minister theresa may's brexit deal would face defeat. >> the ayes to the right, 202. the no's to the left, 432. >> reporter: but no one predicted the loss would be so massive. >> it is clear that the house does not support this deal, but tonight's vote tells us nothing about what it does support. >> reporter: opposition leader jeremy corbyn blamed theresa may for the failure. >> this is a catastrophic defeat

for this government. >> reporter: the house of commons is often lively. but tonight's debate was particularly intense. >> order! the house must calm itself. zen. >> reporter: with just 73 days to go before the uk is scheduled to leave the european union, the landslide vote throws its brexit plans into chaos. may's proposal was a result of negotiating nearly two suld go about leaving on issues ranging from trade to migration. tonight's vote could thrust the uk into more economic uncertainty. if no deal is reached or if a second referendum is held reversing the decision to leave. prime minister may is expected to survive a vote of no confidence here tomorrow. she's vowed to then reach across-party lines and present a plan b by monday. after that, jeff, it's anyone's guess. >> roxana saberi, thank you. the house today

overwhelmingly passed a resolution condemning white supremacy. this was sparked bay "new york times" interview in which iowa republican steve king appeared to sympathize with white nationalism and supremacy, asking, quote, how did that language become offensive? king voted for the house resolution. republicans have distanced themselves from king, and house democrats may vote later this week to censure him. thousand of public school teachers were back on the streets of los angeles today. this is day two of their strike over pay, class sizes, and resources. tony dokoupil is there and spoke to one affected family. >> reporter: legos at the dinner table help fill what should have been a normal public school day for the pierre-louis family. so your keeping your kids out of school in solidarity with the teachers? >> correct. >> reporter: 30,000 educators remain on strike, including teachers for 6-year-old esigh and nehe.

so this isser fairness for you guys? >> yeah. equality. >> reporter: we found a lot of moms and dads on the picket lines, including juno. >> we have to make a sacrifice. we have to fight. >> reporter: while l.a. schools are being run by fill-ins, attendance is way down, and a new poll shows 80% of parents support striking teachers, like scott mandel. how long can you keep this up? >> as long as we need to for our kids. we've had enough, enough. this is our armageddon. >> reporter: it's all against a backdrop that can't be ignored. many wealthy white families have amounted for private school. this school district is 80% latino and african american. if you think it were 80% white kids, there would be the same problem? >> absolutely not. of course not. >> what do we stand for anymore? yoor hard. how can you work hard if you don't have a good education? >> reporter: as the school district refuses a deal on the basis of dollars and cents, teachers plan to keep walking the lines for hearts and minds. at least one group, though, sees a brighter tomorrow. raise your hand if you think

public school has a future in california. tony dokoupil, cbs news, los angeles. coming up next, new details on the jayme closs kidnapping. how police crossed paths with the suspect as he drove off. and later, remembering carol channing. uh-oh! guess what day it is??

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the man accused of kidnapping jayme closs and killing her parents today was transferred to a different jail. jamie yuccas has been looking into jake patterson's past. >> he never came off violent or anything like that. so it's crazy to me. >> reporter: shyanne grenier was jake patterson's high school classmate. in a photo obtained by cbs news, patterson is seen sitting alone at a computer as his classmates smile for the camera. when you heard that he was the suspect in this case -- >> didn't believe it. not right away, no. >> reporter: not at all? >> no. >> reporter: jayme closs spent 88 days here. these photos show the clutter inside. the criminal complaint released monday provided specific details on the double murder-kidnapping. patterson began preparing the week of october 1st, purchasing

a black mask to conceal his identity. investigators say he told them he attempted to take the 13-year-old two earlier times, but turned away after seeing activity in the house. when he did kidnap jayme on october 15th, patterson said he was only at the home for four minutes, and with jayme bound in the trunk, had only driven 20 seconds from the house when he pulled over to let officers with lights and sirens on pass by. this is the house the sheriff says jayme closs escaped from. we spotted covered windows on the lower level and the patterson name above the front door. the home is five doors down from daphne ronning in wisconsin's north woods. so there is no indication anything was going on? >> no. none whatsoever. >> reporter: you never heard any commotion? >> nope. >> reporter: never heard any screaming? >> no. >> reporter: as details about the crime are released, those close to the closs family are focused on jayme's recovery, with a prayer vigil being planned for this weekend. jamie yuccas, cbs news, barron,

