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new york city, i'm elaine quijano. speaking out. >> i let people down. >> democratic senator al franken publicly addresses allegations of sexual misconduct for the first time. also tonight, president trump returns to washington with a busy legislative agenda to try to wrap up by the end of the year. it's one of the busiest travel days of the year. >> it took us eight hours. it only takes like 4 1/2, 5. >> millions hit the road as they return home from their holiday weekend. and getting ready for cyber monday. analysts expect it to be the most-lucrative online shopping day in u.s. history.
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welcome to the "overnight news." minnesota senator al franken says he is embarrassed and ashamed following accusations of inappropriate touching by four women. the democrat sat down with local minneapolis cbs station wcco. he also spoke with the local area newspaper and minnesota public radio. jamie yuccas reports from d.c. >> reporter: minnesota senator al franken says he was blind-sided by the accusations of four women who say he inappropriately touched them. >> i have a long way back to win back the trust of the people of minnesota. i've let the people down. i've let the people of minnesota down, i've let my friends and staff and supporters down, my family down. i've especially let down the people who have seen me as a champion for women. >> reporter: two women recently told "the huffington post" franken touched their buttocks during separate campaign events.
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in an interview with minnesota public radio, franken says the allegations are shocking to him. >> some women have said that i crossed a line, and for that i'm very sorry. and any number is too many. >> reporter: radio host leann tweeden accused franken of groping her while on a tour visiting u.s. troops in 2006. she said it happened while she was sleeping and only saw the picture later. tweeden claims franken also forcibly kissed her. >> he was getting assertive, we really need to rehearse this kiss. >> reporter: lindsay mins claimed she was groped. >> the worst part about this for me is that i am someone who -- i respect women. and i have given people a reason i guess to not -- to think i don't. >> reporter: franken says he will comply with an ethics
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investigation and he has no plans to resign. elaine, he will be back at work in the senate monday morning. >> jamie, thank you. president trump weighed in again sunday on the controversial alabama senate race. the president has a busy week ahead as he returns to washington from his holiday weekend in florida. erroll barnett has the latest from mar-a-lago. >> reporter: as president trump ends his thanksgiving vacation he returns to a city reeling from a growing list of sexual misconduct allegations and a republican desire to finalize tax reform. michigan's john conyers announced he's stepping down as the top democrat on the house judiciary committee pending an ethics investigation into multiple charges of sexual misconduct. saying in a statement he cannot in good conscience allow these charges to undermine his democratic colleagues. >> he's done a great deal to protect women. >> reporter: even after defending him on television, house minority leader nancy pelosi released her own statement acknowledging she
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requested the probe into conyers' behavior. no matter how great an individual's legacy, she wrote, it is not a license for harassment." >> we don't need a liberal person in there, a democrat. >> reporter: president trump, who last week defended republican senate candidate roy moore against multiple sexual assault allegations he faces, repeated that stance on twitter today. moore's upon nent doug jones would be a disaster, reminding his followers he initially backed moore's primary opponent. some republicans like senator lindsey graham fear the president's position is livingy. >> what i would tell president trump, if you think winning with roy moore is going to be easy for the republican party, you're mistaken. >> reporter: the senate's number three republican, john thune. >> if roy moore wins and comes into the senate in january, there's going to immediately be an ethics investigation which is going to be a cloud he'll be operating in, it will be a distraction for us and our agenda. >> reporter: the department of justice announced it backs
