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claims that the state's vote was rigged -- >> there is no way we lost georgia. >> reporter: -- the entire grand jury agreed no widespread fraud took place in the georgia 2020 presidential election. most of the report remains under seal. but the judge overseeing the case says it does include a roster of who should or should not be indicted. georgia state law professor cunningham says he expects trump to be on that list. could trump be indicted? >> i thinkry be surprised if he is not eventually indicted. >> reporter: the district attorney here recently said decisions are imminent, and if she decides to move forward, a new regular grand jury would be convened to issue indictments. and former president trump, in a statement today maintained he has done nothing wrong. norah? >> robert costa with all those new details. thank you so much. back here in washington, we got late word today that pennsylvania senator john fetterman has checked himself into the hospital for clinical
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depression. cbs' nikole killion is on capitol hill with more. >> reporter: tonight pennsylvania senator john fetterman is being treated at walter reed national military medical center for clinical depression after being evaluated by the attending physician of the u.s. congress monday, and then checking himself in wednesday night. his office said in a statement while john has experienced pronu life, it only became severeweek his wif himor askand getting th" clinical psychiatrist dr. sue varma says patients may check themselves in because symptoms of depression can be severe. >> they're feeling very depressed, hopeless, helpless, thoughts of wanting to harm themselves. >> reporter: on capitol hill, an outpouring of support from chuck schumer to rank and file colleagues. do you see any signs of this? >> i think we've been worry about him just because of his
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health. >> reporter: the freshman democrat just got out of the hospital last week after suffering from light-headedness, although doctors cleared him in two days after a round of tests. the former p lieutenant governor suffered a stroke last may, which forced him to take time off the trail during an intense campaign for senate. >> we knew that was going to be a challenge somebody who is in recovery after having a stroke. >> reporter: the american stroke association says post stroke depression is common, affecting about a third of stroke survivors. several senators tell me they hope that fetterman's disclosure reduces some of the stigma around mental health so that others can get the help they need. norah? >> nikole killion, thank you so much. turning now to the weather, 11 states tonight under winter weather advisories in illinois. four people were hurt, one critically on the stormnd potential tornadoes in the south, l bring in meteorologist mike bettes from our partners at the weather
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channel. good evening, mike. >> norah, good evening to you. we have a large sprawling storm that we're watch in the eastern half of the country. we have active severe storms across the south producing seve come here. heavy swaths of snow across iowa, into wisconsin and michigan. very difficult travels here. some of the heaviest pockets of snow will bring another 3 to 5 inches of snow. then you look at the storms across the south through the evening, tennessee, alabama could be potentially hard here with numerous potential tornadoes. the entire system pushes east overnight. through the night tonight and through the day tomorrow, the storms weaken significantly with just rain showers tomorrow. and then we turn our attention to the middle of next week with a nearly identical storm hitting by wednesday. >> double whammy. mike bettes, thank you. four students wounded in that deadly mass shooting at michigan state university on monday are still fighting for their lives. another student has been upgraded to stable condition. the chinese consulate in chicago
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says two injured students are from china. police said today a note found on the 43-year-old shooter suggested that he felt slighted by businesses that had a wereeg purchased but not registered. the gunman killed three students before taking his own life. in yet another mass shooting in the u.s., one person was killed and three others wounded when gunfire erupted last night at a shopping mall food court in el paso, texas. police say a fight broke out between two groups and escalated into the shooting. two suspect residents now in custody.
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>> reporter: when black patients see black doctors, they're more likely to get preventative care. though 60% of black americans have cardiovascular disease, fewer than 3% of cardiologists are black. >> when black patients see you walk into their room, what's the reaction? >> their eyes light up. >> reporter: when dr. brider was growing is grather had congestive heart failure, but didn't trust his doctor. >> i told him before his passing that i put every effort into becoming an advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist in order to decease the burden of cardiovascular disease in our people. >> reporter: dr. michelle albert is the president of the american heart association. why is there so little diversity in cardiology? >> structural racism. and the fact that persons of color have been systematically excluded from being part of the process that enables you to become a doctor in the first place. >> reporter: and dr. albert says black trainees have less access
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to mentors and face racial bias from both colleagues and patients. >> i walk into a room. they think that i'm the cleaning person. >> you the president of the american heart association? >> yes. >> reporter: one solution, more mentorship. >> your engagement here is essential. >> reporter: like this program by the american college of cardiology. when you logged on, what did you think? >> i was amazed. >> i want him to do good. >> reporter: his patients are rooting for him too. for eye on america, adriana diaz, olympia fields, illinois. >> such an important story. all right. whydrf tan of
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relieving nasal congestion and sinus pressure by reducing swelling in the sinuses. try vicks sinex. tesla is voluntarily recalling more than 360,000 vehicles, warning that its experimental driver assistance software may cause crashes. federal investigators say tesla's full self-driving beta software can send cars straight through intersections. where there is a turn only lane, fail to come to a full stop at stop lines or blow through full yellow lights. tesla says it will update the impacted vehicles. the family of bruce willis reveals he has dementia. his family says that has progressed into frontotemporal dementia, which impacts personality, behavior, and language. willis has retired from acting. his family, including his wife, emma hemming, and former wife
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demi moore said in a statement that willis would want to bring global attention to this debilitating disease and ho it impacts so many others. american skier mikaela shiffrin is celebrating another historic victory on the slopes. you don't want to miss it, coming up. american skier mikaela shiffrin won the gold medal today in the giant slalom at the world championships in frce the 27-year-old from colorado is now the most decorated skier in modern world alpine championship history, with 13 medals, including seven golds. the victory comes just two days
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after shiffrin parted ways with her long-time coach, thanking him for his dedication. congratulations to her. all righ bill loveless: i came to the lord at the age of about 42. dr. charles stanley has been so important in my life, just his teachings. one of the life principles is that brokenness is a requirement for god to use you greatly, is when you can become that conduit of what god wants to do through you to get to other people. it's just amazing of what god can do with you.
