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moore rejection. alabama's top newspapers run a front page editorial slamming the embattled senate candidate weeks before the special election. >> also tonight african dictator robert mugabe ousted by his party refusing to resign. >> days after a 200,000 gallon oil leak, a key vote tomorrow for the controversial keystone x pipeline. >> learning in the dark. school children in storm ravaged puerto rico. >> and, we first met them six years ago. >> you would see all the dirty water there. >> four girls who set out to help families a world away. look how they and their charity have grown.
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>> that's a pretty big accomplishment. >> yeah, it was pretty daunting to start. ♪ >> announcer: this is the cbs "overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm elaine quijano.l election t from tomorrow could alter the balance of poweren the u.s. senate. the top three newspapers in alabama ran front page editorials rejecting republican candidate roy moore. he is fighting off multiple allegations of sixable misconduct. the newspapers call the election a turning point for women in a state that has silenced them for too long. dean reynold is there. >> thank you. thank you. thank you. >> doug jones the democrat in this race and often overlooked candidate who is hoping a new day is dawning in alabama. >> when you are on the right side of justice, when you are on the right side of equality, you can accomplish great things. >> and as of today, jones is on the right side of the most
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influential newspaper in the state. winning the endorsement of the birmingham news, which simultaneously and pointedly attacked his republican opponent roy moore. every day said the editorial, new allegations arise that illustrate a pattern of a man in his 30s strutting through town like the cock of the walk, courting and preying on young women and girls. nine women one as young as 14 at the time have come forward with allegations against moore ranging from undesired advances to molestation when he was a man in his 30s. now, 70, moore and his team have attacked the women and "the washington post" which first published their stories. >> scurilous, false, charges not charges, allegations. which i have emphatically denied. time and time again. >> today's birmingham news editorial assailed moore's rigid religious conservatism.
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if we vote for roy moore, alabama will also show that we don't care about you, if you are gay or muslim or catholic if you are an atheist or an immigrant it said. michelle holmes is on the editorial board. >> this was a clear cut case. we have opposed moore before. we will oppose moore in the future. roy moore is bad for alabama. >> reporter: turnout will mean everything in the race. the dead loon to register to vote is november 27th. elaine. >> dean reynold, thank you. we turn now to our chief washington correspondent, and "face the nation" host john dickerson. what are the chances roy moore can win the alabama senate seat in december? >> well, we don't know. the polling shows that he, moore is a little bit behind. given all of the, coverage of this race and the, the moral baggage it has taken on, you have to be highly skeptical of
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polling any way but in this condition where people may not say they will vote for him and not voting for him. he has a core that loves him. the question is whether there are enough democrats who are outraged by this behavior to actually turn out. but i think it is anybody's guess at this point. >> another issue, john. house republicans passed the tax bill earlier this week. a few republican senators still have questions about the senate version of the bill. will the senate you think be able to pass it before the end of the year? >> well legislative days are drawing short. there are sort of a handful of republican senators who have issues. and the question is whether those issues can be addressed with changes in the bill, the normal process. or whether when they change the bill it knocks other senators off of it. but, the big questions are really, who gets the breaks and whether it creates too much of a, an impact on the debt. which a lot of isn't torz still believe is an important issue. if you make the debt too big it will hurt economic growth. >> john dickerson in washington. john, thank you. >> thank you, elaine. minnesota democrat al
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franken kept a low profile this weekend after being hit sexual misconduct allegations. franken and fellow senators from both parties called for an ethics gigs into charethic ethics investigation that he made unwanted advanced toward a woman. new sexual misconduct allegations in show business. among the accused producer, executive russell simmons, tv host, ryan seacrest and jeffrey tambor. the growing fallout from the harvey weinstein scandal. >> the class action lawsuit against harvey weinstein and companies seeks to hold responsible the private detectives, attorneys and others who helped weinstein cover up his behavior for years. the suit describes these others as members of an organization, the weinstein sexual enterprise, whose job it was to harass, threatening, extort and mislead his victims and the media to prevent the prosecution,
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reporting, or disclosure of his sexual misconduct. seems look a serial criminal? >> it would be, yes. >> captain bill hayes lead the di v division of the los angeles police department, now those allegedly committed by weinstein. >> we have at least one investigation at this point in time appears to be where he is the suspect. >> the revelations about other prominent hollywood names have been keeping hayes' department busy. >> we have gotten a significant number in the sitcity of los angeles, 22 active investigations related to this. >> reporter: 22 active investigations? >> correct. what we are doing is putting emphasis on the cases first because obviously some of them can fall out of statute. >> 22 cases against the prominent hollywood names? >> there are, a number of names that are involved. some of them have more than one victim alleging a crime against them. >> are your investigations telling hollywood predators,
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we're coming for you? >> i believe they're telling any of the predators that we are coming for them. >> since the weinstein accusations surfaced in october, the lapd received on average at least one call a day. alleging sexual assault in the entertainment industry. john blackstone, cbs news, los angeles. >> at least one tornado touched down yesterday as a wave of severe storms moved through tennessee. there were no serious injuries. another tornado hit indiana. powerful wind, ripped roofs off homes and businesses, and sent tractor trailers flying. again, no one was seriously hurt. the cbs "overnight news" will be right back.
