just unusual affection that the president seems to have where he won't say anything bad about vladamir putin. since the inaugural, we've seen the resignation of the national security adviser and recusal of the attorney general because of contacts with the russians. now we have this unsubstantiated claim made by the president, which shows in a certain way that the president doesn't understand how you obtain a wiretap. you have to go before a judge and show either probable cause or if it's in terms of foreign intelligence, a fisa court and show there is evidence of some type of contact with a foreign

adversary. so what i find so strange, and i thought the president's comments could no longer surprise me, but boy, this one yesterday surprised me. to make that type of claim without any evidence is, i think, very reckless. >> do you think there is -- let's stick to the president's claim first and go back to the other lists you made. do you think there is any fisa court order this morning on "meet the press," james clapper said there was no fisa court order. >> i'm not aware of any fisa court order regarding trump tower -- >> have there been other -- >> i'm not going to get into what ongoing investigations the fbi is taking. >> what do you make of what president trump has said about these wiretaps, should he be talking about this on twitter? is this helpful? >> it would be more helpful if he turned over to the intelligence committee any evidence that he has.

what we need to deal with is evidence, not just statements. at this point, i've seen no evidence of what he's alleged, but i've also not seen collaboration as director dni clapper also said today, that he had not seen evidence of collaboration. but we are in the very early stages of our investigation. and this is why it is so important that we do an in depth, exhaustive, bipartisan, independent investigation, because the american people deserve answers to all of these allegations and counterallegations so that we can get on with the business of this country. >> the president has said and the white house said they're not going to talk anymore about his accusations over the weekend. but now that he's put that out there, he's the president of the united states. he has access to this information, even if he might have been going off of a news

report. he has access to all of this information. do you think it's important for him now to put forward this evidence in some form to back up his claims because it's now out this and people might think because he's the president he has a special understanding? in other words, not wait until the committee is done with its work, but does he have an obligation to present some kind of evidence now that he's put this charge out there about president obama? >> the president has called for a congressional investigation into the allegations that he made starting yesterday morning, so i would expect that he's going to want to provide our committee with any evidence that he has. my own theory is that the russians are determined to sow the seeds of discontent and doubt about the legitimacy of our democracy and other western democracies and they were going to do that regardless of who was

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the trump administration has plans to cut the budget for the environmental protection agency by 25%. a lot of long-time epa staff members are expected to be let go, as well. all this has climate scientists scrambling to find new ways to fund their research. mark phillips found one possible answer at the bottom of the world. >> reporter: ready for more than your average holiday. coming to abontarctica can be a truly shocking experience. it's a trip for the intrepid, and not just because you can do this. it's a full emerging experience in so many ways.

the operators don't call these cruises, they call them expeditions. and that's not just a way of adding to the romance of following in the footsteps of the great explorers. of seeing things way off the beaten track. it's because these trips also involve science. like the research that eric guth is doing. this documentary of the speed of glacial ice floe probably wouldn't happen if the tourists didn't come. >> you're going the get this hybrid mix where people are paying big bucks to come down as a tourist trip, but that helps the kind of work that you do. >> i think yeah, it is a formula that i would like to see continue. >> reporter: it may have to. with an administration of climate change skeptics in washington, the science that

gets done on these trips might not otherwise happen. >> you can clearly see this big trend of increasing temperatures that's been happening. >> reporter: ken taylor is one of the world's preeminent ice scientists whose work has provided essential data on climate history. >> we should anticipate budget cuts. didn't take very long after the election for that word to come down. >> reporter: even when research is government funded, the money often doesn't go far enough. john durbin uses a drone to check on the welfare of antarctic whales in these changing times. but there's no way he and his co-researcher could be here if they didn't get a ride from the national geographic tour operators, who see bringing actual scientists along as part of the appeal to their customers.

>> it costs hundreds of thousands if you chartered a research vessel. so it's a wonderful relationship that we have. >> reporter: a relationship that has to continue if the work is to go on. >> this is the seventh year in a row that we've conducted research on board this thin. we're studying animals that live as long as we do. to understand them, it takes multiple years. >> reporter: the tourists, for all the fun they're having, are effectively underwriting the science. part of the substantial ticket prices for adventures like this goes to covering the cost of the work that's being done on board. and not only don't the tourists team to mind, they think it's a good idea. many, like lori fye from austin came here for more than the thrills. they came out of a sense of commitment to the environmental cause. >> i really think it's a shame that the science is in the cross hairs of politics, because it

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one of the biggest stars in pop music is back. ed sheeran. after a string of hits that included a grammy last year for song of the year, sheeran decided to take some time off. his se bat call was short lived and his new album "divide" just set a record on spotify. "divide" was heard 57 million times on friday. mark phillips caught up with sheeran in his hometown. >> cod and chips. >> reporter: to hear ed sheeran talk about the place he grew up, you wonder why he ever left. >> what's special about this place? >> the best fish and chips in england. >> reporter: and then you realize in a way he never did. are you a vinegar guy or no

vinegar? >> vinegar and salt. >> reporter: ed sheeran is 26 now, and maybe the hottest thing in the pop music business. in fact, he seems to be reinventing it. >> can you jump up? >> let's just sit on the wall. ♪ i'm in love with the shape of you ♪ >> reporter: the teaser released called "shape of you" have gotten internet hits counted in the billions. ♪ i'm in love with the shape of you ♪ >> is that the slide technique? >> the good thing is whether it's the middle of winter or summer, the weather is almost always the same. ♪ i can't wait to go home >> reporter: when sheeran released two advanced tracks for his album instead of one, people said he was crazy. they would fight each other.

