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justice department started its plimt review. on december 20th, president biden's lawyers found the additional materials at his wilmington home. his lawyers also search his delaware vacation house. they said no classified records were found there. former national security official ali said the matter brings up serious questions about how mr. biden and his team handled classified material. >> as a former intelligence professional, we are all indoctrinated to never leave our offices with any classified material whatsoever. that's the whole point of the work. >> reporter: garland has now appointed two special counsels in two months to investigate the handling of sensitive materials by the sitting president and former president trump who had over 300 classified documents at his mar-a-lago estate. today, house speaker kevin mccarthy questioned biden's transparency. >> they knew this has happened to president biden before the election but they kept it a secret from the american public. now we find another location that it's at. >> reporter: the president's
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lawyers say they have immediately turned over every classified document they have found. this preliminary inquiry moved very quickly and we have learned investigators interviewed some of president biden's aides from his time as vice president and, norah, fbi agents have been on the case for almost two months. >> with all those new details, thank you very, very much. tonight six republican members of the house of representatives are calling on disgraced new york congressman george santos to resign while others are casting doubt on his ability to serve. he has admitted to lying about. of his background running for office and he faces new campaign finance questions. on steve bannon's podcast, he was asked where he got $700,000 to loan his campaign, despite reporting only $55,000 in income in 2020. >> look, i've worked my entire life. i've lived an honest life. i've never been accused of any bad doings. so, you know, it's the equity of
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my hard working self and i've invested inside of me. >> santos has lied repeatedly about his employment and says he'll only resign if the people who voted for him say he should. let's turn to the economy where inflation appears to be moving in the right direction. the consumer price index fell to 6.5% in december, down from 7.1% in november. prices at the grocery store are finally slowing, but they are still up nearly 12% over last year. and some items are still skyrocketing. prices like eggs, for a dozen grade a large are up 138% since last year. the cost of housing is having a major impact on young people, forcing many to move back home. nancy chen looks at tonight's money watch. >> reporter: a decade after leaving home for college, chelsea shepherd moved back in last summer. >> it is a strange feeling approaching 30. you kind of feel like you're not
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doing the thing that you're supposed to do. >> reporter: but a long commute to her josh as a teacher near houston and a higher cost of living has made renting increasingly difficult. >> could i buckle down and move out. or i could stay a little longer and make bigger purchases, put money toward my student loans. >> reporter: her mom said the decision made sense for everyone. >> i have a few neighbors who, their older children still live at home with them as well. just because everything is so expensive. >> reporter: and it is. today's cpi report shows the rising cost of housing is helping drive inflation. it's up 7.5% from a area ago. this as more young adults are moving back home. a quarter of americans, 25 to 34, reported living in a multigenerational household in 2021. up from 9% 50 years ago. >> do you see this trend continuing? >> i think so. i can't see what slows it down. >> reporter: financial planner jim kenny advises parents not to
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overlook their own goals, including retirement. >> it becomes very important that both sides have some communication about this as they go into the arrangement. >> reporter: he said parents should consider making their children pay rent, share expenses like food and utilities, and not to forget everyone. >> i joke like apply parents are my roommates versus my parents now. >> reporter: a different way of living under a familiar roof. cbs news, bridgewater, new jersey. we have some sad breaking news tonight. lisa marie presley, the daughter of rock 'n' roll legend elvis presley, has died. she was rushed to the hospital in cardiac arrest earlier today. we get more from cbs's reporter. >> reporter: news of lisa marie presley's death comes two days after she appeared at the golden globes, praising austin butler for his winning important trail of her father, elvis presley, in
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the film "elvis." >> it was mind-blowing. >> reporter: the 54-year-old singer-songwriter was admitted to a southern california hospital after suffering cardiac arrest in calabasas. she is the only heir of the rock 'n' roll super star elvis presley. but she garnered fame of her own through high profile marriages including her two-year union to king of bomb michael jackson. she lost her father at the age of 9 and in 2020, she lost a son to suicide. presley passed away after just four days after what would have been her father's 88th birthday. cbs
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images from 1839 to now and conducts a powerful examination of our complex shades of gray. >> here was a chance to sort of present the whole of us in a way. all the sadness and grief, all the joy and playfulness. it was branded "ss." slave steeler. >> reporter: it tells our story. the home of the wright brothers, the triumph of jackie robinson, the horror of a lynching. >> we don't know light unless there's darkness. >> reporter: you had to pick pictures that would allow whoever is looking at them as long as they wanted to take it in. how did that affect your selections? >> we wanted to reflect every one of the 50 states. we wanted to sort of nod to the projects that we've engaged in over the nearly 50 years. >> reporter: in the last photo of lincoln, weary from the estimated 750,000 americans who died in the civil war. in the kid on the cover, in his
