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sixth day. teachers remain on strike after the state senate balked at approving a 5% pay hike offered by governor jim justice. until this is settled 277,000 students will have no school. the united nations and the u.s. state department said today a cease-fire in the suburb of syria's capital is not working. syria's military has decimated rebel-held ghouta with air strikes. 400,000 civilians are trapped. seth doane remains the only network correspondent on the ground in syria. >> reporter: war can be eerily quiet. this was one of four humanitarian corridors set up to allow aid in to rebel-held territory and sins out. there are ambulances lined up here. there are also buses to help evacuate people. but no one came. fearful residents stayed where they were. syrian soldiers are taking us to what is now the front line in this fight for eastern ghouta.

as soon as we arrived, we heard shelling. ahead at the checkpoint there were no signs of civilians, only more signs of conflict. syrian troops have just told us that they are fighting one of the main opposition groups that is just over there. [ gunfire ] retaking ghouta from the rebels would be a prize for syrian government forces who are battling to solidify control of the capital. video from inside ghouta today, taken during a pause in fighting, shows the ruined neighborhoods. and activists posted interviews with defiant residents. "this is a cease-fire," this man asked. "look at the chaos and destruction. and these humanitarian crossings they talk about? who says we're leaving? we're staying right here." back on the government side, people are waiting for ghouta to fall and worn down by the war raging just across the street.

seth doane, cbs news, eastern ghouta. it's been a brutal flu season, and here at the nih, the national institutes of health, they're working on a universal flu vaccine. from pole to pole and just about every place in between, nicklynn and mittermeier have used their cameras to give nature a face, whether human or otherwise. >> it's got to be beautiful, it's got to teach you something, and it's got to make you care. sometimes a cough gets in the way of a good night's sleep.

that's when he needs vicks vaporub. proven cough medicine. with 8 hours of vapors. so he can sleep. vicks vaporub. goodnight coughs. the fda today chose the four strains of the flu that will be targeted in the vaccine for next season. but scientists at the national institutes of health are looking far beyond next year as they try to develop a universal flu

vaccine. here is our chief medical correspondent dr. jon lapook. >> reporter: it's the same problem each year, making a vaccine against a flu virus is like trying to hit a moving target. >> it changes. it mutates just enough to get it out of the range of the vaccine. >> reporter: dr. anthony fauci heads up vaccine research at the national institutes of health. he says we need a brand new approach. >> we've been using this technology of inactivated virus that you grow in chicken eggs since the 1940s. this is antiquated. >> reporter: in the six to seven months it usually takes to create the vaccine using eggs, the virus can dramatically change. the solution? a universal flu vaccine that would protect against multiple strains of the virus for years, perhaps a lifetime. flu viruses are made up of molecules that look like mushrooms, with heads and stalks. the current vaccine only targets the head. but that part is unstable,

frequently changing. the result? a flu vaccine that only works some of the time. the focus of research now is the bottom, or the stalk, which doesn't change, giving the vaccine a chance to work. >> we might not ever get a perfect universal flu vaccine, but we have to have some version of a universal flu vaccine. we cannot accept that we won't get there. >> amazing that we've been using the same approach since the 1940s. how long potentially until this universal vaccine is available? >> well, dr. fauci thought that the clinical trials that would show ha it works would take about five years, and then probably another five years at least for the companies to ramp up production. >> but it's not necessarily going to solve everything, just be much better? >> be much better. i mean, potentially 80% to 90% effective, dr. fauci thought, which is a heck of a lot better than what we have right now. >> all right, jon, thanks very much. when we come back here tonight, oh canada. the neighbors drop in on a miami homeowner.

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it was already the largest ever data breach of personal information. now equifax says an additional 2.4 million americans had their information stolen by hackers. the credit reporting agency says the total number of people affected is close to 148 million. the head of the environmental protection agency says he is changing his travel plans. scott pruitt faced criticism for expensive travel funded by taxpayers. he said it was done for safety reasons so he could be closer to the exit. but pruitt now says he will switch from first class to coach seats. he announced this in an interview with our major garrett.

