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bulletproof shelters. the university of maryland's eastern shore spent nearly $60,000 on bulletproof whiteboards. and a school district in new jersey spent more than $400,000 on shatter-resistant film for glass. the company that makes it also sent this ad to superintendent mook in columbiana. so this is showing that their product protects against an assault rifle. it's not subtle. how often do you get solicited? >> we get e-mails soliciting for products. they're going to strike while the iron is hot. >> reporter: security consultant gary sigrist worked as a teacher and police officer for more than two decades. what do you think of the products on the markets say they'll keep schools safe? >> if you're selling a product you that say this will keep your school safe, then you already

know it's false. there's no 100% safe solution. >> reporter: is there any federal oversight that's deeming these products safe? >> no, not at all. >> what do you think about that? >> in some cases we may be selling a false sense of security to our staff, our students, our parents. in some we're going to be spending money on something that's never been proven. >> nolg the horrific shooting in parkland -- >> reporter: recognizing the issue, aren't trump created a federal school safety commission, and today it released a report calling for a clearinghouse that would assess school safety options flooding the market. but for now oversight remains up to local districts and superintendents like mook say they're making the best decisions they can. >> some people are going to look at it and say this is a gimmick made by a company that's trying to profit off of far. >> aren't they all? i mean, at the end of the day we're going to do what we believe is in the best interest of keeping kids, satisfy, and families safe in our district.

>> that was adriana diaz reporting for "eye on america." we learned today actress and director penny marshall died last night at her home in the hollywood hills. she was 75 years old and had suffered complications from diabetes. as jim axelrod shows us, when it came to comedies with heart, penny marshall was in a league of her own. ♪ senks eight ♪ schlemiel, schlimazel >> reporter: she burst onto the scene in the mid 1970s as laverne defazio along with her roommate shirley feeney. she was the milk and pepsi-drinking half of the zaniest team of ttlecappers at the shotz b fonzie. >> reporter: but even as fonzie's date would spin off her own number one rated show with "laverne and shirley" it was behind the camera where directing tom hanks in "big" in 1988. the first time director to gross $100 million on a movie. two years later she tried drama, directing robert de niro and

robin williams in "awakenings," nominated for a best picture ofrk. before teaming up with hanks once again. >> there's no crying in baseball! >> reporter: in "a league of their own." in 1992. >> this way, this way. >> reporter: carol penny marshall, named after carole lombard, was born 75 years ago in the bronx. while her older brother garry, who created "happy days" and "laverne and shirley" -- >> yes, mr. uner, i'm spraying right now. >> reporter: -- gave her her first break as myrna the secretary in "the odd couple," penny marshall earned her hollywood star all on her own. today her ex-his band rob reiner tweeted "i loved penny. i was very lucky to have lived with her and her funnybone." >> oh, legacy, i don't know. i was successful -- i had a successful tv show. i had a couple successful movies. and i'm not beautiful. >> reporter: she was 2/3 right because the way she made us

laugh -- >> boy, you just love to see me embarrassed, don't you? >> reporter: -- was a gorgeous gift. jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. coming up next, her inoperable brain tumor has disappeared. and doctors are astonished. >>

doctors caring for an 11-year-old girl in texas say they are mystified. the girl was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor, but now for reasons doctors cannot explain she is cancer-free. dr. tara narula has the story. >> reporter: when 11-year-old roxli doss was diagnosed with what appeared to be a rare inoperable brain tumor in june, she faced it with courage. some 300 children in the u.s. are diagnosed with this particular brain tumor, dipg, each year. there is no cure, and les than 1% survive beyond five years.

>> it's a devastating disease. you have decreased ability to swallow, sometimes vision loss, decreased ability to talk, eventually difficulty with breathing. >> reporter: roxli was given months to live. as she went through weeks of radiation her, parents, scott and gena doss, prayed for a miracle. >> we got it. >> yeah. we did. >> for sure. >> praise god, we did. >> reporter: typically, radiation is a life-extending treatment, not a cure. but just over two months after being diagnosed the tumor appeared to have completely gone away. >> it was actually unbelievable. the tumor is undetectible on the mri scan, which is very unusual. >> reporter: while doctors remain extremely cautious about her long-term prognosis, for now roxli is just as active as she ever was. for the doss family christmas came a little early this year. dr. tara narula, cbs news, new