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fedora, falling apart shoes and a knowing expression. here we are. >> so this kid, whose name we do not know, is as important as the 16th president. >> reporter: our natural beauty of ant loam canyon, arizona is here. our can-do spirit of building the brooklyn bridge is here. our undeniable contributions. they're here, too. >> this history is complicated. let's be basically honest about who we have been, where we are right now, and where we could potentially be going. >> reporter: for ken burns, these images serve as a tool to create a set of shared experiences. the one tool required, to plow common ground. for eye on america, i'm jim axelrod in new hampshire. the pentagon's new ufo report is out tonight. have officials found evidence of
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operations at the faa and major airlines have returned to normal but the lingering effects of yesterday's outage that grounded flights, that may take days to recover from. more than 4,500 flights were disrupted today, mostly because. bad weather. more than 12,000 were delayed or canceled on wednesday. the faa is blaming a damaged database file in the system that is nearly 30 years old. in a galaxy far, far away, nasa makes another amazing discovery. >> when weather turns extreme -- >> the planes to the northeast are bracing for more than two feet of heavy snow --
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finally, researchers using nasa's james webb space telescope have made another amazing space discovery. for the first time, the powerful telescope has found a new earth-sized planet known as an exoplanet, that is outside our own solar system. this is a nasa illustration of a new planet. lhs 475 b. it is relatively close, just 41 light years away. no word on if there are signs of life but scientists did say the rocky planet is several hundred degrees hotter than right here on the earth. that's the overnight news for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for
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cbs mornings and you can follow us online any time at cbs. i'm norah o'donnell. this is cbs news flash. lisa marie presley, elvis presley's only child, has died after suffering cardiac arrest at 54. the news came hours after her mother priscilla presley confirmed her daughter was rushed to a los angeles hospital thursday. the singer just attended the golden globes on tuesday, celebrating austin butler's award for playing her father in "elvis." at least seven people were killed when powerful storms slammed the southeast. in hard-hit alabama, 12 others were hospitalized and tens of thousands are still without power.
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and tax season begins on january 23rd. tell irs expects to receive 4 million more returns this year. the deadline to file was extended to april 18th. for more, you can download. cbs news, new york. tonight there is a new and serious investigation into president biden's classified documents after we learned more of america's secrets were turned over just this morning. more on that special counsel in just a moment. this afternoon, a large and extremely dangerous tornado rimmed apart homes, leaving a trail of destruction in its path in selma, alabama. tornado warnings have been posted in several counties north of the capital city of montgomery as the storms are moving east. this is part of the same storm system that brought torrential
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rains and floodwaters to much of california earlier in the week. we've got team coverage, starting with mark straussman from atlanta. good evening, mark. >> reporter: good evening, norah. a confirmed mid afternoon tornado near atlanta's airport led to the second ground stop in as many days here. hospital in flights in or out for roughly a half-hour. all part of a storm toss thursday across the south. selma, alabama. the bull's-eye of a powerful tornado ripping through the city, causing major damage. >> i've never been so scared in my life. >> reporter: a line of large tornadoes swept through the south. touching down in central and eastern kentucky, roofs blown off, cars flipped on their sides, a trail of ruin. striking in the middle of the day, causing misery in mississippi. southern states ravaged as the toll continues to mount in the west. here's my colleague, carter evans. >> reporter: here in california,
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a break in the weather only reveals more agony. agricultural fields and entire neighborhoods flooded. near the town of sprekles, the salinas river could crest at 25 feet by tomorrow. it was at six feet a week ago and the concern is that by the time all the storm run-off from upstream gets down here, the water could be a lot deeper, potentially cutting off highways nearby and stranding thousands. >> we don't want any tragic stories coming out of monterey county. >> reporter: are you under an evacuation order? >> yeah. in fact, the little yellow caution tape, they put it on all the houses. the people will ride this out and stay. >> reporter: across the state, there is a risk of flash flooding. here it's not clear where the road ends and the water begins. in a land slide sent this boulder smashing into a car in malibu. been me inside thisser today. >> reporter: in northern california, another body found in a submerged car. today more than 100 members of
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the california national guard joined the search for 5-year-old kyle, swept away from his mother's arms monday morning. >> his last words to me were, mommy, it will be okay. just be calm and everything will be okay. >> reporter: back here in georgia, a tornado near atlanta already causing damage. with today's ground stop delaying hundreds of flights, this airport is still recovering and the worry goes on. a tornado watch remains in effect for all of metro atlanta and much of north georgia. norah? >> deeply concerning, thank you so much. a busy day here in washington after the president's own attorney general appointed a special counsel to investigate possible mishandling of classified documents. cbs news has learned the fbi has been looking into this for months and it is already interviewed multiple biden aides. once again the white house was caught flat-footed unable to answer key questions. ort rain showerer was the first to report on the discovery.
