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again in court on thursday. mark strassmann in san antonio. thanks. >> a u.s. navy patrol boat fired warning shots when an iranian ship came dangerously close in the persian gulf. have a look. the iranians came within 150 yards of the uss thunderbolt but backed off after the shots were fired. the thunderbolt was taking part in exercises in the gulf.
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>> congress got an sos today from the common can't of the coast guard. he said the guard is busier than ever, chasing drug runners but it can't do the job without more money. carter evans now on what's at stake. >> reporter: this what $800 million worth of cocaine looks like. we were aboard the coast guard cutter back in 2015 after it seized tons of drugs from fast boats and make shift submarines. >> there was so much flow right now. >> but the drugs keep coming. and last year the coast guard couldn't even chase hundreds of shipments they knew about. how much is still getting through? >> there were over 500 events that, that literally alluded us. we knew they were out there. this came done to we didn't have enough planes, didn't have enough ships. >> reporter: he says much of his fleet is decades past retirement age. and the coast guard needs 1.5
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billion dollars just to catch up on maintenance. >> copy. thank you. >> chief warrant officer, bill hansman is captain of the 55-year-old sledge. >> this ship is 11 years older than you. >> it is. >> hansman and crew spend their days, maintaining buoys and navigational aids, some times forced to jerry rig parts for their own ship because they aren't made anymore. >> reporter: it can put you out of commission? >> absolutely. keep us from where we are able to do our mission and stay the pier. when the sledge was in port its age showed. it was only supposed to last six weeks. the ship ended up being dry docked for almost six months with parts of the hull having to be cut away and replaced. yesterday, we were on a ship that was 55 years old. it is not the oldest. >> no, our oldest is -- 72 years old. >> the commander says the last thing he will cutback on is security patrols and rescues. so for now, old ships are being
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rebuilt. as the political fight over dollars and cents plays out. carter evans, cbs news, on maryland's chesapeake bay. >> can you keep your mind sharp as you age? by playing so-called brain games? a report today by the aarp focused on what's become a $1.3 billion business. dr. tara narula takes a look. >> ready to challenge your brain. >> reporter: ads for online brain training games tout benefit, memory, brain speed and attention. today's report called the evidence behind the claims of cognitive benefits. weak to nonexistent. sarah locke is executive director of the aarp global council on brain health. >> they might get better at the game. but what we don't know is how that is going to affect your everyday functioning. >> training to improve one type of cognitive ability, say memory, doesn't end up improving another skill such as how fast you process information. and the report says, there is
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often exaggerating when the products are marketed. last year, the ftc fined makers of luminosity, $2 million for claiming their games would help users reduce or delay age related cognitive impairment. the good news is that cognitively stimulating activities are easy to find. for example, learning a new skill. at the greenwich house senior center, betty tiago is taking up art. >> i think anything creative helps to stimulate your brain. >> dr. tara narula is with us. aarp recommends we do things to stimulate our brain. what exactly are those things? >> these are things that are novel. that require attention and focus. have a level of depth of engagement. some of the things they recommend are educational opportunities, that can be formal, informal. doing things you loved to do. volunteering. learning a skill. music, language. leisure activities, playing card. playing with your grandkids. things that are mentally and physically challenging like tennis or dancing. >> form of exercise if you will.
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but for the mind. >> exactly. >> tara narula, thank you. >> coming up next, a tiny implant that could replace the company id. later the
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doors, using the copier, even buying food in the cav fear yeah. to some it is right out of 1984, but jamie yuccas found willing workers in 2017. >> you can keep an eye on me? >> yes. >> reporter: to some it may sound look a plot of a james bond movie. but in river falls wisconsin, employees at a vending company are going from the assembly line to front of the pack to get microchipped. >> do you think this is the future? >> it is the future. we look at this as -- being responsible. >> the owner of three square market. by next week at least 50 of his 80 employees have signed up to become bionic. using what is called an rfid transpoureder in a microchip meant to make the work place experience faster and more efficie efficient. when you have the chip you will hold it up ahere all the same options will come up. the implant, fda approved is size of a grain of rice injected under the skin between the thumb
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and index finger by a licensed piercer. this company is offering the chips, $300 apiece to employees for free. westby says they're not gps enabled yesterday. >> you are not going to be tracking your employees around town to see what they're up to and what they're doing? >> no, we will not. it's for entrance to the building. logging in to computers. making purchases in our, in our barack ro break room market. >> if gps became available he would not use it on employees. >> concerns are what information am i storing on this. what information am i giving away. >> c-net editor, dan akerman says technology raises red flags over privacy. anything could potentially be hacked especially because most actual information not encoded on the tiny deep vice under your skin of your hand. by itself. you can never leave it behind. you can't really turn it off. >> however, assembly line worker, eric white plans to be the first in line. he thinks some date chips could save lives. >> somebody allergic to something or has a condition
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they could scan your hand. and all the information is there. >> a promising self-service for some. a dystopian nightmare for others. either way the future is here. jamie yuccas, cbs news, river falls, wisconsin. falls, wisconsin. >> when we come i'm so frustrated. falls, wisconsin. >> when we come i just want to find a used car without getting ripped off. you could start your search at the all-new carfax.com that might help. show me the carfax. now the car you want and the history you need are easy to find. show me used trucks with one owner. pretty cool. [laughs] ah... ahem... show me the carfax. start your used car search and get free carfax reports at the all-new carfax.com.