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days after a massive oil leak in the keystone pipeline. a key vote tomorrow for the controversial keystone xl expansion. here is roxana saaberi. >> what appears to be a small spot staining the farmland, 210,000 gallons of oil from a leak in the keystone pipeline. transcanada, the canadian company running the pipeline says its crews shut it down after noticing the leak thursday morning. >> we have the right personnel here to do the job. and we are going to be here and aggressively do this. >> local landowner, ken mokely is worried about contamination. >> i don't want tight happen anywhere, but of course on us. >> reporter: the keystone pipeline delivers oil from can
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pa to illinois and texas. the leak in south dakota came four days before nebraska regulators are set to announce whether to let transcanada build another pipeline through their state. the proposal called keystone xl sparked criticism from nebraskans like art tanba. >> what gives a foreign corporation the right to come in and take land nebraska farmers. >> reporter: in march president trump paved the way for the project reversing former president obama's rejection of it on environmental ground. and granting transcanada a federal permit. >> transka dcanada will be allo to complete the project. >> reporter: nebraska officials say the spill in south dakota won't affect their decision on whether the expansion can go ahead. but critics say, the leak is proof of the perils posed by pipelines. if regulators approve the keystone xl expansion monday, the new pipeline would carry about 830,000 barrels of oil a
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day from canada through three states. it would connect with the existing keystone pipeline that just looekeaked. the cause is under investigation. >> roxana, thank you. robert mugabe, long time dictator of zimbabwe was ousted to day. his impeachment could be next. mu mugabe took control of the country months before president reagan was first elected. debora patta has more. >> reporter: robert mugabe stand isolated. his once ironclad grip on power ebbing away. but still he is digging in his heels. it was widely expect he would stand down in an address to the nation this evening. >> the congress in a few weeks from now. >> reporter: instead he gave a rambling speech with no hint of resignation and appeared to think he was still in charge. >> i will preside over its processes. >> reporter: today his party
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rejected him. in the jubilant meeting they also demand heed resign as president of the country by noon on monday, or face impeachment. his controversial wife, grace has been permanently expell from the party. for 37 years, mugabe is the only president zimbabwe has known. he has ruled as a brutal tyrant. detaining opposition leaders and ruining the economy. and he unleashed thugs, grandly calling themselves war veterans, to seize white owned farms and leave the land fallow, now the leader of the powerful war veterans association, has turned on mugabe. >> you better give in to them now. if he doesn't we take over, for where the defense forces left. >> and yesterday, in unprecedented scenes, nearly
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four decades of fear melted away. as the people of zimbabwe took to the streets in their thousand. they want mugabe gone. but stubborn to the end he is insisting on remaining president until next year's election. parliament reconvenes on tuesday. if mugabe has the not stepped down by then, it its expected it will move to impeach him. elaine. >> debora patta. thank you. off the coast of argentina this weekend, possible signs of life from a missing submarine. the argentine sub, the san juan disappeared with 44 crew members on board. saturdays authorities received seven satellite signals, blips believed from the sub. no contact was made. the u.s. navy and nasa are helping in the search with aircraft and underwater rescue equipment. in homestead, florida, today, dale earnhardt jr. drove the last lap of his racing career. earnhardt was 26 when his
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father, the legendary dale earnhardt sr. was killed as they raced together toward the finish. junior hangs up his health meth with 26 career victories incl e including two at daytona. >> queen elizabeth ii and prince philip are celebrating their 70th anniversary with a new portrait. the photo taken earlier this month inside their home, windsor castle, the queen, 91, and the prince now 96 are planning a private celebration tomorrow with other members of the royal family. up next, they are puerto rico's future. school children learning in the dark. try degree ultraclear black + white
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american territory. two months after the storm, half of all the island still in the dark. as david begnaud reports, school children are getting lacesons in patience and perseverance. >> good morning, to you. >> by day night the first graders are practicing english at julio henna elementary school in san juan. no matter what the language, the struggles are easy to see. meals come in ready to eat packages or from the gas stove. at least the school is open. about 400 of the island 1100 public schools. >> we are waiting. >> the contractor hired to inspect that schools are safe was fired. so the national guard has taken over. >> anything that need to be rolled up. >> at another school. >> any other areas. >> no.