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earlier today i signed an order appointing robert hur -- >> reporter: today attorney general merrick garland attempted robert hur, a veteran prosecutor who served under former president trump to investigate the possible unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents. the stunning announcement came just hours after the white house admitted that a small number of classified documents had been found in the g garage off preret biden's w wilmingtonn residenced in a room next door. >> so the material was in a locked garage. >> yes. as well as my corvette. but as i said earlier this week, people know i take classified documents and classified materials seriously. >> reporter: the latest revelation follows monday's admission by the white house after questioning by cbs news that mr. biden's lawyers had found ten classifiedd documents in thiss bubuilding. roughly a mile from the white house where biden once had an office. >> that office was not authorized for storage of classified documents. >> reporter: less than two weeks
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later, on november 14th, the justice department started its preliminary review. on december 20th, president biden's lawyers found the additional classified materials at his wilmington home. his lawyers also searched his delaware vacation house. they said no classified records were found there. former national security official ali said the matter brings up serious questions about how mr. biden and his team handled classified material. >> as a former intelligence professional, we were all indoctrinated to never leave our offices with any classified material whatsoever. that's the whole point of the work. >> reporter: garland has now appointed two special counsels in two months to investigate the handling of sensitive materials by the sitting president and former president trump. who had over 300 classified documents at his mar-a-lago estate. today, house speaker kevin mccarthy questioned biden's transparency. >> they knew this has happened to president biden before the election, but they kept it a secret from the american public? now we find another location
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that it's at? >> reporter: the president's lawyers say they have immediately turned over every classified document they have found. this preliminary inquiry moved very quickly and we have learned that investigators interviewed some of president biden's aides from his time as vice president and fbi agents have been on the case for almost two months. >> thank you very, very much. we have some sad breaking news tonight. lisa marie presley, the daughter of rock 'n' roll legend presley, has died. she was rushed to the hospital in cardiac arrest. >> reporter: news of lisa marie presley's death comes just two days after she appeared at the golden globes, praising austin butler for his winning important trail of her father elvis presley in the film, "elvis." a representative tell cbs news, the 54-year-old singer-songwriter was admitted to a southern california
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hospital after suffering cardiac arrest in calabasas. presley is the only heir of rock 'n' roll superstar elvis presley. she garnered faith of her own through high profile marriages including her two-year union to king of bomb michael jackson. she's faced a life of tragedy, losing her father due to a heart attack at just the age of 9, and in 2020, the mother of four lost a son to suicide. >> reporter: she passed away after four days after what would have been her father's 88th birthday. cbs news, los angeles. there's a lot more news ahead on the cbs overnight news.
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thank you very much for staying with us this morning. embattled new york congressman george santos is under increasing pressure to resign over among other things a long list of fabrications he used in his campaign for office. house speaker kevin mccarthy said santos deserves to serve out his term but that hasn't stopped the questions. >> will you resign?
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>> reporter: santos later said he met the 142,000 people who voted for him. but santos faces a number of investigations, among them a probe of how he collected and spent campaign contributions. investigators are looking into a tangled web of don'tors, super pacs and political groups. some of which may have violated campaign finance laws. republicans in new york of seen enough. they want him out. >> reporter: he's a national joke, an international joke, but this joke has got to go. >> reporter: republican leaders in the new york county that embattled congressman george santos represents are urgining m to resign. >> he's a bunch of lies. >> reporter: joe chairs the nassau county gop and lemd to vet santos. >> he made statements. we believed him. we trusted him. it was all a falsehood. >> reporter: so far santos said he's not going anywhere. >> will you step down? >> i will not.
