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in his latest cbs news investigation, jim axelrod exposes a multimillion dollar insurance scandal. the victim is you the taxpayer. the scam centers on duping u.s. service members into helping pull off the fraud. >> with its pulsing music, this club in west hollywood might not seem like the ideal location for a business meeting. but this was where we were invited by dustin warren, a salesman working with a lab that conducts genetic testing and drug screenings. we recorded the meeting undercover. warren gave us a test of the hardball pitch he uses to get
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doctors to order the tests. >> reporter: with the right contacts, he told us, we could expect to make big money. thanks in part to genetic tests that assess cancer risks. he said military insurance, called tricare, reimburses the most for a single test. >> reporter: the tests are conducted and billed by a lab in dallas, cockerell where offers another test, a drug screening and that made the lab more than $5 million from tricare last year. to entice soldiers to be screened, so tricare could be build, others working with cockerell lab, set up a make
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shift clinic in this stripmall a mile from the gates of fort hood. we learned beginning last summer, and running all the way through this past february, soldiers would line up by the dozens every day in this parking lot. and provide their dna, urine, and tricare id numbers in exchange for a $50 wal-mart gift card. >> it was a lot of people. full. >> reporter: linda boseman, wife of a soldier, told us she visited the clinic a few times last year to make extra money for christmas presents. >> they told us they had clinical research going. and they paid you by walmart cards. you give your urine. >> reporter: it wasn't for research. documents show cockerell dermatopathology, unneeded
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screenings for drugs, pcp, cocaine, methadone. nearly $7,000 at taxpayer expense. and this wasn't the only place near fort hood where soldiers lined up. this storefront a few blocks away. but they were only there a little while before setting up shop at a more professional looking site. they moved down the road to this location. from the looks of things, they're no longer in business here either. we found plenty of evidence in the trash that they had been. soldiers social security numbers. medical information. dna specimens. and more than 60 photo copies of military ids. including linda boseman's. which left us with a lot of questions for cockerell dermatopathology. >> i run a laboratory for well over 20 years. >> reporter: our producer caught up with him outside the lab. >> there is a genetic testing lab. >> i will have to take off.
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that's not my laboratory. >> that is your lab, using your contracts. >> i'm not running that one. >> they're using your contacts and license. the doctor was off. declining to answer any more questions on camera. in a writer statement, remts for cockerell confirmed it was his lab. and they said "there is a possibility, individuals were operating outside of the organization strict compliance requirements. the lab said it is voluntarily refunding significant amounts of money. it wouldn't say how much or to whom. we asked the pentagon if their investigating, they told us, they can't discuss it. jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. president obama has made climate change one of the top priorities in his final months in office. the president told a crowd in new york, the country has to start taking the issue seriously because "we don't want manhattan to be underwater." mark phillips continues the
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series "the climate diaries. "the latest installment is a tiny island in denmark making big progress against global warming. >> reporter: an out of the way place that takes some getting to. on the little danish island of samso, a 20 mile squiggle of farms and villages they're providing answers to some of the biggest questions facing a warming world. here they have already found way to reduce their green house gas output to effectively zero. they haven't done it using any maj cam new technology. they used what they have. power from the wind. power from the sun. and power from waist. but here, it is not what they have done, it's huh they have done it that caught the world's attention. >> soren hermanson led the climb to heights of clean energy sustainability. you have how to go a long way up to understand how it works. these wind turbines weren't put up by a conglomerate in search of government subsidies and profit.
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they were erected by farmers and shareholders who saw the island's economy could be improved and that they could cash in by investing in the environmental action. things do look different from up here. >> definite king of the world moment. >> we like the turbines belter now. we own them. don't have the discussion. they're ugly, landscape. we don't have nice problems. the bird for some reason, don't die around these. >> good-bye. >> farmer, jorgen tranberg one of the first to do well out of doing good. half his income comes from the power he sells from his wind turbine and from the solar cells which cover his barns. >> in the winter, i help pay back, two, three times. >> reporter: that turbine repaid
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itself two, three times over. >> yeah. that's good news. >> yes. >> the good news for the fewer than 4,000 people who live on samso. goes back all most two decades to when they started this project. it seems unlikely, a speck of an island off the cold northcoast of europe could keep itself warm and prosperous on renewable energy alone. but when we first visited here, nine years ago, we found the plan was already working. that despite the lack of fossil fuels, the morning shower was what it was supposed to be. >> hot. >> it is still hot. but much has changed here including shower curtain color. samso once is considered at the radical edge of the response to climate edge is now considered the model of how it should be done. politicians and environmental scientists from across europe,
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asia and the u.s. now come to the energy academy here to study the samso model. they're not done here yet. that new ferry that runs on natural gas. they have a plan to power it. with the methane that comes out of the back end of these guys. >> in japan they call it viking leadership. >> viking leadership? >> yeah. viking leadership? . >> new kind of welcome invasion. this time. samso instituted that fact into projects from, colorado, to south carolina and even to hawaii. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. dove men+care. the strength test. like leather, skin is stronger when it's hydrated. that's why dove men+care bodywash has a unique hydrating formula to leave skin healthier and stronger.
