for waking up at 2 in the morn. >> glad you're hanging out with us. >> thanks, guys. have a great day. good morning to our viewers in the west. it's monday, march 5th, 2018. welcome to "cbs this morning." the shape of water wins the oscar for best picture but hollywood's biggest night belonged to women. e!'s kevin frazier was on the red carpet and has highlights from the ceremony where me too and time's up had a leading role. the showdown between president trump and his closest republican allies over proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum. why mr. trump says he welcomed a trade war. new footage from the ambush of four u.s. soldiers in niger shows how they were dangerously exposed and badly outnumbered. isis is now trying to use the

graphic images as propaganda. plus, children as young as 4 are digging up a mineral that powers your smart phones and electric cars. a cbs news investigatiuews inveo the country and sees the toxic conditions firsthand. first, we begin with eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. >> equality, inclusion, intersectionality, that's what this year has promised us. >> hollywood shines a spotlight on women at the oscars. >> the world is watching us. we need to set an example. >> this week, president trump could push ahead with his proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum. >> your solution has let china off the hook. it's only going to hurt american consumers and our allies. please reconsider your solution. >> president trump says north korea, quote, called up and would like to talk. florida lawmakers are set to vote on the plan to arm

teachers. >> we're going to stop evil at the door before they get in the classroom. >> people along the east coast are cleaning up the mess after a powerful nor'easter battled most of the region. >> this is absolutely nuts. >> at an airport in southeast china, the roof comes crashing down as heavy wind and rain slashed the building. >> all that -- >> march madness isn't just for college hoops. >> fired at the buzzer and buries it. >> and all that matters. >> history as the first black screenwriter for "get out." >> to anybody who went and saw this movie, who told somebody to buy a ticket, thank you, i love you. >> things are changing for the better. they're making sure of that. it is positive change. this is a night for positivity. our plan is to shine a light on a group of outstanding and aspiring films. each and every one of which got crushed by "black panther" this

weekend. >> this morning's eye opener is presents by toyota. let's go places. welcome to "cbs this morning." you're welcome, jordan peele. didn't you think he was talking to us when he said, i want to thank everybody who saw the movie and told others to see it? started here. >> i also was the guy behind the couch halfway through the movie. >> it had those moment, yes. >> it was very well done. norah o'donnell is on assignment for "60 minutes." bianna golodryga is here with us at the table. the 90th academy awards gave the movement for a change in hollywood a global platform after months of scandal over sexual misconduct. the shape of water won best picture. the ceremony showed the tide had turned last night with women the focus right from the start. >> a string of presenters called for female empowerment and

visibility. best actress winner frances mcdormand gave a tribute to all the female nominees. >> it was a challenge to hollywood's male dominance and kevin frazier with our partners at "entertainment tonight" saw it all from the red carpet and backstage. he is in los angeles very early this morning. but what a night it was, kevin, good morning. >> what a night, bianna. good morning. even though the acting honors were not a surprise, going to the long-predicted front-runners, last night's oscars still delivered a consistent message about women taking their power back in hollywood and that was especially true when frances mcdormand accepted her award for best actress. >> i'm hyperventilating a little bit. >> reporter: at the end of her acceptance speech, frances mcdormand made a simple but revolutionary request. >> if i may be so honored to

have all the female nominees in every category stand with me in this room tonight, the actors, the filmmakers, the producers. look around, ladies and gentlemen, because we all have stories to tell. >> reporter: in a night when oscar nominated women took a little ral stand for visibility, three of harvey weinstein's accusers, actress ashley judd, annabella sciorra and sam ma hayek. >> the powerful sound of new voices joining together in a mighty chorus that is finally saying time's up. >> reporter: weinstein contends all his sexual encounters were consensual. oscar host jimmy kimmel was among those saying sexual harassment in hollywood must stop. >> if we can do that, women will only have to deal with sexual harassment all the time at every other place they go. >> reporter: for the first time, a woman, rachel morrison, was nominated in the cinematography

category as noted by presenter sandra bullock. >> the four men and the one trail blazing woman -- >> reporter: emma stone gave a similar nod. >> these four men and greta gerwig created their own master pieces this year. >> reporter: while neither women won the oscar, at least the presenters announced the correct win, unlike last year when faye dunaway was given the wrong best picture envelope. >> "la la land." >> reporter: to make amends, they returned to once again present best picture. >> "the shape of water." >> reporter: but producer/director guillermo del toro just had to make sure. >> may i have this? >> it's right. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> now, in light of hollywood's sexual harassment scandals, many eyes were focused on the red carpet before the broadcast and

ryan seacrest's coverage for e! entertainment. an internal investigation there found insufficient evidence he harassed a former stylist. a number of stars walked past seacrest. gayle. >> all right. hey, kevin, help us understand this. frances mcdormand ended her speech calling for something called an inclusion rider. so we know what include means. we know what rider means. i'd never heard that term. what does it mean? >> gayle, that's why i'm here, to break it down. she talked about it as you mentioned, and she said it's something available to anyone who negotiates a film deal. it's a demand for 50% diversity in both the casting and crew. she's hoping it's a demand that every filmmaker will start making now. >> all right. that will be interesting to see if people heed the call. thank you, kevin, we'll see you a little bit later on in our next hour. and make sure to watch "entertainment tonight" this evening for the full oscar wrap-up. you need to check your local listings on that. >> president trump says he will

