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country today, which is the dominance of large corporations that don't pay tax, that don't really support the community. >> disaster, quite honestly. >> reporter: frank rafael represents the other side. >> this could have been a legendary event for queens and unfortunately i think new yorkers sort of messed it up. >> reporter: it may be hard to see in the dark, but the new amazon headquarters would have gone right here at the edge of the east river in long island city queens looking out at manhattan. the mayor of chicago sent a letter to amazon saying, sorry what happened to new york, but would love you to take a second look at chicago. one year ago today, 14 students and three staff members were killed at marginally stoneman douglas high school. at 2:21 this afternoon, the city
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of parkland, florida paused for a moment of silence. a clock tower chimed for each those who died. maddy wilford, the most critically wounded following the attack. she shared her story with mark strassmann. >> when i used to have flash backs, it was kind of blurry. i didn't notice much detail, but now it's more vivid. >> what do you see? >> just the fear and the reality of how scared i was. >> reporter: this is maddy wilford in her ap psychology class one hour before the massacre. >> when did you know something was wrong? >> when we heard the first shots go off. boom, boom, boom. i remember sitting there trying to get in a position where i wasn't going to get shot, and i just could think, like, i hope
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this isn't real, like, this whole fear, like, set over me and then -- then i did get shot. >> maddy? >> what's it like to look at that video? >> it was really hard at first seeing myself like that. >> reporter: three bullets tore through her abdomen and pierced her lung. a fourth shredded her right arm. >> this whole panic set in and i was like, why me? i don't -- i don't want to die. so i just kind of accepted it towards the end and i just like blacked out. >> three injured. >> when the first responders first felt my pulse, i didn't have one. >> reporter: her father, david wilford, was in nashville when the shooting happened. >> i felt like i was going out of my mind. >> reporter: he flew home not knowing whether his wounded daughter was alive.
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>> i saw her facebove the covers with a tube down her throat, and it was such a relief that i for a long time cannot be angry. i was so thankful that she didn't die. it was a pure miracle. >> do you feel like a miracle? >> yeah. >> reporter: before the shooting miracle maddy was a basketball player. >> come on, maddy. >> reporter: and an "a" student with dreams of becoming a doctor. her physical recovery was grueling but there are also scars no one can see. >> especially when school started, i didn't feel motivated to do anything. i want to move forward, i want to do all these things, but it's like my gears are stuck. >> what is it that is holding your gears in place? >> dealing with the fact that i sically died. >> i feel bad because i've been trying to maybe pretend that it's not as bad as it is. >> reporter: the entire family's in therapy for trauma.
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anya, maddy's new service dog, is another comfort. >> don't rush it. >> reporter: maddy has made progress. she's coaching basketball and began an internship at the same trauma center that saved her life. >> you have a very resilient daughter. >> yeah, way more than people ever realize. >> reporter: she'll need that resilience today to raise hope and quiet those flash backs. >> so happy. >> reporter: mark strassmann, cbs news, parkland, florida. >> and they call her miracle maddy. up next, hackers steal medical records to sell your identity to the highest bidder. and later, a runner describes his unreal fight with a mountain lion. i'm alex trebek, here to tell you
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anna werner has more. >> it was quite a tumultuous decade of a mess. >> reporter: marine brandon riegen lost his wallet in 2004, then months later he started getting collection notices for medical procedures he'd never had. >> the bill says it's $2,236. >> reporter: turns out someone had been impersonating him and nearly $20,000 in bills landed on his credit report. >> you tried to get these problems off your credit report? >> i did. >> did that work? >> it worked until the next billing cycle. >> reporter: and millions more americans' medical records are at risk. >> every one of our investigations involved the use of medical data to commit this fraud. >> reporter: with the health and human services department of inspector general says last year the agency handled more than 400 reports of medical data breaches. >> sometimes they're compromising this data and we don't know how it's being used, when or if it will be used to
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compromise those individuals' identities. >> reporter: a recent survey found just 16% of health care providers reported having a fully functional cyber security program. now medical records are for sale on the dark web. we looked at the ads with cyber security expert gary. >> so this description says their, quote, unquote, product description says, quote, breached a very large hospital recently. do you think somebody hacked into the hospital and here's the records if you want to buy them for 26 zbrand. >> exactly. they're offering them at a discount compared to other prices i've seen on the dark web. >> reporter: 15 years later, riegen says he still hasn't been able to undo all the damage. >> that hospital may still have his information, his blood type under my name at that hospital. >> that's kind of worrisome. >> it's a little weird. >> reporter: anna werner, cbs coming up here tonight, man versus mountain lion.
