12 survivors of sexual abuse by priests told top catholic officials such attacks can no longer be tolerated. their meeting came one day before pope francis hosted a summit on abuse. and nicki batiste is at the vatican. walked the streets and worked ourt things in my mind and i have a purpose today. i'm focussed and ready to do it. >> reporter: he's here to seek out on behalf of fellow sex

abuse survivors at the vatican. >> for the sake of innocent children around the world, everything is on the line for this. >> reporter: his nearly 4,000 mile from pennsylvania began when he was molested by a priest at age ten. he's been an out spoken advocate after a pennsylvania granted jury report last summer found about 300 catholic clergy had sexually abused more than 1,000 children. he met with high ranking bishops and 11 other sex abuse survivors to ask for zero tolerance which would weed out not only predator priests but those who protected them. >> that was a long meeting. it was not disrespectful but it was not reverant in any way. >> reporter: how likely do you think it is you're going to get there changes you're requesting?

>> i think i have a better chance at hitting the powerball. >> reporter: during an unprecedented summit set to begin tomorrow. >> i want to hear the results. this is the starting point for me. >> reporter: as a reminder of his mission, he brought photos to give to the bishop of four victim whose died by suicide. >> i kept my promise. they're in the vatican now. the message is from their parents are in the vatican now. >> reporter: pope will give opening remarks tomorrow morning at the summit which runs through sunday. so far he's not said whether he'll meet with any survivors coming up next more southwest airlines are cancelled

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news, landing gear tires so worn they had to pull the 737 utof service wednesday. they've been grounded for maintenance issues for last thursday. they've declared an operation 8 emergency. they're blaming the mechanics union claiming they have a history of work disruptions is. union says management is scapegoating technicians and the operational emergency is simply an attempt to divert away from the airline's safety issues. southwest acknowledges it has caused tremely long delays and hundred oz of cancelled flietsds. they include the planes in yellow in these pictures. the mechanic has since restricted access to this out of service list. >> this kind of stress on an

operation doesn't bode well for the safety of the airline. >> reporter: more than a dozen southwest airline employees say felt emboldened in undue pressure to keep southwest planes in service. southwest declined our interview request but senior director of safety management talked to us last month. >> safety first and that is always paramount. >> southwest the mechanics union have been in talks for six years. they insist all of the aircraft were written up for legitimate reasons. they've heightened the oversight for southwest which is standard procedure. >> thank you. up next tonight is a chinese phone maker involved in spying. our exclusive interview with the company's ceo. you still stressed about buying our first house, sweetie?

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categorically? >> translator: absolutely not possible. and also we never participate in espionage and we do not allow any of our employees to do any act like that. and we absolutely never install back doors. even if we were required by chinese law, we would firmly reject that. >> do you believe the united states trying to put huawei out of business? >> do you think that will happen? i don't think they'll collapse because of this. maybe the precflurm u.s. can be used as an important driver to make sure we work even harder. >> you can see more tomorrow on cbs this morning. up next tonight, number three has quite a shot. wait until you hear her back story.

we end here tonight with a story of courage under incredibly difficult conditions. >> reporter: you can call her a

regular 16-year-old except regular wouldn't be the right word. the high school sophomore is also a fierce competitor. varsity basketball team. >> they can't believe she does the things she does. >> reporter: head coach. >> having the never give up attitude. >> reporter: as a toddler she seemed to be healthy and thriving. >> typical 2-year-old running around and having fun with her sisterer. >> reporter: she had an often lethal form of cancer. she had 13 rounds of chemotherapy before her third burlgt day. >> the first thing i'd do is check to make sure she was alive. >> reporter: i don't think i'll sleep better if i have two legs. i just have this and i tried to do the best i can. >> reporter: because her leg doesn't bend at the knee, she

has to change the way she shoots and runs. >> for me i just step out and shoot. for running, since i can't bend my leg, i move to the side. but for basketball, i'm going to lay the first one down the court. >> reporter: her parents say that's been her attitude since she was little. >> i remember she always wanted to climb up the slide and she never could. but once she got that new leg, she could. and that was easy. >> who care physical your can rr different, you can still do stuff everyone else can do. >> reporter: because believing you can is the biggest step of them all. cbs ne cbs news. for some of you the news continues, for others check back later for the morning news and "cbs this morning."

from the broadcast city in new york, i'm jeff glor. ♪ this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the overnight news. i'm meg oliver. we ebegin with a massive winter storm pummelling the country. from the midwest to the east coast. some places got buried by up to ten inches. the rough weather is making a mess for travellers, causing crashes and spinout os on the road and canceling flielts. >> reporter: from the midwest to the northeast a massive wintser

storm is making a mess. nearly 3,000 flights were cancelled. >> we found out our flight has been cancelled to boston. >> reporter: even worse on the roads with crashes all across the country. washington d.c. had another shut down today but not because of politics. school businesses closed in dozens of states. and one midwest city shattered a krebered. record. minnesota knows snow. in fact they get so much in minneapolis that they built skyways so people can walk between buildings and keep their feet warm. but more snow than ever since record keeping began in 1885. in maryland and ohio and in new jersey the governor declared a state of emergency. >> when on your way home, please, please use commonsense and caution.

