president trump on trial. senators get set to hear impeachment arguments as partisan battle lines are drawn over witnesses and the evidence. >> there is ample evidence any jury would convict him in three minutes' flat. >> while president trump watches from the sidelines. >> this has been a political hit job. sitting on edge. gun rights supporters along with militia members and neo-nazis get set for a show of force in virginia's capital, as richmond fears the worst. independence day after the queen sets her terms, meghan markle's estranged father speaks out on the royal couple's exit. >> it's something that's ridiculous. they shouldn't be doing this. extradition fight. the chinese executive wanted in the u.s. is the focus of a

global tug-of-war. critical tests. a spacecraft explodes minutes after launch. why today's mission was a success. and a world war ii veteran finally gets the recognition he earned at 103 years old. >> god's been good. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the "overnight news." i'm omar villafranca. the countdown has begun to the historic senate trial of president trump. it begins tomorrow morning. house managers who will prosecute the case against the president met on capitol hill sunday to work on strategy. senators are getting ready for what could be a grueling few weeks listening to hours of testimony with no questions allowed. ben tracy starts us off from the white house. >> we'll be sitting there in our chairs probably on the order of six hours a day. >> reporter: senators are now preparing to be jurors, deciding

in just weeks whether or not president trump remains in office. republicans don't have enough votes for a quick dismissal, but they are confident the president will be acquitted. they hope in as little as two weeks. >> he is very much comfortable with the idea this is going to turn out well for him. >> reporter: president trump's formal response to the impeachment summons was a short six pages, filled with contempt, calling this a brazen and unlawful attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election and dismissing the articles of impeachment as constitutionally invalid on their face. the white house impeachment managers' 111-page trial memo called president trump's conduct the framers' worst nightmare. >> any jury would convict him in three minutes' flat. the president betrayed his country. >> reporter: house managers met behind closed doors today to splot strategy and are hopinge to persuade at least four republicans to vote in the trial.

something mitch mcconnell has opposed. >> if senator mcconnell prevails and there are no witness, it will be the first impeachment trial in history that goes to conclusion without witnesses. >> thank you so much. >> keep up the great work. >> reporter: the president spent the weekend at his club in florida, where he appeared to be in good spirits. his legal team, which now clouds former clinton special prosecutor ken starr and constitutional law professor alan dershowitz plans to argue the president did not break any laws withholding aid from ukraine and he was within his constitutional rights to refuse congress' demands for documents and witnesses. >> this should result in a acquittal regardless whether the conduct is viewed as okay by you or me or the voters. >> reporter: the president's are expected to file a more detailed trial brief tomorrow laying out their legal arguments. when the trial begins on tuesday, the president will actually be out of the country. he is l be at the world economic forum in switzerland.

it's a quick trip. he'll be back by wednesday evening. omar? >> ben, thanks. the senate impeachment trial of the president will have an immediate impact on some of the democratic presidential candidates. with iowa caucuses 16 days away, they're forced to leave the campaign trail and return to the senate. our political correspondent ed o'keefe is in the washington bureau following all of it. good evening, ed. let's get into it. how the is the impeachment trial going to affect the campaigns of bernie, of warren, of klobuchar, of bennett? >> sure. they will be tied to their desks essentially once the trial begin, unable to tweet, unable to talk, and certainly unable to meet with voters in iowa and new hampshire, two states that value in-person facetime. what are they doing instead? they're deploying their spouses and top surrogates. for bernie sanders that means his wife jane and possibly congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez or other liberals who have endorsed him. for amy klobuchar it's her husband and daughter and the lieutenant governor of neighboring minnesota. all of them hope they can get back on the weekends, but

realizing they could lose their advantages to joe biden and pete buttigieg who plan to spend most of the next 16 days in iowa finding support. >> mike bloomberg is in oklahoma today. why is he in oklahoma? and what is the state of his campaign? >> well, that's right. while everyone else decision, bloomberg continues to zag. he is in the super tuesday state of oklahoma giving a speech in tulsa, known of course as black wall street. it's an address that focusedsed primarily on black economic empowerment. most notably he realizes now as a white man, he has seen more economic advantage in this country and likely has succeeded in part because of his background, acknowledging that black americans have not had the same economic opportunities. this is one of his first detailed addresses on the economy which of course remains strong, and of course he keeps focused on super tuesday states while the rest of the field is in the first four primary states believing once the primaries move to march 3rd and the 14 states that hold them that day, he can rack up delegates and become an immediate factor in the nomination race.

