stormy daniels before the election. and he also worked with american media which owned the national inquirer tabloid to arrange $150,000 payment to former playboy model both payments done at the direction of mr. trump to influence the election. in july cohen taped some conversation with mr. trump including this one the two discussing pamyments and referencing the ceo of american media. >> i need to open a company for the transfer of that info regarding our friend david. funding.

>> so what are we going to pay 150. >> yes. >> and it's all the stuff. >> major is at the white house we're learning that jared kushner is under consideration for chief of staff. what do you know about that. >> consideration is a fluid term. lots of things are under consideration. he remains a key player with powerful roles in the middle east and -- any chief of staff l. have to understand how much he will exercise under jared kushner. >> thanks again and congratulations. >> europeans meet in brussels regarding ongoing migrant

crisis, thousands are fleeing to other countries by land. meeting new dangerous. seth doane is in the italian alps. >> reporter: sneaking through the pass and carirying what the could, these trying to cross the worlder in search of opportunities. when a car comes with a light everybody crouches down and tries to hide. >> safer routes are now blocked, and thousands of migrants try this deadly route through the alps. this man by met at italian train station where many start this trip. >> this road is not for

children. >> but you're 15 years old. >> yes i'm 15. it's not for me. >> i couldn't get documents iniin i italy or a job this 27-year-old from mali told us, many are from former french colonies and dream of a future in france where in italy migrants are faced with hostile i'll environment and new security law could strip migrant benefits. life or death we have to try to leave italy. this 16-year-old told us. they followed gps in their gut until reaching france and took five hours this morning we found them exhausted but relieved. he said we wanted to come here and god made it ham.

-- happen. >> police caught a couple migrants. many are found with hyperthe hyperthermia or frost bite even death. >> thanks seth. coming up tourist may travel into space.

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downy unstopables >> glor: virgin galactic cleared a major milestone today by sending a spaceship from the mojave desert to beyond the earth's atmosphere. the company is now on track to send private tourists into space next year. carter evans spoke with the man behind this. >> reporter: with richard branson watching nervously from the tarmac, "spaceship two" began its journey to the edge of space. the glow clearly visible as the ship, carrying two pilots, soared more than 50 miles high. >> go, baby, go! >> i think there were a lot of tears shed by everybody, including myself, just tears of relief and tears of joy. >> reporter: that's because virgin's last manned mission four years ago ended in tragedy, the craft disintegrating, killing a pilot. >> of course it weighed on our minds.

space is hard. there are some things you can only test by going up there. >> welcome to space. >> reporter: this trip of a lifetime could now be just months away for some of the 600 people who have booked it. they're each paying $250,000 for the 90-minute joyride, including seven minutes of weightlessness. that breaks down to $36,000 for each gravity-defying moment. but there is competition, from elon musk and spacex, to jeff bezos and his company, blue origin, who plans to rocket tourists to space and parachute them back to earth. is there really a market for space tourism? >> the market is enormous. it's up to jeff and myself and elon to make it completely safe. >> rolling to the right. >> i built this spaceship program slightly selfishly because i wanted to go to space one day. i would definitely love to be the first passenger up. >> reporter: and today's journey truly was a milestone. it was the first piloted

american-made spacecraft to leave earth's orbit since the shuttle program ended in 2011. that's the "endeavor" there behind me, and today, jeff, nasa tweeted its congratulations. >> glor: very cool. pretty amazing stuff. all right, carter evans for us from los angeles. thank you, carter. still ahead here tonight, firefighters caught in a dangerous backdraft. here is another laundry hack from home made simple. do you want ready to wear clothing without all the hassle? you can, with bounce dryer sheets. simply toss two sheets in the dryer to iron less. we dried one shirt without bounce, and an identical shirt using bounce. the bounce shirt has few kles, ss static,

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>> glor: the pilot who survived a jet crash off hawaii is in serious condition tonight. the hawker hunter jet slammed into the ocean yesterday near pearl harbor. the pilot ejected and was rescued by passing boaters. a terrifying scene this morning for new york city firefighters. thick smoke from a burning business got sucked back inside and set off a vast, fiery explosion that collapsed the roof. that is a backdraft. a dozen people were hurt, including seven firefighters. no one died. the commissioner called that a miracle. it was snowing money today on new jersey commuters. near metlife stadium where the giants and jets play, a blizzard of bills flew out of a brinks truck. singles, fives, even hundreds. many pulled over. there were at least two car crashes because of that. up next here, 'tis the time for the season-- for the rock and roll hall of fame class of 2019. "it's the time of the season." try that again, jeff.

we're back after this.