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steal her suv. look at this. the 49-year-old pulled the 19-year-old out of the vehicle and pinned him on the ground. she then held him there until police showed up. in chicago this morning a sea of blue. police officers lined the streets to honor two of their own. officers conrad gary and eduardo marmolejo were hit by a train and killed last night while chasing a suspected gunman. ambulances carried their bodies along a 15-mile procession past their police station and to the medical examiner's office. both were fathers. now to a little guy with a big voice. ♪ oh yeah, buddy. that is drake grillo. he's 3 years old. he wowed the crowd at a syracuse university women's basketball game last night, singing the national anthem. drake's mom says he learned the words by watching games on tv. that's fantastic. up next, a basketball coach

who inspires in the universal language, compassion.

we end tonight with a coach who teaches basketball and life lessons. here's jamie yuccas. >> one, two, three! let's go! >> reporter: the bulldogs are like any other high school basketball team. except for one thing. this is the mississippi school

for the deaf. we talked to the team using sign language and interpreters. how do you dribble and sign? >> if you're dribbling, you might have to use one hand, or you just have to hold the ball and use the other hand, i guess. >> reporter: no one communicates quite like the school's coach, sekoe white. >> watch, watch. >> reporter: at a recent game a fan tweeted this video of the coach rallying his team, signing "whose house?" the players signed back, "our house." what was your reaction to the video? >> you know, first my reaction, i thought what's the big deal? that's what i do every day. but then you know, when i stepped back i started to realize that maybe it is a big deal, for the whole community. >> you think you're inspiring as coach? >> yes. i try as much as possible to inspire my players, because i used to be like them. >> reporter: coach white grew up being bullied as the only deaf player on his high school

basketball team in lexington, kentucky but persevered, playing overseas and in the deaf olympics. >> basketball really saved my life. basketball is the story of my life. >> why? >> because. i lived in a tough area in tennessee and really if not for basketball i might have been dead, in jail. i would have never gotten this job. i'd never be a coach. >> reporter: it's something he's passed on to his players. does your coach inspire you? >> oh, yeah. >> never give up? >> never give up. >> reporter: a universal lesson worth celebrating. >> one, two, three! >> reporter: jamie yuccas, cbs news, jackson, mississippi. that is the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city i'm jeff glor.

>> announcer: this is the cbs overnight news." welcome to the overnight news. i'm tony dokoupil. michael flynn walked into federal court expecting to receive a get out of jail free card for his cooperation with the special counsel's russia investigation. instead he got a tongue-lashing from the judge, who refused to hide his disgust for the former national security adviser, telling him you sold your country out and threatening a long prison sentence. after all that flynn's lawyers asked to have his sentencing postponed. paula reid picks up the story. ♪ god bless america >> reporter: michael flynn was greeted by supporters as he arrived in federal court in washington today. >> go get 'em, general! >> reporter: the former national

security adviser hoping to be spared prison time after special counsel robert mulger praised his substantial assistance including 19 interviews in the investigation into russian meddling in the an unexpected emmet sullivan signaled to a stunned courtroom that he intended to send the former three-star general to jail. arguably you sold your country out, the judge told flynn, even asking prosecutors if they ever considered a charge of treason, a crime punishable by death. the judge later apologized for that question and a misstatement about flynn's time at the white house. flynn has admitted lying about discussing u.s. sanctions with the russian ambassador during the presidential transition. the judge called it a very serious offense, especially since the lies took place during an interview with fbi agents while on the physical premises of the white house. after a short recess a shocked flynn and his attorneys took the judge up offer to delay sentencing while flynn further cooperates with investigators in the hope of leniency.

a dejected flynn left court to taunts from protesters. but one person still in his corner, president trump, who tweeted "good luck" to flynn earlier in the day. it's a contrast to the president's angry comments about his former attorney michael chone who has also cooperated with the special counsel. white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders denied there was a double standard. >> it's perfectly acceptable for the president to make a positive comment about somebody while we wait to see what the court's determination is. >> reporter: the judge asked for a status update on flynn's case in march, which means he won't be sentenced until the spring at the earliest. just another sign that the special counsel investigation will last well into next year. another chapter in president trump's legal drama is coming to a close. the trump foundation is being dissolved amid accusations that the charity was little more than a piggy bank for mr. trump's personal and political activities, which is illegal. weijia jiang reports. >> reporter: new york's attorney general is painting the trump foundation as a piggy bank for

presidential trump's replies and political interests. in a statement barbara underwood said investigators found a shocking pattern of illegality including unlawful coordination with the trump presidential campaign, repeated and willful self-dealing, and much more. white house press secretary sarah sanders. >> we can't comment on that. >> reporter: in one instance the president allegedly used $100,000 worth of foundation money to settle a lawsuit over the height of a flag pole at his mar-a-lago resort. and one day after the trump foundation hosted an event in iowa to raise money for veterans in january 2016, then campaign manager corey lewandowski sent this e-mail to an attorney for the foundation, asking when they could use the money. at least $500,000 was doled out to groups in iowa just before the caucuses. but money from a tax-exempt organization cannot be used for political purposes.