>> the campaign never stops. ed o'keefe in washington, thank you. >> take care. prince harry and his wife meghan's bombshell declaration of independence now has the official blessing of queen elizabeth. harry is expected to join his wife and son archie in british columbia soon. but the family's royal separation comes at a cost and new criticism from meghan's estranged father. imtiaz tyab is in london. >> reporter: the queen was all smiles as she made her way to church near her sandringham estate. the public appearance followed the release of a heartfelt statement on saturday night in support of her grandson, prince harry and his young family, containing what was described as a major crisis for the royal family. >> families are always a problem. and i think she's dealt with it incredibly well. >> reporter: but harry and meghan aren't just stepping back from royal duties as they said in an early statement, they're making a clean break, as the couple spends more time in canada, they'll no longer use

royal titles, do royal duties, go on royal tours have, military appointments, or have access to public money. a high price some say worth paying to escape the intense scrutiny they face in britain. >> i believe it's racism, to be honest. it's quite different the way they treat william and kate compared to meghan and harry. >> reporter: the uk's prime minister boris johnson offered his support today. >> i think the whole country will want to join in wishing them the very best. >> reporter: but meghan's estranged father, thomas markle, was quick to criticize. >> i think both of them are turning into lost souls at this point. i don't -- i don't know what they're looking for. i don't think they know what they're looking for. >> reporter: harry and meghan have made it clear what they want, independence and freedom to forge their own way, something the queen has now given her blessings to. there is still so many details left to work out, including the couple's security and how

they'll finance their new lives. but even then, the whole thing will have to be reviewed after a

♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> to ukraine now, where the remains of 11 people killed in ukrainian jetliner were returned to ukraine today. the flag-draped coffins were met by family members and ukraine's president zelensky. all 176 people on board were killed. a canadian court begins hearing evidence on whether a top chinese executive arrested there should be extradited to the u.s. her arrest has sparked a high-stakes international tug-of-war involving three countries. jonathan vigliotti is in vancouver. >> reporter: man wangchow has

worn an ankle bracelet. the company makes telecom devices and last may the company banned huawei from bidding on national contracts. >> we don't want to do business with huawei for national security reasons. >> reporter: she was arrested at vancouver airport over a year ago at the request of the u.s. government and under the scrutiny of worldwide media. her life of luxury, mansions, art collections contrast against allegations of crime and has made the case one of international intrigue. "the washington post" likened the seifert of the move to china arresting president trump's daughter ivanka. u.s. prosecutors allege she knowingly breached american sanctions against iran by fraudulently selling telecommunications equipment. they want her brought to america to face charges.

many see this as canada caught in the middle. >> we are focused on fulfilling our international obligation, our treaty obligations, making sure that the rule of law is consistently and integrity applied. >> reporter: the country arrested two canadians just nine days after meng was detained. the hearing is scheduled to begin here at supreme court tomorrow. it is expected to last about a week, though appeals could drag this case on for months or even years meaning meng may have to endure confinement both in and out of her mansion indefinitely. omar? >> jonathan, thank you very much. a severe winter storm made a coast-to-coast dash this weekend. heavy snow in erie, pennsylvania caused multiple accidents including this tractor-trailer that jackknifed. in north dakota blowing snow closed parts of the east-west roadway i-94. and in canada, what's being

called a bomb blizzard dumped some 12 feet of snow on new finland and labrador. a new success for spacex. it happened after an unmanned rocket lifted off from the kennedy space center in florida today. the mission, to test whether a crew can abort and escape safely after liftoff. here is meg oliver. >> liftoff! >> reporter: it was a ride designed to fail. under hazy blue skies, the spacex crew dragon lived off carrying astronaut test dummies. but about 84 seconds into flight, the falcon 9 rocket shut down its engines as planned, simulating an emergency. they blasted the crew capsule away from the rocket at more than twice the speed of sound. escaping an explosion, parachutes brought it to a safe splashdown in the atlantic. >> overall it is a picture-perfect mission. >> reporter: it is the last major test for spacex. they need to know astronauts can

abort and escape safely before they begin flying them into space. >> getting it done successfully which appears to be the case was a very big step forward for spacex and for nasa. >> reporter: bowing is also part of this new american space race, but last month they failed to dock their ship with the space station during an uncrewed flight test. nasa needs both companies to succeed. >> both of these companies will be launching regular crew rotation flights to the station starting later this year, ending nasa's sole reliance on russian soyuz spacecraft. >> reporter: spacex could launch two astronauts some time this spring. meg oliver, cbs news, new york. plight of the penguins. how antarctica's melting ice is proving disastrous for the species. we'll visit a winter wonderland also that lures millions into the icy cold. and decades after he left the battlefield, a

