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called the principle of an eye for which is why the russian media is speculating tonight that the american may have been taken to be offered for butina, a classic tit for tat trade from the darkest days of the cold war.
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vlad? >> barry, thank you very much. next, a colorado man is charged with murder in the death of his fiance. were others involved? ever notice how hard it is to clean impossible bathroom messes with spray cleaners? try mr. clean magic eraser. just add water, squeeze, and erase. it's perfect for cleaning stubborn bathroom soap scum. even hard water stains. for impossible bathroom messes... ... try mr. clean magic eraser.
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a colorado man accused of
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killing the mother of his one-year-old daughter showed no emotion in court today when he was charged with her murder. 29-year-old kelsey berreth disappeared on thanksgiving day. >> reporter: a stoic patrick frazee entered a colorado courtroom formally charged with first degree murder in the death of his fiance kelsey berreth. >> the district attorney's office filed five felony counts against mr. frazee, two counts of first degree murder. we also have three separate counts of solicitation. >> reporter: prosecutors believe he did not act alone, but no details were disclosed in a case that still has no known motive and no body. frazee was arrested last week and remains behind bars without bail. berreth vanished on thanksgiving day after shopping with the couple's one-year-old daughter kaylee. frazee was the last-known person to see his 29-year-old fiance, but he never reported her missing. >> this is a very tragic case, everybody knows that.
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the families come out here trying to find kelsey, trying to find their daughter. >> reporter: at the same time another court battle was playing out over who gets custody of kaylee. a judge ruled against frazee's mother and granted temporary custody to kelsey's parents who are still reeling from her disappearance. >> the stress won't end until we find her. >> reporter: what are you feeling? >> i guess i don't have a gut feel at the moment. lost, how is that? >> reporter: did kelsey ever at any point mention she was in fear of her safety? >> no, no. >> reporter: prosecutors will present evidence and testimony during a preliminary hearing on january 29th. once patrick frazee enters his plea, the district attorney here will decide whether or not to seek the death penalty. vlad? >> such a terrible story. nikki battiste for us.cbs news correspondent chip reid in deveents iolving u.s. akenpl ia we he
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security we'll shutdown the government. >> reporter: if you think this year has felt like a political roller coaster ride -- >> you are a rude, terrible person. >> reporter: you might want to fasten your seat belts even tighter. >> it has the potential, i think, to be one of those cataclysmic years that historians write about. >> reporter: susan page of usa today says president trump's battles of the past two years will pale in comparison to those he'll face when nancy pelosi and her fellow democrats take control of the house on january 3rd. >> he's been president for two years with no effective congressional oversight of himself or of his r is ao ge. and they plan tse it compel testimony from a parade of potentially incriminating witnesses. and to uncover documents, including the president's tax returns. cld turnout to be sho
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counsel robert mueller's investigation into allegations that the president colluded with russia and obstructed mueller's investigation. what's in the report is still largely a mystery. >> there have been virtually no leaks from the special counsel office. >> reporter: so this could be an absolutely block buster report when it does come out. >> i think it's hard to imagine that it won't be. >> reporter: if it is, and perhaps even if it isn't, the fired up newly elected house democrats are expected to demand that the president be impeached. and if pelosi goes along, they'll probably succeed. >> let meay impeachm you can't be politicut. >> reporter: but only senate president from office. and with the senate in republican hands, that is unlikely. barring a tru staggering revelation from mueller. with the government shutdown now in the middle of its second
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week and a bitterly divided government on the horizon, the chances of actually getting something done in washington in 2019 are getting dimmer by the day. day. >> still ahead, upgrade to new tide pods 2.0. and get 50% more cleaning power in the palm of your hand. for a powerful clean in one step, it's got to be tide. a tt towee ate doin th he coderm.yoow w know how. tohavea's w?
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say and the ark det triumph. even north korea spared no jordin sparks in the count down in pyongyang. nasa's spacecraft is hours away from the close encount beer of the solar system's birth. it is 4.1 billion miles from earth. the most distant body ever explored. a billion miles farther than pluto, which new horizons studied in 2015. don dahler now with a heart warming story about the best friend a dog could ever have. >> reporter: paul hero and his dog have been inseparable since she was just eight weeks old. the attleboro, massachusetts mayor and mura are constant companions even campaigning together. >> she's kind of a celebrity in this town. >> she's first dog. >> reporter: the almost 11-year-old japanese wolf dog has the run of city hall. >> she's my best friend and she's been with me at the best and worst parts of my life.
