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system but not the older versions. >> microsoft hasn't been supporting their decade-old systems hike windows xp, and this attack took advantage of that. so microsoft issued an emergency patch this past weekend. >> reporter: the fix was too late to help those already attacked. in a blog post, microsoft's president, brad smith acknowledged the company has the first responsibility to address these issues. but went on to point a finger at the national security agency, which originally identified the software flaw, then lost it when hackers broke into nsa computers. an equivalent scenario with conventional weapons would be the u.s. military having some of its tomahawk missiles stolen. in so i think the nsa should probably err on the side of disclosure. >> reporter: in seattle, kyle kosher works to defend against
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hacker rs and thinks the nsa could have done more to prevent this attack. >> they could possibly figure out when these vulnerabilities are going to be rediscovered or leaked and alert the vendors before it gets out. but it doesn't seem like that happened in this case. >> reporter: microsoft says it has more than three and a half thousand working on it. today the state department says it has evidence that syria as assad regime has carried out mass executions outside damascus. it released images that according to the u.s. show a crematorium. assad's forces had been pummeling the opposition in damascus and in the city of homs. but in a deal, it allowed hundreds to board buses out, and
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seth doane is there. >> reporter: for years they waged war against the regime of assad. but tonight these opposition fighters and their families lined up to leave, defeated. nearly had 400 fighters, some w weapons still in hand boarded buses by sunset. soldiers watched under the watchful eye of this allies, all part of the deal to relocate the opposition to northern syria. what are you thinking about now as you get on the bus? the rebel fighters did not want to talk with us. but in a video they shot, this young man explained, it feels like a stab in the heart leaving homs, but god-willing, i'll come back one day triumphant. homs governor said the negotiations to get this far were difficult. it's a truce for the time being, he said, but he warns the government would fight them again in the future if it had
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to. assad's forces have used several different tactics to take back territory from opposition fighters. one has been to destroy entire neighborhoods. and so the shelling continues on the outskirs of the capital damascus. despite a similar relocation deal there, with thousands leaving. assad's forces have destroyed cities, killed and starved their enemies and now, scott, these rebel evacuations are bringing assad closer to a symbolic victory, solidifying control over syria's big cities. >> seth doane inside syria for us tonight. we're back in just a moment. ♪
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of guam where the u.s. has a major bomber base. it flew for 30 minute, longer than any previous north korean test. more importantly, it appears to be the test of a re-entry vehicle, a key technology north korea must master before it can develop an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of striking the unit mainland the test missile flew 1200 miles into space. as the re-entry vehicle came back to earth it encountered extreme heat and buffeting when it hit the atmosphere. the technical challenge is to withstand the heat and buffeting without losing course. it land 60 miles from russia. north korea claimed it was capable of carrying a quote, large-sized nuclear warhead, in which case, it wouldn't have to be very accurate. >> david marten at the pentagon.
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wants everyone to know. >> they let him suffer. he died a shlow and painful deah at the hands of these men of principle, as they call it. >> reporter: according to this grand jury report, pea piazza w forced to drink alcohol, fell downstairs twice, and was in and out of consciousness during a pledge night on february 2nd. much of it was captured on surveillance cameras. how difficult was it to read that grand jury report in >> to know that he was laying at the bottom of the basement steps for any length of time, all by himself it was terrible. >> 911, what's the address of your emergency. >> reporter: fraternity members
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waited until almost 11:00 the next morning. >> he's breathing. >> reporter: the grand jury report alleges a coverup. >> they knew he needed serious help, but they decided, you know what? let's preserve ourselves, let's not do anything. and they ordered a cleanup to get rid of the alcohol, get rid of the evidence, and getting rid of the videotapes, and thank god, the police got there before that happened. >> tim was an amazing man and an even better friend. >> reporter: the piazza family is finding comfort from the hundreds of people who sent condolences. >> tim's not just our son any muir. >> he's everyone's son. >> or daughter. >> reporter: the university president says beta theta pi will never exist again at penn state university. defense attorneys say they'll
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picture this. musical chairs involving jetliners, trucks and computers. it's all happening at los angeles international.
