stronger weather on sunday. >> sounds good. hope you're off to a good start on wednesday. >> cbs this morning is coming up next. have a great day everyone. it's wednesday. december 12, 2018. breaking news, a battle is under way if britain for who's going to lead the country. prime minister theresa may faces a no-confidence vote that could remove her as the leader of america's closest european ally by the end of the day. we're in london with the challenge from inside her own political party. searchers in west virginia try to reach three people thought to be missing inside a shut-down coal mine. we're at the scene where rescuers are racing the clock to find them. it's michael cohen's day of reck reckoning.

the president's former fixer finds out if he's going to jail for his confessed crimes of dodging taxes, lying to congress and making illegal hush payments. what he might say in court to blame the president. in our more perfect union series, how creative libraries are getting more kids to read by taking a new approach to late fees. we begin this morning with a look at today's eye opener. your world in 90 seconds. >> you shut it down and then -- >> no, no, no. 20 times. >> i don't want to do what you did. >> the president slug it is out with democrats over a border wall. >> i will shut down the government. and i am proud to shut down the government for border security. a manhunt is under way for a man who went on a deadly rampage at the christmas market in strasbourg, france. >> brexit process in the uk plunged it into chaos, parliament members triggering a vote of no confidence in prime minister theresa may. >> i will contest that vote with everything i've got. today we find out if

president trump former lawyer will go to prison after cooperating with prosecutors. >> i don't think mr. cohen would know the truth if it bit him in the ass. adult film star said that president tru -- a little boy ran for his life from a turkey. >> all that matters. incoming speaker of the house nancy pelosi and senate majority leader chuck schumer in the most serious room in america, the oval office, and their meeting went like this. >> on "cbs this morning." other than possibly launching a new reality tv franchise. >> this week on the "real white house wives of d.c." >> we have a disagreement about the wall. >> you can't get your way. >> last time you shut it down. >> you want to shut it down. >> the last time you shut it down. >> no, no, no. >> you know what i'll say?

yes, if we don't get what we want, one way or the other -- i will shut down the government. >> only on c-span bravo! welcome to "cbs this morning." i kept wanting somebody in a striped shirt to come in and blow a whistle. >> like a referee. >> somebody come in and say settle down. it's embarrassing to me that that conversation was happening in front of tv cameras in the oval office. >> it went on for way too long, too. we start this morning as you wake up with a dramatic political stand-off in britain that could bring down the government of america's closest ally. british prime minister theresa may is facing today a challenge from within her own party over how she's handled the brexit plan to withdraw from the european union next year. earlier this morning outside 10 downing street she promised to keep fighting for her job. >> so that there will be a vote

of confidence for my leadership in the conservative party. i will contest that vote with everything i've got. >> if may loses, it will leave britain without a leader. mark phillips is outside the houses of parliament in london with the latest. mark, good morning. mogood morning. well just when you thought that the long and twisted road toward lang a titain leaving the european europeanldn't get any lumpier, uldn't gets. this vote that theresa may is facing today was as you say heresa md by members of her own party. today was i in the party, it took 48 of them who felt that ate deal that she had worked out ean the european union, the divorce settlement if you will, settleme was not strong enough, gave too many oncessions, would not result in an independent-enough britain in their view. now they've forced the vote. she has to carry a majority of the mps, the conservative mps in held ment in a vote to be held this evening. but this is a lose/lose .roposition for her. if she loses the vote, she's

out. if she wins the vote, no matter process oh, she's weakened by e to ery process of the challenge to her. all of this happening as the deadline toward britain leaving the eu which is next mark, ticks away. leavin theesa may has tried to get tother concessions from the eu. her vote against her today weakens takens that process as well. >> all right, mark phillips in london. thank you. an intense manhunt in france has turned up no sign of the gunman who killed at least two people in what's been called a unt franc ack. a third victim is brain dead. in shooter opened fire near a christmas market in the city of strasbourg last night. olice named the 29-year-old suspect who has been flagged for extremist ties. they say they tried to arrest him before the attack. france has raised its terror alert stat to us the highest level. roxanna sibury is in strasbourg where police say the suspect may have fled to germany.

>> good morning. a top french counterterrorism official says witnesses heard the gunman yell "allahu akbar" or god is great. in the christmas market and the mayor of strasbourg says it was a terror attack. the streets are much quieter today as the search for the suspect continues. [ screams ] >> streets covered with christmas lights were filled with screams. as the lone gunman sprayed shots near a christmas market. people caught in the chaos ran for cover. i heard several shots and i thought maybe it's firecrackers, he said. but then i saw a lot of people running, scared. crying kids and all, so i ran away and hid in a restaurant. police have named the shooter as strasbourg-born sharif chekatt. he's believinged to have had an automatic rifle and a knife. he was known to french

authorities, convicted of assault and theft and spent time in jail. he's also on a terror watch list for possible extremist ties. police raided his apartment on the morning of the attack on unrelated charges, but he wasn't there. after the shooting at the market, police chased the gunman through the streets. exchanging fire. he was injured, but got away. this morning, more than 350 security forces are searching for the man who added the self-promoted capital of christmas to the list of cities hit by terror. police have detained several people for questioning. no terror group has claimed the attackity for the attack so far. >> thank you. a desperate search is under gayle. way for three people believed to to bepped deep inside an virginia west virginia coal mine. eour people were reported saturday.n saturday, one of them emerged from the mine on monday night. he told investigators the other three are still alive inside the mine. chip reid is near the mine in whitesville, west virginia.

