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to mother russia. they'll carry everything from food to tourists. already it's a source of pride and a local attraction. at a lookout on the shore, he and izhad friends have come to marvel and pose for pictures. "absolutely. the bridge underlines that crimea is ours" he tells me "and we are never giving it back." officially russia is saying america has to do just that. give crimea back to ukrain to
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megared advanced triple absorption. if you've driv an new car lately, you spla found yourself struggling to operate dashboard that looks like it belongs in a cockpit. don dayler on it worst offenders. >> reporter: this should get your full attention. last year distracted driving killed more than 3,000 people in the u.s. >> we've all driven distracted, practically all of us and we've gotten away with it. >> i'll be your host for this evening. >> reporter: in 2009 a driver using his gps killed joel feldman's 21-year-old daughter, casey. >> in my opinion to have things
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so they can touch, email, access social media or it internet while they're driving. >> reporter: a new study by consumer reports backs up that opinion. jake fisher took us out on the test track. >> some of the adjustments for this car are actually in this very, very dense and confusing system here. so if i want to get if had to some of my safety systems -- >> you're having to spend a lot of time looking at the screen while you're driving. >> exactly. >> reporter: they found accura, cadillac, lexus, mercedes and volvo are listed as having the most distracting systems. fisher says new technologies like lane departure warnings and autoemergency braking. make high tech cars safer. but even those are no substitute
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for an alert, engaged driver. >> these screens should be locked out except for driving essential tasks while driving. you want people to be focussed on the road. >> reporter: some allow only minimal manual imput while the car is moving. but although many states out law texting while driving, there's no federal restriction of driving access to the entertainment systems. and still ahead a security flaw in amazon's new home deliver. ok, let's try this.
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had u.s. from zimbabwe and zibabe. a security company has found a flaw in amazon keys. a new device that lets delivery people enter a home once they authenticate themselves. thieves can get in undetected. amazon is promising a system update to address the problem. a mystery buyer is the new owner of a 500-year-old picture of jesus by davinci. it sold last night for $450 million. the highest price ever paid at auction for a work of art. the painting was sold by a russian billionaire after a 19-minute bidding war. up next, the
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80-year-old lou cox loves it. >> i felt better. >> reporter: physically better? is this like a fountain of youth for you. when they formed 15 years ago they would end their rides at a bakery. the bakery closed. the weekly ride goes on. through denver's thin air at altitudes of 5 to 6,000 feet, most are in their 60s or 70s doing this roughly 27 mile bike ride with jerseys that say it all. a social club with a cycling problem. >> i found out the secret of growing old is just not to die. >> reporter: but bicycling obviously helps. >> reporter: lou's life was once sedintary. his truck driving job involved mostly sitting. after retirement he saw his son's bike in the garage and took it for a spin.
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now he also rides a stationary bike three time as week and even rides his bike to the gym. it adds up to about 85 miles a week and over the years that adds up to enough miles to circle the globe. >> in total i would say 25,000. >> reporter: how many more times do you plan to ride around the earth? >> i want to ride until i just can't. >> reporter: but for now there's no stopping lou or it riders living stronger than ever as the oldest and fittest biker gang in are had of colorado. >> marvelous, darling, marvelous.% >> reporter: cbs news, denver. >> and that's the overnight news for this friday. 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. thanks for watching.
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♪ this is the cbs overnight news. welcome to the overnight news. president trump is one step closer to the first major legislative victory of his administration. the house of representatives approved the biggest tax code since the time of ronald regan. reduces personal income tax brackets and scales back many deductions used by the middle class. they call it a give away to the rich. meanwhile, the gop is likely to face a tougher time getting through the senate. >> reporter: house republicans cheered as their tax plan passed with votes to spare.
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>> we are in a generational defining moment for our country. >> reporter: the tax cuts and jobs act of 2017 shrinks the number of brackets from seven to four. lowering rates and eliminating some deductions. the independent tax policy center estimates americans who make between 50 and $90,000 a year would get an average tax cut next year of about $800. president trump took a victory lap on capitol hill. he pushed for the bill's huge corporate rate cut but democrats warned the gop will pay a political price for passing a plan that primarily benefits big business and the wealthy. >> republicans want you to believe that their it trickle down tax break for the rich will pay for itself. never has happened. >> reporter: a dozen republicans from new york, new jersey, california voted no because it bill eliminated the deduction for state and local taxes.