>> the security detail that i had, they wanted me in a position on the plane to exit expeditiously if an incident arose. i've instructed those same individuals to accommodate those security threats in alternate ways including -- up to and including flying coach. >> it might happen? >> look, it is -- there's a change coming and that's going to happen on my very next flight. >> you can see scott pruitt's news-making interview on major's podcast "the takeout." it will be available tomorrow on itunes, google play, spotify, and stitcher. now take a look at what happened to this house in miami. a canadian air force helicopter on a training mission yesterday accidentally dropped an 80-pound life raft that crashed through the roof. the homeowner thought it was a bomb. she escaped with minor injuries. the canadian air force says it will find her a place to stay while her house is fixed. up next here, some beautiful images you do not want to miss.

we end tonight with a treat for the eyes. the beauty of the earth captured by "national geographic's" adventurers of the year. here's carter evans. >> reporter: all of these riches right in your back yard. >> yeah. >> reporter: if this is paul nicklen and cristina mittermeier's back yard, their front yard is the rest of the planet. >> i think this year we've been home less than two months. because we work together, home is wherever we are. >> i think there was a song about that. ♪ home is where i want to be

♪ pick me up and turn me round >> reporter: from pole to pole and just about every place in between, nicklen and mittermeier have used their cameras to give nature a face. all of their photographs are taken to serve the same three goals. >> art, science, and conservation. it's got to be beautiful, it's got to teach you something, and it's got to make you care. >> reporter: those three elements came together in heart-wrenching fashion this past december when the couple released this video of a starving polar bear on social media. it was viewed more than 30 million times. >> at some point you have to slap people in the face and just say this is what's happening. this is what climate change looks like. >> reporter: along with the serious intent that drives their work, their photographic expeditions are filled with inspiring encounters. >> it's one of my favorite things on this planet to, do is to swim with leopard seals. >> you see you facing the skrauz of this beast. >> she's just letting you know that this is her territory and if you want to be here you're going to play by her rules.

>> reporter: she kept bringing you penguins? >> realizing i couldn't catch a live penguin she start bringing me exhaust penguins, tired penguins. >> reporter: she's trying to feed you. >> feed me, take care of me. >> reporter: while paul specializes in wildlife at the frozen ends of the earth cristina captures the lievgz of indigenous people all over the world. >> for me the kinds of photographs we aim to produce are the ones that become iconic symbols for something larger than just the moment that they capture. >> reporter: for paul and cristina that perspective makes life richer and makes the job worth every moment. >> if failing 98% of the time, being miserable most of the time, and being patient, believing in yourself, believing in the process and chasing that story. >> reporter: carter evans, cbs news, vancouver island, british columbia. >> that is the "overnight news" for this friday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city i'm jeff glor.

>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm anna werner. russian president vladimir putin is threatening a new nuclear arms race with the united states. putin, who is in the middle of a re-election campaign, claims russia has created a new generation of nuclear weapons and he insists the united states has no defense against them. >> there should be no doubt in anyone's mind that after the invasion of georgia, the invasion of ukraine, the intervention in syria, the meddling in our election, the attack last week by russian mercenaries on u.s. forces in syria, that we are again in a cold war, we're in conflict with russia and the statements yesterday are a reflection of that. >> president trump fired the first shots in a possible trade war with china, canada, and the

european union. the president says he'll impose stiff new tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. margaret brennan reports. >> 25% for steel. it will be 10% for aluminum. and it will be for a long period of time. >> reporter: industry ceos gathered at the white house celebrated the president's decision. >> we are confident that it will be a good conclusion. >> reporter: but the surprise announcement triggered a market sell-off, as concerns swirl about whether the tariffs will spike costs for u.s. manufacturers or even trigger a trade war with china. the president routinely accuses beijing of unfair trade practices. >> what they do is they dump massive amounts of product in our country. and it just kills. it destroys our companies and our jobs. >> reporter: chinese officials were also caught off guard. president xi jinping's top economic adviser was in washington today for what were supposed to be trade negotiations. >> you can win against china if

you're smart. >> reporter: the president said he was delivering on a campaign promise. senator sherrod brown, a democrat, cheered the decision, calling it long overdue for shuttered steel plants across ohio. but several top republicans urged caution. senator john kennedy of louisiana. >> once you start imposing tariffs, you don't do it in a vacuum. other countries respond. >> reporter: nebraska senator ben sasse called the tariffs a "massive tax increase on american families. you'd expect a policy this bad from a leftist administration, not a supposedly republican one." >> i don't know that the president will or should ever apologize for protecting american workers and certainly not to senator sasse. >> reporter: it has been a difficult week for the president. his closest and longest-serving aide hope hicks announced her resignation yesterday, and his son-in-law jared kushner saw his security clearance downgraded and questions raised about whether he is vulnerable to

manipulation by foreign officials. >> i missed every one of you every day. >> reporter: speaking to employees he used to oversee at the department of homeland security, chief of staff john kelly seemed to acknowledge the white house turmoil. >> the last thing i wanted to do is walk away from one of the great honors of my life being the secretary of homeland security, but i did something wrong and god punished me i guess. >> reporter: tens of thousands of california residents have been ordered out of their homes as torrential rain threatens town leash deadly mudslides north of los angeles. mireya villarreal is there. >> reporter: with a few hours left before the storm actually hits, deputies are actually going door to door. they are trying to warn residents, urge them to leave their homes with their valuables and their families before it's too late. most of the homes sergeant brad welch and his team hit were already empty. >> we'll tape it and go. >> reporter: the people still around promise they'll be gone soon. the goal is to clear out nearly 30,000 residents by nightfall. >> make sure you guys are out of here by 6:00.

