♪ it's tuesday, december 6th, 2016. this is the "cbs morning news." bucket by bucket, search teams pull evidence from the open warehouse where at least three dozen people died in a massive fire. this morning, authorities are mulling murder charges. >> charges could be murder, all the way to involuntary manslaughter. and mistrial in the case of a white cop caught on camera shooting and killing an unarmed black man. this morning, the victim's mother says her fight is far from over. from over. >> injustices will not prevail.

captioning funded by cbs good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. well, prosecutors say murder charges are possible in the open warehouse fire that killed at least 36 people. the cause of friday night's fire during a dance party remains under investigation. recovery efforts at the warehouse have resumed. overnight, a massive piece of machinery moved into place, a crane, now keeps one wall from caving in on search teams. edward lawrence is in oakland. edward, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. at this point, we know that city building inspectors have been to this warehouse five times over the past three years. at this point, we have the large machinery, heavy cranes here, they are trying to remove part of the wall that was leaning to make sure investigators can get

in safely. mourners gathered inside the ghostship warehouse lighting candles and offering hugs of the victims. >> i'm only 15 and i don't know what they're going through but i can feel for them. >> a lot of artists and a lot of people who have been pushing and pushing at the wrong place at exactly the right time. >> reporter: fire officials have gone through roughly three quarters of the building retrieving at least 36 bodies so far. they're also working closely with federal investigators to preserve evidence as part of a criminal investigation. >> the range of charges could be murder all the way to involuntary manslaughter. there may be other charges, if the evidence presents that. >> reporter: authorities say they still don't know what caused the fire that engulfed the illegal lived work space friday night but they say they know where it started. >> the two areas that we need to search here a little more is

this area here and this back wall where we suspect the origin of the fire. >> reporter: the two story building which had no sprinklers or fire alarms was used as a dance place that night. shelly mack called it a death trap. >> reporter: the city reviewing complaints of a possible code violation. the building's owner is likely to face many questions as the investigation unfolds. now, at this point, the owner has not spoken publicly about the situation yet. district attorney says that investigators have talked with several people connected with this warehouse. but won't say with whom. anne-marie. >> edward lawrence in oakland. thank you so much, edward. well, south carolina prosecutors plan to retrial a pcharged in the shooting death f an unarmed black motorist. a mistrial was declared yet in the case of pal tron michael slager in a trial that was

dominated by graphic video. don champion has our report. >> i'm not sad. >> reporter: walter scott's mother stood strong monday after a mistrial against the indication of a former north charlton police officer who killed her son. >> god is my friend. he is a just star. and injustice will not prevail. >> reporter: michael slager was charged with the 2015 shooting. scott getting shot as he ran away from slager. slager testified that he feared for his life. >> took flight on the ground. mr. scott was coming after me. >> reporter: a mistrial after a juror sent the judge a letter saying, quote, in good conscious, he could thought consider a guilty charge. >> i'm not angry with the judge, i'm disappointed in the juror that he was sworn and took an

oath that he would make a decision. >> reporter: the jury deliberated for almost 22 hours. the county prosecutor said that she will try the case again and slager faces a civil trial next year. justin bamberg represents scott's family. >> i don't think questions of fact were issues with this jury. i think there were issues with their interpretation of the law. >> reporter: slager's defense attorney has not commented on the mistrial. don champion, cbs news, charleston, south carolina. a north carolina man was arrested as he attempted to investigate pizza gate. he was arrested after firing one round inside of a washington, d.c. pizza parlor. pizza gate a fake news story alleges that it was part of a child sex ring involving hillary clinton. yesterday, dozens showed up.

>> we actually want to see say that lives were impacted. >> pizza gate had been pushed by the son of donald trump's national security adviser. after welsh's arrest sunday michael g. flynn tweeted in part until pizza gate is proven to to be false, it will remain a story. democrats questioning his qualifications. carson has no experience in running a government. house speaker nancy pelosi called carson disturbingly unqualified. mr. trump had a guest. former vice president al gore. gore said they had a very productive conversation. the trump transition team said it was glad gore stopped by.

>> a very small group of people in this country have been president or vice president of the united states. so, obviously, it would be a conversation, you know, of folks who really breathe the verified air. >> today, mr. trump continues his thank you tour with a stop in fayetteville, north carolina. biden in 2020. well, it's not clear if he was serious, when asked about his plans for the future, vice president joe biden said with only a slight smile, i'm going to run for 2020 for president. asked if he was joking, biden replied i'm not committing not to run. biden will be 78 shortly after the 2020 election. nearly four weeks after the election, north carolina's governor pat mccrory ceded as governor. a lawle he signs for transgender

restrooms and restaurants cost the state millions of dollars in spending. after delaying the dat cota access pipeline demonstrators say they are staying put. >> what happens next, we wait and stand our ground. we'll keep fighting for the water and keep fighting for mother earth. >> hundreds are battling hazardous conditions, heavy snow, icy winds. the trump administration said it will review the decision to reroute the pipeline and demonstrators say they'll wait until they get an answer. >> fact that our future is being put at risk with a president who wants to continue to frac and open up coal mines. and the fact that enough people stand up and say that, no, this isn't what we want, that you can stop it. >> protesters say the pipeline poses a threat to drinking water and sacred sites.