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>> i just have too many constituents who are going to see their taxes go up. >> reporter: but most house republicans were ecstatic and they're anxiously watching the senate where a separate gop plan has gone through several rapid revisions. south carolina's tim scott is one of the senate plan's authors. are you concerned workers will benefit from all these tax breaks that their employers are going to get? >> if we do not reform our business taxes more jobs today in america will be in another country. so the answer is simple. absolutely. >> reporter: senate republicans are hoping to pass their plan out of the finance committee tomorrow and bring it up for a full senate vote after thanksgiving. then senate and house republicans would have to reconcile the differences between their plans and vote
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aagain. a process that president is urging them to wrap up before christmas. minnesota senator al franken would face ethics allegations after a radio -- but that may not be the end of the. >> reporter: this photograph was taken at the end of a twof had week uso tour in 2006. leeann tweeden says it showed al franken groping her while she was sleeping. >> i guess i always wondered if i any talent. >> reporter: it was before franken was a senator. saidee insisted on working on a skit he wrote that included a kiss. >> he grabs the back of my head and puts his lips right on mine and sticks his tongue in my mouth. >> reporter: in an visual statement franken said i certainly don't remember the rehearsal for the skit in the
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same way but i send my sincerest apologies. the photo was clearry intended to be funny but wasn't. i'm sorry. i've told j written a lot of jokes at the time i thought was funny but realized they were offensive. she's speaking out after hearing the california democrat leading an effort to combat sexual harassment on capitol hill. the alligations against franken join the wave of accusations by men in positions of power in hollywood, comedy and politics. franken who was on saturday night live for 15 years straddles all three. his behavior was swiftly condemned by both democrats and republicans in the senate who called for an ethics investigation. franken says he will cooperate. >> i feel like now that the tide
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has changed. there's strength in numbers and women are coming forward and really the culture has changed. >> reporter: leeann tweeden told us she accepts franken's apology. we reached out to 16 women who used to work for franken. six got back us to and all said they didn't witness or see anything inappropriate. roy moore is accused of sexual misconduct by several women, most said it happened when they were teenagers. >> i present to you the hero of the day our valiant leader, judge roy moore. >> reporter: judge moore was in exceedingly friendly company this afternoon hosted by conservatives across the country who thought the world of him. rusty tommase of operation save america. >> do not alow under any
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circumstances washington d.c., los angeles, and new york dictate to you the outcome of this race. >> reporter: in brief remarks moore made clear he will not quit. >> the wauks post has brought skurilous, false charges, not charges. allegations which i have emphatically denied time and time again. but what was billed as a press conference by his campaign ended in a frenzy of questions that moore had a penchant of lecherous behavior with young women. the judge walked away from the questions but not the controversy. it national gop wants little or nothing to do with him with one senator after another supporting his accusers while mulling ways to block izhad path to washington. >> i think the evidence is becoming overwhelming that he had a problem.
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>> reporter: for it second straight day president trump who had allegations lodged against him had passed up a chance to join the debate over moore's fate. later press secretary sarah sanders came down somewhere in the middle. >> the president believes these allegations are very troubling and should be taken seriously and thinks the people of alabama should make the decision on who their next senator should be. >> reporter: a new poll suggests the controversy is reallyurt hadding moore. it shows his democratic challenger now with an eight-point lead. 50-42% in what has long been a reliably republican state. hey, need fast heartburn relief?