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>> reporter: that worst part happened last september. mura was diagnosed with terminal cancer. how much time do you think you have with her realistically? >> um, i'd be surprised if she makes a year. >> reporter: so hero thought what could he do to make her last months happy? answer, a road trip. 8500 miles just the two of them. for two weeks, they drove to vancouver island to meet her breeder, then seattle, san francisco, the grand canyon. at yellowstone, mura perked up at the sight of bison. >> i think this is her favorite part of the trip. >> reporter: and elk. >> i have my hand on her heart. it is pounding. >> reporter: along the way his posts on facebook went viral. >> louder. good girl. having the right person to travel with is all the difference. she was just wonderful. she was happy to go anywhere we were going because she was going with me. >> reporter: hero couldn't give his dying friend the gift of more time, but what he did give her was the next best thing,
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time with him.
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as 2019 dawns, steve hartman has the story of a family proudly looking to the future while never forgetting the past. >> reporter: long ago, but not nearly as long ago as you might expect, sharecroppers worked this field in south carolina. as late as 1964, beau and lake giles were still toiling liken dentured servants. in fact, their children say they were, by far, the poorest family around. >> we had to pick cotton all day long. >> oh, yeah. you had to pick cotton during the school year. >> we could only go to school when it was raining. >> there was very littled. vegeutf thituation. >> reporter:ve prayers went unanswered, the giles children knew there was a better life out there, because
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it was so tantalizingly close. the shack they lived in used to be right there. but in their view, just passed this pond here, there was another house. you can see it right back there. it's really just a modest home, but to those sharecroppers kids, picking cotton in these fields, that place seemed like the taj mahal. >> me looking across the street at it, it looked like a mansion. >> they got a bathroom and stuff. >> felt like they were rich compared to our broken down home. >> you had flowers. all of that was a sense of freedom. >> reporter: and all of that is why it felt like liberation when half a century later, the giles family moved across the street into the taj mahal. some of the siblings pooled their money to buy the property which they are now renovating to use for family reunion ands holiday gatherings. >> come on plan i to put the ho trust so future generations of giles will know the story and learn the lesson.
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that poverty doesn't have to beget poverty. that through education and determination, poverty can breed success. dorothy became a teacher. ruthie a nurse. roosevelt, chairman of the board. but he says still a sharecropper in his soul. >> it assures you an appreciation of where you come from. >> we're sitting over here instead of over there. >> we have a better life. ♪ let earth receive her king ♪ >> reporter: this holiday season many americans will be unwrapping presents. but for families like the giles, the greatest gift is gift that truly keeps on giving, the sacrifice of those who made all this possible. steve hartman, on the road, in >> dprt broadcast center here in new york city and all of our crew working behind the scenes,
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we are wishing you a healthy and happy new year. i'm vladimir duthiers. /s >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the overnight news. i'm vladimir duthiers. there were smiles from sydney, austrailia i can't to hong kong, to london and paris and beyond. but the biggest party of all was at the crossroads of the world. more than a million people packed into new york's times square to usher in the new year. even a steady rainfallmpenhe mde down on 2019. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ stormy
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start to 2019. eric fisher is chief meteorologist at our cbs boston station wbz. eric, what is the latest? >> so, there goes the rain overnight into early tuesday morning. most of the snow held across canada and across the state of maine as well, but behind the system will bring in the cold. a lot of cold coming down the plains and the upper midwest. wind chill advisories and warnings are up. it will be a cold new year's day in that part of the country. even in the west. l.a. 61, vlad, california cold at the rose parade tomorrow morning. 30s to start and plenty of wind as well. >> well, rain, shine, sleet or snow, eric, my guess is people will be partying for the new year. happy new year, my friend. thank you. >> happy new year to you as well. >> a big-name democrat chose the da o 2018 to announce her interest in running for president in 2020.