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tonight at the white house, president biden and the first lady are hosting a screening of the movie "till," which tells the 1955 lynching of emmett till and his courageous mother's long fight for justice. till's death sparked the civil rights movement, and now he and his mother have been given one of the nation's highest honors. here is cbs' scott macfarlane. >> reporter: just 14 years old, emmett till of chicago was kidnapped, tortured and then killed while visiting family in 195ive in mist after allegedly flirting with a woman. till's mother insisted the funeral include an open casket propelled the civil rights movement. that decision about the open casket you argue that was
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pivotal. >> very pivotal to america bearing witness to the kind of horrors that occurred in the south. >> reporter: for several years till's has been a fixture and within month a new piece will be added. a congressional gold medal, which former congressman bobby rush himself a civil rights icon from chicago made his final act in office before retiring last month, a posthumous honor for till and till's mother. >> the nation owes her a debt of gratitude for her courage and her commitment. >> reporter: now 67 years later, till's remaining family will cherish the honor. >> it has been a dream and a wish of our family for a long time. >> reporter: a dream america can see honoring a family that changed the course of american history. scott macfarlane, cbs news, washington. well, that's it. that's the "overnight news" for this friday.
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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. this is cbs news flash. i'm shanelle kaul in new york. two more people were rescued from the rubble in turkey thursday, ten days after a massive earthquake hit the region. the earthquake killed more than 36,000 people in southern turkey and roughly 5800 more in neighboring syria. actor bruce willis has been diagnosed with dementia. the 67-year-old retired last year after learning he had aphasia, which impacts speech. and the usps releasing these new forever women soccer stamps. the stamp shows a long pony-tailed woman kicking a soccer ball into the red, blue and white distance and is meant to celebrate women in sport.
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for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> good evening and thank you for joining us. tonight 46 million people are dealing with a dual threat of a winter storm and possible tornadoes. that system already dropping more than 8 inches of snow in parts of iowa, making for dangerous driving conditions. it is now moving east, and could dump up to a foot of snow in maine. meanwhile, millions in the south are at risk for tornadoes, hail, and high winds. but first, president biden speaking in-depth for the first time about the chinese spy balloon and those other objects discovered over the last two weeks. u.s. officials now believe the three items shot down in north american airspace were likely
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tied to private companies or research groups. but the president did say he plans to speak with china's president about xi jinping about the situation. cbs' nancy cordes is going to start us off tonight from the white house. good evening, nancy. >> good evening, norah. these were the president's most extensive comments yet about all four shoot-downs. he said most the debris from the chinese balloon has now been recovered from the atlantic ocean, and he acknowledged that the three other objects, which still have not been recovered, likely weren't involved in spying at all. >> we don't yet know exactly what these three objects were. >> reporter: president biden confirmed today that the three objects he ordered shot down last weekend probably posed no threat to people on the ground. >> the intelligence community's current assessment is that these three objects were most likely balloons tied to private company, recreation, or research institutions studying weather or conducting other specific scientific research. >> reporter: newly enhanced military radar picked up the three objects on three consecutive days as they floated
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from east to west at the same height commercial airliners use. the objects were shot down by u.s. fighter jets using missiles worth half a million dollars each. at least one hobby group has already come forward to say that their homemade balloon went missing last saturday. the same day an object was taken out over canada's yukon territory. >> i directed my team to come back to me with sharper rules for how we will deal with these unidentified objects moving forward. >> reporter: chinese officials still deny that the massive balloon that started this whole saga was being used for spying. today they accused the u.s. of smearing them and escalating tensions. u.s. officials tell cbs news there is a growing belief that the chinese did not initially intend to fly the balloon across america. the pentagon tracked the balloon as it lifted off from china's hainan island two weeks ago and began heading east toward guam and hawaii.