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seeing the claws. >> reporter: travis kauffman says he was alone on a midday run along the trails of horse tooth mountain park when he heard a noise. >> i turned around and just was pretty bummed out to see a mountain lion chasing after me. it grabbed on to my hand and wrist and from there it started to claw at my face and neck. >> reporter: kauffman, who is 5'10" and about 155 pounds says his fear became a primal struggle to survive. >> i stepped on its neck with my right foot, finally stopped moving and then jaws opened and i was able to kind of scramble back up the hill and get the heck out of dodge. >> reporter: parks and wildlife officials have captured two more juvenile mountain lions they believe are the siblings of the one that was involved in that attack on february 4th. mireya villarreal, cbs news, fort collins, colorado. >> you have got to be kidding me. up next here, celebrating valentine's like a pair of star-crossed lovers. peop
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finally here on this st. valentine's day, where is the best spot for advice? seth doane knows just the place in verna where we lay our scene. >> reporter: there is something undeniably romantic about the city of verona where william shakespeare set his famed tale of "romeo & juliette." what's celebrated as juliette's
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house. christina, who usually works in a gelatto stop moonlights as juliette. >> we use the telephone, yeah, instagram, facebook. and it's beautiful to see that people write with paper and pen. yeah. >> reporter: those letters wind up at the juliette club where they're carefully pondered by a rotating cast of volunteers. on this day three americans studying abroad in italy are standing in as juliette. >> juliette is an icon of love and romance and you want to make sure that you're really embodying that and really getting into that. >> it looks lovely. >> reporter: they answer letters on topics that run the gamut, falling in love with your friend, falling out of love with your spouse.
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giovanna is the president of the juliette club. she says letters have been coming to everywhere overona sis after a hollywood film was released. >> this writer says she is going through a divorce and needs help trusting people again. >> what do you say to her? >> you have to keep putting yourself out there, even though you've been hurt before. >> reporter: the number of letters they're receiving is increasing. perhaps in our fast-paced world there is something to be gained by slowing down and seeking the advice of a simpler time. seth doane, cbs news, verona, italy. >> that is the "overnight news" for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "the morning news" and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm jeff glor.
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this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news," i'm don dahler. president trump made it official in his opinion a national emergency exists along the mexico border. and he plans to use executive authority to build his long-promised wall. the news comes as congress put the finishing touches on a bill to keep the government running. without any money for a wall. and democrats vow to challenge the president's right to build any wall without the consent of congress. nancy cordes reports. >> i think he has all the legal this. ity in the world to do >> reporter: the president's decision was cheered by some republicans, criticized by others. >> i've been very clear on my concerns about the president
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declarin agency. >> reporter: declaring a national emergency gives the president broad powers to seize property and redirect funds from other projects without congressional approval. it's a move normally reserved for natural disasters and would enable president trump to direct the army to construct a border wall. >> the fact of the matter is, this is not an emergency and the president's fearmongering doesn't make it one. >> reporter: democrats argue illegal border crossings are near a 20-year low. >> do you still plan to file a legal challenge? >> i may. that's an option. we'll review our options. you want to talk about a national emergency? let's talk about today, the one-year anniversary of another manifestation of the epidemic of gun violence in america. that's a national emergency. >> reporter: in the latest cbs news poll, 2/3 of americans said the president should not declare a national emergency, but mr.