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ed o'keefe reports elizabeth warren is the first to enter what is expected to be a crowded race. >> washington works great for the wealthy and the well-connected. it's just not working for anyone else. >> reporter: elizabeth warren's announcement is the first concrete step towards a run she began planning for years ago. >> that's why today i'm launchling an exploratory committee for president. >> reporter: the new exploratory committee allows her to start hiring staff and travel across the united states. it could eventually include nearly two dozen contenders. at least seven other senators, current and former mayors, governors and cabinet secretaries and former vice-president joe biden are considering bids. today news, president trump said, i wish her well. when asked whether he thinks sh replied -- >> well, that i don't know. you'd have to ask her psychiatrist. >> reporter: with a background in bankruptcy and commercial law, warren pushed for the
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creation of the consumer financial protection bureau in response to the 2008 economic collapse. she's also a fierce critic of top corporate executives and frequently spars with them in committee rooms. >> it's about responsibility. >> reporter: all of this makes her a favorite target of conservatives. in october, warren revealed a dna test that found she has native american ancestors. but the cherokee nation tribe denounced her move as inappropriate and wrong. today, she defended her decision. >> i have put it all out there. >> reporter: she took the test partly in response to attacks by president trump who often mocks her. >> they call her pocahontas. >> pocahontas, how about that? pocahontas. >> reporter: with 673 days to go until election day 2020,re is everybody else? other democrats are spending the final hours of 2018 talking it interviewing potential staffers. we expect more announcements shortly after the new year.ay t
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government shutdown, theofhe ho. but chip reid tells us a large stumbling block remains, namely, the wall. >> reporter: nancy pelosi arrived on capitol hill this afternoon three days before she'll be sworn in as democratic speaker of the house. and she's not wasting any time. she and senate democratic leader chuck schumer unveiled the outline of a bill to end the government shutdown. pelosi intends for house democrats to pass the bill on their first day in power. but the bill includes only $1.3 billion for border security. and since president trump wants $5 billion for a wall, the white house said today he will rejecth will stay or work with800 emplo prident p bming the democrats. today tweeting, democrats, come back from vacation now and give us the votes necessary
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but a big sticking point is that word, wall. >> build that wall. build that wall. >> reporter: the central promise of his campaign, he says the shutdown will continue until congress gives him the money to build it. >> whatever it takes. i mean, we're going to have a wall. >> reporter: with outgoing white house chief of staff john kelly contradicted the president, telling the los angeles times, to be honest, it's not a wall. the idea of a solid concrete wall, he said, was left behind early in the administration. well, the gridlock continues, federal contractor ray kwan snyder is wondering how he'll make ends meet. >> i actually started donating some blood plasma. whatever i have to do to put food on the table and keep a roof over our head, that's what i'm going to do. >> reporter: in an interview with fox news late today, the president was asked about negotiating an end to the shutdown with democrats. he said, i'm ready, willing and able. i'm in the white i'm ready to go. they, meaning schumer and pelosi, can come over right now. but until they find some kind of
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compromise on the wall, the shutdown is likely to continue. vlad? >> all right, chip reid at the white house. thank you, chip. investigators want to know how a lion got out of an enclosure before it killed an intern at a wildlife conservatory in north carolina. janet shamlian is there. >> reporter: this is the lion named makai that killed 22-year-old alexandra black at a north carolina rural animal refuge. the 14-year-old male escaped what is described as a secure area as an intern and another worker cleaned his habitat sunday. alex black was 22, a recent graduate of indiana university, with dreams of being a zoo keeper. she loved animals and had worked at the facility just ten days. dana says alex was a natural when she interned at wolf parf . >> it would be snowing or raining. if she needed to go out and do jole happy to do it. >> reporter: her family said she died following her passion.
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lieutenant darrell mclean of the sheriff's office said officers had no choice but to take the animal's life. >> there were multiple attempts by the conservatory staff to tranquilize this animal, multiple attempts, to no avail. >> reporter: shelters like conservator center aren't regulated by the a.z.a. which accredit zoos, but they are licensed with the usda under the animal welfare act. jennifer ireland of the north carolina zoo in ash borrow says protocols are in place there to ensure security. >> when we work with dangerous animals such as lions, we always have two people making sure all the locks are locked, all the proper doors are closed, and that all the people are accounted for before we move animals into spaces or before we enter any space that an animal was just in. >> reporter: the center houses 80 animals, including 14 other african lions. tonight it is closed indefinitely pending that internal investigation. its workers shattered by
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> at the turn of the new year, we in the news are often asked, what comes next? we'll put that question to cbs news correspondents around the world. starting with chip reid in washington. >> the witch-hunt, as i call it, should never have taken place. >> reporter: couple of developments involving the u.s. and russia today. >> if we don't have border security, we'll shutdown the government. >> reporter: if you think this year has felt like a political roller coaster ride -- >> you are a rude, terrible person. >> reporter: you might want to fasten your seaeltsven tighter. ipotential, i ink, one othose cataclysmic years that historians wriabof usa today, says president trump's battles of the past two years will pale in comparison to those he'll face when nancy pelosi and her fellow democrats take control of the house on january 3rd.
