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and for the first time ever a venue was honored, harlem's historic apollo theater. nancy giles has the story. >> reporter: on wednesday nights the apollo theater in harlem is one of the hottest tickets in town. >> have a good night, okay? >> reporter: but there's no celebrity headliner. it's amateur night. and the audience is there to pick the next breakout star. ♪ i was born by the river ♪ >> i know how tough the crowd can be. i know that's what makes this place legendary, what goes into it. ♪ it's been a long ♪ >> reporter: kyle parks, a 23-year-old singer from yonkers, new york, won the crowd over with "a change is gonna come," by sam cooke. ♪ i hate to make me nervous ♪ others -- [ boos ]

-- weren't so lucky. >> they're brutally honest. and sometimes just brutal. it's not necessarily honest. >> just wanted to say we are thrilled to have you all back. >> reporter: marion caffey is the long-time producer of the apollo's iconic amateur night. ♪ love and happiness ♪ and says it's the longest-running singing competition in history. >> well, "the voice" and "america's got talent" and "american idol" and "star search" and -- we are the great grandfather of all of that. this was the blueprint. >> reporter: the theater's motto is "where stars are born and legends are made." and it's launched plenty of them. ♪ and believe me ♪ ♪ from james brown and ella fitzgerald to stevie wonder. ♪ lauryn hill.

and h.e.r. ♪ we're going riding on the freeway of love ♪ and if you're wondering why every performer rubs that stump -- >> this stump used to be a full tree, and it stood outside the lafayette theater, and they would pull leaves from the tree for good luck. and now everyone comes here and rubs the tree of hope for good luck. >> does it work? >> well, i think it's good luck if you win, and it's not such good luck if you lose. ♪ if you see me walking down the street ♪ ♪ and i start to cry ♪ >> reporter: but it worked for the award-winning dionne warwick, whose career skyrocketed after she and her gospel group won amateur night back in 1958. >> when you guys won, what did that mean to you? what did that prove to you? >> well, that we were good

enough, first of all. and that we won $50. >> reporter: warwick says going to the 1,500-seat theater was like going to school and getting a crash course in performing. >> the old saying, it truly is so true. if you can make it at the apollo, you can make it anywhere. they brought out the very best in you every single time i played the apollo. it got better and better and better. and i mean, i felt like i was at home. ♪ >> reporter: but it wasn't always welcoming. before it was the apollo it was a whites-only burlesque theater. in 1934 under new ownership and a new name it opened its doors to everyone. >> one of the first to allow black and white patrons to enjoy the music together. after all, it's new york city. >> right. >> and the black community was growing. and so it was basically a business model decision to allow black citizens in.

>> reporter: guthrie ramsey is a music historian and says the story of the apollo and the story of america are intertwined. >> it was a representative of anything that was going on in america. you could see the apollo theater reflecting that. all of our histories. >> right. >> we all have a stake in it. ♪ >> reporter: during the civil rights movement the apollo became more than just a performance space. >> we're sitting in and marching and doing all this and going to restaurants and they don't want to serve us and all that. we couldn't stay in any hotels. >> i mean, you were even performing sometimes at these places where you couldn't stay. >> no. exactly. yeah. so it was a rough time. you know. >> reporter: but this theater was like a beacon, i guess. right? >> it was the beacon. it was the black music staple. it was just, you know, where the black acts came. couldn't play nowhere else.

♪ i don't want you ♪ ♪ no, no ♪ ♪ but i need you ♪ ♪ don't want to ♪ >> reporter: motown great smokey robinson says the first time he and the miracles performed here he was a nervous wreck. they bombed. ♪ do me wrong now baby ♪ >> i was frightened to death to be at the apollo theater. had we not had a record out and supposedly been professional at that point that the guy with the hook would have came and took us off the stage because we were terrible. >> were you? what do you mean you were terrible? >> just amateur. we were so terrible until mr. schiffman, the guy who owned the apollo at that time, called berry gordy, who was our manager at that point, and told him he wanted his money back. >> are you serious? >> i'm serious. he wasn't even paying us any money. >> reporter: in the decades that followed as more places became integrated the apollo struggled financially and closed its doors more than once. >> we could have lost the apollo.