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>> reporter: the flood gates are now open. on wednesday, four republican congressmen from new york called on santos to resign including representative anthony. >> that's not our brand. >> reporter: santos has already admitted he lied about his education, work history and claims his grandparents fled the holocaust but he still refuses to answer how he financed his campaign. a cbs news review looked at contributions of more than $10,000 from a controversial chan chinese donor and more than 18,000 from a cows of a sanctioned russian oligarch. the gop has a razor thin majority in the house and despite calls from some fellow republicans to oust santos, speaker kevin mccarthy said he still has plans to seat him on a congressional committee. >> it is the voters who make that decision. the voters can make another decision. >> reporter: but he says santos no longer has a political
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future. >> we're done with him. i feel sorry and sad for him that he has lived certainly for the past few years this life of lies. totally untrue. and it's very sad and perhaps pathetic but the people deserve more. >> reporter: and cbs news has obtained the resume that santos gave county republican officials in which he repeated many of the lies about his work history and education, including a 3.89 gpa in college. he said that santos also spoke about being a star volleyball player there, despite never attending. cbs news, new york. russia's space agency is scrambling to finish plans for what it calls a, quote, urgent mission to the international space station. three crew members including an american astronaut were scheduled to return to earth in march, but their soyu space spacecraft has sprung a leak and
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they need a ride home. >> reporter: when it launched last september, it ferried a three-man crew to the international space station for a six-month stay. in december while docked to the station, their ride home suddenly sprung a leak. >> russian flight controllers and the flight controllers here at mission control in houston have been noticing a stream of particles coming out of the soy includes the vehicle. >> reporter: investigators believe a like that row meteoroid, a tiny space rock just one millimeter across but flying 15,000 miles per hour struck a coolant line that feeds the spacecraft's radiator. without that coolant, the temperatures in the cabin could climb above 100 degrees during a return flight, potentially overheating flight computers. the russian space officials determined the damaged craft is unsafe to fly, essentially, stranding its crew. the cosmonauts and nasa astronaut frank rubio. to bring the crew home, russia
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is fast tracking a replacement ship to launch in february. >> this has certainly never happened before the in the history of the space station. >> reporter: the space analyst. >> they don't have spare ones sitting in a hangar ready to go for a moment's notice. they're taking the one for the next crew, and the crew kushltly on board will have to stay up as if they were another new crew staying up for six months, which will push their flight out to nearly a year longer. >> reporter: a reminder that in space, even the smallest of threats carry big risks. the claxs buffalo bills safety damar hamlin has put a new focus on keeping young athletes safe. allen henry has the story of one family's tragedy and how they turned it into a way to protect others. for the parents of athletes, the unthinkable question, could what happened to damar hamlin happen to their child, too?
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their son patrick collapsed during a hockey game in 2014. >> he actually scored the game's first goal and a few moments later, he was carrying the puck and got checked and suffered some cardiac arrest on the ice and passed away. >> reporter: his family wanted to make sure no other children suffered the same fate. patrick had undetected heart defects so they started a foundation which offers heart screenings to young people. bailey's screening in 2018 may have saved her life. >> she attacks me from across the room. she said mom, my sheet says abnormal on the top. my sheet looks different from the girl next to me. >> we're just really grateful for it. we could have never known and something bad could have happened. >> reporter: they screen thousands of kids, finding more than 260 with electrical or structural heart defects. >> we're finding many. today's screening, we've already had two significant finds of some heart defects. >> reporter: more families >> reporter: more families grateful from the bottom of
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moderate drought. and that's putting a strain on the farmers who put food on our tables. evelyn taft has the latest. >> before the atmospheric river hit california, we went to the state's largest agricultural region. the san joaquin valley. people there have long bolstered the water supply by pumping from underground basbasins. but that practice is creating a literal race to the bottom. in what is otherwise known as the bread basket of the world, san joaquin's valley tells a harrowing story. >> we farm about 10,000 acres. >> reporter: just ask william, the executive vice president of one of the largest operations in the region. >> unfortunately, it looks very desolate and dry and depressing right now. with water, we could be growing