go through with the plan to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. the president tweeted yesterday, quote, our steel and aluminum industries are dead, sorry, it's time for a change. chip reid is at the white house where some of the president's most important allies say he's wrong on this issue. chip, good morning. >> reporter: well, good morning. as we've been reporting there has been considerable chaos inside this white house recently. and one reason is this big battle over tariffs. the secretaries of treasury, defense and state all oppose the move but the president's top trade advisers are pushing him to follow through. >> imports are coming in and putting our aluminum companies out of business and our steel companies out of business. >> reporter: president trump's trade adviser peter navarro said the only way to save the aluinum and steel industries from decades of decline is to impose steep tariffs on imports of those products. >> we can't continue to allow china to rape our country -- >> reporter: the president has

long criticized china, the world's biggest steel producer, who he says is putting u.s. manufacturers out of business. but the penalties the president plans to impose as early as this week would primarily hit longtime u.s. allies. china, though, would not be greatly affected, as it accounts for just 2% of u.s. imports. south carolina republican lindsey graham said the tariffs are misguided. >> you're punishing the american consumer and our allies. you're making a huge mistake here. go after china, not the rest of the world. >> reporter: british prime minister theresa may called trump yesterday morning to voice her deep concern with the move and the european union said it would retaliate with its own tariffs on harley davidson, headquartered in house speaker paul ryan's home state of wisconsin, and on bourbon made in kentucky, senate leader mitch mcconnell's state. that could increase prices and put jobs in jeopardy. the commerce secretary said the cost to the economy was small.

>> that's a fraction of 1% of the economy, so the notion that it would destroy a lot of jobs, raise prices, disrupt things, is wrong. >> reporter: some in the administration are arguing that what the president should do is instead of imposing a broad tariff, target china directly and, bianna, no big surprise here, the president is already tweeting about tariffs this morning. he said the tariffs on steel and aluminum will come off only if a new and fair nafta agreement is signed, bianna. >> getting a lot of pushback from our allies and even some of his closest advisers, chip, thank you. south korea's government sent officials to north korea this morning to resume talks aimed at lowering the risk of war. at the annual gridiron dinner with journalists in washington, president trump revealed that north korea has reached out to the u.s. about a meeting. he said he told the north that the goal of any talks is, quote, you have to denuke. but the president also said we will be meeting and we'll see if anything positive happens. in a statement, north korea

called the president's demands preposterous. south korea says it wants to persuade the u.s. to talk directly with the north. president trump hosted a close dood door fund-raiser ovee weekend. in an audio reporting, mr. trump appeared to be joking when he praised chinese president xi jinping for pushing to abolish term limits. >> he's now president for life. president for life. no, he's great. and look, he was able to do that. i think it's great. maybe we'll have to give that a shot some day. >> that's a joke. president xi's expected to be granted broad new powers by china's national people's congress, which kickeded off its annual session today. ben tracy's in beijing with that story, ben, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. for more than two decade, china's president has been able to serve two five-year terms. but president xi jinping apparently wants to stick around longer than that and china's

people's congress is most likely to grant him his wish. china's people's congress is large and largely ceremonial. but these delegates are the needed rubber stamp that xi jinping needs to remain president for more than two terms. >> there are about 3,000 delegates to china's national people's congress. theoretically, they can vote any way they want. in its history, they have never vetoed a proposal by the communist party. >> reporter: china's constitution limited presidential terms to avoid another chairman mao-type figure and a destabilizing cult of personality. xi is already considered the most powerful chinese leader since mao. "this delegate to the people's congress told me she thinks he should be president forever." why do you want him to be president forever? "he does good things for the people and makes the country prosperous and strong." there is dissent online. and china's censors are working hard to quash it.

they temporarily banned the use of phrases such as personality cult and my emperor. and also references to winnie the pooh. a character long used to mock xi jinping based on an apparent resemblance. one social media post showed the bear hugging a large pot of honey with the caption "find the thing you love and stick with it." >> it's a very big deal for the chinese people. >> reporter: isaac stone fish is an expert on chinese politics. >> he's in excellent health and it really could be that china, like it had in the '50s, '60s and '70s, now has a dictator for life. >> reporter: of course, as china grew more prosperous, the hope is it would also grow more democratic. that doesn't appear to be happening. now countries around the world could be dealing with the same powerful chinese leader for decades to come. john. >> ben tracy for us, thank you. populist and far right

parties dominated italy's parliamentary election. results of the vote are a major blow to the european union. strong anti-immigration sentiment was a major factor. more than 600,000 migrants flooded into italy over the past four years. no single party or coalition received a majority. so it may take weeks to decide who will lead the government. >> florida lawmakers are scrambling to pass new gun legislation for the first time in more than a decade, after the parkland school shooting. yesterday outside florida's capital. the state senate is expected to vote today on a bill that would allow teachers to be armed and restrict some gun purchases. nikki battiste is at the state capitol in tallahassee. >> reporter: proposals to ban assault-style rifles and large magazines rejected over the weekend. briefly appeared a pause on ar-15 sales might pass. the republican-controlled chamber is bitterly divided but

must reach a compromise by friday to pass any new laws. >> -- 18-year-old men and women to go to war but not own a firearm -- >> reporter: speaking at this pro-gun rally, defiant college student, 20-year-old tiffany berkeley, fought back against a potential florida law that would force her to wait until she is 21 to buy a gun. >> raising the age would effectively terminate any second amendment rights i have in this state. >> reporter: during a special session, florida senate spent nearly eight hours amending the marjory stoneman douglas public safety act. >> the only thing that will help the situation is if we ban assault weapons. it's not the weapon, it's the evil from within. >> reporter: as it stand, the legislation would increase the age to buy a rifle from 18 to 21. ban bump stocks. and require a three-day waiting period for most gun purchases. the legislation would also start a new marshal program, permitting teachers and staff to be armed after at least 132

