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this is the cbs "overnight news." hi, welcome to the "overnight news." on this monday morning, the 12th of february. i'm demarco morgan. four people who survived the crash of a tour helicopter in the grand canyon are recovering in a nevada hospital. the helicopter, ec 130 went down saturday near the west rim 60 miles west of peach springs, arizona. mireya villarreal reports, three other people were killed. >> reporter: moments after the crash, witnesses rushed to help. ted fujimoto, wedding photographer shooting nearby captured video of the helicopter on fire. the accident happened 73 miles east of las vegas in a remote area known as grand canyon west.
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>> it was pretty bad. it is amazing how they survived. the two ladies, you know, are luckily to be alive. >> the helicopter belongs to one of the biggest grand canyon tour companies in the area. been around more than 50 years and boast on their website more than 600,000 customers a year. >> this is the fishst with papillon, first major crash since the 2001 incident we were involved with. >> attorney gary robb specializes in these accidents. he sued the company in 2001 after a helicopter crash claimed six lives. >> the helicopter industry is evolving. we are thinking safety is more and more of an emphasis whereas in the past revenue seemed to really be of paramount importance. >> reporter: we reached out to papillon airways, yet to hear back from them. rough terrain and severe weather conditions made rescue efforts difficult. it took crews more than eight hours to recover the victims. four out of the seven on board
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survived and are being treated at a hospital in las vegas. >> the accident happened here on the reservation in a remote area we are not being given access to just yet. local police department is leading the investigation, but we also know, ntsb investigators will be on scene helping. in the next 24-48 hours the wind are expected to peck up and be steady. for now, all choppers in the area have been grounded. demarco. >> mireya villarreal, thank you. team usa got on the medal board this weekend at winter olympics in south korea. a teenager became the youngest american to win an olympic snow boarding event and luger, the first to win a medal at the winter games. ben tracy is there. >> gerard now. >> he is just 17 years old. 5'5", tall, but red gerard of silver thorn, colorado had a big olympic debut. he nailed his final run on the slopestyle snow board course, landing three massive jumps to become the youngest u.s. gold
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medallist in the winter games in 90 years. his family was there as the results were announced. the shock on gerard's face golden. >> i honestly, jaw dropped. there wasn't too much in my head. it was kind of crazy. am still having a really hard time believing it. >> and history in the luge the first american man to medal in the sing ale le event. he won silver. in team figure skating, u.s. advanced with help from brother and sister duo, their quick foot work had the arena rocking. ♪ >> their the wind chill. >> reporter: but outside, hard to move. with temperatures in the single digits. pyeongchang is putting the winter in these winter games. >> it is bone-chilling. very, very cold. >> reporter: high wind forced the men's downhill postponed
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until next week. leaving american fans out in the cold. >> the wind chill is a killer right now. ♪ >> reporter: in seoul, protesters were hot with anti-north korea anger. they demonstrated before a concert put on by the north performing art's troupe, part of the 550 person delegation to these games. a large part of the north korean delegation is heading back home including kim jong-un's sister who delivered some of the biggest news of these games, her brother wants to host a summit with the president of south korea, as soon as possible. demarco. >> ben tracy reporting. ben, thank you. following low key weekend in washington president trump will unveil his budget blueprint tomorrow. his administration is dealing with controversy surrounding chief of staff, john kelly. errol barnett is at the white house. >> thank you. >> president trump enthusiastically greeted support her supporters at his d.c. hotel last night where he dined with
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the first lady. after a week where his administration faced criticism when two staffers resigned amid allegations of spousal abuse. former secretary, rob porter and speech writer david sorensen deny the charges. but the incidents and the white house initial public support of porter raised questions about whether john kelly will continue on as chief of staff. >> i think what you saw happened this week, major, was completely reasonable and normal. >> white house budget director, said that kelly gave porter the benefit of the doubt. until he saw this image of porter's ex-wife. >> soon as the it became apparent to us, that the allegations were true, rob porter had to go. >> the president's adviser, kellyanne conway denied kelly's future at the white house is at risk. >> he has full confidence in john kelly and not actively searching. >> reporter: conway explained president trump is inclined to release the democratic rebuttal to the memo from the
