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from the cbs news. ♪ the deadly storm is not over yet. snow is piling up from the midwest to the nation's capitol. also tonight can the president and congress finally end the longest government shutdown in history. >> there's no excuse for the shutdown. >> they're playing politics because they hate trump. there are no detailed records of president trump's face-to-face meetings with vladimir putin. the suspect accused of murdering jayme closs's parents.
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he's due in court tomorrow. they say a real crisis is a system not prepared for families seeking asylum. and the second largest school district is about to go on strike. they say it's part of a national fight. good evening. we're going to begin with inweather. they're dugging out from the biggest and deadliest snow storm of the season. the nation's capitol got about a half a foot. this storm this weekend is blamed for at least nine deaths. with an eye on what happened across the planes, the city of charlottesville took no chances deploying two dozen crews to treat and plow roads. >> the biggest challenge would
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be refreeze overnight and in full force and we'll make sure any refreeze or black ice is taking care of. >> reporter: it's being felt in the east. 10s of thousands are without power, including here in virginia. sunday's snowfall left part of the nation's capitol under half a foot of snow. over a thousand flights have been canceled across the country. including the d.c. area. st. louis turning roadways treacherous and deadly. hundreds of crashes. here in historic charlottesville, the lighter snowfall left most in a lighter mood. crews will be working over time all night to make sure roads and highways are ready for tomorrow's commute. thank you. now to the political storm in washington. there is a new report saying there are no detailed records of
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president trump's face-to-face meetings with vladimir putin. errol barnette is that white house. >> reporter: speaking with fox news last night, president trump declined a "washington post" report saying he went to lengths to conseal his meetings. that means taking his interpreter's notes and demanding they don't disclose what they discussed. press secretary sarah sanders said the story so outeragesly inaccurate it doesn't warrant a eare sponse. >> i know president trump was burned earlier of leaks of private conversations. >> reporter: today senators defended the president. >> when he takes the interpreter's notes and wants to dedestroy them so no one can see
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what was said t raises serious questions. >> reporter: the president also pushed back against a "new york times" report that fbi opened an investigation of him after his firing of fbi director james comey, suspecting trump might be a russian asset. >> have you now or ever worked for russia? >> i think it's the most insulting thing i've been asked. >> reporter: he didn't deny the claims and he did repeat his claims that the whole thing is a hoax. the longest government shutdown in history continueseses. here's megoliver. >> no idea. >> reporter: president trump now says he doesn't know if he ecan strike a deal with democrats to get the government open again. the standoff still deadlocked over building a border wall the president said mexico would pay for.
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>> i have an absolute right over calling a national emergency. >> reporter: at 23 days the shut dp is now the longest in american can history. senator lindsey graham said he tried to convince the president to get people back to work. >> the president says let's make a deal, then open up the government, nancy pelosi says even if high opened up the government, i wouldn't fund a wall. >> reporter: the democrats insist a wall is wasteful spending. >> open the government and let's make our best efforts because we all agree we need invest more inboarder security. >> reporter: federal workers missed their first paycheck friday. forced to work unpaid or stay home. >> i think everybody should get paid for their work and it's just ridiculous. >> the number of tsa workers calling out sick has more than doubled. in a show of solidarity, air traffic controllers from canada
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sent pizzas to facilities across the u.s. where they're working without pay. terminal in miami because of the sick call? >> that terminal will reopen monday. president trump for now has national emergency to pay for his border wall. look into what some say is a real crisis, the immigration not prepared for the flood of children seeking asylum. >> border patrol agents say the number of daily crossings is unsustainable. >> we can prevent any illegal entry. in december alone the department of homeland security says they apprehended more than 50,000 people trying toing inter the u.s. illegally. but thousands more are waiting to make a claim for legal asylum. last year nearly 93,000 cases were filed. >> we go to the court house and
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we see the effects of zero tolerance. >> reporter: he works directly with migrants seeking asilem in the rio grand valley. he says it's the trump administration's policies making things worse. >> all the sudden they started taking babies from their parents. it was manufactured by the government. >> reporter: martin duarte is one of the faces of that crisis. we met him across the border in mexico can. . >> reporter: during president trump's visit to the border last thursday he met with law enforcement agents and community leaders. sister was in the room. she runs the catholic charities where migrants go after their initial claims are processed. >> critics will say people are exploiting the asylum requests. >> when your life is in dangerer