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this particular species of penguins, the chinstrap. elephant island is so far-flung, few people have set foot on these rocky shores. three days of sailing. >> then environmental activists from greenpeace crashing through waves and crawling from rubber rafts to join scientists counting penguins. why count penguins? >> because they come back to the same place to nest every year, which means we can really keep tabs on their populations. by observing, we can get an idea of the health of this whole area. >> reporter: alex horowitz observes nesting areas like this, where one parent baby-sits while another travels down a penguin highway to fish for krill, then hikes back up to feed its chick the shrimp-like food. these scientists from stoneybrook and northeastern

universities count each colony on foot with mechanical clickers and scan them from above with high-tech drones, all to see if this population of chinstrap penguins is dwindling like elsewhere in the region. the researchers are traveling on greenpeace ships from island to island peninsula. they're comparing different penguin populations to see how they're adapting to climate change here. it may not look like it, but this is one of the fastest warming areas of earth. one nearby island is actually called penguin island. over the past four decades, its chinstrap population has plunged by 75%. the numbers have dropped across the region as temperatures have soared by more than 5 degrees over 50 years. that's about five times the global average. >> so when we see climate change impacting things down here, glacial melt, warming oceans,

more acidic oceans, penguins really do interact with all of those things. >> reporter: so do krill, chinstrap's favorite food. they depend on sea ice to survive. >> sea ice is really what brings all of the ocean life here together. >> reporter: so with less sea ice, there is less krill, so less food for the chinstrap penguins? >> that's the idea. >> reporter: after days of counting chinstraps on elephant island -- >> 21, 22, 22. >> reporter: the scientists invited us on another ship to watch them crunch numbers from one nesting site. >> okay. so they've lost already 50% since the early teens. >> wow. >> that's amazing. >> reporter: that fits the pattern they're seeing on the island so far. decline of around 150,000 chinstraps since the last major survey 50 years ago. it's another sign the researchers say this penguin population is collapsing across the region.

>> it's very dramatic to have a wildlife population decline by 50%. an unexploited wildlife population. they're not hunted. >> reporter: and we think climate change is the main reason behind that? >> i think climate change is driving almost all of the processes down here now in a way they've never experienced before. >> reporter: penguins are a lot like people. they need food and a good environment to thrive. these researchers say if the world continues to warm, these birds can show us how other species, even human beings will be affected by climate change. still ahead, tassels carved from ice saluted by thousands of snowmen. an ice festival unlike any other, next. feeling sluggish or weighed down can be a sign your digestive system

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outbreak of locusts on that continent in 25 years. giant swarms of the insects are devouring crops across that region. hundreds of thousands of acres are already gone in some of the world's most vulnerable countries. to china where ice is luring more than a million people into the cold. 2,000 frozen snowmen welcome guests to the city of harbin and the world's largest ice festival, but it's at night when harbin really glows. take a look. it takes nearly eight million cubic feet of ice cubes to create all of this. it's from water drained from a nearby river. a 103-year-old vet honored after more than seven decades of quiet heroism on the battlefield.

finally tonight, earnest hemingway defined guts as grace under pressure, a fitting description for a massachusetts man whose remarkable courage more than 70 years ago has led to an overdue honor. here is don dahler. >> reporter: peter fantasia has spent his 103 years thinking of

himself as an ordinary american, just living a good life. >> he was the one you went to. he was the one that helped out the neighbors. >> reporter: but fantasia proved anything but ordinary one terrifying night in france when the young army medic was crouching in his foxhole as german artillery shells burst all around him. >> god says peter do, your job. so my feet took me the hell out of my hole. i went from one hole here, give them medicine, shot, bandages. >> reporter: we don't know how many lives he saved that night. we do know the next day the germans captured him. he spent the next six months as a p.o.w. >> reporter: didn't make any big deal about it? >> no. still doesn't. >> still doesn't. >> reporter: the family was surprised to learn that in addition to a silver star for valor, fantasia was entitled to eight other medals that he never received. >> what he did in his life before us, it's breathtaking. >> reporter: peter, do you want