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intelligence committee after changes are made. >> lawyers have said that it contains sources and methods that could be very compromising so they want to make sure that is cured before it is released to the public. >> reporter: the committee's ranking democrat, adam schiff its doubtful. >> the president doesn't want you to see the facts from the fisa application because it undermines his claim of vindication. >> reporter: tomorrow president trump will try to put the focus on legislation announcing his infrastructure investment plan. $1.5 trillion is the price tag. only $200 billion will come from washington. the rest the white house says will be made up at the state and local level and come from private companies. demarco. >> all right, errol barnett at the white house. errol, thank you. memorial services were held in westerville, ohio for two police officers killed this weekend in the line of duty. veteran officers, eric joering and anthony morelli responding to a 911 hangup call and
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ambushed by a gunman. sufs pect under arrest. fall in officers honored by a police procession and vigil in the town. to other stories we are following in the "cbs weekend news feed." in the california desert. a 21-year-old man faces vehicular charges, after crashing into bicycle riders. the suspect was going at least 100 miles an hour when he veered into the bike riders. a 49-year-old cyclist died at the scene. 50-year-old woman air lifted to the hospital with serious injuries. >> heavy rain swamped parts of the south this weekend. overflowing creeks and rivers, washed out roads in parts of kentucky, tennessee, virginia. some areas were expecting up to 4 more inches of rain. severe storms moved through alabama, georgia and the florida panhandle. >> it was also a rainy weekend in new orleans. that didn't dampen the mardi gras fun, parade rolled on despite occasional downpours. at least seven parade were planned. rain or shine including the 50th
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one of the largest suppliers of oxycontin said this weekend will no longer promote the powerful painkiller to doctors. nicky batiste has more on the opioid shake-up. >> reporter: the outcry over drug companies pushing painkillers has been too loud for purdue pharma to ignore, the drug maker made $35 billion in sales, said in a statement it will no longer be promoting opioids to prescribers. purdue says this week it cut its sales force in half. co-director of opioid research at the school of social policy
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says this could pave the way. >> this would prevent more people from getting adikted. if other drugmakerers start to do the same. it could have a significant impact on preventing opioid addiction. >> now i can enjoy every day that tie live. i can really enjoy myself. >> purdue's move is a change in tune from this message they sent to 15,000 doctors in 1998. >> the right of addiction amongst pain patients who are treated by doctors is much less than 1%. >> ohio's attorney general, mike dewine, filed lawsuits against several pharmaceutical companies including purdue making ohio one of 14 states suing the oxycontin maker for deceptive marketing. >> it is addictive. the drug companies knew that. they lied about it. >> purdue denies the allegations fwh but they have spent millions of dollars on settlements. >> i would love for purdue farma and come pans panies to follow around one day. give me one day.
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i will show you what you have done to people in the state of ohio. >> according to the centers for disease control. one in four people have received opioid prescriptions like oxycontin currently struggle with addiction. purdue says its sales representatives will now focus on nonopioid products, the cdc ses dea says deaths have quad rupdled in 20 years. currently, 115 people die every day from an overdose. >> the numbers are heartbreaking. nicky batiste, reporting. nicky, thank you.
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new york democrat was the first senator to publicly call for the resignation of former senator al franken over sexual harassment allegations. members of her party thought she was being too hasty and disroyal. the political face of the metoo movement defends her decision in an interview for 60 minutes. >> i have a 14-year-old son. i cannot have a conversation say it is okay to grab somebody here or not there. it's not okay. you don't grab women. you've don't push yourself on them. >> reporter: the senator told us minnesota democrat, al franken, is a friend. but after eight women accused him of sexual misconduct she was the first to publicly say, he needed to go.
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>> we just heard allegation after allegation. they were credible allegations. i believed the women. >> franken hoped a congressional investigation would clear him. >> it will take a long time to regain people's trust. >> but she was unwilling to wait. >> you are a lawyer. you believe in due process. why not allow. >> he is entitled to as much due process as he wants. he doesn't have to reside. that is his choice. >> my choice is to speak out. >> but it feels look to be accused right now is to be convicted. >> that's not right. that's not true. one of my colleagues recently was accused of something. not only did he call the police. there will be an investigation. >> what is the harm in, in waiting and letting, all of the facts come out. and to going into an investigation. where is the harm in that? where is my moral compass if i can't speak out because i like someone. just because, they're my friend. it's okay to be a harasser as long as you are my friend. that is not okay.
