biden. >> remember to join us each >> remember to join us each weekday morning on cbs-3 weekday morning on cbs-3 captioning funded by cbs good morning. to you. it's wednesday, december 13th, 2017. welcome to "cbs this morning." doug jones defeats republican roy moore in a stunning upset in alabama. we'll look at how he one and what it means for president trump's agenda. a former investigator in charge of the clinton e-mail probe. the disparaging texts are causing political bias. and senator kirsten gillibrand calls for a review. the air force's chief prosecutor tells us why he believes the

academy's response falls short. plus former vice president joe biden comes to studio 57. he'll talk about the trump administration, his memoir of family and loss, and his political future. but we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> i have been waiting all my life, and now i just don't know what the hell to say. >> democrats pull off an upset in alabama. >> doug jones turning deep red, alabama blue, putlled a stunnin race. >> when the vote is this close, it's not over. let's go home and sleep on it. we'll take it on tomorrow. >> cbs news has obtained text messages between two senior fbi officials that raise questions about impartiality. >> peter stzrok and lisa

>> a sexist smear, that's what it is. >> a political senator. mr. trump, claims she would do anything for campaign contributions. >> only if your mind was in the gutter, would you have read it that way. >> all that -- >> prince william and prince harry at the european premier of the new "star wars" movie. >> -- and all that matters -- >> i feel like hundreds of times i have stood behind them. i don't know a more spiritual moment. >> music to your ears, right? >> yes, in times of my life. >> -- on "cbs this morning." >> a little brother watching his older sister in a wrestling match takes matters into his own hand. >> that is krut. >> he actually has to get carted off the mat while the crowd is laughing and applauding.

>> announcer: this morning's "eye opener" presents by toyota. let's go places. welcome to "cbs this morning." that picture right there is why i always wanted a brother of any kind. i just think that's so sweet. >> it's always great when your brother or sister is always there for you. >> when my son used to wrestle, you want to go to that. you want to stop them from getting their face smashed in the mat. >> exactly that. i'm gayle king with norah o'donnell and john dickerson of "face the nation." it was an earthquake, you could say. the state of alabama surprised the world by electing a democratic senator. doug jones narrowly defeated roy moore in yesterday's special election. >> now, the republican candidate told them it was not over after he was accused of pursuing

teenage girls while he was in his 30s. down jones won by about 20,000 votes. >> in his victory speech, jones said his win sends a message to the world. manuel bojorquez is in birmingham, alabama, where the democrats celebrated late last night. good morning. >> good morning. president trump tweeted last night, congratulating doug jones in a, quote, hard-fought victory. a win by jones seemed highly unlike unlikely, and the president would know. he won alabama last year by nearly 30 points. >> i've got to tell you, i think i've been waiting all my life, and now i don't know what the hell to say. >> even down jones was surprised

by his win. >> we have shown the country the way that we can be unified. >> jones' opponent republican roy moore blamed his defeat on allegations of sexual misconduct that plagued his campaign for weeks. >> part of the problem with this campaign is we've been painted in an unfavorable and unfaithful light. >> he declined to concede, demanding that a recount is possible. >> we have to wait on god. >> more than half said the allegations against moore were true and jones found strong support among african-americans, women, and younger voters. >> turnout was up over expectations, but republicans seemed to stay home. it was reliably red in republican counties. >> along with former white house

steve strategist steve bannon who championed moore as part of his war on washington. >> i'll tell you, i didn't vote for him. >> some blamed alabama richard shelby for moore's defeat, including supporters we spoke with last night. >> these good people here supported shelby for 25 years and kept him as a senator and he turns on them in the last minute. >> the write-in campaigns may be one of the factors that cost moore the election. nearly 2% of votes were write-ins, which covered doug jones' margin of victory. as for the recount, moore is hoping for alabama state calls for one, but only if the margin of victory is less than one half of 0.5%. jones won by three times that. >> wow. thank you very much. doug jones' victory was a set back for president trump. the president tweeted this this morning.