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yes. >> uh-huh. >> principal deborah hernandez has a list of hazard. >> there is a leak. a lek thak. >> six weeks after the storm many students left the island. >> we lost 25 students confirmed. some of them moved off to the states. others to private schools. >> education secretary julia keller told us maria devastated a school system in trouble. but she refuses to send kids back to unsafe schools. >> some school communities are willing to open their schools even those schools have conditions that would not meet a minimum standard in the states. >> it doesn't meet your bar? >> no i think some of the conditions are unacceptable. >> for her and a lot of parents, we are in a school without power three week. still open. 56 students from here have gun to florida enrolled there. across the island. 6,400 students left and are
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22 people are suing the maker of the nutriblender. they claim the powerful blenders mall functioned causing injuries and burns. the maker of nutriblender maintains the blenders are safe. here its mireya villarreal. >> the power of the nutriblender, breaks everything down. >> billed as high speed appliance that can pulverize foods better than a blender. >> secret of the nutribullet its the 600 watt motor. >> some users of the nutribullet claim the device is dangerous. >> came flying out all over me, kitchen, ceiling, walls. >> reporter: she used hers daily for years to make smoothies until one morning it exploded after 20 second. causing second degree burns. >> your arms felt on fire. >> on fire. on my chest. also hit me in the face as well. she is one of at least 22 people now suing nutribullet. the latest, spoke out tuesday
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says her face was badly burned. >> want to tell people dent use this product no more. because the it is dangerous. >> reporter: attorney danny ibea represents both women and claims a manufacturing defect can cause pressure to build up inside the blender. >> the spinning creates heat and pressure inside the canister. and the canister can blow up. >> reporter: nutribullet is contesting lawsuits he filed on behalf of clients. in a statement the company says reports of our blenders causing injury are extremely rare. we typically find customers have failed to adhere to the operating instructions and warnings provided. >> the company says that these cases are very rare and this is all a publicity campaign. >> we have 22 cases. and we are one firm in los angeles. >> had i known that that device, that nutri bullet could hurt me high wouldn't hatch used it. that's what why want people to know. those can hurt you.
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we end with a remarkable group of girls we first met in 2011, from long island, helping families more than 8700 miles away in cambodia. we recently paid the girls a visit to see how they and their charity have grown. >> the little kids just kind of live like on the street. >> reporter: back when emmy spect was 8, a family trip to cambodia opened her eyes to a nation's need. to see it as a kid how did that change you when you saw the poverty? >> when we noticed how much we all have, that we kind of take for granted every day. just something as small as clean water. that other people need. and we use it every day. we don't even notice it. >> so emmy, her sister rae and friend took notice. starting the charity, four girls for families. their first project was funding
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and delivering 600 water filtration systems to cambodia. >> i thought that it was really a great cause. >> mandy at age 12. >> in cambodia you would see all the dirty walter there. >> and we have delivered almost 3,000 of these water filters. >> improving a country's water sa pl supply helps prevent death and disease and impacts so much more says 17-year-old rae spect. >> a lot of young women in the villages because they did not have clean drinking water it would affect their whole lives, like have to walk for miles each day to get clean drinking water. it would prevent them from going to school. >> so you're from doing water filters to building wells. and a lot of the wells were built at schools so that kids could bring walter back to their family. >> while we are on the topping of schools. >> we have also just finished a new project we are happy about.