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trump is looking for something to show for a five-week partial government shutdown which was prompted by his demand for $5.7 billion in border wall funding. the bipartisan deal being voted on today left him with 1.4 billion for border fencing. and while he initially said mexico would pay for the wall, mr. trump now says he'll get the money any way he can. >> we will get the job done. the wall is very, very on its way. >> reporter: the senate's republican leader mitch mcconnell is on record opposing a national emergency, but he said today that he backs the president's move. his change of heart came after the president finally agreed to sign this new border security deal that will prevent another partial government shutdown. the united states has a new attorney general. william barr was sworn in yesterday after being confirmed by the u.s. senate, largely
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along party lines. barr replaces acting attorney general matthew whitaker, who took over when jeff sessions was ousted. barr was attorney general under george h.w. bush and now takes over supervision of the russia investigation. barr told senators during his confirmation hearing that he'd allow the mueller probe to continue but he wouldn't commit to releasing the final report to congress or the american people. meanwhile, fired fbi deputy director andrew mccabe has set off a political firestorm over his tell-all book about the birth of the russia investigation. it's called "the threat: how the fbi protects america in the age of terror and trump." paula reid has that. >> i was speaking to the man who had just run for the presidency, and won the election for the presidency, and who might have done so with the aid of the government of russia, our most
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formidable adversary on the world stage. and that was something that troubled me greatly. >> reporter: mccabe says days later he opened criminal and counterintelligence investigations into the president. >> i wanted to make sure that our case was on solid ground and if somebody came in behind me and closed it and tried to walk away from it, they would not be able to do that without creating a record of why they made that decision. >> reporter: mccabe told "60 minutes" correspondent scott pelley that following comey's fire, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein brought up the 25th amendment, which gives the majority of the cabinet and vice president the power to remove the president from office. mccabe says he was also part of discussions with the deputy attorney general when mccabe says rosenstein offered to wear a wire inside the white house. in the interview, mccabe says the proposal was so serious he took it to the general counsel of the fbi. in a statement the justice department said rosenstein never authorized a wire, although it does not deny it was discussed.
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today the president punched back on twitter, writing, mccabe is a disgrace to the fbi and a disgrace to our country. in poland, vice president mike pence called the suggestion to remove mr. trump from office absurd. >> i have never heard any discussion of the 25th amendment by members of this government, and i would never expect to. >> reporter: mccabe was fired last year after an inspector general investigation concluded he lacked candor in his statements made under oath to federal investigators related to a leak he authorized to a reporter. his case was referred to the u.s. attorney in d.c. for possible criminal charges. today william barr was sworn in as the new attorney general. he is expected to begin overseeing the special counsel investigation and eventually receive a final report from special counsel robert mueller. now, democrats have insisted that that entire report be made public, but barr has only vowed to be as transparent as possible. here in new york, the mayor and governor are shellshocked by
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the surprise announcement that amazon is cancelling its plans to open a massive headquarters in the big apple. david begnaud tells us why. >> whose city? our city. >> reporter: it was the valentine's day breakup that kicked off celebrations at the site of what would have been amazon's new headquarters in long island city queens. democratic congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. >> i think it's incredible. i mean, it shows that everyday americans still have the power to organize. >> reporter: in a statement, amazon said a number of state and local politicians have made it clear that they oppose our presence and will not work with us to build the type of relationships that are required to go forward. new york city was among 20 top city contenders to house a second amazon headquarters. amazon promise a $2.5 billion investment and 25,000 jobs. in return, new york offered $3 billion in state and city incentives. >> congratulations! >> reporter: there were lots of
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protests and debates over the benefits of large tax subsidies for one of the world's largest companies and the rising cost of housing in new york city. polls showed a majority of new yorkers supported amazon's move to the state. new york governor andrew cuomo, who helped to lure amazon, condemned those who trashed the deal, saying a small group of politicians put their own narrow political interests above their community. ernie brooks has lived in long island city for the last 40 years. his house would have been less than 100 yards from the new headquarters. >> it's symbolic of one thing that's really wrong with this country today, which is the dominance of large corporations that don't pay tax, that don't really support the community. >> disaster, quite honestly. >> reporter: frank rafael represents the other side. >> this could have been a legendary event for queens, and, unfortunately, i think new yorkers sort of messed it up. >> it may be hard to see in the dark but new amazon headquarters would have gone right here at the edge of the
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this is the "cbs overnight news." the countdown is under way to hollywood's biggest night. the academy awards will be held a week from sunday. a long list of newcomers are vying for the golden statues but there is also a veteran, spike lee, who is still waiting for his first oscar for best director. he could get it this time for "blackkklansman." spike discovered his life and work withll >> "blackkklansman." >> adam driver in "blackkklansman." >> reporter: imagine spike lee's pleasure last month when he and his latest film,
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"blackkklansman," got six oscar nominations, including for best picture. actually, you don't have to imagine it. >> yes! >> we woke up early to watch it. my son jackson, we didn't even know he was doing it, videotaped on his iphone. now what you see was everybody jumping up and down for best picture. >> and you're all -- >> we're all jumping down. >> reporter: after 40 years of directing nearly a film a year, this is spike's first nomination for best director and best film. it's a sore point going back 30 years when his widely praised film "do the right thing" that he directed and acted in as mookie the pizza delivery man was overlooked for best picture.