i said roy moore will not be able to win the general election. i was right. a new razor thin gop majority in the stat, 51-49, will make it even harder for congress to pass mr. trump's agenda next year. nancy cordes is on capitol hill with reaction to this historic vote. nancy, good morning. >> good morning. most importantly that win is going to put pressure on the seat. the finger-pointing has already begun. listen to this. senate leader mitch mcconnell's super pac released a statement overnight saying not only did steve bannon cost us a critical senate seat in one of the most republican states in the country, but he also dragged the president of the united states into his fiasco. they're going have a harder time building a border wall because they'll now only be able to afford one gop defection on many

votes and that means many like senator bob corker and john mccain and susan collins are waking up with more clout. there is some relief from republicans that they won't be get i getting caught be moore's baggage. those already frustrated that the senate can't seem to pass the president's priorities are about to get even more frustrated. >> yep. that is the other part of this story. thank you. dan senor has been in touch with republican congress since last night's gop loss. good morning, dan zbhood morning. >> i stayed up. >> you and me both. >> sort it out for us. how big is this? >> most in the leadership are

relieved. i'm not going to quote people specifically, but they are relieved. they recognize they're heading into a tough year in 2018. the house in particular is up for grabs and the last thing they want is democrats to tell everyone on the ballot, you own roy moore. in that sense roy moore not getting elected is a big win. that said, it's wakeup call. if you look at the exit polls, voters who turned out in yesterday's election, their view of trump is way down. trump's approval rating among those who turned out, 48%. this is one of the most republican states in the country. democrats have outperformed in georgia, south carolina, montana, and virginia. conventional republican ed gillespie lost by nine points. they're recruiting candidates for a lot. yesterday's reminder that the republicans are going to have a tough time in 2018.

>> i have never seen a win where a democrat won and so many republicans cheered for him. what does this mean for steve bannon? >> it's a setback. first of all, the idea that bannon can sort of select the slate of candidates, they have the bannon backing and that's all it's going to take, that myth has been punctured. for the president it's a reminder he is a unique political animal, you know what i mean? the idea that people can become mini trumps, i'll be like trumps and win, it doesn't work. it doesn't necessarily transfer and he doesn't necessarily have coattails. >> but you say it's a wakeup call. is it a wakeup call to president trump because he's going to be on the ballot in 2018 or is it a wakeup call to the establishment republicans? >> i think it's both. that's why i think you're going to see more urgency to get this

tax reform bill passed. they just need to show they're getting stuff done. republicans want people to say we are actually legislating. we're governing, sort of with or without trump's craziness. i think it's a massive wakeup call. everyone is saying his approval ratings are low, it's low. he's governing the base of his party. >> they're still tweeting this morning, i was right. i knew he couldn't win. >> one of the reasons doug jones won was the women's vote. you see a roared number of women running for congress, and now you have a record number of senators and legislative women calling for donald trump to resign based on this issue after he essentially in senator warren's worlds slut shamed senator kerstin gillibrand. where is the republican party on that? >> look. i think the republicans have a lot of female candidates they've

recruited. a lot of people in congress. marsha blackburn is running for bob corker's seat. i'm not worried about women running. in 2016 when republicans thought that hillary -- sorry, when democrats thought trump would be such a drag on the ticket, they missed the moment and didn't recruit enough high-quality candidates of either gender, so there wasn't an opportunity. they missed the filing deadline. that is not the case. democrats have recruited 249 candidates to run for congress. those numbers are massive. >> we've got to go. we'll talk about those in the future. thanks, dan. >> it will be interesting with do

roy moore riding in on a horse calling on god. >> it was an image. >> it was an image. ahead, we'll talk with former vice president joe biden and his thoughts on the democratic race. that's ahead on "cbs this morning." cbs news has attained politically charged messages that got an fbi agent thrown out of robert mullellemueller's pro. they call the message terrifying and not good. paula reid is at the justice department where the text raised issues of political bias. paula, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. these texts were uncovered by the office of attorney general which is reviewing the clinton e-mail investigation from august

2016 to december 2017. they used their phones to criticize trump. god, trump is a loathe? human page reported in 2017. peter strzok responded. after that primary debate, page said, this man cannot be president. >> i'll tell you at the time. i'll keep you in suspense. >> reporter: as he watched the final debate, peter strzok to page, he's an idiot. page said, good god. page lefted when her assignment was ended.

strzok was removed. before that, he led the investigation into hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail service. some on capitol hill are now questioning whether the investigation in to clinton was impartial. >> it can't just be some text messages. >> last week fbi director wray offering this. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein will testify before the house judiciary committee this morning. he's now, of course, the top man as the others have recused themselves from both investigations. the office declines to comment on the text messages. norah? >> thank you so much. the white house is pushing

back claims that the president is sexist. trump claimed gillibrand came to him in the past begging for campaign contributions and tweeted, quote, she would do anything for them. gillibrand said the tweet is a sexist smear. >> it's not going to silence me. it's intended to silence me. it's not going to silence the women who stood up against him yesterday. >> the house denied requests for more than 100 democrats to investigate the sexual misconduct allegations against the president. the widow of a man killed by an arizona police officer is speaking out after the officer was found notui jury last week. this video is very . it shows dan shave in the video.

