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and say what are the threats that we want to do, then maybe they should consider banning all social media apps from government phones. >> reporter: in a statement, tiktok added the concerns driving these bans are largely fueled by misinformation about our company. this battle over tiktok data is the subject of high level negotiations with the u.s. government. tiktok is now offered to move that data to texas, but, norah, that is a deal that the u.s. hasn't accepted. >> it's a big deal. jeff pegues, thank you. democrats are celebrating their senate seat win in georgia last night as republicans do some soul-searching on what went wrong and look at the path forward. we get more now from cbs' nikole killion. >> reporter: senator raphael warnock arrived to a hero's welcome on capitol hill. >> georgia did it again! >> reporter: the democratic incumbent locked in a six-year term by defeating gop nominee
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herschel walker, bolstered by historic turnout. >> the people have spoken. >> i'm not going make any excuses now because we put up one heck of a fight. >> reporter: warnock's win means democrats have 51 seats int the upper chamber. >> 51. >> reporter: an advantage that gives him greater control over president biden's judicial nominations and agenda, subpoena power, and leverage on committees. >> it's significant. >>orter: wasee we can heartburn for senate republicans, who began pointing fingers. arn from it. w handd by former trump, but some republicans warned early on he came with too much baggage. his son christian tweeted last night trump called my dad for months, demanding that he run. everyone with a brain begged him please don't do this. the former football star is the eighth trump-backed senate candidate to be defeated. >> i know a lot of people in our party love the president, former president. but he's -- if you will, the kiss of death.
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>> reporter: some gop leaders are now rethinking the party's strategy, taking a page out of democrats' playbook. >> they did a better job with early votes, mail-in and early voting. we all have to start doing that. >> reporter: as far as in-person election day voting, georgia has set another record, with more than 1.6 million ballots cast tuesday. that is more than election day last month, the 2021 runoff and the 2020 presidential election. norah? >> that didn't help walker. all right, nikole killion, thank you. consumer advocates are sounding the alarm about apple's air tags. two women have filed a class action lawsuit against the company. they claim their ex-partners used the small tracking device to stalk them. cbs' lilia luciano spoke with one of the plaintiffs. >> there were definitely lots of times where i didn't sleep well. there has been a lot of therapy since then. >> reporter: after a relationship ended, laura hughes says her ex-boyfriend used an
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apple air tag to track her every move. >> i got the alert that said an air tag was moving with me. >> reporter: how did you finally find it? >> i just literally dug around the outside edges of my car and eventually found it in the wheel well. >> reporter: this quarter-sized device is designed to track your wallet, your luggage, or your keys, but it can also track you. here is how it works. this air tag is sending a bluetooth signal to the iphones of every stranger around me. that data then goes to the icloud where the person tracking your device can see your every move. why it's so effective? well, no matter where you are, you're never far away from an iphone phone. the lawsuit accuses apple of negligence and seeks damages as well as an order for apple to stop releasing what they call an unreasonably dangerous article into the market. apple says it is not going to comment on ongoing litigation. but in february, the company
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released a number of safety measures to address unwanted tracking. adding we condemn in the strongest terms any malicious use of our product. this surveillance video expert -- >> i'd much rather spend a a an extra minute looking for my keys than live in a world where every move is tracked. as long as you're selling a cheap, ubiquitous tracking device, people are going to abuse it. >> reporter: what do you want apple to do? >> i want apple to make their product safer or remove it from the market. >> reporter: lauren found it in her case because she has an iphone. but people who don't have iphones need to download it and check if they're being tracked. if you fear for your safety, contact law enforcement. >> really interesting. lilia luciano, thank you. the mission of the u.s. coast guard is to protect america's shores, save lives, and deter threats like dangerous drugs being smuggled in the united states. well, now the maritime defender
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is run by four-star admiral lin-manul linda fagan, the only woman to lead a branch of the u.s. military. we spoke to the commandant and why she says this isn't your grandfather's coast guard. >> reporter: this is dramatic video of the coast guard rescuing a cruise ship passenger who fell overboard. and this -- >> man overboard! >> reporter: is the training it took to save his life. we're here with the u.s. security guard witnessing a rescue swimmer deployment. this is exactly the kind of work that they do on a regular basis. >> reporter: in a single year, the coast guard conducted more than 16,000 search-and-rescue missions and saved over 4,000 lives. >> you can see the rescue swimmer's got the survivor now in something called a physical grip where he wraps his arms around the survivor. that's the quickest way to get something out of harm's way. >> you usually don't fly in
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weather like this, do you? >> usually when we're doing what we do well, it is not a nice day like this. >> reporter: many of those rescues taking place during natural disasters like hurricanes, which have become stronger due to climate change. admiral linda fagan is the commandant of the u.s. coast guard, the first woman to serve in that role in the branch's 232-year history. >> my battle cry is tomorrow looks different, and so will we. >> reporter: one of the major challenges facing the commandant, recruitment. the coast guard has missed its recruiting goals the last three years. has this recruiting challenge reached a crisis point? >> we're not at a crisis point yet, but we need to turn the corner. >> reporter: she took us to what's described as the heartbeat of the coast guard, cape may training center, where every enlisted coastie starts their journey. what are they shouting? >> louder, faster. >> reporter: women make up only 15% of the coast guard.