me to win these on you? >> reporter: so last month, after more than seven decades, technician third grade peter fantasia was finally given the honors he deserves. >> thank you again. >> reporter: he still doesn't know what all the fuss is about. >> god took care of me. he made me do the job, and that's it. >> reporter: but his kids say if you ask this father, grandfather, great grandfather, great, great grandfather what he's proudest of, it's one thing. >> the family. >> uh-huh, the family. >> us. >> reporter: don dahler, cbs news, redding, massachusetts. >> and that's the "overnight news" for this monday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us a little later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm omar villafranca.

♪ ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the "overnight news." i'm omar villafranca. the countdown has begun to the historic senate trial of president trump. it begins tomorrow morning. house managers who will prosecute the case against the president met on capitol hill sunday to work on strategy. senators are getting ready for what could be a grueling few weeks listening to hours of testimony with no questions allowed. ben tracy starts us off from the white house. >> we'll be sitting there in our chairs probably on the order of six hours a day. >> reporter: senators are now preparing to be jurors, deciding in just weeks whether or not president trump remains in office. republicans don't have enough votes for a quick dismissal, but

they are confident the president will be acquitted. they hope in as little as two weeks. >> he is very much comfortable with the idea this is going to turn out well for him. >> reporter: president trump's formal response to the impeachment summons was a short six pages, filled with contempt, calling this a brazen and unlawful attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election and dismissing the articles of impeachment as constitutionally invalid on their face. the white house impeachment managers' 111-page trial memo called president trump's conduct the framers' worst nightmare. >> any jury would convict him in three minutes' flat. the president betrayed his country. >> reporter: house managers met behind closed doors today to plot strategy and are hope ing to persuade at least four republicans to vote in the trial. something mitch mcconnell has opposed. >> if senator mcconnell prevails and there are no witness, it will be the first impeachment trial in history that goes to conclusion without witnesses.

>> thank you so much. >> keep up the great work. >> reporter: the president spent the weekend at his club in florida, where he appeared to be in good spirits. his legal team, which now includes former clinton special prosecutor ken starr and constitutional law professor alan dershowitz, plans to argue the president did not break any laws withholding aid from ukraine, and that he was within his constitutional rights to refuse congress' demands for documents and witnesses. >> this should result in a acquittal regardless whether the conduct is regarded as okay by you or by me or by voters. >> reporter: now the president's attorneys are expected to file a more detailed trial brief tomorrow laying out their legal arguments. now when this trial does begin on tuesday, the president will actually be out of the country. see going to be at the world economic forum in switzerland, but it's a quick trip. he'll be back here by wednesday evening. omar? >> ben, thanks. the senate impeachment trial of the president will have an

immediate impact on some of the democratic presidential candidates. with iowa caucuses 16 days away, they're forced to leave the campaign trail and return to the senate. our political correspondent ed o'keefe is in the washington bureau following all of it. ed, good evening. let's get into it. how the is the impeachment trial going to affect the campaigns of bernie, of warren, of klobuchar, of bennett? >> sure. they will be tied to their desks essentially once the trial begins, unable to tweet, unable to talk, and certainly unable to meet with voters in iowa and new hampshire, two states that value in-person facetime. so what are they doing instead? they're deploying their spouses and top surrogates. for people like bernie sanders, that means his wife jane and possibly congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez or other liberals who have endorsed him. for amy klobuchar it's her husband and daughter and the governor and lieutenant governor of neighboring minnesota. all of them hope they can get back on the weekends, but realizing they could lose their advantages to joe biden and pete buttigieg who plan to spend most of the next 16 days in iowa finding support. >> mike bloomberg is in oklahoma