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president trump's authority in naming budget director nick mulvaney as acting head of a government's consumer finance watchdog agency. this despite the cfpb's outgoing director naming his own replacement on friday. democratic senator elizabeth warren said the president is creating chaos and supports this dispute being settled in the courts. >> erroll barnett, thank you. still no claim of responsibility for friday's massacre at an egyptian mosque but isis is suspected. militants attacked worshippers during friday prayers at a mosque in northern sinai, killing 305 people and wounding more than 100. most of the victims were sufi muslims, considera s considerede heretics. aaa estimates 51 million americans travelled this thanksgiving weekend, most by car. now many of those travelers are making their way home. miryea villareal reports from
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los angeles. >> reporter: for the millions of people that battled los angeles traffic to get their turkey dinner on thursday, it's time to come home. >> it took us eight hours. it normally takes 4 1/2, 5. >> reporter: airports were not much better. john got to oakland international at around 2:00 a.m. >> just a lot of people. a lot of people in the terminal. and my flight was at 4:00 a.m. i expected it to be nobody. but it was a lot of people. >> reporter: over 11,000 flights were in the air by mid-morning and according to the transportation security administration, tsa, 2.6 million people will go through screening, a 6% increase over 2016. l.a.x. international is the second-busiest airport in the nation. 110,000 cars are expected to drop off or pick up someone here on sunday alone. doug shoe of aaa says the stronger economy is a big factor. >> jet fuel was significantly less than in recent years. and that allowed the airlines to add capacity and lower their airfares. >> reporter: but for the 45
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million people estimated to be sitting in bumper to bumper traffic this holiday, driving was still the most convenient way to go. >> you expect this to continue on through the next, say, month? >> this is just the start of the holiday travel season. we're seeing a strong economy, that's giving more confident consumers money in their pockets to spend on travel. >> reporter: if you're already starting to make plans for your next big trip, you definitely want to take gas prices into account. the national average is $2.51. that's 38 cents higher than it was last year. travel experts say flying could be cheaper with big airfare discounts coming on cyber monday. and travel deal tuesday. >> miryea, thank you. a volcano erupts near a popular tourist destination in indonesia. combating social pressure at school. what some students are doing to make sure nobody feels left out.
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this is the "cbs overnight news." cyber monday is expected to an record-breaker. analysts forecast $6.6 billion in online retail sales tomorrow. meg oliver has more. >> reporter: workers at this fulfillment center outside new york city are on the front lines of the frantic shopping season. amazon has hired 120,000
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seasonal employees across the country to meet the demand. conveyor belts have been running 24 hours a day to get packages delivered to online shoppers in time for the hol daze. online black friday sales surpassed last year by more than 18%. and cyber monday, the speed of shopping is only expected to intensify. in 2016, amazon alone processed 64 million orders worldwide on cyber monday. that's 740 items per second. do you expect to break records on cyber monday? >> we certainly hope so. >> reporter: lori torgersen is a retail manager for amazon. >> nothing beats the convenience of shopping from the comfort of your own home or on the go with mobile phones. we're seeing mobile phone purchases increase, more than 70% of amazon customers purchased orders through mobile devices. >> reporter: consumers can expect keep discounts on items ranging from electronics and clothes to toys. advertisers are boasting sales
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up to 50% off the ticketed price. what does that mean for brick and mortar stars going forward? >> i think there's a lot of players in retail and there's room for a lot of winners. >> that's true. analysts say up to 90% of sales still happen in stores. >> so are more people shopping online or in stores? >> no, overall they're striking a balance. but one study found where you live sometimes determines where you shop. so for instance, rural and suburban consumers, they like to avoid shipping charges so they'll go to the store. as you know, city dwellers need a little help with the delivery, so they do shop a lot online. >> meg oliver, thanks so much. a new chapter of the "cbs evening news" begins december 4th when jeff glor officially takes over as anchor. in his ten years at cbs news, the emmy winner has reported from across the globe and covered breaking news, including the sandy hook massacre and the boston marathon bombing. we are excited to see him take the reins next week.