we spoke with the widow in an interview you'll only see on cbs news. >> he new his life was about to end. he was scared. the only person scared in the hallway was daniel shaver. >> reporter: officer philip brailsford found dan shaver intoxicated, waving a rifle from a hotel window. >> crawl toward me. crawl toward me. >> that was an execution. you had a man begging for his life, and he was shot five times for what. >> reporter: brailsford who was later testified he believed shaver was reaching for a gun in his waistband. >> what do you make of the fact he said he thought he had a split second to decide what to

do when he thought he was pulling a gun? >> i understand that officers have hard jobs and i think this goes back to mesa police department training. >> reporter: police found no gun on him but they found two pellet guns used for pests inside his hotel room. >> reporter: they have two daughters. on monday she received a call from her 8-year-old's school. >> she tried choking herself while she was at school and told her friend that she wanted to die. >> what did natalie say to when you saw >> wte dad. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning," i'm adriana diaz. >> sweet says that her fight for justice is not over. she believed that crucial evidence was left out of the trial and she wanted the department of justice to investigate her husband's death.

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expect it may not feel better than teens anytime today. currently feels no better than single digits, and next few dayses, slow rebound in the 30 's in the majority of the forecast, meisha. >> thanks very much. freezing cold outside, hopefully our heaters are working okay and looking outside we are for our morning commute looking okay, we do have a disable truck schuylkill eastbound at blue route and, draw your tension to septa paoli thorndale line suspended between thorndale and malvern due to power issues and market frankford no a and d service, trains stopping at all stations because of the cold, now back over to you. next update 7:55. up next this morning an organization dedicated to ending sexual assault in the u.s. military. u.s. military. i'm rahel solomon, good -take care. ♪ so probably take it at night. and if you have any questions, the instructions are here in spanish as you requested. gracias. ♪

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." here are three things we think you should know this morning. alabama elected a democrat to the u.s. senate for the first time in more than 25 years. doug jones pulled off a narrow victory yesterday against republican roy moore who faced allegations of sexual misconduct. the contest divided along racial lines, moore supported by mostly white voters. nearly all black voters backed jones. strong voters and independents helped jones win. secretary tillerson said the u.s. is expected to talk with north korea. he said they're unwilling to

give up their nuclear arms. this comes two weeks after they tested missiles that could strike the entire u.s. mainland. and the library of congress is adding "titaningic," "the go goony," "field of dreams" to the list. "dumbo" is also selected. they choose the movies based on their cultural and historic or artistic significance. it's prompting calls for dramatic reform. in an investigation only on "cbs this morning," the cadets told us they were retaliated against by peers and military leadership for reporting sexual assaults. new york democratic senator kirsten gillibrand is calling for senate hearings and an investigation by the defense

department's inspector general off watching reports. she talked with us yesterday. >> i think there needs to be an i.g. gs, a thorough investigation why justice was not done in this case, and that's not good enough. the performance is not good enough. they're not holding perpetrators accountable. >> reporter: she was a commissioned officer from the elite united states air force academy. >> i was sexually assaulted my freshman year and the sexual harassment eventually made me leave. >> what happened to that cadet? >> he graduated. >> what happened to you? >> i left. >> there's no understanding among commanders about the sexual assault. >> was terrified of reporting because i heard of things that happened to people and it did happen to me. so it's not horror stories. it's slut shaming, victim

blaming. >> do you regret reporting it? >> every day. >> ten of those years she worked as the united states air force academy top official on sexual assault and response. >> i would have to say absolutely not, no. i think deep down they really don't believe that sexual assaults are happening. i think they're minimizing the severity of them. >> the academy's new superintendent jay silveria reported to our broadcast to respond. >> do you think there are problems there? >> i don't think there are problems, and let mel tell you why. across campuses there is underreporting. i want reporting to go up so i can provide the care, provide the support. >> with sus

christensen. colonel christensen, good morning. >> good morning, norah. >> you heard the superintendent say here he does not think the academy has a problem. >> yeah. that was stunning. air force's own numbers show the last ak em dik year 11.2% of all women cadets were sexually assaulted. 47% were sexually harassed. yes, they have a sexual assault problem, sexual harassment problem. >> what is its the superintendent of the air force academy should be doing? >> he's the only person on that installation who has the authority to prosecute people. he made it sound like teresa beasley is the problem. her job is to provide support to survivors. her job was not to prosecute. her job was not to stop retaliation. that is the general's job. >> how did it strike you -- go

ahead, norah. >> we spoke with senator kirsten gillibrand yesterday. she called what the general said was pathetic, she said it was embarrassing. she said not once did he say they received justice because they haven't. she said there's been no accountability. >> the senator is absolutely right. as the general talked about, all he talked about was support. he never talked about holding offenders accountable, and that is a huge fail yore. you have to do more. support's great, but when you have people out there being hurt, you need to make sure somebody is holding those who hurt them accountable. >> how did it strike you when he said he would like to see the number of reporting up? to you? >> it makes sense to the degree you can't address sexual assault if you don't know about it. the reality is when women come forward, they're putting their career in peril and the investigation showed 11 women were forced out of the academy

last year. and so it's a career ender. and what does that do? what that does is denies this country, women like norah talked to who want to serve. look. this is a retention issue, recruiting issue. this is ability for america to bring the fight to the enemy. we have to have women -- >> you heard women say in the report you heard women coming forward and you say you have some cases but the women say they have regrets about coming forward too. why? >> absolutely. we have five ka deads come to protect our defenders in the last six weeks asking for help. every one of them is saying their career has been put into jeopardy because they came forward. what happens after they come forward, too often the kmaernlds start looking for any minor discrepancy to pull them out of the academy. >> compare the academy to the problem that happens at other colleges as well? >> well, the numbers are hard to

compare because you have dozens of colleges. the difference is it's a very isolated institution. you know, the men and women just can't leave. they have to have permission to leave the campus. their entire life revolves around that campus. so if you're being retaliated against, whether it's social or professional, that impacts you every minute of that day. >> also because if you go to an academy, a service academy, you then owe the military time afterward to pay for that tuition. >> absolutely. and the women who are being forced out are now being told they're going to have to pay up to a quarter million dollars back to the government for th r education. >> were you angry with what you saw yesterday? >> absolutely. he said i've got this, i'm going to take it seriously, he had the opportunity to say it's unacceptable and he failed to do that. >> all right. colonel don christensen, thank

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freeway. officials are determining whether to cancel those enca encampme encampments. >> it's tough to start with a cooking fire. that can be avoided. they still don't know the cause of the major fires burning at this hour. >> a lot of homes lost. and "usa today" reports the healthiest and least healthiest. for the first time massachusetts was the healthiest. it had the lowest percentage of uninsurance population, lowest prevalance for obesity. the least healthy state was mississippi. >> you know who else is a healthy state? hawaii. >> i think colorado is up there as healthy too. >> you're right. >> all good places. >> we're in new york. we're still trying to wok it out here. former president obama and former vice president joe biden rarely missed a chance to joke about their very close friendship. >> which do you like better?

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we will hit 31. just don't expect wind chill to break out of the teens, for most of the day. wenow tomorrow in the city and then as days progress we will break out of the 30's until at lee this weekend, meisha. >> bundle up. >> katie, thanks very much. we are looking outside we have an accident 95 north before route 413 pulled off to the shoulder, service personnel just showed up there and will get that remedied for you. no that the volleys playing an issue. it is not. we have an overturned vehicle in chester county, 292 and creek road lanes are blocked in this area jim. >> thanks, meisha. our next update 8:25. coming up this morning former vice-president joe biden, aim jim donovan make it a great day.

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it is wednesday, december 13th, 2017. welcome back to "cbs this morning." ahead how the alabama cincinnati race will upset the president's agenda. the vote and his memoir. but first here's today's "eye opener" at 8:00. traditionally the republicans of the state of alabama surprised the world by electing the a democratic senator. >> he won last year by nearly 30 points. >> losing that seat is going to put more pressure on republicans

to pass the tax cut before their majority shrinks. >> sort it out for us. how big is this? >> well, most republican leaders are relieved. i'm not going to quote but they ee relieved. that said, it is a wakeup call. >>. these texts were uncovered by the office of attorney general. >> the president said kerstin gillibrand came to him begging for campaign contributions and she would do anything for it. >> do you have multi or plain? >> you coordinate your lights and your bulbs? >> absolutely, sir. >> they have medicine. >> if you do not understand the symmetrical design, get off my show.

i'm norah o'donnell with gayle king and john dickedicker. the big story today, doug jones upset republican roy moore last night by about 20,000 votes. this will give the gop only a two-seat majority in the senate when jones arrives next month. >> the moore campaign says fiercely denied the claims. he said there may be a recount. it shows alabama's dignity and respect for others. >> this campaign has been about common courtesy and decency and making sure everyone in this state regardless of which zip code you live in is going to get a fair shake. >> this morning president trump tweeted, i said roy moore will

not be able to win the general election. i was right. major garrett is at the white house with the impact of this race on the president. major, good morning. >> good morning. our ir rrepressible president claims even in defeat he was right all along. the simple truth is the president is now a two-time loser in alabama, one of the most pro-trump states in the country. remember the president backed a pointed senator luther strange in the primary. now the plan for tax cuts is deeply damaged. driving his appeal deep into southern alabama media markets to drive up moore's turnout. it didn't week. gop turnout declined while democratic turnout surged defying the president and his former chief strategist steve bannon who backed the plachb and on theory the prlt's agenda.

this morning on the radio bannon credited it for driving up the turnout. several told us moore's defeat will galvanize them on the tax plan. they have to act quickly before they lose one in the senate. the senate will lunch with key tax negotiate ears in the white house here today. one other verdict has been rendered. one top trump adviser told me this white house has the worst political operation in two generations, republican or democrat. gayle? >> all right, major. you put it in perspective as always. thank you very much. the terrorist accused of the bombing in new york will make an appearance from the hospital today. his name is

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former vice president joe biden's loss of his son beau had aed by impact on his personal and political life. beau biden died two years ago after battling brain cancer. in his new book "promise me dad: a year of hope, hardship, and purpose" biden focuses on the challenging time. former vice president joe biden is in studio 57. nice to see you.

>> good to be back. >> i wanted to ask you about the big political news. down jones winning in alabama. what mench does that send? >> it sends a message that not only did they reject luther strange and his attitude toward women. >> roy moore, yeah. >> excuse me. roy moore. he talked about the issues he cares about. i've known doug jones since law school. he campaigned for me. >> have you talked to him since the victory? >> yes, i have. i talked to him three times yesterday. >> what did he say? he was so giddy. >> he's over the moochblt he's really anxious to get to work. last night he talked about children's health care. with all the excitement he didn't go after moore. he talked about children's health care. this is a guy who was a serious, serious guy, a prosecutor, a man of great integrity. >> he said something i thought was interesting. what happened in alabama shows

that we can be united in this country. do you think it will send the message to the rest of the country, both democrats and republicans? >> i think it is. i think some of the most happen yes, sir people there are the republicans in the senate. no. i genuinely mean it. >> explain what you mean by that. >> what i mean by that, the divisiveness that was caused when the republican party by bannon and all the sort of bile that comes out of the administration is just -- i know the majority of the members on the republican side. they're decent people. theory not comfortable in this territory. >> did you give him advice in one of these three phone calls? >> well, i gave him advice early on because he'd keep calling me. look. he's been a -- he was a young man when he started working for me. i've been so damn prout of him, the way he prosecuted those cases that were 50 years old. he's really a smart guy. so the advice -- my advice --

and he didn't need it -- focus on the issues why you want to be the united states senator. what you're going to do fur alabamians. if you notice, the bulk of that is what he did. last night instead of taking a victory lap like most democrats wanted him to do, like this is a big loss for the president trump, which it is, he brought them together. the kid -- god, the kid. >> know. >> we staid friends. i was friends with howell heflin. so yeah. it was -- you know, he's a great -- he's a serious, serious guy. >> you used to tell us the story when you were a kid and entered the snort and senator mansfield said look around here. somebody sent them here and to find the good. that in necessary in politics?

>> absolutely. it's the way. because of gerrymandering and overspending on campaigns, we've gotten to the point where we don't know each other. when you know somebody's had prostate cancer or you have a child with a drug problem, it's not one you start off dysliking them. you actually have a connection. these guys don't -- real quick story. any time we'd be in trouble as the administration, i'd go-go up to the senate. i'd go up to the dining room. it's gone. there are no tables anymore. there is no place to sit and eat. it's a metaphor for how didn't things are. >> do you see anything in the trump administration white house to say they're doing good on x, y, z? >> i think they're doing a good job with ton and north korea.