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this andy war hole silk-screen. in piles of equipment. a similar work sold recently for $10 million. cooper hadn't seen it since the 70s. his manager said only in rock an roll can you not remember you have a war hol. barbara sinatra, widow of legendary singer died today at her home in rancho mirage, california. barbara and frank sinatra were married 22 years and founded the barbara sinatra center for abused children. frank sinatra was married to nancy barbado, ava gardner, and mia farrow, and barbara to zeppo marx. barbara sinatra was 90. coming up next, the pro wrestler whose repertoire includes a liberal agenda.
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we end with a man who turned politics into a contact sport. including liberal helpings of trash talk. here is jim axelrod. >> the stupidest people in east kentucky are right here in boyd county. >> if the name of the game for an aspiring villain is to generate that fan anger that fills the seats. >> like those enemies from the middle east or cold war soviets provoked years ago. then dan richards has it all figured out for this day and age in the wrestling hotbed of appalachia. >> the progressive liberal. >> richards is the progressive
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liberal. >> you feel this character. >> i am this character. >> thank god you can't vote little girl. >> when i drive through the hills of west virginia, kentucky, tennessee. i wasn't seeing a bunch of hillary clinton campaign banners, i was seeing trump make america great again. >> which is why richard, a 37-year-old real estate agent, decide to don some dump trump trunks, hillary collage t-shirt and call out the fans. >> i know you use government assistance and then talk bad about the government that provides it for you. >> you have a signature move don't you? >> yes. >> what is it called? >> the liberal agenda. >> what makes it up? >> variation of the neck breaker. i like for the announcer to say he hit him with his liberal agenda. >> stan you were hit with the liberal agenda. are you going to recover? >> dan and i are complete opposites. a bible believing gun owner, tobacco chewing hill billy.
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>> bo james is richard's manager. been around the pro wrestling game for three decades. long enough to know, he has got a winner on his hand. >> yeah, buddy. >> i got at least four years out of him. >> you think progressive liberal has staying power? >> for at least four years. >> after that who knows. maybe four more. >> shut up, lady. i will talk at my own pace, not yours. >> i'm saying my piece. i think other liberals could take a paige from that. have a clear message. speak it boldly. be unapologetic about it. >> who knows if dan richard's approach would be good for his party. from the looks of things it is certainly good for his bank account. jim axelrod, cbs news, boyd county, kentucky. that's the "overnight news" for this wednesday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back a little later for the morning news and of course cbs "overnight news."
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from the broadcast center, i'm anthony mason. thank you for watching. nancy cordes reports. mccain went straight from the airport to the senate floor. where he cast a crucial vote to begin debate on the gop health
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care bill. >> mr. mccain aye. >> before unleashing some straight talk about its long term prospects. >> i will not vote for this bill as it is today. it is a shell of a bill. we all know that. we fritried to do this with a proposal behind closed doors in consultation with the administration. then springing it on skeptical members trying to convince them that it is better than nothing. that it is better than nothing? i don't think that's going to work in the end. and probably shouldn't. >> mccain was diagnosed last week with an aggressive form of brain cancer. as protests popped up across the u.s. capitol today, the 80-year-old senator said it is not too late to chart a different course. >> we have been spinning our wheels on too many important issues because we keep trying to find a way to win without help from across the aisle.
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hold hearings. try to report a bill out of committee with contributions from both sides. the senate is capable of that. we know that. we have seen it before. i have seen it happen many times. and the times when i was involved, even in a modest way with working on a bipartisan response to a national problem or threat are the proudest moments of my career and by far, the most satisfying. >> he left an increasingly polarized congress with this advice. >> stop listening to the bombastic loudmouths on the radio and television and the internet. to hell with them. they don't want anything done for the public good. our inca pass tee is their lively hood. >> an 18-year-old from california is in jail this morning after live streaming what turned into a deadly highway crash.