>> the search for the three missing people is expected to resume later this morning. in the meantime they've been pumped fresh air into the mine nd standing water out of the fresh timehey fear time could be running out. ends oy. anxiousnd friends on tuesday waited for updates about 25-year-old kayla williams, 31-year-old erica treadway and 21-year-old cody beverly. investigators believe the trio ns inside an inactive mine in the heart of west virginia's coal country. >> i didn't know what to think. >> tyler treadway is erica's brother. tylers mind-boggling. you don't know what the conditions are. the could hit a bad pocket of air without even knowing it. it's just dangerous. yo >> treadway, beverly, waumillia and another per were reported missing late saturday. the nday investigators discovered the group's atv near nde entrance to a mine and launched a rescue team. the following night eddie

williams came out of the mine peopl on his own and told investigators the location of he three remaining people alside. the governor ordered additional guardces, including the >>tional guard to help with the search. >> usually these things end up not very good. realo we still got some real . avy lifting to get to a good outcome here. >> mine has been inactive for two years. trespassers often explore closed mines in this poverty stricken fore for abandoned materials, ialsuding copper wiring. t's a's just a dangerous place d be. no one should go. please, people if you're curious or have other reasons to be going into the mine, don't do it. >> the company that owns the mine says they are cooperating in the search. the dangers of coal mines are very well known in this area. just down the road is a memorial to the 29 coal miners who died in the upper big branch mine disaster eight years ago. >> it is a race against the clock. we'll be following the story closely, chip, thank you. president trump's former personal attorney, michael

cohen, faces sentencing in about one hour. cohen pleaded guilty to tax evasion, making illegal hush money payments on mr. trump's behalf during the 2016 campaign and lying to congress. paula reid is at the federal courthouse in manhattan. so paula, cohen will be allowed to speak at his sentencing hearing. what do you expect him to say? >> that's right. he will have a chance to address the court. he's expected to apologize to his family. including his father. who is a holocaust survivor and then he is expected to denounce president trump and apologize to the american people. for his participation in crimes during the election. bianna, this is man who once said he would take a bullet for president trump. but since he agreed to flip on the president and start cooperating, he has said everything for him is now about family and country. >> yeah, the president has publicly attacked him. called him a liar. paula, even with cohen cooperating, prosecutors recommend prison time for how long. how long of a sentence is he

facing? >> well he faces about four to five years in prison. now his lawyers are trying to argue that he is a reformed man who should be spared any prison time. but federal prosecutors have accused him of being someone who has undermined democracy for his own profit and who deserve as substantial prison term. now typically judges defer to prosecutors on these matters. the big question today is how much time he'll have to spend in prison. bianna? >> proceedings getting under way illan hour, thank you. president trump startled p startlmakers when he invited the top two democrats in congress to the oval office and in othem he would shut down the he woulnt if he doesn't get funding for his promised border inll. llowident allowed cameras to capture a 17-minute argument as senator chuck schumer and congresswoman nancy pelosi. e camecame in here in good faith. and we entering into this kind enterincussion in the public

view. >> but it's not -- >> no, but it's -- >> full transparency. >> good morning. the dramatic display diverted attention away from president trump's frantic search for a new chief of staff and his potential legal troubles. but it also gave us a sneak peek of what may be to come in the new year with a democratic controlled house dividing >> congress. >> when you have walls struck it's effective. lsen you don't have walls, it is not effective. >> yeah. not >> let's call a halt to this. bickelic bickering over president trump's proposed border wall ended with a defiant declaration in the oval office. > i am proud to shut down the government for border security, chuck. so i will take the mantle. i wi i will be the one to shut it down. r tohe president made clear to democratic leaders, chuck democr and nancy pelosi he is at budging on his mission to get funding for the wall in a spending bill. histrump wants $5 billion to

bill. the wall. but they are urging him to support legislation that offers su $1.3 billion for fencing and secursecurity measures. > the experts say you can do border security without a wall. hich is wasteful and doesn't the the problem. >> it totally solves the problem and it's very important. >> this has spiralled downward. >> after the showdown, president rump stood by his offer to own a partial government shutdown and downplayed the wild exchange. >> well believe it or not, i t was it was a very friendly yeeting. ter: theemocrats had a different take. >> this trump shutdown, this temper tantrum that he seems to throw will not get him his wall. him h will hurt a lot of eople. >> in the private meeting back ingcapitol hill, pelosi told colleagues, it goes to show you, you get into a tinkle contest with a skunk, you get tinkle all d sclooe. you get like a manhood thing eor him. as if manhood could ever be associated with him. and this wall thing.

