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took one of the first test rides. >> can you go ahead i think. >> oh, blown bleep. >> how fast is this? >> this is still slow. >> this is slow. >> only 28, 30 miles per hour. >> oh, moy god. >> we'll speed up after we get around the corner. >> this isn't just any tunnel. >> we can go 100 no problem but we'll take it easy for you. >> it's elon musk's tunnel, and to understand why we're speeding through it, you need to go back a couple of years when he decided he had had enough of los angeles traffic gridlock. >> either we try something new, or we will be stuck in traffic hell for the rest of our lives. >> this is the underground network he envisions, electric cars using street-level elevators to drop down into a series of tunnels, autonomous technology in the cars ensure that they don't run into each other despite going speeds over 125 miles an hour. >> tunnels in my view, the only

solution to open congestion because we have a 2d road network and buildings in 3-d and everyone wants to pile out of and into the buildings at the same time and obviously you'll have a traffic jam. >> so musk formed the boring company and a year ago started digging the 1.2-mile long test tunnel in hawthorne near los angeles. while modern subway tunnels in l.a. cost around $900 million per mile, musk says he built this for about so million. his eventual goal for tunnels like this one, to move 4,000 cars every hour. you can't go off the tracks, right, that's what you're saying? >> you cannot go off the tracks. >> this thunl is only 12 feet in diameter so it feels claustrophobic in earthquake country. >> i worry about a tunnel collapse. >> no, it's not going to collapse. >> our tunnels are designed to the seismic standards. they are gas proof, waterproof. >> and by the time we ended our

four-minute adventure. >> that was scary but that was kind of cool. it was easier to see how this prototype could actually be a preview of the world to come. >> at this point i'm confident this can revolutionize cities and get rid of soul-destroying traffic. >> gayle king, cbs news, hawthorne, california. >> thank you for that, gayle king. musk paid for the prototype tunnel himself, but he does want cities to come through with funding as the projects advances. tonight a church in the netherlands centering its 55th day of round the clock worship services. it is an extreme legal effort to give sanctuary to an armenian family threatened with deportation. charlie d'agata is there. ♪ >> reporter: it's that time of chur, tsrc e fai servicne other in history. it's part of a fist blur. this mass has been going on 24

hours a day for six would ex, five days and 23 hours without a break all for the sake of one family. >> reporter: despite growing up here for the past nine years, the family was denied as lull. they fled from armenia where their father's activism put them at ring. under an old and obscure dutch law police aren't allowed to make an arrest in the middle of a churcher is vicious so it goes on, and on. >> we're surrounded by people who want to help us, and that's just incredible, and that's -- that gives us strength to keep going. >> reporter: the pastor derk stegman has kept it going and police at bay since the very beginning. now he's got plenty of reinforcements. how many clergy members have volunteered to help you? >> 650. >> reporter: 650. >> yes, and it's always getting

bigger and bigger. >> reporter: so big there's a two-week waiting list from 20 denominations throughout the netherlands and neighboring countries. >> we hope we can stay here because this is -- yeah, this is our home. this is where we belong. >> the church is hoping for a christmas miracle, but they say they are determined to preach without a pause until the government changes its mind. charlie d'agata, cbs news, the hai hague, the netherlands. >> coming up, some controversial >> coming up, some controversial comments that has once i started looking for it was a no-brainer. i switched to geico and saved hundreds. that's a win.

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a fox news host is in a harsh spotlight tonight. tucker carlson has taken criticism for his recent comments on immigration. some advertisers are leaving. here's jericka duncan. >> we have are a moral obligation to admit the world's poor, they tell us, if it makes our own country poorer and dirtier and more divided. >> reporter: when fox news host tucker carlson made those comments last thursday, critics called for advertisers to pull their ads. on monday carlson said he will not back down. >> we're not intimidated. we plan to try to say what's true until the last day. >> reporter: so far more than a dozen advertisers, including pacific life and ihop withdrew or have requested that t son's , t some haven't, like mitsubishi and bayer. carlson maintains his comments

were in where the my grant caravan is camped out. >> tucker carlson, we know where you sleep at night. >> reporter: carlson's views on. in november the left wing fringe group antifa protested at his home. fox news said in a statement attempts were made last month to bully and terrorize tucker and his family at their home. he is now once again being threatened by twitter by far left activist groups with deeply political motives. experts we spoke with today who cover media ads and sales more than a dozen advertisers pulling their fund sag big deal, but, jeff, if fox is able to find other companies to fill those slots financially, well, then as you can imagine, the show will go on. >> all right. jericka duncan, thank you very much. coming up next here, a new issue for the nfl as new video shows a player in a violent brawl. this litin