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>> glor: stevie nicks making history as part of the rock and roll hall of fame class of 2019. here's vladimir duthiers. >> reporter: the hair. the sounds-- ♪ pour some sugar on me ♪ reporter: --made def leppard the definition of rock. ♪ i'm in control ♪ i'm never gonna stop ♪ >> reporter: rhythmic rocker janet jackson earned the honor after being nominated three times. >> reporter: with a recognizable riff that spans generations... ♪ sings a song ♪ sounds like she's singing ♪ >> reporter: ...all history will be made when stevie nicks becomes the first female to be inducted twice. ♪ i've been -- >> reporter: she was first inducted to the hall in 1998, with fleetwood mac.

whenever i'm alone with you >> reporter: the cure has been eligible for the honor since 2004, the same year their gothic guise and iconic grooves earned them an mtv icon award. ♪ make me a deal ♪ >> reporter: avant-garde roxy music pushed pop boundaries and the hall says they changed the course of music. ♪ well, no one told me about her ♪ ♪ >> reporter: and, after decades of eligibility... ♪ it's that time of the season ♪ >> reporter: ...it's finally the season for '60s sensation the zombies. ♪ but i'm a creep ♪ >> reporter: rounding out the list, indy royalty radiohead... ♪ i don't belong here ♪ reporter: ...where millions of fans and industry elite believe... ♪ i don't belong here ♪ reporter: ...they do belong. vladimir duthiers, cbs news, new york. >> glor: and that is the "cbs overnight news" for this friday. for some the news continues for others check back for more in

the morning. from the broadcast center in new york city i'm jeff glor. welcome to the overnight news, the kremlin is seeing red after a spy confessed to a scheme to infiltrate the national rifle associate jaatio leading up to the presidential election, and could face five years in prison but prosecutors say will likely be deported. vladimir putin says never heard of her. >> president trump said he never directed his long time lawyer

never paid hush money but michael cohen told the court a different story. mr. trump said his only mistake was to hire cohen in the first place. >> i never directed him to do anything wrong >> reporter: in an interview with fox news, president trump denied what former lawyer michael cohen and the owner of the "national enquirer" have admitted to federal prosecutors-- that as a candidate, mr. trump directed payments to buy the silence of two women alleging extramarital affairs, a possible campaign finance violation. >> they put that on to embarrass me. >> reporter: the president said the payments did not break any laws. as for cohen, mr. trump admitted he erred in keeping him in his inner circle. >> and you know what? in retrospect, i made a mistake. >> reporter: cohen has admitted to paying $130,000 to adult film star stormy daniels shortly before the elections. according to court papers, he

also worked with american media, which owns the "national enquirer" tabloid, to arrange a $150,000 payment to former "playboy" model karen mcdougal. cohen now says both payments were done at the direction of mr. trump, to influence the election. in july, it was revealed cohen had taped some conversations with mr. trump, including this one of the two men discussing payments and referencing david pecker, the c.e.o. of american media. >> i need to open up a company for the transfer of all that info regarding our friend david. >> so what are we gonna pay? >> funding... yes, and it's all the stuff. >> a telephone tip to police helped head off a possible massacre in a school in indiana. a 14-year-old showed up at school with a gun just as cops were pulling up. shots were fired.

when smoke cleared the kid with the gun was the only casualty. >> the call to officers was distressingly familiar. >> we have a shooter. >> reporter: the school was locked down and full of petrified kids. "mommy, i'm scared," said one text. "there is a shooting. somebody's shooting." "i love you, angel," her mother responded. police from several jurisdictions had been tipped off by a 911 call that trouble was headed toward the school. indiana state police captain david bursten: >> had they not made that call, there is no doubt in my mind that we would be having a much different conversation here right now. >> reporter: at the school, officers faced an armed teenager. the 911 caller had alerted police who to look for. and when they confronted him, he shot his way into that school

door, and the police raced in right after him, even as he shot at them, before killing himself. >> it's a 14-year-old male. he lives in the richmond area. i am comfortable with telling you that he is not a student at this school. >> reporter: and at the school, after minutes that seemed like hours, there was heart-felt relief. >> having a text from your daughter that says, "you're the best mom in the world, i don't know if i'm going to see you again, but i love you..." i just, i don't even remember the ride here. i'm just happy to be able to hug her. >> reporter: no one beside the gunman was shot today, and we know very little about him. because he was a juvenile, police are not releasing his name, nor the identity of the 911 caller who saw something and said something. >> overseas the man hunt is over in france. the suspect in the deadly terror attack in strasburg is dead.