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watermelons, cantaloupes, lettuce. >> reporter: agriculture is a booming industry here, employing around 420,000 people across the state, and supplying more than 400 different times of crops to consumers around the world. but amid historic drought conditions in the west, access to water has been increasingly limited. rain and snow are hard to come by. reservoir levels are at record lows. rivers are drying up. enter ground water pumping. the practice accounts for roughly 10% of water use in the san joaquin valley. while experts say people have been overdrafting from natural underground basins for years, some argue, it is a necessity to survive. >> the whole process of this drilling system is called reverse circulation. >> reporter: derrek is a sixth generation well driller. in the old days, he told us, it was just 60 to 100 feet below the surface. now -- >> for good water, we're going
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about 1,000 to 1,400 feet deep. average for us. >> reporter: ground water accumulates in subterranean bodies of porous rock or sediment called aquifers. but generations of pumping have left them nearly depleted. nearly two-thirds of the monitored wells are below normal level. the process went unregulated until the passage of a 2014 state law that aims to end overdrafting by the 2040s. in the interim though, persistent drought has yield ad well-drilling frenzy. he can barely keep up. so what does it take to get a well? what does the wait look like? >> the wait for us is about a year out, if not longer. >> reporter: what do you say to the people who are saying, this is a finite resource? we can't drill? >> we have to. what sucks the most is of course, the farmer, the dairyman, the customer paying for it. >> reporter: he tells us his
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wells go for as much as half a million a pop. >> the water supply is going real low. >> reporter: he has been living in the city of visalia for 14 years. he said it only works sporadically because the nearby industrial pump draws water from the same source. as a result, he says, his trees are drying up. what used to be a front lawn is long gone. at times, even self-care and household chairs are a challenge. what does a day at home look like? >> it's really a problem. i have to tell my wife, hey, don't wash the clothes right now because they're taking the water. >> reporter: does it feel fair? >> no. it doesn't. i guess i start drinking water from a bottle. >> reporter: it may not be just a question of scarcity. >> right now in california, we have over 1 million californians
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without safe drinking water. the majority are low income people of color. >> reporter: she told us this has led to rampant pollution, making some water unsafe for consumption. >> the central valley is beautiful. we grow food here. we also use a lot of fertilizer and that contributes to nitric contamination. we have a variety of contaminants. here he has nightproblems. >> reporter: the farmer sits on the board of his water district. >> i feel strongly that we need to come together as a water community and work together and overcome these challenges. there's plenty of opportunity for all of us to succeed. >> reporter: california's department of water resources says the state could lose up to 10% of its water supplies over the next two decades. according to one estimate, squeeze water access could force
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it's winter time so more snow is in the forecast for buffalo. but meteorologists predict it will be nothing like the once in a generation blizzard that paralyzed the city last month. buffalo is known as the city of good neighbors and david has the story of one local hero. a story that is sure to warm your heart. >> reporter: yvonne white came to this home in buffalo, new york. to see where her brother was treated like family by a stranger. >> you saved another human being's life. >> he was at my door, banging. >> reporter: during the christmas blizzard here, she saw that man falling in the snow. >> when i woke up, i heard,
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help, help. >> reporter: her boyfriend carried 64-year-old joey white inside. >> he was so frozen. his clothing was completely froze. >> reporter: joey is developmentally disabled, and he got stranded leaving work. what were his fingers like? >> he had ice, literally ice balls around his hand. >> reporter: she tended to list frostbite, fed him, and even played movies for him. >> this young man's fingers are going to fall off. >> reporter: she called 911 repeatedly but help was unavailable due to dangerous conditions. so she turned to facebook live. >> i had to use these to cut the ring off his finger. >> reporter: two samaritans answer that had plea. >> we got him to the emergency room. >> reporter: joey is still in the icu. >> i kept thinking about, what if it was my family member? for the rest of my life, i will remember him. >> reporter: and we'll remember her kindness.