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and here's kris van cleave. >> reporter: after the last flight of the day landed at l.a.x., the race to move took off. there's a lot of stuff going on tonight. in all, 21 airlines will switch places thanks to an army of 200-plus movers. >> it's like ripping off that band-aid. let's just do it and get it done. >> reporter: airport spokesperson mary grady. >> we really had to find a time of the year when we thought we could get this done. and mother's day weekend is really one of the slowest times of the year at l.a.x. >> reporter: follow the signs as everything in terminals two and three must go to make way for delta coming from five and six, a distance of about seven blocks. 3,000 computers need to be moved as do 300 offices and 6300 boxes so far loaded into 14 moving vans. one of the easier parts of this move is dealing with the 25 airplanes that need to be taken to their new homes. this one came in from new york
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to terminal five but needs to start the day tomorrow on the other side of the airport. l.a.x. add 400 miles of new cable for technology, enough to stretch from l.a. to san francisco. and more than a thousand signs had to be changed. the move aims to cut congestion. delta wanted to expand and is paying for the whole thing. >> it's been a 13-month planning session. >> reporter: delta vp. >> when you're in the middle of it, you're all about getting through it. >> reporter: still, with 223,000 flyers at l.a.x. every day, there's bound to be some confusion. >> we're just being like half an hour late. >> reporter: a delay today they hope leads to more on-time departures tomorrow. kris van cleave, cbs news, los angeles. and that's 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 cbs this morning.
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from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm scott pelley. this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the overnight news. i'm tony dokoupil. the worldwide ransom ware attack continues to strangle computers. more than 150 countries were affected but surprisingly no u.s. government systems were affected. >> reporter: from china's main oil company to a hospital in indonesia to japan's nissan car company. the ransom ware attack ricocheted around the world again today as people went back to work. and today asia bore the brunt.
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chinese students were locked out of their papers. even businesses in mongolia were hit. the scale of the tack attack is called unprecedented. >> 150 countries affected and beyond 200,000 individual victims. >> reporter: the ransom ware works by freezing the computers, encrypting the files with hackers demanding $300 or files would be destroyed. the virus is called wannacry. it might have been much worse if not for two young cyber security researchers. one goes by the name malware tech. he noticed every time a virus took over a computer it pinged back to an unregistered website. so he registered the website for about $10. his fellow computer sleuth was
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watching in michigan, darian huss. >> through that registration of the domain, he activated the kill switch. >> reporter: huss says once an infected computer pinged the newly-registered website, it killed the malware, but he resisted being called a hero. >> their is is kind of what i d a day-to-day basis, so for me it was just another day at the office, i guess. >> reporter: europol is working with the united states government, and two security firms are looking into technical clues that north korea may be behind the attack. microsoft is pointing the finger of blame at the u.s. government for the ransom weare attack. john blackstone has that story. >> reporter: at microsoft's campus near seattle, security experts have known for months about the software vulnerability
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that made this attack possible. in march, microsoft released a fix for users of newer versions of its operating system but not a fix for the older versions. bobby rubin teaches computer science at johns hopkins university. >> this attack took advantage of that, so microsoft issued an emergency patch this weekend. >> reporter: the fix was too late to help those already attacked. brad smith acknowledged the company has the first responsibility to address these issues. but they went on to point the finger at the national security agency which originally identified the software flaw, then lost it when hackers broke into nsa computers. an equivalent scenario with conventional weapons would be the u.s. military having some of its tomahawk missiles stolen. >> so i think the nsa should probably err on the side of disclosure.