roxanna sabieri with details. >> reporter: as news of cheriff chekatt's death spread, police were met with applause in the streets of strasbourg. france's interior minister says three police offices confronted chekatt as he walked down a street. he opened fire, then they shot and killed him. fatima marie lives nearby. >> well, i was afraid. i'm happy we're finished with this story. >> reporter: and you're thankful for the police killing this suspect? >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> reporter: the 29-year-old had a lengthy criminal record and was on a watch list for radicalism. he had been on the run since tuesday night, when french authorities say he opened fire in a deadly attack near strasbourg's christmas market, sending people running for cover. france's top counter-terrorism official said bystanders claimed the gunman shouted allahu akbahr, "god is great," when he fired. after an intense manhunt involving hundreds of security forces across the region, it was in strasbourg, in the neudorf

neighborhood where chekatt was raised, that police detained four of his family members, and tonight, found chekatt himself. >> hundreds of security forces are on the streets. french officials are calling on protesters angry at rising taxes not to demonstrate this weekend. >> and if you have an extra quarter million dollars laying out may want to book a trip to space. virgin galactic just completed successful test flight of its tourism spaceship went to the edge of space and came back down no issues. >> reporter: with richard branson watching nervously from the tarmac, "spaceship two" began its journey to the edge of space. the glow clearly visible as the ship, carrying two pilots, soared more than 50 miles high. >> go, baby, go! >> i think there were a lot of tears shed by everybody, including myself, just tears of relief and tears of joy. >> reporter: that's because virgin's last manned mission four years ago ended in tragedy,

the craft disintegrating, killing a pilot. >> of course it weighed on our minds. space is hard. there are some things you can only test by going up there. >> welcome to space. >> reporter: this trip of a lifetime could now be just months away for some of the 600 people who have booked it. they're each paying $250,000 for the 90-minute joyride, including seven minutes of weightlessness. that breaks down to $36,000 for each gravity-defying moment. but there is competition, from elon musk and spacex, to jeff bezos and his company, blue origin, who plans to rocket tourists to space and parachute them back to earth. is there really a market for space tourism? >> the market is enormous. it's up to jeff and myself and elon to make it completely safe. >> rolling to the right. >> i built this spaceship program slightly selfishly because i wanted to go to space one day. i would definitely love to be the first passenger up.

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>> announcer: this is "cbs overnight." country superstar, reba mcintyre was among artists celebrated for their contributions to american culture, reba is the only female country artist to have a number one sing until each of the past four decades. that doesn't scratch the surface of her stardom. we have gone down to have a chat where else, in nashville. >> how many records. >> quite a few. been very lucky. >> thank you very much to the academy. >> to see how reba mcintyre meheueen of country music, you need to go back to

chalke, oklahoma, and the lessons learned on her family's ranch. >> you were a real life cow girl. >> yeah i loved it, i really enjoyed it. daddy would come in and say i need a driver, just stay off the rock and don't hit a tree. >> by her teens she was competing in the rodeo. >> i wasn't good at running barrels in the rodeo but i had fun. but my gift from god was singing and daddy would say get back in there and practice your single. i was like how do you practice singing. i just would sing. it just came out naturally. >> oh, happy day ♪ ♪ >> talk about your dad being three time trophy. >> i asked him when was most fun winning that trophy or the championship or the getting there. he said oh, the getting there.

that's a lot like me. i would live from award show to award show. i just loved it. i loved the competition. >> i guess i never thought of you as competitive but you are. >> very. but in a fun way. >> sure. >> i'll cheer for the winner but i want to win. >> and the winner is reba mcintyre. >> reba mcintyre. >> reba! reba mcintyre! zbland reba's won plenty. 16 acms. six cmas and three grammys. including one this year for her very first gospel album. >> everybody's faith different as you know. your faith how would you describe it? >> special. you know some religions you got to pray three times a day. i knock that out before i get out of bed. >> really. >> oh, yeah. >> what do you pray about. >> thank you for the bed, good night sleep this pillow, this house, i love it.

i don't preach. i try to live by example. i'm not perfect. i'm a renegade a lot of times. i love to have a drink of whiskey but i'm a good person and try never to hurt anybody's feelings. >> about that renegade. >> let's talk about the red dress. how did the red dress become such a big deal. >> well sandy speaka made it for me and she had netting on my chest and i said whew that's bare and she saidly fill it in with sequins and stuff. finished the song and daddy said ray did you have that on backwards i'm like why, momma said it was low, the lowest thing i've ever seen you wear. >> the dress became a staple at reba's live shows, wearing it often enough to wear it out. >> how many times have you wore this dress. >> couple years old times.

