dr. christopher roberts was working in the emergency room. >> it was quite hectic, but it was certainly very controlled. there's human lives at stake. that's why we train specifically for this, so it's second nature when it does happen. >> reporter: five people injured in the attack are still in the hospital. elaine, four of those people are gunshot victims. winter storms caused major problems from coast to coast this weekend. in the east, at least three people were killed on icy roads. as snowstorms cleared out, frigid temperatures moved in. the west has been getting blasted for days by waves of heavy rain and snow. >> reporter: rain and snow continues to pound the west, from oregon -- >> oh, this is just such scary weather. >> reporter: -- where whiteout conditions caused at least 350 crashes statewide, to california, where flooding shut down roads and forced this water rescue after a couple refused to evacuate.

here in santa cruz, this river just keeps rising. it's getting dangerously close to homes. but they're not just worried about flooding here, they're concerned about large debris that might float downstream. >> sit back and let it happen now. >> reporter: sherry crouch lives next to the river. >> when the water flow comes over my deck and the large trees come barreling down, if they hit a pillar, it could take my deck down, and that would be devastating to me. >> reporter: in san francisco, strong wind and rain knocked down utility lines leaving thousands without power. and in san ramone valley, a falling tree killed a woman at this golf course. further east in yosemite valley, raging water is filling the river and mandatory evacuations are in place ahead of expected flooding. along the california-nevada border, warm rain falling in the sierras is expected to melt snow and cause flooding along the truckee river, prompting a state of emergency to be declared. >> this isn't an if. this is going to happen.

we're doing everything that we possibly can to protect life, to protect homes, to protect kids. >> reporter: later tonight, the river could reach its highest level in more than a decade. carter evans, cbs news, santa cruz. from the mid-atlantic to new england, millions spent sunday digging out. here's tony dokoupil. >> reporter: shovel by shovel, and plow by plow, the east coast is shaking off a massive winter storm which snarled traffic and grounded flights from mississippi to massachusetts. the storm contributed to more than a thousand crashes in north carolina and virginia alone. plus, this pile-up involving 20 cars and trucks in connecticut. rescuers in north carolina used thermal imaging, seen here to spot lost hikers late saturday. severe weather had slowed the search. massachusetts, including cape

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in jerusalem today, a truck driver plowed into a crowd of israeli troops, killing four and wounding more than a dozen others. we caution you, the video is graphic. jonathan vigliotti has the latest from london. >> reporter: israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu was quick to call the attack in jerusalem an act of terror, saying the driver was a supporter of isis. surveillance video shows the moment the man turned his truck into a weapon, speeding off the road and barreling into a crowd of israeli soldiers. the driver quickly begins to back up before he is shot and killed. officials say the attacker was palestinian. netanyahu suggested the driver was inspired by isis assaults in europe, including nice, france, and more recently the truck attack on a german christmas

market in berlin. but he didn't offer any intelligence supporting that claim. israel has faced a wave of attacks by palestinians over the last 18 months as both sides continue to clash over territory. several palestinian attacks have involved vehicles. the violence has slowed in recent months, but tensions has been rising since president-elect donald trump vowed to move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. both sides claim jerusalem as their capital, and palestinians view the move as a threat. >> jonathan vigliotti, jonathan, thanks. u.s. tanks rolled into germany this weekend. the deployment, which includes 3500 u.s. troops, is to protect eastern europe against a potential russian invasion. elizabeth palmer is in northern germany. >> reporter: i'm standing in the dock area of germany, and aural around me is american military equipment, just off the boat. everything from humvees to tanks.

the official name for this display of military muscle is operation atlantic resolve. its purpose -- to reassure america's nervous european allies that the u.s. military will stand with them against any aggressive moves by russia. moves like the 2014 invasion of crimea, when russian troops arrived in what had been ukraine and seized it for the kremlin. this is america's response. a decision to stop the drawdown of u.s. troops in europe and reverse it in the first buildup since the end of the cold war. lieutenant general timothy ray is deputy commander of the u.s.' european command. >> we intend to reassure all those here in europe that we are committed to peace and security and to send a signal to anybody else who would differ with that, that's not going to work. >> reporter: that "anybody else"