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the pet school, for 500 kids. >> pretty good accomplishment. >> yeah, pretty daunting to start. >> high school junior, eloise casay. >> visiting the school was probably one of the highlights of the trip. you know talking to the students. really making a personal connection. and seeing firsthand, what we have done. >> do you think about them when you are here? >> i do. some times when i just, get a glass of water, i think, you know, i wonder what that girl at that school i talked to, i wonder if she is doing now, and i wonder if she has clean water because of us. >> i love it. >> they sell cambodian crafts to raise fund. their new goal, a second school. and a second generation of siblings and volunteers for the project. >> you think you will keep working with four girls for families. >> sam spect its 11. >> it is the right thing to do if someone is in need. you should make a difference. >> that's the "overnight news" for monday. for some of you the news
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continues. for others check back for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm elaine quijano. welcome to the "overnight news," i'm elaine quijanoai special election could alter the balance of power in the u.s. senate. the top three newspapers in bamt b alabama ran front page editorials rejection candidate roy moore. fighting off allegations of sexual misconduct. the newspapers call the election point a turning point for women in a state that has the silenced them for too long. dean reynolds is there. >> thank you. thank you. thank you. >> doug jones is the democrat in the race. and often overlooked candidate, who is hoping a new day is dawning in alabama.
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you can accomplish great things. >> reporter: as of today, jones is on the right side of the most influential newspaper in the state. winning the endorsement of the birmingham news, which simultaneously, and pointedly attacked his republican opponent, roy moore. every day, said the editorial, new allegations arise. so far, nine women one as young as 14 at the time have come forward with allegations against moore, ranging from undesired advances to molestation. when he was a man in his 30s. now 70 moore and his team attacked the women and "the washington post" which first published their stories.
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>> scurilous, false, charges not charges, allegations. which i have emphatically denied. time and time agin. >> today's birmingham news editorial assailed moore's rigid religious conservatism. if we vote for roy moore, alabama will also show that we don't care about you, if you are gay or muslim or catholic if you are an atheist or an immigrant it said. michelle holmes is on the editorial board. >> this was a clear cut case. we have opposed moore before. we will oppose moore in the future. roy moore is bad for alabama. >> reporter: turnout will mean everything in the race. the deadline to register to vote is november 27th. elaine. >> dean reynolds, thank you. the political horse trading is heating up on capitol hill where senate republicans plan to hold a volt on the tax overall bill right after the thanksgiving recess. gop leaders can only afford to lose two votes. and wisconsin senator ron johnson has already said he can't vote for the bill the way it stands. nancy cordes has more. >> this bull crap that you guys
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throw out here really gets old after a while. do it right at the end of this. >> reporter: tension had been building in the senate finance committee for four days. >> when republicans are in power, the first thing they want to do is give tax cuts to the rich. just what, in their dna. >> i really resent anybody saying i am just doing this for the rich. give me a break. >> committee chairman, orrin hatch, and ohio democrat, sherrod brown decided to have it out. >> with all due respect i get sick and tired of the richest people in the country getting richer and richer. >> regular order. order. listen, i've honored you by alug you to spout off here. and what you said was not right. that's all i'm saying. i come from the lower middle-class, originally, we didn't have anything. so spew that stuff on me. >> at the heart of the debate was new analysis by the joint committee on taxation, a bipartisan congressional operation. it says the republican senate plan would initially lead to tax
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cuts at all income levels. but, low income americans would start seeing their taxes go up in 2021. and by 2027, all individuals making $75,000 or less would pay more than under current law. partly because many of the plans tax breaks are temporary. kevin hassette is the president's chief economist. >> the hope for everybody is that, when the time comes for these thnings to expire they ge extended. >> there is no guarantee. democrats argue that businesses and the wealthy reap permanent benefits from the tax plan. republicans believe they can pass the bill without democratic support. so there is little in send tice. >> days after a massive oil like in the keystone pipeline, a vote tomorrow for the expansion. here is roxana saberi.
