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for grade a milk and cream. mmm! it's estimated there's 120 million smart speakers across the u.s. but don dahler reports, alexa, isn't the only one listening. >> reporter: in "2001: a space odyssey," a computer ear keeps an eye and ear on the person trying to help. not unlike today's digital assistants. >> alexa, turn on the fan. >> reporter: that alexa in your home, isn't the only one listening in. amazon has thousands of employees poring over audio clips, some allegedly recorded when owners didn't know alexa was eavesdropping. amazon confirmed the recordings in a statement, explaining that
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the information helps us train our speech recognition and natural language understanding systems so alexa can better understand your requests. >> my first reaction is, this is creepy. but it's not surprising at all. >> reporter: "wired" magazine, editor in chief, nicholas thompson. >> if you put a recording device in your home, stuff in your home will be recorded. >> reporter: amazon workers hear up to 1,000 audio clips a day, that includes personal conversations, even from children, sounds of private moments and criminal activities, such as sexual assault. those employees do not know the identities of the people they're listening to. amazon says alexa is only supposed to record when you say the wake-up word, alexa. but sometimes it turns on by mistake. there isn't the only company that does this. and there's ways to disable it by into your app.
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opportunity. living and working in a victorian lighthouse. >> i can't think of a country in the world we didn't get wa>> repter: tom was working on replacing the couple that was at the light station for two years. >> this epitomizes that for people. there's a huge desire to step back from the pace of modern life. >> reporter: but the pace of life on the island isn't exactly laidback. it's actually a bed and breakfast inn. julian and chez do everything from running the boat to cooking and serving meals. >> reporter: not bad. looking out the window here and a view of san francisco. >> it's distracting. >> reporter: this lighthouse is considered a treasure. at one time, the coast guard was ready to demolish it, until lighthouse lovers stepped in to save it. >> the guests can come up here
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whenever they want. a lot of proposals happen up here. >> reporter: this day, tyler and tiffany, a couple selected from applicants. >> are you going to have a cook or a maintenance person? it's all us. >> reporter: you'll be living in the 1870s. >> i'm okay with. >> reporter: among the duties, learning to get the fog horn up and running. as a noisy demonstration for overnight guests. when the sun sets, the little island becomes the guiding light it's been for 145 years. john blackstone, cbs news, east brother island. that's "the overnight news" for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. 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. julian assange of wikileaks gained fame by releasing documents that governments around the world would rather keep secret. that's finally caught up with him. he was kicked out of the embassy in london after nearly seven years. he is under arrest and could be headed to the u.s. where he is a wanted man. paula reid has the story. >> reporter: after nearly seven years, julian assange did not go quietly. dragged, screaming out of the ecuadorian embassy this morning,
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handcuffed, resisting, as police shoved him into a van. assange was taken to court, where his lawyer confirmed he was wanted by the u.s. >> we've received a warrant and provisional extradition by the united states. >> reporter: hours later, they charged him with computer hacking, stealing government secrets and releasing them through his platform, wikileaks. assange achieved worldwide fame after wikileaks released hundreds of thousands of documents and videos taken from u.s. government and military servers. like this video, that shows helicopters firing on civilians in iraq in7. u. officials ssof diplomatic cables put sources around the world in danger. today's indictment, shows a conspiracy between assange and former army analyst
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chelsea manning, saying that assange showed her how to crack a password stored on computers. manning told assange, after this upload, that's all i really have got left. to which assange replied, curious eyes never run dry, in my experience. assange was not charged in connection with his role in publishing thousands of e-mails from the clinton campaign. documents special counsel robert mueller were stolen by russia hackers in an effort to meddle in the 2016 election. >> this wikileaks is like a treasure trove. >> reporter: today, president trump, who praised the website repeatedly during the 2016 campaign -- >> wikileaks, i love wikileaks. >> reporter: -- claimed not to know much about it wikileak it's not my thing. >> reporter: in 2011, assange told steve kroft on "60 minutes," he was actually acting like a journalist.