okay? >> oh, my god. mom! >> reporter: this affluent coastal community is just starting to recover after a devastating mudslide killed 21 people and destroyed hundreds of homes back in january. that was a voluntary evacuation zone. santa barbara county sheriff bill brown. how will you handle those people that don't want to leave? because it's inevitable. >> we're not going to drag you out of your homes. but it really is something that has to become part of the new normal. >> reporter: we met up with sylvia kim and her family as they sandbagged around their home. >> anytime i hear there's going to be heavy rain, we will leave. start in the east and watching this storm system pushing its way through the great lakes. that will transfer to the coast, producing a very powerful nor'easter as we head into the day tomorrow. so heavy snowfall across new york state, and then you see that low all wrapped up just south of new england a slow mover which is really going to bring destructive coastal flooding and very strong winds. the snow heaviest across new york state and reaching into

parts of western new england. that's one element of the storm. but the winds will be strong up and down the eastern seaboard. not just coastal new england but down into the mid-atlantic. cold northwest winds moving in for tomorrow. then also very strong winds will move across the spine of the appalachians with the storm system. and in the open atlantic huge waves 30 to 40-footers. the entire atlantic ocean will look more like there's a hurricane out there than a northeaster. on the west coast cold pocket of air diving down across the west. this is bringing a huge amount of snowfall after a pretty lackluster start to winter three to fight feet of snow across the next few days across the sierra. in southern california that rix of flooding. flood watches in and around los angeles. a couple inches of rain and mudslides. debris flows will be a concern. even though it is a routine thing here at laguardia airport tonight, you can believe that people are trying to get out of here before that storm moves in. just about every major airline already offering travel waivers for those who will be impacted the most.

passengers traveling from d.c. to maine are expected to be the most inconvenienced due to high winds. so far today more than 400 cancellations and over 3,000 delays mainly due because of a snowstorm in europe. at this hour airlines still keeping a close eye on that forecast, add well as adcrusting their game plan in preparation for tomorrow. in syria the united nations says a daily cease-fire outside damascus is actually making things worse. the five-hour respite is supposed to allow aid in and civilians out. seth doane reports now from the frnt li front line of the syrian civil ra rar. >> reporter: war could be eerily quiet. this was one of four humanitarian corridors set up to allow aid in and civilians out. there are ambulances lined up here. there are also buses to help evacuate people. but no one came.

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." an art exhibit called the armory show opens next week in new york city. but for many the most fas snauting work will be outside the galleries. a line of 25-foot-high photos on scaffolding created by a french artist who goes by the name jr. anderson cooper spoke to j.r. for "60 minutes." >> reporter: this is the photograph that popped up in september along the u.s.-mexico border. a 64-foot-tall picture of a mexican child named kikito who lichz just on the other side of the fence. built on scaffolding on mexican soil, there was nothing u.s. border patrol agents could do about it. it was classic j.r.

a person's picture pasted in a public place that made everyone stop and stare. j.r. has been doing this kind of thing all over the world for the past 14 years. he put the faces of kenyans on rooftops in a nairobi slum. in cuba where oversized images of castro and che are the norm, j.r. put up enormous pictures of everyday people. on new york sidewalks and istanbul buildings, in tunisia during the arab spring, in a looted police station j.r. has pasted his pictures, often without permission and at risk of being arrested. we met up with j.r. in a suburb of paris in front of a giant mural he'd made out of photographs of more than 700 local residents. >> that's why i put them in the center. >> reporter: we don't know his real name, and that's just how j.r. wants it. in public he never takes off his glasses or hat. there's a practical reason for it. but a little mystery also builds

mystique in the world of art. what we do know is that j.r. is 35 years old and was born in france, the child of tunisian immigrants. >> i don't think i've ever done an interview for "60 minutes" where i didn't actually know the name of the person i'm interviewing. you're not going to tell me your name? >> would it help? >> it would help me. >> in countries where i get arrested -- >> it's important for you to be anolnymou anonymous. >> yeah, because unfortunately when i travel in a lot of countries where what i do, just paper and glue, is not considered as art. i get arrested, deported, put in jail. >> what's art in one country is a jailable offense in another. >> exactly. >> reporter: skr r.'s been committing jailable offenses since he was a teenager. he says he was repeatedly kicked out of high school and would sneak out with friends spray painting graffiti in hard to reach areas. >> graffiti or tagging, what was the appeal of that? >> we all have that sense that i want to exist, show that i'm