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the theory is that it was then blown off course by the prevailing winds, first toward alaska and then down over the continental united states. >> we're going to get to the bottom of this. i make no apologies for taking down that balloon. >> nancy cordes is back with us from the white house. nancy, i understand the president had a physical exam today. what are we learning? >> that's right. we got a detailed three-page report from his doctor who says more or less that the president's health remains unchanged since his last physical in 2021. the president had a small lesion on his chest that had to be removed today to be biopsied. he was prescribed custom orthotics for a stiffened gait that is like lie due to arthritis. he is still taking medication for his afib, but otherwise his doctor says he is a healthy, vigorous 80-year-old who is fit to execute the duties of the presidency. norah? >> nancy cordes, thank you. turning now to the weather, 11 states tonight under winter weather advisories.
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four people were hurt, one critically on the campus of northwestern university when a large tree fell hem duto a buildup of ice. for more on thtorm a potential tornadoes in the south, let's bring in meteorologist mike bettes from our partners at the weather channel. good evening, mike. >> norah, good evening to you. we have a large sprawling storm that we're watch in the eastern half of the country. we have active severe storms producing two different seasons of weather. then we'r watching for the snow around the great lakes. several more inches still to come here. heavy swaths of snow across iowa, into wisconsin and michigan. very difficult travels here. some of the heaviest pockets of snow will bring another 3 to 5 inches of snow. then you look at the storms across the south through the evening, tennessee, alabama could be hit particularly hard here with potentially numerous tornadoes. the entire system pushes east overnight. through the night tonight and through the day tomorrow, the storms weaken significantly with just rain showers tomorrow. and then, norah, we turn our attention to the middle of next week with a nearly identical storm hitting by wednesday.
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>> double whammy. mike bettes, thank you. now to the growing anger and frustration after that toxic train derailment. the head of the epa visited the site of the crash in ohio today, assuring residents that the water and air are safe, and that 24/7 monitoring has shown no issues. but as cbs' roxana saberi reports, some in the community aren't so sure. >> rter: elein delaketwo dayser dentors diagnosed her withte brohitis from >> it'hardbres. my chest is al t >> reporter: what kind of help do you and your neighbors need? >> actually, it's just the truth. >> reporter: at a town hall last night, residents demanded to know how safe they are now, living at home. despite at least five hazardous chemicals released during the derailment and fire, local and federal authorities say right now the air is safe, and so is
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the drinking water from five town wells. still, on a visit to east palestine today, epa administrator michael regan vowed to hold rail operator norfolk southern accountable. >> let me be clear, epa will exercise our oversight and our enforcement authority under the law. >> reporter: the railway says it's removing contaminants from the ground and streams and offering more residents financial aid. today families like the bayless lined up for a $1,000 check. per person. is a thousand dollars enough? >> probably not, honestly. probably not. but it will help for now i guess. >> reporter: they live just over a mile from the derailment, and camek is because of my sone they in school, otherwise, we probably wouldn't have come back yet. >> reporter: the bayless family plans to join one of several class action lawsuits launched against the railroad company.
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as for the water, the epa is still encouraging people who rely on private wells to use bottled water until their water is tested. norah? >> roxana saberi, thank you. four students wounded in that deadly mass shooting at michigan state university on monday are still fighting for their lives. another student has been upgraded to stable condition. the chinese consulate in chicago says two injured students are from china. police said today a note found on the 43-year-old shooter suggested that he felt slighted by businesses that have asked him to leave. his two handguns were legally purchased but not registered. the gunman killed three students before taking his own life. in yet another mass shooting in the u.s., one person was killed and three others wounded when gunfire erupted last night at a shopping mall food court in el paso, texas. police say a fight broke out between two groups and escalated into the shooting. two suspect residents now in custody. there's a lot more news
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♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> i'm catherine herridge in washington. thanks for staying with us. for most of this country's history, homosexuals were not allowed to serve in the u.s. military. service members found to be gay were discharged, often less than honorably. a black mark that affected their future benefits and their job opportunities. there are an estimated one million lgbtq veterans in the u.s., and we don't know how many were forced out of the military before and after the "don't ask,