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carol channing died in california today just 16 days shy of her 98th birthday. the actress did plenty over screen, she'll forever beid wit two words, "hello dolly!." here is jim axoud.ro perelform

role more than 5,000 times, people may forget you ever did anything else. ♪ diamonds are a girl's best friend ♪ >> reporter: and although carol channing had other songs -- ♪ i'm a jazz baby >> reporter: and other roles like the oscar-nominated one in "thoroughly modern millie" and was even the first celebrity headliner for the super bowl halftime show, it was "hello dolly!" that made her carol channing. ♪ hello dolly >> reporter: first playing the matchmaker dolly levi in 1964, channing never missed a performance, even while dealing with ovarian cancer. >> i kept doing the shows for selfish reasons. you don't know why you're out there. you feel nothing. you feel no pain. >> reporter: born in 1921 in seattle, the daughter of a newspaper editor, channing knew by 7 she wanted to star on stage. and while she knows some

disappointment -- ♪ i want to hold >> reporter: like when barbra streisand played dolly in the movies -- >> i was coming from london to new york on the plane when they showed "hello dolly!." so i got kind of air sick. >> reporter: channing lived her childhood dream. 55 years ago tomorrow, she made her broadway debuted a dolly. more than half a century later, she still has plenty of fans mourning that this dolly has sadly and finally gone away at 97. jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. that is the "overnight news" for this wednesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm jeff glor.

this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the "overnight news." i'm david begnaud here at cbs 7 at the broadcast center in new york city. glad to have you with. president trump's attorney general nominee went before congress, and he vowed if he is confirmed the russia investigation will continue. william barr testified he will not carry out any presidential order to fire special counsel robert mueller without cause. these were his words. "ly not be bullied." democrats on the judiciary committee are not convinced, though. nancy cordes is our capitol hill correspondent. >> i will not be bullied into doing anything i think is wrong by anybody. >> reporter: the president's pick for attorney general was prepared for tough questions about his would-be boss.

>> the president's going to expect you to do his bidding. i can almost guarantee you, he'll cross the line at some point. >> reporter: 68-year-old william barr is in line to secede jeff sessions, whose close relationship with the president broke down. >> jeff sessions recused himself, which he shouldn't have done. >> reporter: over robert mueller's russia probe. >> if the president orders the attorney general to halt a criminal investigation for personal reasons, would that be prohibited under your theory? >> i think it would be a breach of the president's duties to faithfully execute the law. it would be an abuse of power. >> reporter: barr served as attorney general once before under president george h.w. bush. barr said president trump tried to recruit him to join his legal team in 2017, but he declined. >> essentially, the president wanted to know -- he said oh, you know, bob mueller, how well do you know bob mueller? and i told him how well i knew bob mueller and how the barrs and muellers were good friends. >> do you believe mr. mueller

would be involved in a witch hunt against anybody? >> i don't believe mr. mueller would be involved in a witch hunt. >> reporter: barr did send an unsolicited memo to doj officials last summer, arguing that mueller's obstruction theory is fatally misconceived and legally insupportable. >> it sounds like it was an effort on your part to ingratiate yourself with the administration which is now nominating you for attorney general. >> i can assure you i was not trying to ingratiate myself with anybody. >> reporter: republicans argued that concerns about presidential pressure are overblown. >> did he ask you to interfere in mr. mueller's investigation? >> absolutely not. >> has anybody in the white house made that suggestion to you? >> absolutely not. >> has anybody in the western hemisphere made that suggestion to you? >> absolutely not. the longest gover nmring d 26. 800,000 federal employees are

not being paid, and a lot of them are still working, but you know it's not only government workers who are feeling the pinch. carter evans has more on that story from ogden, utah. >> reporter: the welcome sign says "it pays to live in ogden." wishful thinking these days, considering thousands of federal employees here haven't been paid in weeks, including emalee rausch. >> this is your office now? >> yes, it is. >> reporter: today she is making deliveries in a car with a broken heater so she can afford to buy her own groceries. what percentage of an income you making here? >> probably 1/4 of my paycheck. >> reporter: rausch normally works for the irs, which along with the u.s. forest service employees some 5,000 federal workers in downtown ogden. at lunchtime, the streets and restaurants here used to be packed. how much does your business depend on federal workers? >> 90% of downtown relies on the federal workers that are down here for breakfast and lunch during the day. >> reporter: anna davidson says business at her restaurant is down by half.