hours of training. >> the amendment is adopted. >> reporter: following a voice vote, a two-year ban on ar-15 assault weapons initially passed. but the motion was reconsidered and reversed 20 minutes later in a roll call vote. >> 17 yeas, 21 neigh 1 nays, mr. president. >> reporter: the decision stunned for florida school shooting survivors like jackie, who tweeted this breaks my heart but we will not let this ruin our movement. >> reporter: there have been students from stoneman douglas here fighting for gun control. what would you say to them? >> you have a right to be angry. i'm angry with you. but we can't have our rights infringed. >> reporter: berkley says she does support teachers getting the right to be armed. if the senate passes the bill today, it would then be considered by the house. gayle. >> all right, thank you, nikki. more than 400,000 people in the east are still without power this morning after friday's massive nor'easter. another powerful storm system is on the move. blizzard and winter storm warnings are in effect across

the upper midwest today. nearly 70 million people are in the storm's path. it could dump heavy snow on parts of new england by wednesday. >> west virginia lawmakers are meeting today to try to reach an agreement to end the statewide teacher's strike. this morning, nearly 300,000 students are out of class again for the eighth day. teachers are protesting low salaries and rising health care costs. vladimir duthiers from our streaming network cbsn is here why a deal fell apart over the weekend. >> reporter: the state governor and union leaders agreed to a 5% raise last week but over the weekend, west virginia senate offered a 4% raise in its place. union leaders call that deal unacceptable, saying they will continue to strike for anything less than 5%. teachers in west virginia say they're fed up. >> they're making it look like it's all about money. sorry, and it's not. >> reporter: over the weekend, the state senate knocked down an approved teacher pay increase to

give all public employees an equal 4% raise. but the union says it's pitting teachers against other public employees. >> we want everyone to have fair equitable living wage. but you can't reduce one because of another. >> reporter: west virginia teachers are among the lowest paid in the country. with salaries starting at about $33,000 a year. and the union says cost of living in the state has gone up by nearly 5% since their last pay increase four years ago. >> 5% doesn't even move us any farther than where we should be. so it is bait and switch. it's unacceptable. >> reporter: west virginia's governor tweeted this weekend that this wrangling needs to stop. we are putting our children at risk. the strike affects more than 270,000 students. many who live in poverty and miss out on free breakfasts and lunches when they don't go to school. volunteers have gathered food to help students in need. >> it is a tough time for

everybody. and we just want to do our part to make sure kids get some food. >> reporter: union leaders say if they won't stop until they reach an acceptable compromise. >> as long as this amendment is out there with 4%, we will stay united and we will be out indefinitely. >> reporter: west virginia's call for action has inspired teachers in other states like oklahoma to organize their own workouts to fight for teacher's rights. >> students paying the highest price in this debate. thank you. a new isis propaganda video shows u.s. soldiers caught in a deadly ambush in the african country of niger. ahead, how the disturbing images of outgunned americans raise

around 40,000 children are in ahead, an investigation texas to the democratic republic of congo. you are watching cbs this morning. hello, aloe.

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i want to take a moment to thank the people who actually go to see the movies you make. tonight we thank the movie-going public. the people you see on screen right now, they are across the way at the tcl chinese theater. they don't know we can see them and i thought it would be nice if we got a group together to go over there and thank them in person to surprise them. so who wants to come with me. >> it was a big surprise too. oscar host jimmy kimmy kimmel brought stars with him next door to thank the. the stunt interrupted a special screening of "a wrinkle in

time." the stars handed out movie-goers snacks. they seemed delighted to be in it. oprah as in winfrey will be sitting right where you are, bianna, to join us aet the table. >> what a great way to promote. >> yeah. i'm looking forward to it. >> but at one point they had one of the movie-goers read the part of what was going up next. you could tell they got a kick out of it. it was very well done. welcome back to "cbs this morning." here are three things you should know this morning. the program that protects hundreds of thousands of immigrants from deportation was supposed to expire today, but court orders have forced the trump administration to keep issues renewals for the so-called dreamers who were brought to the u.s. illegally. president trump announced he was ending the deferment for childhood arrivals in september and gave congress six months to

pass the legislation. but congressional efforts to push the move forward have staaled. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is scheduled to meet with the president at the white house today. it comes days after israeli police questioned him at home as part of a corruption investigation. president trump and benjamin netanyahu are expected to discuss iran's nuclear program and kick start the israeli/palestinian peace. winning an egot. you go robert. low pet and his wife christian won for "remember me" from the disney movie "coco." they also wrote for "frozen." i did not think anything could beat that song. they did it. >> as great as it is.

