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hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in. you'll be inspired, you'll be encouraged. i'm looking forward to seeing you right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you. president said today
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don't overburden us with your agenda. he did not like to hear the president say there that he wants u.s. troops to change their mission and focus on neighboring iran. iran is a country that has tremendous influence within iraq and on iraqi leadership. so the president's words may actually make it more difficult for their leadership to agree to allow u.s. troops to remain. so he really up ended some really delicate diplomacy. >> another part of this wide ranging interview, the president facing democratic controlled congress. some are calling for an impeachment. you asked the president about impeachment. what did he say? >> this really sparked anger in the president. he was clear and said there have been no high crimes, there have been no misdemeanors. those are the two constitutionally layed out premises for going ahead with
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impeachment proceedings. the president has continued to deny any wrongdoing throughout this. but really his strategy has been to attack the mueller probe on two bases. one is to say there was no coordination or cooperation with russia to interfere in the 2016 election. but he is also laying out a political strategy here, and that is to cast all of this in purely political terms. he is trying to do what president bill clinton did successfully which is when you go ahead with an impeachment vote, if there is one, i'm not saying there will be, but that you can convince people to vote purely on partisan lines and not on the basis of the charges themselves. >> okay. thank you very much. get the full transcript for anybody that's interested. thank you once again. we'll see you in d.c. margaret will join me for the coverage of the president's state of the union address, 9:00 p.m. eastern, that's 6:00 p.m. pacific. we are learning more tonight after a deadly plane crash in southern california.
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five people were killed yesterday when that plane fell from the sky. debris was scattered across four blocks. don is there. >> security cameras capture the final moments of a twin engine plane that appears to break apart in midair. rei raining debris on this neighborhood and setting this house on fire. >> i heard glass breaking. people yelling for their lives. screaming, god help me. >> the pilot and four people inside the home were killed. witnesses described a woman that made it out alive. >> she passed out and then she woke up and then she started yelling for her family. >> according to the national transportation safety board, it took off from fullerton airport around 1:45 p.m. sunday. climbed to about 7,800 feet, and then about ten miles into the fight began descending rapidly. the main cabin and engine found
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up in this backyard. plane parts were scattered for several blocks. nancy and her husband barely escaped the flying debris. >> shot through this window and went through that wall. went through two drywalls, hit a third drywall and bounced back into the bathroom. >> ntsb investigator, mia smith. >> it's a big area so it's a little bit of a challenge to recover all the parts. >> you can see investigators gathering pieces of the plane from behind me, this yard and this street. they're going to take those to a secure location in arizona for further examination. they're also combing through the maintenance records to try to determine what could have caused this crash. thank you very much. coming up next, a new warning about the risks of cancers linked to obesity. and later, how the patriots proved age is just a number.
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a new study finds cancers linked to obesity are on the rise among millennial. >> in young adults ages 25 to 29, over the last 20 years, kidney cancer rates increased 6.2% every year. pancreatic, galbladder and endometrial cancers are also rising. when baby boomers were younger, their risk was half the rate 30 somethings face today. >> millennials are seen as health conscious but this study would suggest that might not be the case. >> excess body weight is a known carcinogen. >> the number of fat cells is greater. >> he researches it's effects. >> what is it specifically about fat cells that might be contributing to cancer? >> those fat cells over time start to become inflamed and diseased. they then produce inflammatory molecules that can stimulate the
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growth of cancer. one out of six female cancer related deaths are related to obesity and one out of seven male cancer related deaths are related to obesity. if we can improve the obesity epidemic we stand to impact the lives of many, many people. >> right now obesity is the second most common preventable cause of cancer after tobacco, but with the decline in smoking, doctors expect obesity to become the primary preventable cause of cancer in young adults. >> thank you very much. coming up here tonight, lia coming up here tonight, lia liam my digestive system used to make me feel sluggish. but those days are over. now i take metamucil every day. it naturally traps and removes the waste that weighs me down. so i feel...lighter. try metamucil and begin to feel what lighter feels like. take the metamucil two week challenge
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all for $6.99. time denny'of leadership.ampler, we end with the triumph of age over youth. did you hear? the patriots won.