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this is the cbs overnight news. >> federal officials announced what they call a break through in the battle against it deadly elsalve doren street gang, and its members are now causing mayhem from coast to coast. margaret brenm went along on a round up in new york's long island. while cracking down on undocumented immigrants is part of the trump's administration's strategy to stop the growth of international gangs like ms 13. operation matador is the name of the law enforcement effort to track and deport suspected gang members. but so far 345 arrests since the
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month of may. >> the investigation revealed that he has become a member of the ms-13 street gang. >> reporter: this was a suspected member who had illegally entered the u.s. the team of 12 immigration agents and local police expected the 20-year-old suspect to be armed. assistant special agent in charge, joseph molina. >> he inthe country illegally and went through the immigration process and a judge ordered him removed. >> but we know he's an ms 13 member? >> we have pictures of him flashing gang signs. have a warrant. >> so it appears the two guns are pellet guns or bb guns. >> reporter: no other weapons were found but they were able to
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make it arrest based on the immigration status, part of the unique mandate of i.c.e. an hour later they nabbed a second suspect. he's a known ms-13 member? >> an ms-13 associate. >> so his known crime is entering the country illegally? >> that's correct. >> reporter: that's are are had you definitely know? >> that's correct. processing him as a gang associate is because once he goes in front of an immigration judge, we don't want him to get bail because the whole idea is to get known gang members off the street. >> reporter: both men were taken here with plans to question and then deport them. the court house is home to the command center for molina's team. >> it's a heat map that shows the locations where the gang members are known to rezield. >> reporter: on this residential street, a man was found brutally
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beaten to death last year. there was a killing right here and we believe that was ms 13 that carried it out. >> reporter: a month prior two teen age girls were murdered a mile away. police suspect ms 13 gang members. >> they don't shoot people because that's too fast and not painful. they cut them in little pieces. msf had 13 are in their meanness as al qaeda. they kidnap, they extort, they rape and they rob. >> reporter: on long island he recognized the work of i.c.e.'s acting director. you felt your hands were tied in the past? >> absolutely. >> reporter: he says since president trump's election, they've been able to make more arrests, in part because the administration allows him to prioritize any individual who
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passes illegally, not just those who have committed other crimes. but immigration advocates complain this is simply a back door way to enforce a heavy handed immigration. >> people can make allegations are had day long. i got 20,000 american patriots who work for ice. these are men and women who get up every morning, strap a gun to their hip and protect communities, protect people they'll never meet and never know. >> reporter: he says the trump administration's message is to undocumented immigrants if you and your family make it across the border, you not home free. he says that hard line stance has discouraged border crossings and lead to a decrease. >> some in congress say they'll resume their quest to send the u.s. military into space. the pentagon already spends $22 billion a year on space and a
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lot of that technology is deep in the cheyenne mountains. >> it's said the colorado air force station pulls in information, makes sense of it and passes it along to the brain or our country's decision makers. there's also good reason cheyenne mountain is known as america's fortress. >> it is the nerve center for the blanket of defense in the u.s. >> reporter: that nerve center is here in colorado springs. an impen trbl fortress beneath granite. he commands the support group at cheyenne mountain. >> the sensors that there global are feeding data into cheyenne mountain that's desiminated to the national leaders. >> reporter: this complex was built in the 1950s and 60s to
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defend hes against long-range soviet bombers. cold war tensions have since thawed but russia and china are developing technology that could destroy america's satellites and north korea has launched a litany of missileal tests. is this facility still equipped to handle what we've seen happen throughout it last 40 years? >> it is. it's designed to be a certified facility that will survive any threat to north america right now. >> reporter: it's survivable so that various government agencies inside can surveill the skies and provide security to the u.s. and canada. if a foreign country attacks the american heartland two 25 ton doors would seal the mountain and everyone inside the base within 40 seconds. since the cold war has there
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ever been a need or threat or scare to where both doors have been closed? >> september 11th, 2001, is it only time we had been closed. there was an aircraft headed towards colorado we lost contact with. so we closed the doors. >> reporter: there had is a hosl and a fire department. firefighter carry thompson runs drills so they're prepared to respond to any edical emergencies. >> we secured him to a backboard and brought imhad down. >> reporter: and that we've heard has happened. >> oh, yes. it happens. >> reporter: if there is a seismic event like an earthquake more than 1300 rolled steel springs isolate it buildings. >> they'll just sway in their chambers and continue to go on. >> reporter: despite the gravity defying efforts. >> it takes over and refills the
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reservoir for us. >> reporter: some accuse the pentagon of not doing enough to prioritize space. calling for the creation of a combat ready space corp by 2017. the senate's version proibhadts this, putting them on a collision course over space. general jay raymond is opposed to creating a separate space corpse. >> reporte >> the air force has been leaders in space for over 60 years. and today there's nothing we do as a joint force that isn't enabled by space. our potential adversaries have had a front row seat j watched us to great advantage and to be honest they probably don't like what they see.