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>> what appears to be a small spot staining the farmland, 210,000 gallons of oil from a leak in the keystone pipeline. transcanada, the canadian company running the pipeline says its crews shut it down after noticing the leak thursday morning. >> we have the right personnel here to do the job. and we are going to be here and aggressively do this. >> local landowner, ken mokely is worried about contamination. >> i don't want tight happen anywhere, but of course on us. >> reporter: the keystone pipeline delivers oil from can pa to illinois and texas. the leak in south dakota came four days before nebraska regulators are set to announce whether to let transcanada build another pipeline through their state. the proposal called keystone xl sparked criticism from nebraskans like art tanba. >> what gives a foreign corporation the right to come in and take land away nebraska farmers. >> reporter: in march president trump paved the way for the project reversing former president obama's rejection of it on environmental ground.
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and granting transcanada a federal permit. >> transcanada will be allowed to complete the project. >> reporter: nebraska officials say the spill in south dakota won't affect their decision on whether the expansion can go ahead. but critics say, the leak is proof of the perils posed by pipelines. if regulators approve the keystone xl expansion monday, the new pipeline would carry about 830,000 barrels of oil a day from canada through three states. it would connect with the existing keystone pipeline that just leaked. the cause is under investigation. >> roxana, thank you. robert mugabe, long time dictator of zimbabwe was ousted by his political party today. his impeachment could be next. mugabe took control of the south african country months before president reagan was first elected. debora patta has more. on the political crisis. >> reporter: robert mugabe stand isolated. his once ironclad grip on power ebbing away.
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but still he is digging in his heels. it was widely expect he would stand down in an address to the nation this evening. >> the congress in a few weeks from now. >> reporter: instead he gave a rambling speech with no hint of resignation and appeared to think he was still in charge. >> i will preside over its processes. >> reporter: today his party rejected him. the ruling party sacked him as their leader. in the jubilant meeting they also demand heed resign as president of the country by noon on monday, or face impeachment. his controversial wife, grace has been permanently expelled from the party. parliament reconvenes tuesday, if mugabe has not stepped down by then it is expected it will move to impeach him.
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scientists at nasa have a new toy or tool if you want to look at it that way. it compresses 20 years of the earth's weather history into a short movie shot from space. chip reid reports from nasa's goddard space center in greenbelt, maryland. >> scientists we talked to called this paradise for geeks and what they're geek out about now is that new toy for studying what's happening to the oceans and what it means for us. it is one of a kind. never ben done before. and so, being able to capture land, ocean, atmosphere, ice, over 20 years together. it's insanely cool. >> rings your bell. >> totally does.
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>> ignition. >> nasa wants the first of three satellites in 1997 allowing them to track life on earth through 20 years of satellite imaging. >> bottom line, what are you seeing planet getting warmer over 20 years? >> absolutely. >> the doctor says the data helped show how our planet is changing. what are you seeing in terms of water levels, ocean levels? >> generally speaking, ocean levels are rising. now, they, they, rise slowly. it is like watching ice cubes melt in a glass of soda. >> what is causing changes in color are changes in gazillions of phytoplankten. >> we are geeks. sorry, i do. i do love the guys. they're useful to society, they give us oxygen. but they're so beautiful. >> the tiny ocean organisms the doctor studies along with plants on the ground pull carbon dioxide out of the air and help make human life possible. >> how many cells are in this
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bottle would you guess? >> 20 million. >> these building blocks of life are the bottom of the food chain and, she says, as change so does the earth's eco system. >> really cool. the data is powerful. what happened now in the past and in the future. >> yes it is complicated. bun way to think about all this is scientists are keeping track of all of these phytoplankten so they have an early warning system on what is happening to the earth as the it heats up. to help them do their jobs better they're sending up another satellite. >> coffee lovers take know. the most expensive cup of joe in the world doesn't come from c m colombia, hawaii or jamaica, it comes from war torn yemen one reason it costs so much. john plaqblack stone and the st of the man who brought the beans to the world. >> coffee experts call it cupping. standardized ritual for evaluating coffee beans.