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>> always do the right thing. >> that's it? >> that's it. >> i got it. i'm gone. >> a lot of people said you were robbed. did it hurt? >> oh, it hurt. and the reason why it hurt, if they had chose a great, great film for best picture, i would have been cool with that, but their choice -- >> "driving ms. daisy." >> yeah, that one. >> that hurt. up against yours. >> hurt like a [ bleep ]. >> hurt like a beep beep. >> it did. after "do the right thing" and "malcolm x," i was never going to be put in a position myself where, look, i needed someone's whatever it is to validate my work, like to give it value. i mean, i know what i do and the
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people let me know. people tell me how i changed their life. how they never thought about going to college before they saw "school days." never thought that black people could make movies. >> isn't it ironic, i think it is, now that "blackkklansman" has been nominated, you're up against "the green book," which is, you know, kind of a reverse "driving ms. daisy," a white man driving a black man. >> well. >> there you go. isn't that funny or strange? >> i had to talk to my wife, and we're not speaking about no other films, particularly that one. >> if it wins, you're not going to say a word. >> i didn't say that. let's not take it too far. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: if you haven't seen "blackkklansman," here is the short version. >> six words, black man
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infiltrates ku klux klan. >> that was it? >> that was it. >> that was it. >>ped. you didn't make that up.cop, ro stallworth, really did infiltrate the klan. >> sorry, w.h.o. am i talking to? >> this is ron stallworth calling from colorado springs, colorado. how are you sir? >> reporter: in the film, ron played by denzel washington gets on the phone with david duke, the klan's grand wizard played by topher grace. >> i'm talking to a true american. >> reporter: in 1978, stallworth, a colorado springs detective, began an undercover investigation into the klan and later wrote the book that i spired the movie. >> how on earth did you get away with this? >> with a little bit of luck.
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with a lot of skill. and with the participants that dumb as they come. >> the members of the ku klux klan? >> that's correct. >> gullible. >> dumb and dumber. >> dumb and dumber and dumbest. >> to persuade the klan of your authenticity, you said some vile things over the phone. >> i used their language, the language of hate. >> yeah. like what? >> when they asked me why i wanted to joy, i said i hate anybody else that isn't pure aryan white like i am. >> reporter: in the movie, as in real life, ron answered a klan recruiting ad. when he was invited to join there had to be two rons, black ron on the phone -- >> they want to meet you? >> yeah, well, you probably shouldn't go to that meeting.
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>> good call, sarge. >> reporter: and white ron played byes acar nominee adam driver who would go to klan gathering. >> mr. duke, i would like you to meet our newest recruit, ron stallworth. >> ron stallworth, it is a pleasure to finally meet you in person. >> same. same. you as well. >> reporter: the real ron showed us his klan membership card that he keeps in his wallet. >> it's signed by duke. >> that's how he signed it. just duke. >> just duke. >> reporter: last summer when the movie came out, ron got a surprising phone call from someone he hadn't talked to in 40 years, duke himself. >> and he had issued with how he was being portrayed and he wanted to discuss that with me. i guess he thought i was going to go to spike and appeal to spike to tone it down a little bit. that's the only thing i can think of. >> unbelievable. >>hae called. >> reporter: ron's wife patsy recorded the call on her phone. >> ready? >> yep. >> i don't have the same
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recollection as you do on some of the terms because i've always prided myself and all my klanspeople talk about how i don't use the "n" word. i'm not saying i've never used it in context, obviously. >> reporter: spike was called the "n" word many times when his family became the first blacks to move into cobble hill. then an italian american neighborhood in brooklyn. >> did you have any other acts of racism against you? >> yeah, i wanted to join the boy scouts and they said i couldn't do it because i wasn't catholic. well, we all knew what it was. my father told me. >> well, of course. >> what it was. after that, i said "f" the boy scouts. i don't want to be in them. >> reporter: his father, a jazz musician, who wrote the scores for most of spike's early films, taught him another lesson. >> you have a policy against drugs. have you ever even had a joint
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yourself? >> it's well-publicized my father had an addiction. >> i actually did not know that. >> so just seeing that -- he was a jazz musician in that era. that era of jazz musicians, you know, they were doing stuff. so that, m-mmm. >> reporter: his mother, who died when he was away at morehouse college, was an english teacher. >> i was home sick. i would write my mother. every week she would return the letters that i wrote and looked like she cut her wrist on the paper because it was all marked up in red. she was telling me, i can't believe i have a son that goes to morehouse that is semiliterate. >> reporter: the semiliterate now 61 years old and just nominated for writing the "blackkklansman" screenplay bought this building in brooklyn
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25 years ago from all the money he'd already made on his movies. it's the headquarters of his production company called 40 acres and a mule. it's where he cuts most of his movies with his editor barry brown. >> the shot that spike has used a lot very effectively. >> spike, when's the first movie that you use this? >> "mo betta blues". >> reporter: it's where spike keeps all the stuff he's collected over the years, including him spouting off at knicks games that's earned him a reputation as an angry black man. >> they don't know what i was yelling. >> do you know? do you know? do you know? >> reporter: and the reminders of his career as a maker of and actor in his famous ads for nike air jordans. >> oh, money, money, why you want to do that to me? why you leave me hanging?