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metal detectors are the must-have tool for any kid or grownup out hunting for buried treasure. luke burbank tagged along with two treasure hunters who take their quest very seriously. ♪ >> good to go? >> good to go. >> look around this tree. >> sure. watch for snakes by the rocks. >> reporter: a sunny saturday in the foothills of the sierra nevadas near sacramento, california.
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[ beeping ] >> something trying to hide right there. >> reporter: ron swenson and mark dayton are on the hunt. >> good! >> yeah. >> always find a shovel. >> got a shovel? >> back in the 100s this was gold rush country drawing thousand of dreamers, a few of whom each managed to strike it rich. >> something here. >> these days though -- swenson and dayton's finds. >> barbed wire fence. >> nail. >> reporter: are usually more down to earth. >> junk. >> guys where are we right now? >> we know this house site dates to at least 1861. >> reporter: swenson and dayton are metal detector enthusiasts. between the two of them they have over 50 years of experience, swinging their coils. when you are watching "star wars" do you know what r 2 d 2 is saying at this point. >> i don't know. he would be a good metal detector. >> reporter: detector machines, some one from 25 to 10,000 dollars. send a magnetic field into the
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ground. the sound and tones it brings back vary according to what might be buried there. >> it is like the language of the metal detector. you learn what the tones are. high tone would be a silver coin or something. low tone will be iron. so then all of the metals in between have their own tone. >> see if we can pop something out of here. >> reporter: the sweetest tone of all. >> oh, oh, dude. >> the sound of gold. >> was! >> dayton estimates he found two pound of in the last year. that's almost $40,000 worth. and before that, they found this -- >> holy cow! >> that is huge! >> jeez! >> a 4-ounce nugget. >> oh, dude! >> wow.
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>> this is my treasure hall of fame. >> in swenson's home office located in believe it or not el dorado hills, california. >> u.s. >> union belt buckle. >> wow. >> ron likes to show off some of his favorite finds. >> the gold coins we found. if you are looking this is what you are looking for. before detectorists like ron and mark can dig up gold coins or other stuff they have got to put in time at the library. >> go through the old maps. >> reporter: studying where mining camps are, old houses might have been. and they have got to get permission from the land owners. >> you get a lot of comments. you guys are so lucky. the response is the more research we do the luckier we get. so. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: what surprised me about our treasure hunt how little treasure we found. this is considered a really good day. and how little that seemed to matter to these detectorists. >> for me when you dig something up, the value is really irrelevant.
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yet another grammy winning song is at the heart of a copy right case, this time ed sheeran's hit "photograph." jamie yuccas reports. >> reporter: the lawsuit alleges the chorus of "photograph" and "amazing" share 39 identical notes. included in the court documents is a side by side comparison of the composition of the two songs. see how similar they are in places. ♪ i won't ever let you go ed sheeran's photographs topped music charts and video viewed on youtube more than 200 million times. ♪ wait for me to come home >> reporter: the two songwriters now suing sheeran say the 2014 hit is a ripoff of amazing, written for matt cardle's album "letters" part of the claim
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focuses on the similar choruses in the two songs. ♪ so you can keep me inside the pocket of your ripped jeans ♪ ♪ how did you find me ♪ came out of nowhere like lightning ♪ >> reporter: their complaint filed in los angeles court wednesday said sheeran and writing partner, copied active songwriters on a breathtaking scale. unabashedly taking credit for the work of these songwriters. >> you have to show access, there was some exposure of one song to the other. and the substantial similarity will be established by listening to the song and looking at how it lays out as a composition. >> on wednesday, the prosecuting
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attorney, richard bush, released a statement on behalf of the clients. saying their work is their life. bush famously helped marvin gay's family win a $5.3 million copy right lawsuit over the 2013 "blurred lines." >> i think that that case has been very influential in getting attorneys interested in pursuing these claims. >> reporter: several high profile copyright claims followed, led zeppelin, sam smith, and justin bieber. >> big names equal big money. >> reporter: sheeran's album that includes "photograph" sold 10 million copies worldwide. >> cited it as the song that really made him. if it is very similar to another song by song writers who may not be as successful as him there is a real incentive to assert their rights. >> reporter: ed sheeran's represent couldn't be reached. and led zeppelin suit includes stairway to heaven expected to go to trial later this month.
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