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>> furious kra democrats called her a traitor. on this subject. she is unapologetic. she took on democratic icon, bill clinton. and in her washington office she told us why she now believes clinton should have resigned amid the monica lewinsky scandal. >> your critics will say what is going on here? she took, senator clinton's seat. campaigned with bill clinton, hillary clinton. and now, all of a sudden, she is saying he should have resigned. why now? >> because i wasn't focused on it the way i am today. i didn't have that lens. >> what do you mean had that lens? >> all of us. i am not alone. how many of us are having this conversation even a year ago? >> we are learning. >> i think we are all learning. >> have you spoken to the isintons since y s aid th about that. i can tell you one thing, i can tell you that, that hillary clinton is still my greatest role model in politics. >> she also called out president
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donald trump for a long history of alleged sexual misconduct. >> the accusations aren't new against him, the voters saw the access hollywood tape. and voted for him anyway. so, why now? >> once president trump was elected. i think something changed. i think it changed for women. >> do you think he will be held accountable in any way? >> think he should resign.wiing. which is what i assume. congress should hold him accountable. we are obligated to have hearings. >> president trump responded to the criticism by, trolling her on twitter. he called her a lightweight. >> she would be begging for contributions and would, do anything for them. how did you interpret that? >> as being a sexist mirror. there is ways to undermine women. and belittle women. that's one of the them. and to minimize them. and to silence them. >> gillebrand tweeted back, you cannot silence me about the unfitness and shame you have
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brought to the oval office. in this twitter fight, gillebrand drew six times more retweets than the president. >> you have said, you think congress is an old boys club. do you still think that? >> oh, definitely an old boys club. we have 21 wimt ewomen. we need 51, representative of the nation. >> why do you think more women haven't run in the past? >> i think fear. >> fear. >> thought some one would take care of it. >> it's hard to run for office. a lot of wicwomen don't like it. >> gillibrand entered the political fray in 2006 when she ran for congress in reliably republican congress known for having more cows than democrats. >> surprisingly, she won. in early 2009, another surprise. >> kirsten gillibrand. >> then governor patterson named
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gillibrand to finish hillary clinton's senate term when she became secretary of state. >> this is the seat that everybody wanted. andrew cuomo, caroline kennedy wanted it. you go out. >> yeah. >> how? >> pretty shocking. >> i don't know. >> did you ever ask why did you choose me? >> no, i said thank you. >> welcome, senator. >> nicknamed the accidental senator. but quickly earned a reputation as the a hard worker. some colleagues unnerved by her peppy determination, called her something else. the name of the overachieving high school student in the movie elections. >> hi, tracy. >> what did you think of being called trailsy flick. >> i really like reese witherspoon. i didn't really care. >> you can see the full report on our website. cbs news.com. the "overnight news" will be right back. ♪
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voyage came complete with breathtaking images of tesla and starman the mannequin orbiting the earth. >> trying to absorb everything that happened. it seems surreal. >> for spacexceo -- >> companies will raise their sights. we can do better. great we, want a space race. >> the rocket boosters landing on earth weren't just a show for spectators thac s they could bet blue origin, jeff besos' space company. one of several companies targeting space, looking to cut costs by developing reusable rockets. nasa is continuing to commission rockets too. like the sls. for missions to the moon and mars. it will be more powerful than the falcon heavy, and more expensive. >> this is about the u.s.