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than the massive air and space museum. the people who built it say it's the most complicated project they've ever done and washington politics made it even more so. you're going to have a lot of sore necks in this place. 40 feet high, this digital ceiling makes for a spectacular entrance. but first they'll pass three these 15-ton bronze doors with text from the book of genesis with eight levels, the museum is the equivalent of a 17-story building. >> so this is the whole bible from first page to the last. >> reporter: somers is the museum's president. >> we didn't pick this building, as some have said, because we're close to the capitol. >> reporter: donors contributed but the most controversial a hobby lobby. the arts and crafts chain by the
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green family. steve green is the president of hobby lobby which as amassed one of the largest private biblical collections over it world. they'll be on display here. the collection itself has been the subject of controversy. this summer hobby lobby agreed to forfeit thousands of pieces and pay $3 million after it was discovered they had been smuggled into the u.s. from the middle east. >> obviously mistakes happen and we were willing to pay the fine. >> reporter: he insists the museum does not approach the bible from a particular viewpoint. some have said the goal is to knock coun that wall between church and state? >> yell, no. it's not it state's role to aspouz faith. >> reporter: you have said americans are as ignorant of the
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bible as they have ever been. >> and primarily because we don't teach it in the schools as we once did. >> you get to experience it through seeing it, feeling it. it's amazing. >> reporter: hop aboard the fly board theater and experience the sensation of flying through washington d.c. view the scripture passages inscribed on federal buildings. >> it's awesome to see the influence that christianity has had in this country. >> reporter: the museum invites you to walk through the history of the bible. these are modelled after the biblical bible of joseph deni. >> you makeup your own mind. >> reporter: some critics on it left say it will be filled with evangelical propaganda but same
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nearly all late model cars have some sort of entertainment system. others can get very comp lkted. consumer reports did a study and found some of the new systems can be dangerous, causing possible deadly distraction behind the wheel. >> reporter: to keep up with the demand for technology, they're pushing these systems. but consumer reports says replacing the traditional knobs and buttons with these digital screens makes things more distracting for drivers. >> casey's last words were i want my mom. >> reporter: he lost his 21-year-old daughter, casey to a distracted daughter in 2009. the aspiring reporter was struck walking across the street as it
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driver of this van was reaching for his gps. >> it was a driver who made choice to do something other than keep izhad eyes on the road which he had probably done lots of times before but this time his luck ran out. >> reporter: last year distracted driving killed more than 3,000 people in the u.s. >> reporter: which do you think is more dangerous? messing around with the entertainment system or texting? >> they're both dangerous. >> reporter: consumer reports director of auto testing. >> the issue is once you get involved in all of the features there, your going to get distracted and get consumed by it. >> reporter: infotainment systems have become so advanced you can do everything from adjusting it lighting, navigating your gps and surfing the internet while driving. safety features like lane
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departure warning and automatic braking can help prevent crashes caused by distraction. but even setting those can take your eyes off the road. >> if i want to get if to some of my safety systems -- >> reporter: you're having to spend a lot of time looking at your screen while you're driving. >> exactly. >> reporter: he worries drivers are becoming complacent. >> they continue to drive distracted but like russian roulette, one day it will catch up to all of us. >> reporter: cbs morning reached out toall 20 auto makers. several said they did not have time to review the report but safety was their top priority. mercedes benz said it's constantly trying to balance human interfaces while minimizing driver distraction. >> and that's the overnight news for this friday. for some of you the news continues and for others check back with us later for the morning news and of course cbs this morning.
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captioning funded by cbs it's friday, november 17th, 2017. this is the "cbs morning news." senator al franken apologizes after a woman says he forcibly kissed and groped her. >> he just put his hand on the back of my head and smashed his face against -- i mean it happened so fast. he smashed his lips against my face. >> standing by their embattled candidate, the alabama republican party is supporting roy moore despite growing allegations of sexua
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