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a member of the curling team, yes, curling, ben tracy is in pyeongchang. >> reporter: not a sport where you are hurdling down a mountain at 70 miles an hour or flying 60 feet above an icy jump. instead, curling requires, slow precise movements where a granite rock is swemt down tpt ice. so the news that an athlete may have used a ban substance sent shock waves through the olympic village. >> it's bad news. i hope it is not to be the main, information. about our russian team. >> his coach, immediately dismissed the claim saying, there is no advantage to doping in curling, so why do it. >> meldomium increases stamina banned since 2016. the same drug that tennis

player, maria sharapova was caught using. a lab in seoul will double check the test. but reaction from fellow curlers was swift. >> trying to make it the cleanest sport as possible. the game is clean. there is no place for it in the olympic cheating and doping. >> russia was band from the games because the of the state sanctioned doping program during the 2014 sochi olympics. the russian athletes cleared to compete had to undergo rigorous vetting and wear uniforms without the country's flag. >> the international olympic committee decision to allow any russian athletes to the compete here is now underfire. pressed on that here in pyeongchang, a spokesperson for the ioc said eradicating doping is unrealistic. he said it would be look doing away with murder, or burglary. jeff. >> ben tracy. thank you very much. it may look like a there mall office building but it

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unsealed friday, russian election interference traces back to a so-called bot factory in st. petersburg. elizabeth palmer went there and spoke with a former insider. today, at 55 sabushkin street, a for rent sign in the window. this building says the u.s. indictment was a busy troll factory set up to influence u.s. voters. russia's foreign ministers denied the crem len wkremlin wa. where is the evidence. but the activist saw it with her own eyes. in 2015, she went undercover, and got a job at the troll factory, writing fake news in russian. this shaky video is the only glimpse she has now of the operation. but she says, we knew there were people working in english. they were better paid. and their work was absolutely secret. it consisted of posts, ridiculing hillary clinton.

and, fanning the flames of divisive issues in the u.s. when she saw those english posts she recognized them right away as the the work unfortunaof the. they used the same techniques as us. she told us. the boss was, according to the indictment. known as putin's chef he originally made his money in high end restaurants. that's him serving george w. bush at a state dinner. the u.s. indictment doesn't make a direct link between the troll factory and the kremlin. but, the ultimate insider has made millions from russian government contracts. there its no doubt she says that this factory worked for the kremlin. here in russia. it's dangerous to take on -- that kind of power. >> are you afraid for yourself? >> to stay safe, she tells me, i can't answer that question.

the russian trolls have now scaled down. but u.s. intelligence warns, they may be back for the midterms this fall. jeff. >> very interesting. liz palmer, thanks. face book says it plans to thwart meddling by using technology from centuries past. folks hoping to buy a facebook ad that names a candidate will be sent ape postcard to confirm they reside in the u.s. imagine that, facebook using snail mail. ahead, an apology after the cruise from hell. try the deoderant saving millions of clothes. degree ultraclear black + white. no yellow stains on white clothes. no white marks on black clothes. try degree ultraclear black + white.

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black panther with chadwick boseman in title role huge hit. groegs $201 million in its debut. a record for this weekend and the fifth highest of all time. many fans are showing up in costume. with a black director and mostly black cast, the film is breaking racial barriers. we went to opening night in harlem, the heart of black culture in new york along with sisters, christine and stephanie ferrier. >> these are really challenging, and difficult times. and this is bringing a lot of joy, i mean, representation, diversity. seeing yourself on screen is so important. it's giving us a chance to celebrate. i mean, an opportunity to be happy, you know, something that

its not, not sad. joyful. so we can't wait. i mean, we are all in a super celebratory mood. going to be a lot of fun. >> you celebrate nights like this once in a while. but tonight we are going to be in harlem. be on point. how does it look. as a black girl you have to wear your hair a certain way. but like now i can be in like, my natural form. >> you know, i have a son. we would go to a lot of these movies. with him. because the it was stuff he wanted to see. but this is the first time i feel like i am going for myself. >> are we getting popcorn. >> when i heard that the tickets were going on presale. i bought a whole bunch. knowing that it would be, a memorable experience. >> amazing. >> amazing. >> so many, great characters. i love that it was look a collective, like, black experience of the movie. i love the girl power scenes. those are my favorite. like, i do this.

like you do it, back, it is like we are together. i don't care where you are from. what culture, background. you saw black panther. we are family. that is the "overnight news" for this tuesday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us a bit later for the morning news. and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm jeff glor.