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full disclosure, mark is a big fan. >> and there ith dasty continue. >> super bowl liii was a win for the ages. for wisdom, born of experience, like a 41-year-old quarterback winning his 6th title by adapting and evolving his game as he ages. >> look at this. how could this not motivate you. >> motivating the team all season, critics complaining they were over the hill. >> i'm too old. >> jared goff looked lost. looked young. he is. brady won his first super bowl in 2001. goff was 7. rams coach sean mcvay a 33-year-old prodigy was schooled by bill belichick. a grandpa twice his age. >> i got outcoached tonight. >> brady is the oldest quarterback to win a super bowl
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and at 66, belichick is the oldest winning coach. >> everything about last night pointed back to the importance of age and wisdom. >> sports writer william rodan works for the website the undefeated. a auy like brady per is on -- personifies it. you're able to perform better as you get older. there's nothing that you can do and throw at him that he hasn't seen and belichick hasn't seen. >> hate on the patriots if you want, but as the nfl's elders, you should at least respect them. cbs news atlanta. >> that is the overnight news for this tuesday. 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.
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this is the cbs overnight news. >> hi, everyone and welcome to the overnight news. chaos in the virginia state house. democratic governor ralph northam is refusing calls to re-sign over a racist photo on his medical school yearbook page. meanwhile, the man that would replace him is fighting allegations of sexual assault. >> no, we will not get over it until he has removed himself. >> protests in the streets and pleas from lawmakers so far haven't convinced ralph northam to step down. the former pediatric neurologist was out of sight today huddling with members of his organization. he's trying to decide if he can
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survive the scandal that started friday when they published a picture from his yearbook page. after initially apologizing and saying it was him in the photo he changed his story on saturday. >> in the hour since i made my statement yesterday i reflected with my family and classmates from the time and affirmed my conclusion that i am not the person in that photo. >> northam was already drawing national attention for comments defending late term abortions. after the photo surfaced he lost virtually all support from his own party. louise lucas that has spoken with the governor twice since the scandal erupted is stunned he's still in office. >> he lost the moral authority to continue to govern. i know he understands those words. >> national democrats like nancy pelosi, and hillary clinton and several 2020 candidates called on the governor to re-sign. the republican speaker of the house says he has no plans to start impeachment hearings but
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hopes northam leaves on his own. most virginians also want him gone. including april brown. >> you have to go. it's time to get out. the fact that he dug his heels in and what do i have to do to move forward and gain your trust, get out is step number one. >> if he does re-sign justin fairfax will take over but he too is facing controversy. the same website is reporting an allegation that fairfax sexually assaulted a woman at the 2004 democratic national convention in boston. the woman says the incident took place in fairfax's hotel room. today he denied assaulting her and said it was a consensual encounter. >> does anybody think it's any consequence on that the eve of my potentially being elevated this comes out. does anybody believe that's a consequence? >> the lieutenant governor stoked speculation that the governor's team leaked the allegations but a spokesperson tells us that's untrue.