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a lot of people bought guns on black friday. the fbi says it received more than 200,000 requests for gun background checks on friday. that breaks the single-day record of 185,000 requests, which was set on black friday last year. the number of actual guns sold friday is likely higher because a buyer can purchase multiple firearms at one time. george h.w. bush is now the longest-living american president. on saturday the 41st president surpassed gerald ford, who lived to 93 years and 165 days. former president jimmy carter is also 93 years old, but he is several months younger than the elder bush. a volcano on the indonesian island of bali erupted several times this weekend. time lapse video shows the plumes of ash spewing into the air. the eruptions temporarily
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drive. others aren't ready to go down that road just yet. transportation correspondent kris van cleave has more. >> reporter: mix millions of cars, pedestrians, bicyclists, delivery trucks -- and you get manhattan driving. at its best, unpredictable. at worst, chaos. fare today's self-driving cars, that mixture might be too much. >> so this cop that's flagging traffic here, right now, that would confuse the current generation of self-driving cars? >> yeah, we're not there yet, because they're not -- the brain isn't as advanced to understand what that person is doing. >> reporter: we drove the city streets with brad sturtz from audi. he's won been working on autonomous driving technology for over a decade.
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>> could it predict the guy was swerving into my lane? >> not predict but would have seen him edge over and backed off a little bit. >> reporter: he thinks it could be 2035 before self-droofing cars are common in new york city. but the governor wants a test drive next year. the mayor said, not so fast. >> i don't like it. i think it's a mistake. i think it creates a danger. >> reporter: self driving cars use sensors to detect surroundings and are programmed to follow traffic laws. but a dense city environment might overwhelm the curt technology. >> fit weren't for humans, autonomous vehicles would work perfectly. >> reporter: sam schwarts is the former new york city traffic commissioner. >> the two things autonomous vehicles have not figured out are what a pedestrian's about to do and what are bicycle riders about to do. >> reporter: this is one vision of how self driving cars could work in manhattan. dedicated autonomous thorough fairs leading into the city and cutting across town, potentially allowing some roads to go unused and become green space.
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john myer from design firm edg entered the idea into a contest organized by new york city. >> getting the pedestrians and drivers out of the way allows you to achieve true efficiency. >> reporter: efficiency that will require time, upgraded infrastructure, smarter self-driving cars, and patience. in a city not known for it. kris van cleave, cbs news, new york. when we return, the lunch club. we'll introduce you to high school students whose mission it is to make sure nobody feels socially isolated at school.
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we end this evening with a return trip to a school where everyone finds nourishment at lunch time and it has nothing to do with the food. steve hartman has more from boca raton, florida. >> reporter: when the lunch bell rings at boca high in boca raton, florida, 3,400 kids spill into the courtyard and split into their social groups. but not everyone gets included. as we first reported last march, here at boca high and at schools across the country, someone always sits alone. >> it's not a good feeling. you're by yourself and that's something i don't want anybody to go through. >> reporter: dennis esteman is a haitian immigrant. when he came here in first grade he says he felt isolated. especially at lunch. now he's popular, but he has not
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forgotten that first grade feeling. >> to me it's like if we don't try and make that change, who's going to do it? >> reporter: with some friends, dennis started a club called we dine together. >> we dine -- >> together! >> we dine -- >> together! >> reporter: their mission is to go into the courtyard at lunchtime, to make sure no one is starving for company. >> dennis. >> i'm new here. >> when did you first come here? >> reporter: for new kids especially the club is a godsend. >> gabriel. >> how are you doing? >> reporter: since it started last year, hundreds of friendships have formed. some very unlikely. >> you're probably meeting kids you never would meet on the football team. >> never. >> reporter: gene quit the football team, gave up the perks, just so he could spend more time with this club. >> i don't mind not getting a football scholarship. this is what i really want to do. >> reporter: imagine how different your teenage years would have been if the coolest kids in school all of a sudden
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decided you mattered. >> we get to know each other better. >> reporter: it takes a lot of empathy to devote your lunch period to this. either that or firsthand experience. >> i went from coming from a school that i always had friends, to coming to where i had nobody. >> reporter: club member allie sealy transferred a few years ago. she says with no one to sit next to, lunch can be the most excruciating part of the day. >> it's really unfair. it's honestly an issue. meeting someone who actually cares and listens to what you have to say really makes a difference. that could happen at lunch. that could happen at our club. >> reporter: since we first told this story, dennis has graduated from high school, but not from this mission. >> start your own club at your school -- >> reporter: he's traveling the country opening we dine together chapters at other schools. 15 so far, with more than 100 slated for the new year. and if we're lucky, when he's done showing kids how to make outsiders feel accepted -- >> yeah, i'll be around tomorrow
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if you want to eat lunch together. >> reporter: -- he can teach the rest of us. steve hartman on the road in boca raton, florida. this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm elaine quijano. millions of americans head back to work this morning after a holiday weekend that for most included turkey, football, parades, and shopping. there was black friday, small business saturday, and today is cyber monday. millions will be surfing the web, many of them at work searching for bargains. meg oliver has the story. >> reporter: workers at this fulfillment center outside new york city are on the front lines of the frantic holiday shopping season. amazon has hired 120,000 seasonal employees across the country to meet the demand.