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♪ let it shine, ♪ the power's ours to let it shine! ♪ a federal judge today blocked the trump administration from enforcing new restrictions on immigrants seekings lumb. judge emmet sullivan also ordered the government to return some immigrants who had been returned under the rules. in june the administration said gang violence or domestic abuse were not grounds for ars lumb. video surfaced today that led to redskins montae nicholson's arrest. he's seep punch a man outside of a bar in virginia on tuesday. nicholson is charged with assault and battery among other charges. he has been put on the nfl's non-football injury reserve list. 30 vehicles got top safety marks from the insurance industry today. subaru had the most with six cars and an suv on the list.

kia, hyundai and genesis have 12. chrysler's pacifica is the only vehicle from a u.s. automaker to make the grade. up next, the new mission for sully, president george h.w. bush's service dog. > americd a a it immediately became an indelible image for millions, a

symbol of loyalty and a tribute to a man who served his country unconditionally. george h.w. bush's service dog sully, companion to our 41st president in the last months of his life. the president welcomed sully at his summer home in kennebunkport, maine, this past june shortly after the death of his wife barbara. sully became a quiet sentry in the days after the president's death. >> i'm honored that suly will continue his important work with veterans in their recovery. >> his new mission will be working with a wounded warrior at walter reed medical center joining six other dogs in the program. sully can complete a two-page list of commands including ringing the door bell, one against answering the call as a faithful service to a new american hero. that's the overnight news for this thursday. for some of you, the news conditions. 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 david begknow. president trump is ordering a full withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria and wants them out in 30 days. there are about 2,000 american troops inside syria playing an important role supporting kurdish soldiers battling the islamic state. the kurdsife in the back and so generals as well as some republicans in congress agree. here's david martin. >> reporter: the president claims isis in jeer are defeated. a

they are coming back now. we won. >> reporter: and it is true that the territory isis once held, the so-called caliphate, has been reduced to just a few pockets, but fighting remains fierce. last week the u.s. and its allies launched more than 200 air and artillery strikes. many of them called in by american special operations forces working with local fighters on the ground. the president's decision was denounced by members of his own party. >> i doubt there's anybody in the republican caucus in the senate that just isn't stunned by this appropriate -- this precipitous decision. >> reporter: lindsey gram wants to have hearings on whether the pullout was based on military advice. >> i think it's fair to say americans will remain on the grounds after the physical defeat of the caliphate until we

the pieces in place to ensure that the peace is enduring. >> reporter: joint chiefs general joseph dunford recently explained what that would take. >> we statemented 35,000 to 40,000 local forces have to be trained and equipped in order to provide stabi wee probably somre along forces. >> reporter: but dunford said u.s. troops wouldn't be leaving any time soon, but president's mind appears to have been made up since march. >> we're going to be coming out ever there real soon, going to get back to our country where we belong. >> reporter: so after four years and the loss of four american servicemen, senior military leaders are scrambling to get all u.s. troops out of syria in 30 days or as soon after as possible. they are also wondering what comes next since president trump has said his instincts tell him to pull out of afghanistan as well. >> you know our colleague holly williams has been covering the war in syria from the very beginning.

she hats view now from istanbul, turkey. >> reporter: a local official from the region in syria where the u.s. has its bases warned us tonight that the american withdrawal could give isis an opportunity to regroup and come back. now america's partners on the ground are the syrian democratic forces or sdf, and they now control around a quarter of syria, and we have witnessed the sdf beat isis back to a few hold outs in the desert and bring relative stability to the areas that they control. the former commander of the u.s. coalition to fight isis told us last year that the sdf was, quote, doing the world's bidding, doing what no one else is willing to do, and that will be more difficult once those american troops have gone home. the american withdrawal could also open the door to turkey which has threatened to launch a military operation in sdf territory. more fighting could bring more instability to the region. also, the american withdrawal could force the sdf to embrace the syrian regime as well as its

backers iran and russia simply to ensure their own survival. finally, the american withdrawal could send a message to other groups both here in the middle east and elsewhere that the u.s. cannot be counted on to stand by its partners. first it was bill o'reilly and then laura ingram and now it's tucker carlson, the latest fox news host to see advertisers flee his show. it was ignited by the claim that immigrants are making, his words, poorer and dirtier. here's jericka duncan. >> we have a moral obligation to admit the world's poor, each if if makes our own country poorer and dirtier and more divided. >> reporter: when fox news host tucker calls op made those comments last thursday, critics called for advertisers to pull their ads. on monday carlson said he will not back down. >> we're not intimidated. we plan to try to say what's true until the last day. >> reporter: so far more than a dozen advertisers, including pacific life and ihop withdrew