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something admiral fagan hopes changes with her leadership. how do you think your role as the first female commandant has changed things? >> i met a young 8-year-old, and se's i'm going to join the coast guard and i'm going to be a commandant. she doesn't have to wonder if this might be possible. i embody that it is. >> you know what they say. see it, believe it. we can report that the freshman class at the u.s. coast guard academy is more than 40% female. all right. he was one of boston's most ruthless mobsters. new details on the death of whitey bulger, next. when you really need to sleep. you reach for the really good stuff. zzzquil ultra helps you sleep better and longer when you need it most.
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came for the first time. they lost sergeant jacob albaek three years ago. >> coming here, everybody's lost someone. and so it's easier to talk about it to them, because they know what you're going through. >> reporter: this was the largest snowball express ever, nearly 1900 people in all. treated like vips every step of the way. on chartered airplanes with onboard unusual entertainment, and as treasured guests at disney world in orlando. >> it just made me kind of feel like i haven't been forgotten. >> reporter: there were the somber moments too. that happens when they remember their heroes and ours too. david begnaud, cbs news, new york. that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you, the news continues. for other, check back later for "cbs mornings." remember, you can follow us online any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from right here in the
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nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. this is cbs news flash. i'm dan lieberman in new york. a a shooting outside a walmart in marietta, georgia has left one person wounded. the shooting was between two separate groups. several people have been detained for questioning. children's painkillers are in high demand, but in short supply as respiratory illnesses continue to rise. all but six states are experiencing high or very high respiratory illnesses. over-the-counter medications are hard to find in many locations. usda is working with lawmakers to address the situation. "time" magazine has addressed its person of the year.
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it's ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy, saying he galvanized the world in a way we haven't seen in decades. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm dan lieberman, cbs news, new york. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> tonight cbs news has learned of new threats of a copycat attack on america's infrastructure like the one that knocked out power to thousands in north carolina. and we're just getting new information from police in that case of the four college students who were murdered. investigators are looking for information about a specific kind of car. but we do want to begin with those new classified documents. lawyers for donald trump say they discovered material while searching a storage unit in west palm beach, florida. the items were reportedly found among a mix of boxes, gifts
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suits, and clothes including swords and wrestling belts. this is raising questions about what it means for the ongoing special counsel investigation. cbs' scott macfarlane joins us with the possible legal troubles ahead. good evening, scott. >> good evening, norah. four months after the fbi seized records marked classified from mar-a-lago, still more documents marked classified are surfacing, this time in a storage unit used by the former president in florida. a u.s. official confirms to cbs news representatives of former president donald trump alerted the fbi they've recovered yet another set of potentially sensitive documents, this time in a storage facility in west palm beach. the official confirmed inside a sealed box there were two documents with classified markings, adding to the more than 300 sensitive documents found this year. >> yet another instance in which trump has failed to comply with lawful demands to return them. >> reporter: this revelation is the first indication classified materials might have been held or might still be on-site at other trump properties. the searches were reportedly conducted around thanksgiving at
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three other locations, the president's golf club in bedminster, trump tower in new york, and in a storage facility at trump's mar-a-lago estate. and at a time of growing legal peril for the former president. >> the first question now is, is the department of justice satisfied they have everything? if they don't, how are they going to get the rest? >> reporter: the fbi seized 33 boxes of records august 8th at mar-a-lago, including records that were supposed to be in the hands of the national archives. last month the justice department appointed special counsel jack smith to oversea the growing probe into those documents. trump has downplayed the importance of the seizures, but critics say mishandling of these records could have allowed highly sensitive material to fall into the wrong hands. >> the disregard and disdain for legal norms and rules simply cannot be accepted from anyone. no one is above the law. >> reporter: last week an appeals court overruled trump's request for an independent special master to review some of the papers seized from mar-a-lago, which had slowed the
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investigation, though trump could still appeal that decision, the investigation into him grows, norah. it accelerates. >> quite a development, scott macfarlane. thank you so much. we turn now to some breaking news. cbs news has learned of new online chatter from domestic extremist groups following that recent attack on two electric substations in north carolina. some of those posting online are advocating for further attacks on major cities like new york and washington, d.c. mark strassmann is in north carolina, where the lights are finally coming back on. >> reporter: with two substations in moore county raked by gunfire, more worrisome than ever. security around america's grid infrastructure. >> most concerningly is copycat attacks in the coming weeks against other elements of the grid. >> reporter: chris krebs, cbs news cyber security expert has watched threats against america's grid proliferate, like this one posted online hours after the moore attack.