candidate trump defended the foundation in 2016. >> 100% goes to different charities including a lot of military. i don't get anything. i don't buy boats. i don't buy planes. >> reporter: today a trump foundation lawyer said the charity had distributed $19 million to over 070 charitable organizations and claimed the group has been trying to close since mr. trump won the election. marcus owens is a former irs attorney. >> it was used apparently as a private slush fund for donald trump. so the victims here are the united states government and the taxpayers of the united states. >> reporter: attorney general underwood is moving forward with a lawsuit against the trump foundation which seeks nearly $3 million in restitution and would ban president trump along with three of his children, donald jr., eric, and ivanka, from running any charities in new york for ten years. president trump is appare

apparently backing down on his vow to slows down the government over funding for his border wall sealing off mexico from the united states. >> reporter: washington knows government shutdowns even partial ones rin efficient, costly and politically hazardous. but washington's heading toward one because the president, president trump, doesn't appear to have a strategy to avert one or if he does he hasn't shared it with congressional leaders. what does the president want? $5 billion to build the border wall on the u.s.-mexico border. or at least part of it. but there's not enough votes in the house republican congress to do that. to diminishes the president's leverage. he can't get it passed in the republican-led house or senate. aides here have suggested to the president a stopgap short spending bill into january but that would be under new house democratic management. the negotiations would be even tougher. the president's leverage diminished. so he wants to stand firm. but without the votes he doesn't have many plausible or flikt or strategic alternatives. democrats have offered $1.3 billion of border security that

doesn't include very much for the wall. accepting that would be defeat the president would rather not take. here we sit, waiting for the president to see if he can find a way to victory or recalibrate or redescribe defeat. there are flowers on the hollywood walk of maim marking the death of actress and director penny marshall. she was best known for her role on "laverne and shirley." she was laverne. but marshall had a decades-long ♪schleml,chmazel elrod has a >> reporter: she burst onto the scene in the mid 197 0z as laverne defazio. along with shirley feeney. she was the milk and pepsi drinking one. at schots brewery. but even though fonzie's date would spin off her own number one rated show with "laverne and shirley" it was behind the camera where penny marshall would make her mark. directing tom hanks in big in 1988. the first female director to

gross $100 million on a movie. two years larts she tried drama directing robert de niro and robin williams in "awakenings" nominated for best picture oscar. working with hanks again -- >> there's no crying in baseball! >>. >> reporter: in "a league of their own." maureen, this way. carole penny marshall named after carole lombard was born 75 years ago in the bronx. while her older brother gary, who created happy days and "laverne and shirley" -- >> yes, mr. unger, i'm praying right now. >> reporter: -- gave her her cry in odd cole. marshall earne hollywood star all on her own. today her ex-husband rob reiner tweeted "i loved penny. i was veryky with her and her funny bone." >> i don't know. i was successful. i had a successful tv show. i had a couple successful movies. and that's i'm not beautiful.

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." the people behind the broadway hit "hamilton" were recently awarded the rainbow ribbon at the kennedy center honors ceremony. john dickerson spoke to them t the hisc achievement. and what comes next. >> loves me and is acquainted with all the joys of fondness. what? >> reporter: for lin manuel miranda a new discovery of a love letter at the library of congress can still thrill him about alexander hamilton. >> that's hot. ♪ alexander hamilton

♪ america sings for you >> reporter: there are awards given in categories. then there's this award, which is basically being given to you all because you've done something -- well, i'll read what it says. trailblazing creators of a transformative work that defies category. so they created a new category because of what you -- >> the best way to win an award. ♪ >> reporter: for the first time ever a creative team is walking away with a kennedy center honor. but the four are no strangers to acclaim. ♪ choreographer andy blankenbueller, director thomas kale and musical director alex lackamore collaborated with hts. ♪ miranda, blankenbueller, and

lackamore each won a tony award for the show and the 27-year-old kale was nominated for best director. ♪ all four won tonys for "hamilton." >> it's not a singular effort. the broadway musical is based on minds coming together, problem solving, creating, being inspired. ♪ me i trusted him ♪ me i loved him ♪ and me, i'm the damn fool that shot him ♪ >> where is this collaboration taking place in its various different times? >> for the first few years it was just happening on my head on vacations. it was like the ghost of hamilton would be like write a song for king george. which i wrote on my honeymoon. ♪ you'll be back ♪ soon you'll see ♪ you'll remember you belong to me ♪ and tom was like we should start setting deadlines because if you're going to average a song a year this is going to take a very long time. our first deadline was a concert we did at lincoln center's jazz at lincoln center.