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cbs news, buffalo. >> and that is the overnight news for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, please check back later. for cbs mornings. and of course, follow us online any time at cbs news.com. reporting from the nation's capital. this is cbs news flash. lisa marie presley has died after suffering cardiac arrest at 54. the news came hours after her mother priscilla presley confirmed she was taken to the hospital thursday. the singer just attended the golden globes on tuesday, celebrating austin butler's award for playing her father in "elvis." at least seven people were killed when storms slammed the southeast. in hard-hit alabama, 12 others were hospitalized and tens of thousands are still without power. a tax season begins on
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january 23rd. the irs expects to receive 4 million more returns this year. the deadline t o file extendedo april 18th. cbs news, new york. breaking news. the severe tornado outbreak in the south leaving behind significant destruction and reports of injuries. plus the investigation just announced into president biden's classified documents. tornadoes sweep the south. more than two dozen reports of twisters including one that may have stretched over 100 miles. the destruction tonight as tens of millions face severe weather from mississippi to north carolina. special counsel investigation. after more classified documents are discovered in joe biden's private home, in his garage. >> my corvette is in a locked garage, okay? the idaho college murder suspect in court with new cuts
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on his face. cbs's report on when he could face trial. good news for american consumers. inflation appears to be slowing but the cost of eggs and housing are still through the roof, forcing some adults to move back home. ufo sightings. what the pentagon is blaming for unidentified objects in the sky. and eye on america. filmmaker ken burns turns to photos to unlock american captioning funded by cbs this is the cbs overnight news. >> tonight there is a new and serious investigation into president biden's classified documents after we learn more of america's secrets were turned over just this morning. more on that special counsel in just a moment. this afternoon, a large and extremely dangerous tornado ripped apart homes, leaving a trail of destruction in its path
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in selma, alabama. tornado warnings have been posted in several counties north of the capital city of montgomery as the storms are moving east. this is part of the same storm system that brought torrential rains and floodwaters to much of california earlier in the week. we've got team coverage starting with mark straussman from atlanta. good evening, mark. >> reporter: good evening. a confirmed tornado near atlanta's airport led to the second ground stop in as many days here. no flights in or out for roughly a of had a hour. all part of a storm toss thursday across the south. selma, alabama. the bull's-eye of a powerful tornado ripping through the city, causing major damage. >> i've never been so scared in my life. >> reporter: a line of large tornadoes swept through the south. touching down in central and eastern kentucky, roofs blown off, cars flipped on their sides, a trail of ruin. striking in the middle of the
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day, causing misery in mississippi. southern states ravaged as the toll continues to mount in the west. here's my colleague, carter ens. >> reporter: here in california, a break in the weather only reveals more agony. agricultural fields and entire neighborhoods flooded. near the town of spreckels, the river could crest at 25 feet tomorrow. it was at six a week ago. and the concern is that by the time all the storm run-off from upstream gets down here, the water could be a lot deeper, potentially cutting off highways nearby and stranding thousands. >> we don't want any tragic stories coming out of monterey county. >> reporter: are you under an evacuation order? >> yeah. in fact, the little yellow caution tape, they put it on all the houses, the people that will ride this out and stay. >> reporter: across the state, there is a risk of flash flooding. here it's not clear where the road ends and the water begins,
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and a land slide sent this boulder smashing into a car in malibu. >> i say, wow, this could have been me in this car. >> reporter: in northern california, another body found in a submerged car. today more than 100 members of the california national guard joined the search for 5-year-old kyle dome, swept away from his mother's arms monday morning. >> his last words to me was, mommy, it will be okay. just be calm and everything will be okay. >> reporter: in georgia, a tornado near atlanta already causing damage. with today's ground stop delaying hundreds of flights, this airport is still recovering and the worry goes on. a tornado watch remains in effect for all of metro atlanta and much of north georgia. norah? >> deeply concerning. thank you so much. for more on this damaging weather across the south and the storms expected this weekend in california, let's bring in meteorologist mike bettis from our partners at the weather channel. good evening, mike.
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>> norah, good evening. significant long tracks have covered a lot of ground. dozens and dozens, the reds indicating tornadoes, blue dots indicating high winds or hail. across alabama, georgia, the tennessee valley, and the storms will be very potent through the evening and overnight. you can see the storms racing through the southeast. eventually, that front will get off the coastline here and will clear out tomorrow. however, on the back side of that front, significant cold air and snow that then goes all the way down into the southern appalachians here. as we turn our attention to the west, still a player in the west, significant parade of storms here. five to eight more inches from atmospheric rivers in northern california, and a lot of that rain rolls into southern california into the weekend. >> mike, thanks so much. let's turn to moscow, idaho. 28-year-old bryan kohberger was back in court. he was charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the four deaths of university of idaho students at their off
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campus apartment in november. our reporter was inside the courtroom. >> reporter: wearing an orange t-shirt with cuts on his face, the sheriff says from shaving, bryan kohberger today made his second appearance in an idaho courtroom. he gave clear single word answers in response to the judge's questions. >> are you waiving your right to a speedy preliminary hearing and agreeing that that hearing can be held outside the 14-day period? >> yes. >> the preliminary hearing is now set for june 26th to give his defense team more time to prepare. that is when some of the state's evidence against kohberger will be revealed. police say dna found on a knife sheath like this one ties him to the murder scene. the defense will also have the opportunity to cross examine witnesses. says cbs news legal expert and analyst ricky -- >> you have to ability to discover more and more information, including what the investigators did not do.