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>> we played inside the rules. we didn't go out to get the material. we operating just like any u.s. publisher operates. >> reporter: former prosecutor ' charges are likely just the beginning. >> the right way to see this is one single charge is a place holder. i would expect that superseding indictment will include espionage charges. >> reporter: we expect there will be additional charges filed. in terms of extradition, his attorney says he will fight that. but the u.s. and the u.k. have a favorable extradition treaty. it will likely be months, not years, before he sees the inside of a u.s. courtroom. once he's here, his attorneys will plan to argue that he was acting like a journalist, to share this information protected by the first amendment. prosecutors will argue that you don't have a right to steal pentagon passwords. the so-called bomb cyclone that was supposed to triple the rockies and the midwest, was something of a dud. but the snowstorm did close aore caeltif hdreds
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>> reporter: if you're in the upper midwest, there is nowhere to run. 50-mile-per-hour wind gusts, swirled snow that is expected to top two feet in watertown, south dakota. that's where we found retiree ron lore, in an valiant, yet futile effort. why are you trying to clear the snow that's coming right back down? >> to clear some of it for today and we'll do some more tomorrow morning. >> reporter: this is insane. it hurts when it hits your face. >> it does, yeah. >> reporter: the state was entombed by ice. >> look at that. >> reporter: and with hundreds of miles of interstate closed, more than a hundred truck drivers were stranded. you're sleeping in your truck? >> yeah. if i left a half-hour earlier, i could have gotten by the barriers. >> reporter: and instead, you're >> right.e? that's better than being struck on the interstate or in the ditch. >> reporter: that's how hundreds catroor.emseesot
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th0,0 in the dark. and in wisconsin, so-called thundersnow roared, in a spring storm, as unseasonable as it is unwelcome. if you can even see me through the snow, you can see that things are not letting up here in south dakota, where winds remain fierce and the snowdrifts are taller than i am. jeff? >> we can see you barely. thank you for that report. and for your crew, drive carefully. there's been an arrest in a senseless case of domestic terrorism. a white man in louisiana is charged with setting fire to three black churches in his own neighborhood. >> reporter: 12 hours after investigators in st. landry mahews asp pu
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t rimes were imminent. >> reporter: the arrest affidavit indicates that a red gas can left at one of the churches was a key piece of evidence. it led to a walmart receipt used to identify him. detectives used drones, surveillance video and tracking to connect him to the three scenes. officials say the suspect's father, a sheriff's deputy, took matthews to a spot where the arrest could be made safety. >> holden's father is an employee of mine, a fine man. he was shocked and hurt, as any father would be. >> reporter: authorities say matthews was into black metal anti-christian mus h red a troume in the civil rights movement, when black churches were the targets of racists' attacks. mt. pleasant baptist was the last church that went up in flames. what was it like to hear the news that someone was in custody? >> i was happy to see that it's
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finally over. a lot of layers there. >> reporter: pastor gerald tucson says his flock will heal. are you able to look ahead one year from today? >>h, >> reporter: what do you see? >> i see a brand-new building and a joyful congregation. my sermons are stronger now. >> reporter: as the churches rebuild from ashes, holden matthews faces three counts of arson of a religious building. each punishable by a maximum 15-year sentence. and authorities are deciding if they will charge him with a hate crime. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. ♪
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this is "the cbs overnight news." >> if you have kids in the public schools, you might be surprised to know in a lot of those schools, there is no nurse. in fact, only 60% of schools nationwide are staffed with a full-time nurse. this often forces school administrators with no medical training to step in during an emergency. hillary lane has the troubling details. >> reporter: the role of the school nurse is more critical than ever, with a quarter of all children suffering from chronic illness. multiple children have died when facing medical emergencies in their schools. parents and nurse advocates want to see that changed.