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don't tell" policy. jim axelrod spoke with veterans who spent years trying to regain their honor and regain their benefits. >> reporter: "don't ask, don't tell" was a compromise when bill clinton legalized gays and lesbians serving openly in the military ran head-long into pushback at the president obama. then barack obama says we can do better. well, that was more than a dozen years ago, and thousands of gay veterans still haven't had the discrimination they suffered addressed. the standing ovation in 2010 celebrated noble ideals. >> no longer will tens of thousands of americans in uniform be asked to live a lie. >> reporter: as president obama repealed the policy that had kept gay and lesbian service members closeted and fearful for nearly 18 years. >> if you put your hand on your hip, if you sit with your legs crossed. it's like the was always around, no matter what during those
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times in the military. >> reporter: which explains why vets like donny ray allen, a former marine, and amy lom, who served in the navy, were skeptical anything would change. both had been kicked out of the military for "don't ask, don't tell" violations with less than honorable discharges. did it change your sense of self? >> yes, i'm less than. >> uh-huh. >> reporter: less than? >> yes, less than honorable. >> reporter: for many lgbtq vets, that meant losing access to the full spectrum of benefits veterans again when honorably discharged, from v.a. loans to tuition assistance, to health care and many federal jobs. >> it's a dark -- >> very dark place. >> place. >> reporter: was any thought given to how we're going to deal with the people who have suffered? >> to be frank, the focus was on the future. >> reporter: leon panetta was
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the secretary of defense who oversaw the repeal almost a dozen years ago. >> there wasn't a lot of thought about, you know, the people who had been discharged who had gone through hell on this issue about what do we do about them. and in some ways, i regret that. >> reporter: the best estimates are that 14,000 service members were discharged under "don't ask, don't tell." homophobia had chased out many more well before. but the most recent data shows just a little over 1200 have had this injustice addressed. >> which means the overwhelming number of people who were less than honorably discharged for their sexuality still have not had their discharges upgraded. >> it's like everything else when it comes to civil rights. in order to be able to move forward and embrace the future, you can't justl phat to andrew espinosa, who is not just less
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than in the eyes of the all. >> so this when i was in training still. >> reporter: he was a proud air force aviator in the late '80s and early '90s, flying 21 combat missions as a navigator. but in may of 1993, a few months before "don't ask, don't tell" was implemented, but in the middle of a debate raging about whether gay people could serve -- >> i don't have anything against gays, but i don't think there is a place in the military. >> reporter: andrew espinosa's life changed forever >> and they said well, there is an accusation that there was someone in your room. and that you put your hand on his knee and kissed him on the cheek. just the accusation itself set these wheels in motion that never opter:egatio a dict fornt assault d into an dhe air rce.
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>> we'reo court-mal.andt's n goingything that you are going to be charged with indecent assault, which is a federal felony. >> reporter: despite the air force admitting homosexuality was a factor in his case, in a letter to espinosa's mother, he was court-martialed and dishonorably discharged. captain espinosa had no health care and no benefits. he couldn't even get hired as a census taker. is it a stretch in the early '90s to say that what the air force was doing wasn't about indecent assault. it was about criminalizing this guy's sexuality? >> i'm sure somebody said well, let's use that as the excuse. >> reporter: veterans like amy and donny ray have gone through official channels to get the
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discharge upgrades they need to access the benefits they've earned. but it's been a long and often soul-crushing road. when did you first attempt to get your discharge upgraded? >> shoot, back in 2013 or so. >> reporter: and nothing? >> yeah. and it just stalled. i mean, there was just -- it didn't feel like there was any hope for anything. >> reporter: and while just two weeks ago donny ray finally got his upgrade -- >> even saying it, i can't stop smiling because wow, it actually happened. >> reporter: andrew espinosa has given up. >> i'm just like okay, we're done. we're done. i'm not going to go beg. >> reporter: and for leon panetta, that's a grievous wrong that urgently needs to be made right. >> in order to be true to what we try to do by getting rid of "don't ask, don't tell," it's not just about the future, it's also about making sure that we correct the past. >> reporter: in a statement to cbs news, the pentagon said it
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has conducted several outreach campaigns for veterans who think they were wrongly discharged, but acknowledge it has, quote, more work to do. the department of defense also said it has tried hard to mitigate delays and is still striving to finalize cases within ten months. >> that was jim axelrod
