phone app, even covering half my face, it still worked on the first try. >> thereclearview has three billion images in its sourced from millions of websites and social media platforms in a method known as scraping. wired in editor-in-chief nick thompson says facial recognition raises sobering moral and ethical questions. >> in order to build it, you have to scrape a lot of public information in ways that may be legal but it certainly goes against the terms of service of companies like facebook and twitter. secondly, this is really creepy. and the big companies who have the data already haven't wanted to do it. rofrz youtube, facebook, venmo, and twitter told cbs news scraping is against their policies. last night google and youtube sent clearview a cease and desist letter, and that comes weeks after twitter did the same, demanding clearview stop

scraping pictures from their platform and delete any data taken. are you aiming to comply with twitter? >> our legal counsel has reached out to them and they're handling it accordingly, but there is also a first amendment right to public information. so the way we have built our system is to only take publicly available information and index it that way. >> reporter: clear view says more than 600 law enforcement agencies across the country use this software, but wouldn't say how many are free trial subscriptions. new jersey attorney general recently ordered state law enforcement agencies to temporarily stop using this technology until they learn more. what are your concerns with this technology? >> i'm not categorically opposed to facial recognition technology. i think used properly, it could help us solve criminal cases more quickly. it would help us apprehend child abuser, domestic terrorists. but what i am opposed to is the wide scale collection of biometric information and the

use of it without proper safeguards by law enforcement. >> reporter: but tontat argues it is essentially a search engine for faces. >> google can pull in information from all different welcomeses. so if it's public you know and it's out there and it could be inside google search engine, it could be inside ours as well. >> reporter: in a statement to cbs news, google calls that comparison inaccurate, writing, quote, we give web masters control over whatever information from their site is included in our search results, including the option to opt out entirely. and this is platform is very powerful, but it relies on transparency, for people to trust and believe it. >> yeah. >> reporter: and there isn't much of that available right now. >> that's why i'm here on tv explaining all these things. and that's why we meet with a lot of the people in government. >> reporter: he tells cbs news the technology won't be made available to the general public a long as he is running clearview, but thompson says it may not be so simple. >> so clearview says you may be

worried about our technology, but it's just used by police departments to catch terrorists and keep you safe. but if we know anything from the history of technology and the history of silicon valley, it's that the initial intended use is not the only use. >> now tontat told us subscription prices vary, but to give you an idea one of the largest police departments in the country pays roughly for a two-year contract. clearview keeps all images even if they are deleted from the website where they are sourced and "the new york times" which really broke this story open, reporter kashmir hill reports the company is working on a tool that would let people request to have those images taken down. marijuana is now legal for recreational or medical uses in 33 states, but does it make some people a danger on the roads? aaa looked at a decade of traffic deaths in washington state. it found the number of drivers involved in fatal crashes who

tested positive for marijuana doubled since pot was legalized there in 2012. kris van cleave goes behind the numbers. >> marijuana dispensaries like this one are all over los angeles, and aaa is increasingly worried about what happens when people get stoned and get behind the wheel. 16-year-old chad briton was walking to his car during lunch when he was hit and killed in front of his high school by a teen driver high on pot. >> he was a beautiful soul. he'd do anything for anyone. >> reporter: aaa's jake nelson worries the rate of driving stoned is reaching a new high as legalized cannabis becomes more widely available. >> if you're going to use marijuana, you shouldn't drive. and if you know you have to drive, you should not use marijuana in any shape or form. >> why do you drive around smoking? you know that's not a good idea, right? >> yeah, i do. >> reporter: dashboard video shows the kind of run-ins with the kinds of drivers washington state police are saying are happening more often.

>> very common. we run into it every day. >> reporter: state trooper bruce meyers says pot is often mixed with booze or other drugs. >> it affects your cognitive abilities, your decision making reporesrcfrom 2018 shows crashes overall were up 6% in washington, nevada and oregon compared to neighboring states where marijuana is banned. recreational pot is now legal in 11 states, and it's allowed for medical use in 22. in a recent survey of more than 11,000 colorado drivers, 69% of people who identified as cannabis users said they had driven high in the last year. and 10% believed they drove better while stoned. leading to psas like these. >> the police can't tell that i'm driving high. [ buzzer ] >> reporter: aaa says states need a two-tier system to determine who is driving high, testing both recent use and level of impairment. >> laws that can determine how much thc can be in a person's

blood are completely meaningless in allowing us to predict how impaired somebody is behind the wheel. >> reporter: aaa opposed the use of recreational marijuana, saying it presents a threat to auto safety. saying the increase in stops is due to an increase in people testing for the presence of marijuana and that marijuana can be detectable in the body e when our daughter and her kids moved in with us,