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so substations can be easily compromised. hmm. tell me more. >> this attacker knew exactly where to hit. and they did it deliberately and they did it multiple times, and they did it very thoroughly. >> reporter: there is a playbook for it if you're so inclined? >> absolutely. s hasonrmedecent y a playok>> . inbstaons and a series of specific threats in california from domestic violence extremists that will likely remain a threat to the electricity subsector through 2023. >> lights are back on. >> reporter: back in moore county, the lights came on for the first time since saturday in sena nassar's furniture store. >> back in business. >> reporter: but anthony parks has major losses in his ice cream shop. tossed, $9,000 worth of spoiled dairy. >> everybody is still a little
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bit raw and upset and angry that this happened in the first place. >> reporter: to give you a sense of where this case stands, the fbi today put out another plea for tips, and the governor announced a new $75,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest. norah? >> mark strassmann, thank you very much. well, there is a major development tonight in the murder of four college students in idaho. detectives want to speak to the driver of a white 2011 to 2013 hyundai elantra with unknown license plate. they say the occupants of the car may have critical information regarding the case. also today you can see police began collecting the victims' personal belongings that they say are no longer needed for the investigation. they want to return them to their families. tonight texas governor greg abbott has banned the use of the social media app tiktok on all government-issued devices over cyber security concerns.
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several other states and the u.s. military had previously banned the popular chinese-owned app. we get more now from cbs' jeff pegues. >> reporter: the social media app is a viral sensation. but today texas governor greg abbott became the latest state official to ban tiktok from state phones, calling it a security threat. the big concern, the chinese intelligence officials could force tiktok, owned by chinese company bytedance to share the vast amounts of data it collects. in a letter announcing the ban, governor abbott wrote tiktok harvests vast amounts of data from its users' devices, and offers this trove of potentially sensitive information to the chinese government. texas joins maryland and south dakota in banning tiktok. tiktok is one of the most popular social media platforms in the u.s. it boasts millions of users, yet for years the intelligence community has had concerns about how tiktok data is being used.
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>> they also have the ability to collect data through it on users, which can be used for traditional espionage operations. >> reporter: tiktok denies that it shares data with the chinese government. >> for some of the governors, if they take a step back and look and say what are the threats that we want to do, then maybe they should consider banning all social media apps from government phones. >> reporter: in a statement, tiktok added the concerns driving these bans are largely fueled by misinformation about our company. this battle over tiktok data is the subject of high-level negotiations with the u.s. government. tiktok is now offered to move that data to texas, but, norah, that is a deal that the u.s. hasn't accepted. >> it's a big deal. jeff pegues, thank you. there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight
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♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> i'm catherine herridge in washington. thanks for staying with us. in a move that could jump-start the world's second largest economy, china announced it is dialing back its strict zero covid policy. the move comes after weeks of widespread protests that sparked a harsh government crackdown. nearly three years of lockdowns, quarantines, and mandatory testing disrupted the lives of hundreds of millions of people and has recently undermined support for china's communist party, known as the ccp. elizabeth palmer reports from tokyo. >> reporter: china's national health commission held a press
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conference. to announce that mandatory covid testing for most people will end immediately. they'll no longer have to show a negative test result in public places, and those armies of health workers in hazmat suits will stop locking down apartment complexes. also, people with covid won't be forced into state quarantine. they'll be able to recover at home. all that and a commitment to vaccinating the elderly sounds like common sense, but it's a huge climb down for xi jinping and the communist party. who watched protests erupt in over 20 cities with calls for freedom, not lockdowns. today the protesters got a lot of what they wanted, but because the government has convinced people that covid is dangerously lethal, the new rules have brought fresh anxiety. at the river where hearty
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beijingers head to swim, this regular was getting ready to plunge in. "i am confused," he told us. "is zero covid better or should we learn to live with the virus? this government flip-flop, i'm just not sure which side to pick." he has already picked not getting a vaccine. he's chosen to ward off covid with a freezing dip to boost his immune system. the risk now is with so many undervaccinated elderly people, china is facing a huge surge of covid deaths. i'm elizabeth palmer in tokyo. doctors and their nations are dealing with a nationwide shortage of adderall, one of the midwest known preskrigss for adhd. prescriptions jumped from 2020 to 2021 and some explain the explosion on health care