would be vladamir putin, who's on record saying it's stupid and unrealistic to think that russia would attack anyone. but just in case, operation atlantic resolve is a big and very visible deterrent. over the next week, all this equipment will leave germany and be sent to poland and from there deployed across eastern europe. elaine? >> elizabeth palmer reporting from germany. liz, thank you. there was a scare at chicago's o'hear airport today. a man breached security and tried to board a flight. he fought with officers before he was taken to the hospital for a mental evaluation. authorities in mexico say they arrested the gunman who shot an american diplomat this weekend in the city of guadalajara. surveillance video shows the diplomat at an atm before the gunman shot him moments later in his car. the american is in stable condition. the transition of power continues in washington, d.c. this week. congress will begin confirmation hearings for key members of president-elect donald trump's

administration. and president obama gives his farewell address to the nation from chicago. here's errol barnett. >> reporter: republican leaders say president-elect donald trump's cabinet will be approved, despite delays in submitting background paperwork. >> all of these little procedural complaints are related to their frustration in having not only lost the white house but having lost the senate. >> reporter: trump's choice for attorney general, senator jeff sessions, and his pick for secretary of state, exxonmobil ceo rex tillerson, are two of the seven cabinet nominees to face confirmation hearings this week. >> we confirmed several cabinet appointments the day president obama was sworn in. we didn't like most of them either. but he won the election. >> reporter: repealing obamacare is trump's first priority. but democrats are resisting. >> the effort to repeal obamacare right now without a plan to replace it, this is about real people in america who

will be hurt immediately. >> reporter: meanwhile, thousands lined up in chicago this weekend to get tickets to president obama's farewell address. >> with hard work, people who love their country can change it. that will be the focus of my farewell to you in this tuesday. >> reporter: also this week, the president-elect is expected to explain how he will separate himself from his global business brand in his first press conference since the election. trump has scheduled it for wednesday, the same day five of his nominees face congressional hearings. >> errol barnett, thanks. coming up next, the so-called trump rally. how long will it last? we get the word from wall street traders.

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it closed just short of that milestone by a fraction on friday. the so-called trump rally is going strong, but how long will it last? jill wagner talked to traders about the president-elect's economic policies and how they might impact the stock market. >> reporter: investors welcomed donald trump's white house win with a major market rally. the dow surged more than 1500 points in just eight weeks. >> are you surprised at how much the market's gone up since the election? >> not at all. >> reporter: keith bliss says wall street likes trump's plan to boost infrastructure spending, cut corporate taxes, and simplify the tax code. >> that will increase hiring, increase spending across all industries. >> reporter: and trump promised to ease regulation in the financial sector. poli he says that's one reason banking stocks are up double digits since the election and will likely continue to climb.

>> a lot of the regulations have been put in place over the last eight years have been at the stroke of the pen by president obama. a lot of these by the stroke of the pen by president trump can be taken away. >> reporter: there are some worries here on wall street. some are concerned trump will start a trade war with china. >> we can't continue to allow china to rape our country. >> reporter: he suggested putting a tariff on all goods imported into the u.s., which would likely drive up the price of everything from cars to clothing. >> donald trump is a wild card. >> reporter: trader peter tuckman says markets don't like uncertainty, but so far the overwhelming mood is good. >> the excitement over it blew right through this 19,000. >> reporter: he made these baseball caps when the dow closed in on 19,000 for the first time ever. >> reporter: the market was on fire. this train is roaring. >> reporter: and now the dow is closing in on 20,000. jill wagner, cbs news, new york. we'll be right back.

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when president-elect trump is sworn in later this month, he will not be the first political outsider to move into the white house. craig boswell tells us about some other presidential mavericks who shook up the establishment. >> we are change.

>> reporter: donald trump rode a wave of dissatisfaction with the government to the white house. he will be the first person elected president without ever holding a government position. >> donald trump is perhaps the most far outside outsider of anyone ever to be elected president in the history of the country. >> reporter: american university history professor alan lichtman says other notorious renegades made it to the white house. >> the first true outsider to be elected president was, of course, andrew jackson. >> reporter: historians say mr. trump has a lot in common with jackson, a volatile but recognizable public figure. jackson rose to national prominence with a victory over the british during the war of 1812. >> he was elected on a platform of cleaning up the mess in washington. does that sound familiar? >> reporter: jackson forced native americans from their land and dismantled the bank of the united states, which plunged the country into a depression. this statue of andrew jackson

will welcome donald trump when he takes over the white house. but other mavericks also lived here. the republican party put theodore roosevelt on the ticket with william mckinley to get the new york governor out of its hair. then mckinney was assassinated. roosevelt become known as a trust buster. >> that damn reformer cowboy maverick became president of the united states. >> the next president of the united states, dwight eisenhower. >> reporter: general dwight eisenhower ran for president without holding a political office. so again ulysses grant. and major general zachary taylor. >> we are going to drain the swamp of corruption. >> reporter: at 70, mr. trump will become the oldest person to become president. craig boswell, cbs news, washington. innext, spacex's return to space has been delayed again.