if congress does not make a deal h december 21, about a fourth of the government would close. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. >> magic things happen at christmas. and that's what i'm counting on. >> schumer and pelosi offer two alternative plans to keep the government open, with short-term funding. pelosi, poised to be speaker of the house said president trump called her after the meeting. but did not say if he's ready to compromise on cash for his wall. if the government does shut down, it would be for the second time this year. >> all right. hank you. looks like they can't dot >> thething, which is keep the hing i on. on, bute's a bit of news for eeople who think the government es completely without capability. there's a farm bill that's going through the senate and criminal justice reform which are proceeding with bipartisan support. a the whole thing hasn't broken down. >> just a reminder -- the president controls and his party it'sols congress, it's all republican-controlled at this urrent point. >> they could solve this

shutdown thing pretty easily. >> i don't know if that public wasersation was good for onbody to see on either side. i felt very uncomfortable watching it. >> so did mike pence. >> someone said he looked like table f on the shelf sitting there. pe> new york prosecutors drop charges against a mother arrested during a confrontation with police that caused a olicenwide backlash. howeo showed officers violently violentjazmine headley's toddler from her arms friday at a brooklyn social services office. the 23-year-old was released yom jail yesterday. we see why headley's legal trouble is not over. good morning. i headley is expected to make a court appearance today in mercer warran new jersey on an arrest warrant involving credit card raud case. headley returned home last e lat. d wiwas reunited with her son wasmother, who was watching him during the ordeal. the brooklyn public defender's office led the push to have the charges against her in new york charge dismissed. and secure her release from

jail. >> i'm just so grateful to everyone. and i'm just happy to be free. ynd i just need to see my boy. > headley was arrested on friday, after dispute with a d aboutbout sitting on the floor ervicesowded social services office. the guard called 911 and cell and cvideo showed officers yanking headley's 18-month-old th-old st from her arms. the child was placed in the ustody of headley's mother. nglice are reviewing the n theontation in the brooklyn public defender's office has asked mercer county prosecutors to dismiss the fraud charges saying headley has already been through so much. nd clearly that video is rooklybing, even the brooklyn district attorney said that he was horrified. >> me, too. regardless of what she had done and there's still i know two sides to every story there had to be another way to do it. lookyou look in the paper this morning in new york there's a of her her grabbing her baby's er hirt with her teeth trying to hold on to her child.

>> it's an instinct. >> exactly. >> all know, you have kids. despite whether you are wrong or oklyn rite. the brooklyn d.a. said it it could have been handled differ differently. >> i wonder if there will be consequences for the officers involved in that. they clearly need retraining, or maybe it's not the right job for them. police in colorado release the last-known footage of a mother missing since thanksgiving day. kelsey berreth is seen walking into a safeway with her 1-year-old daughter and pushing her around in a cart. investigators say the same day the 29-year-old woman dropped the child off with the father, her fiancé. berreth was reported missing by her mom, on december 2 and it's unclear why the fiancé did not report her disappearance to police right away. singce say this is a missing person's case. and there are no suspects at this time. a chinese telecommunication executive is free on bail this

morning in canada. but still facing possible s in thein the united states. zhouwas released last night with a monitoring bracelet and without her passport. china's government has close ties to her company, huawei and had demanded her release. president trump was asked s askrday if he would get involved in the case. and he said whatever's good for he country i would do. and added quote, i would inlyainly intervene if i thought it was necessary. canada's government is how demanding the release of a demand canadian diplomat, sichael kovrig who it says was detained in china. sina's government says it knows nothing about that. ahead new research uncovers higher risks to patients who a good wednesday morning to you after areas of low clouds and fog, we are going to see that sunshine and clearing a little bit earlier compared to yesterday. so enjoy that sun. we're looking at mild daytime highs. 60 in san francisco.

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we have much more news ahead, the family of a 9-year-old alabama girl says she took her own life because of bullying. now her fighting with school official who is say they didn't know. the grandparents of a young boy faces jail time after his mother took him to braz until a custody dispute. only on "cbs this morning," the mother's first u.s. interview about this case. a university targets binge drinking by replacing alcohol with yoga and meditation. why it's strict rules are getting other schools interested. you're watching "cbs this morning." relentless. tremfya® is for adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. with tremfya®, you can get clearer. and stay clearer. in fact, most patients who saw 90%

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well, an alabama mother who says bullying led to her daughter's suicide blamed her school for not doing enough to protect the child. nine-year-old mckenzie adams took her own life last week. her mother said the fourth grader was the target of comm constant racial taunts and name calling. demarco, this is such a sad story. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. she enrolled her daughter here hoping to get a fresh start because the little girl had been bullied at another school. the taunting continued so she alerted school officials. but according to police, school officials said they knew nothing about the bullying, only adding to the mother's heartbreak. >> my baby was happy. she was joyful. she walked into a room and her eyes light up a room. >> reporter: she said after her daughter started fourth grade at u.s. jones elementary school,

the nine-year-old started complaining about problems with her classmates. >> what kind of problems? >> there were children picking on her. i think a lot of it stemmed from she rode to and from school with a little white boy. it was like her best friend. >> reporter: the mother says one boy would write mckenzie notes in class. >> i know one particular time he called her the n word and the b word. >> jasmine said she voiced her concerns to school officials who reassured her they would keep an eye on her daughter. but on the morning of september 3rd, mckenzie took her life. police say they have found no evidence the school knew of the bullying. the school system offered its condolences to the family, but said its own internal investigation said there have been no findings of reports of bullying by either the student or the family. so you're saying the school's claims that they knew nothing about this is bogus?