do you think they could call it smeg better than an egot. >> i sounds like a robot. newly released video shows the deadly ambush of american soldiers is raising new questions about the situation in niger. isis released the video as part of a pfighting for their lives,t also shows how outdone and overwhelmed they were. a helmet camera worn by one of the american soldiers recorded the ambush. 11 american and 30 nigerian soldiers were returning from what was supposed to have been a low risk patrol. after the shooting stopped, the camera was taken off his body and released as par of an isis

propaganda video. americans tried to take cover behind their unarmored suv. with one of them armed, that rain alongside. they fired colored smoke which would provide some concealment and provide to the aircraft overhead. >> it was unable to fall back to a covered and concealed position. >> reporter: one went down. another rushed to his side and dragged him back to the cover of the suv. their position at the suv was about to be overrun, so they did the oechbl thing they could. ran to a position that might provide better cover. except for the smoke from the remains and a few scrub trees, there was no cover and no escape. the soldier wearing the helmet camera went down. soon the camera stopped moving and some of the enemy fighters came into view and the final blast filled the frame of

apparently what was a round fired and point blank range. >> knowing they were trying to complete and execute this type of mission with that type of equipment, i just -- i could not believe it. >> reporter: congressman mark vici serves on the house services committee. five months after the attack, they're awaiting for the final investigation report. >> we should have igation. bianna? >> yet another source of pain for the families of those soldiers. david, thank you. children as young as 4 are exposed to toxic fumes to dig up a mineral use in some of our most common high-tech devices.

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cbs news investigation finds we could be carrying electronics that contain the product of child labor. a report by amnesty international two years ago first uncovered that children were mining the mineral colbolt in democratic republic of congo or drc as it's known. the companies include apple, microsoft, tesla, and samsung. we traveled to the drc to follow

the complex supply jane. we are in johannesburg, south africa. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the drc is embroiled in conflict and difficult and dangerous to report from there. on a recent trip to the south of the country, we saw what looked like the wild west. they are digging in trenches and laboring in lakes, hunting for treasure in a playground from hell. hard enough for an adult man, unthinkable for a child. yet tens of thousands of congo kids are involved in every stage of mining for cobalt. more than half of the world's supply comes from the drc, and 20% of that is mined by hand. we traveled along collapsing dirt roads. children are everywhere, digging for cobalt in abandon open pit mines, and it's clear security officials in charge here only

some of them in uniform, have something to hide. sensitivity around the mining that few hundred feet we are stopped, requesting letters, documents, although we have official permission to be here. for the chinese middleman we saw who buy the cobalt, there's no such constraints who have free access to the mines. inside, women and children are doing so-called arian tissal mining. don't be fooled. this is no quaint cottage industry. at barely 10 years old, children lug heavy sacks to be washed in rivers. from as early as 4, they can can pick it from a pile, and even those too young to work spend much of the day breathing in toxic fumes. the officials deny there's child labor. it's obvious there is, but when a camera or security person or policeman appears, the children are chased away.

he's 11 years old and agreed to meet us outside the mine. why aren't you in school? >> translator: my parents are dead, he said, and i stay with my grandma. >> reporter: you need to make money for your granny? >> translator: yes. >> reporter: we asked these companies if child mined cobalt is in their supplies, and they acknowledged problems with the supply chain, but they follow responsible sources guidelines. leading the industry in supply chain standard and cut ties with the largest supplier. microsoft does not tolerate child labors and working with ngos to eliminate it. samsung is mapping their supply chain, and tesla says they have little cobalt in their batteries. our investigation shows how complicated it is to trace child

mined cobalt in the global supply chain. we followed the minerals as it left the mines, piled high on transportation, sacks mixed up without labels, making it impossible to know who mined them. the children's cobalt is brought here to this market where it is bought by chinese companies for extremely low prices. we wanted to see whether there was any attempt to check if the cobalt had been mined by children. our team went back later with a hidden camera. when we offered to sell a truckload of cobalt, nobody asked us who mined the mineral, only what the quality was. this man told us that the chinese traders here bought all the cobalt and sold it to mainly one main company known locally as cdm. giant huayou, but they said they

stopped buying from that market last year and put in place a detailed program to eliminate child labor from their supply chain, and yet, in this murky process of sourcing cobalt, one thing is clear. children are still here, carrying the weight of our high-tech world on their shoulders. we spoke to eight major tech companies who have been linked to this supply chain, and while some of them have joined initiatives to solve this problem, we saw very little evidence that the mines we visited of anyone actually helping these children. packs and ngos working with the companies describe support from these companies as a drop in the ocean compared to the dozens of companies still buying child mine cobalt. gayle? >> all right, reporting from johannesbu johannesburg, now that we saw the video, you can't act like you didn't see it. tech companies have rethinking

to do and consumers as well. there's definitely kids working there. >> you can say there's policies there, but they are not enforced. >> exactly right. >> we'll stay on the story. >> yes, we are. there's longer responses from companies on cbsthismorning.com, and tomorrow, more from the story of ziki, the boy we spoke with. how missionaries are working to get children out of those mines. >> reporter: a look at this morning's headlines, how the oscar belonging to the best actress winner mysteriously disaperioded, and we'll visit the first u.s. city to trade in a bus system for a we have clear skies except for the north bay, you can see there is fog out there but what a pretty sunrise it was. we are close to average and we

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this is a morning update. >> today is the deadline for daca but so far no action on capitol hill. court decisions have forced the white house to keep renewing daca permits until further notice. this morning, the attorney general is using the deadline to make an announcement on what he calls important opportunities for daca recipients. today, the governor is planning to file his paperwork to become a candidate for governor. he is among the top democrats running. we will have traffic and weather in just a moment.

good morning, we are tracking slowdowns for drivers. here is your monday morning

commute. we have 69 from san antonio and we have a crashed further from there, this has at least one lane block so it will be tough as you make your way up towards would style road. take it over to 880 and there is a crash blocking one lane but the big delays are in the southbound direction. northbound 680, we have one lane blocked and it is slow going through that stretch. let's check in with weather. we have visibility in a coldstart to your monday. the visibility is pretty clear except in petaluma. there has been stubborn fog down to zero mile visibility. afternoon highs are low to mid 60s and we are right around average but the temperatures will rise and then we have a chance of rain wednesday night in a break up friday with another storm arriving for the