>> there's no one way to do it anymore? >> not necessarily. >> this is good fish. >> reporter: but he was right. both songs have been sitting at the top of the charts since the way they were put out. the first time that's ever happened. ♪ my first kiss on friday night, i don't reckon i did it right ♪ >> reporter: yet here on england's east coast where he grew up, sheeran still eats his lunch one chip at a time. >> no one has treated me any different. still the same people work thing treat me the same. >> reporter: if the same means like a local hero. ♪ when i was six years old i broke my leg ♪ >> reporter: there's a method to his success. first, write catchy songs about stuff you know. ♪ i was running from my brother ♪ >> reporter: this one is called "castle on the hill." ♪ oh, the castle on the hill >> this is the castle on the hill. >> reporter: this is a

legitimate teenage hangout where you and your pals would come on a friday night. >> this is the spot. you would get 20 cans and sit here all night. i was just really in love with the place. much like springsteen would write about new jersey, i guess. >> reporter: beyond writing the songs, she wrote his own rules about how to sell them. hi like so many others, he set off for london as a teenager, singing on street corners and in pub pubs. but he didn't knock on record doors or wait to be discovered. insteta instead, he began marketing his own stuff, releasing his stuff on websites, until inevitably a record label came calling. the record company offered you $20,000. >> yeah, advanced.

>> reporter: you had already earned $500 million on your independent sales putting it out yourself? >> i didn't have the infrastructure. they have an american label, a japanese label. that's what i was signing for. >> reporter: i suppose you can say it paid off. >> definitely. >> reporter: by the time his first album came out in 2011, he called it "plus." he had a ready made following. it moved into the top five around the world. ♪ people fall in love in mysterious ways ♪ >> reporter: his next album was "multiply." it hit number one in the uk and the united states. it's hard to go to a wedding these days without the bride and groom dancing to the big single from that one, "thinking out loud." ♪ thinking out loud this was the first of sheeran's music videos in which he himself appeared. >> that was me at the beginning

of my career. >> reporter: because you wanted the music to speak? >> i just don't like the way i like, how i film. yeah. deep. >> reporter: you seem to have gotten over it. >> i just can't hold it back now. my songs sell more if i'm in the video. >> reporter: boy, do they sell. sheeran may be a worldwide megastar now. but to his fans, he seems like a small act that made it big. he says thanks to them. ♪ so you can keep me >> it was file sharing. i know that's a bad thing to say, because i'm part of the music industry that doesn't like illegal file sharing. but that's what made me. it was students in england going to university sharing my songs with each other. >> reporter: what do you think of file sharing now?

>> i don't think it exists now. people rip off youtube, that's a thing. but i feel like it's so easy to string. ♪ because everything has changed ♪ >> ed sheeran, ladies and gentlemen. >> reporter: he's also written for other stars like taylor swift and justin bieber. ♪ i said if you hilike the way u look, oh, baby, you should love yourself ♪ >> reporter: and he's written for the movies. this for "the lord of the rings" series. ♪ >> reporter: however it happened, sheeran became big enough to fill madison square garden three times. and because people said he could never do it, he looked london's 80,000 seat wimbley stadium for three nights, and filled that, too. and then he stopped.

packed it in. vanished for a year. why did you feel the need to do it? were you losing touch? >> not losing touch, but i was definitely in a spiral of work and partying. that probably would have ended not well. but also i think as much as i needed a break, i think the public needs a break from you. if you're continually in everyone's face the whole time, eventually they'll be like, you know what? i'm cool. >> reporter: if the sales of the new album called "divide" are any indication, sheeran's fans missed him. maybe he really needed a break. maybe it was another really clever marketing ploy. maybe both. ♪ ♪ watch the sunset over the

castle on the hill ♪ ,,,,

not all the winners at last week's academy awards made it to the ceremony. rescue teams in ssyria, the whie helmets, were busy saving lives. holly williams sat down with one of the white helmets to discuss their dangerous calling. >> reporter: the white helmets did what they always do on monday, racing to the aftermath of a deadly air strike to pull civilians and bodies from the rubble. business as usual in the hellish chaos of syria's civil war.

the syrian regime and russian air strikes destroying neighborhoods. in hollywood on sunday, the producer and director of the film "the white helmets," accepted the award for best documentary short. three of the film's cameramen are syrians, who risked their lives to capture images like these. this 21-year-old is one of them. he planned to attend the academy awards but was stopped from boarding the plane at the last minute. he says he still doesn't know why. "i was disappointed, but the most important thing is that the film won the oscar. maybe it will encourage the international community to give us more help." "60 minutes" reported on the heroism and humanity of the white helmets last december. the group said it's rescued more than 80,000 people, and that over 160 of its emergency

workers have been killed. this man joined the white helmets two years ago. >> translator: there's a 5% chan -- 50% chance i'll do in every operation. >> reporter: you've seen people dies and fighting for your life and you're so young. how has that changed you? "i've seen body parts scattered everywhere and had nightmares, but i've also witnessed rescues and i feel a responsibility to tell the world." he told us he'll head back to syria again soon. he's one of many syrians who are putting their lives on the line to document the violence that's engulfed their country. holly williams, cbs news, istanbul. >> that's the "overnight news" for this monday. for some the news continues. for others check back later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new

york city, i'm elaine quijano. -- captions by vitac -- captioning funded by cbs it's monday, march 6th, 2017. this is the "cbs morning news." wiretapping claim. president trump is calling on an investigation of the obama administration after acushion them of bugging. thousands of pictures of female servicemembers are allegedly shared on social media. and heavy hail catches people off guard in northern california and takes traffic to a standstill.