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regaining a commanding lead. >> secretary of commerce wilbur ross, member of the national space council was at the space x launch. what happens if elon musk can prove he can do it sooner cheaper. >> think we will want the best, lowest cost solution. >> the key question says cbs news space analyst, bill harwood is can cheaper be as safe? >> we are not saying these are unsafe. >> of course not. >> when you do things differently. nasa will do it one way to ensure safety by doing it their way. >> lot of old-timers around nasa and space industry. are nervous about new way of doing business. there is less oversight. can the new rockets be as safe as old ones. that's an open question. >> both space x and boeing have contract with nasa to send astronauts to the space station. that could happen late this year. would mark the first time humans have launched from u.s. soil since the space shuttle was
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an arkansas hospital in little rock people don't go for cardiac care, many go for the hearty meal. >> we work on the campus of arkansas children's hospital. >> reporter: you came from another hospital. >> from another hospital to this hospital to have lunch. >> reporter: three days a week, chef kobe smith, dishes out the most japanese ramen in town. >> you come when they're serving ramen? >> monday, wednesday, friday. >> all days? >> yes, sometimes on friday i will get two. >> you want spicy?
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>> ramen in little rock, at a hospital? >> that's right. >> reporter: for a few years, chef kobe has been turning around the hospital kitchen. >> oh, i thought it was bad. >> reporter: after dr. bruce murphy, hospital ceo said the food was too institutional. >> food that has been prepared elsewhere, canned, and you open a bag and serve it to people after you warmed it up. not fresh food. not, vibrant food. >> reporter: hospital food. >> it is hospital food. we wanted to change that. >> reporter: demanded ingredients fresh, food delicious, and one more thing. >> he wanted to have authentic japanese ramen. >> being a little selfish. i love ramen noodles. figured everybody else would love noodles. >> reporter: he discovered his love for the dish traveling in asia. >> i didn't think twice where the best place was to cook ramen. tokyo, got to go to tokyo. >> reporter: for a week, chef kobe visited the doctor's
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favorite ramen shops and met with chefs. taking notes and videos along the way. >> these guys do the same job every day. over and over again. for 30, 40, 50 years. they take their craft so literally and they're so -- it is an honor for them. >> once back in arkansas, he spent eight months trying to turn his research into ramen. starting with the all important broth. >> can you learn how to make authentic ramen in one week? >> you can't do it. you do the best you can with what you have. we are in south. we have southern twist to a lot of ramen dishes? >> twists, crawfish and okra. today pork belly day. >> so successful. i can't get them in the ramen shop. there are other people in line. >> reporter: a rare problem in the realm of hospital food. adriana diaz, cbs news, little rock. that's the "overnight news" february.monday morning, 12th of
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hi, everyone, welcome to the "overnight news" on this monday morning, the 12th of february. i'm demarco morgan. russian investigator are trying to figure out what caused a jet to crash. the surveillance camera captured the fire ball. 71 people were on board. and our correspondent is in our london bureau reporting there were no survivors. >> reporter: fragments of the russian plane scattered across a snowy field southeast of moscow. russian officials say all 65 passengers and six crew members on board died. flight 703 took off from moscow's airport on sunday
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afternoon. it was heading to the city in central russia, but minutes later the aircraft disappeared from radar screens. and went down about 25 miles from the airport. this witness described hearing an explosion that made his house tremble. another said she saw a shattered body parts in the field and no survivors. most of the victims were reportedly from the region. one was swiss. at the local airport, relatives sobbed and paced, as news of the crash spread. russian media say the airliner had been flying since 2010, with a two-year break because of a shortage of parts. but a spokeswoman for russia's airlines, which operated the plane, said there were no concerns about its condition. russia's aviation safety record was poor in the '90s into the 2000s but has improved. they're looking into several
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possible kaus fcauses, bad weatd human error. russian investigators say the crew on the flight did not report any technical problems before the crash. demarco, the mayor of orsk where the plane was heading says monday will be a day of mourning throughout the region. >> thank you. four people who survived the crash of a tour helicopter in the grand canyon are recovering in a nevada hospital. the helicopter ec 130 went down saturday, near the west rim. 60 miles west of peach springs, arizona. as mireya villarreal reports, three other people were killed. >> reporter: moments after the crash, witnesses rushed to help. ted fujimoto, wedding photographer shooting nearby captured video of the helicopter on fire. the accident happened 73 miles east of las vegas in a remote area known as grand canyon west. >> it was pretty bad. it is amazing how they survived. the two ladies, you know, are
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lucky to be alive. >> the helicopter belongs to one of the biggest grand canyon tour companies in the area. been around more than 50 years and boast on their website more than 600,000 customers a year. >> this is the first with papillon, first major crash we know of since the 2001 incident we were involved with. >> attorney gary robb specializes in these accidents. he sued papillon back in 2001, after a helicopter crash claimed six lives. >> the helicopter industry is evolving. we are thinking safety is more and more of an emphasis whereas in the past revenue seemed to really be of paramount importance. >> reporter: we reached out to papillon airways, yet to hear back from them. rough terrain and severe weather conditions made rescue efforts difficult. it took crews more than eight hours to recover the victims. four out of the seven on board survived and are being treated at a hospital in las vegas.