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♪ good morning to our viewers in the west. it's monday, march 5th, 2018. welcome back to "cbs this morning." the oscars with a message, kevin looks at the efforts to embrace diversity and the website with the mission of guarding the truth. its co-founder will be here to reveal his plans to tell you which on-line news you can trust. here's today's "eye opener" at 8:00. >> the 90th academy awards gave the movement for a change in hollywood a global platform after months of scandal. >> last night's oscars delivered a surprisingly consistent message about women taking their power back in hollywood. >> there has been considerable chaos inside this white house recently. and onep are is the big battle

over tariffs. >> the chinese president has been able to serve two five-year terms but xi jinping wants to stick around longer and china's people's congress likely will grant his wish. it appeared a ban on sales of ar-15 might pass. they must reach a compromise by friday. >> over the weekend west virginia senate offered a 4% raise. the leaders call that deal unacceptable they will continue to strike for anything less than 5%. wgc golf in mexico. ross fisher teeing off at the par 3. the spanish call. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> hole! i'm john dickerson.

he's still going. he's still saying hole. >> top that, john dickerson. yeah. >> exciting golf i've ever seen. >> i like it. >> i'm john dickerson with gayle king and bianna golodryga. norah is on assignment for "60 minutes." the with two biggest stars at the academy awards last night were timesup and #metoo. >> "the shape of water" won four including best picture and director but the show featured tributes to minorities, immigrants and especially women. francis mcdormand surprised the crowd after winning the best actress award. >> if i may be so honored to have all the female nominees in every category stand with me in this room tonight. the actor, meryl, if you do it everybody else will. come on. the filmmakers, the producers, the directors, the writers, the cinematographer, the composure, the songwriters, the designers. >> the list goes on and on. francis mcdormand called for

movie contracts that require a diverse cast and crew. "entertainment tonight" co-host kevin frazier was on the red carpet and joins us from the "et" set in los angeles. quite a night. early morning for you but well worth being up early i'm sure. >> this is always a good morning. the oscars were a politically charged event in many ways support for social issues like timesup and the #metoo movements loud and clear while at least one nominee took note of the tragedy of last month's high school shooting in parkland, florida, to support stricter gun laws. >> tell the nra they in god's way and to the people of parkland we say, i say. >> reporter: common opened by touching on social issues as he and andra day had everyone standing up for something. ♪ stand up for you >> reporter: presenters tiffany haddish and maya rudolph addressed the lack of diversity

in hollywood. >> a few years ago people were saying oscars were so white and since then real progress has been made. >> but when we came out together, we know some of you were thinking, are the oscars too black now? >> reporter: presenters lupita nyong'o and kumail nanjiani shined a light on immigrants. >> dreams are the foundation of hollywood and dreams are the foundation of america. >> guillermo del toro. >> reporter: a big night for guillermo del toro who saw his dreams come true becoming a tw time oscar winner for best director and best picture for "the shape of water." >> this is intelligent, capable of understanding emotion. >> growing up in mexico i thought this could never happen. it happens. i want to tell you, this is a door, kick it open and come in. >> jordan peele, "get out". >> reporter: jordan peele broke down a door becoming the first african-american to win for best original screenplay for "get out."

>> i instantly realized in an award like this is bigger than me. this is about paying it forward not believe that they could achieve the highest honor. i didn't believe that there was a place for me. so i hope that this inspires more people to use their voices. >> reporter: it was a night. allison janey took home her first oscar as the abusive foul mouthed mother in i tonya a role that earned her accolades. she took home the golden globe, sag award and bafta but wasn't going to put her oscar on a shelf, she's taking him to bed to wake up this morning look at him and be proud of herself. >> she was funny when she first got up on stage and said i did it all by myself and then thanked everybody, obviously, that helped per. kevin, did last night's oscars accomplish a theme of diversity and inclusion the way the golden globes did? >> well, i'll tell you, i think people are listening now.

this oscars was about diversity and inclusion and female empowerment but there's a ways to go and the question is will hollywood listen. we heard jordan peele talking about paying it forward. just the fifth african-american ever to be nominated in the best director field. no black director has won. rachel morrison, first female nominated for cinematography and just shot black panther and greta girwig nominated for best director. i think hollywood is listening now. >> all listening to jordan peele. thank you. and kevin will have a complete wrap-up of the oscars all the winners and back stage news on "entertainment tonight." check your local listings. special counsel robert mueller reportedly has what the website axios is calling a hit list of people who communicated with one witness in the russia investigation. the website says it reviewed a subpoena sent by mueller's office to the witness who is not identified in the report. the subpoena asks for all written communication between

the witness and ten officials including president trump, former campaign chairman paul manafort and former chief strategist steve bannon. going back to november of 2015. president trump's attorney ty kob did not respond for comment. a united nations convoy is delivering aid to a besieged syrian district outside damascus this morning. the food and medicine come after eastern ghouta saw renewed attacks over the weekend from government forces. more than 600 have reportedly been killed in the rebel held area. one of many battle fronts across the fractured company. seth done traveled to afrin, syria, the first u.s. correspondent to reach the area since the start of a turkish offensive. seth, good morning. >> good morning. just when you thought this war in syria could not get any more complicated, well, here we are. we have come to afrin because it is a new, unfolding front in this conflict. we're surrounded by a number of people who have been displaced by the fighting and the fighting