>> yeah, they are. i don't know why they would say they knew nothing about it, but they did. >> reporter: mckenzie's death is part of a sobering trend in the u.s. suicide in the ages of 5 to 14 as nearly tripled since 2007. jasmine is trying to get them to stand by their students. >> you have them eight hours a day. that means we need to trust you when it comes to the safety of our child. they didn't do that. they didn't do it. and it hurts. >> reporter: there are signs to be on the lookout when it comes to your child being bullied. look forei an unwillingness to want to go to school and falling grades. >> i understand that mother's pain. it does hurt, and i hope this brings some awareness again as a reminder to people of the

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guimaraes more than three years ago. the mother took her son to brazil in 2013 and never returned. she's charged with international parental kidnapping. nico's father has been fighting to bring the little boy back to texas and now his parents are on a charge for helping take her nine-year-old daughter to brazil. he is outside the federal courthouse in houston. marcilino, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. marcel's parents are facing up to three years in prison when they're sentenced later today. speaking to us from brazil, marcel sa marcelle said she had no choice but to leave. >> marcelle is a fugitive, wanted by the fbi for kidnapping her son and taking him to brazil

in 2013. but in her first u.s. interview, marcelle says she's the victim. >> my husband's lies and manipulation destroyed my family, my whole family. >> reporter: these photos taken inside the home she just shared with her husband, christopher brann, show the holes he put in the wall in fits of anger. >> he would destroy computers, tables, walls. it was escalating. >> reporter: in this 2012 letter to marcelles, he was accused of hitting her in the face. >> i started getting desperate. i needed some help really bad. >> reporter: her parents pointed to the alleged domestic violence in july. the judge dismissed that

defense. marcelle secured her job in brazil and enrolled nico in a school there before their daughter fled. brann, a doctor in houston, says although his marriage was volati volatile, u.s. authorities have discredited his abuse claims. he said he only hit her in self-defense. >> i was ant an aggressor and i was not abusing her physically. >> reporter: brann hopes his former in-laws gets the stiffest sentence possible to deter her from such cases in the future. >> this is about the relationship i had with my boy and how that's been destroyed by this family. >> reporter: marcelle's parents say they should not be held responsible for their daughter's actions and they have no real way of forcing her to come back to the united states. as for dr. brann, he's been to brazil several times to see his son. has not been back since february. says if he returns now, he'll

most likely be arrested for unpaid child support. >> thank you for that exclusive interview. up next, some more headlines including the town worthy of willie wonka. we'll tell good wednesday morning to you with areas of low clouds and fog to start off the day, we are going to see clearing. enjoy the sunshine with mild temperatures. 60 in san francisco. 61 for san rafael. oakland 61 for a daytime high. fremont, san jose, 62 for concord. a few showers with a weak front pushing in on friday. a stronger weather system on sunday.

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baker, staff sergeant max flores, carter ross and maj james brophy. every effort has been made to recover the crew. crew members in the f.a.u. hornet were recovered but one died. there is an ongoing investigation. a woman was found in a stora nude picture in the office of dr. george tyndall. he said those photos were taken for medical purposes, but no explanation of what those medical purposes are. he's not been charged with a crime. the "new york times" reports that google ceo sundar pichai denied that they had a public hearing yesterday on capitol hill. he has been claimed to have

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road for britain leaving the european union couldn't get any lumpier, it just has. they heard the gunman yell allahu akbar or god is great. the search for the missing people is set to resume later this morning. meantime, they've been pumping fresh air into the mine. >> i can't believe she went in there. it's mind-boggling. he faces four to five years in prison. his lawyers are arguing that he is a reformed man. the dramatic display gave us a sneak peek of what may be to come with a democratic controlled house. >> so, i will take the mantle. i will be the one to shut it down. in celebration of her recent birthday, chrissy teigen's dad got her a very interesting present. he got a tattoo of her face on his arm. look at that. look. now, to be fair, my dad did the exact same thing on my birthday. he honestly did. there's malcolm there, look. and there's his tattoo of

chrissy teigen. >> announcer: this morning's eye opener at 8:00 is presented by liberty mutual insurance. >> of course, you don't see john covering his tattoo on each arm of his children. >> so sweet. >> your children would be mortified if you did that. >> for those of you whose fathers are still with us, if your dad got a tattoo of your arm -- i don't know how chrissy feels about it -- would that be okay? >> no tattoos in my house. >> i think my mom and my husband would have an issue of my dad getting a tattoo of me. good morning, everyone. i'm bianna golodryga with norah o'dell and gayle king. theresa may faces a fight today that could force her out of office. >> i think a general election at this point in time would not be in the national interests in the middle of our -- [ audience reacts ] >> this morning she defended herself in front of a tough crowd in parliament. the no-confidence vote comes in the middle of britain's rocky