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president trump goes before the american people and joint session of congress tonight to deliver his state of the union address. the speech was supposed to be last week but it was postponed at the behest of nancy pelosi due to the possible government shutdown. another possible shutdown is only ten days away. >> aids say mr. trump whose poll numbers suffered during the 35 day shutdown will argue it's time for bipartisanship. >> this president is going to call for an end to the politics of resistance, retribution and call for more comity. >> yet the president continues to carve new divisions on immigration. sunday night he tweeted dems do nothing. if there is no wall, there is no security. and in an interview with cbs news, the president signalled, if he doesn't get money for a wall, he may circumvent congress by declaring a national emergency. >> it's national emergency. it's other things. and, you know, there's been plenty of national emergencies called and this really is an
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invasion of our country by human traffickers. >> this state of the union comes amid new questions about how ti. axios revealed that in the three months since the midterms he devoted nearly 60% of his schedule to executive time. unstructured hours in the day he may use for watching television, making phone calls, or tweeting. cbs news compared this to the correspo corresponding period of bill clinton's presidency and found he devoted 28% of his schedule to unstructured time. white house officials say the executive time allows the president to be creative. back on the state of the union, democrats may not be ready to embrace the president's call for unity and bipartisanship. tonight senate minority leader chuck s described the adnistration and the way ue they oi going russia investigation. margaret brennan asked mr. trump
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about that during a wide ranging wt surprised you about some of the questions that robert mueller asked you? >> well, look, the russia thing is a hoax. i have been tougher on russia than any president maybe ever, but than any president -- >> but when it comes to the investigation that the special counsel is conducting. 35 people have been charged here. >> you ready? of the 34 people many of them were bloggers from moscow or people that had nothing to do with me. had nothing to do with what they're talking about. or they were people that got caught telling a fib or telling a lie. i think it's a terrible thing that's happened to this country because this investigation is a witch hunt. it's a terrible witch hunt and it's a disgrace. if you look at general flynn when the fbi said he wasn't lying but robert mueller said he was. and they took him in andstyed h >> started sending out pink slips to 4,000 salaried employees today. another 8,000 will be layed off
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by the end of the year and 5 closed. so what happens to a community when the biggest employer in your town shuts down? we paid a visit to jamestown, wisconsin. >> slowly, painfully, the one thank that put jamesville, wisconsin on the map was being torn down and carried away. there are now 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. what was the plant. >> gale price is the director of economic development. >> we're in a tomb. >> yeah. we're standing where thousands of people were employed at one time. >> but ten years ago, gm hit the brakes. the factory never opened again. suppliers went broke, downtown businesses sagged and incomes plummeted. >> there was a lot of divorces. people lost their houses, yes.
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>> debbie was at gm for 23 years. >> it must be kind of me llanchy to drive-by and see what's happening. >> i'm sad but i'm also glad they're doing something with it. >> a developer owns the property and the city hopes for 6 to 8 new plants here one day to make something, anything. during the last decade, other businesses have come to town drawn by it's many rail lines and riverfront real estate and although wages and benefits on a gm scale have never returned, today the area is gaining manufacturing workers. to jamesville is surviving as is debbie who went back to school and is now a hospital worker. >> you have to look out for yourself. you have to figure out what you want to do and move on. >> it's a message to other communities about to lose their gm plants, like warren, ohio. here, they have learned that nothing lasts forever.
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this is the cbs overnight news. >> an 8 month long cbs news investigation reveals a potential danger in the sky. airline mechanics told us they feel pressured by management to look the other way when they spot potential safety problems on planes. in some of the cases the federal aviation administration agreed with those mechanics. >> let's be clear, the u.s. is in an unparalleled period of aviation safety. there's been one death linked to a u.s. passenger airline accident in the last decade, but in our interviews with more than two dozen airline mechanics, they talk about a pressure to turn planes around faster. a pressure they say can sometimes be too much and
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they're blaming an economic reality of the airline business. that reality is simply mothose planes don't make any money if they're not flying passengers. >> cell phone video captures a tense exchange between an american airlines mechanic and manager in 2017. the faa found reason to believe a miami based mechanic was retaliated against after reporting problems that pulled several planes out of service. >> you single out one guy because he's doing his job. what about all of us? >> it is a shortcut environment. >> gary santos is a long time american airlines mechanic based in new york. he says he's risking his job by speaking on camera. >> they tried to pressure the individual not to write it up. >> they'd rather you not report a maintenance issue. >> right. >> why a sometimes tense relationship between management and mechanics is not uncommon, every one of the 26 airline
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mechanics we spoke to, 2-thirds from american and the rest from southwest airlines described being pressured by managers to focus only on the work assigned. >> if you're working say on a landing gear, lubing it and you notice that a flap three feet away is leaking and you write up the flap leak, you'll be out of your scope. >> claims backed up by findings in several faa whistleblower complaints about inappropriate pressure and retaliation since 2015 at the two airlines and at least 32 other anonymous industry wide reports in the last four years. >> i've seen people walk off the job and held on suspension for a month or more because they reported problems that they supposedly were outside of their scope for finding. >> several all with decades on the job spoke on the condition we not show their faces saying they feared retaliation. >> you constantly have people over your shoulder questioning why it takes so long. can't we skip a few steps?