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the beans under scrutiny in san rafael, california have equator's co-founder, helen russell reaching for superlatives. >> this is a treat. this is passion. this is history. this is drama. this is the best coffee in the world. >> it comes from yemen. a country stow racked by war, its coffee has been largely out of reach for decades. until, a young man from america, decided to go and get it. >> if i knew that i was going to go through a war torn country, escape bullets air strikes stand leave on a bet across a giant ocean i would have never started this journey. >> reporter: the trip started when he saw a century old statue in san francisco. a yemenee monk with a cup of coffee to his lips. the logo for the hills brothers coffee come of pane. >> i saw it. i started remembering stories, grandparents, my mother, when i was younger, my family took me
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back to yemen quite a built. and so i remember picking coffee cherries with my grandmother. >> the connection he felt to coffee drew him back to ancient villages in yemen. a country his parents left before he was born. a place where for hundreds of years, coffee has been grown on steep mountain terraces. >> i went to, about, 32 different rejenzgion as cross y. very interesting team for me. i dent realize how crazy a place it was going through instability. >> yem innyemenee farmers, the o cult valt cou cultivate coffee. >> the way it was picked processed was arbitrary. had to slow down work with them hands on. that looks like building system thousands, moisture analyzers, and giving them micro loans. in the first year we paid for six weddings. they paid us back in coffee cherries. >> getting the coffee out of
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yechl yemen with bombs falling, forced him to escapen a small bet across the red sea carrying with him coffee beans from the villages. >> actually when i escaped on the boat a big deal for them. one village had a meeting they realized how committed i was for them. and, if it wasn't for their hard work and their belief in my vision, i wouldn't be able to do this work. >> back in america, james freeman of blue bottle coffee, was among the first to taste the beans he had carried out of yechl yemen. stunning, stunning coffee. >> blue bottle started selling it at a stunning price. $16 a cup. >> when you're offering this coffee at $16 a cup, is it an act of charity to biff it? >> no. no. it is an act of sensory pleasure. it has to be an amazing transporting experience for us to be able to justify that price. people are willing to pay more for coffees if they know it has social impact.
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luckily, like these coffees also are just, pretty wonderful coffees. >> the price begins with farmers in yemen paid a fair price. rises with cost of transporting the coffee out of remote mountains and exported from a country in conflict. to a package, here, in america. >> if i want to help my farmers i have to make sure the coffees are great. when someone pays $16 for a cup of coffee it because your carpet never stops working
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country music star, blake shelton has an album climbing the charts. it is called texoma shore. and branching out into the restaurant business, and opened one south of oklahoma city hand has another one in the works in nashville. jan crawford is there. >> we are here in downtown nashville. behind me, this massive old bank building is undergoing renovation. when it opens in a few months the anchor of the new blake shelton brand old red. before shelton agreed to open a restaurant/bar here in the neon lights of nashville he first insisted opening one in a place most people have probably never heard of. a small town in rural oklahoma near where he grew up. an area he says, made him who he is today.
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♪ there is a neon light ♪ at the end of the tunnel >> for a country music superstar. ♪ all that bright >> reporter: this is a small stage. >> y'all have any idea of songs you want to hear or anything lake that? all of them? >> reporter: it was friday night in oklahoma, and blake shelton was home. >> i'm just going to play as many songs as i can until, i have drank too much or my voice blows out. one of the two. the first concert in shelton's new bar and restaurant old red. ♪ taking care of old red >> ambitious project in a place with just over 3,000 people. >> thau thank you ffor shelton n was a must. >> never left this place? >> took a break from this place to go give nashville a shot. i don't know how to not be in oklahoma. you know, i don't know how to, to not go hunting and fishing every year.
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how god built me. >> 25 years after he gave nashville a shot, shelton has dozens of country music awards and more than 20 chart topping singles. >> thank you, incredible. >> also taken on hollywood. >> you sing like a man. >> earning legions of new fans as judge on the voice. in a difficult time of his life he met the woman that gives him hope. >> talking to gwen stef tachani. >> i can't figure the two of you together until i saw it in person. it makes total sense. you know. ♪ i will be you >> it may seem hard to believe in downtown, shelton and rock star girlfriend have become a regular sight. >> she likes it here. a relief for her to be able to come some place that she doesn't have to look, around the corner at every building to see who is taking her picture and following her car, you know, this is an area where you do that, then, you're going to get some friend called on you.