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technology to help solve these medical mysteries. dr. tara narula has the story. >> reporter: for years, the miller family has faced an uphill battle, trying to find a decisi diagnosis for their two boys, carson and chase. originally they were diagnosed with cerebral palsy, but their parents felt their symptoms didn't match up. >> there were many nights when we were up wondering and, you know, why this is happening. why can't the doctors help us? what else can we do? >> reporter: the family eventually applied to the undiagnosed diseases network. the group has completed evaluations on 382 patients and diagnosed more than 1/3. often through dna analysis that
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uncovers a rare genetic mutation. dr. john bernstein works at the network stanford site. >> for some of our patients, we've looked at the genomes of all of the microorganisms. that's really what the foundation of diagnosis is. >> reporter: lead to recommendations regarding a change in therapy or treatment. earlier this year, doctors found a gene mutation in the miller brothers, leading to a diagnosis of a rare metabolic disorder is in ready? open. >> we actually have a chance at helping the boys figure this out. there are going oh be next steps here. hopefully people to talk to because we have a leg to stand on having a diagnosis now to look at. >> reporter: the millers say there are no proven treatments currently available, but the diagnosis will help them build a coalition to fund future research. >> the more patients you have, the more families, the more
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if you think the price of real estate is out of bounds where you live, be thankful you're not shopping for a house in san francisco. the median home price in the san francisco bay area is $935,000. in the city itself, it's much higher. some million dollar listings are actually uninhabitable dumps. that's what i said, million dollar dumps. mark strassmann went shopping. >> reporter: realtor larry gollego showed us this square f bathroom house you'd think he couldn't give away. >> there are leaks in the roof. it's pretty much dilapidated. >> reporter: this is fremont, where the american dream means brace yourself for sticker
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shock. >> what did this house list for? >> 1 million. >> what did it sell for? >> 1.230. >> this is a million dollar compass. >> reporter: the buyer beat out six competing offers all above the asking price. >> these houses are very average, ordinary. >> i know, it's a little mind-blowing. >> it is. >> it is the norm around here. >> reporter: that norm is fueled by thousands of well-paid tech workers who have driven up the median price of a san francisco home to $1.6 million, highest in the country. and while housing prices are rising faster than incomes nationwide, nowhere is it more evident that in the bay area, where home values have soared a five years. that could explain this 1,000 square foot shell of a house in the heart of sell convalley. it sold for close to $1 million. this house is a fire sale but don't expect a bargain. it went on the market for juund
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$1.5 million. serious buyers better have cash. >> like a gated community where most people from the outside are looking in. >> absolutely. >> reporter: sally kuchar tracks real estate for a website called curbed san francisco. >> you do well. your husband does well. you could not afford to live here. >> we couldn't afford to live here, nor pretty much anywhere in the bay area. >> prices going up. >> right now we don't see an end to it. >> reporter: this flier could speak for the entire bay area housing market, enter at your own risk. mark strassmann, cbs news, san francisco. that's the "overnight news" for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us a little later for "the morning news" and, of course, "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm don dahler.
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captioning funded by cbs it's friday, february 15th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." president trump is expected to sign a bill to avert a government shutdown, then declare a national emergency to build a wall on the southern border. whose city? >> our city! >> amazon presses the cancel button on its planned new york city headquarters. and a monster storm drenches california, unleashing flash floods and mudslides. washaw
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