i remember seeing andy in the audience going like this. ♪ and being like oh, andy's going to end up choreographing this. >> and so then alex, where does the story go from there? >> it usually starts with lin e-mails a demo of the song. and then i'm like okay, how do we get a band to play this? how do we get singers to harmonize and chords to support what the story is, to support what the melody is? ♪ helpless ♪ oh, look at those eyes ♪ helpless >> describe how you would explain the way washington moves. >> "right hand man" is a great example because "right-hand man" was supposed to be like washington stepping out of an oil painting. he's so grand. he's a god to us and the bullets never hit him. >> i've literally never heard you describe it that way before, which is amazing.

♪ and his right hand man >> it was exactly pulling washington down washington standing crossing the delaware, somehow not falling off this tiny canoe. let's meet him being like i don't have enough money, i don't have enough troops and we're losing. >> how do you basically not get on each other's nerves? >> oh. well, i think that we respond to each other's energy in a way that's really positive. tommy has a way of setting a room where the best idea in the room wins. and you know, if i bring in a song and i see andy's already leapt to his feet and alex is already playing with variations i'm like okay, we're pretty far long the course. if i bring in a song and it's quiet i go, okay, swing and a miss. ♪ the greatest city in the world ♪ ♪ in the greatest city in the world ♪ >> my feeling about it is we all understand instinctively that the stakes can be high and the temperature of the room can be low and that you can make excellent things with harmony.

♪ in the greatest city ♪ in the greatest city ♪ in the world >> this can be proof that it's possible to make something of high quality that didn't result from ak r acrimony or raising yr voice. if nothing else i hope that becomes part of the legacy of the show. >> i remember saying i don't want to ruin this because everything that lin has given us is so amazing. >> we brought you together to tell youing? something. you ruined it. >> was there ever a moment you thought gee, rap about having states' debts assumed by the federal government. that's not going to fly. ♪ his plan would have the government assume states' debts ♪ ♪ now place your bets as to who that benefits ♪ >> i remember the first time lin brought the demo to me and i heard it, my first reaction was i couldn't tell if it was trying to be tongue in cheek. i was so taken because it was so different. i didn't know what to expect. ♪ if you talk you're gonna get

shot ♪ >> it wasn't until a year later i first heard "my shot." and i heard that chant "i am not throwing away my shot." ♪ i am not throwing away shot ♪ ♪ i am not throwing away my shot ♪ and i started to see oh, my god, lin is dead serious about this. and it really started to fill me with something. i never pictured the founding fathers with that kind of energy, with this kind of passion and drive. ♪ >> for miranda hamilton's life and his words seemed tailor made for the stage. >> what can i do better than withdraw from the scene? every day proves to me more and more that this american world was not made for me. >> hmm. >> and he feels lucky that he got to tell the story. >> i couldn't believe it hadn't been told in this form. it just -- it seemed like someone else would have had this idea already. i'm really grateful that i found the right collaborators to help get it out of my head and get it out of the void. ♪ what's your name man ♪ alexander hamilton

>> and you can catch the kennedy center honors the night after christmas, december 26th at 8:00 p.m. right here on cbs. the "overnight news" will be right back.

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and the new movie "vice" is already moving to the top of the ticket. it's received six nominations for the golden globes. the dark comedy charts the rise of dick cheney. you may remember him. the most powerful vice president in u.s. history. the film reunites the actor christian bale, who plays cheney, with adam mckay, who directed bale in "the big short." john dickerson caught up with them in los angeles. >> i want you to be my vp. i want you. you're my vice. >> reporter: "vice" spans 50 years of dick cheney's rise to power. zplt vice presidency is a mostly symbolic job. >> reporter: the film portrays cheney as a shrewd political operative. >> however, if we came to a different undeinhea "ve" happened by wh the flu, directom mckay picked up a book on cheney. >> i started reading it. i was like oh, my god. i saw a love story there. i saw anrc ofambition.