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>> the accident happened here on the reservation in a remote area we are not being given access to just yet. local police department is leading the investigation, but we also know, ntsb investigators will be on scene helping. in the next 24-48 hours the wind are expected to pick up and be steady. for now, all choppers in the area have been grounded. demarco. >> mireya villarreal, thank you. team usa got on the medal board this weekend at winter olympics in south korea. a teenager became the youngest american to win an olympic snow boarding event and luger, the first to win a medal at the winter games. ben tracy is there. >> gerard now. >> he is just 17 years old. 5'5", tall, but red gerard of silver thorn, colorado had a big olympic debut. he nailed his final run on the slopestyle snow board course, landing three massive jumps to become the youngest u.s. gold medallist in the winter games in 90 years. his family was there as the results were announced.
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the shock on gerard's face golden. >> i honestly, jaw dropped. there wasn't too much in my head. it was kind of crazy. am still having a really hard time believing it. >> and history in the luge the chris mazdzer, first american man to medal in the single event. he won silver. in team figure skating, u.s. advanced with help from brother and sister duo, their quick foot work had the arena rocking. ♪ >> their the wind chill. >> reporter: but outside, hard to move. with temperatures in the single digits. pyeongchang is putting the winter in these winter games. >> it is bone-chilling. very, very cold. >> reporter: high wind forced the men's downhill postponed until next week. leaving american fans out in the cold. >> the wind chill is a killer right now. ♪
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>> reporter: in seoul, protesters were hot with anti-north korea anger. they demonstrated before a concert put on by the north performing art's troupe, part of the 550 person delegation to these games. a large part of the north korean delegation is heading back home including kim jong-un's sister who delivered some of the biggest news of these games, her brother wants to host a summit with the president of south korea, as soon as possible. demarco. >> ben tracy reporting. ben, thank you. >> today the senate scheduled to hold open ended debate on immigration and the so-called fate of the dreamers. brought to the u.s. illegally as children. now 700,000 of them risk deportation over two years after president trump rescinded the obama era program that protected them. meanwhile a weekend tweet from president trump puts him squarely in the middle of controversy after the departure of two white house aides over spousal abuse allegations. the president charges people's
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lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation. as you know, mr. trump has denied allegations of sexual impropriety. now to stories we are following in the cbs weekend news feed. in the california desert, a 21-year-old man faces vehicular manslaughter vehicular charges, after crashing into bicycle riders. the suspect was going at least 100 miles an hour when he veered into the bike riders. a 49-year-old cyclist died at the scene. 50-year-old woman air lifted to the hospital with serious injuries. >> heavy rain swamped parts of the south this weekend. overflowing creeks and rivers, washed out roads in parts of kentucky, tennessee, virginia. some areas were expecting up to 4 more inches of rain. severe storms moved through alabama, georgia and the florida panhandle. >> it was also a rainy weekend in new orleans. that didn't dampen the mardi gras fun, parade rolled on despite occasional downpours. at least seven parade were planned. rain or shine including the 50th
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valentine's day is fast approaching, for couples who find romance on the job working it out involves tact and discretion. tony dokoupil has the story from cbs "sunday morning." in hershey, pennsylvania, the rush is on. those are all hershey's kisses. close to a billion will be made just for this valentine's day. >> okay. let's go get them. >> reporter: if you need an even bigger dose of something sweet, watch their hand. >> when did you develop your sign language?