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conveyor belts have been running 24 hours a day to get packages delivered to online shoppers in time for the holidays. online black friday sales surpassed last year by more than 18%. and cyber monday, the speed of shopping is only expected to intensify. in 2016, amazon alone processed 64 million orders worldwide on cyber monday. that's 740 items per second. do you expect to break records on cyber monday? >> we certainly hope so. >> reporter: lori torgersen is a retail manager for amazon. >> nothing beats the convenience of shopping from the comfort of your own home or on the go with mobile phones. we're seeing mobile phone purchases increase, more than 70% of amazon customers purchased orders through mobile devices. >> reporter: consumers can expect keep discounts on items ranging from electronics and clothes to toys. advertisers are boasting sales up to 50% off the ticketed price.
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what does that mean for brick and mortar stars going forward? >> i think there's a lot of players in retail and there's room for a lot of winners. >> that's true. analysts say up to 90% of sales still happen in stores. >> so are more people shopping online or in stores? >> no, overall they're striking a balance. but one study found where you live sometimes determines where you shop. so for instance, rural and suburban consumers, they like to avoid shipping charges so they'll go to the store. as you know, city dwellers need a little help with the delivery, so they do shop a lot online. >> meg oliver, thanks so much. minnesota senator al franken says he is embarrassed and ashamed following accusations of inappropriate touching by four women. the democrat sat down with local minneapolis cbs station wcco. he also spoke with a minnesota public radio. jamie yuccas reports from d.c. >> reporter: minnesota senator al franken says he was
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blind-sided by the accusations of four women who say he inappropriately touched them. >> i have a long way back to win back the trust of the people of minnesota. i've let the people down. i've let the people of minnesota down, i've let my friends and staff and supporters down, my family down. i've especially let down the people who have seen me as a champion for women. >> reporter: two women recently told "the huffington post" franken touched their buttocks during separate campaign events. in an interview with minnesota public radio, franken says the allegations are shocking to him. >> some women have said that i crossed a line, and for that i'm very sorry. and any number is too many. >> reporter: radio host leann tweeden accused franken of groping her while on a tour visiting u.s. troops in 2006. she said it happened while she was sleeping and only saw the picture later. tweeden claims franken also forcibly kissed her. >> he was getting assertive, we
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really need to rehearse this kiss. >> reporter: second accuser lindsay mins claims she was groped at the minnesota state fair in 2010. franken told minnesota public radio -- >> the worst part about this for me is that i am someone who -- i respect women. and i have given people a reason i guess to not -- to think i don't. >> reporter: franken says he will comply with an ethics investigation and he has no plans to resign. elaine, he will be back at work in the senate monday morning. >> jamie, thank you. the popular spa chain massage envy is facing accusations of sexual assault. an investigation by buzzfeed news found 180 women reported sexual assaults at massage envy franchises around the country, including claims that massage therapists groped their breasts and genitals or committed other explicit violations. massage envy told buzzfeed it would not be appropriate to
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respond to questions because of pending litigation, but says the company has the most stringent, rigorous policies for hiring therapists. president trump weighed in again sunday on the controversial alabama senate race. the president has a busy week ahead as he returns to washington from his holiday weekend in florida. erroll barnett has the latest from mar-a-lago. >> reporter: as president trump ends his thanksgiving vacation he returns to a city reeling from a growing list of sexual misconduct allegations and a republican desire to finalize tax reform. michigan's john conyers announced he's stepping down as the top democrat on the house judiciary committee pending an ethics investigation into multiple charges of sexual misconduct. saying in a statement he cannot in good conscience allow these charges to undermine his democratic colleagues. >> he's done a great deal to protect women. >> reporter: even after defending him on television, house minority leader nancy pelosi released her own statement acknowledging she requested the probe into conyers' behavior.