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>> he's been president for two years with no effective congressional oversight of himself or of his administration, and that is about to change. >> reporter: house democrats will have subpoena power. and they plan to use it to compel testimony from a parade of potentially incriminating witnesses, and to uncover secret documents, including the president's tax returns. but that could turnout to be a side show compared to special counsel robert mueller's investigation into allegations that the president colluded with russia, and obstrted els investion. what's in y mystery. >> there have been virtually no leaks from the special counsel office. rr: sthis could be an absolutely block buster report when it does come out. >> i think it's hard to imagine that it won't be. >> reporter: if it is, and perhaps even if it isn't, the fired up newly elected house
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democrats are expected to demand that the president be impeached. and if pelosi goes along, they'll probably succeed. >> let me say of impeachment, you can't be political about it. >> reporter: but only the senate has the power to remove a president from office. and with the senate in republican hands, that is unlikely, barring a truly staggering revelation from mueller. with the government shutdown now in the middle of its second week and a bitterly divided government on the horizon, the chances of actually getting something done in washington in 2019 are getting dimmer by the day. >> reporter: this is seth doane in jerusalem. here in the middle east, division, strife and shifting alliances have emerged, including that unlikely one between israel and s wars>> unpredictability is th common denomination in the
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middle east. >> reporter: alan is a former israeli diplomat. for people who have a passing knowledge or interest in the middle east, what should they be looking for in 2019? >> three things, i think. the expansion of isis and hezbollah. isis is not dead by any measure. the major question of iran's compliance with the nuclear deal, and the absence of a viable israeli/palestinian peace process. >> reporter: in yemen, a cease-fire is raising hopes amid the grinding conflict while technically the conflict is yemen's government versus houthi rebels. it's saudi arabia versus iran, with the saudis using weapons provided by the u.s. it's civilians who suffered. >> only now because of the pictures of enough attention. >> reporter: saudi arabia's role in this conflict came into sharper focus amid fallout from the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi.
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with blame stretching all the way to the top, it exposed the thugish side of crown prince mohammed bin salman's rein. inside the kingdom, criticism is squashed. not so in israel. where prime minister benjamin netanyahu is facing very public pressure. >> there are police recommendations to indict him on bribery, obstruction of justice, and several other counts. so, in terms of israeli politics, i see a very tumultuous year ahead of us. >> reporter: tumultuous is a word that certainly applies in syria, and that of the country. syrian president bashar al-assad has gained background from rebels as we witnessed firsthand. we are herein side eastern ghouta. this is the "frontline" of this war in syria right now, and syrian troops have just told us they are fighting one of the main opposition groups that is just over there. but it was in the northern city of aleppo where we got a glimpse of how some syrians would like
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to see 2019 and beyond, but looking back. >> this is reminiscent of another time? >> of the great time, of syria before the war. >> reporter: an evening of music and peace, a side of the middle east too rarely seen. >> reporter: this is ben tracy in asia where a little bit of history may be repeating itself in 2019. adg-un t fstg n k ea round tthe go of the t summ, start taking steps towards denuclearization. north korea did not launch a single missile in 2018 or conduct any known nuclear tests. >> 3, 2, 1. >> reporter: we were there in may when they claimed to destroy their main nuclear testing site.
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this is where they have conducted five of their six nuclear tests over the last couple of years. you can see they have strung up explosives in there. they plan to blow this up so they can no longer use it. but north korea has not allowed international inspectors to verify that the site is actually unusable, despite saying it would. and satellite images show that kim jong-un's regime is still rapidly developing its nuclear weapons program. >> they think they can outsmart americans in this regard. >> victor gau is an expert on international relations in beijing. in 2019 do you think we'll see concrete steps by north korea to give up its weapons? > highly doubtful. as far as denuclearization is concerned, i don't think there is any concrete sign that things >> reporter: the same could be said for the relationship between the u.s. and china. the world's two largest economies remain locked in a
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bitter trade war. both sides are now trying to diffuse tensions before a march 1st deadline when the u.s. is threatening to impose even higher tariffs on chinese goods. >> 2019 is the year we're going to find out whether or not this is just a trade war, the beginning of a cold war, or worse. >> 2019 marks the 70th anniversary of the communist party's take over. and president xi jinping will want to project strength. >> i'm very concerned about trump underestimating the resolve of president xi to demonstrate to the world that china is now a rival super power to the united states. >> as for japan, come april, emperor akihito will become the first japanese emperor to dis. at age 85, he's handing the reins to his eldest son. a peaceful changing of the guard and the world's continuous ha hereditary
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monarchy. >> reporter: this is charlie d'agata in london. >> no brexit. >> a good brexit for the country. >> reporter: brexit, the word that dominated debate in britain in 2018 will define its future in 2019. prime minister theresa may faces a march deadline to broker the u.k.'s exit from the european union after fending off a no confidence vote from opposition leader jeremy corbin. >> if he wants a meaningful date, i'll give him one. 29th of march in 2019, when we leave the european union. >> reporter: across the english channel, french president emmanuel macron is facing his own crisis. paris has becomeegwith proteste off against riot police over a fuel tax hike. every now and then, a group of rowdy demonstrators will try to burst out into the side streets and they are met with a wall of riot police. the so-called yellow vest protesters have a growing list of demands which includes macron's resignation.
