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in the box. the heart of america, without regard to race or relij on unpolitical party. is greater than our problems. >> and, stroll, rest, repeat. a 95-year-old leads his neighbors on the walk of life. >> when they see harvey go by twice a day they figure that they should, get out and walk
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himself. >> announcer: this is the cbs "overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm rhina ninan. nn an interview, president trumi gaedntdendfe man. kelly stepped into the spotlight last week to defend mr. trump's condolence call to the widow of a fallen soldier. that soldier, was laid to rest in florida saturday. family friend congresswoman fredrica wilson attended. criticized the tone of the call to johnson's wife. errol barnett has mr. trump's latest remarks. >> it a very, very hard call, they're sad. >> president trump shed how challenging it is to call grieving relatives of soldiers. the president rejected accusation by florida congresswoman wilson that chief of staff john kelly defended mr.
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trump, to keep his position in the white house. >> he doesn't need this job. in fact he didn't really want this job. >> the past week's controversy between a gold star family and the white house, comes as the the president aims for his first major legislative win. he is now optimistic his tax plan will pass soon. >> it will be the biggest cuts ever, in the history of this country. fueling his confidence, the republican controlled senate passed a budget this week. which the house is expected to take up in the coming days. the president's budget director, says that is crucial. >> we have to start keeping our promises but passing this budget this week. which is the next step in an absolutely critical step to get tax reform. big step forward keeping that promise. >> in addition to tax reform, president trump remains focussed on health care. >> going to repeal and replace obama care. and, i think we actually have the votes. >> but the only health care legislation supported by democrats like senate minority leader chuck schumer is the alexander murray bill which
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keeps subsidy payments to the states intact. >> look this is a good compromise. it took months to work out. it has a majority. it has 60 senators supporting it. we have all 48 democrats. 12 republicans. i urge senator mcconnell to put it on the floor immediately. >> senate majority leader mitch mcconnell would bring any health care legislation up for a vote if it were clear the president supported it. but president trump has not fully endorsed the alexander murray bill. rhina. >> thank you, errol. five former u.s. presidents gathered in texas last night for a concert benefiting the victims of recent hurricanes. a the first time in four years, presidents carter, clinton, obama and the bushs got together. the event which featured surprise performance by lady gaga so far raised more than $31 million. >> what we have also seen is the spirit of america at its best. when ordinary people step up and do extraordinary things.
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>> president trump did not attend. but appeared in a video message. >> on twitter this weeken, president trump said he has no plans to block the scheduled release this week of secret files on the assassination of president john f. kennedy. here is tony dokoupil. >> reporter: president kennedy's final moments gliding through dallas in 1963, are all too clear. but the story of his assassination remains tantalizingly incomplete. at least to the 61% of americans who do not believe shooter lee harvey oswald acted alone. november 22nd, 1963, was a line of demarcation between an america that basically trusted its government, to an america that began not to trust its government. >> university of virginia professor larry sabado is author of a book about kennedy's enduring mystery. >> the conspiracy community is united about having0%
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transparency and disclosure. >> under a 1992 law, designed to quiet conspiracy theories, the national archives has until thursday to disclose a final batch of sealed files on the assassination. more than 3,000 never before public documents and potentially 30,000 documents previously released with redactions. congressman joe kennedy is the former president's great nephew. >> i understand the historical value. i don't dispute that. they also happen to be quite personal as well. would have been nice there was some engagement. >> still, others doubt that even these new documents will be a truly complete record. >> if the agencies did not uncover a certain of their documents regarding the assassination, therefore never got to the archives won't be in the revelations we might see on thursday. >> president trump has the power to block some or all of these documents. if he determines that disclosure
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could harm national security or foreign relations. jfk scholars and armchair observers hope the files offer a better understanding of oswald's movements. but the only thing that is certain appears to be conspiracy theories will continue. >> tony, thank you. >> major political crisis continues unfold in spain. the catalonia region on border with france voted earlier this month to break away from spain. many catalan feel they're not getting enough from madrid. seth doane in the regional capital, barcelona. >> following an emergency meeting of spain's cabinet over the weekend we learned that the central government is madrid is seeking to seize control of top government functions and positions here in catalonia could include the police, media and finances. at least until new elections could be called within six months. also the leader, would be stripped of his job. all of this would need to be approved first by the senate in madrid, that would likely take
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place on friday. on the other side, though seeking independence, have made it clear they will not be quiet about losing control. around 450,000 people took to the streets in barcelona saturday in protest. meanwhile, the president who, has yet to explicitly declare independence, continues to threat tine do so. he will be working with his parliament to plot their next moves. and, some separatists leaders are calling for civil disobedience if madrid indeed takes control here. >> thank you, seth. >> coming up next, a man made problem becomes a world's number one killer.