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providers that diagnosis over the internet and prescribe a lot of medication. one platform cerebral has been the focus of an ongoing investigation, and earlier this year it was the subject of a justice department probe. anna werner reports. >> reporter: we heard from a mother in the state of washington who wanted us to look into the story of what happened to her son after he went to cerebral seeking adderall, and questions as to whether online mental health care really delivers on its promises. >> i learned the reasons behind habits i've had my whole life. >> reporter: if you've spent any time on tiktok over the pandemic, you probably came across ads like these. >> i had no idea this was caused by undiagnosed adhd. >> reporter: mental health companies offering fast, affordable treatment for adhd, attention deficit hyper david disorder. >> cerebral provides a way to screened for adhd. >> reporter: often that came
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with a prescription for adderall, a tightly controlled substance by the drug enforcement administration because it has a high ability for disuse. >> reporter: this doctor is a prescribing expert. >> these are dangerous drugs that are controlled for a good reason. >> reporter: prior to the pandemic, a law called the ryan haight act required medical professionals to see patients in person before prescribing any controlled substance. but law was temporarily lifted due to the pandemic, meaning those drugs can now be prescribed through online appointments, and online company, including cerebral, have urged the government to drop that in-person visit requirement permanently. something the doctor sees as risky. >> without the requirement for a face-to-face visit, you can see businesses take advantage of the ease in which these drugs can be prescribed. >> reporter: the potential for abuse is just too high if it's just online? >> that's correct.
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>> i come here daily. >> reporter: kelly rasmussen of tacoma, washington says she's seen that firsthand. her 21-year-old son elijah hansen was prescribed adderall by cerebral. when did you find out he had gone to cerebral? >> i did not even know he went to cerebral until after i found a pill bottle. >> reporter: elijah had struggled with mental health issues for years for which he was taking prescription medication. but his younger brother ethan says in the past he and elijah had also abused a ed adderall, this year he said he found a new way to get it, through cerebral. even though medical records show elijah had never been previously diagnosed with adhd, cerebral records show he claimed to one of their directors in february that he wanted help for that disorder. that prescriber declined to give him a stimulant, deeming him a risk to prescribe a controlled substance. so he tried again in april.
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this time a different cerebral prescriber gave him the adderall. >> your brother said he lied and told them he had something else, adhd. >> reporter: to get the adderall? >> right. >> reporter: in an interview this june, cerebral ceo defended the company's prescribing practices. >> we have really, really good clinical outcomes when it comes to depression and anxiety and ptsd and adhd and even serious mental disorders such as bipolar disrecord. >> reporter: but in this letter obtained last month obtained by cbs news, kyle robertson removed from the board earlier this year showed increased prescriptions for drugs like adderall. he said one board member told him the easier you make it for people to get stimulants, the better for the business and its customers. the company told us robertson's allegations are categorically untrue. as for elijah hansen, records show his family doctor continued his adderall prescription, lying
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on the adhd diagnosis made by cerebral. >> you can definitely tell he was taking way too much, and he wasn't in his right mind at all. >> reporter: on june 25th, his mother returned home from an errand to an inconceivable sight, elijah lying dead on the kitchen floor. he found a gun kept in the house and recorded himself playing russian roulette. >> i came home and he was gone. >> reporter: i can't imagine what that was like. >> yeah. every day is a struggle. i'm angry that this online platform just thinks that handing out these medications to people is okay. because it's not. >> reporter: if you or someone you know is seeking mental health resources, you can call the national alliance on mental illness help line at 1-800-950-6264, or in a crisis, text help line to 62640. cerebral said it could not
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comment on specific patients' cases. in a statement, it told us it has robust systems to detect and intervene when it suspects drug-seeking behavior. the company also says it has stopped prescribing controlled substances, and to date has not been accused by regulators of any wrongdoing or violation of law. anna werner, cbs news, new york. who says you have to spend more on skincare to get results? i power up my skin with olay. it works. guaranteed. try niacinamide for strength, retinol 24 for smoothness and vitamin c for brightness. i like to use them all! olay. face anything.