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artificial intelligence can do everything from writing a high school term paper to creating art in the style of the great masters, but will it take your job? tony dokoupil asked the experts. >> this is replacing white collar jobs. >> reporter: as artificial intelligence gets better -- >> anyone who writes for a living has to be concerned. i mean, this thing can create code. >> reporter: job security is only supposed to get worse. and in reports like this one of the top jobs our ai overlords plan to kill, coding or computer programing is often on the list. >> click new prompt. okay. new chat. >> reporter: so with the indulgence of sam zonka, an instructor and coding at a school in new york, i decided to test the idea of an imminent ai takeover, by seeing if the software cld code for seowho kn cmputers asoops >>ter: eliminatinged t hire som >> pleaseld a personal webs cbs anchor gayle
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king. >> reporter: we used the famed chatgpt, famed in part for writing code. so all this gobbledygook on the screen, that's what all the people who sit in classrooms learn. >> yep. >> reporter: and i for one was prepared to be amazed. but take a look at the results, about as basic as a basic website can be. what do you think? you're the professional? >> eh. >> reporter: while there is more sophisticated coding software out there, it seems none of it can yet preplace the talent of professional coders. in fact, it may actually help them. so if you can look into the future here, how do you think ai will change the way you do your job? >> it will definitely automate the more tedious parts of it, but it's still a long ways away before having a true impact. >> hello. >> hi, tony. how you? >> great to meet you. >> reporter: microsoft's ceo satya nadella is a big believer in ai, but not the idea that ai
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is coming for our it wi creat jobs than it will take? >> i believe it creates more both satisfaction in current jobs and net new jobs. >> reporter: in fact, when we sat down earlier thismonth, the head of the launch of the new ai-powered bing, he argued artificial intelligence could help the economy across the board. >> my biggest worry is we need some new technology that starts driving real productivity. it's time for some real innovation. >> do you think it will drive up wages? >> i do believe it will drive up wages. because productivity and wages are related. >> reporter: but while that may be true in the long run, m.i.t. economist believes that the rise of ai does indeed mean millions of jobs are going to change in our lifetimes. and what's scary is we're just not sure how. >> we are very good at forecasting what we will not be doing and very poor at what we will be doing. >> reporter: he points out, for example, that more than 60% of
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the types of jobs people are doing today didn't event exist in the 1940s. while many of the jobs that did exist have been replaced. >> what we've seen over the last four decades in the u.s. in many industrialized economies, what economists all market polarization, which means hollowing outet oth that mide nr buo administrateppt, clerical tasks, we used to have banks and banks of people who answer phones, who did typing and filing, who reproduce documents, who kept tables of books. many of those things are now done by machines. >> reporter: so when you say the job market has been polarized in the last four decades. >> yes. >> reporter: you mean technology has come along. it's punched a hole in all these middle skill jobs. all the people who were here, some have gone up here and more have gone way down here and are making writeway less. that's where the pain happens. >> that's especially where the pain happens. >> reporter: that also troubles
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meredith whittaker who founded the ai institute to study how this will affect our lives. >> they don't replace human labor. they just require different forms of labor to baby-sit them to train them to make sure they're working well. who's work will be degraded and who's house in the hampton will get another wing? i think that's the fundamental question when we look at these technologies and ask questions about work. >> reporter: by degrade, you mean yeah, you still have a job, but it's not the job you used to have. >> yeah, ah, t you better move apartments because you're not going to be able to afford the rent anymore. >> reporter: but back at general assembly at a recent open house, all this worry seeas we watched of hopeful students sign up to learn how to code, come what may. >> on a scale of 1 to 10, how worry ready you as a coder about ai? >> at this moment in time, 2. >> reporter: a 2? wow. >> the problem is that i'm not
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the race that's been designed for you. this morning, we're remembering hollywood icon raquel welch who passed away wednesday after a brief illness. she was 82. jamie wax looks back on her extraordinary life and contributions. >> reporter: with her role in the campy 1966 adventure film "one million years bc," welch was catapulted to international sex symbol status. a label she said she learned to live with. >> you know, it's kind of like being in a straitjacket. you want to go waa, let me out, you know, let me be me. >> reporter: in a film career spanning decades, she would win a golden globe for her performance in 1973's "the three musketeers." >> i must go now.