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no matter how great an individual's legacy, she wrote, it is not a license for harassment." >> we don't need a liberal person in there, a democrat. >> reporter: president trump, who last week defended republican senate candidate roy moore against multiple sexual assault allegations he faces, repeated that stance on twitter today. moore's opponent doug jones would be a disaster, reminding his followers he initially backed moore's primary opponent. some republicans like senator lindsey graham fear the president's position is risky. >> what i would tell president trump, if you think winning with roy moore is going to be easy for the republican party, you're mistaken. >> reporter: the senate's number three republican, john thune. >> if roy moore wins and comes into the senate in january, there's going to immediately be an ethics investigation which is going to be a cloud he'll be operating in, it will be a distraction for us and our agenda. >> reporter: the department of justice announced it backs president trump's authority in naming budget director nick
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mulvaney as acting head of a government's consumer finance watchdog agency. this despite the cfpb's outgoing director naming his own replacement on friday. democratic senator elizabeth warren said the president is creating chaos and supports this dispute being settled in the courts. >> erroll barnett, thank you. still no claim of responsibility for friday's massacre at an egyptian mosque but isis is suspected. militants attacked worshippers during friday prayers at a mosque in northern sinai, killing 305 people and wounding more than 100. most of the victims were sufi muslims considered by isis to be heretics. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.
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this is the "cbs overnight news." songwriter noel gallagher and his brother liam sold over 70 million albums as part of the british pop band oasis. but the brothers never got along and the band broke up in 2009. noel has been writing songs for his new band, birds, and invited anthony mason to his hometown in england for a chat. >> reporter: two and a half years. that's all it took for the british band oasis. one moment, noel gallagher was unemployed. the next, he was on top of the world. ♪ ♪
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>> it all happened incredibly quickly. >> it's insane. that trajectory, from nothing to we were the biggest band in the world, it was brief but we were there. it was kind of like breathtaking, really. ♪ maybe i don't really want to know ♪ >> reporter: oasis '1994 album "definitely maybe" was then the fastest-selling debut in british history. their follow-up "what's the story morning glory" sold 22 million copies. and produced the worldwide smash "wonder wall." ♪ i don't believe that anybody feels the way i do ♪ ♪ about you now >> reporter: when the band sold out two nights at nebworth england in 1996 -- 2.6 million
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people applied for the 250,000 tickets. ♪ someday you will find >> why do you think it happened? >> timing. nirvana, the grunge thing had come to its natural end. and the scene was set for something. you know, it happened to be us. the people don't know what they want until you give to it them. >> what did you give to them? >> songs, melodies, attitude. and a kind of irreverence. ♪ so sally can wait >> reporter: noel and younger brother liam fought from the start. liam, the lead singer, was all sneer and swagger. noel, the songwriter, was the
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band's sveng achali. it was a combustible collaboration. as much as you and liam have bickered over the years, could you have been successful without each other? >> no chance. no way. i wouldn't have got anywhere without him, he wouldn't have got anywhere without me, simple as that. >> reporter: the gallagher brothers came out of manchester, england. the gritty city george orwell once called the belly and guts of the nation. >> this is where we're from. it is extremely working class. >> reporter: on an unseasonably lovely manchester day -- >> i was kind of thinking you might get the manchester experience, which is sideways rain. >> reporter: gallagher took us to the playing fields of his youth. >> these were all bowling greens. we used to sit in there and take drugs and listen to muse oak little tiny [ bleep ] tape recorders. and i do regret growing up.