today. why is he in oklahoma? and what is the state of his campaign? >> well, that's right. while everyone else zigs, bloomberg continues to zag. he is in the super tuesday state of oklahoma giving a speech in tulsa, known of course as black wall street. it's an address that focused primarily on black economic empowerment. most notably, bloomberg realizes now as a white man, he has seen more economic advantage in this country and has likely succeeded in part because of his background, acknowledging that black americans have not had the same economic opportunities. this is one of his first detailed addresses on the economy which of course remains strong, and of course he keeps focused on super tuesday states while the rest of the field is in the first four primary states believing that once the primaries move to march 3rd and the 14 states that hold them that day, he can rack up delegates and become an immediate factor in the democratic nomination race. >> the campaign never stops. ed o'keefe in washington, thank of independence now has th

official blessing of queen elizabeth. harry is expected to join his wife and son archie in british columbia soon. but the family's royal separation comes at a cost and new criticism from meghan's estranged father. imtiaz tyab is in london. >> reporter: the queen was all smiles as she made her way to church near her sandringham estate. the public appearance followed the release of a heartfelt statement on saturday night in support of her grandson, prince harry and his young family, containing what was described as a major crisis for the royal family. >> families are always a problem. and i think she's dealt with it incredibly well. >> reporter: but harry and meghan aren't just stepping back from royal duties as they said in an early statement, they're making a clean break. as the couple spends more time in canada, they'll no longer use royal titles, do royal duties, go on royal tours, have military

appointments, or have access to public money. a high price some say worth paying to escape the intense scrutiny they face in britain. but meghan's estranged father thomas markle was quick to criticize. >> i think both of them are turning into lost souls at this point. i don't know what they're looking for. i don't know they know what they're looking for. >> reporter: harry and meghan have made it clear what they want, independence and freedom to forge their own way, something the queen has now given her blessings to. there is still so many details left to work out, including the couple's security and how they'll finance their new lives. but even then, the whole thing will have to be reviewed after a year. omar? >> imtiaz, thank you. a new success for spacex. it happened after a rocket lifted off from the kennedy space center in florida today. the mission, can a crew abort and escape safely after lift

off. here is meg oliver. >> liftoff! >> reporter: it was a ride designed to fail. under hazy blue skies, the spacex crew dragon lived off carrying astronaut test dummies. but about 84 seconds into flight, the falcon 9 rocket shut down its engines as planned, simulating an emergency. the escape system blasted the crew capsule away from the rocket at more than twice the speed of sound, escaping an explosion, parachutes brought to it a safe splashdown in the atlantic. >> overall it is a picture-perfect mission. it went as well as one can possibly expect. >> reporter: it is the last major test for spacex. they need to know astronauts can abort and escape safely before they begin flying them into space. boeing is also part of this new american space race, but last month they failed to dock their ship with the space station during an uncrewed flight test. nasa needs both companies to succeed. >> both of these companies will nching cre f starting later this year, ending nasa's sole reliance on russian soyuz spacecraft.

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♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome back to the "overnight news." i'm omar villafranca. it will be must-see tv as the impeachment trial of president donald trump gets under way tomorrow in the u.s. senate. and a key figure will be the chief justice of the supreme court, john roberts, who will sit as judge. jan crawford reports. >> so help you god? >> i do. >> reporter: with that, john g. roberts was sworn in yesterday to take on a role outlined in the constitution when the president of the united states is tried, the chief justice shall preside. but unlike most trials where judges are in complete control, here it will be the senate that has the first and last word.

jeff rosen, president and ceoro symbol of neutrality. >> to be accepted by both sides as fair, as not favoring one side or another. >> reporter: sitting at the center of a political fight pose as unique challenge for the 64-year-old chief justice. he is no fan of the limelight. and going back to his 2005 confirmation hearing has fiercely defended the dependence of federal judges, comparing them to umpires who call balls and strikes. >> the role of an umpire and a judge is critical. they make sure everybody plays by the rules. >> reporter: but in an impeachment trial, not only does the senate set the rules, it can by a majority vote overturn any of roberts' rulings. >> the senate will convene as a court of impeachment. >> reporter: 21 years ago roberts' predecessor, the late chief justice william rehnquist presided over president clinton's impeachment trial. >> i do. >> reporter: but he only made