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this is the "cbs overnight news." so today is day 24 of the partial government shutdown. most americans may not be feeling the effects. but there's about 800,000 government workers who aren't getting paid. it's a different story for them. >> reporter: some 800,000 government employees missed their first paycheck of the
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shutdown this past friday, of whom 380,000 are furloughed. staying at home in other words. the uth 420,000 are still working without pay, including 1 10,500 air traffic controllers. just 156 of its 359 full-time federal employees are on the job. over thaul shutdown is estimated to be costing the u.s. economy more than $1 billion a week. president trump's call for $5.7 billion to build a roughly 230 mile long segment of a u.s.-mexico border wall. that's roughly $24 million per mile and roughly 4 a$4 and a ha thousand per foot. and one last number. the amount of parent progress so
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far in breaking the impasse? zero. secretary of state mike pompeo has a lot to talk about with crown prince mohammed bin salman including the it wars and murder of jamal khashoggi. >> reporter: this comes as the king candom continues to face scrutiny over the brutal murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. pompeo told "face the nation." he will speak to crown prince mohammed bin salman about the killing when they meet. >> this was an outrages act. we're determined to get at the facts as quickly as comprehensively as we can. >> reporter: the "washington post" reported in november that the cia had concludede ehad hisisor afrrange the ilin
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the crown prince has denied any role. despite international outrage the white house has continued to show support for the prince. and for now it's clear pompeo considered him an ally. >> and we'll talk about all the important things we do with the kingdom of saudi arabia and all the support they provide. >> reporter:ina cbs news, londo. >> we may soon learn more about the motive. the suspect is going to be in court tomorrow. in wisconsin tonight. >> reporter: they say jake thomas patterson planned the abduction of closs. the 21-year-old acted alone, even shaved his head to avoid leaving evidence at the closs home. >> we don't believe the suspect
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had any connection with the closs family. and the million dollar question is why and we need find that out. >> reporter: jayme's parents were shot to death and there was no sign of the teenager. but thursday, after being held against her will at this secluded cabin, closs made a break for it. called 91 within when jayme was brought to their doorstep by a neighbor. >> she said she was pretty well hid. that other people would come to the house but she would have to stay hidden. >> reporter: investigators are retracing patterson's steps. >> we'll be looking for reseats and places he went. >> reporter: he is relatively unknown to his neighbors and community. he's been charge would kid inching and two counts of intensional homicide for the
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murders of jayme's parents. the teachers in the second largest school district, los angeles, are going on strike. they say it's part of a bigger pfight for better pay. >> reporter: los angeles school teachers are calling for more pay. been working without a contract for years. >> get ready because on monday we will be on strike. >> reporter: teachers are demanding higher salaries, and smaller class sizes. >> there are certain things that are deal breakers. class size is absolutely a deal breaker. >> reporter: teacher owen says some are pack would 50 children. >> it makes teaching impossible when you have that many bodies in the room. >> reporter: l.a. unified superintendent made anath offer
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friday including adding 1200 additional staff and decreasing class sizes. >> we've done the best we can with the resources we have, with all the information that's been provided to us. >> i think all of you would agree that that just doesn't cut it. >> reporter: a strike will impact nearly half a million students. but they'll stay in school taught by substitutes standing in for some 30,000 educators. >> my child's education is more important than anything. >> reporter: l.a. students are about to get a lesson in labor disputes.
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24 hours a day everyday. geico, fifteen minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. tonight the u.s. aircraft carrier is in the persian gulf on a mission that has not changed despite moving out. and a part of a commitment to fight in the middle east. here with more. >> reporter: even as we landed aboard the flight deck of the uss john c. stens, we could hear the roar of fighter jets taking off. the stennis looks a war ship at war. f-18 fighters launching air strikes from taliban fighters to
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isis positions in iraq and syria, despite president trump's declaration of a victory and talk of a troop drawdown of all 2000 u.s. forces. >> we've beaten them and beaten them badly. we've taken back the land and now it's time for our troops to come back home. >> reporter: but the troop commander said there's been no letup from here. >> we're given missions to do. >> reporter: it continues at pace? >> the pace for us has been pretty steady. >> reporter: it's more like a floetding city with more than 5,000 sailers servicing tactical aircraft, primarily providing cover for u.s. air forces on the battle field. this is what the fight against isis looks like now and as long as there are american boots on the ground, there will be air support over head.