breakup with the european union. many members of may's conservative party are upset with how she's handled brexit. >> our partners at the bbc say a majority of conservative members are publicly backing her, but that could change in today's secret vote. the prime minister said changing leadership now would put britain's future at risk. if may loses, her party will choose a new leader to replace her as prime minister. president trump's former personal attorney, michael cohen, will learn in a few minutes if he is going to prison. cohen has pleaded guilty to nine charges in two separate federal criminal cases. that includes making illegal hush money payments to benefit the trump campaign in 2016. paula reid is at the federal courthouse here in manhattan. paula, what does today's hearing mean for president trump? >> reporter: well, president trump looms large at this hearing today. last night the president told reuters he believes that cohen as his personal attorney should have known the campaign finance

laws. and once again, the president denied the money paid to his mistresses was in any way a campaign contribution. cohen entered federal court here in new york a short time ago. and during this hearing, we expect that he will denounce the president. his entire defense strategy is trying to portray himself as a reformed man, a good man who made mistakes when he represented the president. back in august, cohen entered a plea deal with federal prosecutors. as part of that, he had to cooperate. now, cooperation with federal prosecutors, that is an all-or-nothing prospect, but prosecutors say he did not fully cooperate. they do not believe that he shared everything he knows about crimes that occurred during the election, and that is why they are not asking for leniency for mr. cohen. now, he also entered a plea deal with the special counsel. special counsel robert mueller had a more positive review of cohen's cooperation with them. they said he was helpful. we do expect that cohen will be sentenced to jail. the big question today, though, is just how long he will have to serve.

>> just moments away. thanks so much, paula. president trump says he will proudly shut down part of the government next weekend if congress does not give him enough money for a border wall. the president argued for the funding with senate democratic leader chuck schumer and house democratic leader nancy pelosi in the oval office in front of tv cameras. it was an extraordinary session. mr. trump wants at least $5 billion in the year ahead to pay for the wall. democrats want $1.3 billion for what they're calling border security, the same amount as last year. the president appeared to reject that proposal. >> if we don't get what we want, one way or the other, whether it's through you, through a military, through anything you want to call, i will shut down the government. >> okay, fair enough. >> absolutely. >> we disagree. we disagree. >> and i'll tell you what, i am proud to shut down the government for border security, chuck. so, i will take the mantle. i will be the one to shut it down. i'm not going to blame you for it.

>> senate republican leader mitch mcconnell says he does not want the government to shut down. about one-quarter of the government would close if a budget deal is not reached by next friday, the 21st. now, the border wall has been one of mr. trump's top priorities since the day he entered the presidential campaign in june 2015. throughout the campaign and into his term in office, the president insisted that money for the wall would come from mexico. >> i will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and i will have mexico pay for that wall. mark my words. we can build a wall. and by the way, mexico can pay for the wall, just so you understand. you know, all of these guys say, oh, they'll never pay. of course they'll pay! who is going to pay for the wall? who? >> mexico! >> we're going to build the wall, but who, who, who is going to pay for the wall? 100%. >> one way or the other, mexico's going to pay for the wall. that's right. it may be through reimbursement,

but one way or the other, mexico will pay for the wall. >> now the president's asking taxpayers, american taxpayers to pay for the wall because mexico's government has said repeatedly that it will not pay. now with the budget standoff pending, the president has repeatedly attacked democrats in recent months for opposing a wall. >> i want the whole thing, because we could do the whole damn wall, and we can do a great one in one year. [ cheers and applause ] but getting money from the democrats is tough. they are doing everything in their power, the democrats, to delay it and to stop it, and you need the wall. and now it's more obvious than ever. we'll get it. we'll get it. this would be a very good time to do a shutdown. i don't think it's going to be necessary because i think the democrats will come to their senses. >> now, just to be clear about what's needed to get the funding he wants, president trump will need at least ten democratic senators to vote yes on that,

and that's why it's still an open question of what happens. >> and think about the thousands of people that will be put out of work if the government does shut down. i wish someone would ask the president to explain, or why doesn't he explain why now all of a sudden the government has to pay for it when he was so adamant, so vigorous, as you see in that tape, that mexico was going to pay for the wall. >> the deadline looming, next friday. >> next friday, and counting. survivors of the sexual abuse scandal involving former usa gymnastics team dr. larry nassar are calling on congress to take action. nassar is facing decades in prison after admitting he possessed child pornography and sexually assaulting young women and girls under the guise of medical treatment. a report by the u.s. olympic committee found that nassar acted within an ecosystem that facilitated his criminal acts. >> yesterday, former gymnast and survivor rachel van hollander said more needs to be done to protect athletes. >> congress needs to step in, and they need to find out what

really happened, because what we are seeing in the gymnastics world is the tip of the iceberg. >> in response to the report, both the u.s. olympic committee and usa gymnastics board of directors touted reforms. they said they will take additional measures based on the findings. and tomorrow, "usa today's" nancy armor joins us with an exclusive investigation into the u.s. olympic committee's failure to