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highly anticipated return to space was delayed sunday. spacex had hoped to launch its falcon nine rocket early this week, but bad weather in california pushed the launch to next saturday. kenneth craig has more on this high stakes mission for spacex. >> reporter: four months after this devastating explosion that destroyed an unmanned falcon nine rocket in cape canaveral, spacex says it's ready to give it another go. the rocket is ready to send ten satellites into space, but bad weather at the california launch site has forced a delay. bill harward is cbs's space consultant. how much is at stake here? >> this is extremely important to spacex. they need to restore confidence in the falcon nine rocket. especially after the failure in december. >> reporter: spacex chalked up 18 successful flights in a row. then a 2015 launch failure, and another nine flights before the

september launch pad mishap. >> clearly two failures in 29 rockets is not the kind of rocket that spacex founder elon musk wants. >> reporter: it comes as the billionaire, who has his eyes on mars, finds himself in an increasingly competitive space race with amazon's ceo jeff bazos and boeing and lockheed martin. >> there's a big competition heating up between them. every flight is important in these high stakes launches. >> reporter: musk is setting his sights higher for 2018, with a test of the dragon capsule. he hopes it will bring astronauts to the international space station. kenneth craig, cbs news, new york. >> that's the "overnight news" for this monday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back with us a little later for the morning news and "cbs morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm elaine quijano.

this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm elaine quijano. chilling new video has surfaced of the deadly airport attack in ft. lauderdale. in a moment, we'll show you the portion of the video where the gunman opens fire. and we're learning more about the gun used in the attack and more about the five people who were killed. we begin with david begnaud. >> reporter: two young boys walking with a man appear first in the video. then comes 26-year-old estaban santiago. that's him in blue. he reaches into his waist band, pulls out the gun and starts shooting. people drop to the floor. one woman hides behind a luggage cart. there is no audio on the 20-second reporting, posted by

tmz. it appears to be authentic video, but unclear how tmz got the video. a law enforcement source says the 9 millimeter hand gun used to kill five people and wound six others was the same hand gun he had when he went to an fbi office in anchorage, alaska last november. the iraq war veteran complained to federal agents there that his mind was being controlled by u.s. intelligence and he was being forced to watch isis terror videos. police confiscated his gun and had him committed to a mental evaluation for four days. about a month later his gun was returned. u.s. district attorney karen laufler. >> there is a federal law with regard to having a gun by somebody who is mentally ill, but the law requires that the person be "adjudicated mentally ill." which is a difficult standard. >> reporter: in puerto rico, his mother, elizabeth, says her son sounded strange during their

last phone call less than two weeks ago. "i'm feeling like, don't know, scream, cry," she said." because since he was so far away, i could not do anything. santiago allegedly confessed to planning the attack and chose ft. lauderdale at random. a portion of the baggage claim area where the shooting happened has been reopened, but curtains shield people from seeing the crime scene. a mass shooting at a major u.s. airport. federal prosecutors say the gunman aimed at the head of each of his victims, and he stopped shooting only when he ran out of bullets and dropped the gun on the ground. elaine, he'll face a judge tomorrow morning. he could get the death penalty. >> david begnaud, thank you. tonight, omar villafranca tells us more about the people whose lives were cut short in an instant. >> reporter: olga woltering never missed mass at her catholic church in marietta, georgia. but this weekend she wasn't in the pews. >> it just hits close to home. you just go, why? >> reporter: she was one of five victims who didn't survive the airport attack.

parishioners and the priest are honoring the woman with the british accept who always called people "lovey." >> even though the roads are frozen and it was difficult for people to come to mass, still they came to this mass because olga normally came to the 5:00 p.m. mass. >> reporter: 57-year-old michael ohme and his wife kari were in florida for a cruise. he was killed, she was injured. virginia beach volunteer iowa senator truck zbrasly -- grassley tweeted -- virginia beach volunteer firefighter terry andres died in the attack. a 12-year veteran with the department, his fellow firefighters said in a statement he was well liked and respected for his dedication to being a volunteer, as well as his professional approach to his job as a support tech. 70-year-old shirley timmons of ohio was also killed.