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the nationwide movement to legalize marijuana for personal use has touched off a growing interest in cannabis cuisine. luke burbank reports. >> reporter: welcome to high cuisine, the world's largest cooking competition show. >> reporter: if you've turned on the tv lately, or maybe found yourself in a certain high-end kitchen somewhere in america, you might have noticed a new green on the menu, one you might even be able to smell before you taste it. >> there is a revolution taking the cooking world by storm because of this star ingredient. pot, weed, chronic. >> reporter: now that cannabis is legal in some form or another
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in more than half of the states, some of its top chefs are finding ways to integrate it into their recipes. suffice it to stay, the pot brownie has come a long way. >> there is such a huge bridge from the brownie to where we are today. we're cooking racks of lamb. we're making intricate desserts. we're doing ten-course tasting menus that are strain specific. now there is different levels of extractions and distillates that you can use in order to achieve the effect without the flavor or with the flavor. >> reporter: chef miguel trinidad is known for his time on the vice show "bong appetit." these days he hosts semi clandestine, semi legal pop-up dinners through his company, 99th floor, dinners in which everything is infused. and where actually the cannabis? >> it's in many different
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stages. and the demi for the stake, we took some of the beef fat and infused that and put that back into the demi. here is some cannabis butter. this has been cooked extremely low temperature for a long time because i wanted to draw out a lot of the turpenes without making it taste too baby. >> reporter: turpenes are the chemical compounds in cannabis that give it that characteristic funky smell and taste, and make it hard to cook with. even for noted cookbook author laurie wolf. >> learning how to cook with it is kind of learning how to cook with a really dreadful tasting spice. >> reporter: wolf has written five cookbooks on the subject, earning her the title back in 2017 of the martha stewart of edibles. when wolf and other chefs cook with cannabis, they say the key is to be extremely precise with the dosage going into, say, a butter board that's actually
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made with canna-butter. >> cheers. >> cheers. >> reporter: and wolf says the key when eating infused food is to be very patient in waiting for the effects to set inless you go on a trip you didn't mean to buy a ticket for. >> because it can take two -- it can even take three hours on occasion, depending on when you've eaten, what your metabolism is like. >> for me it's about the delicious meal, and the cannabis is extra. >> reporter: back in brooklyn, tiffany spann is attending her second 99th floor cannabis dinner two weeks, which she'd found out about on instagram, naturally. can you feel the vibe shift as the night goes on and people are starting to enjoy themselves? >> people talk to each other. everyone started loosening up. i could see the whole table. so, yeah, people do start to get louder and happier. >> yeah. >> reporter: as the night wore on, chef trinidad's dinner moved into full swing. a parade of sumptious plates
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for $69.99 a month for 12 months. plus ask how to get up to a $750 prepaid card with qualifying internet. . a british artist has turned his work into a living space. ian lee paid a visit to the doodle house. >> this is the splash room. >> reporter: rarely do childhood dreams come to life. >> the splashes are like portals to doodleland. >> reporter: but walking around sam cox's house is like stepping into the funny pages. >> so this trail of doodles you can see on the floor. >> reporter: like a lot of kids, sam spent his younger years scribbling on walls. >> i got in trouble for drawing on the walls. i had this dream of todaying over a whole house and living in the house. >> reporter: and you bought your own house. so you can draw on all the walls. >> yeah. that's right. >> reporter: known in the neighborhood as mr. doodle, every inch of his 12-room mansion is covered in quirky
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creations, from floor to ceiling. >> some of the clouds are filmed with doodles. >> reporter: to every nook and cranny. is that a working fireplace then? >> yeah, it is. >> reporter: every doodle is deliberate. each room has a theme. >> this is the computer room. >> reporter: it reminds me of tetris. >> i quite like seeing the doodles on the keyboard, because that makes me think that could be a doodle language one day. this is the en suite. >> reporter: sam's art gives a whole new meaning to drawing a bath. have you bathed in this bathtub? >> not yet, no. >> reporter: the house has taken two years to create. each stage captured in stop motion, and he is still doodling. >> the chandeliers are quite a tricky thing to do. >> reporter: so to draw a conclusion, dreams of any shape and size really can come true. ian lee, cbs news, kent, england. and that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. reporting from the nation's
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capital, i'm catherine herridge. this is cbs news flash. i'm dan lieberman in new york. a shooting outside a walmart in marietta, georgia has left one person wounded. police responded to an active shooter and determined the shooting was between two separate groups. several people have been detained for questioning. children's painkillers are in high demand, but in short supply as respiratory illnesses continue to rise. all but six statesx states are experiencing high or very high respiratory illnesses. virus levels. and over-the-counter children's medications are hard to find in many places. the fda is working with drugmakers to assess the situation. and "time" magazine has addressed its person of the year calling this year's choice the most clear-cut in memory.
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it's ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy, saying he galvanized the world in a way we haven't seen in decades. for more, download the cbs news apour cell phone or connected tv. i'm dan lieberman, cbs news, new york. tonight, the growing trouble for donald trump after another of his hand-picked candidates is defeated. and the new potential legal trouble for the former president after more classified materials are found in his possession. government secrets found in trump's florida storage unit and turned over to the fbi. cbs' scott macfarlane has the new details. the power grid attack manhunt. tonight the warning as law enforcement says there is online chatter from extremist groups calling for more plots to take out power in major cities like new york and d.c. tiktok crackdown. the states banning the use of the social media app on government phones. cbs' jeff pegues on why the platform is considered a national security threat.