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>> oh, that one? >> that's been. >> what is senate. >> this means i love you. >> when we walk into work together. and he goes to go out the door, we just kind of both go like that to each other. >> reporter: kay and rob wagner met on their first day at work. >> we were sitting in orientation in the building. >> i look back. i thought pretty girl back there. the rest is history. >> reporter: they fell in love on the factory floor. >> he would make me laugh. yeah. >> reporter: what would he do? >> like his hair net. pull it down over his face. and the candy. i was like keep up. just funny stuff look that. >> reporter: they have been co-workers now for 22 years. for 21 of those years, they have also been huz bosband and wife. they're not alone at hershey's where love and work missing as well as milk and cocoa. the modern work place is one of america's most reliable match
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makers. it brought together michelle and barack obama, bill and melinda gates, careful, easy, easy. and happily, i also met my wife at work in the makeup room at nbc. >> this looks good. >> as newlyweds, we are still building our future. do you thing it is possible in this day and age to half a romance like yours at work. >> i do. >> if you believe in it, yes. >> reporter: but love on the clock soured recently. >> climate today, especially, things are more gray than ever. >> reporter: rosemary hafner is working for career willeder match maker for employers and employees. according to their latest survey. a third of people have dated a co-worker or will admit to it. the lowest in ten years. >> each organization is going to decide what's best for them. some say, no dating. some say, identify yourself to hr and fill out a love contract. >> reporter: yes, a love
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contract. otherwise known as a consensual romance in the work place agreement. in response to the me too movement of people with stories of sexual harassment and worse, companies are looking for new ways to protect their workers. >> it is very difficult to control the outcome when it is two human beings. coming together whether in an office setting or outside. >> reporter: luv, love. is in the air. >> luv is in the air. luv is our stock symbol. also our head quarter, we fly out of love field. >> reporter: elizabeth bryant is vice president at southwest airlines, university. the company pride itself on one emotion. >> if we have an environment, where people care for each other and can be themselves, coming to work every day. that naturally lead to friendships, relationships, some times marriages. >> how is your day?
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>> good. >> bryant's husband tory works at the airline which makes them one of 1,500 luv couples. there are rules about work place relationships at southwest airlines. such as a ban on supervisors dating subordinates. >> at any point did you find yourself thinking maybe we need to rein in our culture to pretekt our self and emplpr preprotect ourselves and employees. if there is misbehavior. you manage the misbehavior. the culture is authentic, it is transparent, it really its founded in taking care of one another. it's worked for us for, for 45 years. >> reporter: to hear southwest airlines tell it, whenever love takes flight so does business. >> reporter: the cull whur you think is best for the business also happens to create relationships? >> absolutely. >> reporter: can't get one without the other. >> i think we always believed if we take care of our employees
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first they will naturally take care of our customers. if we take care of our customers. our customers will come back. >> we do have eight emergency exits on the aircraft. >> reporter: customers might notice flight atentants, dean and terry hanson. >> very important to keep our work relationship professional. we never want to bring any problems to work. >> not that we don't trust you. flight attendants are coming through to show you their armpit areas but to double check to make sure your seatbelts are fastened. >> is it difficult working with him? no. i mean i am his best audience, first of all. don't know what he would do what me on the plane >> absolutely. >> have i told you today. >> terry and dean met in the air on a training flight 1 years ago. >> here we are. >> now they're a team on the ground too. the married couple just bought a home in loveland, colorado. >> all right! >> this is our career. we are not going anywhere for a long type.
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>> here's to the new home. >> toast. >> toast. >> we are in love with the company. in love with each other. we love working together. >> all done. >> this is a true valentine's day for us. >> back in hershey, rob and kay are making sure all the kilss get out on time. and saving a few for each other, just not the chocolate kind. >> buy be a bag of potato chips. much rather have that, yes. >> no chocolate. >> no, no. >> just ahead, lincoln slept here. or did he?
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prompting visitors to visit a small log cab been in to ask is true, lincoln slept here. the professor has come to kentucky to solve a mystery, almost as old as abraham lincoln himself. someone pulls off the highway. sees you guys drilling into the cabin. says what are you doing here? what do you say to them? >> what we are trying to do is authenticate when this cabin was made. using tree rings in the logs. >> some say our 16th president born in the hills in 1809 spebt some of his childhood in the cabin at knob creek. did he? >> this one has really nice outer curve surface done here. it will give us outer most tree ring formed. it will give of the cutting date of this particular log. the professor and team from the university of tennessee have used this technique to date all sorts of old things. including, 2004, a cabin down the road. the one he was born in.