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>> reporter: over the years, welch's insistence that she be valid for more than just her appearance earned her a reputation for being difficult to work with. >> miss welch. >> who are you? >> reporter: she mockingly leaned into that reputation in a now legendary appearance on seinfeld. >> if you bring it up again, i'll feed your genitals to a wolf. >> reporter: born to a bow livian father and white mother, welch rejected calls to take a more common name like debbie, and later in life made an effort t reconnect with her latin roots. >> i think it's important to awaken the spirit of the latino artists in cinema. >> reporter: for fans, like this reporter, welch will be remembered as more than a great beauty, a talented performer with success from the broadway stage to the silver screen. >> really, to come from a no dialogue, you know, bikini clad dinosaur picture in 1966, i feel
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quite happy with what i've accomplished as an actress. >> and that's the "overnight news" for this friday. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm catherine herridge. this is cbs news flash. i'm shanelle kaul in new york. two more people were rescued from the rubble in turkey thursday, ten days after a massive earthquake hit the region. the quake killed more than 36,000 people in southern turkey and roughly 5800 more in neighboring syria. actor bruce willis has been diagnosed with dementia. the 67-year-old retired last year after learning he had aphasia, which impacts speech. and the usps releasing these new forever women soccer stamps. the stamp shows a long pony-tailed woman kicking a soccer ball into the red, blue and white distance and is meant to celebrate women in sport. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or
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connected tv. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. ♪ tonight, president biden addresses the nation about that chinese spy balloon and the three other high-flying objects he ordered the u.s. military to shoot down. here are tonight's top headlines. no apologies from the president of the united states as we learn there is no evidence the three objects have a connection to china. >> make no mistake, if any object presents a threat to the safety and security of the american people, he will take it down.cume tonight poledoin during the 2020 election. >> the grand jury believes perjury may have been committed by one or more witnesses. breaking news. senator john fetterman checks himself into the hospital for severe depression. and actor bruce willis diagnosed
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with dementia. a major recall from tesla.e software in hundreds of thousands of cars. >> the feature allows cars to speed through intersections in an unpredictable manner. the residents near the toxic ohio train derailment are demanding answers about their own safety and health. >> my body is covered in bruises from itching. i think it's something in the air. at least one person dead, multiple injuries after a shooting at a mall in el paso, texas. >> we heard the shots go off, and we got up and everybody started running to the bathroom. and mikaela shiffrin makes history. >> mikaela shiffrin comes out of the gate on a tear. shiffrin hangs on the lead, and she is a first-time world champion in the gs. ♪
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> good evening and thank you for joining us. tonight 46 million people are dealing with a dual threat of a winter storm and possible tornadoes. that system already dropping more than 8 inches of snow in parts of iowa, making for dangerous driving conditions. it is now moving east, and could dump up to a foot of snow in maine. meanwhile, millions in the south are at risk for tornadoes, hail, and high winds. but first, president biden speaking in-depth for the first time about the chinese spy balloon and the other objects discovered over the last two weeks. u.s. officials now believe the three items shot down in north american airspace were likely tied to private companies or research groups. but the president did say he plans to speak with china's president about xi jinping about the situation. cbs' nancy cordes is going to start us off tonight from the white house. good evening, nancy. >> good evening, norah. these were the president's most extensive comments yet about all four shoot-downs. he said most the debris from the
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chinese balloon has now been recovered from the atlantic ocean, and he acknowledged that the three other objects, which still have not been recovered, likely weren't involved in spying at all. >> we don't yet know exactly what these three objects were. >> reporter: president biden confirmed today that the three objects he ordered shot down last weekend probably posed no threat to people on the ground. >> the intelligence community's current assessment is that these three objects were most likely balloons tied to private companies, dy weather, or conducting other scientific research. >> reporter: newly enhanced military radar picked up the three objects on three consecutive days as they floated from east to west at the same height commercial airliners use. the objects were shot down by u.s. fighter jets using missiles worth half a million dollars each. at least one hobby group has already come forward to say that their homemade balloon went missing last saturday. the same day an object was taken
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out over canada's yukon territory. >> i directed my team to come back to me with sharper rules for how we will deal with these unidentified objects moving forward. >> reporter: chinese officials still deny that the massive balloon that started this whole saga was being used for spying. today they accused the u.s. of smearing them and escalating tensions. u.s. officials tell cbs news there is a growing belief that the chinese did not initially intend to fly the balloon across america. the pentagon tracked the balloon as it lifted off from china's hainan island two weeks ago and began heading east toward guam and hawaii. the theory is that it was then blown off course by the prevailing winds, first toward alaska and then down over the continental united states. >> we're going to get to the bottom of this. i make no apologies for taking down that balloon. >> nancy cordes is badge with us from the white house. nancy, i understand the president had a physical exam today.
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what are we learning? >> that's right. we got a detailed three-page report from his doctor who says ent's rai changed since hist ysicaln 2021. on his chest that had to be removed today to be biopsied. he was prescribed custom orthotics for a stiffened gait that is like lie due to arthritis. he is still taking medication for his afib, but otherwise his doctor says he is a healthy, vigorous 80-year-old who is fit to execute the duties of the presidency. norah? >> nancy cordes, thank you. now to the growing anger and frustration after that toxic train derailment. the head of the epa visited the site of the crash in ohio today, assuring residents that the water and air are safe, and that 24/7 monitoring has shown no issues. but as cbs' roxana saberi reports, some in the community aren't so sure. >> reporter: east palestine resident melissa blake says two days after the toxic train derailment, doctors diagnosed
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her with acute bronchitis from chemical fumes. >> it's hard to breathe. my chest is always tight, the coughing. >> reporter: what kind of help do you and your neighbors need? >> actually, it's just the truth. >> reporter: at a town hall last night, residents demanded to know how safe they are now, living at home. despite at least five hazardous chemicals released during the derailment and fire, local and federal authorities say right wells. ill,n a visit tot tor ael gan noolk he>> l me be clear, epa w enforcement authority under the law. >> reporter: the railway says it's removing contaminants from the ground and streams and offering more residents
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financial aid. today families like the bayless lined up for a $1,000 check. per person. is a thousand dollars enough? >> probably not. honestly, it's probably not. but it will help for now i guess. >> reporter: they live just over a mile from the derailment, and drink bottled water because they don't trust the water tests. >> one of the main reasons we came back is because of my son in school, otherwise, we probably wouldn't have come back yet. >> reporter: the bayless family plans to join one of several class action lawsuits launched against the railroad company. as for the water, the epa is still encouraging people who rely on private wells to use bottled water until their water is tested. norah? >> roxana saberi, thank you. there is a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news."