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environmental pollution contributed to the deaths of 9 million in 2015. 15 times as many deaths from war. all forms of violence. that staggering figure comes from a study published this week in medical journal the lancet. here is anna werner. >> this guy is going to act like it is breathing with me. >> new york chelsea yamata is wearing a special vest on her commute, measuring exposure to air pollution. it is part of a multiyear study, looking at pollution hot spots and the impact on cyclists' health. >> it is smoky, it's thick. you get trapped, some times, you are really in their tail pipe, sucking it all in. >> despite recent efforts to curb pollution, a major new report from the lancet shows more needs to be done. the study found more people died
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from ex-pope sure to dirty air than from health factors including obesity, alcohol and high sodium diet. dr. phillip landercan at mount sinai. >> most deaths are caused by chronic diseases, specifically by heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, chronic obstructive lung disea disease. >> nearly 92% of deaths occurred in developing countries with china and india most affected. and children are at the highest risk. but each year, pollution also kills an estimated 155,000 people in the u.s. >> yet the report says pollution can be addressed. and the 45 years since the u.s. passed the clean air act, air pollution here has dropped 70%. >> the control of pollution actually saves money. because it prevents illness. it extend life. it helps the, the productivity of economies in the united states. and in countries around the
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world. >> the doctor points out gross domestic product in the u.s. increased 250% since the clean air act was put in place in 1970. he says that's proof, rhina countries can have wealth and prosperity and clean air. >> anna werner, thank you so much. >> tornados tore through oklahoma saturday night. a casino lost part of its roof. during a beach boys concert. the governor was in the audience, the building was evacuated. no one was hurt. elsewhere cars and trucks were damaged. power lines and trees, were knocked down. >> well the heat is on across southern california. temperatures, to start the week are expected to top 100 degrees. wildfire warnings posted across the region. baseball's world series begins tuesday night in los angeles. >> will this past week, fda approved a second version of a ground breaking new cancer treatment. uses a patient's own cells to fight aggressive form of the blood cancer nonhodge kins
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lympho lymphoma. >> this fall, scott mcintyre has his life back. running his trucking sales business and tailgating before cheering on his beloved notre dame football team. in 2013 he had been diagnosed with type of nonhodge kins lymphoma. after several rounds of chemoand stem cell transplant he was losing the battle. >> in fall, '15, cancer moved into my lungs. that's when things were looking grave. >> but hope came in the form of an experimental trial, run by dr. michael bishop at university of chicago. >> i have been doing this for 25 years. this is the most remarkable advancement i have seen in my career. >> in the trial, a patient's t cells or white blood cells that fight infections were removed from the patient. shipped to a lab and jen itically modified to recognize cancer cells. those new cells were then put back in body ready to search out and destroy the cancer. >> the median survival unfortunately for this group of patients is only about 6 to 7
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much months. seeing 40% to 50% response rates. markedly above what would be kidded standard of care. >> for mcintyre, his moment came on may 1th. 2016, when a single infusion of his own t cells went to work on his cancer. three months later, he received a call, from one of his doctors. he says, well you are my walking miracle. he says everything is, is, fantastic. you are actually no activity of cancer any more. >> now that it is a proved. estimates are 15,000 people with this type of lymphoma might be eligible for the treatment. there is hopen the future this type of therapy my also be used to treat solid tumors like kol lon and lung cancer. lon and lung cancer. >> well, coming up the steps one i had this chest cold, but my medicine kept wearing off. (coughsah! hey, chad! i missed you. ah! i was in the tree watching you, and then i fell.