she was there to board a cruise with her husband, steve. he was wounded and tonight is in critical condition. the couple was about to celebrate their 51st wedding anniversary. the attack sent 37 people to broward health medical center, including six gunshot victims. dr. christopher roberts was working in the emergency room. >> it was quite hectic, but it was certainly very controlled. there's human lives at stake, and that's why we train specifically for this, so it's second nature when it does happen. >> reporter: five people injured in the attack are still in the hospital. elaine, four of those people are gunshot victims. >> omar villafranca, thank you. there was a scare at chicago's o'hare airport today. police say a man breached a security checkpoint at terminal three and tried to board a spirit airlines flight. he fought with officers before he was taken to the hospital for a mental evaluation. confirmation hearings begin

tomorrow in the senate for president-elect donald trump's cabinet nominees. at least nine are expected to be considered by the end of the week. on wednesday, mr. trump will hold a news conference where he's expected to discuss how he'll distance himself from his business interests. meanwhile, the president-elect hasn't said how he'll retaliate against moscow for its efforts to influence the election on his behalf. errol barnett has details. >> it was a constructive and respectful dialogue. >> reporter: vice president-elect mike pence emerged friday after a day of meetings that included a highly anticipated visit from the country's top intelligence officials to discuss russia's cyber intrusion into the u.s. election. >> we're going to take aggressive action in the early days of our new administration to combat cyber attacks. >> reporter: officials from the dni, fbi, cia, and nsa met with mr. trump for almost two hours at his trump tower home friday.

in a statement, the president-elect acknowledged that russia, china and other countries are consistently trying to break through the cyber infrastructure, but defended his presidency by adding, there was absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election. absent from his statement was any support of the conclusion that russian president vladamir putin interfered in the u.s. presidential election. the now public intel report says putin ordered an influence campaign, wanted to undermine faith in u.s. democracy, denigrate secretary clinton, and preferred donald trump, proving they say by the passing of hacked democratic e-mails to organizations like wikileaks by the russian intelligence service. >> the russians intended to meddle and they did.

we have to remind ourselves we're on the same team. vladamir putin is not on our team. >> reporter: leading up to friday's meeting, trump continually doubted the accuracy of u.s. intelligence. >> i want them to be sure. and if you look at the weapons of mass destruction, that was a disaster. and they were wrong. >> reporter: before briefing mr. trump on thursday, director of national intelligence james clapper testified on capitol hill and responded to questions about the president-elect's lack of faith. >> i think there's a difference between skepticism and disparagement. >> reporter: the intelligence report does not make any assessment if russia's activity had an impact on the presidential election but made clear no vote tallies were altered. mr. trump said he would develop a plan within 90 days of taking office to combat cyber attacks in the future. >> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

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virtual reality has finally come of age years after it was first invented. the heavy headgear and clunky software is gone and more than a dozen companies are offering their brand of computer generated life. david pogue has the story. >> reporter: at the consumer electronics show in las vegas this past week, you might have wondered why people were strapping these contraptions to their faces. what are they, blindfolds, scuba masks, some kind of eye exam? nope. they're virtual reality headsets. >> there's nothing quite like donning the headset yourself and truly experiencing these environments. >> reporter: ryan demonstrates the htc-vive. >> i'll have you put on your headset. >> reporter: as soon as you put

on the goggles, you get it. you're not just seeing a scene, you can look around inside it. it requires laser sensors that you set up in your room and special handles that you carry. as a result, you can even walk around inside the scene. or even handle objects in that virtual world. oh, explosions! but it can be more than just blowing stuff up. it can take you places you couldn't or wouldn't go. like the bottom of the ocean. oh! [ laughter ] okay, that's a big whale. hi. or the top of mt. everest. htc isn't alone, of course. sony, samsung, google, and facebook each released new vr headsets last year. and just this week, another half dozen were unveiled at the electronics show. with so many different goggles coming out, the software

companies are racing to write software like the artify, which aims to give you a front row seat at concerts. all sorts of businesses are considering the possibilities. bradley stern went shopping for a new townhouse without leaving his realtor's office. >> everything is so vivid. >> reporter: evan thinks virtual reality could change the way people buy homes forever. >> where are we going to be in a few years? is the client going to be able to design their property before it's built? i think it's going to be spectacular. >> wow. >> reporter: virtual reality has been around for decades. >> is he asleep for sure? >> in st. louis, a man swings at nothing. in a north carolina lab, a man bends to look at nothing. have these people all lost touch with reality? in a way, yes. this is virtual reality.