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we have so much more news ahead. a major university is using violins and yoga to limit drinking on campus. ahead in our series "what's working," how applying neuroscience to dorm life is helping students make better decisions. plus, first on "cbs this morning," we spoke to outdog republican senator bob corker. the one thing he regrets not being able to accomplish in senate and whether he plans to run for president in 2020. and we show you the public library system where young people can pay down their late fees with a good book. you're watching "cbs this morning." book. you're watching "cbs this morning." everything storewide, december 13th to the 17th. at kay. ♪

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. our series, what's working, looks at vacations that are paying off in america, from education to z infrastructure. about one quarter of today's college students say they suffer consequences of drinking too much. near lip 700,000 people say they've been assaulted by another student who had too much alcohol. a major university is turning to neuroscience to encourage kids to tap into books instead of kegs. jim axelrod looked into this. this is one of my favorite stories i'm excited >> good morning to everybody. we went to the university of vermont long known as a party school to see the new approach that combines cutting edge neuroscience with age-old incentives to build student's brains inside and outside the classroom and in the process turn the old college keg stand on its head. you know it's not your average college dorm when violins can be

found on every floor. but alcohol and pot are no where to be seen. >> this brain is sitting there going, feed me. >> skoitry professor jim hood jack pulled a few strings, filling in freshman dorm with 80 violins while requiring students to sign this contract, no drinking or drugs if they want to live here. a bold experiment on any college campus. but he did it here. >> we didn't do it in a place where everyone would say that would work. we did it in place where people giggled. >> at the university of vermont, senior cal rollens. >> in reputation it had as a party school. >> yeah, i was aware. >> was that. >> toga. >> but for students not interested in animal house. >> thanks. i needed that. >> welcome to the wellness environment. >> they call it a cult. >> they call me a narc. >> they say the wellness environment is no fun, so

strict. >> at this incoming problem for freshman late night pizza and round the clock partying are replaced by trainers and bikes. the idea surround students with activities expanding the brain, not zap it with with the usual men u of college dmulgss. >> i heard you were supposed to eat pro bitic yogurt helpings brain function. >> helps brain function. >> they reinforce that. >> it's working. binge drink something down. gpa and graduation rates up. the program has grown ten fold in four years to almost a third of the entering class. >> you couldn't come one a worse age to send someone to college than when 8. it's the most vulnerable brain period than zero to 3. >> the brain is not done

developing at 18. >> not even close. >> what we are doing. >> dr. hood jack, the chief of child skietty at the uvm school set rules in bongs where shot glasses or lighters. what he called neurotriggers. >> the kids are not punished if they go out and have a beer or smoke the weed. >> it's just not allowed in dorm rooms. >> hood jack frames it as exercise in choice attention, handing oum apple watches for students to record the consequences. >> necked say, wow i've had three bad days and look at their health surveys and i smoked six bowls, had five shots didn't sleep much maybe that's why. >> for all of us there is application. >> you build a healthy brain, your body follows. >> exercise and meditation become the activities of choice and this doctor's prescriptions are for belly broegting and

reading harry potter and the chamber of zbleerkts this is not ramblings of crunchy vermonter. this is hard core neuroscience. >> and now the core of a new approach that's working. >> i learned all of the healthy habits i know i need to succeed from this wellness environment. >> including the knowledge that college is a time too precious to be wasted. >> now the approach they are taking at uvm is really catching on. it's a big school like nyu in new york have started similar programs and more than 40 others expressed interest in bringing this approach back to campuses. i mean, i'm sure i'm like many of you, i was 18 when i went off to college but about 12 if you measured by. >> according to the brain. >> yes. so you see something like that. >> i love this story. norah and i said what's his name. >> dr. jim hudziak.

neuroskrins, building good habits connection between health, wellness, intelligence. >> and also stress. the director of the cdc dr. redfield said for the opioid crisis you need to people to short circuit stress with healthy things so they don't turn to unhealthy things. >> but for college students his genius he is not wagging a finger. let's try this, yoga, keeping track of stuff. it's different. >> the results speak for themselves. it's working. >> absolutely. >> uvm website may be crashing with parents sending kids application forms. >> you are going to uvm. >> that's what we are watching tonight at the dinner table. >> thank you, jim. many americans would rather talk about marriage problems than money. jill schlesinger is in the green room with how to have the financial conversations, sometimes awkward, with your spouse. imes awkward conversations with your spouse. you're watching "cbs this morning" if the .

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welcome back to welcome back to "cbs this morning." it's time to show some of the headlines. the "washington post" says the nation's latest arctic report card suggests the arctic ocean has lost 95% of its oldest ice. the oldest ice helps keep the arctic cold even in the summer. scientists say if the arctic begins to experience ice-free summers, the planet will warm each more. experts say it's -- even more. experts say it's not clear if the ice breakup is caused by climate change. the cbs orlando affiliate wkmg reports on new research showing poorly maintained headlights can create dangerous

driving conditions. test results from aaa find that clouded or yellow headlights generate about 20% of the amount of light that new headlights do. aaa says the most effective fix is to replace the car's headlights. and cleaning kit which might not be as effective can be purchased for as little as $12. and "variety" looks at a study that says movies starring women earn more than male-led films at box offices around the world. the analysis by the creative artists agency and the technology company ship seven looked at the 350 top-grossing movies between 2014 and 2017. an earlier study by san diego state university found women accounted for just 24% of protagonists in the 100 top-grossing domestic films last year. >> interesting statistic. money can be awkward topic of conversation. americans would rather talk about almost anything else. a recent capital group survey asked more than 1,200 adults what topics they considered too