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>> reporter: his musical education started at sifters record store, name checked in the song "shaker maker." ♪ >> yeah, i used to be in there all the time. >> you picked up a guitar at 13, is that right? >> yeah, early teenager, yeah. it was -- nobody quite knows why the guitar was in the house, because i'm not from a musical family. >> right. >> reporter: the gallaghers' mother, peggy, worked in a school and biscuit factory. their father, who left when noel was a teenager, was alcoholic and abusive. you said something to the effect of, your father effectively beat the talent into you. >> a good line, wasn't it? >> yeah. what did you mean? >> it gave me the drive to make something of myself. i think i definitely withdrew into myself, into my own world, aeaction to that.
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and the guitar, that thing became my world, you know what i mean? i've never written a song about it, which is fascinating. >> why do you think that is. >> i don't know. i've never been to see a therapist. till today. >> reporter: by the early '90s, noel had moved into an apartment in downtown manchester. >> i haven't been in here since the day that i left. >> reporter: where he wrote all of oasis' first album. >> i wrote "rock 'n' roll star" in this room on an electric guitar with the amp, with the guy underneath me banging on the floor with a brush handle. you know, the first line is 80 live my life in the city." it's kind of like, this is it. ♪ >> musically, how would you describe your chemistry? >> i think that was the strength the band was my songs and his thing, whatever that thing is.
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so 99.9% of the population see him as one thing. i see him as another. because i'm his brother, you know what i mean? >> what do you see him as? >> what do i see him as? [ bleep ] pain in the ass. >> reporter: their fights were epic. one notorious battle recorded after liam was arrested for being drunk was released as a single and made the british charts. >> if you think rock 'n' roll i is getting arrested and all that -- >> no, rock 'n' roll is about being yourself -- >> it's not, rock 'n' roll is about music, music, music. it's not about you, it's not about me. >> reporter: after seven albums that went to number one in britain, noel quit the band in 2009. >> and i know that annoys people. fans in particular. but it's not about them. if anybody doubts my resolve
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that i pay them, i pay them. >> do you talk to each other now? >> no, there's too much been said. >> is it beyond repair? >> for me it is, yeah. no, we got personal. and he kind of brought my wife and kids into it very publicly. and i'm kind of like, okay, if you want to go there, be prepared to take the [ bleep ] to the grave. okay? that sounds callous and cold. but that's who i am, i'm afraid. ♪ be my doll be my baby doll >> reporter: he has his own band, the high-flying birds. they just released their third album, "who built the moon." the late beatles producer george martin once called noel gallagher the finest songwriter of his generation. but he admits his lyrics at times are a mystery even to him.
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how much would you pay for a rolex once owned by the late actor paul newman? even if you have $18 million, you're too late. serena altshul reports. >> reporter: a little over a week ago at the phillips auction house in new york city, a trove of 50 wristwatches was up for sale. but the star of the show, with its own special room and a high-tech security system, was a certain rolex. auctioneer aure lchll bach. >> this is to many the holy grail. it's something that started an entire movement. >> reporter: for decades, actor paul newman wore this rolex cosmograph daytona.