but we're still here. ♪ >> reporter: actress and singer melba moore says she grew up watching shows at the theater and then got a chance to perform here. >> melba moore! >> reporter: and later became a guest host on "it's showtime at the apollo," the tv version of amateur night. >> okay, nancy, i've got to show you something. >> yeah. >> reporter: moore says this theater is something to be treasured. >> this is the very famous signature wall. >> oh, my god! i'm here. okay. let me find me. oh, here i am. there. look at that. wow. >> love, melba moore. aw. >> and this, that's prince. >> get real. >> reporter: tonight the apollo theater is awarded a prestigious kennedy center honor at a ceremony that we'll see later this month on cbs. >> this is the magic of art.

the power of art. >> reporter: michelle ebanks, the president and ceo of the theater, says it's the first time an institution and not a person has received such recognition. >> the idea of the apollo opened up this whole just universe so everyone could see this is american culture too. ♪ erican culture too. >> reporter: this is also the year the theater begins its 90th season. and to smokey robinson the apollo is still a force to be reckoned with. >> you know, it's the beginning. it's the proving ground. it's the apollo. yeah. ♪ you've really got a hold on me ♪ >> you know you've really got a hold on me ♪ >> that was nancy giles reporting. you can watch the 47th annual kennedy center honors sunday december 22nd right here on cbs. and "cbs news roundup" will be right back.

if you've ever tried to teach a parent or a grandparent how to use a smartphone, you've probably learned a lesson yourself. in patience. steve hartman found a group of youngsters with an abundance of patience on the road. >> reporter: the residents at brookdale senior living have a wealth of wisdom. but many also have a gap in that

knowledge. most notably -- >> look at all these different things. >> reporter: how do you work this telephone gizmo? >> even turning it on. >> that was hard? >> right. my e-mail was not coming in. >> i don't know where things are. >> it's just not easy. >> help. tell me how to run it. >> reporter: enter our heroes. a group of computer-savvy gen z-ers who march in once a week to control-s the day. but why? a couple years ago some students here at canterbury school in fort myers, florida were joking about howbad their grandparents were at anything technical. but when the laughter faded, one of them was struck with a seriously good idea. >> yeah, it's called cleo. it sounds for computer literacy education outreach. >> reporter: erin smolyar along with friends christian lakeese and derek hunikan started the cleo club and tried to partner with brookdale.

>> initially we tried e-mailing but i think we got put in spam -- it's right next door. it was before we could drive. so we just walked over after school. >> reporter: and they've been volunteering ever since. >> okay. then go to photos icon. >> reporter: jonathan smith couldn't figure out how to text a picture. >> do i poke it? >> yeah, you just click it. . >> and that's all there is to it? >> yeah. >> reporter: nancy kilpatrick wanted to clean out her inbox for the first time. >> 122,000. >> e-mails? >> yes. >> reporter: fortunately, nancy learned you don't have to delete them one at a time. >> look at that. >> look at that. >> would you look at that. >> reporter: for the kids it's not always easy. >> i'm getting it. >> all right. >> reporter: but they keep coming back. week after week. >> i've never had that before. >> those young people are just amazing. >> and they have so much patience with us. >> we're on a first name basis now. >> reporter: and those friendships may be the best part. because eventually the devices

go dark. but the conversation continues. proving that as a communication tool smartphones always work best powered off. >> have a good one. >> thank you so much. >> that was steve hartman on the road in fort myers, florida. ad that's today's "cbs news roundup." for some of you the news continues. for others tune in later for "cbs mornings." reporting from the cbs broadcast center in new york city, i'm carissa lawson. ♪ hello and thanks for staying up with us. i'm carissa lawson in new york. here are the top stories on "cbs news roundup."

police have now charged a suspect with murder for the killing of the unitedhealthcare ceo in manhattan. a marine corps veteran is acquitted of killing a man who terrified passengers on a new york city subway. and syrians are celebrating newfound freedoms amid signs of difficulties for the rebel alliance now running the country. police are revealing new details about the arrest of the man charged with murder among other crimes in the death of unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson in manhattan. 26-year-old luigi mangione was arrested monday morning. there he is. in altoona, pennsylvania about 280 miles west of the murder scene. when confronting mangione at a local mcdonald's police say he went quiet and started to shake. now mangione will be extradited back to new york city. cbs's josh sidowitz reports from outside the jail. >> reporter: 26-year-old luigi mangione a former prep school valedictorian and ivy league engineer arrived in court in pennsylvania handcuffed monday