>> oh, yeah. >> she put it on again this year for country academy of music awards. >> 25 years later and didn't need to be altered at all. >> no. >> nobody else is the same size 25 years later, reba. >> as i told everybody, it's stretchy material. >> that indellible sense of humor is one of the attribute that's have endeared reba to fans for four decades. ♪ >> the empathy she reveals through her music is another. ♪ mistreating games that you play brought you down ♪ >> do you think your songs are really an anthem for many women. >> oh, without a doubt. so many songs people go oh, my gosh that's my song i'm a survivor. >> are you a survivor?

>> absolutely. >> in what way? >> i've been married twice divorced twice lost my band in 91 my tour manager. yes i'm a survivor. >> ten people in all died in this crash most were members of country singer reba mcintyre's band. >> talk about 1991 when you lost your band. >> it was rough. it was all. it was horrible. by far the hardest thing i've ever had to go through in my life. my family rallied. my friends. fans. >> but it had to be hard to get back in the studio and back on stage. >> horrible. horrible. the album for my broken heart saddest album i ever had. the guys would come in and say reeb we going to have any happy songs on this album i said nope not this one. ♪ i guess the world didn't stop for my broken heart

♪ >> it was a critical success. >> this is for my eight buddies. and it's been called the best album of her career. a career that expanded to roles in movies. ♪ you can't get a man with a gun ♪ ♪ >> on broadway and a hit television show bearing her name. >> it's my hair. >> the only thing different is you're underneath it. >> at recent kennedy center honors. >> thanks to one the best friends we could dream of having. >> emotions came in succession from fellow artists and extended family. >> like a friend and thank you for being a really rad grandma for my kids. >> what is at the heart of the longevity of your career and success? >> i think the longevity is because i love it. i'm curious.

fwha what more can we do. now help. i got lots of help. i got crew members that have been with me since the middle 80s. i mean, i love my team. >> it's a family. >> uh-huh. they're my family. >> i can kind of see the tears in your eyes. >> it chokes me up how loyal they are and i hope they know i'm loyal to them too. >> you can see reba and the other artists honored on wednesday december 26th right th n will be right back.

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a hit and run fender bender could have been a holiday nightmare for a college student in buffalo, instead it turned into a lesson of responsibility taught by a sixth grade girl. steve hartman found this story, where else, on the road. >> in buffalo, new york, this senior has a tale to tell that is truly unique. a heart warming story about a hit-and-run. he says it all began the day he discovered dent in his ford mustang. >> it was bashed in good and then i saw the note. wasn't expecting that at all. it came from a sixth grader. >> obviously the eleven-year-old student didn't make the dent but did make it better with the note tucked under the windshield that

read if you are wondering what happen to your car bus 449 hit your car. it stops here every day to drop me off. she hit and run. sorry. she closed with a sketch of the get away vehicle that's her in the back aghast at what she just witnessed. as a result of her artistry and honesty the bus driver was held accountable and now he's getting his car fixed. >> he acted like it didn't happen. i chose to do something about it. my mom always said if you see someone doing the wrong thing you sister to do the right thing. >> but her mom refuses to take all of the credit and admits she wasn't supportive when her daughter started going dudley do right that day. >> you were thinking you wanted to get out of there. >> i didn't want anyone to think it was me. >> some people think it is easier to walk away. >> my daughter taught me how to stay kind, stay compassionate

and the right thing is always the right thing. >> andrew said she taught him that as well which is why he had to meet her. >> i couldn't believe you left me that note. when i first saw the car i was ancient rained saw your note and changed my entire mood. >> to know there's people out there with the type of integrity and honesty, it's somethingly remember the rest of my life. >> again her mom credits nature over nurturing, but she's clearly doing something right raising kids who stand up to justice is no accident. >> thank you so much. >> your welcome. >> "star tre>> what a kid.'sorvr some the news continues for others check back with the cbs morning news. from the broadcast center in new york city.

good night. it's friday, december 14, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." president trump speaks out about allegations of hush money payments made right before his election. and he's throwing all the blame on michael cohen. coast to coast bomb threats turn out to be hoaxes. the common factor. and this might be the way you take your first trip to you take your first trip to space. captioning funded by cbs good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york.