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>> reporter: a judge will decide at the june hearing if there's enough evidence for the case to move forward. in the meantime, kohberger remains behind bars without bail. >> i think the family is a little surprised. it has been delayed so long. that's six months out. it seems like quite a ways out for that type of hearing. >> reporter: bryan kohberger has not yet entered a plea and that could take some time. we've also heard from some local criminal defense attorneys who say that it could be years beforethis case even gets to trial. norah? >> thank you so much. there's a lot more news ahead on the cbs overnight news.
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well, a busy day here in washington after the president's own attorney general appointed a special counsel to investigate possible mishandling of classified documents. cbs news has learned the fbi has been looking into this for months and it is already interviewed multiple biden aides. the white house was caught flat-footed unable to answer key questions. the reporter to report on the first of these developments has the story. >> i signed an order appointing
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robert hur -- >> reporter: today attorney general merrick garland tapped robert hur who served under president trump to investigate the possible unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents. the stunning announcement came just hours after the white house admitted that a small number of classified documents had been found in the garage of president biden's wilminington residencecd in a a room nextxt door. >> the material was in a locked garage. >> yes. as well as my corvette. as i said earlier this week, people know i take classified documents and classified materials seriously. >> reporter: the latest revelation follows monday's admission by the white house after questioning by cbs news that mr. biden's lawyers had found ten classified documents in this building, roughly a mile from the w white house where bin once had an office. >> that office was not authorized for storage of classified documents. >> reporter: less than two weeks later on, november 14th, the justice department started its preliminary review.
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on december 20th, president biden's lawyers found the additional materials at his wilmington home. his lawyers also searched his delaware vacation house. they said no classified records were found there. former national security official ali said the matter brings up serious questions about how mr. biden and his team handled classified material. >> as a former intelligence professional, we are all indoctrinated to never leave our offices with any classified material whatsoever. that's the whole point of the work. >> reporter: garland has now appointed two special counsels in two months to investigate the handling of sensitive materials by the sitting president and former president trump who had over 300 classified documents at his mar-a-lago estate. today, house speaker kevin mccarthy questioned biden's transparency. >> they knew this has happened to president biden before the election but they kept it a secret from the american public.
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now we find another location that it's at. >> reporter: the president's lawyers say they have immediately turned over every classified document they have found. this preliminary inquiry moved very quickly and we have learned investigators interviewed some of president biden's aides from his time as vice president and, norah, fbi agents have been on the case for almost two months. >> with all those new details, thank you very, very much. tonight six republican members of the house of representatives are calling on disgraced new york congressman george santos to resign while others are casting doubt on his ability to serve. he has admitted to lying about. of his background running for office and he faces new campaign finance questions. on steve bannon's podcast, he was asked where he got $700,000 to loan his campaign, despite reporting only $55,000 in income in 2020. >> look, i've worked my entire life. i've lived an honest life. i've never been accused of any bad doings. so, you know, it's the equity of
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my hard-working self and i've invested inside of me. >> santos has lied repeatedly about his employment and says he'll only resign if the people who voted for him say he should. let's turn to the economy where inflation appears to be moving in the right direction. the consumer price index fell to 6.5% in december, down from 7.1% in november. prices at the grocery store are finally slowing, but they are still up nearly 12% over last year. and some items are still skyrocketing. prices like eggs, for a dozen grade a large are up 138% since last year. the cost of housing is having a major impact on young people, forcing many to move back home. nancy chen looks at tonight's money watch. >> reporter: a decade after leaving home for college, chelsea shepherd moved back in last summer. >> it is a strange feeling approaching 30. you kind of feel like you're not doing the thing that you're
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supposed to do. >> reporter: but a long commute to her job as a teacher near houston and a higher cost of living has made renting increasingly difficult. >> i can buckle down and move out or i could stay a little longer and make bigger purchases, put money toward my student loans. >> reporter: her mom said the decision made sense for everyone. >> i have a few neighbors who, their older children still live at home with them as well. just because everything is so expensive. >> reporter: and it is. today's cpi report shows the rising cost of housing is helping drive inflation. it's up 7.5% from a year ago. this as more young adults are moving back home. a quarter of americans, 25 to 34, reported living in a multigenerational household in 2021. up from 9% 50 years ago. >> do you see this trend continuing? >> i think so. i can't see what slows it down. >> reporter: financial planner