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>> have you had managers use the words, can't we skip some steps? >> the pressure is there and you know, the threats of termination and walking you off the airfield, as they would say are very real and common place. >> the mechanics come from bases all over the country. >> were these significant safety issues or are we talking about a knob that needs to be tightened? >> no, significant safety issues. things that needed to be repaired. worn tires, worn brakes, damage. >> cbs news obtained a transcript from a conference call where senior vp of technical operations acknowledged we definitely need to repair some things with the faa. there's some things there with mechanics getting questioned. supervisors certainly getting questioned so again, compliance, compliance, compliance. >> that's a good indicator of what our leadership tells employees. it is our highest priority.
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>> captain dave hunt is southwest's senior director of safety management. >> but you don't feel like your mechanics are being unduly pressured or threatened, cha chastised, criticized for finding issues out of scope. >> i think any issue put forward to us is taken seriously and we act on those. so anyway we hear about an instance, we carefully review those. >> but you're stopping short of saying that it's not happening. >> whenever we are aware of a safety related event we take them all seriously and act on them all the same way. >> there's no question that there's a problem. >> former national transportation safety board member says it's unusual for so many mechanics to speak out publicly. >> that would be something that would stand out to you? >> stand out? that's standing out on the top of the hill screaming at the top of your lungs. >> he believes the pressure to speed up repairs and get planes back in service faster is a
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problem for mechanics industry wide. >> you have two dozen. i probably had 100 over the last three or four years that called me with those complaints. i'm talking about calls from every single airline. >> david seymour is the senior vice president at american. >> safety is part of the culture and if they don't do it safely, they're not to do it at all. >> does it concern you that we're hearing a different account from a number of mechanics? >> it's not a concern for me because i think we have programs in place to make sure that they can report them. >> you say it's not a concern, we talked to a former ntsb board member that said based on the number of people that we talked to and that several went on camera isn't just a red flag, he called it a field of red flags. >> allegations have been made but, you know, almost all of them have been dismissed. there's issues that we had to address but there's never been an allegation made that american airlines flew an aircraft that was unsafe. soust andmerin ar locked in intense
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negotiations over pay and benefi >> should people be concerned about the planes they're getting on today? >> i get on them every day so i'm not concerned. it's like climbing a ladder where an accident there might be a serious incident but you're climbing another rung in the ladder. and several rungs thes are risk starts to get severe. >> are you worried that it's going to result inn accident? those things not getting fixed? >> those things keep me up at night. >> their real concern is overtime the pressure could impact the overall safety culture. in reference to the miami situation at the beginning of the story, american does not believe that's a case of retribution adding that mechanic is on the job today. they do see some cases of undue pressure but the vast majority of airline employees are trying to do the right thing.
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>> the cbs overnight news will be right back.
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the football season may be over but there is no off season for those trying to make the game safer. >> a mitch frpitch from murray. murray. near sideline. >> with so many head injuries, it's hard to believe that in the first decade of professional football, helmets were not required. it's also unbelievable to a berkeley neurology doctor that there's not a better way to protect players from the kind of head injuries he sees routinely. >> pretty good impact. >> that's why dr. robert knight also spends time cracking heads. fake ones to test his version of a game changing helmet he and his colleagues developed. >> the principle is simple. we want to get force away from the skull. and our solution is to have a two shell helmet. >> a quick look inside a skull explains why it's necessary to decrease impact and twisting on
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the brain. >> it sits like this in here. it's floating in spinal fluid. let's say you're a quarterback. you land on the back of your head. the skull hits here and the brain hits there but it bounces back. there's a serious of oscillations. if you hit the front of the brain, your alignment, same thing, it's the front of the brain that's absorbing the brunt of the problem. >> on the field, linemen take more of a beating than other players. research shows 44% of them have serious lasting head injuries. more than double of those are running backs and defensive backs. >> i ended my career on a concussi concussion. >> he was an nfl linebacker that played for the bengals, the 49ers and the jaguars. he's keeping a close eye on what dr. knight is doing. >> your hit is the inner shell
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is strapped. notice the outer shell moves? it moves whether you're hit in the front, in the back, in the side. it's omnidirectional and every time that thing moves, the mechanism that connects the outer to the inner shell absorbs some of that energy which means less energy to the brain. >> more than that, they're looking at the double shelled helmet beyond football. >> so this is basically a prototype for a hockey helmet, a bicycle helmet, early prototype for a baseball helmet. >> while helmets are a multibillion dollar business they have not mitigated the spread of the serious brain disease from trauma to the head. it was found in 87% of the brains of deceased football players. >> the skull wasn't designed to play football and play sports and to have car, bike accidents, et cetera. in some ways it's a bad design.
