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coal mine in west virginia, but authorities now say the three and another man they were with have been hit with criminal charges. they're accused of entering the mine to steal copper wiring. scrap copper currently sales for more than $2 a pound. a colorado man accused of murdering his fiancee was in court today for a hearing over custody of the young couple's daughter. patrick frazee was arrested last week. his fiancee, kelsey berreth disappeared after dropping off their daughter with frazee. her body has not been found. it was an uneasy holiday for thousands of general motors workers. the nation's leading carmaker is planning to close several factories in 2019. the looming layoffs are bringing back bitter memories in janesville, wisconsin, where a

gm plant shut down ten years ago. dean reynolds went back to janesville to see what was lost and what lies ahead. >> reporter: slowly, painfully, the one thing that put janesville, wisconsin on the map is being torn down and carried away. there are nine decades of general motors history here, buicks and chevys and confidence. and we are on the shop floor here? >> you're actually on the shop floor of what was the plant. >> reporter: gale price is janesville's director of economic development. we're kind of in a tomb. >> yeah. we're standing where thousands of people were employed at one time. >> reporter: but ten years ago gm hit the bricks. the factory never opened again. suppliers went broke. downtown businesses sagged and incomes plummeted. >> there was a lot of divorces. a lot of people lost their house, yes. >> reporter: debbie was there

for 20 years. >> i feel kind of sad when i go by but i'm glad they're doing something with it. >> reporter: a developer owns the property and the city hopes for six to eight new plants one day here to make something, anything. during the last decade, other businesses have come to town, drawn by its many rail lines and riverfront real estate. and although wages and benefits about a gm scale have never returned, today the area is gaining manufacturing workers. so janesville is surviving, as is debbie, who went back to school and is now a hospital worker. >> you got to look out for yourself, you know. you got to figure out what you want to do and move on. >> reporter: it's a message to other communities about to lose their gm plants like michigan or here they've learned that nothing lasts forever. dean reynolds, cbs news, janesville, wisconsin. coming up next, an american

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"i did it!" what an oregon man told his family by phone after winning an epic race across antarctica. colin o'brady competed alone,

unassisted and made an amazing sprint to the finish. here is dana jacobsen. >> reporter: colin o'brady took the final 80 miles of his trek in one monumental stretch, which he called the most challenging hours of his life and some of the best. his 54-day journey tested the very limits of human endurance, dragging a 400-pound sled across the ice and walking 12 hours a day in 90-minute increments. o'brady launched november 3rd from the ronne ice shelf racing against british army captain louis rudd. he overtook rudd after two days. he picked up the pace, often traveling over 20 miles a day for a total 932 miles. the impossible first was a super human journey in inhumane this trek just the latest in a series of firsts for brady. >> i'm going up there. 2016, he scaled the tallest peaks on each of

seven continents in record time. >> i'm on the summit of mt. everest! >> reporter: part of what explorers call grand slam. but he's also had setbacks, once burning 25% of his body and damaging his legs. >> oh, my gosh! >> reporter: he shares it all with jenna besaw, his wife and manager. >> we did it. >> i can't believe it. >> reporter: and told "cbs sunday morning" everyone has the power to persevere. >> i hope people take away from this the power of the human spirit. when you believe in yourself and you dream big that anything is possible. >> in a true sign of sportsmanship, o'brady is waiting for rudd to finish his journey so the two can fly out together. o'brady talks with musician paul simon during his historic trek. simon reached out when he learned his album "graceland" was helping o'brady make it through his epic days. >> i think he is more so capable

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a 14-year-old girl has died after falling 700 feet in arizona. it happened monday at the horseshoe bend overlook, which is a popular spot for tourists along the colorado river. the girl was visiting with her family from california. police say her death was apparently an accident. ew poll out today finds former first lady michelle obama is america's most admired woman. it's the first time in 17 years a woman other than hillary clinton has earned that honor. the gallup poll's most admired man, you ask? former president barack obama, for the 11th straight year. president trump was second for the fourth year in a row. the father of a flight attendant working on christmas wanted to spend the holidays with his daughter, so he booked himself on all of her flights. pierce vaughn and her father hall flew together, first from new orleans to detroit, then to ft. myers, and then of course on to detroit and then to hartford.