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>> reporter: and seen as show of force to nearby iran which deployed vessels in december to shadow the stennis. >> when you put that big chess piece down, it means you're serious. >> reporter: you got iran, yemen, syria, iiraq, isis, afghanistan. it's quite a full plate. >> it is a full plate, yes. but that's why we're here. >> reporter: that became apparent as we watched dozens of f-18s catapulted off the deck. pilots described as a controlled crash. and this is what it looks like down here in the engine room and this is a system that has to work as many as 75 time as day. and well into the night awhile the sailers are more than capable of keeping up the pace, no one could be certain of what's on the horizon. aboard the uss john c.stennis in
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thqt the austrian alps are buried under approximately 10 feet of snow. 10 german skiers were killed in an avalanche. the have been two dozen weather-related deaths in europe this month. a saudi arabian teenager wh. the 18-year-old had barricaded herself in a bangkok hotel room last tweak avoid deportation. for the first time in 14 years a police officer has been shot and killed in the line of duty in bu birmingham, alabama. another officer was critically wounded. there are two suspects in custody tonight. the nation's oldest man was laid to rest this texas state cemetery. mr. richard overton was 112
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welcome back. you're trying to pin down the definition of good sportsmanship, look no further. >> reporter: dillen keen on the right, a senior at bradford high in northwestern, pennsylvania, took junior and couldn't twiet lose. >> i mean what he's done is incredible. >> reporter: jake is autistic. he doesn't speak but he's become close to the wrestling team that made him their honorary captain. but they wanted to get jake a
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little closer to the action, which was just fine to his mom. >> as a parent who was told when jake was three that he would never walk, talk, anything to be able to actually watch him participate in a sport, it was a dream come fru the both of us i guess you could say. >> reporter: the match ended just the way you would have wanted it to. dillen, an otherwise undefeated district champ pinned by jake and the gym going nuts. >> i mean it's a nice feeling but that's not what it's about for me. whenever you're given a situation to make a difference in somebody's life, take it. >> reporter: one match, two winners. cbs news, new york. >> and that is the overnight news for this sunday.
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♪ this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the overnight news. here that cbs broadcast center in new york city. it's been a hell of a weekend for news. the "times kwaetsz is " is rep fbi opened a counterintelligence probe on him. the "washington post" is reporting he went so far as to confiscate the noetsz of notes of his translator.
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>> i'm not keeping anything under wraps. >> reporter: president trump dedenied a "washington post" report that claims he's gone to extraordinary lengths to conseal details of his face-to-face conversations with vladimir putin, including taking possession of his translator's notes and demanding they do not disclose what was discussed. cbs has not independently confirmed that report. sarah sanders says it's so outrageously inaccurate it doesn't warrant a response. >> i know president trump was burned earlier of leaks of other private conversations. >> reporter: earlier republicans defended and democrats -- >> when he takes translator's notes, it raises serious questions.
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>> reporter: president pushed back about a "new york times" report that the fbi opened an investigation of him after the firing of former fbi it director, james comey. >> are you now or have you ever worked for russia? >> i think it's the most insulting thing i've been asked. >> reporter: he did not deny he's been working for the kremlin but did repeat his claims that entire russia probe is a hoax. >> thank you. so the congress goes back to work tomorrow and the longest government shutdown in u.s. history continueses. >> reporter: president trump now says he doesn't know if he can strike a deal with democrats to get the government open again. the stand off still dead locked over building a border wall the president said mexico would pay for. >> i have an absolute right to call a national emergency. >> reporter: at 23 days the shutdown is now the longest
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unamerican history. senator lindsey graham says he tried to convince the president to get people back to work. >> the president says let's make a deal open the government. and nancy pelosi says even if he opened the government, i wouldn't fund the wall. >> reporter: democrats insist it's wasteful spending.eed inve more inboarder security. >> reporter: federal workers missed their first paycheck frooitd. 800,000 federal employees forced to work or stay home. >> it's just ridiculous. >> reporter: the number of tsa workers calling out sick has almost doubled compared to last year. air traffic controllers from canada sent pizzas across the u.s. where they're working without pay. >> in miami they had to close a
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concourse. >> but that will reopen monday. >> president trump for now has backed away from a national emergency to pay for his border wall. on the texas border, we look under to what some say is the real crisis, an immigration system not prepared for the flood of children and families seeking asylum. >> reporter: border patrol agents say the number of daily illegal crossings is unsustainable. sglrls if we can prevent any illegal entry, that is our goal. >> reporter: the department of homeland securityicize they apprehended 50,000 people trying to inter illegally along it the southern border. but thousands more are waiting for a legal claim for asylum. last year nearly 93,000 cases were filed. >> day in and day out we see the effects of zero tolerance. >> reporter: he works directly with migrants seeking asylum in
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the rio grand valley. he says it's the trump administration's policies towards asylum seekers making it worse. >> all the sudden they started taking away children from their parents. that was manufactured by the government. >> reporter: we met him just across the border in mexico. during president trump's vizzed met with law enforcement agents and community leaders. >> it was so limited to who could speak and who he wanted to hear from. >> reporter: she runs the catholic charities where migrants go once they're released after their initial claims are processed. critics will say some of these people are exploiting the system, exploiting the asylum requests. how do you answer those people? >> when your life is in danger
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and you fear for your life, nobody can exploit anything. they're actually just searching for an opportunity for life. >> reporter: and waiting for the opportunity to have their cases heard. cbs news, texas. secretary of state mike pompeo has a lot to talk about with crown prince mohammed bin salman including the wars in syria and yemen and the murder of jamal khashoggi.te mike pompeo's sensitive visit comes as the kingdom faces scrutiny over the brutal murder of journalist, jamal khashoggi. he told "face the nation" he would speak with the prince about the act. >> those responsible will be held accountable by the united states of america. we're determ tonight do that.