or have requested that their ads not air on carlson's program, but some haven't, like mitts bieber and bayer. carlson maintains his comments were in response to seeing debris in tijuana where the my grant caravan is camped out. >> we know where you sleep at night. >> reporter: carlson's views on immigration and other issues have come under fire before. in november the left wing fringe group antifa protested at his home. fox news said in a statement attempts were made last month to bill and terrorize turkey and his family at his home. he's once again being threatened via twitter by far left activist groups with deeply political motives. experts we spoke with today who cover media sales and ads says more than a dozen advertisers pulling essentially their funding is a big deal, but, jeff, if fox is able to find other companies to fill those slots financially, well, then as you can imagine, the show will go on.

>> so there's a marathon church service underway in the netherlands. marathon as in five weeks long and counting. the church is trying to protect an immigrant family threatened with deportation. turns out under dutch law you cannot be pulled out of a church during a service. here's charlie d'agata. ♪ >> reporter: it's that time of year when the faithful flock to churches, but this church service is up like any other in history. it's part of a holy filibuster. >> this marathon mass has been going on 24 hours a day for six weeks, five days and 23 hours without a break all for the sake of one family. despite growing up here for the past nine years, hayarpi re her father's political activism put the family at risk and have now south sanctuary at the beth el church to escape deportation.

upped an old and law, police aren't allowed to make an arrest in the middle of a church service and so it goes on and on. >> we are surrounded by people who want to help us and that's just -- that's incredible, and that's -- that gives us strength to keep going. >> reporter: the pastor derk stegman has kept it going and police at bay since the very beginning. now he's got plenty of reinforcements. how many clergy members have volunteered to help you? >> 650. >> reporter: 650. >> already, and it's always getting beth big and bigger. ♪ >> reporter: so big there's a two-week waiting list from to denominations throughout the netherlands and neighboring countries. >> we hope we can stay here because this is -- yeah, this is our home. this is where we belong. >> the church is hoping for a christmas miracle, but they say they are determined to preach without a pause until the government changes its mind.

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>> announcer: this is the "scenes overnight news." >> mark zuckerberg has some explaining to do. the "new york times" is reporting that facebook gave other tech giants extensive access to our personal data. for years, and they never told anyone. facebook insists the data was shared, not sold. doesn't seem to make much of a difference though. we'll let tony dokoupil finish the story. >> reporter: at a congressional hearing in april ceo mark zuckerberg insisted the data of ers is safe. re than 2lion >> yes or no, is facebook ebook itself collects or uses? >> congressman,es we limit a lot of the data that we collect and use. >> reporter: but according to a new report in the "new york

times" for years facebook struck deals to share user's perm data with more than 150 companies, including netflix, spotify and amazon. among the allegations in the report, facebook allowed spotify, netflix and the royal bank of canada to read, write and delete users' private messages. amazon was able to obtain users' names and contact information through their friends, and microsoft's bing was able to seat names of virtually all facebook users' friends without consent. >> we have a basic responsibility to protect people's data, and if we can't do that, then we don't deserve to have the opportunity to serve people. >> reporter: privacy issues, security breaches and the distribution of fake news has plagued facebook for months. the scandals have forced zuckerberg and chief operating officer sheryl sandberg to pubically apologize. >> we know we didn't do a good enough job protecting people's data and i'm really sorry for o

millions of people a month. in a statement to cbs news, facebook says its partners don't get to ignore people's privacy settings, and it's wrong to suggest that they do, adding we know we've got work to do to regain people's trust and that's where we've been focused for much of 2018. now, this could go beyond bad public relations for facebook and here's why. a 2011 settlement agreement with the federal trade commission requires facebook to obtain users' content before sharing information. most of the partnerships at the time didn't require this because it considered the partners extensions of itself. facebook said they found no evidence that any of the partners abused users' data and speaking of the partners in a statement, the cbs news, netflix said at no time did we access people's private messages on facebook or ask for permission

to do so. throughout our engagement with facebook, says bing, we respected all user preferences. elon musk is really most famous for his high-tech companies, tesla and spacex, but he is's also digging tunnels. our colleague gayle king took a ride in one of them in the streets of southern california. >> we can go ahead. >> oh, [ bleep ]. how as a mattter of fact this? >> this is still slow. >> this is slow? >> 28, 30 miles an hour. >> oh, my god, oh, my god. >> we'll speed up after we get around the corner. >> this isn't just any tunnel. >> we can go 100 no problem, but we'll take it easy for you. >> it's elon musk's tunnel, and to understand why we're speeding through it. you need to go back a couple of years when he decided he had had enough of los angeles' traffic grdlock. >> either we try something knew or we'll be stuck in traffic hell for the rest of our lives. i'm thinking maybe this could be underground.