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the driver obdulia sanchez survived and her sister was killed and friend injured. the tragedy unfolded in real time on instagram. mireya villarreal has the story. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: early in the video, sanchez is seen driving without holding the steering wheel, gesturing with one hand, the other holding her phone, which she is using to live stream her drive on instagram. her car then veers off the road and crashes, with two 14-year-old girls in the back seat one of them her sister. >> jacqueline. jacqueline. please wake up. >> the chp says sanchez was driving west on a two lane road when her car veered on to the shoulder. she overcorrected when pulling back on to the road and crossed over through opposing traffic. she crashed through a barbed wire fence and car flipped. while sanchez was wearing a safety belt, both her passengers were not and they were ejected from the vehicle. through it all, sanchez kept her
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camera rolling, and her video streaming. >> wake up, baby! [ bleep ], baby, i did not mean to kill you, sweetie. >> her sister was killed and her sister's friend was injured. >> the girl i loved is gone. >> she suffered cuts to her leg, arm, and back. she recorded this video in the back seat just before the accident occurred. >> yes, i do cry, because, i think about her. but, do my best to stay strong for her. >> sanchez was arrested at the scene after police determined she was driving under the influence. her video remained on instagram, at least 19 hours before the company took it down because of its graphic nature. >> these incidents have been on the rise for the past ten years. it is a disturbing problem because everybody knows how dangerous, distracting driving is. >> hey, everybody. you already know why. >> now this is a live stream
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happening on instagram right now. the company urges any of its users to actually use a small button down here, to report any sort of issues that are happening. you can see it right there. and it says that they want to interrupt any sort of behavior or content that puts people's safety at risk. just like they did in the sanchez situation, with her original video. and then the subsequent videos that were posted later on. >> is there a microchip in your future? a skuc a company in wisconsin will become the first in the nation to in plamplant a microchip in employees. the workers will have to volunteer. the chips will replace punch pads and id cards. jamie yuccas from river falls. >> they have 80 employees. the place they will use the neck nolg is he technology in the break room. buying fruit snacks. lucky charms. to pay they won't use a credit card. all they have to do is flk their wrist. by next week, more than 50,
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three square market employees will have bionic hand with a credit card chip implanted near their wrist. >> swipe your hand. >> basically, a serial number assigned to your credit card. >> the company is offering the chips which cost $300 apiece, to its employees for free. the owner, todd westby, wife, two children, will also be getting microchipped. >> you are not going to be tracking your employees around town to see what they're up to and doing? >> no, we will not. it's for entrance to the building. logging into computers. making purchases in the break room market. things of that nature. >> reporter: employees have two ways to get into the building. use traditional key pad with their id number or if they're chipped they can use their hand and swipe. that will allow them to open the door. three square market makes vending machines with credit card chip readers. experts wonder itch this is all a publicity stunt and worry about the loss of privacy. >> you want someone knowing everything time you enter or
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leave a room or use a copy machine. a degree of autonomy that is lost with this person to person, one to one tracking. you can never leave it behind. you can't really turn it off. >> i think a step towards the future. >> but assembly line manager, eric white thinks the chips could eventually save lives. >> somebody allergic to something or have a condition could scan your hand. all the information is there. >> the technology is already being used in europe. but the company hoping to popularize the chips here in the u.s. is far from tech hubs, silicon valley. >> river falls, wisconsin might be the next big thing. >> we are glad to be a part of it. >> three square market is working with a swedish company to embed microchips. everybody wants to know how big is it, right? the size of a grain of rice. see that right there. a professional piercer has to put it in the person's hand. now to remove i am told, like removing a sliver. the pain factor is like getting your ears pierced. >> the cbs "overnight news" will be right back.
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this is the cbs "overnight news." one of the most prized fishes in the gulf of mexico is at the center of of a battle between environmentalists and the white house. the fish is the red snapper, the trump administration extended the season for recreational fishing of the red snapper and conservationists filed a lawsuit claiming that threatens to decimate the fish population. omar villafranca. >> reporter: fishermen from texas to florida want to see this fish on the end of the line. this is a red snapper, off the louisiana coast, fishermen have caught more than 327 tons of the fish. that number is expected to go
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up. dale bebe, a fisherman who returned to the louisiana shore. with almost 6,000 pounds of one of the most sought after fish in the gulf of mexico. red snapper. >> it has been great. we have the best snapper fish in the last two, three, four years. that we have had in 25 years. >> flaky and full flavor, renowned for its flight. and extended the season in federal waters from three days to 42. the department said the three day season was hurting businesses that depend on sport fishing. but commercial fishermen worry, longer seasons could threaten the red snapper population. overfishing caused the gulf's red snapper population to plummet in the mid 1980s. >> huge driver for tourism here.