>> reporter: but vr was never good enough to appeal to the public until 2014. >> facebook is making another multibillion dollar acquisition. >> reporter: that's when mark zuckerberg paid $2 billion to buy oculus. a headset created by this 17-year-old, palmer lucky, in his parent's garage. these days, silicon valley seems to believe that soon we'll all live our lives wearing vr goggles. never mind they could cost as much as $800 and must be wired to a high of end pc. but just because a new technology gets a lot of hype doesn't mean it's ready for primetime. >> first of all, it's a giant thing on your road. which is just obnoxious. >> reporter: dimitri williams studies how people interact with technology. >> a lot of the early sets had these significant problems with motion sickness and nausea.

that will drop down and go away. right now i have trouble sometimes and a lot of people do. >> reporter: so they're big and heavy, very expensive and sometimes make you sick. great. but williams says there's an even bigger problem with vr. it's incredibly isolating. it shuts you off from the world. >> i don't think people are going to be wearing vr goggles much of their days because they can't look at other people. and it is just that simple. >> reporter: that's where augmented reality comes in. that's where you can still see the real world around you, but the computer layers new graphics onto that view. remember pokemon go? last summer, millions of people played this game, searching the real world for creatures that only appeared on the phone's screen. that is augmented reality. the microsoft holo lens is an augmented reality headset, or what microsoft calls mixed reality. >> welcome to windows holographic. these are actually off.

>> there's a picture of mountains on it. >> that's a natural hologram. >> reporter: alex kitman heads up the project for microsoft. he compares today's lens to a cell phone from 1985. but even this early model is wireless, weighs only a pound, and responds to hand and voice commands. >> go ahead and look at a browser and select it. >> ahh. >> you're an expert. >> when you work then, wearing this, you're saying you have multiple virtual floating monitors like this, so you can say here's my programming, here's my web, here's my e-mail. >> that's correct. imagine infinite monitors at your fingertips. >> reporter: it's still a long way from the floating screens in the tom cruise movie "minority report," but maybe not as far as you think. >> let's get in. >> oh, hello.

there's a dude here. >> reporter: in ohio, case western reserve medical school and the cleveland clinic have teamed up to create an anatomy curriculum. >> the arteries rising and pass down on either side of the sternum. >> reporter: the school plans to replace the traditional cadaver lab used for anatomy classes, with clean, upright, hearts still pumping digital bodies, courtesy of holo lens. mark griswold led the team that designed the curriculum. >> what you're doing is what our students did for the first time. they got on the ground and looked at it from underneath, because that's the first time they could see that. >> that is crazy. they always tell singers, sing from the diaphragm, and i they ever knew what that meant. >> that's the diaphragm. this is the muscle that helps us breathe. >> wow. >> it's really difficult to see in a cadaver.

>> it was the diaphragm that pulled me away. i had kind of an ah-ha moment. >> reporter: first year medical student. nicole weiss was surprised how real it seemed. >> i went in 100% thinking it was going to be a fun day. i walked out having learned things i hadn't appreciated easter in the cadaver course or in our lectures. >> we envision a day with every student showing up with a holo lens in their backpack. >> like high schools are giving out laptops to use? >> yeah, this is going to be a core part of what you learn, whether it's history or anatomy, you're going to be learning on a holo lens. >> are you say thing is radical enough to become something that everybody has got some day. >> absolutely. >> reporter: microsoft's alex kitman. >> there is a world in front of us where these things are replacing your phone, replacing your tvs. they're replacing your desk top. think about how long ago you