pope francis has gathered more than 100 bishops from around the world to discuss how to protect minors. an unprecedented meet took place between survivors and clergy. we spoke with some of those survivors in rome. >> reporter: i walked the streets of rome for a couple of hours and worked out things in my mind and have a purpose. >> reporter: he came to rome with a weight on his shoulders. >> for the sake of innocent children around the world, everything is on the line for this. >> reporter: his nearly 4,000 mile journey began nearly 30 years ago when he was molested by a priest at age ten. he's been an out spoken advocate for survivors after a pennsylvania grand jury report

released last summer found about 300 catholic clurnly had sexually abused more than 1,000 children. he met with 11 other sex abuse survivors and bishops to ask for zero tolerance, which would weed out predator priests and those who protected them. it was a long meeting. >> it was long. >> reporter: how did go? >> it was not disrespectful or reverent in any way. >> reporter: the pope has summoned more than 100 bishop address the global child sex abuse crisis. >> i want to hear the results. this is the starting point for me. >> reporter: brought photos to give to the bishop of four victims who died by suicide.

>> i kept my promise. they're in the vatican now. the messages from their parents are in the vatican now. >> reporter: the pope will give opening remarks tomorrow morning at the summit. so far pope francis has not said whether he'll meet with any survivors. a popular governor says he's being urged by president trump to consider the nomination in 2020. reelected in a blue state with one of the bigs minority populations in the country. hogan revealed he's talking to people who think he should consider a primary challenge to the president. he spoke with the governor at the maryland state house. >> 62-year-old governor hogan has won supporters on both sides for his straight talking style. he's renewed concerns about president trump.

maryland became the only state led by a republican governor to sue the trump administration over the national emergency over border security. >> the president made real mistakes and i don't think using the declaration of emergency powers is the right thing and it should be challenged. >> so it's not an emergency? >> we've kpa have exaggerated i. >> reporter: former congressman, lawrence hogan. >> republicans were mad as heck at him for decades, some of them. the white house was pretty furious. but in retrospect people say, man, what courage. >> reporter: the first republican congressman to publicly call for richard nixon's impeachment. >> no man, not even the president of the united states is above the law. >> i probably learned more about

inte integri int integri integrity watching my father in that one day than people do in their lifetime. there are leaders of the republican party have not instituted up when they disagree. i've not been afraid to do that. >> reporter: since you're such a straight shooter, is the president fit to be president? >> i'm not in any position to judge the fitness of the president. i've been pretty clear i don't like the tone that the president uses. i think there are times he acts irrationally and does things in a way that aren't great for the republican party or for him and his agenda for that matter. >> so are you thinking about running for president in 2020? >> i was just sworn in a month ago for my second term.

i would say i'm being approached by a lot of different people and i haven't thrown them out of my office. >> reporter: hogan was one of the most high profile office holders to with hold support for then candidate trump. would you support him for reelection? >> i don't see how my position would change from before. i would say the election is nearly two years ago. i don't know who the nominees are going to be. >> you know something we don't about the president? >> not yet. >> reporter: if the special counsel report came back and found troubling troubling evidet thes? >> i don't want to speculate. i think you would see a number of republican challengers who would consider jumping in.

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this is the cbs over not to news. chinese tech giant, huawei is the biggest seller in consumer electronics. they're use said by about 3 billion people in 170 countries. sell more smart phones than apple and second only to sam sung. the trump administration is considering banning all huawei products saying they're a threat to national security. the founder and ceo denies the allegations. in his first tv interview with an american journalist, at their headquarters. >> reporter: the united states government and security agencies believing that you provide a back door chinese intelligence. can you refute that

categorically? >> translator: absolutely not possible. and also we never participate in espionage and we do not allow any of our employees to do any act like that and we never install back doors. we would firmly reject that. >> reporter: they point to a 2017 law requiring its companies to assisten national intelligence gathering. >> huawei repeatedly refuse to accept u.s. law and standard international business practices. >> reporter: the department of justice hit huawei with violating frank fraud and conspiracy to money laundering. the cfo was arrested in canada where she's under arrest.

. >> translator: i think arresting and detaining her is politically motivated. . >> reporter: she's also his daughter. these are serious charges levelled against her. why do you call them politically motivated? >> translator: i can only answer your question after the court makes its decision. >> do you have a statement as to whether or not huawei violated international sanctions? >> we have to wait for the court to make the decision. >> reporter: doyou feel you, company and daughter are used a as a tool? >> translator: i think china and the united states are large scale and while those powers clash, our company is small as a tomato. we're not that. we do not carry that weight and i don't think she has anything to do with the clashes between the two powers.