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>> reporter: in seattle. a computer researcher at the university of washington works to defend against hackers and thinks the nsa could have done more to prevent this attack. >> they could possibly figure out when these vulnerabilities are going to be rediscovered or leaked and alert the vendors before it gets out, but it doesn't seem that that happened in this case. >> reporter: microsoft says it has more than three and three and a half thousand engineers working. but among the workers finding a way in are america's own spy agencies. the trump administration is accusing syrian president bashar al assad of using a military prison outside damascus as an extermination camp. it says about 50 prisoners a day have been hanged and their bodies burned in a crematorium to hide the evidence. meanwhile, another round of
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peace talks get under way in geneva. and the syrian regime is gaining ground on control. seth doane is there. >> reporter: for years, they waged war against the regime of al-assad. but tonight these opposition fighters and their families lined up to leave, defeated. nearly 400 fighters, some with weapons still in hand had boarded buses by sunset. assad's soldiers monitored the departure under the watchful eye of their russian allies. all part of the deal to relocate the opposition to northern syria. what are you thinking about right now as you get on the bus? the rebel fighters did not want to talk with us. but in a video they shot, this young man explained -- it feels like a stab in the heart leaving homs, but god-willing, i'll come back one day triumphant. homs governor said the negotiations to get this far
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were difficult. it's a truce for the time being, he said, but he warns the government would fight them again in the future if it had to. assad's forces have used several different tactics to take back territory from opposition fighters. one has been to destroy entire neighborhoods. and so the shelling continues on the outskirts of the capital damascus. despite a similar relocation deal there, with thousands leaving. assad's forces have destroyed cities, killed and starved their enemies and now, scott, these rebel evacuations are bringing assad closer to a symbolic victory, solidifying control over syria's big cities. north korea's rulers are gloating over this weekend's missile test. the missile only flew a few hundred miles, but the north insists it can go much farther and even carry a nuclear warhead. david martin reports.
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>> reporter: it's not the perfect weapon the north korean claim. but the latest test represents a significant advance for kim jong un and his nuclear weapons program. after three failures, it was the first successful test of an intermediate range missile capable of reaching the island of guam where the u.s. has a major bomber base. it flew for 30 minutes, longer than any previous north korean test. most importantly, u.s. officials say it appears to have been a test of a re-entry vehicle. a key technology north korea must master before it can develop an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of striking the united states mainland with a nuclear weapon. the missile flew 1200 miles into space. as it came back to earth, it encountered extreme heat and buffeting when it hit the atmosphere. the technology challenge is to with stand the heat and buffeting without being knocked off course.
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new technologies are revolutionizing how some doctors diagnose patients, especially children. one company has a 90-second test that's supposed to determine if a child has autism. another uses a face recognition app to identify rare disorders. >> reporter: he was a bright 4-year-old who presented a medical mystery. >> he was much slower to grow. all of his things he did was delayed. speech was slightly delayed. crawling was delayed. >> reporter: doctors didn't know what was wrong until keegan's parents brought him here, where dr. karen grip uploaded his picture to study his image. >> most people hooking at him
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wouldn't see anything at all other than he's a cute kid. >> yeah. he is. i didn't know that there was anything in particular different about him either. so that's why i was really impressed that this app was able to see something looking only at his face. >> reporter: the system developed by fdna uses the same technology as facebook to look for matches of children with rare disorders. >> this is the condition that showed the highest level of similarity shown by this bar here, completely filled. >> reporter: and this is the one. >> this is the one in the end you would diagnose with. >> reporter: the app suggested he might have a metabolic disorder. >> it was a quick answer, we knew right there. >> reporter: the app is just one of many new technologies helping doctors reach a diagnosis more quickly and efficiently. another one called right eye
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targets autism. doctors at the george washington autism center shows us how the test use infrared sensors to determine what a child like jack prefers to look like. on one side, people, on the other, geometric shapes. most children are drawn to the images of children on the right. but people with autism focus on the shapes on the left. test inventor, karen pierce. >> if you look at the geometric shapes more than 69% of the time, the chances that you have asd are exceptionally high. >> reporter: the test can be used in a regular doctor's office. the app is available in the apple store, but only medical professionals are allowed access to the database. >> we don't want, you know, the mom and pops to go on and download this app and use it to try and diagnose their kids.