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in rome, the sex abuse scandal that has rocked the catholic chur deepen as more victims come forward from around the globe. pope francis is called on to settle cases involving clergy. the focus in 2019 will be the results of the robert mueller investigation and its impact on american/russia relations. there are celebrations behind the kremlin walls when president trump was first elected, but the mood has darkened since then. you may recall that after cozying up to each other at the helsinki summit, president trump sent shock waves around the world by appearing to side with president vladimir putin over alleged russian interference of the u.s. election. >> i have great confidence in my intelligence people, but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denying today.
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that was then. this is now. sergey markoff is a putin insider. >> they canceled a meeting in buenos aires, donald trump looked so weak, that he is even not able to meet with vladimir putin. >> reporter: but there is one transatlantic relationship that has never been stronger. an american in the royal court after meghan markle's marriage to princemay. 2019 will see the birth of the couple's first baby, an exciting moment for any new parents, even if their child is only 7th i
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cancer. how much time do you think you have with her realistically? >> i'd be surprised if she makes a year. >> reporter: so hero thought what could he do to make her last months happy? answer, a road trip. 8500 miles just the two of them. for two weeks, they drove to vancouver island to meet her breeder, then seattle, san francisco, the grand canyon. at yellowstone, mura perked up at the sight of bison. >> i think this is her favorite part of the trip. >> reporter: and elk. >> oh, my gosh, i have my hand on her heart. it is pounding. >> reporter: along the way, his posts on facebook went viral. >> louder. good girl. >> reporter: having the right person to travel with is all the difference. >> she was just wonderful. >> reporter: hero couldn't ghichl his dying friend the gift of more time, but what he did give her was the next best give her was the next best thing, time with him. deal talk! give her was the next best thing, time with him. with my new $4.99 blt cheeseburger
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as 2019 dawns, steve hartman has the story of a family proudly looking to the future while never forgetting the past. >> reporter: long ago, but not nearly as long ago as you might expect, sharecroppers worked this field in south carolina. as late as 1964, beau and lake giles were still toiling like endentured servants. the children say they were, by far, the poorest family around. >> we had to pick cotton all day long. >> oh, yeah. you had to pick cotton during the school year. >> we could only go to school when it was raining. >> there was very little food. >> i was p >> reporter: but even as those prayers went unanswered, the it was so tantalizingly close.a the shack they lived in used to be right there. but in their view, just past
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this pond here, there was another house. you can see it right back there. it's really just a modest home. but to those sharecroppers' kids, picking cotton in these fields, that place seemed like the taj mahal. >> me looking across the street at it, it looked like a mansion. >> they have a bathroom and stuff. >> felt like they were rich compared to our broken down home. >> you had flowers. all of that was a sense of freedom >> reporter: and all of that is why it felt like liberation when half a century later, the giles family moved across the street into the taj mahal. some of the siblings pooled their money to buy the property, which they are now renovating to use for family reunions and holiday gatherings. >> linda, come on in. >> reporter: eventually the plan is to put the house into trust so future generations of giles will know the story and learn the lesson. that poverty doesn't have to beget poverty. that through education and
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determination, poverty can breed success. dorothy became a teacher. ruthie a nurse. roosevelt, chairman of the board. but he says still a sharecropper in his soul. >> it gives you an appreciation of where you come from. >> across the way, we're sitting over here instead of sitting over there. >> we have a better life. ♪ let ear receive her king ♪ >> reporter: this holiday season, many americans will be unwrapping presents. but for families like the giles, the greatest gift is the only gift that truly keeps on giving. the sacrifice of those who made all this possible. steve hartman, on the road, in kelton, south carolina. [ cheers and applause ] >> from the broadcast center here in new york city, and all of our crew working behind the seern scenes, we are wishing you a healthy and happy new year. i'm vladimir duthier
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captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs it's tuesday, january 1st, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." [ cheers ] ♪ >> happy new year. revelers around the world welcomed 2019. as the government shutdown rolls into the new year, president trump says he's ready to negotiate while the democrats say they have a plan to reopen the government. and nasa reaches new horizons with an histo ly-by.

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