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if you ask a teenaged boy what he would do with a million dollars, not many would give you an like garland omlafran has t story. >> reporter: garland benson is a little man on a big mission.

the austin texas 14-year-old is trying to help save his big sister christiane. >> my sister has a rare and fatal disease called batten disease. >> reporter: 16-year-old christiane was diagnosed with the disease when she was 5. the rare neurological disorder degrades brain function and can cause blindness and seizures. there is no cure, only experimental treatments that may slow the disease. the family started a foundation to raise the $6 million for an fda approved clinical trial for christiane. garland promised to raise the last million by himself. he's almost there and needs less than $150,000. do you think he's going to be able to get it? >> yeah. >> my plan was to get 100,000 people to give $10 each. >> thank you guys so much for donating. >> reporter: so he has turned to social media for help. from college athlete. >> i play quarterback for the university of texas. i'm here with my buddy garland. >> reporter: to jewelry designer

kendra scott. he has also staged fundraising races and even sold lemonade. charlotte and craig benson are garland's parents. >> i think in some ways it's almost made him the big brother. >> reporter: the bensons don't say if but when the million dollar goal is met, the reward will be watching their daughter start treatment. >> thinking about -- sorry. the moment that we could actually begin treatment for her, just for all of us to be there together is going to be a very special moment for sure. >> reporter: a million dollar moment with a priceless payoff. omar villafranca, cbs news, austin. >> and that's the "overnight news" for this friday. 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 james brown.

this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the "overnight news." i'm david begnauded a the cbs broadcast center in new york. it's friday, finally. it's also day seven of the partial government shutdown, and talks between the white house and congress to break the impasse appear to be going nowhere. president trump is standing by his guns, insisting he is not going to sign any spending measure that doesn't include at least $5.5 billion for a wall along the border with mexico. congressional democrats say that's not going to happen. so how long is it going to go? here is chip reid. >> reporter: the senate came in and almost immediately left until next week. and so did the house. capitol hallways are empty

because until president trump and senate democrats reach a deal on ending the shutdown, there's nothing to vote on, and so far neither side is budging. >> compromise doesn't seem to be something the republicademocrat willing to vote on. today he taunted democrats, tweeting, do the dems realize most of the people not getting paid are democrats? >> the one thing we should all want to do, no matter what our political philosophy may be is to keep the lights on. >> reporter: 25% of the federal government has been shut down. 380,000 workers have been told to stay home without pay. 420,000 others, including tsa screener, members of the coast guard and border patrol officers must work without pay. president trump said many of the unpaid workers want him to keep fighting for the wall, which prompted a storm of angry tweets. "i've got a mortgage, bills and school to pay for, and i'm being

held hostage for a stupid wall," one said. another wrote, "we live paycheck to paycheck. who will pay my mortgage january 1st? you?" many federal contractors like maggie mcgarry are getting hit too. >> not only do i not get back pay, nor do i have any certainty about when i may be able to start back up again and start making that money, i also am kind of stuck in a holding pattern in terms of being able to do something in the meantime. >> reporter: it now appears likely that finding a way to end this shutdown will be pushed into 2019 when nancy pelosi will be the democratic speaker of the house and relations between the president and congress could be even more contentious than they are now. the u.s. border patrol is changing its medical policy after a second migrant child died in custody. meanwhile, there is outrage in northern mexico. thousands of central americans trying to get into the united states are stranded there, and

they're not exactly welcome. janet shamlian has the latest. >> reporter: these are the first images of 8-year-old felipe gomez alonzo. his family back home sharing the photos while they comfort his grieving mother. >> i want my son to come back soon. i am very sad because he is dead," his mother said in an interview with univision. she asked that his body be sent back to guatemala as soon as possible. his is the second death of a detained migrant child this month. the first prompted outrage on capitol hill. >> i ask you to promise that there won't be another death under your watch. >> you have my commitment to ensure that all of our detention centers take good care of those in our care. >> reporter: this week department of homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen announced across the board health screenings for all children in custody. she is expected to visit facilities in el paso tomorrow. cldre died in have had to wait

vernment custody for the government to begin to act. it never should have happened. >> reporter: dylan corbett helps migrants find a place to stay until they're able to connect with relatives in the united states. his nonprofit and others here en one thousand migrants who have been unexpectedly dropped off by border agents since sunday. many just left at bus stations with nowhere to go. corbett says it's a sign of a broken system. what challenges does this present to the community when these people are dropped off unexpectedly? >> there are lots of ripple effects, because these are folks who need food. they need a place to shower. they need to be able to telephone their relatives and their contacts in their home countries. >> reporter: homeland security says it is trying to get migrant families out of its small overcrowded holding centers muh sooner, and that's why they been dropping them off at this el paso bus station all week there are more releases to come, but fewer places for these people to stay because the charitable shelters are full as well.