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an air force colonel who served with the special forces in afghanistan is learning to live with the aftermath of a deadly terror attack, but it didn't happen in a war zone. david martin has the story. >> reporter: martinez and his children on a perfect spring day in the suburbs of san antonio. but this is no field of dreams. this is a family trying to wake from a nightmare. >> the last thing i remember before the blast was my mom laughing. >> reporter: that blast was a suitcase bomb in brussels airport last year. just as the martinez family was checking in for a trip to disney world in florida. key ony is the familiar y's old child. >> i just saw fire, burned bodies. body parts. and i looked down at my leg, and there was white sticking out of
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it. and i realized after a couple seconds that the person i heard screaming was myself. >> reporter: how close were you to the bomb do you think? >> i was probably less than six feet. >> reporter: less than six feet? >> yes, sir. i don't know how i survived. >> reporter: cato martinez, a communications officer who worked with special operations forces was just back from afghanistan. you were probably closer to the enemy in brussels airport than you were in afghanistan. >> probably, sir. i was in some bad places in afghanistan. >> reporter: among the mayhem, he found his wife gail. >> she was laying on her back. her leg was blown off below the knee. i went to her as fast as i could. and put a tourniquet on her leg to stop the bleeding, checked
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her vitals, and there was no one there. >> i saw my dad, and he was cradling mama. her eyes were closed. and he was screaming. >> reporter: the other children, aged 7, 9, and 12 at the time, were nowhere in sight. >> i couldn't find my three youngest. so i thought, because they were so young and so small, they were vaporized or torn apart. >> reporter: paramedics carried key ony outside on a stretcher. >> and then they brought out my mom. she was smiling, but she wasn't breathing, and i knew she was gone. and then they brought out daddy to lie down right next to me. and for a while, we just lied there, and he held my hands. but then his grip started
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loosening. >> i felt a darkness just surrounding me, just wanted to give in to it. just quietly go into night, go to sleep. i just told her before i closed my eyes. i said i love you, and just, if you see the kids, take care of them. >> i said don't leave me. please don't leave me. so when the first responders came with some oxygen masks, they tried to put it on me, because i was the child. but i started flailing around and screaming at them to put it on daddy to make sure he was alive. >> reporter: so your daughter brought you back. >> she did. she was the, she saved me that day. >> reporter: the younger children were small enough to be shielded from the full fury of the blast by baggage piled around them at the check-in
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counter. the 12 year old was shielded by his father. >> i was in front of him and the bags. he would have taken a face full of shrapnel. >> reporter: still, he was badly burned by the fireball. >> third-degree burns on 30% of his body. skin and fat, burned all the way down to the muscle. we didn't know if he was going to make it or not. >> reporter: key ony's left leg was so injured they thought they would have to take it off below the knee. >> they thought it would be better for me to have it amputated. but then as a last-ditch effort, they decided to do an arterial graft from this leg and put it into this leg. so it really was a miracle surgery. >> reporter: six months later she performed her own miracle, standing on that leg for a full five seconds. it was her 18th birthday. less than a month later, she was walking. now she's running. although she'll have to wear that uncomfortable brace for the
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rest of her life. key ony also came close to losing her right arm to a piece of shrapnel that left that nasty scar. >> i don't hide my scars. i've come to the conclusion that while my scars are visible, they don't define me. >> reporter: it's your purple heart. >> yes, sir. >> reporter: cato's scars are not as visible. >> i got two piece of shrapnel on my spine, and still got 15 pieces in my right foot. so every day is painful. >> reporter: physical pain is the least of it for a veteran of two combat tours. >> you can't prepare for when they bring that war to your house, and they bring it to your family and take away your wife. all my training and experience went out the window. when i saw my wife in my arms. i failed my children and my wife. >> reporter: that sense of failure almost drove him to suicide. >> i had to go to my mom. and i thought about it, and i
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realized no matter how dark it could be and how lonely i feel about what's going on with me, i knew it was a selfish act. i've got four little kids that rely on me. what are you lookin' for? i'll heat this up. >> reporter: now he's mr. mom, finding out what it takes to raise a family. >> between cleaning and cooking and taking the kids to their respective extracurricular activities and school, i broke down, i said like i got to hire someone to do this. so twice a month, i have a cleaning crew come in. >> reporter: you realize what you're telling me, going out on deployments with special operations and you come back and you break down over cleaning? >> i can lead a team of men and women in combat, but i got to tell you, it's so hard to be the father of four kids. >> reporter: lieutenant colonel martinez is back on active duty, this time a desk job.