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>> now with a wall full of patents to make his helmet and more research and crash testing to come, this brain doctor hopes what he's doing outside the examine room will make up for what he calls bad design. >> a decade long project to restore the tomb of king tut is now complete. >> as the world's most famous p pharoah he has attracted many to his tomb. so they have been hard at work renovating the more than 3,300-year-old crypt. it's the first major renovation since the 1920s when british archaeologist howard carter discovered it in egypt's valley of the kings. as king tut turned into an international sension, visitors go to his tomb to see
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it. >> a lot of visitors, years now. 1922 the tomb was opened. it was sealed more than 3,000 years ago and when it was opened, it was an environmental shock. >> the conservators cleaned and restored the paintings showing the life and death of the pharoah by leaving these spots caused by fungus no longer spreading. >> it isn't possible to remove the spots without damaging the paintings. so for us there's no question. we cannot remove them. >> they put in barriers and added a new ventilation system. during most of the repairs, the tomb has stayed open but work was delayed by the arab spring in 2011. with the political upheaval came violence and collapse of egypt's tourism industry. egyptian officials hope tourists will return now that the tomb returned to its ancient splendor. narrator: this february fall in love
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singer elivs costello hit the ground running. he has a new album and is heading out for a tour. elvis sat down for a chat with anthony mason. >> in 40 years of making music, elvis costello often collaborated across generes, with paul mccartney, burt, and with quest love and the roots. ♪ >> you have never been afraid to take a detour and look at a certain kind of music that a lot of people don't associate with you. >> sometimes it horrifies people when it's far from what they see as home or your strong point,
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but what about the people that embrace the different thing you did and found that the first thing that they could appreciate of yours? >> on look now, he is back with burt who he has been writing with for 20 years. the album includes three songs from a bacharac costello musical yet to be released. >> i wrote all of the music and sent it to him and said, burt, do you want to try to add something to this? he said no, this song is finished. that's a pretty good compliment, isn't it? you can't get better than that. >> he's back on tour after taking a sudden break last summer, cancelling dates after surgery to remove a small but very aggressive cancerous
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malignancy. >> how is your health? >> i'm great. >> you are? >> yeah. i was extremely lucky to have it found. >> it got complicated when british tabloids blew it up into a life threatening cancer scare. >> i'm not dying. it's not to make a joke of it. you don't have to walk very far to find somebody that you love who is genuinely having a fight. >> you felt it was disrespectful to the people that are really battling cancer? >> yeah. >> on his new album his voice sounds stronger than ever. >> you in the beginning didn't think of yourself as a singer? >> no not originally. one of my favorite song writers in my teenage years didn't sing in the band and there were three people in the band that sang. i just couldn't find someone. so i had to do the singing myself.
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everybody took a step back and i was just left there like the ovr this tuesda ♪ it's tuesday, february 5th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." state capital chaos. virginia's governor hangs on to his job amidst calls for his resignation in a racist scandal. as the man who may replace him faces misconduct allegations. state of the union. president trump gets ready to address the nation what he's expected to say. and super bowl celebration. fans are getting ready to cheer on their champions at the new england patriots parade.

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