so president trump's three-hour stopover in iraq has apparently backfired, according to some notable people in iraq. the president told u.s. troops he has no intention of ordering them home, but iraqi politicians have another idea. they called mr. trump's secret visit arrogant and a violation of their national sovereignty, and they plan to hold a vote to expel all u.s. troops from the country. david martin reports on the president's trip. >> it's been a head-spinning week in which the president ordered a pullout from syria and fired his secretary of defense after he had first resigned in protest. the pentagon is sputtering with anger, but for the troops in the field, the commander in chief is still a rock star. dressed for the part, the president took credit for what he called the near elimination of isis, even though fighting is still going on becam president.

they were very dominant. today they're not so dominant anymore. >> reporter: cbs news chief washington correspondent major garrett was there. obligation as commander in chief to set clear objectives for the u.s. military, and when those objectives are achieved, the troops should be allowed to come home. >> america shouldn't be doing the fighting for every nation on earth. if they want us to do the fighting, they also have to pay a price. and sometimes that's also a monetary price. so we're not the suckers of the world. we're no longer the suckers, folks. >> reporter: he insisted the decision to pull out of syria was not as sudden as it seemed, that he had told the military to get out a year and a half ago, but kept giving in to their requests to stay another six months. >> and they said again recently, could we have more time? i said nope, you can't have any more time. you've got enough time. >> reporter: and he answered the

one question most iraqis and all the troops have, will the u.s. pull out of iraq as well. >> no plans at all? >> no. in fact, we could use this as a base if we wanted to do something in syria. >> reporter: 15 years after american tanks rolled into baghdad, air force one had to take extraordinary security precautions to fly into the country. . >> if you would have seen what we had to go through with the darkened plane, with all windows closed, with no lights on whatsoever, anywhere, pitch-black. i had a concern? yeah, i had a concern. >> reporter: security was so tight, the white house gave the iraqi prime minister just two hours' notice for a meeting with the president. the prime minister couldn't make it, so they settled for a phone call. president trump left without meeting any iraqi officials, and now members of the parliament are calling for a vote to expel american troops. >> you're watching tbeight back.

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this is the "cbs overnight news." >> so the roller coaster ride on wall street has a lot of people, investors, specifically, looking for a way out of the market. but before you jump, figuratively, of course, just remember some things. ten years ago, things were much worse. stocks were in a free-fall. the housing market was imploding, and the world economy was on the brink of collapse, but it didn't collapse. showing how that fate was avoided. alex wagner spoke with three men who played leading roles in the 2008 financial drama. they are former federal reserve chairman b bernanke, ecreta hank

paulson and timothy geithner. >> i bet a lot better these days. >> that's a low bar to get over. >> reporter: they're nicknamed the three amigos, the men who stave off another great depression. but ten years since the great recession, they addressed the personal toll the 2008 financial crisis had on them. >> i felt very, very alone and very disconsolate. we really felt like we were kind of out on an island there. >> that crushing sense of responsibility and fear. >> the scariest times for me were never during the day, right? we were too busy. we were talking to each other. it would be waking up in the middle of the night. >> reporter: you had nightmares? >> oh, gosh, yes. >> reporter: their documentary delves into what really happened during the financial market meltdown. >> we were a few days away from the atms on working. >> reporter: it was a crisis caused by irresponsible lending and a bubble burst in the market. >> hank was in markets for many years. i was an academic, i worked on

the great depression. so in a way we were prepared, and that was fortuitous, and we were complimentary to each other. but i have to say, you may train for war, but you don't necessarily want to be in combat. >> i didn't feel particularly prepared. i think we had the constant relentless experience over and over again of facing something that was existential in its affects on people's lives without being completely confident. >> reporter: that you were going to be able to fix it? >> that we were going to be able to fix it. >> reporter: while some credit them from saving the country from a worst case scenario, there are those who felt the decision to save the two big to fail banks came at the expense of the average american. >> the fact that the american public hates what we did is not surprising because in many ways it's unamerican. >> the things that were deeply unpopular and seemed deeply unfair were the essential necessary thing to prevent damage. it would have been dramatically worse for the economy if we had