night to face multiple charges. police say he is a strong person of interest in the shooting death of unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson. >> justice will be delivered in this case. >> reporter: mangione was picked up monday morning at this mcdonald's restaurant in altoona, pennsylvania about 280 miles west of the murder scene in new york city. after he was recognized by an employee. responding officers say mangione was wearing a blue medical mask sitting at a table with a laptop. >> my partner and i recognized him immediately. >> reporter: officer tyler frye, a rookie on the job for just six months, made the arrest. >> didn't even think twice about it. we knew that was our guy. >> he had asked the suspect if he had been in new york city and that really invoked a physical reaction from the suspect. he became visibly nervous, kind of shaking at that question. >> reporter: police say mangione gave them a fake i.d., the same one used to check into a new york city hostel before last wednesday's shooting. investigators also say he had a gun with a silencer in his backpack. >> the gun appears to be a ghost

gun. may have been made on a 3-d printer. >> reporter: police say he was carrying multiple fake i.d.s along with a handwritten document detailing anger against corporate america and the health care industry. >> in some dark corners this killer is being hailed as a hero. hear me on this. he is no hero. the real hero in this story is the person who called 911 at mcdonald's this morning. >> reporter: police believe the gunman left new york city immediately after the shooting and then spent several days in pennsylvania. justin sidorow tachlt z, cbs news, hollidaysburg, pennsylvania. also in new york city a jury on monday found marine veteran daniel penny not guilty in the subway choke hold killing of jordan neely. penny was acquitted of criminally negligent homicide days after the jury deadlocked on a manslaughter charge. cbs's alice gaynor reports from the courthouse in manhattan. >> i miss my son. my son didn't have to go through

this. >> reporter: jordan neely's father spoke just minutes after being thrown out of the courtroom for yelling after objecting to the verdict. >> it hurts. really, really hurts. >> reporter: others cheered when the jury foreperson announced the unanimous decision, 26-year-old daniel penny was not guilty of criminally negligent homicide. the case stems from an incident on may 1st, 2023. 30-year-old jordan neely, who struggled with homelessness, mental illness and drug addiction entered a subway car. witnesses say he was acting erratically, screaming threats to kill. video captured penny, a marine veteran, restraining neely in a choke hold for several minutes. he was later pronounced dead at the hospital. the judge tossed out the top charge of manslaughter in the second degree after the 12 jurors could not reach a unanimous decision. it took less than two hours to deliberate on the lesser charge before reaching a verdict. prosecutors had argued penny was justified for using some force but that he used way too much

for too long, nearly six minutes, they said. the defense said he was just protecting himself and fellow passengers. today at a nearby bar penny raised a glass with his attorneys, who issued a statement saying new yorkers can continue to stand up for one another without sacrificing our rights or our freedoms. >> probably the most important factor in this case were the witnesses who were the actually people in that subway car. and many if not most were terrified of mr. neely. and so they looked to daniel penny as heroic, as someone who protected them. >> reporter: penny was facing up to four years behind bars if convicted on the lesser charge. the manhattan district attorney's office says it respects the jury's verdict, noting in part, "the jury has now spoken." outside a manhattan criminal court, alice gainer, cbs news, new york. now to the middle east, where big changes are bringing uncertainty in syria.% years of civil war and more than

five decades of rule by the assad family ended last weekend as rebels took the capital city of damascus. syria is now controlled by a militia labeled a terrorist group by the u.s. cbs's elizabeth palmer reports from damascus. >> reporter: as we approached what used to be a closely guarded frontier, we found all the guards had melted away. we just crossed the syrian border, and that gunfire is celebratory gunfire. those are either fighters with the group that's taken over in syria or they may just be jubilant armed citizens. in downtown damascus the fighters who seized the capital on sunday were parading their weapons. syrians looked on, smiling, not quite believing their eyes. these men are with an islamist group, hayat tahrir al-sham, or hts. their leader is abu mohammed al

jolani, a conservative sunni muslim. and yesterday he spoke at the ancient umayad mosque. "this is a victory for the islamic nation," he said, "and a new history for the region." jolani has also promised to protect christians and other syrian minorities. now the dictator bashar al assad has fled. delighted citizens tore down symbols of the regime. some even went for a joyride on the statue of assad's father. >> how do you feel now? >> happy. happy. proud to be syrian. finally. >> reporter: lena zakar was in the crowd that flocked to visit previously forbidden territory, an assad family house. >> what about the christians and the shia muslims? some of them are nervous. >> yeah. my mom is christian. so she is afraid. but we're telling her there is nothing and we hope a new syria.