taboo to discuss with friends -- income, retirement savings, and the amount of debt were at the top. marital problems, political views, and drug use were ranked as less controversial. cbs news business analyst jill schlesinger is here to guide us through the difficult financial conversations that she says we should be having at home. i would certainly -- i was raised in one of these homes where you don't discuss money. my mother would say it's impolite. i would say the kids are teasing me and saying i was a rich little girl. she would say, we're not rich, we're comfortable. when i said, how much does daddy make, she said, that's something you don't need to know. >> it's hard because many of us were raised where families where we didn't discuss that and it wasn't seen to be polite. this is a social taboo that endured. and unlike sex or politics which seems to be open conversation, we still have a problem about money. a psychologist once said the

thing about money, it's concrete, so all of our emotions, all of our unresolved issues, our fears and anxieties it can be lumped into a money issue. and it really can bring up some feelings of inadequacy, as well. and that can really make it hard to have open dialogue. >> and it's about what you put your priorities on. if you spend your money, this is more important than that, people fight over priorities. you're having a conversation with your spouse, a lot of people turn to financial advisers. what should you keep with the financial advise on, and what must you talk about with your spouse? >> i think you have to have open dialogue, but you have to do it in a safe place. you don't do it in the middle of a fight. john, i'm mad at you spent this. now let's have a money conversation. you want to pick a good time and place. you want to have ground rules, no judgments. we're going to calm down and say here's what i have, maybe you have a little secret account you've been hiding. maybe you've got debt you've been racking up. check in with each other about your financial priorities. maybe one of you want to send your kids to college and pay the whole thing.

the other might say i don't want to do that, i want to try to retire by 64. you've got to have conversations. you've got to have openness, and you're absolutely right, though, if there are problems, bringing in an unbiased third party, a financial adviser, a cpa, is a great idea. >> secret accounts never sound like a good idea in a marriage. >> no. >> i'm not opposed. i'm divorced, so -- maybe you don't want to follow my advice. >> when it comes to talking about -- when it comes to talking about children, you know, there's more and more research out there about that it should begin very early, the discussion about finances. >> absolutely because money habits are formed by the time you are 7 years old. you want to demystify some of the agspects of money -- aspects of money. doesn't mean you have to share how much you make. you want them to be comfortable with the topic. and it is absolutely imperative to have real conversations, hard conversations with your kids as they enter high school. and say, this is what our family

can do in terms of college. this is our expectation. you have to do this, the other thing. and you want to guide those kids to develop good money habits. >> they can talk about it not just in the family, but amongst friends and at the workplace when it comes to salaries in particular. >> this is a really touchy issue. and i think that i was certainly raised where you don't talk about this with your family and your friends, but having open conversations at work can reveal paid disparity. it may help you seek a mentor, seek a manager, who can guide you, talk to your friends outside of work, try to demystify this topic. you may end up making more money by having these open skfrlg conversations. >> i know a specific example where a younger woman discussed it openly, found out a male was making more than her, and was able to remedy that issue by sharing that information. >> hard conversations, but well worth it. >> break the taboo. >> yes, indeed. >> jill, thank you very much for being with us. republican senator bob

corker of tennessee has had a series of clashes with president trump, most recently on the administration's muted response to saudi arabia's killing of "washington post" columnist jamal khashoggi. the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee is preparing to step down. first on "cbs this morning," i visited with corker at one of his favorites restaurants in chattanooga to talk about how washington works or doesn't, and what worries him about the issues no one seems interested in addressing. >> my destructiintroduction to service, i was in my late 20s, i started working in this neighborhood. the good things that are happening in this country are happening in communities and cities like this. the thing about our current president, i don't think he knows that there are people all across this country that live in communities like it one, just wanting to be engaged. >> senator corker has tangled publicly with the president from his own party. >> the president has great difficulty with the truth.

>> you support the president. do you regret that now? >> what do you think? >> reporter: where are you now on your feelings about this president? >> i like many of the policies. love the deregulation that is taking place. i love the animal spirits that have been released in our country. obviously i'm a republican, i love the number of judges that have been confirmed. but i think where the president hurts himself and hurts our country is his own personal conduct. it's unnecessary. you know, it's an unforced error. >> reporter: you said the president tries to divide us. >> i think with president trump, the part that's disappointing is that i know it to be purposeful. >> reporter: the distinction you seem to be making is that this president is actively being divisive for the purposes of his own political success. >> he might say that himself. i mean, i don't -- i think that's self-evident. >> reporter: so when people say he's a little rough around the edges, he's got some tweets that you may not like, but he's -- he's passed tax cuts, there's no real cost to his rougher side of