she's already slashed employee hours and is now covering payroll with her personal savings. do you ever see yourself recouping this money? >> no. it's a loss. it's gone. i mean, this is a trickle-down effect. it affects everything. >> reporter: mayor mike caldwell says declining sales means a big drop in tax revenue. he is prepared to cut back city services if he has to. how much is this going to impact the city financially? >> it could be in the millions of dollars, which would be devastating for a community of our size. >> reporter: in a red state that helped elect president trump, many here support border security. they just never thought financing a border wall more than 800 miles to the south would hit so close to home. is this all worth it to you for a wall? >> no, it's not. not at the expense of the american people. >> reporter: do you want this wall? >> i just want my job. so whatever happens to get me -- to get me my job back, i don't care, as long as i can work. >> reporter: even with today's

announcement, there is still a lot of uncertainty. some irs workers here could be called back, but they still won't be paid, and that's no help at all for businesses that are really hurting here in downtown ogden. jeff? terrorists staged a bloody rage on a high class hotel in nairobi, kenya. debora patta has the story. >> reporter: the attack began early in the afternoon when armed gunmen stormed the plush hotel and office complex in the capital city. kenyan police say an explosion ripped through the security barrier, setting three cars alight, and then a suicide bomber blew himself up in the hotel lobby. as gunfire rocked the upmarket complex in nairobi, terrified office workers fled for their lives. this cctv footage captured the armed gunmen moving through the complex with military precision,

looking for victims. they then went from office to office, shooting randomly. in panic, people took cover wherever they could, behind cars, in offices, inside bathrooms. eyewitness robert murire said it was chaos. >> when those guys came in, they were just shooting. they were not normal people. just they were three people. they had green trousers, green tops. they had something here and bullets, black bullets. >> reporter: security forces raced to the scene to help those trapped inside the building. they were met by a scene from hell, blood, glass, and bodies slumped over chairs. the al qaeda-linked extremist group al shabaab has claimed responsibility. this is not the first time they've struck in the heart of the capital. their 2013 westgate mall attack left at least 67 dead. kenya's deployment of troops in somalia where al shabaab is

based has resulted in frequent attacks in both nairobi and other parts of the country. it's unclear how many gunmen were involved in the attack, but kenyan police say they have secured the buildings and are in the final stages of mopping up. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. stay with us.

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this is the "cbs overnight news." >> this is day 26 of the government shutdown, and it might go on for a while. president trump says he's not going to back down from his demand to build that wall along the mexican border. members of the 116th congress inherited the shutdown on the day they were sworn in. nancy cordes has the story cgressionalhe the hill. >> reporter: imagine you have just won your election, and you come here to washington, ready to make good on your campaign promise, and what you encounter is a government that is partially shut down and a city that is paralyzed by this standoff.

that is the situation our bipartisan group of freshmen congress members find themselves in as they try to find their way on capitol hill. >> this is my grandfather. >> reporter: michigan democrat alissa slotkin was still unpacking boxes when she got a surprise. >> this is the first time this phone has ever rung. hello? >> reporter: her first request for help. >> they do have a responsibility to tell you clearly and in writing what your status is. >> reporter: and it was a woman from brighton, michigan in my district saying i work for the census. i don't know if i'm furloughed or not. i don't know if i'll be repaid or not. can you help me figure this out? >> reporter: slot kin ended three tours in iraq as a cia analyst. >> it really is the first day. there is no faking it now. >> reporter: now she is more than 100 new house members getting a crash course on the power -- >> i'm gland you're here. >> -- and limits of her new

home. as soon as republican dan crenshaw began drawing a congressman's paycheck -- >> that's a patch i wore on my first deployment in iraq. >> reporter: he announced he would forgo that pay to show solidarity with furloughed workers. >> the worst thing in the world is to have that insecurity and have that uncertainty. >> reporter: we followed slotkin, crenshaw and deb holland for the past month as they prepared for their new roles in divided government. >> this is kind of a cool picture. >> reporter: for holland, that meant packing up half her home in albuquerque. >> do you have glasses of your own? >> reporter: and saying goodbye to her 24-year-old daughter, who lives just down the street. >> i made her share her location with me on my phone so i can always see where she is. >> reporter: they are members of a younger more diverse new class that isn't afraid to make waves. >> when someone comes, we want to make sure that they get a different experience than they got with our predecessor. >> reporter: slotkin's first