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which gives him more time with his kids. >> good form, good throw. >> reporter: keyno has an arm like a canon his dad says, but the scar tissue is so dense that dropping into a squat is a major victory. he can barely grip a bat. san antonio is the tenth place the martinez family has called home as they move from post to post around the world. when somebody asks you, where's home, what do you tell them? >> well, for me, home is mama. she's the constant. >> reporter: now it's a home filled with pictures of someone no longer there. a wife and mother who was murdered by three terrorists who wheeled suitcase bombs into the brussels airport. we wish we could tell you the dark days are over, that good has triumphed over evil, but we can't. >> i still suffer from doubt.
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and severe depression. from hopelessness. guilt, regret. >> reporter: key ony is starting college with wisdom no 18-year-old should have. >> i have a different mind set now going forward. i'm not afraid to die. i'm more afraid of wasting a day and regretting not doing something important, like saying i love you to my family. >> you know things other people don't know. >> if i can touch at least one person, even if that's a teenager like me in college, pick up the phone and call their parents and say thank you for everything. i love you.
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two mountain climbing adventurers who tried to snapchat their way to mt. everett are back again. their goal is to make it to the summit without oxygen. just one was successful, but his camera died on the way up. >> reporter: they set off for everest with two goals in mind, the first to make sure adrian reaches the summit, and the second, to capture that moment on snap chat. >> 35,000 feet. >> reporter: mt. everest looms overhead. ago adrian balenjer goes. >> the body's not meant to be here.
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>> reporter: they reached the north call with the eddie bauer mountain team. >> our bodies don't love us right now. >> reporter: but cory and adrian plan on ascending and snapchatting right to the top, without supplemental oxygen. >> breathing hard just sitting. >> reporter: training for summit day is rigorous. custom diets give them a metabolic kick to combat altitude sickness. >> i'm eating sugars, which helps my body operate. >> reporter: their heart rate and oxygen levels are meticulously monitored. it's a herculean effort. nearly 300 people have died attempting to scale everest. last month, a swiss climber fell to his death in the same area cory and adrian had been training. >> his legacy is huge and it always will be. i'm not sure that those are shoe that can be filled.
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>> reporter: they braved subzero temperatures last year while acclimating to low oxygen. >> tent's collapsing on itself. >> we had to turn around a little earlier. >> reporter: only cory made it to the top. with just over 1200 feet to go, adrian's dream was cut short. >> nothing felt right. i wasn't hydrating that well, i wasn't eating that well, and i definitely was really cold. i knew i was already getting to that foipts where i wouldn't be able to get myself down alone. >> reporter: the two palans to summit together and connect with others from the top of the world. >> our values are in the right place, we're doing this for the right reason. we're willing to accept that risk. and that's the overnight news for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back a little later for the morning news and cbs this morning.
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from the broadcast center in new york city. i'm tony dokoupil. ♪ it's tuesday, may 16th, 2017. this is the "cbs morning news." >> there's nothing that the president takes more seriously than the security of the american people. >> but this morning, the president of the united states is accused of handing over highly classified intel to russia. his top aides attempt damage control by refuting the report but not the actual allegations. 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.

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