>> president trump has threatened to raise them next month. >> i know china would like that not to happen. >> the justice department is accusing huawei of corporate espionage. >> you settled a lawsuit and when they accuse you of stealing an arm, they found internal emails suggesting the company rewarded stealing intellectual property. is that the case? >> translator: firs of all we have a very clear position. we never reward any employee for improper action. we actually punish them and for these cases that you mention, they're already in legal proceeding. so let's wait for the court to make its final decision. >> so you never authorized internal emails that rewarded

ememployeeis who stole intellectual property from competitors? >> translator: definitely i would punish employees fimprope behavior and we respect intellectual property. >> the rap sheet on huawei just gets longer and longer. they're increasingly making itself a platform from which chinese intelligence can do its job around the world. >> reporter: the trump administration is considering an executive order banning chinese telecoms in the u.s., including huawei. what does it mean hear director of cia say she would never use hua

hua huawei phones. >> translator: we focus on what we can do. it's okay to leave behind what's impossible. >> despite warning from the trump administration, some of the allies appear to open to working with huawei. here in the u.s. and across the world 5 grbs. later today on cbs this morning, she talks about their role un3wiuin building the next generation. you're watching the cbs overnight news.

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an inoitatevative program is going to help prisoners trying to enter society. female incarcerationerate is more than double the average. the co founder of the chan/zuckerberg initiative and wife of mark zuckerberg. this is part of the effort to break the cycle of mass incarceration in america. only on cbs this morning, with o'donnell inside a medium security prison in mcloud, oklahoma. why coding? >> i was just talking to a woman in the classroom and she's been incarcerated for 17 years and she wants to contribute and she knows that the industry and the

world has moved forward and we eneed to be giving people incarcerated the cutting edge skills. priscilla chan is helping to bring those cutting edge skills to 18 women a at naval bassett correctional center. the largest female prison in oklahoma with over 1200 inmates, 85% of whom are mothers. these women will learn computer coding languages. how do you teach coding when there's no internet connection at these prisons? >> it's phenomenal what they're able to achieve. >> reporter: you really think tech companies want to hire felons? >> i think they want to hire people who are motivated and have the right skills, yes, i do.

>> reporter: she and her husband visited the last miles coding program at san quentin prison in 2015. >> 70% of individuals incarcerated will come back but if you give vocational training, it's 30%. inside this program, it's zero%. >> reporter: she dropped out of school, had her first child by 17 and she's gotten her ged and college senior majoring in business. she says she has a 3.9 gpa. are you scared when you think about what you're going to do when you get out of here? >> i am, i am. not so terrified that i can't

keep clearly. i always keep in the forefront not to make the same mistakes. >> reporter: what happened? >> literally wrong place, wrong time, wrong people. i was separated from my husband and i got involved with another guy that was not the right type of guy and drugs, drinking and i was at a place where i shouldn't have been with him and someone ended up dying and thank god it wasn't by my hands but i was still there. >> reporter: you were convicted of second degree murder. >> yes. i want people to know that it's time to stop defining each individual with the mistakes that they make because if you are taught better, you do better and a mistake does not make you a monster. we are worth redemption and we are redeem ourselves. >> reporter: if she graduates, she will join theina nearly 500

inmates who have completed the course to become soft ware engineers. >> i think there's an incredible appetite for people with the training to do the right job. 1 in 3 people have someone in their life in volved in a prison system. >> reporter: what would you say to someone who says someone convicted of second degree murder does not deserve a second chance? >> i think we have to be aware that all those women in the classroom and everyone who leaves prison has served their time. each one of them women is a mother, a family member. >> the cbs overnight.

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crowds photographers are waiting in the freezing cold to capture a breath taking sight at yosemite national park. the stunning phenomenon lasts for only ea few minutes. >> reporter: yosemite's famous horse tail falls created a rare

national phenomenon known as the fire fall. >> only takes place in a small window of time each year. makes for excitement. >> that's beautiful. >> reporter: photographer doug hope has been so captivated he's come here for the past four years to document its beauty. >> there's this great feeling of comradery with people from other places and then when the moment happens the place is silent and you don't hear anything except the clicking of the shutters. >> reporter: he's one of hundreds who make this annual pilgrimage to yosemite. how will you compare this year's to year's past? >> every year varies. this is nature in its glory. you get to be here and see whatever nature givess us. >> reporter: for the fire fall to occur, nature needs to cooperate in three critical ways.

the fire needs -- the sun needs to align and the water needs to be clear and enough snow melt. >> there's a lot of ice up there so when it's warmer, you're going to see more water. >> reporter: the phenomenon only lasts about five to ten minutes as the sun sets. still, that's long enough to make a lasting impression. >> i think one of the most exciting experiences i had in this particular spot is when the light finally showed and only showed the very top of the falls and the forest is erupted with people applaudincheering, whistling. it was a happy place to be. >> that is the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back a little later for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new

york city, i'm meg oliver. captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs a false police report. a lieutenant in the coast it's thursday, february 21st, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." from victim to suspect. actor jussie smollett is facing a felony charge for allegedly making a false police report when he claimed he was attacked. his attorneys say don't rush to judgment. massive attack plot. a lieutenant in the coast