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year determined to get to the facts as comrehencively as we can. >> reporter: cia husbaad conclu he had him dismembered. the crown prince has denied any role. despite international outrage the white house has continued to show support for the prince and for now it's clear pompeo considers him an ally. >> and then we'll talk about all the important things we do and all the support they aprostride keep americans in kansas, colorado, and in washington d.c. safe. >> reporter: cbs news, london. >> this is the "cbs overnight news."
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this is the "cbs overnight news." so today is day 24 of the partial government shutdown. there's about 800,000 government workers who didn't get paid friendship. >> reporter: some 800,000 government employees missed their first paycheck of the shutdown this past friday. of whom 380,000 are furloughed. staying at home in other words. the other 420,000 are still working. without pay, including 10,500
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air traffic controllers. even at the white house just 156 of its 359 full-time employees are on the job. overall the shutdown is estimated to be costing the u.s. economy more than $1 billion a week. at issue in the stalemate, president trump's call for $5.7 bi billion to bailed roughly 234 mile segment of a border wall, roughly $24 million per mile and roughly 4 a$4 and a half thousa per foot. and one last number. the amount of apparent progress so far in breaking the impasse? zero. >> a cbs news poll finds 55% denot approve of how the president is handling the shutdown.
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46% disprove for ddemocrats and for congressional republicans. a lot of air traffic controllers is fed up. one entire concourse at miami international had to be closed. >> this is one of those tangible impaktszer of the shutdown. this is going to free up the tsa officers on the job working again without pay to go to busier check points, this as the shutdown is rolling into week three. miami's airport calls the can decision to close concourse g a precautionary measure after tsa sick calls have doubled. the vast majority of workers remain on the job, even after receiving pay stubs like this showing zero dollars. >> everybody is probably at the
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highest point of anxiety. the reality is setting in we're not going to get paid. >> reporter: and tsa leaders remain worried about a national tipping point when screeners look for work elsewhere. >> the impact is the ability to pay my bills. >> reporter: helen is a furloughed faa safety inspector. >> who's mining the store right now? nobody. >> reporter: regional carrier silver airways has brand new planes that can't fly. >> every month we don't introduce the aircraft we're losing out on millions of dolla of revenue. >> reporter: that requires faa certification that can't be completed during the shutdown. >> we hoped to nrlt deuce them february 1st. we sold tickets in a number of markets starting february 1st.
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so it's exceedingly frustrating. and our employees understand but they're frustrated too. >> reporter: some traveller are taking to social media to thank those without pay, asking whether they can get gift cards or tips. and the pittsburgh bought them lunch friday. the latest union to sue the trump administration over the shutdown yesterday. air traffic controllers are working without pay. one little piece of good news for tsa officers like the ones behind me f they work december 22nd, they're going to be able to pay them for that one it day because it should have been in the last pay period but they're at least going to get that one day of pay out next week. the shutdown is also taking
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a toll on american farmers. 9.5 billion was set aside to get them through the trade war china. those checks were put on hold. what does that mean for it the farm family? >> reporter: aaron lamen is an iowa farmer but the government shutdown has put him in a real bind. >> this is our soy beans. typically this time of year we'll go in just to check them, make sure they're not spoiling or staying in good condition. >> reporter: you're not kidding. >> it's a 30-foot bin. >> reporter: lamen has watched the price of his soy beans drop 20% since last summer when the trump administration got into a fight with china. so the price drop off together with the government shutdown is a double whammy?
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>> it really is. got us coming and going. >> reporter: this adds another layer of uncertainty. w rel our uit da folks. rr: sup and demand that now close canned agriculture it department would be allowing them to plan ahead. in three months the dusty fields should be filled with crop cans but how much to plant, no one is really sure. the government was in the midst of subsidizing farmers for lost markets in china but the payments were suspended when the government was shut down. lamen wonders how it's come can to this. >> it's not worth putting up the wall. >> reporter: it's just over 1,000 miles to washington d.c. but the reverberations from the border wall stalemate are hitting him hard.