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stalking with an air tag. the lawsuit tonight against apple after women say they're being followed with help from the tracking devices. and our exclusive with the first female commandant of the u.s. coast guard as the military branch combats a recruiting shortage. >> we're here with the u.s. coast guard witnessing a rescue swimmer deployment. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> tonight cbs news has learned of new threats of a copycat attack on america's infrastructure like the one that knocked out power to thousands in north carolina. and we're just getting new information from police in that case of the four college students who were murdered. investigators are looking for information about a specific kind of car. but we do want to begin with those new classified documents.
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lawyers for donald trump say they discovered material while searching a storage unit in west palm beach, florida. the items were reportedly found among a mix of boxes, gifts, suits, and clothes including swords and wrestling belts. this is raising questions about what it means for the ongoing special counsel investigation. cbs' scott macfarlane joins us with the possible legal troubles ahead. good evening, scott. >> good evening, norah. four months after the fbi seized records marked classified from mar-a-lago, still more documents marked classified are surfacing, this time in a storage unit used by the former president in florida. a u.s. official confirms to cbs news representatives of former president donald trump alerted the fbi they've recovered yet another set of potentially sensitive documents, this time in a storage facility in west palm beach. the official confirmed inside a sealed box there were two documents with classified markings, adding to the more than 300 sensitive documents found this year. >> yet another instance in which
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trump has failed to comply with lawful demands to return them. >> reporter: this revelation is the first indication classified materials might have been held or might still be on-site at other trump properties. the searches were reportedly conducted around thanksgiving at three other locations, the president's golf club in bedminster, trump tower in new york, and in a storage facility at trump's mar-a-lago estate. and at a time of growing legal peril for the former president. >> the first question now is, is the department of justice satisfied they have everything? if they don't, how are they going to get the rest? >> reporter: the fbi seized 33 boxes of records august 8th at mar-a-lago, including records that were supposed to be in the hands of the national archives. last month the justice department appointed special counsel jack smith to oversea the growing probe into those documents. trump has downplayed the importance of the seizures, but critics say mishandling of these records could have allowed highly sensitive material to fall into the wrong hands. >> the disregard and disdain for legal norms and rules simply
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cannot be accepted from anyone. no one is above the law. >> reporter: last week an appeals court overruled trump's request for an independent special master to review some of the papers seized from mar-a-lago, which had slowed the investigation, though trump could still appeal that decision, the investigation into him grows, norah. it accelerates. >> quite a development, scott macfarlane. thank you so much. we turn now to some breaking news. cbs news has learned of some new online chatter from extremist domestic groups following that recent attack on two electric substations in north carolina. some of those posting online are advocating for further attacks on major cities like new york and washington, d.c. cbs' mark strassmann is in north carolina where the lights are finally coming back on. >> reporter: with two substations in moore county raked by gunfire, more worrisome than ever security around america's grid infrastructure. >> most concerningly is copycat attacks in the coming weeks
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against other elements of the grid. >> reporter: chris krebs, cbs news cyber security expert has watched threats against america's grid proliferate, like this one posted online hours after the moore attack. so substations can be easily compromised. "hmm, tell me more." >> this attacker knew exactly whre to hit. and they did it deliberately and they did it multiple times, and they did it very thoroughly. >> reporter: there is a playbook for it if you're so inclined? >> absolutely. there is absolutely a playbook. >> reporter: the department of energy reports more than 70 intentional attacks on electric facilities just this year. cbs news has confirmed recent physical attacks on substations in oregon and washington. and a series of specific threats in california from domestic violence extremists that will likely remain a threat to the electricity subsector through 2023. >> lights are back on. >> reporter: back in moore county, the lights came on for the first time since saturday in sena nassar's furniture store.
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>> back in business. >> reporter: but anthony parks has major losses in his ice cream shop. tossed, $9,000 worth of spoiled dairy. >> everybody is still a little bit raw and upset and angry that this happened in the first place. >> reporter: to give you a sense of where this case stands, the fbi today put out another plea for tips, and the governor announced a new $75,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest. norah? >> mark strassmann, thank you very much. well, there is a major development tonight in the murder of four college students in idaho. detectives want to speak to the driver of a white 2011 to 2013 hyundai elantra with unknown license plate. they say the occupants of the car may have critical information regarding the case. also today you can see police began collecting the victims' personal belongings that they say are no longer needed for the investigation. they want to return them to their families.
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german police arrested at least 25 people accused of plotting to overthrow the government. authorities say the suspects have ties to a right wing extremist group, and many of them had military training. according to prosecutors, the qanon inspired group formed a shadow government, tried to recruit government workers, and was planning an armed attack on the german government building. one of the alleged ringleaders is 71-year-old heinrich xiii, a descendant from an aristocratic family. there is a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news."