>> this is the underground network he envisions, electric cars using street level elevators to drop down into a series of tunnels, autonomous technology in the cars ensure they don't run into each other despite going speeds over 125 miles an hour. >> tunnels in my view are the only solution to open congestion because we have a 2d road network and have buildings in 3-d, and everyone wants to pile out of the buildings and into the buildings at the same time. obviously you're going have a traffic jam. >> reporter: no one was building such a system, so musk formed the amusingly named boring company and started building it himself. he hired steve davis to be the ouineer at spacex, you've been there for? >> 15 years. >> reporter: so when elon came to you and said i have an idea to do what, what did he say to you? >> go dig a hole. >> reporter: no experience building tunnels and said i'm

going to do it. >> no. >> reporter: that didn't given you pause? >> probably the first day you won't be good at it but then you'll be bet sneer a year ago the company started digging what's become today's 1.2 it-mile test tunnel in hawthorne near los angeles. >> unless we can make tunnel digging at least ten times cheaper, then digging tunnels will not be an effective means of alleviating traffic. it will cost too much. >> reporter: musk's vision depends on him being able to do it all, faster and cheaper than current standards. while subway tunnels in los angeles cost $900 million per mile. he says he built this for 10 million. one reason he saved money, he litey it dirt cheap. >> when digging tunnels it's expensive to have all the dirt trucked off somewhere and we said why not use the trade for doing something useful so we're creating bricks on site and you

can pick them up and they are very cheap, sentence the a brick. >> reporter: all of these bricks came out of tunnel? >> yes. >> reporter: and speeding up the tunnel was also a cause for concern. musk was granted an exemption under typical environmental laws and in a nearby tunnel where the tunnels run some residents said they never even heard about the project until it was almost finished. some members of the community seem to feel that they didn't really have input into that decision. >> we actually sent letters to everyone -- there's normally like a radius that you have to inform people. we doubled that radius and informed people. in any situation there's going to be a few percentage of people that grumble. >> reporter: there was also grumbling from another area. the wealthier los angeles neighborhood of brentwood which is nearby musk's proposed second test tunnel along busy sepulveda boulevard. community groups sued the city of los angeles for also granting an environmental review waiver

there. in august, musk announced he was no longer building that tunnel. >> there's some retired lawyers in brentwood that all they do is sue, literally. that's all they do is two. it's like had a hobby. >> reporter: but the lawsuits shut it down in sepulveda, did it not? >> we decided another test tunnel is needed. i'm not fazed by lawsuits. >> reporter: you can't go off the tracks, right, that's what you're saying? >> you can't go off the actiepte tunnel is a bit daunting. it's only 12 feet in diameter so it's much more claustrophobic than most transportation tunnels. >> we'll be able to go 150 miles per hour if you want. >> reporter: if you're going that fast what's to prevent it from crashing into another car ahead of you. that's what i worry about. >> because the autopilot has radar and cameras that will automatically slow you down before you impact another car. you would only be allowed to go through the tunnel on autopilot. >> reporter: at the end of our four-minute adventure, the verdict. that was scary but that's kind

of cool. and by the time we started up the elevator that returned us to the surface. >> it will be faster in practice. just going slow because it's early days. >> i don't want to go any faster than what we just did, no thank you. >> reporter: and when it was all over it was easier to see how this proof of concept tunnel could actually be a preview of the world to come. >> at this point i'm confident this can revolutionize cities and get rid of soul-destroying i'm alex trebek, here to tell you about the colonial penn program. if you're age 50 to 85, and looking to buy life insurance on a fixed budget, remember the three p's. what are the three p's? the three p's of life insurance on a fixed budget are price, price, and price. a price you can afford, a price that can't increase, and a price that fits your budget. i'm 54. alex, what's my price? you can get coverage for $9.95 a month.