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fqts you wa or you can viz at small island off the coast of new finland. conor nightland takes the trip. >> reporter: when france won the 2018 world cup, this was the scene. but over 26 miles away from paris there was a much smaller, no less enthusiastic celebration, inside at the one sports bar on the island of st. pierre, french flags were everywhere, waved and worn triumphantly, used to dry the oicational tear. it was a proud moment for all live in a place especially for most people forget is france.
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we are resolutely french, says the president of the territorial counsel of st. pierre, a small french territory, which might leave most people to assume it's part of canada. much of north america was once new france. but today thesile ne islands ar last bits left. >> it's still french today because of cod. it's the main reason why people would come here. we have nothing else. if you look at the island, it's barren, almost no trees. you cannot grow that much things here. it's one of the richest places to fish cod in the world here. you just have to have a boat and there you go. >> reporter: the assistant or ot tells the story of st. pierre.
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>> the thing to prove you're in france is the guillotine. it was the only legal way ato kill someone in france. >> reporter: not shoot them? >> no. >> reporter: this tells the story of the only time the guillotine was used in north america. after murder conviction in 1889 they asked to borrow a guilloine from martinique, thousands of miles away. for month months the convicted prisoner hung out and waited for it the arrival of the only weapon that was allowed to kill him. over the years the islands have had quite a violent history. >> so we changed hands many, many times. quite offen the city was destroyed and deported. >> reporter: for over a century the islands passed back and forth but the french kept coming
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back and in 1816 they set frld good. >> reporter: in a way st. pierre was a place where you could become rich. >> reporter: the most lucrative era came entirely by accident. during prohibition it became a hot spot thanks to its proximity in the united states. >> prohibition was the best thing to happen for us. people made so much money. >> reporter: in more recent years the economies has struggled. the once plentiful cod started to disappear and a mortor i am on cod fishing all but shut down the once booming fisheries. it was very difficult time for it territory he says, it took almost 20 years to recover and rebuild. we have a fishing sector. tourists richard and cheryl came
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to visit st. pierre from new jersey. lugistically, what's easier to get to? here or paris? >> paris. >> reporter: a trip can involve fligh flights and fareies but they thought it would boo a blast to spend bastille day in a day so french. here the wine flows freely. there's dancing and face painting. it the locales play games and tonk. everything from the sausages to the ice cream is paid for in euros and any lingering doubt that you are in fact standing in france is gone the moment you step into one of the bakeries. the baguettes and cakes are just as it delicious as the ones in
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you may not be surprised to hear but the smash hit "hamilton" is a hit on puerto rico. it's going to stay to help with the arts. lucky enough to see the show with emanual in it. and when he took the stage on opening night t brought the house down. history had its eyes on puerto rico. lin manuel miranda overwhelmed as the sold-out crowd of 1800 continued to erupt in applause. >> miracles happen to make this
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night happen. >> reporter: mirandau, a favorite son of the original venue was changed in december over security concerns. >> people moved a lot of mountains to have us be here in puerto rico tonight and have us raise as much as we can while we're here. >> reporter: he gave his father much of the praise. >> no one moved more mountains than my father. >> thank you to my family. and force to my son. >> reporter: after the show miranda put it all in perspective. >> i just want you to be proud of me. >> reporter: the 38-year-old has taken the lead on restoring
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funds on arts. lucky fans arrive hours before show time. tickets go for as much as $5,000. but every wednesday there's a matinee performance where tickets are $5,000 each. >> it's more than just an opening, another show, another opening. it's like the way we're supposed to be. it's what theater's supposed to do. we're supposed to encourage can, uplift and make a difference and that's what it feels like we're doing here. >> this was so significantly different and electric. because it was a homecoming. >> reporter: a homecoming that miranda and his fellow puerto ricans can raise a glass to. it's so emotional for lin knowing that he spent summers in
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puerto rico with his grandparents, this is to help people after the hurricane and the fact that hamilton grew up in the caribbean and left because of a hurricane. thanks for watching. captioning funded by cbs it's monday, january 14th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." a one-two punch of winter snow. after a weekend of deadly weather, another storm is ready to move in. negotiations are deadlocked as the government shutdown enters day 24. meantime, president trump responds to reports about how he allegedly concealed details of meetings with russia's president. and the man accused of kidnapping 13-year-old jayme closs makes his first court appearance today as new details
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