here threatens to roll back progress in the war against isis. the u.s. is most effective ally in the battle against isis in syria the kurdish ypg fighters have turned their attention here. afrin, a syrian city of ethnic kurds that had been an oasis of peace in the war is now under attack by turkey. the u.s. has been arming the kurdish militia but turkey considers them terrorists and doesn't want an emboldened militia on their border. turkey launched this offensive in january with repeated air strikes and shelling. but here's where it gets more tricky. since afrin is in syrian terr territory, bashar al aside has sent in fighters to back up the kurds living here. all of this means that president assad, the man the u.s. accused of bombing civilians and carrying out chemical attacks on his people, is now helping the very militia the u.s. has armed

and continues to support. for "cbs this morning," seth done, afrin, syria. thank you very much, seth. we're excited to reveal the cover of our very first "cbs this morning" book called "note to self" inspiring word trs inspiring people that features 26 notes from emmy nominated series where prominent figures write letters to younger sooefl selves. we featured 30 notes, the book includes letters from vice president joe biden, oprah, and astronaut peggy whitson. >> dear joe, you're only 12. your stutter is debilitating. it embarrasses you and the bullies are vicious. listen to mom when she says, bravery resides in every heart and yours is fierce and clear. >> from where i sit now, viewing your journey, there really are

very few regrets. that means a life well lived. >> i'll just say, challenge yourself. you will learn that you are so much more capable than you might imagine or even dream. sincerely the older you. >> the book will be published by simon and shuster, a division of cbs on sale in may and the thinking june graduation could be a very nice graduation gift. >> there you go. >> one of my favorite things we do here. i think those are always so well done and so revealing. peggy whitson did hers in space and then again on the ground. >> and she talked about -- >> single one message life is long, don't overdo it. >> that's right. >> peggy talked about her father in her message too which brought a tear to my eye and so many of us as well. the #metoo movement may have an impact on actor bill cosby's new

trial. cbs news legal analyst rikki klieman in the toyota green room. ahead, whether this national movement could sway the judge in

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comedian bill cosby is heading back to court today for a pretrial hearing in his sexual assault case >> bill cosby is back in court today for a pre-trial hearing. he arrived at the courthouse earlier this morning. cosby's first trial ended in a hung jury last year. the jury failed to reach a unanimous decision about the alleged assault of a former temple university employee. her name was andrea constand back in 2004. a judge will hear arguments this week about the prosecution's request to let 19 other cosby accusers testify in this retrial. cbs news legal analyst ricky is here with more on the story. nice to see you, ricky. >> thank you. >> this trial is about one woman. how can the prosecution -- bhaets the argument for saying, listen, you need to hear from the other 19 accusers?

>> the general rule of law is prior bad acts, that's uncharged misconduct, other allegations that haven't been proven, those acts are not admissible. the government says it's a common scheme or plan, one mo, and that's why we should let these other accusers in. >> what do you think the judge will do? >> i think the defense has a good argument for the judge both practicality -- in practicality as well as in law.

>> the defense says, look, this is not within the -- this is to rate prove it with phone records and with his travel records. the case absolutely should be thrown out. >> he also has a powerhouse attorney. ricky, thank you so much for joining us. ahead, we'll take you to the first u.s. city to replace public buses with a ride sharing app. you're watching cbs this morning. replace

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one texas city is trading public buses for ridesha. one texas city is trading buses for ride in texas city is training. pick up passengers on the man for a three daughter -- three dollar ride. cost-saving innovation. good morning. this is where you used to wait for i bus in arlington, texas, but you would be waiting a long time. now, as the sign says, the city dropped its bus service going for more of a virtual bus stop that you summon with an app. here is what the new city buses look like. it's actually a ride share. >> arlington, texas, wants to know if this could be the answer to mass transit in the uber age.

replacing the city's 4-year-old commuter bus service. >> the commuter bus didn't apply to me at all because it didn't take me where i needed to go. >> since january bill o'tool has left his car at home and commuted with via. summoning the van from his phone for a flat fee of $3 a ride or a weekly pass for $10. the fees are partially subsidized by the city. >> stress and work has been aleeated, and it's probably just because i'm not starting ressed. >>ssed. will miles. since 12 miles from fort worth and 20 from dallas. arlington residents have repeatedly voted against spending money to build a mass transit system. when the bus line was scrapped, ridership had fallen to as little as 100 people a day on its single route through downtown. do you so buses and rail?

>> i think we can do $10 and that's coming on -- you're going to see very little live rail because it's so much cheaper. >> arlington mayor jeff williams. >> if it didn't work, well, we would go on to something else, and it's a fraction of spending $50 million. >> arlington residents are taking to the virtual buses. in its first month via provided more than 5,000 rides at a 97% customer approval rating. >> thank you so much. >> alex. >> we're going to pick you up within a block or two. we're not going to pick you up at a few fixed pickup locations in the is it he. it's quite a convenient solution. we think for that reason people will really enjoy it. so far they really have been. >> the city is planning on expanding the program to cover 120,000 of its residents by this summer, and if they really have via vans that would love to go citywide the next couple of years. for cbs this morning chris van cleave, arlington, texas.