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>> at the end turned out he was a victim. can you cuff the victim? >> yes. >> why? >> for safety. >> addressing bias and dealing with communities always sensitive to it. is a consequence of many highly charged confrontations that have forced officers into court. >> be careful not to get sucked into what they're calling about. >> listen to the approach of police trainer rondoan pall. >> if a person, call in saying there is a black person sitting in the car outside my house. are you going to be sucked into this person's bias. >> black people can live in communities where predominantly white people live. are you going to stop every person who, is opposite of what that community demographically looks like. >> beep aware of your biases, but also be aware that part of the, employment here is, to investigate things that are out of the norm. >> i group in a neighborhood in the inner city of milwaukee where police and community
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relations was not good at all. i found out that, there are certain things that i viewed when i was a kid that, really wasn't true. and as i became more of an experienced police officer, i begin to obtain the desire to come to the academy and teach recruits. >> bias based actions impact the community and your department. >> i think in the last five years what we have seen is a great deal more attention being paid to what is called de-escalation skills. >> milwaukee police chief. >> it wouldn't always wo we do want to give them the skills they have time to m ploy it. >> we do our very, very best not to fight with people. we don't want to go hand on. >> stacy steen has been instruction recruits here for five years. >> ideally we want as police officers to gain your cooperation. through words. >> milwaukee police! >> these recruits have to pass state tests covering more than 1,000 hours of training. >> top, work your way down. >> no other occupation in government, none, including the
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military, that puts so much responsibility on the shoulders of the lowest ranking member of the organization. >> let go of my gun! step back! >> two of those recruits. >> why are you doing this now? >> because i live here in milwaukee. i plan on living here throughout my life. i want to be in the forefront of doing something good for the city. >> come three in this door or that door? >> if you come into contact with someone, treat them with respect. treat them look you want to be treated. that can go a long way building truts between the community and the police department. >> don't got to say anything. we talked enough. >> yes, ma'am. >> as the recruits cross the stage to being officers one rem. >> no matter how many scenario based training you, how many skill celtics you do, sooner or later, they are applying this in a dynamic, stressful, am biggous set of circumstances. and, that's the true test.
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>> and that's when character takes over. ♪ ♪ dean reynold, milwaukee. still ahead, california becomes the first state to order pet stores to only sell animals from shelters. not all fish oil supplements provide the same omega-3 power. introducing megared advanced triple absorption it supports your heart, joints,
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stores to sell animals. protecting puppies and kittens from unsafe, inhumane breeding facilities. >> the dogs and cats at healthy spot pet store in santa monica, california don't come from breeders. the only animals here are rescues. >> we have adopted out over 500 dogs and cats out of this facility. >> owner andrew kim says it is a different way to think about purchasing a pet. >> you are not making one dime off these adoptions. >> here we are. growing. >> now, california is requiring all pet stores to follow suit. >> we are here to celebrate. >> animal advocate, helped pass the first in the nation state law that only allows pet stores to sell dogs, cats and rabbits that are rescues. >> in the state of california we bring in over 800,000 dogs and cats into our shelters. we kill over half. why on earth are we allowing this cruel industry to be
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feeding our state with yet more animals. >> the law its designed to take business away from so-called puppy mills. the humane society estimates more than 2 million dogs come from them every year. >> i can definitely see, the good in it. >> morris jang sells purebred dogs, at the puppy store in santa ana, california. he says they all come from private breeders and can sell for $3,500. he also sells rescues but knows they alone won't pay his bills. >> it may hurt these puppy mills, but it also may hurt you in the process. >> yeah, we are going to have to close. >> andrew kim says his business approach is succeeding because those adoption customers come back and spend money on supplies and services. he now has, 11 stores. >> this business model, can work. >> we're an example of it. yes. >> that's promising for these potential pets. carter evans, cbs news, los angeles.
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harvey. >> the he is not as fast as he used to be. >> you are going to be in a video! >> just nine for harvey jurth, the world war ii vet rand and retired biology teacher has been walking this subdivision for more than 65 years. >> there is my number one chair. >> the neighbors have taken notice. dot add long his mile long route. is chair after chair after chair. >> as i got older, i stopped and rest more often. and the neighbors, have noticed, harvey stopping. >> hi. >> and taking his breath. so then they have been, putting out different chairs. and inviting me to, to sit and take a rest. >> hey, alex. how are you? >> good. >> nice to see you. >> a bit of of a celebrity in plymouth, minnesota. four miles jut side minneapolis. >> does harvey get a hug. >> that's number eight. that is a wonderful experience as, a social experience.