one ruling, that senators were more than jurors because the senate could also dictate the trial like a judge. >> it's all the more important to have a figure who is recognized by both sides as above politics, and that's why it's so important that it's chief justice roberts. >> so help me god. >> reporter: the chief justice has been quick to defend federal judges from partisan attack, including by president trump. >> we do not serve one party or one interest. we serve one nation. >> reporter: that's one reason why harvard law school's richard lazarus, roberts' long-time friend says the chief may see the trial as an opportunity. turkey, show the american people the nonpartisan nature of the way the judges and justices work. >> reporter: he said roberts will not shy away from making a ruling even if it could be overridden. >> he is not just going to be an incidental player, because the fact is he wants to show the american people the face of the supreme court. >> reporter: now while roberts will be presiding over that

trial, the supreme court also is going to be taking up some of the most contentious issues of our time from gay rights, abortion, gun rights, the dreamers' immigration program, even president trump's tax returns. all of these cases are even more likely to make roberts try to remai above the fray. history buffs and fans of president john f. kennedy now have the opportunity to own their own little piece of history, jfk's water colors. who knew. the kennedy paintings are up for auction now, and you can bid online. michelle miller has the details. >> that's the question before the american people, and only you can decide what you want, what you want this country to be. >> reporter: around the same time of the historic debate between john f. kennedy and richard nixon, the man who will become the 35th president of the united states created these, water colors of new york's sheepshead bay, painted and signed by jfk. now, for just the second time,

they're going up for auction as part of a huge collection of kennedy memorabilia at boston's r.r. auction house. >> so a lot of people don't know that kennedy painted, but he painted and he drew. he had an artistic sense to him. >> reporter: a well-known doodler, jfk also painted as a way to relax, even finding time to take out his brushes during the heated 1960 presidential race. >> we see sailboats all these threw these important documents like during the cuban missile crisis. on it he has drawn boats. >> reporter: kennedy wasn't the only president skilled in the art of painting. president and former civil war general ulysses grant produced about ten works during his years there. another general and president, dwight d. eisenhower took up the hobby at age 58 at the urging of winston churchill. some of his works, including this portrait of churchill now hang in embassies and museums.

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and soothing softness to relieve. a nose in need, deserves puffs, indeed. on this martin luther king holiday, the united states navy will bestow a unique honor on an african american hero of world war ii. it will name an aircraft carrier in his honor, and his name is dori miller. david martin hahn has his story. >> reporter: the aircraft carrier is the symbol of american power. 90,000 tons of diplomacy, the navy likes to say. almost all of them are named after presidents, until acting secretary of the navy thomas mobley broke with tradition. >> so the list of carriers is going to read washington, lincoln, roosevelt, reagan, truman, eisenhower, bush, ford, kennedy, norah.

>> exactly right. and i like it when you put that it way. >> reporter: that's miller as in dori miller. the next aircraft carrier to be built will be named for the grandson of slaves andhey're croppers. >> we decided to do this on martin luther king's birthday at pearl harbor. >> reporter: his closest surviving relatives are still getting used to having a carrier named for their uncle dori, who served in the segregated navy of world war ii. >> this is a great honor, because it's been a hard long road. >> reporter: he was born in dor. >> i've never heard of a man named doris. where did that name come from? >> my grandma thought she was having a girl. and it wasn't a girl. doris turned out to be a boy. so that's where the name came from. >> reporter: waco has been described in those years as the uc, outh met >> whi manit y, ma'am.

you didn't disrespect whatsoever. don't care how old you are. >> reporter: there were no economic opportunities for a young black man, so he joined the navy. at least there the pay was steady. >> the navy policy at that time limited blacks to those duties that were manual, that they thought didn't require a whole lot of intellect. >> reporter: regina acres is a historian with the naval history command. >> when dori miller came in, he was limited to the messman's branch pretty much. >> reporter: what does a mess attend do? >> basically, a mess attend takes care of an officer. you lay out his clothes, you shine his shoes and you serve in the officers mess. >> reporter: miller served aboard the battleship west virginia which on sunday morning, december 7th, 1941 was tied up on battleship row in pearl harbor.