>> it's working there. thank you, chris. very much. ahead, how a new nutrition label for web sites could video on muni's youtube page shows testing on try this is a kpix morning update. >> good morning. we have video on youtube page showing testing on trains at night. the san francisco agency plans to launch us in the spring but before they get the go-ahead, new two-part trains will be rolled out. conditions at tahoe resorts are some of the best of the season after a recent snowfall. video shows big lines at the ski lift. officials say a little more than 200 inches of snow has fallen this year. stay with us, traffic and weather in just a moment.

good morning. we are tracking delays for folks making their way out on the railways with the system wide delays for the capital corridor, we have a system wide due to a medical emergency in san francisco and an earlier problem with a train and vehicle, this has been causing big delays through sacramento. we have a two hour delay of of richmond and 35 minutes for trains coming out of sacramento at this point. please keep that in mind if you are planning on picking up a passenger. we have a early crash near 101 on the monaco expressway.

you will arrive very soapmaking your way through san jose. we have a great view of the sun up there but we have areas still dealing with foggy conditions. we are slowly starting to move up in tempuratures are slowly getting warmer. 36 in santa rosa and you are -- you were in 30. it is big jacket weather this morning. things will warm up later on. the visibility map is showing clear conditions everywhere except for stillwater. there is an area of fog that is very stubborn in that location. high pressure will be the story , temperatures will slowly start to rise and we will see temperatures jump around 10 degrees. today is low to mid 60s which is pretty normal. here is what is coming, high pressure first and then rain around thursday. it will dry up on friday and saturday.

that is julian mcgarvey making the shot of his life. go, julian. he intercepted a long inbound pass and hit the 70-foot buzzer beater. the suburban new york school won the championship game, 52-51. it doesn't get closer than that. it was redemption for mcgarvey who was also the school's star quarterback. he missed two free-throws with under 40 seconds left and he thought he cost the team the game. i thought, you're forgiven.

you're forgiven. i think being quarterback helps you a little bit. >> the hail mary -- >> yep. welcome back to "cbs this morning." right now it's time to show you some of this morning's headlines from around the globe. the "washington post" reports 2018 is the year of scientists running for congress. a political action committee is supporting candidates who have scientific or technical backgrounds. it's working with 30 congressional candidates across the country. currently there's only one member of congress who has a doctoral degree in science, representative bill foster, democrat from illinois. our partners at bbc report on the death of roger bannister, the first person to run a mile in under 4.0. he set the mark in 1954. up until then many people thought it was impossible. he died saturday in oxford, england, at 1988. there were other claims of the

mile being run in less than 4.0. he said they were inconceivable without the modern measurement of tracks and modern stopwatches. last year millennials lost money to scams more often and that their grandparents. 40% of americans in their 20s say they lost money to scams. only 18% of those 70 or older reported losing money to fraud. overall consumers lost more money to fraud last year than the year before. so instead of worrying about grandma or grandpa, worry about your 20 somethings. >> that right. we have a lot to worry about. take look at what you're filed in today's new york crossword pos. the clue at the bottom of the right is king on "cbs this morning." the answer, of course, is gayle, our very own gayle, king or queen. >> will short showed me that.

i thought that was very flattering. >> he's been on "jeopardy." >> i would have gotten gayle right on that one. >> all of us. >> i would hope everyone would get that. >> gayle is always the answer is my view. >> to everything. >> thought that was very nice. and international business time reports a picture of a girl awed by michelle obama went viral. she was so awestruck by the painting she refused to turn around for a photo. another visitor snapped eped a and posted it on facebook. michelle obama said she was thinking of all the little girls who will see it, especially of girls of color. she was talking about little girls like parker sitting in awe of that picture. >> it went viral for good reason. i love it too. the new video.

nearly half of adultings in the u.s. oftentimes use social media as a news source but both facebook and twitter report russian propaganda reach more than 120 million machineries on their platforms around the 2016 technology. newsguard is the new $6 million venture that will be launched the fall to battle fake news. they hope to license their finding to social media companies and other platforms. newsguard's technology co-founder steven brill is a founder, journalist, entrepreneur. good morning. >> good morning. >> tell us how this works. >> we're going apply a result to the problem they haven't been able to resolve. we're going to hire journalists to read and review the sites

that are responsible for 98% of the consumption. it's going be very simple. they're going to be charged with telling the difference between the "denver post," which is a real newspaper and the denver guardian, which is a hoax site. >> what will people get once they look at these? there'll be a red, green, or yellow. >> red, green, or yellow. and if they mass over, that they'll see a nutrition tlabl will tell them the background of the publication, who owns it, what their history is, are they responsible, who ee behind it, how did they complain if they have a complaint about somethin. on the other hand if the news site is, let's say, an information thing about fracking and it's financed by the finance petroleum institute, they'll see that, too, and it will probably be yellow. >> that's a good thing. sometimes when you're online it's hard to tell the

difference, but you don't have to have the cooperation of facebook, twitter, and some of these online sites? >> there are about a half a does whon will want to license the data, plus the advertising will want to license it to keep their ads off of fake sites. what we're asking them in terms of licensing fees is a fraction of what they're paying their p.r. firms and their lawyers to talk about how hard the problem is to solve. >> do most of them seem interested? >> quite interested, yes. >> you know, facebook did this but in reverse. for their what's trending app, that i have people initially going through it and then they were accused of being biased and then they turned to algorithms which got us to where we are now. how are you going to avoid being accused of bias? >> first of all, with facebook, they didn't tell you who the people were. we will list the diamondback grounds and names of everybody doing the review. we'll take all kinds of