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♪ this is the "cbs overnight news." >> tonight, texas governor greg abbott has banned the use of the social media app tiktok on all government-issued devices over cyber security concerns. several other states and the u.s. military had previously banned the popular chinese-owned app. t texagovernor greg cbs' jeff c abbott became the latest state official to ban tiktok from state phones, calling it a security threat. the big concern, the chinese
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intelligence officials could force tiktok, owned by chinese company bytedance to share the vast amounts of data it collects. in a letter announcing the ban, governor abbott wrote, "tiktok harvests vast amounts of data from its users' devices, and offers this trove of potentially sensitive information to the chinese government. texas joins maryland and south dakota in banning tiktok." tiktok is one of the most popular social media platforms in the u.s. it boasts millions of users, yet for years the intelligence community has had concerns about how tiktok data is being used. >> they also have the ability to collect data through it on users, which can be used for traditional espionage operations. >> reporter: tiktok denies that it shares data with the chinese government. >> for some of the governors, if they take a step back and look
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and say what are the threats that we want to do, then maybe they should consider banning all social media apps from government phones. >> reporter: in a statement, tiktok added the concerns driving these bans are largely fueled by misinformation about our company. this battle over tiktok data is the subject of high-level negotiations with the u.s. government. tiktok is now offered to move that data to texas, but, norah, that is a deal that the u.s. hasn't accepted. >> it's a big deal. jeff pegues, thank you. democrats are celebrating their senate seat win in georgia last night as republicans do some soul-searching on what went wrong and look at the path forward. we get more now from cbs' nikole killion. >> reporter: senator raphael warnock arrived to a hero's welcome on capitol hill. >> georgia did it again! >> reporter: the democratic incumbent locked in a six-year term by defeating gop nominee herschel walker, bolstered by historic turnout. >> the people have spoken.
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>> i'm not going make any excuses now because we put up one heck of a fight. >> reporter: warnock's win means democrats have 51 seats int the upper chamber. >> 51. >> reporter: an advantage that gives him greater control over president biden's judicial nominations and agenda, subpoena power, and leverage on committees. >> it's significant. it gives us -- we can breathe a sigh of relief. >> reporter: it was more like heartburn for senate republicans, who began pointing fingers. >> as republicans, we've got to learn from it. >> reporter: walker was hand-picked by former president trump, but some republicans warned early on he came with too much baggage. his son christian tweeted last night "trump called my dad for months, demanding that he run. everyone with a brain begged him please don't do this." the former football star is the eighth trump-backed senate candidate to be defeated. >> i know a lot of people in our party love the president, former president. but he's, if you will, the
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kiss of death. >> reporter: some gop leaders are now rethinking the party's strategy, taking a page out of democrats' playbook. >> they did a better job with early votes, mail-in and early voting. we all have to start doing that. >> reporter: as far as in-person election day voting, georgia has set another record, with more than 1.6 million ballots cast tuesday. that is more than election day last month, the 2021 runoff and the 2020 presidential election. norah? >> that didn't help walker. all right, nikole killion, thank you. consumer advocates are sounding the alarm about apple's air tags. two women have filed a class action lawsuit against the company. they claim their ex-partners used the small tracking device to stalk them. cbs' lilia luciano spoke with one of the plaintiffs. >> there were definitely lots of times where i didn't sleep well. there has been a lot of therapy since then. >> reporter: after a relationship ended, laura hughes says her ex-boyfriend used an apple air tag to track her every move.
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>> i got the alert that said an air tag was moving with me. >> reporter: how did you finally find it? >> i just literally dug around the outside edges of my car and eventually found it in the wheel well. >> reporter: this quarter-sized device is designed to track your wallet, your luggage, or your keys, but it can also track you. here is how it works. this air tag is sending a bluetooth signal to the iphones of every stranger around me. that data then goes to the icloud where the person tracking your device can see your every move. why it's so effective? well, no matter where you are, you're never far away from an iphone phone. the proposed class action lawsuit accuses apple of negligence and seeks damages as well as an order to stop apple from releasing what they call an unreasonably dangerous article into market. apple says it is not going to comment on ongoing litigation. but in february, the company released a number of safety measures to address unwanted tracking.