indulged the natural instinct of people which is to let the thing burn. >> reporter: the thesis of this project, this documentary is that the aftereffects of the financial crisis led to a rise in populism. was the financial crisis a tipping point for american populism? >> financial crises do lead to reactions sometimes. this didn't help, obviously. we had a crisis, a great recession. but we've had structural issues in the united states for many, many years, 30, 40 years. increasing inability, fighting for people to get ahead. >> reporter: it's an inequality that still exists. black home ownership in america now stands at levels not seen since the segregation era. is the idea that you live dream and geto buy a that? i think it was exaggerated. one of the reasons subprime lending got so popular was

because it was expanding the american dream. and that turned out to be a mistake. and the truth is that home ownership is important, but it isn't the only way to build wealth. it isn't the only way to have a stable community. there is this sort of idea that buying a home is the thing that every family should do, and some families don't need to buy a home. some families are better off with rental or other kind of arrangements. >> reporter: do you think the president and his policies are strengthening and making the american economy more resilient? i mean, we are in a trade war with china, populism is fierce. does that concern you? >> honestly, greatly. no country can be stronger than its political system, and the political system of the united states today. >> i for one am relatively optimistic that what you're going to see is the trump administration in china on tactical issues come to an

agreement in the tariff war. but even when that happens, there are going to be significant structural issues, and this is going to be a very difficult relationship between the u.s. and china for some time. and i don't attribute that to the trump administration. there's nothing that unites democrats and republicans today like anti-china rhetoric and sentiment. we need to find common ground with china for a global economic system to work, for us to have peace, prosperity, stability. we don't need another cold war. >> reporter: are you confident that if the next financial crisis was on america's doorstep, that this president and this congress could handle it? >> i don't think we have a system in place to deal with the crisis once it happens. we have a lot of things that make a crisis less likely. so the fire is less likely to occur. but if it does occur, i think we have fewer fire hoses than we had even in ten years ago.

>> the ten-year-long economic expansion has not benefitted everyone. about 10 million americans over the age of 65 are still working, and for many there is no end in sight. mark strassmann introduces us to one man among many who may never be able to retire. >> if i had planned harder and things went better, i wouldn't be going to work this morning. i'd be going fishing or i'd be going hunting. >> i'll see you at noon. >> or i would have her up going on a trip somewhere. that's on my mind a lot, and i blame myself for it. >> we'll just go ahead and punch right in. good morning. here, here is your sticker. >> reporter: tom is still working. >> bye-bye! >> reporter: he is 80 years old, a part-time >> hello, hello. >> great to meet you. >> reporter: we met at this store in wagner, oklahoma. i heard you're basically the mayor of walmart. is that true? >> well, i'm glows close to it.

>> reporter: how long have you worked here? >> going on nine years. >> reporter: nine years. >> i'm only going to work 30. >> reporter: kumar is a kidder, but why he is still working is no joke. when you got this job, you needed this job? >> yeah, you betcha' i did. when you lose your retirement at a big place like mcdonnell douglas, you need a job. >> reporter: in 1994, mcdonnell douglas closed its plant in nearby tulsa. kumar, a machinist, had worked there 29 years. >> and all of the sudden the loudspeaker come on, and it said, "attention, mcdonnell douglas will close in 60 days." and we stop and looked at each other and thought what in the world. to me that was just like you walked up and slapped me in the face. >> reporter: all your plans? >> all my dreams were going out the door. >> reporter: he was 56 years old with about a eighth grade education and one year shy of a

full pension. financially, the kumars have never recovered. over the years theyurugtire downsized their house and lifestyle, but still have a mortgage they can never pay off. the average american over 65 lives on about $4,125 a month. with his partial pension, tom and ellen coomer live around $3100 a month, more than a thousand dollars less than the national average. is this the retirement you imagined? >> no, no. >> reporter: tom's wife of 63 years has four heart blockages and diabetes. he calls her every break. >> i just wanted to check on you. and remember, i'll be in a little after 11:00. never get her out of my mind. y. i can't afford to lose her. >> reporter: tom coomer worries he'll never be able to afford retirement. >> he likes to work and needs to

work. i feel guilty too because he is having to work at his age. >> it hurts me that i can't do for her what i want to do. >> reporter: do you feel like the american dream came true for you?