here, i'm present. >> graffitiing was saying i am here, i am a person. >> exactly. i'm here. i exist. >> reporter: his foray into photography began, he says, by accident. >> i found a camera in the subway, a tiny camera. >> you really just found it? >> yeah. and it's funny because a lot of friends sees me, yeah, you started your career with a -- >> i'm not sure the police would believe that story. but some things are true. >> exactly. i found out i was not the best in graffiti. i have the balls to climb any building you want. but i was with friends who were amazing. then i realize wait, let me document the journey. so i went from i exist to they exist, and i realized the power of that. >> once photography got in the picture it was about these other people exist. they exist. >> they exist. >> reporter: many of j.r.'s friends in this paris suburb whom he began taking pictures of felt they didn't exist in the eyes of french society. most of those who live in this

neighborhood are of african or arab descent, first or second generation immigrants, and few wealthy parisians ever venture here. in 2005 riots broke out in this neighborhood after two kids died while being chased by police. the violence spread across france. j.r. saw how the young people in the suburb were being portrayed on television. he decided to use his camera to tell a different story. >> you would see the riots. everyone had hoodies. so any kids would look like a monster to you. that's when i started photographing them from really close, i'm going to put your name, your age, your building number and i'm going to paint it in paris where they see you as a monster and actually, you're going to play your own caricature. >> isn't that feeding a stereotype? >> by feeding it it breaks it. i wanted them to be in control of their own image. >> and you wanted people in paris who maybe had never been to this neighborhood to understand what?

>> the humanitarian. when you look at the face this makes you want to smile. by playing a monster they don't look like monster anymore. >> j.r. enlarged the pictures and printed them out and with friends began pasting them up illegally at night around paris. most were immediately taken down. but the mayor of one parisian district gave j.r. permission to paste them on a wall outside a museum. it was j.r.'s first official public art exhibit. he was 23 years old. >> the people from paris would go in front of the pictures and take a photo of themselves with them. and people were trying to find out who is who and get a photo with them when they're supposed to be the monsters are about to invade paris. so it kind of break the tension that there was. >> reporter: the idea of breaking tension through photography was a revelation to j.r. in 2007 with money saved from odd jobs he decided to head to israel. it was after the second intefadeh. and his plan was to paste

photographs on the wall separating palestinians and israelis in the west bank. >> i started making a list of people doing the same job on each side. hairdresser, taxi driver, security guard, teacher, student. and then i would go and say look, i want to paste you, paying your own caricature of how the other sees you but i will paste you with. oh, sure, take my photo but the other guy never going to accept. they're really closed-minded. and when i go there same thing. >> each person said the person on the other side wouldn't do it -- >> compactly. >> before he can begin pasting the photographs j.r. and his team were arrest bid israeli authorities for not having a permit. they were loaded into the back of a wagon and hauled off to jail. after some questioning they were released and given 15 days to leave the country. instead j.r. went to the palestinian side of the wall and began to paste. >> i paste a giant photo of the taxi driver and the second photo

of the other taxi driver. a crowd of people, very quickly, big crown. and certainly people have a question. my friend, who is these people? i say oh, one is israeli and one is palestinian. then you have a big silence from the crowd. so i say who is who? and they couldn't even recognize their enemy or their brother. >> reporter: on the israeli side to ensure he wouldn't be arrested again j.r. announced the day and time he was going to put up his photographs. he said so many reporters and onlookers showed up to watch the authorities decided to just let him go ahead with his project. the attention he got for his work in the middle east and france led to some sales of his photographs, which then allowed him to xwin to travel further afield. over the next few years in kenya, liberia, and sierra leone, he focused his lens on women. heroes, he says, who are often treated as second-class citizens. he photographed women's faces

and places them where they could no longer be ignored. a kenyan woman named elizabeth kamanga asked j.r. to paste her picture for all the world to see. >> the woman said make my picture travel. >> have my eyes, my story travel around world. >> like sending a bottle in the water. >> reporter: her story did travel. thousands of miles around the world. j.r. pasted her eyes onto a container ship called the magellan that spent months at sea. in 2008 he ventured into providencia, the oldest fa vela in rio. a slum per dhd on a hillside controlled by a well-armed gang of drug dealers. j.r. photographed an elderly woman whose grandson was murdered by a rival gang. she agreed to let him paste her image on the stairs leading to her neighborhood. >> did you have permission from any of the gangs? >> from nobody. we start pasting.