official act? present. >> reporter: withholding her vote for the new speaker, fellow democrat nancy pelosi. >> you have to hear what people in your district are saying, and i got a very loud and clear people from people across the aisle that they wanted new leadership. >> reporter: even before he was sworn in, crenshaw, a former navy s.e.a.l. who lost an eye in afghanistan wrote an op-ed urging the white house to keep troops in syria. did you struggle with the idea that you would basically be putting yourself at odds with the president very early on this issue? >> i have a background that makes me an expert v on this particular issue. >> reporter: one of the most memorable images from their swearing in was this one, holland and sharice davids of kansas, the first two native american women ever elected to congress. >> i didn't have a tissue, as you noticed. i had to use the scarf. she said my scarf is your scarf. >> reporter: they all know to get anything done, they'll need to b laips. service a veteran

candidates have a plan to try to get together and stay together as a bloc. >> reporter: crenshaw has a head start, thanks to this viral bit on "snl." ♪ just keep breathing and breathing ♪ >> it sounds like my phone is ringing. >> reporter: they've all arrived with big goals. >> the thing that i keep asking is whose talking about health care? whose talking about prescription drugs? what's the plan? when are we getting to this stuff? >> reporter: but there is one issue hanging over everything. >> and right now we need to be talking about opening the government. >> reporter: everything is sort of frozen. >> yeah. >> reporter: right? >> there are real people hurting right now in our country. >> reporter: and she says nativ articul in h state andam aroundaner theic country are ha by this shutdown because federal law enforcement have been halted on reservations. she's trying to figure out ways to make up for the loss of some of those services, but, john, fig i there is very little

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most of his hits have been recorded by other artists. but now john prine is getting his due now. anthony mason has his story. ♪ >> reporter: radio city music hall was sold out this spring for john prine. ♪ sometimes my old life is a washing machine ♪ ♪ it lik bounces around most al comes clean ♪ >> reporter: the 72-year-old singer is experiencing a late career renaissance. >> my audience has almost doubled in the last ten years. p>> reporter: and he has just been nominated for both the songwriters hall of fame and the rock & roll hall of fame. are you enjoying this resurgence? >> it took some of them 45 years to get the joke, and some people are getting it now, and i'm still around to reap the benefits. >> reporter: a songwriter revered by other songwriters

like bob dylan and bruce springsteen. ♪ oh, people, they just grow lonesome ♪ >> reporter: john prine's tunes have been sung by bette midler. ♪ hey, hello and there, hello >> reporter: johnny cash -- ♪ welcome home, didn't last too long ♪ >> reporter: and bonnie raitt. ♪ make me an angel that flies ♪ when you got hell to pay, but the truth don't ever wait ♪ >> reporter: the radio city date was a milestone. prine was releasing his first album of new songs in 13 years on friday the 13th. >> it's always been kind of lucky for me. a couple of bouts with cancer and everything, black cats are nothing. >> reporter: john prine has survived cancer twice. >> i called it neck cancer, but there is a fancy name for it. >> reporter: it affected your

voice? >> i couldn't sing for a year after the surgery because i just didn't have the power. >> reporter: that has to be really scary for a singer. >> well, all i really wanted to do was live. ♪ that's the way that the world goes round, you're up one day, the next you're down ♪ >> reporter: prine is certainly a survivor. ♪ you think you're going to drown, that's the way that the world goes around ♪ >> reporter: he's also something of a hustler. >> 13 in the corner. >> reporter: dan auerbach of the stadium-filling rock band the black keysil simpson. >> i was going to go brute force. >> reporter: last year's grammy winner for country album are two of his biggest fans. >> we're just here to make you look good, john. >> thanks, fellows. >> you hold all these guys in such a light, you know. and then you meet them and it's like hanging out with your dirty uncle. >> look at this.

>> reporter: what do you hear in a john prine song? >> you hear everything. he can run you through the wringer. you can be laughing and crying and feel satisfied at the end. he's magic. >> upper midwesto. >> this is the house i grew up in. >> reporter: john prine grew up on the outskirts of chicago. ♪ won't you take me back >> reporter: after a stint in the army, he became a mailman, writing songs as he delivered letters. he was just 23 when he performed at a local coffee house one night in 1970. and got really lucky. >> roger ebert from the chicago "sun-times" stopped by. and instead of writing about the movie he walked out on, he wrote about me, the singing mailman delivers the message. from that day on, i didn't have an empty seat. >> reporter: prine's 1971 debut album became an instant classic with songs like "sam stone" the