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is a good chance the bar tendler come back with a coffee and a shot of baileys. but in san francisco that will not cut it. john blackstone stopped in at a place that invented the irish coffee. he was looking for the secret recipe. >> reporter: with cable cars running past its door, the buena vista cafe opened in 1916 is a san francisco institution. >> i'm john. >> nice meeting you. >> reporter: and for over 40 years, it's had the same bartender whose been making the same drink that made the buena vista famous. how many irish coffees have you made in 41 years? >> they say four to five million. i just take their word for it. i didn't count 'em. >> reporter: if anyone knows the story of how irish coffee first came to america back in 1952, it's paul nolan. >> yeah, the original recipe came from ireland. the inventor gave the recipe to the beat writer of the

chronicle, stan della plane. >> reporter: so stan della plane who brought irish coffee from ireland to here, he was newspaper guy. he was a reporter. >> he was a newspaper. >> reporter: so it is proper for me to say maybe a news reporter is the originator of irish coffee in america other than a bartender? >> let's say he conveyed the recipe to the right choice. >> reporter: that recipe, two sugars, hot coffee, and of course the active ingredient. >> about an ounce and a third here of irish whiskey. >> reporter: then the finishing touch, carefully floating a layer of heavy cream on top, an irresistible combination. let me taste the whiskey. dangerous to do this with an mustache. >> nobody drinks only one. >> reporter: bob freeman admits he wasn't really an irish coffee fan when he bought the buena vista back in 2001. >> at the time, they were doing

about a quarter million irish coffees a year. >> a quarter million a year? >> yeah, around that number, yes. >> reporter: this was a sound business decision, not because of any romantic idea about irish coffee? >> no. i like it. it's a wonderful drink. now i love it. >> reporter: and much loved by locals and tourists alike. >> there is no experience like being at this table or at that bar and having an irish coffee at the buena vista. >> reporter: every week a truckload of irish whiskey arrives a the cafe, enough to go through 100 bottles a day. they say the buena vista is the world's largest single consumer of irish whiskey. not surprising given the way paul nolan pours the stuff. >> and just in case i didn't give everybody what they deserve, i always add a little bit more. >> you're watching the "cbs

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this is a hell of a story. the international race of a lifetime is over, and an american has won. colin o'brady becomes the first human to walk across antarctica alone and without any help. a lot of people tried. it's a 900-mile trek, and others who gave it a try either gave up or they died. dana jacobsen has the remarkable tale. >> reporter: on november 3rd, a russian cargo plane dropped off 3-year-old colin o'brady at the edge of nowhere. he pounds of food and equipment in antarctica, a place so cold, water freezes in midair. >> this project is for anyone who has been told their dreams are impossible. >> reporter: o'brady had a mission, to become the first person to trek across antarctica alone and without help. he also had real-time

competition. british army captain louis rudd, a more experienced athlete with the same dream, joined him at the starting line. the two men took off on different paths. o'brady walked almost 20 miles and 12 hours a day in 90-minute increments, stopping to sleep in a tent, consume 8,000 calories a day, call his wife and post his progress on social media. journalist adam skolnick chronicled the race and spoke to o'brady by phone during his journey. >> on christmas morning he wakes up and decides to go 32 straight hours,5.45 miles, all in one shot. >> reporter: it was the final stretch. o'brady finished first, 54 days after he began, traveling 932 miles in all. >> he was really humbled. he is really happy for it to be over. >> reporter: o'brady hasn't always been quick on his feet. ten years ago his legs were badly burned in a fire in thailand. doctors told him his he probably wouldn't walk normally again, but he did learn to walk again, then run before going on to win

the chicago triathlon 18 months after his accident. in 2016, he became the fastest person to summit the tallest peaks on each of the seven continents. >> i'm on the summit of mt. everest! >> reporter: a year before embarking on his antarctica journey, o'brady gave this ted talk about what he has learned as an adventure athlete. >> achievement is simply for those who never quit. it is for those who put the most steps in front of the other. >> hf a story, right? after all that, you might think o'brady would make a lee line for the caribbean and just sit on the beach for a couple of day, but no, he is still in antarctica. he is waiting for captain rudd to finish the race. maybe rub it in his face, brag a little bit and then they can both head back home. on behalf of the team that is up late doing the news, we thank you for watching. from the cbs broadcast centerenn new york city, i'm david

begnaud. it's friday, december 28, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." search for a killer. a california community mourns a slain officer as the gunman remains on the run. new details about the suspect. also, we're learning what may have contributed to the death of a migrant boy who died this week in u.s. custody. and a mysterious bright light across the skies over new york city, what caused the eerie blue glow. and good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs