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attorney general jeff sessions warned that cities that don't help enforce immigration laws may lose federal grant money. ben tracy has more about the trump administration's efforts and who's being targeted. >> he stepped out, and he never came back in. >> reporter: 19-year-old estephanie ortiz says agents came to her house in pasadena last month looking for someone who did not live there. they arrested her father, carlos ortiz instead. he was in the country illegally but had no criminal record. >> why did we open the door? nobody's going to want to open the door. everybody's scared. >> reporter: the los angeles police department says aggressive ice enforcement tactics are also having a chilling effect on latinos report being crimes. since the beginning of the year, reports of sexual assault by
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latinos dropped 25%. domestic violence reports fell 10%. >> they start to clam up. they no longer come to court. >> reporter: california supreme court justice says latinos tell her they are now afraid to show up at courthouses. so she wrote a letter to attorney general jeff sessions, accusing agents of stalking undocumented immigrants to make arrests. in our courthouses. >> i feel like they are being targeted in a way that's unprecedented. >> reporter: what is your concern if ice agents are in courthouses? >> victims aren't going to come to court. witnesses aren't going to come to testify against bad guys in violent communities, because they're afraid they're going to get arrested in court. >> reporter: in a statement, ice said, while ice does arrest targets at courthouses, generally, it's only after investigating officers have exhausted other options. but in response to ice actions, a proposed bill in california
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would bar state and local police from aiding federal immigration enforcement, including turning over criminals when they're released from jail. l.a. county sheriff mcdonnell says that's a bad idea. >> by not allowing them access to the jails, the likelihood is they're going to go into the communities looking for the individual, and they're not going to limit themselves to that individual. >> reporter: and to give you an idea just how much federal money is now at stake, san francisco and new york could lose nearly $25 billion combined, scott, if the trump white house follows through and cuts off funding for sanctuary cities. >> ben tracy, thank you. the president's failure to repeal and replace the affordable care act at least on his first try has been a disappointment to many who support mr. trump but has been a relief to those who depend on obamacare. don dahler has been looking into that. >> reporter: her 2-year-old son has been in the hospital a lot these days.
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he's covered under the aca, but wynter voted for trump. >> i'm a republican. so i stay true to my party and our principles. >> reporter: and although she sees problems with the aca, she's grateful for some of the benefits. >> well, the main thing for the aca for me is of course the preexisting conditions, that is huge. i mean, he has two major life-altering conditions that if i had to go and shop for it, it, i wouldn't be able to afford it. >> reporter: wynter lives in quakertown, pennsylvania, whose congressman, brian fitzpatrick was one of dozens of republicans who planned to vote no on the new health care bill before it got pulled. he opposed the bill because it didn't do enough to address opioid addiction treatment. pennsylvania has over 700,000 enrolled in medicaid expansion and more than 426,000 in the aca marketplace. had the aca been repealed, the pennsylvania budget and policy center estimated over 1 million
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pennsylvanians would lose their coverage, like brian kline who was diagnosed with cancer last year. >> the aca saved my life and saved me from medical bankruptcy. >> reporter: kline is a democrat who voted for clinton, but he and wynter have one thing in common. their message to congress on health care. >> stop fighting, stop arguing, stop holding your arms and saying, i'm a republican, i'm a democrat, come together. that's why we elected you. >> reporter: both wynter and kline say they want the democrats to cooperate with the president in order to make the problems with obamacare better. >> don dahler, thanks. today the white house condemned the mass arrests in moscow during rallies against vladimir putin's government. the protests were organized by one of putin's fiercest political opponents, and elizabeth palmer is following this. >> reporter: united in anger. russians from across the country marched to protest against official corruption.
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in moscow, it was the biggest demonstration since the anti-kremlin rallies of 2012. but, without a permit, authorities called the gathering illegal and soon the police had moved in. hundreds were arrested. including alexei navalny, an opposition leader and ferocious critic of president putin and his famously corrupt administration. earlier this month, navalny released a video alleging that the prime minister had amassed a fortune in mansions, yachts and vineyards, all through corrupt deals. the video went viral. and here's the reaction. the protesters message to the government? shame on you. navalny's now an opposition icon. after his arrest, supporters
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surrounded the police van, shouting "don't let them through"! and police were forced to lift cars left as obstacles out of the way. navalny appeared in court today and was handed a fine and a short jail sentence. scott, these arrests have raised eyebrows in washington. they're seen as more heavy-handed stifling to any opposition to president putin. but alexander navalny's not going anywhere. in fact, he says he's going to run against mr. putin next year for the presidency. >> liz palmer, thank you. "cbs overnight news" will be right back. we should take a closer look at geico... you know, geico insures way more than cars. boats, motorcycles... even rvs! geico insures rvs? what's an rv? uh, the thing we've been stuck on for five years! wait, i'm not a real moose?? we've been over this, jeff... we're stickers!
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but many analysts and researchers say it will be much higher, between $15 billion and $40 billion. here's what the president wants, aside from being 30 feet, the wall has to prevent digging or tunneling below it for a minimum of six feet. a person must not be able to climb to the top of the wall or access the top of the wall from either side unassisted. the wall has got to be so tough that it would take someone an hour to break through it if they're using a sledge hammer, pick ax or chisel. and on top of that, it must be aesthetically pleasing. mr. trump wants a beautiful wall. now one of mr. trump's most recent tweets trumpeted the figure of border crossings being down. that's a fact, it's true. but border patrol says the number is down because it usually is this time of year. they expect it to go back up as the weather gets warmer. >> david begnaud for us at the southern border. thank you. up next, doctors tell us what they would do to fight the opioid epidemic.
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fighting substance abuse. >> i was given alcohol at a young age, like maybe 4, 5 years old. >> reporter: he graduated to marijuana, cocaine, heroin and pain pills, but he's been off drugs for more than three years. one of the lucky few to get treatment. with less than 20% of those needing treatment getting it, today, the american college of physicians published broad new recommendations, including requiring health insurers to cover addiction. in one survey, only about half covered the prescription drugs needed for treatment. improving the training of clinicians when it comes to pain management to reduce prescription drug abuse and expanding availability of naloxone. which can save the life of somebody who is overdosing. labeling substance abuse a moral failing has led to a harmful stigma. the medical community understands that addiction involves changes in the brain requiring medical treatment.
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>> if you call it a disease, now you've got to help me out. you know, you've got to not just throw me away. >> reporter: for davis, it includes counseling and medication. dr. ward is his physician. she supports the new recommendations, including a comprehensive approach to care. >> the old traditional model of sending patient to detox and hope that they will get better is really, we know that it doesn't work. there's no evidence. >> reporter: and we were struck by this. more than 70% of people with hypertension, diabetes or major depression get treatment, scott, for substance abuse it's less than 20%. >> and yet treatment works. dr. jon lapook. thank you, doctor. in new york city, the fearless girl will stand her ground a little while longer. the statue staring down wall street's charging bull has become a huge hit with tourists. it was placed there temporarily to highlight gender disparity in the boardroom. but today the mayor said she can stay until february. in a moment, a young girl who's inspiring the world with her singing.
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inside the hospital than she has outside. ♪ >> reporter: some of her closest playmates are the nurses treating her for severe congenital neutropenia. it's a rare blood disorder. this doctor was one of the first to treat her. >> she has issues with just normal feeding. so she's required many different treatments. >> reporter: to distract leah from boredom and sometimes pain, the mother looked for songs on the internet. that's how leah became a fan of gospel singer man desa. it was this video that transformed the pint sized patient into an internet sensation with 37 million views. lindsey is leah's mother. what do you think resonates with people? >> the world needed some joy right now, especially in the united states. i think leah has this pure joy
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about her. >> reporter: leah has survived two bone marrow transplants and numerous side effects. >> and the song itself is really fitting for her life. ♪ you're an overcomer >> reporter: little leah's voice has inspired both the sick and healthy who have posted comments from around the world, even inspiring man desa herself. >> one, two, three! we love you, leah! >> reporter: doctors say her neutropenia is closed to being cured, earning her the nickname, leah, the overcomer. oakland, california. that's overnight news for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us a little bit later for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm scott pelley.
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this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the overnight news. i'm jericka duncan. the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee, devin nunes is used to asking tough questions, but now he's the one on the hot seat over the way he's been handling classified information about russian ties to the white house. jeff pegues reports. >> reporter: devin nunes, the chairman of the house intelligence committee says he was at the white house grounds last tuesday, to meet a source and look at highly classified information in a secure location. >> i've been working this for a long time with many different sources and needed a place that i could actually finally go, because i knew what i was looking for, and i could actually get access to what i needed to see. >> reporter: tuesday's visit to
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the white house complex was the start of several days of unusual meetings and conflicting disclosures. on wednesday, nunes revealed to the press that he had seen evidence that the obama administration had intercepted communications involving members of the trump transition team. nunes then returned to the white house to personally brief the president before disclosing the information to members of his own committee. on thursday, he was forced to apologize for keeping them in the dark. by friday, nunes seemed less certain of his claims. >> it's hard to know where the information came from until you get the reports and have time to go through them and see all the sourcing of the documents. >> reporter: nunes has denied that his source is from the white house. today white house spokesman sean spicer said even he doesn't know where the information came from. >> i can't say 100% that i know anything he briefed him on. >> it's possible. >> anything's possible. >> reporter: democrats say nunes's behavior makes it
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impossible for him to continue investigation into russian involvement with trump associates. senator chuck schumer. >> chairman nunes is falling down on the job and seems to be more interested in protecting the president than in seeking the truth. >> reporter: it is unclear why nunes chose to view the classified information at a secure location on white house grounds. there are similar facilities in other government buildings. nunes says that he needed access to a specific computer network that was not available on capitol hill. the latest trump administration official to be hauled before congress is the president's son-in-law, jared kushner. he's agreed to be interviewed by the senate intelligence committee. major garrett has that story. >> reporter: the previously undisclosed meeting took place during the trump transition, before jared kushner stepped down as head of his real estate firm.
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in december, kushner sat down with russian ambassador to the u.s., sergei kislyak at trump tower, a meeting the trump team had previously confirmed. but afterward, kislyak asked kushner to meet the head of a and russian intelligence the bank is run by sergey gorkov who once trained at the spy in2016, another official, buryakov,dh sentenced to recruit u.s. spies for 2014 annexation of crimea. russia. i told you. >> reporter: the president has
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long denied ties to russia, inse oval office.ents uring the transition. >> he met with countlet ss his. that was part of his role. and he executed it completely as he was supposed to. believe he owes the american public an explanatn you're acting as though something nefarious.r: virginia rn the top democrat on the committee. >> if there's nothing there, i we'll follow the intel wherever it leads.il republicans continue to play th affordable carven e acars of pr the gop came uem so what's next? ted r donald trump.er wynter's . >> i'm a republican.
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so i stay true to my party and our principles. >> reporter: and even though she sees problems with the aca, she's grateful for some of the benefits. >> well, the main thing for the aca did for me is of course the preexisting conditions. that is huge. i mean, he has two major life-altering conditions that if i had to go and shop for it, it, i wouldn't be able to afford it. >> reporter: wynter lives in quakertown, pennsylvania whose congressman, brian fitzpatrick was one of dozens of republicans who planned to vote no on the new health care bill before it got pulled. a moderate republican, fitzpatrick opposed the bill because it didn't do enough to address opioid addiction treatment. pennsylvania has over 700,000 enrolled in medicaid expansion and more than 426,000 in the aca marketplace. had the aca been repealed it was estimated over 1 million pennsylvanians would lose their coverage, like brian kline who was diagnosed with cancer last year.
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>> the aca saved my life and saved me from medical bankruptcy. >> reporter: kline is a democrat who voted for clinton. but he and wynter have one thing in common. their message to congress on health care. >> stop fighting, stop arguing, stop folding your arms and going, i'm a republican, i'm democrat. come together. that's why we elected you. overseas, alexei navalny will spend the next two weeks in jail. he was arrested during a wave of protests over corruption in the kremlin. elizabeth palmer has that story. >> reporter: united in anger. russians across the country marched against official corruption. in moscow, it was the biggest demonstration since the anti-kremlin rallies of 2012. but without a permit, authorities call the gathering illegal, and soon the police had moved in.
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hundreds were arrested. including alexei navalny, an opposition leader and ferocious critic of president putin and his famously corrupt administration. earlier this month, navalny released a video, alleging that assed a fortune in mansions, va surrounded the police van, va surrounded the police van, cars left as obstacles outf was
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esident. he keeps repeating ridiculous, that are true or false. bullyin. >> the colive i1987, when the federal basically said people on radio presented one political point of opposite political point of view. program, a program exclsively republicans. >> reporter: rush ligh nature. talk radio, move that forward to then layer onto that e-mail and. a world where people can get absolutely tkind orud opposing will always believe it, even if >> we have to give some credit to the american peop they know the difference between
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you're cynical you think i'm bad for america? ? >> reporter: iine you -- >> really. that's sad, ted, that's sad. >> reporter: because you're very good at what you do, and because you have, you have attracted a significantly more -- let me finish the sentence before you do that. >> with all due respect. go ahead. >> reporter: you have attracted people who are determined that ideology is more important than facts. it is, says white house press secretary sean spicer, a media landscape that his boss, president trump well understands. >> he doesn't conform to washington norms or political standards about saying the right thing all the time or conforming to this.
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he understands he has a direct voice to the american people. he has over 100 million plus people who follow him on different social media channels when you combine facebook, twitter and instagram. >> reporter: you've heard the line in the atlantic, the press takes him literally as followers take him seriously but not literally. are we at the point where we are told we shouldn't take the president of the united states literally? >> no, i think you should take him literally. the aauthoritati authoraterstand that when you have 140 s che following is a little bit too much. a lot of times folks in the media feel threatened ple.he
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well, there's a team of street a walk with the doctor in in boston, which means dr. jim o'connell is making his rounds. he might be a little more comfortable inside a warm examining room. >> i got colder than bone here. >> reporter: but that's not where his patients are. o'connell is boston's only doctor left still making house calls to the homeless. >> anything changed since last night? i feel like i'm a country doctor in the middle of the city. >> reporter: he was a 30-year-old medical student at harvard when he passed up an oncology fellowship, for a position with boston health care for the homeless. started to realize i'm just a doctor, and what i can do is ge oncologist.
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ep >> you could not find a more grateful population. r the largest of its kind. >> no, no, n, it did, but -- >> r for the soul. >> will you come in?er btreated, o'connell finds them a temry >> >> this is my doctor,'s been my >> reporter: do you ever sit ang 30 years into an oncologist's careerhi about it anymore. somthings are more valuable than money. everything from patients.
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our:ho have nothing at all to give.n. f this tuesday. for others, check back with us a liat news, and cbs this morning. york city, i'mic 2017. this is the "cbs morning news". a secret meeting at the white house rattles democrats. now they are calling for the head of the house intelligence committee to recuse himself from
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