an off-duty sheriff's deputy died and two people were hurt when a pair plunged into a sinkhole filled with water. is the 20-foot hole, the deputy's car went into 12 feet of water. a passer by rescued a stranded man. utility workers say a sewer line ruptured during a heavy storm. and a little snow caused a slow motion pileup in montreal. five cars, two buses, a pickup and a police car all crashed. police say no one was hurt, though. coming up on the "morning news," bill cosby suffers a legal setback. cosby loses a pretrial decision in his sexual abuse case. and emotional moment, we'll tell you what caused canada's prime minister to cry. this is the "cbs morning news." and debris for up to 2 hours. r

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when i met mr. prime minister that woman he said welcome home. >> canadian prime minister justin trudeau was moved to tears when he met face-to-face with syrian refugees. earlier this week the prime minister welcomed to canada greeting them with hugs, supplies and the government promise of assistance for one year. >> watching you and your girls walking towards me was a moment in which i understood just the kinds of things that we can do as a country. and that i get to help this country do. >> canada has welcomed more than 25,000 syrian refugees in the last year. well, bill cosby loses a pretrial decision. and the first lady of missouri is a victim of a crime. those are some the headlines on the morning news stand. the st. louis post dispatch

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model with down syndrome. asher nash is modeling outfits from oshkosh b'gosh. his mother landed the contract while campaigning for social media in a controversial ad. well, this probably is not the time of day you want to hear me nalging you about how you need to get more sleep but for drivers, safety experts say it's a life or death issue. >> reporter: a tired driver can doze off quickly as seen in dashboard videos like this. in this one, the driver drifts and rear ends another car. for karen roberts, falling asleep at the wheel ended much worse. >> all it takes is a second and you just nod off. >> reporter: in 1988, roberts was a 21-year-old nurse working a double shift on christmas night. on the way home, she dozed off and smashed into another vehicle. the other driver had minor injuries but roberts was in the hospital for two months with a

traumatic brain injury. >> i had to learn and talk and feed myself and dress myself and everything. >> reporter: a new report from aaa show drivers who miss between one to two hours of the recommended seven hours of sleep a night nearly double their risk for a crash. aaa's jake nelson say 1 in 3 americans admit to driving when they've had a hard time keeping their eyes open. >> whether get only four to five hours of sleep a night. the odds of getting into a car crash are the same as driving legally drunk. >> the less sleep you get the higher the risk? >> absolutely. that's the first time we understand that risk to now. >> that's why i want to be here today so you can hear my story so you guys can learn. >> reporter: roberts still suffers from double vision and headaches but considers herself lucky because her mistake could have been ugly.

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helped hijackers hijack computers all over the world. jeff pegues reports. >> reporter: police say they raided an apartment in a cyberring that investigators have dubbed the avalanche network. authorities say the network had computers in at least four countries and stole hundreds of millions of dollars. sue song is the acting attorney for the western district of pennsylvania. we successfully identified 275 affected computers in 189 countries throughout the world. we calculated 20,000 of those were computers in the united states. >> reporter: in allegheny county, pennsylvania, investigators accused the cyberthieves of taking over and freezing some government computers until a ransom was paid. and criminal attack, two unnamed pennsylvania companies attempted wire transfers totaling more than $600,000. the theft used so-called goznym

malware. investigators say they were providing servers to be used in other criminal attacks money often laundered it through money mules unexpected people tricked into participating. the big break game when german police reversed engineered the code that operation avalanche was using. then german investigators brought in the fbi to help trace the servers some of which were in the u.s. and canada. jeff pegues, cbs news, washington. well, coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," we will go to louisiana for more into the investigation into the shooting death of former nfl star joe mcknight. plus, new allegations of overspending in american aembassies abroad. and singing meghan trainor will announce the 59th grammy award

nominations. that's it for this tuesday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day.

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we are following breaking news, a new jersey state police trooper has been killed in a violent crash that also claims another man's life. chopper three over the scene, in millville last night. within the hour, the body of trooper franky williams was transported from cooper trauma as his brothers in blue offered a solemn salute. we're live this morning with more on the circumstances that led to this deadly crash. >> today is tuesday, december 6th, good morning, jim ' off. i'm joe holden.ood morning, >> i'm rahel solomon. more on the breaking news in a moment. first a check with weather and traffic. >> good morning, happy tuesday. looking outside right now, already few accidents out there. kind of littering the roadways, you know what happened yesterday. very busy because of the wet roadways, rain that came earlier. katie any rain today? >> there is, actually, but it will not impact the morning commute