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the town of really, california just announced a partnership with boeing to try to stem what's expected to be a severe shortage of commercial pilots. and in the process, maybe bring the town back from the economic brink. meg oliver has the details of the plan. >> reporter: local officials hope it's a job revolution, turning this large agricultural region into a pilot training hub. it all started when this down on its luck town bought a few airplanes. that attracted the world's largest aerospace company, and now it looks like the sky is the limit. >> don't worry, i got this. >> reporter: in the library at jefferson elementary, the home of the jets. >> i won't let my passengers down. >> reporter: 11-year-old anthony corona sits at the controls of a flight simulator usually reserved for professional pilots. so you're pretty good? >> yep. >> reporter: would you consider yourself an expert? >> no. i just call myself a pro. i'm basically training right

now. >> reporter: how it got here is a story that started with a town on the verge of bankruptcy. reedornia is nestled in the central valley. during world war ii it was a busy training ground for piemts. but today 76% its residents are low income. how bad did the unemployment rate get? >> so in reedley the unemployment rate got up to 33%. >> reporter: town manager nicole ziba says the town's economy rose and well with the industry. you need you needed to make a radical decision. >> i say desperation breeds innovations. >> reporter: a few years ago she applied for and won a technology grant. she used it to buy four electric planes. there are 70 in the world and you have four here in reedley. >> we have four which means we have the largest concentration of production all electric aircraft not only in the nation, but in the world. >> reporter: she planned to use them to start a low-cost pilot

training program, but instead they attracted the attention of aerospace giant boeing, which donated two flight simulators to the local school district in hopes of stoking an early passion for flying. >> the goal was could we pull our families out of poverty by showing them careers in aviation, which sounds a little strange except if you know the industry crisis that's brewing in aviation. >> across this next 15 years, we're going see literally half of the airline pilots currently flying retire. so we have to replace half of them. >> reporter: that crisis also prompted john johnson to start the flight science degreereedlee college. >> we're the only state school in california that allows the use of federal financial aid and allows the use of v.a. benefits to help cover the costs of flight training. >> reporter: that means instead of costly private flying lesson, students can learn to fly at school. and there are jobs waiting for them when they graduate. this is the time to get in on

this? >> this is the best time in the history of the united states to become a commercial airline pilot, yes. >> i have to say i like this class a lot. >> reporter: this is your favorite class? >> yes. >> reporter: 22-year-old lorenzo rios will graduate with the first class of pilots this summer. >> we got lights. we got camera. we got action. >> reporter: rios is the son of an army lieutenant colonel. >> center line. >> reporter: using his dad's v.a. benefits to pay for school was his only option. so without those v.a. benefits, would you have been able to do this? >> no. it would have been a very, very tough situation for me. >> reporter: what it is that you love so much about flying? >> this right here. i mean, you really can't beat the view. it's just absolutely gorgeous. >> reporter: while the horizon for rios is filled with the promising career in the cockpit, for the younger kids of reedley, the view from the ground is just beginning to come into focus. how important is it to expose

children at a young age, especially with these flight simulators? >> i think it's absolutely crucial. i didn't know what i wanted to do

there is a young girl in southern california who heard about a big problem in her school lunchroom. she decided to make an even bigger difference. here is jamie yuccas. >> reporter: many parents at this vista, california school were behind on lunch payments. so kiki hardy, a soft-spoken kindergartner, decided to take action. >> because somebody's mom didn't buy lunch. >> reporter: her solution, open a cocoa and cookie stand. >> we got money for school lunch. >> i didn't even know who she was. >> reporter: teresa sharp runs the cafeteria. >> you never know what their little minds, what's thinking, what's going around and around in their head. >> reporter: this is what i canny's mind cooked up, a series of fundraisers. >> i heard that somebody donated $250 i think. >> and someone else donated $7,000. >> whoa! >> reporter: kiki's kindness project didn't just pay off her elementary school's debt, but the entire district's.

>> for her to come up with this all on her own was just amazing to me. >> reporter: fifth grader dawson spees says he is now inspired to plant trs. ray lynn chavez wants to feed the homeless. if it wasn't for kiki, would you have eve thougbout some of these ideas? >> probably not. >> reporter: rae lynn says when she told her family about kiki's family project -- >> it made my grandma cry. >> she was just so happy that our next generation is going to be that kind and caring. >> reporter: proof that kindness -- >> my community. >> reporter: can be contagious. >> thank you. >> reporter: jamie yuccas, cbs news, vista, lifornia. >> kindness can be infectious. words of wisdom. and that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us a little later for the morning news. and you don't want to miss "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm don dahler.

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