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david croissant of the association says red snapper population has largely recovered and a three day fishing season is too short for recreational anglers. >> two of the days in louisiana were unfishable. the weather was too rough. the government set a quota of just over 13 million pounds of red snap tire be pulled from the gulf. 51% for fishermen. 49% for recreational. in 2016. recreational anglers, exceeded the limit by 65 tons. >> if you are not going to, adhere to the law, why have regulations. >> david crebbs owns aerial sea fool foods, a large supply chain. we can go back to the wild, wild west. it is going to damage the resource. right now in a federal season. jp brooker is an attorney for ocean, a group suing the government to limit extended fishing season. >> fundamentally unfair. unfair to commercial fishermen.
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unfair to the long term viability of the fishery as well. others argue the regulations have to be fair, including to those who fish for fun. weave all want to protect the resource. there has got to be a balance. protecting the resource, watching it grow, and to be available to the american public. what is happening here on the gulf coast states is, series of changes in the trump administration challenge by environmental groups. in yellowstone, the grizzly bear is about to be removed from the species list. if the government doesn't abandon their plans to remove the bear from the list, environmental groups say they will sue. award winning songwriter sheryl crow is back on the road touring north america with songs from her album be myself. for sheryl crow, a big part of being herself is working to spread the word about early breast cancer detection. she discussed her life in music, with rita braver, for "sunday
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morning." >> reporter: this is where we are used to seeing sheryl crow. ♪ every day is a winding road >> reporter: on stage with a guitar in her hands. ♪ a little bit closer ♪ feeling fine >> reporter: but she says she is equally at home here. >> come right this way. going to bring you into the exam room. >> reporter: demonstrating how she gets an annual mammogram or breast x-ray. >> do top to bottom view. then turning the machine doing a side view. >> reporter: a subject that was once only whispered about. >> just going to bring the machine up here. >> women just didn't speak about their breasts. it was so taboo. obviously we live in a different day and age. i feel like i am in a rarified position. that i have a very large fan base of women. and those women they have teenage girls now. that's just great, to at least stay on top of your own health. >> and she makes no bones about being a paid spokesperson for
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hologic which makes 3-d iffaging machines for mammograms. >> crow has reason to understand the importance of early detection. in 2006, you discovered that you had breast cancer. how did you even learn that you had it? >> i had a routine mammogram, a very inopportune time. right before the grammys. my personal life was kind of in turmoil. and the last thing i wanted to do was have a mammogram. but i did. and, the -- the result was come back in six months that we have seen something that is suspect. let's keep an eye on it. and my gynecologist called, said there is no six months. you don't wait. let's go and get a second opinion. get a, needle biopsy, turned out invasive. said off the bat you are not going to die. this is very early. we will do a lumpectomy and radiation you, will get on with your life. >> reporter: it was a life that sheryl crow had worked hard to build. raised in missouri, she worked
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as a grade school music teacher after college. but on the side she had a gig, singing commercial jingles. ♪ in and out in and out that's what a hamburger is all about ♪ >> all the greats. >> in 1986, she decided to try her luck in l.a. >> reporter: it took you a while, nobody was beating down your door, saying, please honey, come make us some music. >> every label said we don't know what to do with a blue eyed kind of country soul singer. i was pretty much turned down by everybody. ♪ i want to soak up the sun >> reporter: in 1993. she finally broke through. ♪ all i want to do is have some fun ♪ ♪ until the sun comes up over santa monica boulevard ♪ >> she had a string of hits. eventually wracking up nine grammy awards.
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♪ you've got steve mcqueen ♪ all i need is ♪ and i'm going to make it >> reporter: in 2006, at age 44, a double whammy. not only cancer, but the end of her engagement to cyclist lance armstrong. the whole saga unfolding publicly. >> it can work so long and have big selling record. when your life falls apart you become like an a celebrity. there was a convergence of people being interested in my private life that for me was such an intrusion. >> she had 33 radiation treatments. >> every morning i had the opportunity to lay there with my arm above my head. and reassess my life. >> reporter: when she got a clean bill of health, she decided to take her mom's advice and not wait for marriage to have children. >> she just said, adopt. get a surrogate. your life doesn't have to look like the life you were born into. and that's what i did.