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did the school district fail your child? >> they weren't there to help him. >> reporter: last october, his son collapsed in the school cafeteria. he was rushed to the hospital where he was later pronounced dead of heart failure. what went through your mind in those last moments? >> my only son. wasn't nobody there to help him. >> reporter: there was no school nurse on duty that day. according to a philadelphia school district official, staff certified in cpr tried to revive hassan. it's unknown if a school nurse had been there if they would have been able to save his son. do you think things would have been different if there was a school nurse there that day? >> i think so. i wouldn't know. >> reporter: kareem presley is
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the boy's uncle. >> you have to be tough. it hurts me because he's not here. >> did miss millie talk to you before? >> reporter: there's no federal laws regulating school nurse staffing. but it's recommended that there's one registered nurse in every school. a standard many districts are failing to meet. the executive director of the national association of school nurses says, 40% of schools across the country don't have a full-time nurse. and 25% don't have a nurse at all. is that acceptable? >> it's not acceptable. students deserve what they need in order to be in school and ready to learn. >> reporter: she blamesshrink ing budgets for the short fall, which puts burden on nurses and puts kids at risk. >> if you have a workload that doesn't help the students like
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they need, it's like drinking water from a fire hose. >> reporter: this is a school nurse in howard county, maryland, which covers two schools a day. >> i'm often stressed because i have to figure out the safest way to balance it. >> reporter: she has health assistants at each school, that calls her when she's not in the building. >> if i'm busy with an emergency at the other school, i'm not available right away. it might delay their care some. >> reporter: as a school nurse, do you think you're stretched too thin? >> i think so. i would love to be in one placet >> reporter: in cincinnati, ohio, where nurses were covering more than one school, they are tackling a problem through a partnership through cincinnati hospital. >> we are able to provide routine care services for all of the students in the building and any child in the community.
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>> reporter: they have opened health centers in schools to close the gap. >> the students get services here, like in the pediatricians office. >> reporter: schools must find a way to provide care for all students. >> ain't got no nurses at the school, you might as well teach your kids at home. that's just common sense. >> reporter: the philadelphia school district is working with a local hospital to determine if and what kind of additional health support is needed in the schools. and next month, a bill will be reintroduced in washington called the nurse act. it will provide grants for school overght news" ♪i bright ck.
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>> reporter: high-tech meets timeless craft in this madrid worksh workshop, where they're reimaginiing the art of preservation. here, they are re-creating a sculpture. it's realistic but not real. there's no artistic license. this sarcophagus is a reproduction accurate to one-tenth of a millimeter. you have all these different people working in different rooms and different eras. >> this is like one of those ideas of a renaissance workshop but in the 21st century. >> reporter: the man behind this place is adam lowe. he is clad in the khaki colors of indiana jonesnd has the
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curiosity to match. their mission, he acknowledges, can be difficult to explain. >> normally i say something slightly evasive like, we're trying to use technology to preserve cultural heritage. but what we're really doing, we're trying to define the relationship between -- >> reporter: they go deep inside ancient tombs to chapels and famed museums, all to record masterpieces exactly as they, are using high-tech scanners. >> we can study this data up to five-times or six-times magni magnificati magnification, without data loss. in fact, you can see the surface of the tomb better in the digital files than you can see with the naked eye on-site. >> reporter: how? why? >> because you can keep zooming in. it's like a doctor using a
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microscope. >> reporter: it's then reproduced in-house, using 3d printers and a milling machine to create a base layer. in this work, so-called skins are printed and laid on top. >> we're ensuring they're perfectly aligned with the surface underneath. and once they're in the right place, we put them into a vacuum bag and suck them, so the contact adhesive forms a permanent bond. >> reporter: the result, not just the look of the original -- >> you can feel where it was reli relief. >> reporter: you can feel that. >> and you can run your finger down the middle of that crack. at that point, you believe it. >> reporter: lowe argues that substitute can be just as satisfying as seeing the real thing. but we still want to go to the louver to see the original mona