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♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> tonight, charges could be imminent after a georgia grand jury that investigated alleged election interference by former president donald trump today said it saw evidence of perjury by one or more witnesses. the jurors also unanimously rebutted claims of widespread fraud made by trump after the 2020 election.encb months, allies close to former president donald trump have appeared in atlanta behind
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closed doors to speak under oath about his relentless efforts to overturn president biden's 2020 victory in georgia. now that special grand jury in fulton county convened by district attorney fani willis says some of them might have lied, and recommended charges be filed. the report did not identify who, but 75 witnesses have been part of the grand jury's work, including long-time trump lawyer rudy giuliani, georgia governor brian kemp, and south carolina senator lindsey graham, who was asked today if he was confident in his testimony. >> yes, i'm very confident. i have no idea what they're going to do. >> reporter: the district attorney launched her investigation after a recording showed trump's pressure campaign. on top, georgia officials, including republican secretary of state brad raffensperger. >> look, brad, i have to get -- i have to find 12,000 votes, and i have them. >> reporter: despite trump and his allies' repeated false claims that the state's vote was rigged -- >> there is no way we lost georgia.
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>> reporter: -- the entire grand jury agreed no widespread fraud took place in the georgia 2020 presidential election. most of the report remains under seal. but the judge overseeing the case says it does include a roster of who should or should not be indicted. georgia state law professor clark cunningham says he expects trump to be on that list. could trump be indicted? >> i think will be surprised if he is not eventually indicted. >> reporter: the district attorney here recently said decisions are imminent, and if she decides to move forward, a new regular grand jury would be convened to issue indictments. and former president trump, in a statement today maintained he has done nothing wrong. norah? >> robert costa with all those new details. thank you so much. back here in washington, we got late word today that pennsylvania senator john fetterman has checked himself into the hospital for clinical depression. cbs' nikole killion is on
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capitol hill with more. >> reporter: tonight pennsylvania senator john fetterman is being treated at walter reed national military medical center for clinical depression after being evaluated by the attending physician of the u.s. congress monday, and then checking himself in wednesday night. his office said in a statement while john has experienced depression off and on throughout his life, it only became severe in recent weeks. his wife gisele tweeted "i'm so proud of him for asking for help and getting the care he needs." clinical psychiatrist dr. sue varma says patients may check themselves in because symptoms of depression can be severe. >> they're feeling very depressed, hopeless, helpless, low energy, difficulty falling asleep, and they may even have thoughts of wanting to harm themselves. >> reporter: on capitol hill, an outpouring of support from chuck schumer to rank and file colleagues. do you see any signs of this? >> i think we've been worry about him just because of his health. >> reporter: the freshman democrat just got out of the hospital last week after
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suffering from light-headedness, although doctors cleared him in two days after a round of tests. the former pennsylvania lieutenant governor suffered a stroke last may, which forced him to take time off the trail during an intense campaign for u.s. senate. >> we already knew that was going to be a challenge, given somebody that's in recovery after having a stroke. >> reporter: the american stroke association says post stroke depression is common, affecting about a third of stroke survivors. several senators tel around mental health so that et need. norah?nk y ch. turning now to the weather, 11 states tonight under winter weather advisories in illinois. four people were hurt, one critically on the campus of northwestern university when a large tree fell on them due to a buildup of ice. for more on this storm and potential tornadoes in the south, let's bring in meteorologist mike bettes from our partners at the weather channel. good evening, mike. >> norah, good evening to you.
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we have a large sprawling storm that we're watch in the eastern half of the country. producing two different seasons of weather. we have active severe storms across the south producing active tornadoes. then we're watching for the snow around the great lakes. several more inches still to come here. heavy swaths of snow across iowa, into wisconsin and michigan. very difficult travels here. some of the heaviest pockets of snow will bring another 3 to 5 inches of snow. then you look at the storms across the south through the evening, tennessee, alabama could be particularly hard here with potentily rnadoes. the entire system pushes east overnight. through the night tonight and through the day tomorrow, the storms weaken significantly with just rain showers tomorrow. and then we turn our attention to the middle of next week with a nearly identical storm hitting by wednesday. >> double whammy. mike bettes, thank you. four students wounded in that deadly mass shooting at michigan state university on monday are still fighting for their lives. another student has been upgraded to stable condition. the chinese consulate in chicago says two injured students are
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from china. police said today a note found on the 43-year-old shooter suggested that he felt slighted by businesses that had asked him to leave. his two handguns were legally purchased but not registered. the gunman killed three students before taking his own life. in yet another mass shooting in the u.s., one person was killed and three others wounded when gunfire erupted last night at a shopping mall food court in el paso, texas. police say a fight broke out between two groups and escalated into the shooting. two suspect residents now in custody.