welcome to the "overnight news." i'm tony dokoupil. the accused gunman in the deadly school shooting in florida made his first appearance inside a courtroom. 19-year-old nikolas cruz, former student accused of killing 17 people at a south florida high school. as cruz sat in court more victims from the massacre were being laid to rest. bourke brk manuel bojorquez begins our coverage. >> nikolas cruz avoided eye contact during the hearing, silently staring down. it was his second time in court since last wednesday's shooting. more missed warning signs have

emerged. newly released documents reveal in september, 2016, an investigator with florida's department of children and families visited the cruz household. after allegations of medical neglect. investigator noted cruz had depression, adhd, autism that he cut his arms in a snap chat post. that he plans to go out and buy a gun. dcf closed the investigation six weeks later saying the agency found no evidence of mistreatment. >> this wasn't the person that we knew. >> james and kimberly sneed took cruz in after his mother's death in november, told abc news they saw no signs. >> everybody seems to know we didn't know. we had rules, and, and, he follows every rule to the t. >> stillman douglas high school students have gone from survivors to activists. >> to every politician taking donations from the nra shame on you! >> calling for stricter gun laws over the weekend. as funerals for some of the 17 killed took place. services for 14-year-old, elana petty and like hoyer were held today.

broward county sheriff, scott israel visited one of four injured in the hospital. 15-year-old anthony borgess shot five times. outside the school, where bullet holes remain visible, there were emotional reunions. geography teacher, ernie rospierski tried to shield students. >> this here the bullet is great you'd. >> one is greated me. the other one, caught a fragment hit me in the hip. >> what will it be like to, to go back to school? >> for me, a lot of crying. a lot of talking. i have been trying to figure out what i want to say to the kids the first day back when they come in. >> staff may be allowed to return to the school by end of th week. officials have not announced when classes will resume. to day survivors swil head to florida state capital to demand better gun control from lawmakers. adrianna diaz spoke with four students about their fight for change. >> they say tougher gun laws do

not decrease gun violence. we call, bs. >> never again, the rallying cry from student survivors, fueled by the loss of their peers. >> if all our government and president can do is, send thoughts and prayers, that it is time for victims to beach the change that we need to seep. >> emma gonzalez one of the teens calling on politicians to pass stricter gun laws. along with delany tarr, david hogg, cameron caskey. >> what do you think is the one thing about your generation that can really spark change here? >> the fact that we are getting shot. i have to forgive myself for that. keep moving. >> the things as much i would love to worry prom dresses college acceptance letters. in my mind i can't think about anything now except change. all i can think about is the 17 faces. >> they're taking their movement nationwide. with the march on washington. next month. >> how does a march bring change.

>> i think all of the things that happened since the first women's march. the metoo movement. along with the women. our turn. and the grieving students' turn to put an end to this. and be heard. >> we are going to make ourselves so loud. so bratzen. they've won't be able to ignore us in the white house. all about gaining a platform so we can diswith them creating common sense gun laws and tricker legislation. >> we want assault rifles off the market. >> automatic. semiautomatic have no place in civilian society. >> a slippery slope. ar 15s. more gun rights are take any way from people. >> we have a right to live. at this point. what does it mean to have rights to have guns? >> what we are on right now is a slippery slope we are getting to the bottom of. this needs to be where we stop and start, stand up. >> a major republican donor in florida says he will stop funding politicians who oppose a ban on assault weapons. al hoffman jr. raised hundreds of millions of dollars for the

gop. now the real estate developer says his money and influence will be guided by one issue. here its jericka duncan. >> when you first heard about the shooting at a school another school shooting what was your initial reaction? >> i was incredulous. i couldn't believe it. felt i had the heart in my hands. >> led 83-year-old, al hoffman jr. to stop contributing to his own party candidates unless they support a change in the gun lautz. a laws i will not write a check for any one that does not oppose assault style weapons. >> you were quoted saying this particular shooting was the end of the road for you. >> that's right. >> why not a sandy hook. >> well i have been after so many politicians, to adopt legislation, and always the answer is we are working on it. working on it. nothing ever changes. >> the original federal assault weapons ban was passed in september of 1994, but expired after ten years.

between may 2003 and june, 2008, there were at least 17 attempts to renew or replace the ban, but none made it to a vote. an effort to pass a permanent ban after the 2012 sandy hook massacre failed to get senate approval. last friday, hoffman wrote an e-maim to half dozen gop donors asking them to follow his lead. >> would you be willing to write a check to democrats and republican whose are in favor of the ban? >> i would support -- fiscally conservative person. who supports the ban, and, at this moment in time, i really don't care whether it is a republican or democrat. >> do you really believe something will change as a result of the parkland shooting? >> don't know. i hope soap. just a start right now. but i think we need to build the movement. and time, and the lord willing, we'll accomplish some things.