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america's national parks welcomed more than 3 million visitors last year. most came during the summer, but every year, a hardy few made the trip in the winter. yef jeff glor visited two national parks in utah that are equally inviting in the cold. >> reporter: they look like strangers who have been here for of 65 million years. red risers in the desert that accept sunlight in mind bending ways. you can see any shape you want. though it's hard not to see one of the most beautiful places on earth. what sit about the desert? >> for me, it's always bee the wide open spaces. you're very small, and so therefore, any problems that you

might have also feel really small. and so it's really a place to put thing in perspective. >> reporter: it's restorative? >> i think so. >> reporter: but there are times even the desert needs to be restored. the epic arches and cliffs haven't gone anywhere, but after more than a century of cattle trampling beginning in the mid 1800s, vast stretches of land in the west still hasn't come back. native grass doesn't grow and wildlife can't survive. which is why they have come up with an innovative program called conmods. when somebody hears that, what is that? >> it's short for connectivity modifier. >> doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, but it's important. >> yes, it's a catchy term, conmod. the main reason they were called that, they modify the connectivity or they break up the connectivity of these really

big bare ground areas of our grasslands that have not recovered from past uses. >> reporter: it's a big idea with lots of little parts. the x-shaped conmods catch seeds and moisture, creating tiny islands of recovery that multiply over and over. >> we're in salt valley now, one of the areas in need of restoration. by having these islands of recovery out here on the landscape, we're able to get perennial grass established into these systems again. >> reporter: scientists say conmods have a 90% success rate. >> this area is going that direction on its own. >> reporter: we got an upclose look at the program during the slow season here. one of the best times to visit. what is it about this place in wintertime? >> i think the winter, everything slows down. you can almost feel or hear the rocks taking a deep breath. and there's a sense of solitude and stillness that is pretty special. >> reporter: alison has been a ranger at arches since 2012. >> i felt a connection to this

place that every time i left, i came back. and it feels like home. >> reporter: this park is home to more than 2,000 natural stone gateways, including the world famous delicate arch. all formed by relentless and timeless exercise of erosion. it moves slowly, even though the turnstiles don't. attendance has gone from about 2500 people in 1940 to nearly 1.5 million today. getting a look and listen to the park at moments like this is rare. [ birds chirping ] >> you can hear the birds singing right now. on a busy day in spring or summer or fall, there would be a lot of voices here. >> yeah, just listen. >> like i said, you wouldn't hear that at other times of the year sitting in this spot. >> this seems like the national park service's best kept secret. >> don't tell anyone about december and january. we're not on television, are we? [ laughter ]

>> reporter: jeff glor, arch's

after dog catcher, repoman is probably the most disliked profession in america. but you may have a change of heart after this story steve hartman found on the road. >> reporter: if you need to feel loved, jim ford says this is not the job for you. >> you have people trying to run you over with their car. >> reporter: for 20 years, he's worked as a repo man outside st. louis. >> my car now. >> reporter: but this story isn't about his most disgruntled customers, but his most grateful. >> he's wonderful. >> wonderful? the repo man? >> he was wonderful.

he's the kindest man i've ever met in my life. >> reporter: stan and pat kipping live in red bud, illinois. stan, a navy vet and retired janitor, is in the early stages of alzheimer's. >> i love you. >> i love you, too. >> reporter: they say they've never been rich. but they've never been this deep in debt, either. the most devastating blow came just a few months back when they realized they couldn't afford the $100 payments on their '98 buick. >> when he took the car, i said god, do whatever, whatever you think is best for us. god works in mysterious ways. >> if he's working through a repo man, that's the most mysterious of all. >> that's right. >> they're like america's grandparents. i saw my grandparents in them. and i made it a block before i pulled over and called the bank and i asked them if i could pay off the past due amount. >> you must have cleaned it up a lot. >> reporter: jim returned a few days later. he had the car detailed, oil

changed, even put a frozen turkey in the front and started a go fund me, which covered the late payments and then some. >> we paid off the whole car. >> oh, my god. >> you have no car payment anymore. paid the whole thing off. >> reporter: finally he gave them an envelope with the extra money. more than $17,000 extra to date. >> how has this changed your outlook on life? >> there's good people out there. he's our guardian angel. >> reporter: there are good people out there. guardian angels. and sometimes you find them in the most unlikely places and professions, because although kindness is rarely a job, no matter what you do, it's always an option. steve hartman, on the road, in st. louis. >> that's the "overnight news" for this monday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back with us a little later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm elaine quijano.

captioning funded by cbs it's monday, january 9, 2017. this is the "cbs morning news." a winter storm pummels parts of the west coast. strong winds topples trees while heavy rain causes flooding, forcing people to evacuate their home. and another round of wicked weather is on their way. the man charged in the deadly ft. lauderdale airport shooting rampage will make his first court appearance today. and confirmation hearings begin this week for the president-elect's cabinet. without