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and i get to know the neighbors. and they get to know me. >> how you been? >> good. how about you? >> at 95. life has a way of slowing down. for harvey his walks and his rests are air chance to keep the pace steady. >> my wife said years ago i am antsy. i can't sit still. these days harvey is on his own. his wife pat of 69 years, suffered a stroke this past summer and is recovering at an assisted living facility. >> this is my favorite place to sit and rest. >> reporter: it is the walking that keeps harvey going. >> nice day isn't it. >> yeah, good to see you. >> his connection with the neighbors that might motivate them. aawe when they see harvey go back twice a day. they figure they should get out and walk themselves. >> vladamir duthiers, cbs news. >> that's the "overnight news" for this monday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us a little later for the morning news. and cbs this morning. from the brought cast center in new york city, i'm rhina ninan.
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>> announcer: this the cbs "overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news," i'm rhina nina in an interview, president trump defended his chief of staff, general john kelly calling him an elegant man. kelly stepped into the spot light to defend mr. trump's condolence call to the widow of a fallen soldier. that soldier, army sergeant johnson was laid to rest in florida saturday. family friend, congresswoman, fredrica wilson attended the funeral. she criticized the tone of the call. errol barnett has mr. trump's latest remarks. >> president trump shed how challenging it is to call
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grieving relatives of soldiers. the president rejected accusation by florida congresswoman wilson that chief of staff john kelly defended mr. trump, to keep his position in the white house. >> he doesn't need this job. in fact he didn't really want this job. >> the past week's controversy between a gold star family and the white house, comes as the the president aims for his first major legislative win. he is now optimistic his tax plan will pass soon. >> it will be the biggest cuts ever, in the history of this country. fueling his confidence, the republican controlled senate passed a budget this week. which the house is expected to take up in the coming days. the president's budget director, says that is crucial. >> we have to start keeping our promises but passing this budget this week. which is the next step in an absolutely critical step to get tax reform. big step forward keeping that promise. >> in addition to tax reform, president trump remains focussed on health care. >> going to repeal and replace obama care. and, i think we actually have the votes. >> but the only health care
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legislation supported by democrats like senate minority leader chuck schumer is the alexander murray bill which keeps subsidy payments to the states intact. >> look this is a good compromise. it took months to work out. it has a majority. it has 60 senators supporting it. we have all 48 democrats. 12 republicans. i urge senator mcconnell to put it on the floor immediately. >> senate majority leader mitch mcconnell would bring any health care legislation up for a vote if it were clear the president supported it. but president trump has not fully endorsed the alexander murray bill. rhina. >> thank you, errol. five former u.s. presidents gathered in texas last night for a concert benefiting the victims of recent hurricanes. a the first time in four years, presidents carter, clinton, obama and the bushs got together. the event which featured surprise performance by lady gaga so far raised more than $31 million. >> what we have also seen is the spirit of america at its best. when ordinary people step up and
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do extraordinary things. >> president trump did not attend. but appeared in a video message. >> on twitter this weeken, president trump said he has no plans to block the scheduled release this week of secret files on the assassination of president john f. kennedy. here is tony dokoupil. >> reporter: president kennedy's final moments gliding through dallas in 1963, are all too clear. but the story of his assassination remains tantalizingly incomplete. at least to the 61% of americans who do not believe shooter lee harvey oswald acted alone. november 22nd, 1963, was a line of demarcation between an america that basically trusted its government, to an america that began not to trust its government. >> university of virginia professor larry sabado is author of a book about kennedy's enduring mystery. >> the conspiracy community is united about having 100%
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transparency and disclosure. >> under a 1992 law, designed to quiet conspiracy theories, the national archives has until thursday to disclose a final batch of sealed files on the assassination. more than 3,000 never before public documents and potentially 30,000 documents previously released with redactions. congressman joe kennedy is the former president's great nephew. >> i understand the historical value. i don't dispute that. they also happen to be quite personal as well. would have been nice there was some engagement. >> still, others doubt that even these new documents will be a truly complete record. >> if the agencies did not uncover a certain of their documents regarding the assassination, therefore never got to the archives won't be in the revelations we might see on thursday. >> president trump has the power to block some or all of these
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documents. if he determines that disclosure could harm national security or foreign relations. jfk scholars and armchair observers hope the files offer a better understanding of oswald's movements. but the only thing that is certain appears to be conspiracy theories will continue. >> tony, thank you. tornados tore through oklahoma saturday night. a casino lost part of the roof during a beach boy's concert. the governor was in the audience. the building evacuated. no one was hurt. trucks and cars were damaged. power lines and trees were knocked down. >> red flag fire warn gds posted in southern california where triple digit temperatures and 55 mile an hour wind are forecast for the next few days. the firestorms that raged up and down the state over the past few weeks are mostly out. but they're blamed for at least 42 deaths. 6,000 homes were destroyed. and dozens of northern california's wineries devastated.