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if you're looking for a different way to celebrate the christmas holiday you can always try this, walking in the footstepsch jesus, for real. our colleague seth doan did. >> imagine going on a hike and being able to step back in time visiting places you only read about, it was an itinerary ripped from the history books but the bible. >> many, many places mentioned in the bible. we can actually see them. we can see them right here. >> reporter: that body of water, for instance, is the sea of galilee, the river jordan runs into it, and in the distance is the mt. of beatitudes where it's said jesus delivered his most famous sermon. have you so many of the highlights of jesus' time and teachings right here along the shore. >> exactly because this happened

around the sea of galilee, where he walked on water and performed many miracles. >> reporter: for you is this about nature or religion? mark gord op, a spiritual outdoorsman introduced to the breathtaking 40-mile jesus trail which winds through northeastern israel, drawing about 3,000 hikers annually. >> basically the trail is meant to connection sites relevant to jordan. >> reporter: gordon works for abraham tours which seeks interest from a range of visitors. ♪ >> we have religious people. for them it's a pilgrimage, a spiritual journey, and also we have hikers that just like to come and see the nature and see this land and this country. >> reporter: dan dragland from sacramento is traversing israel partly on the jesus trail. >> it's a good mixture of

terrain, so there's flats and some peaks. >> reporter: you've hiked a lot. is there something different about the jesus trail? >> there's a lot more history on the jesus trail on average in the trek. most places it's just the vistas. with the jesus trail it's both the views and the historical sites. >> 500 bc at least. >> reporter: mark gordon took us to some of those sights, including the millenial old ruins of the synagogue. >> dating back to the time of jesus. >> reporter: unlike another trail created by israel's government which avoids arab governments, the jesus trails takes us to sites including the town of qana. >> the wine miracle. here is where that happens. >> reporter: here a modern church marks the spot where christians believe miracle took play. not far away is a mosque. >> just to make this hike, it depends on muslim, christians,

jewish working together, cooperating and providing the service, gimping food and a place to stay and transfer your luggage. >> reporter: this writer is a palestinian citizen of israel who owns an inn in nazareth where many begin their hike. >> in israel we are palestinians, israelis, arabs, jews, religious are christianity, islam, judaism, so it's a kind of trying to take from each of these cultures. >> reporter: we first met tan dragland at the inn. >> as in all places there's the tour bus view of the world, and then there's the actual walking view of the world. >> reporter: you see things totally differently hikeing? >> massively. it causes can you to appreciate the vistas a lot more when you're hiking because every view that you see have you to earn. >> actually walked the land that jesus has walked.

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uh.. don't forget to walk him twice a day. we end this half hour with a world war ii veteran who has dedicated hits golden years to helping the disabled, disabled dogs, that is. and a couple of cats. here's chip reid. >> reporter: after a long successful career at a veterinarian, dr. lincoln parks retired 27 years ago, or so he claims. you work how many days a week?

>> seven. >> reporter: at age 90 he spends eight to ten hours a day building carts that transform disabled dogs from this into this. lester has a spinal disorder that illeana says is not uncommon with corgis. did you think you might lose him? >> thought i would lose him for sure. >> when i see them run out the door after being carried in that's my paycheck. >> reporter: that's your paycheck? you don't do this for the money? >> no, no, i don't. >> reporter: lynn specter says milo has gone from just lying around to chasing deer again in her back-yard. you're very thankful for dr. parks? >> oh, my god, yes. he is like a life-saver to all these animals. >> reporter: over the years parks has also helped cats, rabbits, pigs, even a chicken. he got his first patent in 1961 and never stopped tinkering. is it an obsession with you? >> probably.

seeing i have ten boats and i haven't used them for years. >> reporter: you have a bunch of sail boats and own an island in maine, why are you in this workshop all the time? >> you sound like my wife. >> reporter: sound like your wife, i'm sorry. >> so it's tight here. >> reporter: soon he plans to release a new design that he says will blow the wheels off the competition. >> reporter: so you're just getting started? >> i am. >> reporter: just getting started at 90 years old. chip reid, cbs news, oxford, maryland. >> always good to go out on some good news. that is the overnight news this thursday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us a little later on. we've got the morning news and don't forget "cbs this morning" starts at 7:00 a.m. eastern. from the cbs news broadcast center in new york city, i'm david begnaud. thanks for watching. we'll see you soon.

it's thursday, december 20, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." a partial government shutdown may soon be averted. the senate passes a bill, but what about the money for the border wall? president trump says he's pulling u.s. troops out of syria because isis has been defeated. reaction in washington. and millions of people witness a mysterious light in witness a mysterious light in the sky over california. captioning funded by cbs good morning from the studio