>> reporter: there is euphoria right now. people enjoying a moment they never dreamed they'd see. but the hard part lies ahead. how to rebuild here without triggering even more repression and reprisal. elizabeth palmer, cbs news. when "cbs news roundup" continues, we'll take a look at how the massive changes in syria could affect u.s. troops and security in the region. that's coming up next. my name's stacy, i'm 57, and i was adopted in 2020. we were adopted in 2019. and we were adopted in 2021. we had a house, and it sounds crazy, but it wasn't a home. the one thing that jake and emma brought is it became a home. when i met dakota, he had just turned 14. you weren't there for the first “this” and the first “that.” i missed the first words. but we got a lot of other firsts. watching her say, “oh my god,"

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cbs's charlie d'agata reports on american interests in syria, which includes nearly 1,000 troops and one of the longest-held american hostages. >> reporter: the assad regime's spectacular takedown comes with serious ramifications for the u.s. specifically, how to deal with the main rebel group now in power, hts, a group that's on the u.s.-designated terror list. >> there's an opportunity to build something significantly better going forward. but as you note, there are risks too. there are risks associated with the possible resurgence of extremism and terrorism. >> allahu akbar. >> reporter: the rebel group's leader abu mohammed al jelani has long ties to al qaeda, having fought u.s. troops in iraq in 2003 and later running a branch of al qaeda in syria. it's the threat of islamic extremism that's kept roughly 900 u.s. troops in syria. the mission in recent years, to keep the more high-profile

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if you think cork is only useful for stopping up wine bottles, think again. ramy inocencio went to cork country in portugal to see all of its other uses. >> strength. one, two, three. see? okay. operate off the tip of an ax. this is how that cork stopper from your bottle of wine probably got its start. "you only do this if you love it," says casimiro mileros. and he's been living it for the past 20 years, stripping cork bark off portugal's national tree like thousands of seasonal harvesters every summer, waking at 4:00 a.m. each day and working the country's rolling historic montado landscape. no tree is ever cut down, which means cork forests are massive

natural carbon sinks. bark can only legally be harvested again after nine years of regrowth. it takes 25 years for the first cork to even be harvested. and that is reflected in portuguese society. there's a popular saying that says if you care about your grandchildren, basically if you care about your future, then you plant a cork tree. >> you have really the heart and soul of this business so far. >> reporter: antonio rios amarim is ceo of the world's biggest maker of cork stoppers. amarim cork punches out more than 5 billion stoppers each year, exporting to more than 100 countries. i wonder if anyone has ever called you the king of cork. >> i don't think so. i think you're probably the first one. i'm just inheriting a huge legacy from a family that for the last 154 years has been dedicating itself to cork. >> reporter: amorim's cork dynasty started in 1870, when

his great grandfather, antonio alvez amorim, founded a small factory in portugal's port wine region. four generations later production has modernized with machine learning speeding up cuts. but humans, this short line of cork stopper punch masters, are still the best, most efficient in the business. and what's so great is that the cork that's left behind does not go to waste. that's about 70% of it. and that is where the design and the innovation come in. >> reporter: all that leftover bark is ground into granules or pulverized into even finer powder. different densities for different future products. then wound into wheels or consolidated into cubes. >> frankly let's be honest, if you can stop waste and instead make money off of it -- >> exactly. >> -- why not? and that's what you're doing here. >> reporter: eduardo suarez is amorim's chief of innovation, thinking about ways for the world to replace plastics and other textiles on land with

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the natural -- >> this is a popcorn maker. >> this is a popcorn -- >> but for cork. >> for cork, yes. >> reporter: solfaca sells most as organic insulation. >> how much more expensive? >> could be twice or even more. but it's forever. it's for your sons, your grandsons. >> reporter: like sound-dampening wall coverings cut by computers for homes and offices, and furniture anchored to the earth. architects have built award-winning homes across the u.s. and europe. hotels, churches, and businesses are experimenting even more with cork. >> do you envision every single home eventually using cork? >> yes. but with a problem. >> what is that? >> we are limited with the forest. >> how can we make cork grow faster? >> reporter: amorim is now researching how to first harvest cork after ten years instead of the usual 25. those first saplings have just been planted. >> can cork save the world?

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it is tuesday, december 10th, 2024. this is "cbs news mornings." captured. the man accused in the brazen manhattan killing of an insurance company ceo is now charged with murder. >> in some dark corners this killer is being haled as a hero. he is no hero.