>> at which point do you thrt thinking about christian? while you're writing it or reading it? >> when dick cheney's described as a man lacking any charisma. right? that was when you went, got to be bale. >> we're going to show the world what true power is -- >> i saw change in america. i saw fear, paranoia. >> are you even more ruthless than you used to be? >> reporter: intrigued, mckay kept reading. 18 books in all, he said. to gain insight into the man who pushed for the invasion of iraq in 2003 and backed the most repressive measures for pursuing terrorists at home and abroad. >> adam, you've talked a lot about power. is power an actor in this play or is power kind of coursing through it? >> it was one of the things that drew me to the story. how does power affect human beings. dick cheney was a guy through

very quiet brilliant means of understanding how our elaborate government works took on this incredible amount of power while never having to stand in front of the sfotlight and he will never back down ever. >> reporter: having worked with bale on "the big short" mckay had him in mind while writing "vice." to play the former vp bale shaved his head and packed on some 40 pounds. >> the other half fears. >> reporter: famous for physical transformations, in 2004 bale lost 60 pounds to play an insomniac in "the machinist." only to bulk back up the following year to play bruce wayne in "batman begins." in 2010 he slimmed down and took home a supporting oscar for "the fighter." then shaved his head and gained a mapaunch for "american hustle" bale attacks every role with the same intensity. how long do the characters stay in your head? >> do they ever leave? d't know. you know? >> do you have moments of

cheney? does it still happen after you -- >> it sounds odd but you do a little bit, yes. >> reporter: like mckay bale studied cheney from the tiniest details to the big ones. like suffering multiple heart attacks. >> christian, how do you learn to play someone suffering a heart attack? >> i went to a wonderful cardiologist to act it out. he didn't want to do it initially and i said come on, let's get up on your feet and can you show me the different extremes from the clutching to the just hmm, strange feeling in my stomach. and i had him act it out for me. so i just stole his performance and put it in the film. >> did you have to go somewhere and practice having heart attacks? >> yeah, you do that. you just sort of walk around and do that. you always look a bit mental when you're an actor. and maybe it's right, you are a bit mental. i' i'm talking to myself. and he said daddy, please stop

doing that, i don't like it. >> action. >> reporter: during production mckay says he smoked heavily and overate like cheney, who reportedly ate a dozen donuts and smoked three packs a day early in his career. when the filming ended adam tried to get back in shape. >> then i had like tingly hands but my stomach was queasy. and i think we all think of heart attack as chest pain, arm pain. so i told my trainer. i was like, i'm fine, don't worry about it. and the second he left i remember this fella telling me like how do you want the heart attack? queasy stomach -- and i ran upstairs and took four baby aspirin and called 911. and when i got to the doctorora told me that was a symptom. he's like, well, because you did that you have no damage to your heart. >> but if you'd phoned in your character, hadn't gone to the cardiologist, hadn't figured

even in this christmas season of miracles there are some things that you just have to see to believe. mark strassmann shines the light on one remarkable story he f. >> ready? go. >> reporter: at the khattaba college swim practice we saw the

coach make lane adjustments lane by lane, swimmer by swimmer. >> by doing that you're going to lose a lot of power. >> reporter: here's what we learned, no one coaches collegiate ln ak >>has called clinical blindness. >> reporter: totally blind. but drake hears everything. >> false start lane 3. >> reporter: hands and feet hitting the water. >> you don't go until they say go. >> reporter: which swimmer needs his coaching across the six-lane pool? >> no. it's just long. >> several strokes in correlation to your breathing. i'm having a little math formula in my head having to solve it like that. >> reporter: drake, now 25, went blind at 14. >> fairen drake is really looking good. >> reporter: as a swimmer he won two silver medals at the 2016 paralympics in rio. he heard cataba needed a swim coach. but hiring a blind one took vision. >> i was so drawn to it. i was so captivated by him.

>> reporter: mike sever is the head swim coach here. >> everything i see he hears. there may be things he hears i don't see. >> reporter: freshman swimmer amalia fantes saw something special at her first swim practice. >> he knew every little detail about my stroke right away. >> you're diving palm first. ? we have these ideas, here's your box, sit inr i don't like boxes. >> awesome job today. >> reporter: fairen drake, helping the rest of us think outside the pool. mark strassmann, cbs news, salisbury, north carolina. >> amazing. that is the "overnight news" for this wednesday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back a little later for the morning news and of course cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city i'm tony dokoupil.

it's wednesday, december 19th, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." president trump says the new border wall will be beautiful and artistically designed. its funding is at the center of a battle that threatens a partial government shutdown in days. the insurance institute for highway safety has come out with the new list of safest cars, which ones are on top. and remb pioneer penny marshal.