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i just thought, you know what, life is so short. >> reporter: she doets on her two adopted sons. >> action! beautiful. >> reporter: and also found time to launch a new line of clothing. >> i love when you look off. >> peddling on hsn. >> slender. >> working from her converted barn in nashville, she is developing pieces based on her all-american style. >> it is a great way to get clothes out to people who can't afford the $350 jeans. which, you know, i'm, i go to my hometown, all the time, and that is basically middle america. those are the people who are, more economically strapped. >> that's who you want these clothes to appeal to. >> i think that's kind of who buy my record. >> reporter: her latest record is called, be myself. she performed one of her albums singles at la's troubadour. called, halfway there. ♪ baby if you did what you meet
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me halfway there ♪ she says the song is about urging people to listen to each other in today's vitriolic climate >> if you are this person. and you are that person. don't we all want the same thing at the end of the day. ♪ sunset meet me halfway there ♪ >> reporter: along with the song she's sings, crow says she will continue to talk, urging women to get an annual mammogram. >> i was healthy. i didn't have any family history. the technology is getting better and better. so, at a certain age, take it into your own hands to make sure that because your carpet never stops working there's resolve carpet care. it lifts more dirt and pet hair versus vacuuming alone.
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20 years after her death, princess diana continues to tug on the heart strings of people around the world. a new documentary reveals a side of the princess that she tried very hard to keep secret. her role as a mother. diana, her life and legacy is available on hbo go and on demand. elizabeth palmer has more from kensington palace in london. >> reporter: kensington palace behind me is where princess diana lived after her separation from prince charles. it is where the heir to the throne prince william lives now. it is also a location for some of the interviews in that documentary. the public diana was a shape
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shifting celebrity. a glamorous princess who doubled as a humanitarian activist. in private, she was something else too. >> she was our mom. she still is our mom. you know, that of course as a son i would say she is the best mom in the world. >> she was also a mom with a sense of mischief and some very famous friends. >> just outside his room where we are now. she, organized, when i came home from school to have cindy crawford, christy turlington and naomi campbell at the top of the stairs. probably, 12, 13-year-old buy who had posters of them on his wall. and, i went bright red and didn't know what to say. and sort of fumbled. think pretty much fell down the stairs on the way up. >> they produced the documentary for the 20th anniversary of diana's death. >> a simple film. a love letter from two biz to their mum. if anything, film about love and memory. those are the two things that
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come across. most strongly in the film. >> as diana's fame grew so did the pressure from relentless paparazzi. >> as a parent. >> something william who fiercely protects his own family's privacy, is bitter about to this day. >> i don't believe being chased by 30 guys on motorbike whose block your path, who spit at you, shout at you, and who react really badly to get a reaction from you, make a woman cry, in public to get the photographs. i don't believe that is appropriate. >> reporter: diana died in paris in a car being pursued by paparazzi. her sons spoke briefly with her that day on the phone from scotland, where they were on vacation with their dad, prince charles. >> not knowing that that was the last time i was going to speak to my mom, and, how differently that conversation would have, would have panned out if i had even the slightest inkling that that was, that her life was going to be taken that night. >> reporter: the princes very unusually opened up to the
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every summer, new york becomes a magnet for tourists from around the world. this year city has been playing host to some very large unexpected guests, humpback whales. jeff glor took to the water to get the story. >> reporter: in rockaway queens, steering with manhattan's skyline to the side, american princess, set sale on a whale watching expa digs. >> a friend of mine said do you know there is a whale watch? my question to her was are you high? katherine is a naturalist who studies whales. she is seeing more humpbacks. >> we think statue of liberty. we don't think humpback whales. we should. new york city is a water city. a renowned environmentalist.
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and now a professor at pace university. >> the humpback whale does not know that it is swimming through a city. that is what makes this such an amazing place. this whale its lunge feeding, attacking fish called manhaten, the president of the nonprofit gotham whale says the fish are thriving because the water is cleaner. >> one of the things that brings everything together is the food chain. >> quite a change from the 70s and 80s. when he knows the waters were a waistland. as the the first hudson river keeper, he patroled for polluters. >> now, 30-some-odd years later how much better? >> seeing biological rejuvenation. >> spawned by decades of clean-up. which began with the passing of the clean water act in 1972. >> we shouldn't beep cutting back the epa which provide the funding and the technical expertise to clean up the nation's waterways. >> still the cleaner water has
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lured back the fish that, that whales like patchy feast on. >> this whale is distinctive. it has a patch on the left side of its cheek. >> and he says that patchy also has a distinct injured dorsal fin. probably knocked off by a boat in this busy shipping area. >> as human activity and whales come together. there are some concerns. >> there are still obstacles to navigate. given that humpbacks are on the endangered species list, just a year ago, the reecent sightings are a sign. >>enaw awe -- jeff glor, cbs news, new york. that's the "overnight news" for wednesday. for some the news continues. for others check back a little later for the morning news.
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