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>> california wine making is a $58 billion industry. some could go up in smoke. as you can see a wildfire ripped through the winery destroying the work truck and the vines behind it. we got a look at the destruction from the air. in a california national guard helicopter. >> i have never seen anything like this, this literally looks like a bomb hit the neighborhood. >> the wind driven firestorm burned neighborhood to the ground. off awe that's when you think destruction is over. we pass over a hill. and there are more neighborhood where houses have been completely decimated. >> also destroyed, huge expanses of vineyards. >> this was the house. >> ken and his wife own ancient oak sellers winery in santa rosa. they lost the home his grandfather built but part of the vineyard. and he says the primetime to harvest the surviving grapes was last week. but closed roads kept him away from his property. >> they're a little past when i would look to have, picked them.
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you start to see them, shrink a little built. that's a loss of weight. that counts on the bottom line. he could face not only a loss of income but major expentzs as well. ripping up the soil. replacing irrigation system ttz. grapes untouched by flames could be tainted by smoke affecting dozens of wineries. >> i would say there is probably, 30 to 60 that have been hef leave impacted. >> lewis purdue is a wine industry analyst. >> is that a large percentage of the amount of vineyards out here. off awe realize there are some close where to 900 wineries in, in napa and sonoma. it is serious. but it is not a killer blow. to the industry. >> if there is any silver lining here, 90% of the grapes in napa were harvested before the fire started. the wine tourism industry here wants people to know that, the
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>> announcer: this is the cbs "overnight news." well if you are like millions of americans you probably store at least some of your computer data in the cloud. but where is the cloud? david pogue of yahoo! finance paid a visit. >> reporter: these days, an air read a magazine, or open a computer without seeing ads for the cloud. ♪ >> the cloud. where everyone can access everything they save from any where they are. >> reporter: ad suggest that the cloud diis desirable. what they don't say is what the cloud is. well, here is the basic idea. in the beginning, we all kept
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our own stuff on our ore computers. in the new world of the cloud though, your computer files don't have to be on your computer. they can be stored out on the internet, alongside everyone else's, in huge centralized buildings called data centers. your computer or phone can then fetch your files on the spot, wherever you happen to be. now you may have encountered the cloud as a synchronizing service. apple's icloud service. if i edit this photo on my apple laptop. make it black and white. maybe crop in on it. a couple of second later i will see the exact same changes show up on that photo on my apple phone. now, these two devices are not directly connected. instead, that data made an intermediate hop. in a fraction of a second it comes here, to a massive data center, and then it returned to
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the phone. most of the time you use the cloud without knowing it. most cloud data centers exist to serve companies. >> so it could be retail, real estate. health care. life sciences, oil and gas. everything from, small initial startups, right through to very, very largest enterprises. >> matt wood is general manager at amazon web services. or aws. it is by far the biggest cloud service company in the world. bigger than next 14 come pelt tors combined. off a >> all these industries are hiring aws to do what? >> you are a brewery. they want to brew beer. don't want to manage come pumers, brew beer. don't want the expense and up front cost and all the complexity of managing large amounts of computers. >> what you are saying, cloud companies like aws are basically
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renting computer storage power security all of the stuff that technicians would narmally had to do on site. right? >> right. yeah, today very large organizations, such as, yeah, ge, shell, phillips, kneltflix all run on top of aws. >> if you would like to see of what the cloud looks like, all you have to do is visit a data center like this one belonging to raging wire in virginia. but good luck getting in. >> this is a retinal scanner. this one is kind of interesting. this one is smart enough to know whether my eyeball is alaf or not. so that means you can't take another eyeball and hold it up to here. >> darn, sort of hoping to kill you and sneak in. >> not going to work here. >> fortunately, marketing director jim leach agreed to give me a tour. >> this is called a man trap. >> man trap? >> secret here is that one door has to close and lock before the other door can open.