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see black doctors, they're more likely to get preventative care. though 60% of black americans have cardiovascular disease, fewer than 3% of cardiologists are black. >> when black patients see you walk into their room, what's the reaction? >> their eyes light up. >> reporter: when dr. brider was growing up, his grandfather had congestive heart failure, but didn't trust his doctor. >> i told him before his passing that i put every effort into becoming an advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist in order to decrease the burden of cardiovascular disease in our people. >> reporter: dr. michelle albert is the president of the american heart association. why is there so little diversity in cardiology? >> structural racism. and the fact that persons of color have been systematically excluded from being part of the process that enables you to become a doctor in the first place. >> reporter: and dr. albert says black trainees have less access to mentors and face racial bias
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from both colleagues and patients. >> i walk into a room. they think that i'm the cleaning person. >> you the president of the american heart association? >> yes. >> reporter: one solution, more mentorship. >> your engagement here is essential. >> reporter: like this program by the american college of cardiology. when you logged on, what did you think? >> i was amazed. >> i want him to do good. >> reporter: his patients are rooting for him too. for eye on america, adriana diaz, olympia fields, illinois. >> such an important story. all right. why hundreds of thousands of teslas are being recalled. teslas are being recalled. we'll have the details, next. 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. when cold symptoms keep you up, try vicks nyquil severe. just one dose starts to relieve 9 of your worst cold and flu symptoms, to help take you from 9 to none.
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that willis would want to bring global attention to this debilitating disease and how it impacts so many others. american skier mikaela shiffrin is celebrating another historic victory on the slopes. you don't want to miss it, coming up. american skier mikaela shiffrin won the gold medal today in the giant slalom at the world championships in france. the 27-year-old from colorado is now the most decorated skier in modern world alpine championship history, with 13 medals, including seven golds.
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the victory comes just two days after shiffrin parted ways with her long-time coach, thanking him for his dedication. congratulations to her. all right. honoring the legacy of emmett ll and his mother ma
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tonight at the white house, president biden and the first lady are hosting a screening of the movie "till," which tells the 1955 lynching of emmett till and his courageous mother's long fight for justice. till's death sparked the civil rights movement, and now he and his mother have been given one of the nation's highest honors. here is cbs' scott macfarlane. >> reporter: just 14 years old, emmett till of chicago was kidnapped, tortured and then killed while visiting family in 1955 in segregated mississippi after allegedly flirting with a white woman. till's death and his mother's insistence the funeral include an open casket propelled the civil rights movement. that decision about the open casket you argue that was pivotal. >> very pivotal to america bearing witness to the kind of horrors that occurred in the
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south. >> reporter: for several years till's casket has been a signature artifact here at the museum of african american history and culture in washington. and within a month, a new historic piece honoring till will be added. a congressional gold medal, which former congressman bobby rush himself a civil rights icon from chicago made his final act in office before retiring last month, a posthumous honor for till and till's mother. >> the nation owes her a debt of gratitude for her courage and her commitment. >> reporter: now 67 years later, till's remaining family will cherish the honor. >> it has been a dream and a wish of our family for a long time. >> reporter: a dream america can see honoring a family that changed the course of american history. scott macfarlane, cbs news, washington. well, that's it. that's the "overnight news" for this friday. for some of you, the news continues.
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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. this is cbs news flash. i'm shanelle kaul in new york. two more people were rescued from the rubble in turkey thursdayteysft a kehe on. e hq 36,000 people in southern turkey and roughly 5800 more in neighboring syria. actor bruce willis has been diagnosed with dementia. the 67-year-old retired tired l year after learning he had aphasia, which impacts speech. and the usps releasing these new forever women soccer stamps. the stamp shows a long pony-tailed woman kicking a soccer ball into the red, blue and white distance and is meant to celebrate women in sport. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or
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connected tv. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. it's friday, february 17th, 2023. this is the "cbs morning news." train derailment fallout. the head of the epa visits the site of the ohio chemical train derailment as residents worry about their health. hear what he had to say about the rail operator. severe weather system. tornadoes cause damage in the south as snow impacts travel in the north. see where the storm moves next. aerial objects. president biden gave his most detailed comments yet on the flying objects shot down last weekend. what he says officialsel

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