complaints. the complaints will be public. we'll have a repeal system. probably equally important, what we're doing is probably not quite as presumptuous as that. we're saying there's a real difference between the denver guardian, which is a fake site, and the "denver post." if they want to gain our algorithm, they just have to start doing real news and be accountable for it and tell people who they are. >> steve, how do you -- >> you want to be gamed. >> how do you manage the difference between ideological reporting and straight up reporting? as you know, they can report the dickens out of a story and get it right. >> that's where the nutrition labels come in. there's obviously a difference between the nation magazine and the national review, but they're both, you know, legitimate news organizations who try to get it right. they just come at it from a different perspective. if you click on the nutrition label for each, you will see

exactly that in their own words what they say their missions are. >> president trump uses the term "fake news" very liberally. some say he uses the term when it's an unflattering story about him oar the administration. how do you define fake news? >> something that is deliberately aimed at defrauding you. it's a hoke or propaganda from the russian government. >> this comes in an era of extreme tribalism, people sticking their own silos. are you concerned at all that people may want to continue that trend? that they may not be interested in knowing what's real and what's not? they want to stick with their current source of information? if it's feeding news, they want to hear. >> sure. tht comes under the category of acknowledging we're not going to solve all the problems in the world. in a world where a certain percentage of people think that 9/11 was an inside job by the bushed a anyone station and

another percentage think thises that, you know, the president -- that president obama was not born in the united states, with ee not going to satisfy everybody, but we are going to equip impeachment to understand the basics behind the headlines that they're seeing on the searches and on their feeds. >> well, thank you for beginning to address this issue. i know you've raised some $6 million so far. best of luck. appreciate it. >> cbsn get as what kind of rating? >> i wouldn't dare comment on anybody's rating. >> a-plus in our book. >> a-plus with no bias. best-selling author brad meltzer learned about working with the missions in

for more than two decades, thriller writer and tv host brad meltzer has revealed some of the biggest secrets. his fictional conspiracy themed stories have made him a "new york times" best-selling author. he's sold more than 12 million

books in the u.s. alone. >> that's a lot of books. his book "the escape artist" tells the story of an army sergeant that ends up missing. it's discovered she's still alive and she's on the run. brad meltzer joins us at the table. you grab me with the first line. number one, this has got to be a movie. these were the last 30 seconds of her life and instantly we're off to the races. >> that first chapter was the last chapter i wrote. i went through this idea nola brown is in this plane crash. everyone says she's dead but there's a secret note inside her body. it says, nola, you were right. keep running. he realizes she's not dead, she's on the run. she's the escape artist.

there's not just a chapter one. there's a chapter two. >> the thing that was so fascinated was the dover air force base. you call it america's most important funeral home. >> yes. it was after they found out about dover. of course i found out dover is where we lay to rest our amazing soldiers who fall in battle but i didn't realize they get the biggest cases. when the spatial shuttle went down, the victims went there and the pentagon victims. and also our spice. they go to dover too. it means dover is a place built on secrets and mysteries, so how could i not set a thriller there. >> the mortician has a kind of cold of taking care of and caring for the bodies which works into the main question of whether this main character is alive. >> i was blown away by that. you'll see in a normal situation

if something happens to your figure, they put you in a coffin and put you in a closed casket. at dover, not so. they'll work so hard. they'll take 14 hours to see cheekbones in a face because someone wants to see their child one last time or they'll rebuild a mother's hand because she warrant togs hold her son's hand one more time. this is where the boast of the best of us works on the best of the best of us. >> so many unsung heroes. you say nola brown is your favorite protagonist character. why? >> i love that people said she's like the girl with the dragon tattoo. i'll take that compliment any day. nola's not lie any character i ever wrote. she grabbed me by the throat and said pay attention to me. >> she's had this rough life. >> she's had this rough life. all of us have had these

addictions where we've had to claw our way back and nola is that person who's climbing out of the crater, who's truly trying to come back to life. i looked at that miez own life lesson. we all need to know, how do we come back to life. >> the thing that's so fascinating about about your book, i always learn something. the gut bucket, no matter how big you are, all your organs can fit in one bucket. when someone is dead, you boisterous their finger in water and you can get their fingerprints. the 2024056 means the white house is calling, 202406 means the secret service is calling. i googled all this. it's true. >> if you swallow a note if you're dying. what is that? >> when a research a book i go to the experts. i say, here's my plot. i said, could you hide a secret

message on your body that someone could find later and they said to me at dover if you were on a plane going down and if you did it early enough if you add a note the liquids in your stomach could protect the paper. it's the ultimate message in a bottle. i said that's amazing. >> they said it's happened already. they explained to me on 9/11 when they were going through the victims' bodies, they found a secret note inside someone's stomach. >> what did it say? >> i asked what did it say. they wouldn't tell me. i respect that privacy. i thought it has to be someone in the military. who has the wherewithal to think of that. what this note has had to have been is this thing we're looking for. a connection. we want to love and be loved. when my parents died, the one thing i remember taking way interest that, the one clachl, is i got to say good-bye. think i in that note, that moment is that hope. that's what it is. that when you send that ultimate

message in a bottle that you'll be heard. >> that story gave me chills. quickly, you're known for your thrillers as well as your nonfiction work. what do you prefer in. >> listen. i love "q" i are" books, but a thriller is a house i get to build with my own hands. when it comes to "the escape artist" i get to take -- magicians actually worked for the government. >> i didn't know that? >> i didn't know that before. >> it's my favorite one. in 1890 we had a magician in charge of the secret service. >> we'll talk more on commercial break. we didn't know a lot of these things. thank you. "the escape art iftz" goes on sale tomorrow and you're watching "cbs this morni

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