you know. after ten stairs huge fights of guns. [ gunfire ] it start going from all over. >> j.r. and his team were caught in crossfire between police and gang members. >> we run and we hide. like it's the last day of my life. and the next day we came back and we kept coming, doing the stairs. and i think that's what made the people in the community realize that okay, we're not just here for a minute. and the first time when that woman was facing on the stairs everybody in the community understand what the project was about. it was her. she was standing there straight and looking strong. >> reporter: her photo covered 80 steps. and after that other residents allowed j.r. to post their faces and eyes on the sides of their homes. a display of strength and dignity, he says, that could be seen from the wealthier neighborhood below.

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italy holds national elections sunday, and a far right party called casa pound, is expected to win a large number of seats in parliament. critics say the rise of casa pound is the return of mussolini but supporters say the party is just looking out for average

italians. seth doane reports. >> reporter: food is distributed to the needy by this italian political party, which is also providing services like cardiac checkups. but this is no left-wing group. rather casa pound, a far right anti-krim grant political party that's building support among voters like roberto, by offering services for the unemployed and the poor. as long as they're not foreigners. >> we have a lot of immigrants in italy. a lot. it's not possible the economy of italy to sustain this. >> reporter: casa pound blames hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from africa for contributing to italy's economic woes. they see themselves as fascists. and in a scene reminiscent of world war ii casapound supporters filled a rome street.

candidate for prime minister, he doesn't want to return to the dictatorship of benito mussolini but pushes the italy first fascism of that era. "during the years italy was o'governed by fascism it was a world power and took a leap forward economically," he said. alarmed by the rise of the far right, protesters have rallied against groups like casapound, which has seen its membership rise. this parliamentary press conference was a first. casapound is more commonly associated with activities like this. supporters in red vests kicking immigrant vendors off an italian beach. >> when you talk to a lot of italians about casapound, a lot of them say those are racists. "it's simply because they don't know us," stefano said. casapound has already won some local elections. and for the first time has candidates on the ballot

nationwide. the party is stepping in

a young survivor of a schoolyard shooting two years ago is still traumatized by the death of her best friend. but she's coping the best she can, and she even has a new pen pal in the white house. mark strassmann reports. >> reporter: eva olsen always carries mikey, the ninja turtle that belonged to her friend, jacob. >> when you look at mikey, what do you think? >> that jacob's with me. >> reporter: jacob hall, the boy eva imagined marrying, was 6. in september of 2016 he was shot and killed on the school playground in townville, south carolina. the shooter was 14. eva watched it happen. >> do you want to try to forget it or -- >> i always try to forget it but it doesn't work.

>> reporter: mary and david olsen, eva's parents, now home-school her. the 8-year-old has been diagnosed with severe ptsd. >> and what are the symptoms? >> the rage. >> starting to yell. pupils get dilated and then she just doesn't remember anything after it's all over with. >> reporter: eva decided to do something about it. >> i wrote the president a letter. >> and why him? >> because presidents are a pretty big deal. dear mr. president -- >> she used her best handwriting. >> i heard and saw it all happen, and i was very scared. i don't want that to ever happen again. are you going to keep kids safe? >> reporter: four months later the president wrote her back. >> dear eva, thank you for your letter. it is very brave of you to share your story with me. schools are places where children learn and grow with their friends. their halls should be free fear.

it was nice to know he prayed for me and stuff. >> did it help? >> i wanted him to say how. that's why i wrote the second letter. you know, adults sometimes don't like to ask for help. >> and you thought you'll give him the help? >> yeah. >> reporter: in her second letter to the president eva suggested ways to keep kids safe. >> my first idea is keep violence away from schools and kids. move schools to a safer area and help the kids be able to get there. >> reporter: she has yet to hear and how are you feeling these days? >> sad, mad, scared. >> reporter: eva olsen has no physical scars. but she was wounded in a schoolyard shooting. mark strassmann, cbs news, anderson, south carolina. and that's the "overnight news" for this friday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us a little later for the morning news and of course "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm anna warner.

captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs f march 2nd, it's friday, march 2nd, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." strong storms slamming both coasts. a nor'easter is bringing hurricane force winds and wet snow to the east, triggering flooding conditions while the west coast is dealing with heavy snow, rain, and the mudslides. thousands of residents in southern california have been told to evacuate. and russia claims to have a new generation of nuclear weapons, putting an already strained relationship between russia and the u.s. on ice.