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america's top diplomat doesn't give a lot of interviews. but secretary of state rex tillerson sat down with 60 minutes for a rare wide ranging conversation. the former ceo of exxon mobile its confronting several global flash-points at the top of the list, the volatile nuclear standoff with north korea. so what is the united states catastrophic war. here is margaret brennan. >> in the new year's day speech, kim jong-un said the entire area of the u.s. mainland is within our nuclear strike range.

that's got to make yur nervous. >> it does make us nervous. it also stiffens our resolve. that kind of a threat to the american people by a regime like this, is not accept bum. and the president's meeting his responsibilities as commander-in-chief, asking our military, secretary mattis at the defense department to ensure we are prepared for anything. >> those military options are there in case you fail. >> in case i fail. i say to my chinese counterpart, you and i fail, these people get to fight. that's not what we want. awe off b >> but you are willing to work with and potentially negotiate with kim jong-un. >> that's who well will have to work with to achieve this diplomatically. what we have to determine now are we ready to start? are they ready to start? and itch they're not, we'll any just keep the pressure campaign under way. we will increase the pressure. doing that. every month there are sanctions rolled out. the world wants north core car

to change. >> there are some question as but how badly china wants them to change. you really needed their help to put economic pressure on kim jong-un. what reassurances have you given to china so they follow through? >> i think we have of a common understanding with china. north korea represents a threat to china as the well. we have been clear they're going to have an important role to play once weep get to the negotiating table. >> i hear you saying these wouldn't be one-on-one talks. china would be at the table? >> early on they might be one-on-one discussions for the u.s., first, north core car to determine is there a reason to begin to put the construct for negotiations in place? >> what its the carrot that you are dangling for north korea to convince them to talk? >> we're not using a carrot to talk. we're using large sticks. that its what they need to understand. this pressure campaign, is putting, having it bite on north

korea. revenue streams. bite on the military programs. >> but to say full denuclearization. why would they agree to give up something that they have got that they think is an insurance policy? >> because the it buys them nothing. it buys them more of the hermit kingdom. isolated. isolated from the world diplomatically, isolated from the world economically. >> the chairman of the snan foreign relations committee said every one of us should pray, rex tillerson and jim mattis are success over the course of eight to ten months dip lope matically or our nation is going to be facing one of the greatest military decisions that we fac . eight to ten months how much time you have to get it done. >> i will use all the time available to me. our diplomatic efforts will continue until that first bomb drops. my job is to never have a reason for the first bomb to drop. we don't know, precisely, how much time is left on the clock. >> you seem to have convinced

the president that, that diplomacy is the way to go on this. but it wasn't always so clear. back in october, you said you were working to got a dialogue going with the north koreans, and the president tweeted, rex, stop wasting your time trying to negotiate with little rocketman. have you asked him not to call him little rocketman? >> uh. >> is that a diplomatic term? >> the president is going to communicate the way he communicates. my job as chief diplomat is to ensure the north koreans know, we keep our channels open. i'm listening. i'm not sending a lot of messages back because there is nothing to say to them at this point. so i am listening for you to tell me you are ready to talk. >> how will you know? >> they will tell me. they've will tell me. >> that explicit leap. >> we receive messages from them. i think it will be very explicit. as to how, how we want to have that first conversation. >> what's the latest?

>> as we saw during this meeting with top aide about the crisis in yemen, the whole world its now his portfolio. >> i think i saw report of further missile attacks. >> rex wayne tillerson comes from a family of modest means in north texas. named after actors rex allen and john wayne. because his parents loved western. we actually have a photo of you, back in your, in your boy scout uniform. i understand you rez to eose to scout. how old were you here? >> 14 when that was taken. >> you look very proud? >> i am very proud. was very proud. still am. >> i can tell. boy scouts you reference it a fair amount. that play a big formative role in your life? >> it really shaped who i am. >> you still think of yourself as a boy scout? >> yes. >> really? >> absolutely. you've don't get to be the ceo of exxon mobil as a boy scout? >> i did. >> you talk about something you

call the code of west. what does that mean? >> well you know the code of the west, as the the west was unfolding it wasn't a lot of law enforcement. people basically relied upon each other's word. my word is my bond. i used that throughout my life even at exxon mobil. sit down with the head of state of the country, the ceo of the company look each other in the eye. i would say all i need to know is you uh are going to live up to your side of this deal. i will give you my word i will live up to this side of the deechlt deal. code of the west, people were loyal to their organizations. riding for the brand is a phrase that struck with me. >> riding for the brand? >> when a cowboy signed on to a ranch or that organization he was committed to that organization. >> what is the brand for you now? >> the state department, the united states government. the american people are my brand. >> so, one leader you hadn't met, before december 2016, was donald trump. tell me what that first encounter was like?