story of a vietnam vet. ♪ there is a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes ♪ ♪ and jesus christ died for nothing i suppose ♪ >> reporter: he writes beautiful songs, bob dylan said. midwestern mind trips to the nth degree. ♪ broken hearts and dirty windows, made life difficult to save ♪ >> reporter: you've never written a song about cancer. >> i think people would run the other way. i mean, here's a great song about cancer. >> reporter: in 1996, prine discovered a lump in his neck while shaving. >> i immediately thought, well, i thought he was going to die. >> reporter: fiona whalen prine is john's wife of 22 years. >> i had just had two kids. got married, had moved from ireland. it was -- it was a lot.

>> the doctors say what do you want the do about it? i said i want you to go in and cut it out, come back and tell me i don't have cancer anymore. ♪ better forgive for what we must do, you forgive us and we'll forgive you ♪ >> reporter: it cost him a chunk of his neck, but gave him new perspective. ♪ >> everything just looks better to you. you're nor grateful for smaller things, and it feels pretty darn good. the first time i parallel parked on camera. how you doing. >> reporter: prine once said i'd rather get a hot dog than a donut than write a song. it was meatloaf at big al's. >> y'all must think i'm skinny. >> reporter: after a 13-year

writing layoff, he was coaxed back to work. >> here we go. >> reporter: the tree of forgiveness, the highest charting album of prine's career proves the songwriter is alive and kicking. ♪ i left them inside my head where long ago i made my bed ♪ >> i couldn't understand why he was so reluctant to be the superstar that i think he is, that i know he is, that his fans know he is. now i do. >> reporter: what's the answer? >> he wants to be able to go to kroger's in his dirty black t-shirt, right? is that the right answer? >> as we're doing a national tv show. >> reporter: john prine's never been the kind of artist to chase a claim. ♪ i'm going to kiss that pretty girl ♪ >> reporter: but it's finally catching up to him again. ♪

there is a young man in southern california who has made it his life's mission to honor the surviving vets of world war ii. steve hartman found his story on the road. >> reporter: 20-year-old rishi sharma has always been into superhero, the real kind. that's why as a junior in high school he made it his mission to meet as many world war ii combat veterans as possible. >> i ditched so many days of high school to go do an interview. >> reporter: you were skipping school to go interview vets? >> yeah. i started riding my bike to the local senior home. i interviewed those guys. and then i started driving. >> reporter: it became a daily undertaking. >> every single day. >> reporter: when we first met rishi in 2016, he was driving all over southern california. >> i had a lot of missions. >> reporter: interviewing guys like marine tank commander ernie eisley. >> they were going to make a big camp there and attack us at

night. >> reporter: rishi talks to the men for hours. >> wow. >> reporter: and then gives the recordings to their families. he says he does it because time is short. we're losing about 400 world war ii vets every day. >> it's amazing how much history and knowledge is encased in each one of these individuals and how much is lost when one of them dies without sharing their story. the fact is i wake up every day to obituaries, guys who i wanted to interview and i have to find out that they died. >> reporter: at this point i should tell you rishi doesn't come from a military family. his parents emigrated here from our greatest generation as any young man i've ever met. >> my name are ishi sharma. >> reporter: in addition to his in-person interviews, he was telephoning at least five world war ii vets a day, just to thank them for their service and sacrifice. >> it means a great deal to me that you were willing to endure

all of that so that i could be here today. >> well, thank you very much. >> reporter: after this story first aired, rishi raised enough money on gofundme to expand his mission across the country. he travels by car, often sleeps in it. so far he has interviewed over 850 vets in 40 states, learning about their stories and their scars. >> bullet wound. >> reporter: those that have healed and those that will never. >> who is that? >> this is my brother jack, and he died in my arms on the battlefield. >> reporter: nice to know as long as there are world war ii veterans willing to talk, there is at least one man willing to listen. >> aw, shucks. >> i love ending every show on the road. thank you, steve. and thank you to that young man. that is "overnight news" for this tuesday. for some of you, the newss continues. for the rest of you, check back

a little later on in the captioning funded by cbs it's wednesday, january 16th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." feeling the pinch. the economic impact of the government shutdown is far greater than first thought. this as we enter day 26. attorney general-nominee william barr's confirmation hearing resumes today. what we've learned so far, and the promises made when it comes to the russia investigation. and british prime minister theresa may's leadership is tested as brexit is rejected.