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>> they're going to look out for her. off awe right. right. >> rural oklahoma wasn't part of the original plan when collin reid who heads the ryman hospitality group dreamed up a venue. >> way to think of this. 110 million country lifestyle consumers, blake commune kalica with these folks. >> they wanted to do it in nashville. duh, no brainer. i've went, back and forth. i said i will do the rest rain. partner with you guys, with one, one, one condition. we got to do one in oklahoma first. >> you know i love guy. i've didn't go no, you are crazy. i said let's think about it. talked to our management team. they said what are you crazy? >> but more than a year later, the management team, and seemingly everyone else, was in oklahoma for the grand opening. >> i think it is going to be a great thing for the community. and it is just going to be a crap load of fun. >> lines stretched down the
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block. >> hung have you been standing in line? >> two hour. >> two hours! >> super fans from all over the country, got there early. >> who was here, what time? >> 4:30 a.m. >> shelton is hoping his latest venture keeps the crowds coming to the town, providing a much needed boost to the local economy. ♪ why don't you go ahead and break my heart ♪ >> he and stefani will continue splitting their time between the big stage and the small town. >> things never stop for me. they never stop. and i relate to, to gwen on that level by the way. trying to get better. she and i beth are, at just, just living in the moments that are hatch penning. >> reporter: in his latest single, shelton now 41 is looking forward. ♪ you name the babies and i name the dogs ♪ >> but some times he dreams of hanging it all up and heading home for good. >> what any the next chapter? >> well i would like to give you
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a really honest answer to that question. and i, i will. every year for probably the last five years, i say, you know what, guys, next year is, i'm out. after that. i'm going to go pick pecans and going fishing for here on out. why not? why wouldn't i do that? >> why don't you? >> i think there is part of me that realizes, even though this is, you know it gets exhausting and feels like it never ends, that i would probably miss it. ♪ if you name something sweet i'll give you something steady ♪ >> shelton is balancing both worlds with his heart firmly planted in oklahoma. >> this is a string that you step out of, and when you realize you want back in it, it is dry. there is no water in that stream anymore. ♪ ♪ >> new, with live music two nights a week. chance to bump into blake shelton at the bar, they're hoping old red will become a
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tesla founder, elan musk took the wraps off his effort to up end the motor industry. an electric semitruck. musk claims 0 to 60 in five seconds and can travel 500 miles between charges. musk plans to have it on the road by 2019. and wal-mart has already put in an order. vladamir duthiers has more. >> reporter: the founder hasn't said what the truck will cost but says it will be cheaper to operate than diesel truck. the latest unveiling raises question as but whether tesla can keep up with its founder's ambition. with the pomp and circumstance of a big tech unveiling elan
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musk showed off tesla's electric semitrucks. >> unlike any truck you have driven. >> the ceo says the semihas 500 mile range on a single charge and contains many of tesla's features including autopilot system. to meet demand, tesla is building a network of solar powered mega charging station that need to be ready when the truck becomes available in 2019. at nouncment comes as tesla faces challenges, lost $619 million last quarter. and struggled with production. >> we will not be able to buy a better car for $35 t. >> significantly behind on orders for low cost sedan, model three. some customers waiting 18 months or longer for delivery. tim stevens attended last night's event and said production is one of issues tesla needs to address. >> struggling to get those out the door and meet the preorders they have now. need to get those out and revenue flowing to pay for products like the semi. >> stephens says the auto maker
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needs to shake the reputation that some of its vehicles aren't always reliable. >> when you are talking commercial truck that businesses will depend upon, need those things to be absolutely bulletproof. tesla will have to prove to industry that their trucks will be more reliable than the truck that are on the market today. >> tesla has said reliability concerns are out of step with reality as the company is constantly making improvements to the cars. at the end of the event. musk unveiled one other surprise for the audience. he showed off the tesla roadster. everybody here at the table its, mouth agame. electric vehicle. can reach 60 miles an hour in just 1.9 seconds. the car's base price though, $200,000. the tesla sports car will seat four. musk says it will 0 to 100 miles an hour in just 4.2 seconds. and 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.
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from the broadcast center, in new york city, i'm elaine quijano. captioning funded by cbs it's monday, november 20th, 2017. this is the "cbs morning news." the infamous murderous cult leader charles manson is dead at the age of 83. sexual misconduct allegations against alabama's roy moore are not stopping some christian conservatives from backing the candidate. and turkey day is almost here. these two birds are sitting pretty as they prepare to shine at the white house. good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news
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