>> we met in his office in trump tower. and he, just began by asking me, you know, why don't you talk about how you see the world. we walked around the world for about an hour. and then, after that, we kind of went into a little sales pitch with me. he said i want you to be my secretary of state. >> stunned. >> you didn't know it was a job interview? >> no, i didn't. i thought i was just going up to talk to him and share with him. which i have done with previous presidents. i did with president obama. i did with president bush. so i really felt that's all it was. >> to see more of margaret brennan's interview with secretary tillerson go to cbsnews.com and: cbsnews.com and click on 60 minutes. we'll be right back.

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new super hero movie, black panther sprinted one of the biggest openings ever. the holiday weekend total is expected to climb past 235 million, but the success of black panther reaches far beyond the box office numbers. jericka duncan shows us why the movie has become a cultural phenomenon. >> reporter: the big cat out of his cage and pouncing on the big screen. black panther the latest in a long line of marvel comic book superheroes, turned movie stars. and this one has fans in a feline frenzy. >> fantastic. fantastic. easily the best marvel movie. >> i was so looking for ward to the move veie. >> typically movie superheroes. whether men of steel, gods of thunder, or dark knights, are

white. >> my son it is your time. black panther appealed to comic book fans and an audience. when the audiences intersect. there is super excitement. >> all the time. i would love this country too. >> the film hold special meaning for many long time fans and for ariel johnson. >> i feel like i might actually leave the movie comatose. i need to be carried out. >> a self described blerd, black nerd, first black will tune open a comic store. she opened a combic and coffee housen philadelphia, little more than two years ago. she has been waiting for a film like black panther since she fell in love with comic books as a girl. >> when did your love for super heroes begin. >> i always liked super heroes. it wasn't until i was 11 or so,

i was introduced to, the x men. the thing that really grabbed me was, was storm. >> because up until that point i had never seen a black woman, super hero. there is something that clicks when you start to see yourself reflected back at you. >> this isn't the first time, a black comic book hero was the lead role. the three part blade series in the late 90s starred wesley snipes as a vampire hunter. >> hey, blade. >> when you think about the people who were around blade in the movie. it wasn't, like an all black cast. i think the thing about black panther, essentially a black movie. you know, in hollywood terms. but, usually when, when the movie is a black movie, white audiences don't see it. >> but that's not the case with black panther. the box office tells the tale of the film's success. this weekend, it brought in nearly $200 million. and set the record for a live action super hero movie on

rotten tomatoes with a score of 97%. >> i knew for a fact it was going to be a huge success. >> john jennings is professor of media and cultural studies at university of california riverside. and he ills the co-author of black comics returns. >> the black panther film is cultural phenomenon because images like this have not been seen in major multiplexes before. >> images like black director, leading a predominantly black cast and black royalty set in a sieft y african nation. the fictional country. >> a lot of the films we have seen before, like, 12 yeersz a slave, precious, something lierk that are dealing with heavy subjects that are, posit black suffering as a central mode of existence for black americans. i think bla black pck celebrati the end of the trauma. this is about black joy. >> what do you think is

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at the winter olympics, raising concerns about safety and whether the athletes are being pushed too far. one example happened last week when a 16-year-old japanese snow boarder came down hard during the half pipe competition. luckily not seriously hurt. dana jacobson explains why some believe the games may be getting too dangerous. >> breoke my jaw in two places. ruptured spleen, collapsed lung, bruised heart. >> after nearly dying in a back country snow boarding accident. mark mcmorris feels lucky to do what he loves most. catching air, and soaking in what he call, ultimate joy. >> what is the first thing you remember from after the accident? >> when they took me out of the coma. and everybody was standing

there. i couldn't talk. but they gave me a pen and paper. and i wrote -- do i have brain damage. can i go to the olympics? still? >> not only did mcmorris make it off to the olympics he is the snow board slopestyle bronze medalist. >> it was really scary to start trying some of the tricks again. but i just need to remind myself i got hurt in the back country hitting a tree. didn't get hurt trying the tricks. >> winter olympics definitely have gotten more dangerous. >> this historian has attended every winter games since 1992. >> let's face it is good tv to see people risking their lives and health is good television. >> british journal of sports medicine studied the sochi olympics and found 49% of all aerial skiers in the games suffered an injury. many of the most dangerous sports according to the study are extreme sports. which made their olympics debut in 2006. >> the international olympic committee, several years ago,

decided that, that they were losing the youth audience. not a lot of americans watch biathlon. but they will watch snow boarding. so they just kept adding these. think they're going to get harder and harder until at some point, somebody suffers a complete paralysis during an olympic event or actually dies. >> 24-year-old mark mcmorris says his sport skyrocketed in complex tee since heap started competing, but he doesn't believe his sport should change. >> every sport has a lot of danger. i think just because we are in extreme sport it seems a little crazier in everybody's eyes. >> that's the "overnight news" for tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others check back a little bit later for the morning news and cbs this morning from the broadcast center in new york city. i'm tony dokoupil.

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