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adding, "we condemn in the strongest terms any malicious use of our products." albert fox conn is a surveillance video expert. >> i'd much rather spend an extra minute looking for my keys than live in a world where every move is tracked. you can try to make improvements around the edges, but as long as you're selling a cheap, ubiquitous tracking device, people are going to misuse it. >> reporter: what do you want apple to do? >> i want apple to make their product safer or remove it from the market. >> reporter: lauren found it in her case because she has an iphone and it alerted her. but people who don't have iphones need to download it and check it to know whether they're being tracked. apple says if you fear for your safey, contact law enforcement. >> really interesting. lilia luciano, thank you. the mission of the u.s. coast guard is to protect america's shores, save lives, and deter threats like dangerous drugs being smuggled in the united states. well, now the maritime defender is run by four-star admiral
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linda fagan, the only woman to lead a branch of the u.s. military. we spoke with the commandant about the future, and why she says this isn't your grandfather's coast guard. >> reporter: this is dramatic video of the coast guard rescuing a cruise ship passenger who fell overboard. and this -- >> man overboard! >> reporter: is the training it took to save his life. we're here with the u.s. security guard witnessing a rescue swimmer deployment. this is exactly the kind of work that they do on a regular basis. >> reporter: in a single year, the coast guard conducted more than 16,000 search-and-rescue missions and saved over 4,000 lives. >> you can see the rescue swimmer's got the survivor now in something called a physical grip where he wraps his arms around the survivor. that's the quickest way to get something out of harm's way. >> you usually don't fly in weather like this, do you? >> usually when we're doing what
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we do well, it is not a nice day like this. >> reporter: many of those rescues taking place during natural disasters like hurricanes, which have become stronger due to climate change. admiral linda fagan is the commandant of the u.s. coast guard, the first woman to serve in that role in the branch's 232-year history. >> my battle cry is "tomorrow looks different, and so will we." >> reporter: one of the major challenges facing the commandant, recruitment. the coast guard has missed its recruiting goals the last three years. has this recruiting challenge reached a crisis point? >> we're not at a crisis point yet, but we need to turn the corner. >> reporter: she took us to what's described as the heartbeat of the coast guard, cape may training center, where every enlisted coastie starts their journey. what are they shouting? >> "louder, faster." >> reporter: women make up only 15% of the coast guard. something admiral fagan hopes changes with her leadership.
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how do you think your role as the first female commandant has changed things? >> i met a young 8-year-old, and she's i'm going to join the coast guard and i'm going to be a commandant. she doesn't have to wonder if this might be possible. i embody that it is. >> you know what they say. see it, believe it. we can report that the freshman class at the u.s. coast guard academy is more than 40% female. all right. he was one of boston's most ruthless mobsters. new details on the death of whitey bulger, next.
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finally tonight, on this national pearl harbor remembrance day, this time of year can be an especially difficult time for family members who have lost a loved one in service to our country. cbs' david begnaud shows us how one charity is honoring the fallen and their families. >> reporter: at one of the happiest places on earth, a hero's welcome for children who have lost their heroes. they call it the walk of gratitude, families all sharing a connection. they lost a parent or spouse who died while serving our country. it's part of the gary sinise foundation's snowball express. >> all right, here we go! >> reporter: since 2006, the event, all of it free, has brought families joy during this holiday season. >> look at all the fun stuff! >> reporter: the albaek family
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came for the first time. they lost sergeant jacob albaek three years ago. >> coming here, everybody's lost someone. and so it's easier to talk about it to them, because they know what you're going through. >> reporter: this was the largest snowball express ever, nearly 1900 people in all. treated like vips every step of the way. on chartered airplanes with onboard unusual entertainment and as treasured guests at disney world in orlando. >> it just made me kind of feel like i haven't been forgotten. >> reporter: there were the somber moments too. that happens when they remember their heroes and ours too. david begnaud, cbs news, new york. that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs mornings." remember, you can follow us online any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from right here in the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell.
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this is cbs news flash. i'm dan lieberman in new york. a shooting outside a walmart in marietta, georgia has left one person wounded. police respond to an active shooter and determine the shooting was between two separate groups. several people have been dtained for questioning. children's ainkillers are in high demand, but in short supply as respiratory illnesses continue to rise. all but six states are experiencing high or very high respiratory illnesses. virus levels. over-the-counter medications are hard to find in many locations. the usda is working with drug makers to address the situation. "time" magazine has named its person of the year, calling this year's choice the most clear-cut in memory. it's ukrainian president
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volodymyr zelenskyy, saying he galvanized the world in a way we haven't seen in decades. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm dan li it's thursday, december 8th, 2022. this is the "cbs morning news." documents discovered. lawyers for donald trump turn up more classified items. this time in a florida storage unit. what could this mean for the government's probe into the former president. new developments in idaho. police release details of a car possibly linked to the gruesome murder of four students. we've got the details. concerning chatter. domestic terrorists are apparently celebrating the gun attack on two electric substations in north carolina. the reports obtained by cbs news. well, good morning, and good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green.
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