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jim kenny advises parents not to overlook their own goals, including retirement. >> it becomes very important that both sides have some communication about this as they go into the arrangement. >> reporter: he said parents should consider making their children pay rent, share expenses like food and utilities, and not to forget negotiating boundaries for everyone. >> i joke like my parents are my roommates versus my parents now. >> reporter: a different way of living under a familiar roof. cbs news, bridgewater, new jersey. we have some sad breaking news tonight. lisa marie presley, the daughter of rock 'n' roll legend elvis presley, has died. she was rushed to the hospital in cardiac arrest earlier today. we get more from cbs's reporter. >> reporter: news of lisa marie presley's death comes two days after she appeared at the golden globes, praising austin butler for his winning important trail
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of her father, elvis presley, in the film "elvis." >> it was mind-blowing. >> reporter: the 54-year-old singer-songwriter was admitted to a southern california hospital after suffering cardiac arrest in calabasas. she is the only heir of the rock 'n' roll super star elvis presley. but she garnered fame of her own through high profile marriages including her two-year union to king of pop michael jackson. she lost her father at the age of 9 and in 2020, she lost a son to suicide. presley passed away after just four days after what would have been her father's 88th birthday. cbs news, los angeles. there's a lot more news ahead on the cbs "over
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project, our america, burns takes black and white still images from 1839 to now and conducts a powerful examination of our complex shades of gray. >> here was a chance to sort of present the whole of us in a way. all the sadness and grief, all te joy and playfulness. it was branded "ss." slave stealer. >> reporter: he looked at the pictures to tell our story. the hope of the wright brothers, the triumph of jackie robinson, the horror of a lynching. >> we don't know light unless there's darkness. >> reporter: you had to pick pictures that would allow whoever is looking at them as long as they wanted to take it in. how did that affect your selections? >> we wanted to reflect every one of the 50 states. we wanted to sort of nod to the projects that we've engaged in over the nearly 50 years. >> reporter: in the last photo of lincoln, weary from the estimated 750,000 americans who died in the civil war. in the kid on the cover, in his
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fedora, falling apart shoes and a knowing expression. here we are. >> so this kid, whose name we do not know, is as important as the 16th president. >> reporter: our natural beauty of antelope canyon, arizona is here. our can-do spirit of building the brooklyn bridge is here. our undeniable contradictions. they're here, too. >> this history is complicated. let's be basically honest about who we have been, where we are right now, and where we could potentially be going. >> reporter: for ken burns, these images serve as a tool to create a set of shared experiences. the one tool required to plow common ground. for eye on america, i'm jim axelrod in new hampshire. the pentagon's new ufo report is out tonight. have officials found evidence of extraterrestrial life?
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unexplained but officials say they have found no evidence of any extraterrestrial life. got it? bottom line, no aliens. the day after the faa computer meltdown, thousands more flights were disrupted
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operations at the faa and major airlines have returned to normal but the lingering effects of yesterday's outage that grounded flights, that may take days to recover from. more than 4,500 flights were disrupted today, mostly because of bad weather. more than 12,000 were delayed or canceled on wednesday. the faa is blaming a damaged database file in the system that is nearly 30 years old. in a galaxy far, far away, nasa makes another amazing discovery.
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finally, researchers using nasa's james webb space telescope have made another amazing space discovery. for the first time, the powerful telescope has found a new earth-sized planet known as an exoplanet, that is outside our own solar system. this is a nasa illustration of a new planet. lhs 475 b. it is relatively close, just 41 light years away. no word on if there are signs of life but scientists did say the rocky planet is several hundred degrees hotter than right here on the earth. that's the overnight news for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for cbs mornings and you can follow us online any time at cbs.
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i'm norah o'donnell. this is cbs news flash. lisa marie presley, elvis presley's only child, has died after suffering cardiac arrest at 54. the news came hours after her mother priscilla presley confirmed her daughter was rushed to a los angeles hospital thursday. the singer just attended the golden globes on tuesday, ay, celebrating austin butler's award for playing her father in "elvis." at least seven people were killed when powerful storms slammed the southeast. in hard-hit alabama, 12 others were hospitalized and tens of thousands are still without power.
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and tax season begins on january 23rd. the irs expects to receive 4 million more returns this year. the deadline to file was extended to april 18th. it's friday, january 13th, 2022. -- 2023. this is the "cbs morning news." breaking overnight, deadly storms. tornadoes rip through the south killing at least seven people. we'll look at the widespread destruction across several states. remembering lisa marie presley. the daughter of elvis presley dies after being rushed to the hospital for cardiac arrest. the legacy she leaves behind. special counsel. how the investigation is intensifying into president biden's handling of classified documents. good morning, and good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green.

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