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>> once you get past the con kreecon -- concrete barriers, manned guards. man trap, nine password protected doors you find out what is inside a data center. just racks and racks and racks of powerful computers. this its the internet. >> this is the internet. this is the cloud. basically in this room, ballpark, there is about 3 million web sites running right now. >> for security reasons, they'll never tell you whose web sites. but every site and app you heard of. facebook, twitter, netflix, uber, air bnb, new york time, cbs news, lives in data center cages like this one. >> got to ask, what happens in a power failure. >> it is backed up by batteries that can run the facility for ten minutes while we turn on the massive generators that can run continuously. >> this data center is in loudon
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county, virginia, which turns out not to be much of a surprise. >> 70% off all web traffic on a daily basis from the world, goes through loudon count yo data center. >> come on! >> 70%. >> buddy riser county head of business development. he helped turn the county into the largest concentration of data centers in the world. 10 million square feet in 70 enormous buildings. >> what do the data centers need? provide it? comes down to power. walter. and fiber. and work force. and proximity. when i think the other thing you need its plenty of green space to build. these are really big buildings. >> hold on a second. if we are concentrating all our data into data centers. concentrating most of the data % centers into one county. doesn't that make a very tempting target for terrorists? amazon's matt wood isn't
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worried. >> if something does happen. we have a purr eve power event. that data its held in other locations. >> dent mean to give any idea. let's say i figured out one of the unmarked buildings was aws data center the i blie out up. you saying it is backed up receive done can't. you wouldn't known tis. >> you wouldn't notice. we would be a bit upset you. wouldn't notice. >> cloud offers speed, stability. flexibility and savings to the world's businesses. doesn't mean it is flawless. an obvious example its that the cloud uses massive amount of power. off awe a university of michigan professor and author of a prehistory of the cloud. >> itch you add up the data centers they would be the fifth most power hungry countrien the world. they are idle 96% of the time. >> what are? >> data centers are computers sitting doing nothing for 96% of
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the time. that's because they're waiting for, a speak in traffic. waiting for the next music video. they have to build capacity for it. nothing happens on the internet. beside a lot of cat videos. >> and then there its all of the secrecy. >> we don't know anything about what amazon or google really does with their data. we have to take their word or it. in fact, if anything we sign away half of our rites to the data. the strange way. companies deep side what happens to the data that you have. >> even appropriate fessor whu admits it is here to stay. aws its on track to make $16 billion this year. swar. ing the part of amazon most people know. sells books and things. aws is growing at 40% a year. and loudon couldn'ty can't build data centers fast enough. buddy riser says there are seven noouf new ones under construction right now.
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>> how long will it take to build that? >> under two years. >> are you saying that, that this kind of construction is being built to an tis patriot the demand a couple years from now. is there enough demand for builders. >> 100% leased already. not getting ahead. we are just barely keeping up. there is no empty space in our data center. by and large. they're 100% filled. do i use a toothpaste that whitens my teeth or... ...one that's good for my teeth? now i don't have to choose! from crest 3d white comes new whitening therapy. it's our best whitening technology. plus, it has a fortifying formula to protect your enamel. crest. healthy, beautiful smiles for life. not all fish oil supplements provide the same omega-3 power.
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guitarist, songwriter, billy corgan rocked the world for smashing pumpkins. well he has a new solo album out and new name. he wants to be called, william patrick corgan. anthony mason tells us why. ♪ today is the greatest for frz ♪ day i have ever known >> he was billy when we came to not him, billy corgan intense front man of alt rock smashing pumpkins. in the early 90s a kid from the chicago suburbs on a mission. >> i really wanted out? >> out of what?
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>> suburban malaise, strip malls, structure of middle-class life. >> standing with a smile. leave you look they left me ♪ >> corgan saw music as his escape hatch. >> ever told me you are wrong. you can't possibly do this you don't have the talent. you didn't hatch the voice. no one makes it. look at your father he didn't make it my father was a musician. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: but he wasn't wrong. his band broke through in 1993, with the album, siamese dream. ♪ shake down 1979 >> the follow-up. melon collie and in fi nate sadness went to number one and sold more than 10 million copies in the u.s. alone. off awe when you had success were you sur pried by it? >> uh-uh. not at all. i know that sound terribly, ungrateful. but no i wasn't surprised at all. my mother told me she wasn't surprised 1%.