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he took up auto racing while filming the 1969 film "winning." in which he starred alongside his wife joanne woodward. she gave her husband a watch to celebrate his new hobby inscribed with a hidden message. >> here, beautifully engraved on the back, it reads, "drive carefully, me." me being joann. >> reporter: the rolex cosmograph daytona wasn't a best sell where it debuted in 1963. but worp on tn on the wrist of newman, it became the epitome of cool. in fact, it became known as the paul newman watch. but after the star's death in 2008, the watch that started it all seemed to have vanished. >> i was about 15 years old, at a racetrack -- >> reporter: enter james cox, who met newman in the late '70s.
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>> i loved cars and racing. paul was racing. i spotted paul sitting after he had just gotten off the track with his car. he just gestures for me to come under this barrier to get a better photo of the car. >> reporter: the story takes another turn a few years later, when at college cox met a girl named nell potts. >> i think the first time i saw her at school, i'm standing in her driveway, she comes in, she's driving in her car, she pulls the u-brake and spins the car around and pops out of the door, she's got a six-pack of st. pauli girl. wow, i want to get to know her. >> that girl's for me. >> reporter: what he didn't know was that nell potts was a stage name. and only later when they were date diagnose he learn her real name. nell newman. he also got to know her father. >> one summer i offered to rebuild this tree house that was kind of a classic feature on the family property.
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ended up being just paul and i. and i would work on the tree house during the day, he would often come over at the end of the night and just check on my progress. he comes over one day and says, james, you know what time it is? no, i'm not wearing a watch. he says, well. he takes his rolex off. if you remember to wind this, it tells great time, and hands it to me. then he proceeded to show me how to wind it and took a little time with me. >> reporter: for years, cox wore the watch even after he and nell newman broke up. until he discovered the rolex had taken on a legendary life of its own. which is why he decided to sell the watch, in part to benefit the charitable foundation of his lifelong friend, nell newman. >> i have a commission bid at $1 million -- >> reporter: buyers from around the world got their chance to bid on the paul newman watch. >> $13 million. $15 million. >> reporter: final price?
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$17.8 million. >> it is >> dr. stanley: remember this: cannot change the laws of god. when he has visited you in some form of adversity and he brings you through that, that's like he has increased the strength of the foundation of your life and your faith in him. [music]
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a new study out of england shows three to four cups of coffee a day can be good for you, lowering your risk of heart disease. but some of the finest coffees in the world are in danger because of climate change. mark phillips reports. >> reporter: to many it's the other dark liquid that powers the world. coffee. but because of the damage being done to the planet by the primary dark liquid, oil -- along with other fossil fuels -- coffee is in trouble. and so are the farmers who grow it. is this a good harvest year or not so good? >> it is not so good. >> reporter: up here in the mountains of eastern uganda, coffee is the most important thing they grow. anthony and vincent's family have been growing it on their
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farm about 4,000 feet up the slopes for generations. lately they've been having problems they've never had before. it turns out coffee is as fussy as the people who drink it. it likes the right altitude, the right temperature, and the right amounts of rain and sunshine in the right order. it's the goldilocks of crops that likes things just right. not enough rain, too much sunshine, bad fruits? >> yes. too much sunshine produces bad fruits. >> reporter: another farmer, another farm, another problem. this fine white powder is produced by the stem bore beetle which sam says is just one of the pests and diseases which have come up from the valleys as the weather has warmed. >> ten years back, it was not here. most of the farms have been destroyed completely, totally by this stem bore. >> reporter: coffee yields have been dropping and prices are up by as much as 30% in some areas since 2015.
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more than just the consumer's morning pick me up is threatened. the farmers are caffeine dependant for another reason. from picking the berries to processing them to drying and sorting the beans and getting them to market -- this is a family business where every member of the family contributes. and where the cash from selling the coffee provides the only income to pay for school for the kids and medical care. there's imbalance in the coffee world. th is controlled by the big brands, the big distributors. but the production comes from little family almost vegetable-sized patch farms like this. if production fails here, the big boys can go somewhere else. these people can't go anywhere. for the people who consume coffee, it's about a drink. for the people who produce it and depend on it, it's about life. mark philips, cbs news, on
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