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lisa. it's not good to see a print. >> reporter: i agree. but hanging in front of the mona lisa, was one of the big projects we worked on. >> reporter: they scanned the original wedding at caneand the facsimile was hang in the original spot in venice. >> you know the one in the louver is more arranoriginal. but the experience in venice is more authentic. >> reporter: considering a copy more authentic is a provocative point of view. >> i would go to a dinner party in london and i would say, i'm making a facsimile of the tomb and everybody would go, how ible. it's a touch of prejudice so many people hold. >> reporter: we recoil at forgeries. >> a fake is intentionally
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deceitful. there's no deceit. everything is declared it's a facsimi facsimile. and it's not trying to replace the original. it's trying to support the original. >> reporter: they make only one facsimi facsimile. all of the scanned data belongs to the institution caring for the object. they train the local people to do the scanning and see their work as crucial to the preservation of tombs of egyptian pharaohs. >> that was built to last for eternity but never to be visited. cathedrals were built to be visited. museums were built to be visited. tombs were not. >> reporter: replicating a tomb is a technological twist on reservation, far from what was practiced years ago. here's what one wall of the tomb looked like when it was discovered in the 1800s. take of at it ed what heanted
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preservation -- >> reporter: he made a panel. >> the colonial arrogance that and why remove this cartoush, when you're in one of the most beautiful rooms of the tomb. >> reporter: lowe's team re-created the hall of beauties of the tomb, and exhibited the breathtaking room in switzer lands. it will find a permanent home in egypt's valley of the king, near another of his recreations, an exact copy of the burial chamber of king tut. >> the response we're getting is
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extraordinary. if you can't tell the difference and you know through one you're helping the local community by being there, you're helping preserve the tombs by being there. and by the other, you're contributing to their destruction, which do you end up choosing? >> reporter: for a company that spends so much time studying the past, the contemporary artists what are clients and create new objects and surfaces. what are you doing here? >> it's a sort of fantastic monster, i would say. >> reporter: it's that work that pays the bills. and allows adam lowe's foundation to continue developing their modern take on preservation, following the ideas set in ancient egypt. >> their goal was to build a tomb, build an environment, filled with human knowledge that would last for eternity. that was the goal. and it did. >> reporter: the hope here is this, too, will last,
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the people who spend their live s scanning the night skies are jumping for joy over the latest discovery. a black hole discovered in a galaxy far, far away. it took eight telescopes to track it down and get a picture. mark strassmann has a story from the smithsonian air and space museum in washington. >> reporter: black holes are the most powerful vacuum in the universe. they inhale everything, even light, for eternity. but as menacing as they seem, until now, they've been invisible. this scene from "interstellar" was thought to be the most realistic depiction of a black
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hole. >> it's all blackn out hollywood's fantasy was close to reality. >> when we saw this come into focus, our jaws dropped. >> reporter: he leads an international team of scientists that revealed this image. it's a cosmic first. visual proof of the supermassive black hole, nearly 25 billion miles across, almost the size of our solar system, in the center of a nearby galaxy. >> i think this image will be an important part of astronomy going forward for years to come. >> reporter: we're getting closer and closer to the edge of oblivi oblivion. humbli humbling? >> to know they exist, that is humbling. >> reporter: a colossal object, sein selfpersized star dies and
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the result is bottomls si known physics draw apart. and the gravitational pull swal l swallows anything that strays too close. scientists had to synchronize eight telescopes on four continents. four imaging teams on supercomputers needed two years to crunch all of the data. >> it's amazing to me that we can see a supermassive black hole in the heart of a galaxy. you can't make that up. >> reporter: scientists believe there's a black hole spinning in nearly every galaxy, including ours. and the same team is working on an image of that one. and they could come out with that image very soon. >> amazing. that is the overnight news for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for f co,rning."
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from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm don dahler. ♪ ♪ captioning funded by cbs it's friday, april 12th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." julian assange under arrest after hiding in an ecuadorian embassy for seven years. the u.s. charge he now faces and the extraditions battle. april snowstorm. tens of thousands are without power after a deadly blizzard pummels the central u.s., while another part of the country faces new weather trouble. plus chicago sues jussie smollett. the city now wants three times the amount it originally
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