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or, was he? i think at one point. a plot, said this might be the lincoln cabin. we just didn't know. what we do know is that honest abe was born here at this park, bearing his name. the ranger says no one honestly knows what happened to the cabin. >> there was no cabin here. it was gone bitened of the civil war. a mile up the road. was a different farm. there was a cabin on it. the story was the cabin originally sat here. but was moved that farm. >> that was the people that grabbed the logs moved them down the road. that's it. the story you can sell. the story they sold. explains the genesis of a bizarre, 1890s tour that paired lincoln's cabin with the cabin of of a native son, jefferson davis. president of the confederacy. brought the cabins of the unlikely duo to towns and cities across america. after which all of the logs were
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in storage until private citizens decide to put it back together at lincoln's birth place. >> how did they know which were witch? >> they didn't. they had no idea. >> kind of threw them together. >> threw them together. >> davis logs. lincoln logs. if they've fit together, why not. >> if you have a traditional cabin. >> wherever they came from, when the professor dated the logs logs, he discovered they were cut when lincoln was in congress. >> 14. it's not lynn konincoln's cabin >> some visit torz leave disappoint dis -- some visitors leave disappointed. >> feel cheated. because the it's not the real thing. >> you have lincoln everything. you have lincoln national bank. lincoln general store. lincoln jamboree. >> reporter: cody mcdowell work.
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>> lincoln is our identity. that's's w who we are. >> they have the story of the other cabin at nobb creek. belongs to a friend of the president's. shirley lincoln would have spent time here. time to put the story to the test. back in the lab, researchers sand the wood to reveal the surface then precisely measure the pattern of wide and narrow rings and try to match it to treats with established dates. >> that pattern is unique. just like a fingerprint. like a dna match. we have a saying. trees don't know how to lie. the trees don't lie. but they, they seem to often reveal that people have been lying. >> people like things to be old. it's not so much that they're lying. it's just that history gets it wrong. >> this is exciting huh? >> uh-huh. >> one little bit at a time. >> having entered all the data into a computer program. >> okay. this is it. >> this is it.
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>> they asked the truthful treats what year they had been cut down. >> 1861. >> oh, no. he was already president. >> right. unfortunately this cabin has nothing to do with lincoln. >> so, no. abraham lincoln did not sleep here. or here. what changes now for hodgeinville. natalie barber says maybe nothing. >> people aren't turning off the interstate and, and coming here to experience hodgeinville because of a cabin. they're here because of lincoln whuchlt we he was as a person. not the wood that surrounded him. the story and man that will drive people here. >> coming up. on the road with steve hartman and the stand-up teacher.
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finally this half-hour if teachers need aid national spokesman. we know just the person. steve hart marn fouman found hi road. >> at a charter school in houston. eddie brown is teaching sixth graders about the different forms of energy. the kids love him in the classroom. but by all accounts, effective
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in the teachers' lounge. where he demonstrates the power of laughter. and making fun of frustrations finding humor in the tortures of the job. and the audience can clearly relate. >> you feel that way too. already knew my immediate circle of teachers. went through it. i didn't know that this transcended districts and states. countries. >> eddie discovered that reach, quite by accident. about a year ago he posted a video on his facebook page, called it what public school teachers say. >> professional development. i'm as professionally developed as i'm going to get. the video went viral. this is why i tip the bartender so much. she the only one that understand me. now, 60 videos later, the ordinary science teacher from houston is an icon among educators selling out his
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teachers only comedy tour across the country. like elvis with shut up! shut up! >> reporter: wlhat did you tap into? >> what they want to say and don't say. don't get paid enough. not being able to teach how you want to teach. in that sense there is nothing funny about his comedy. and fed up with being micromanaged and would look to be trusted again. at the end of each show. eddie is as serious as detention. >> don't let them sap your creativity. >> that's how this one man came to speak for an occupation. >> that's the "overnight news" for this monday morning, the 12th of february. from the cbs broadcast center in
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