his nature -- >> i speak out because yes, i do think there's a cost. i think there's a cost to our young people throughout the country. i think there's a cost to just the way people are relating to each other. >> reporter: you think he'd speak out if he were running for re-election? >> to run in tennessee and be publicly critical of the president on the republican side, especially one that has captured the base in the way that he has, would be bad for your health. >> reporter: is that the pressure all your colleagues you leave behind face? >> i've been told by candidates who did run in campaigns in year that no one asked them about any issues to speak of on our sides of the aisle. no issues. they wanted to know one thing -- are you with trump. >> reporter: is that healthy? >> i don't think it's healthy, no. >> reporter: senator corker does he certain advantages. >> the unorthodox nature of the trump presidency has some -- in some ways caused people to be

close or each side of the aisle in some ways. still, vast differences in policies. >> reporter: what makes them closer? >> it's sort of like everybody's in the same boat, right? >> reporter: the same boat, but he says still unable to take a hard vote. >> the united states senators don't want to cast a tough vote -- >> reporter: on the fiscal crisis facing the country -- >> here's what happens, john, is somebody will have -- god, i don't want to vote on that -- if we have to vote on that, i'll have to take a position on it, and boy, we're hired to vote. i mean, express yourself. >> reporter: used to be the deficit was the conversation. it was the centerpiece. it was the focus. and it seems to have gone silent. this has some real cost. >> we spend the entire year working on this appropriations process which deals with 35%, say, of what we spend as a nation. and we don't spend a single day on the rest of it which is what is going to be our undoing, right? not a day is spent on it.

that's what you call majoring in the minors. it's just not on the american people's mind. and it's sad -- we're harming the next generation. >> reporter: a crisis senator corker won't be in the senate to confront as he returns home here to chattanooga. do you know exactly what you're going to do now? >> i do not. >> reporter: is the political elected office stage of your life over? >> i would rule nothing out at this time. >> reporter: would you rule something in? >> i know that everybody -- every person thinks that every senator wakes up in the morning and thinks they're looking at the next president. i don't do that. i don't. i do, though, think about it sometimes. >> very candid interview. i'm thinking his restaurant has a new fireplace. >> that was his house. the house had the fireplace. the restaurant -- i don't know whether they had a fireplace or not, but very good food. >> very candid and open with you. >> he's still got a lot of energy. he's not done with this public -- >> what do you think? >> i think he cares a lot about

these issues. and he's not -- he's not talking about working on his -- you know, going into the woodshop and making some nice decoy ducks or something. >> there's another chapter for senator corker. libraries are trying new tactics to get your kids to pick up a book and put down their phone. ahead, how a program uses late return fees as way

> in in ouries -- our series "perfect union," in the age of video games and the paternity, public libraries across the country are getting creative to draw people in. many are lowering late fees or forgiving them altogether. jamie yuccas shows us how one southern california county is letting young readers work off their fines by opening up a book. mildred and sam lived in a tiny house underneath the daffodil root -- >> 15 -- >> reporter: at the east l.a. library, even the youngest patrons have to pay their dues, but not the way you think. how high have your fines been before? >> $45. >> reporter: $45? >> yeah. >> reporter: card holders 21 and under can literally read away

what they owe in late fees at a rate of $5 per hour. it's a new chapter for los angeles county. a program called "the great read away." >> we're not really concentrated on what they're reading so long as they're reading. >> reporter: l.a. county library director sky patrick says the idea came about after the library noticed an unsettling trend -- that fines are not fined. many kids who racked up debt on overdue books or movies would stop coming to the library altogether. >> it $10, absolutely. for some people, that's a huge barrier. >> reporter: and those are the kids that you want in the library reading. >> that's exactly it. this program is really to invite them back into the library, to make libraries accessible to them and their families. >> reporter: we found 8-year-old j jalene working off her fine with the popular "judymoody" series.

when you found you could read away your fine, what did you think? >> i was surprised. >> reporter: why were you surprised? >> i thought you had to pay. >> reporter: the children's librarian says she sees kids reading away fees daily. did you ever see an astronomical fine you that think, gosh, the kids aren't going to be able to read this away? >> i've seen a low as a couple of cents to as high as a couple of hundred dollars. i've seen kids read that away because they have the commitment to do so. >> reporter: since the program launched last year, l.a. county says its more than 80 libraries have logged more than 50,000 reading sessions. and reinstated more than 13,000 previously blocked accounts. you think the library has given you a love of books -- >> yes -- >> yeah -- >> reporter: and that's going to be with you forever? >> yeah. >> reporter: a price well paid

for these page-turners. for "cbs this morning," juke jamie yuccas, los angeles. >> libraries are magical. we all have great memories as kids. great story. and if you have a story you would like to see highlighted in our "more perfect union" series, we want to hear from you. submit your story idea on our website, cbsthismorning.com. on today's podcast, cbs sports broadcaster verne lundquist reflects on his more than 50-year career. he shares details from his memoir "play by play: calling the wildest games in sports." from sec football to college basketball, the masters and more. you can hear the podcast on apple's podcast app and on all major audio platforms. we'll be right back. for more inspirational stories, go to cbsnews.com/theuplift. sponsored by -- you know when you're at ross and you find a deal on cookware that makes you say. yes! ...oh, yeah! bring on the holidays! that's yes for less.

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