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>> where did her faith come from? >> you have to ask her. that goes on the list i wished i asked my mother. >> corgan lost his mother to cancer in 1996. >> when you lose somebody quite young, you look back and say, i wish i knew a little bit more about this one thing. like shadows. so i have to guess. >> to what degree is your music an attempt to fill in shadows? >> an interesting question. i think my music is an attempt to reflect the inner world that i feel. and that i believe in. but i see very little representation outwardly. which is a bit strange. sort of like wizard of oz. ♪ what's your promise ♪ on a conquest >> corgan's new record ogilala first solo album in more than a decade. billy has become william pat wreck corgan. >> you didn't want to be billy anymore? >> started to feel uncomfortable.
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became a weird sign of my arrogance or something. so once i saw it irtatd. i said i am going to do this. >> you liked irritating them. >> i liked irritating them. he is quite good. espousing free speech and conspiracy theories on controversial talk shows. >> once we give up free speech in this country it is over. >> i am natural con trarian. >> like pushing back. >> the world ties comfortable for itself, we need clowns, we need weirdos, we need freaks. keep the system in check. ♪ ♪ >> corgan says he tried to walk away from music but discovered he couldn't. >> ended up pulling out an acoustic guitar and starting over. saying, well if i can prove to myself that i can still write a good song there is a roone to continue. >> working with producer wreck ruben the songs took shape. >> yeah, totally, totally from the cosmos. >> feel pretty good?
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>> feel pretty good? >> i'm we're the generation that had it all. we're the generation that had the music and the moves. we're the generation that had the style. well, sometimes. we're the generation that walked where no one had walked before, like no one had walked before, and, boy, did we know how to fly. we're the generation that had a dream and broke down walls. we came together to feed the world's children. we came together to protect them. and in this dangerous world, we have to keep on saving them, protecting them, caring for them even when we're gone. if we remember unicef in our will, we'll remember the children who desperately need our help, and we'll be the generation who left a better world for children. visit uniceflegacy.org.
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a man from north carolina suffering from als dedicated his final years to make the world a better place. steve hartman has been following his story on the road. >> reporter: i first met chris in 2013 after learning of his plot to steel a krispy kreme donut truck. >> go and give away the donuts. i was going to the nearest school. because once i knew where -- >> this plan has some holes in it, not speaking donuts. >> just going to pull up to a school. say, here, everybody here is donuts? >> yeah, you know. now that you said that. probably wouldn't. >> not to mention the legal ramifications. >> one of the blessings of als, what are they going to do? it never came to that.
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krispy kreme gave his wife and chris donuts. which they delivered to city parks. cancer wards and children's hospitals. >> well are glad to make some people smile. >> because if i can't impact people, then this whole thing is a waste. >> after that first story, chris' purpose and passion was quoted on church signs. celebrated on social media. replicated in communities across the country. he inspired thousands of children to do random acts of kindness. he had them make videos about their good deeds. then held an oscar style red carpet premiere. and he started the idea of butterfly grants. a way for kids to fund their kindness projects. ♪ then a hero comes along >> if i have enough time i will change the world. ♪ the fear inside >> time ran out this week.
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on sunday, i got an e-mail from chris that read in part. i want to thank you again for everything. one last time. i'll die tuesday. keep living the dream. a few months earlier, chris had gotten a tracheal tube to extend his life. he wanted more time. but the trach took away his voice and severely impacted his quality of life. he said it made him into a monster. so this week, he add the trach disabled. chris leaves behind his w anna and their two daughters, delaney and logan. >> what will you remember about him? >> he tried to make friend with the world. >> yeah. >> i think it's hard to do that. >> yeah. >> so i'm proud of him. ♪ that a hero lies in you >> us too. steve hartman, cbs news, new york.
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that's the "overnight news" captioning funded by cbs it's monday, october 23rd, 2017. this is the "cbs morning news." the fate of army sergeant bowe bergdahl is in the hands of the judge. today the sentencing hearing begins and is expected to be dramatic. searching for a killer. three people are gunned down in the same florida neighborhood just days apart. now police are concerned they might be dealing with a serial killer. >> just what is that? do you hear that? what is that? >> that's mark twain rolling over in his grave. >> and funny man david letterman

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