>> dori miller had just finished serving breakfast and he was sorting laundry. >> reporter: the west virginia was hit by nine japanese torpedos and two bombs. miller was ordered to the bridge to evacuate the ship's captain who lay mortally wounded. what happened next was dramatized by cuba gooding jr. in the movie "pearl harbor." against all rules, miller manned a machine gun. >> the irony of this is back in the '40s, preworld war ii, african americans were not allowed to have any jobs where they handled machine guns or any type of lethal force. >> reporter: when the navy, which miller had joined in 1939, awarded medals to those who had fought bravely, it didn't even mention the name doris miller. why wouldn't the navy right from the start at least identify him by name instead of calling him an unknown negro sailor? >> well, see, you'd have to be a

negro in 1939 to understand that. >> reporter: four months later, the pittsburg courier, perhaps the leading african american newspaper of the day finally published the name, and the secretary of the navy grudgingly gave him a letter of commendation. >> in his opinion, that's all he warranted. however, others disagreed. the press, black and white press disagreed. the national association for the advancement of colored people disagreed. >> reporter: as recorded on miller's service card in the navy archives. there it is. >> there you go. >> reporter: president roosevelt stepped in and ordered him awarded the navy cross. >> that was not without controversy. there were some people who did not want him to receive the navy cross. >> reporter: because of his race? >> because of his race. >> reporter: he received the medal from admiral chester nimitz, who noted miller was the first pen of his race to receive such a high honor. >> he understood the importance of having a black hero to encourage other blacks to support the navy's war effort. >> reporter: miller went on a speaking tour and became a black celebrity in the same league as

heavyweight champion joe lewis and singer lena horn. >> some considered him just as important, just as aspirational, drew just as much hope from him. >> reporter: is he comfortable with his celebrity? >> no, not at all. his goal really was to get to his next ship. >> reporter: he was assigned to aircraft carrier liscomb bay, which less than a year after pearl harbor was sunk by a japanese torpedo. dori miller was never seen again. >> it's hard thinking of my grandmother, her hurt. she used to say "had i been a white woman, they would have treated me better." but i'm a black woman, and my son is a hero." >> reporter: over the years, his legacy has been honored, including with this larger than life statue in his hometown of waco, but that's nothing like having an aircraft carrier named of him. how many carriers are there

right now? >> right now we have 11. >> reporter: so this is an honor reserved for very few americans. >> absolutely. >> reporter: the last carrier to be christened was the john f. kennedy by his daughter carol e caroline. construction has not yet begun on the miller. before the ship actually gets in the water, it's probably seven or eight years from now. >> reporter: once it gets into the water, how long is it going to be around? >> 50 years. >> and like everything else that is celebrated about dori miller, it's going to draw some criticism, rest assured. >> reporter: so what is going to be the criticism? >> some may suggest it's more than he deserves. some may say he is just a guy who did his job when general quarters went off on a ship. what's the big deal. >> reporter: what was your personal reaction? >> oh, i was overwhelmed. it is tremendous. and it's a reminder too that heroism is in no way limited by race, by gender, by background, by rank or rating. >> and the ceremony is going to

take place on martin luther king day. >> never thought my uncle would be next to martin luther king or ev the same day.

most schools will be closed today to mark the martin luther king holiday. but when classes resume, there will be at least one elementary school where the students are giving the lesson in caring. chip reid reports. >> reporter: the third graders at philadelphia elementary school in rural tennessee just

love to help each other. >> did you get number three? >> yep. it's 12. >> reporter: but recently, daniel hunt needed help with a lot more than math after his family's house burned to the ground. no one was hurt, but they lost almost everything. >> surprise! >> reporter: so they launched a dozens of games and toys.im wit daniel was so moved, that instead of checking out all those gifts, he motioned for his classmates to come on in for a group hug that went viral, the hug seen round the world. >> i say come here, and they gave me a big hug. they nearly pushed me. >> reporter: how many of you were involved in that famous group hug with daniel? we came to tennessee to meet these young icons of generosity. >> i gave him some comic books to read. >> i gave him a dinosaur lego kit. >> i gave him a blanket and a lunch box. >> reporter: why did they do it?

>> because daniel is a nice friend and he's always there for us when we need him to give us a hug and be kind to us. >> rorter: and how did it make them feel? >> when youiveomething to someone, it makes them happy, and it makes you happy too. just complete whole joy. >> at this point, we noticed their teacher's eyes were filled with tears. >> just a few tears of joy. i'm so proud. of love, of how much love they have to give. >> reporter: all that love got to daniel too. >> guys, i think daniel needs another hug. >> reporter: third graders teaching us that sometimes what we need most is a hug. chip reid, cbs news, philadelphia, tennessee. >> and that's the "overnight news" for this monday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us a little later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm omar villafranca.

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