i think they're on the cusp of doing things. but i wish the president would be president and stop being so consumed with himself and his image. i mean it's -- there's so much at -- i guess the thing that bothers me the most, gayle, is that america has always led by the example not of his power but the power of his examplexample. and we're decimates that. i've had more heads of state asking me to explain what is this about. i don't know. i think there are a number of things we can work on together. and even when there's disagreement on the tax bill, there's no need to be so personal. >> did you happen to read "the new york times" piece about how it spends its time? >> if that's true, it's sad. that someone would view everything in terms of a reality

show and say that. it's hard to believe to me that he says that. but the idea -- this is not about donald trump. it's about america. it's just -- i've never seen anything quite like this. >> you write about so many things in this book, including your son beau. and you also talk about teach ur your granddaughter in the face of wrongdoing that, quote, silence is complicity. >> that's right it is. >> we now have 100 democrats calling on investigators to investigate president trump's alleged sexual misconduct. do you think there should be an investigation. >> yes. these women deserve to be heard. i had a decision struck down by the conservative court. it provided a woman to have a civil cause of action if she was abusd. so she didn't have to count on the legal system to take her

case. it was struck doubt. imagine if there were still a civil cause of action that existed that would allow women to have a civil rights cause of action to go into court and say this is what this man, president or not, did to me. >> and when he tweeted that gillibrand would do anything, how did you take that? >> it's disgusting. i never thought i'd say that about a president. the children are listening. they really are. david brooks has written a lot of good stuff, by the way. >> yes, he has. >> "new york times." >> "new york times," yes. >> he talks about the visible walls that hold up society and you can sew it toekts or shredding it. these guys are shed shh rreddin

order to make room to abuse power. it's so unique -- well, i should. >> i want to talk about your character, you and barack obama, the friendship and relationship you had. it was very evident while you were in the white house and i'm wondering if it still continues today. i'm struck by the words he said to you. how do you want to spend the rest of your life. your friendship continues today? >> it does. we talk to each other a lot and see each other. i kid him and say i don't know how you have so much time to play golf, you know, because he always seems to play golf. but it does continue and the thing i'm proudest of in the eight years -- i mean this is a man -- i've served with eight presidents and i got to know four of them very well. i've never met any president that has more character, more integrity, and more backbone than this guy does. it was an honor serving with

him. eight years, not a hint, not a hint, a scandal. >> 2020's coming. how you will be serving your time? i saw you at the sandy hook promise. i heard, joe, we miss you, joe, we want you to run. what do you say to that? >> my dad used to say don't compare me to the almighty. compare me to the alternative. >> are you thinking about it? >> i'm not doing anything about it. my word is it. if i got the job, i'd say to the lord almighty, no. there's some really good talent running up. i'm not saying i would run. i'm giving my word i'm doing nothing to putz myself in a position to do that. but i'm not going to be involved. >> can you sit with us during

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good morning, i'm rahel solomon, new jersey's own john bon jovi is heading to the rock and role hall of fame. >> i just want to say hi, wish you happy holiday and by the way, thank you, thanks for inducting us in the rock and roll hall of fame, long time coming. >> now in addition to bon jovi dire straits, the cars, moody blues, nina simone will all be inducted next april. congratulations. lets go over to katie for a check of the bitterly cold forecast. >> very chilly. we will in the see a rebound until the weekend in fact with some cold air reenforcement, clipper system working through great lakes, region up are high planes, right now this

will go through later tonight and does not do much in the way of accumulation. you can see a quick dusting, .2 of an inch but no major deal but something that could slow you down tomorrow morning but may see a inch or two in the far northern suburbs, lehigh valley, poconos. keep that in mine. for now expect wind chills not to exceed the teens, and we will not break out of the 30's until at least this weekend, meisha. >> katie, thanks very much. looking outside right new we have got some problem spots out there, evesham township. we have flooding with actual freezing water taking place, because of it is closed between brad mill road and, tomlinson mill road and overturned vehicle in trenton, route 282 creek road at high expire road, lanes are blocked here. we have also got some slow downs here schuylkill at montgomery drive both directions are pretty slow, rahel, over to you. next update 8:55. ahead on cbs this morning household product manufacturer dysonnies branching out into

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." we're back with former vice president joe biden. his new book is "promise me dad: a year of hope, hardship, and purple." so mr. vice president, when i read this book, what's at the heart of it? what's at the center of it? >> two things. one, i wanted people to know what an incredible young man my son was, and i also wanted people -- a lot of people have gone through it. i've gone through it without any of the help i had. i didn't want it to be about grief alone. i wanted to let people know you can find hope and purpose and i really mean that. you know, a phrase, you know, there's three things to happiness, something to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to, it's all

about trying to take what beau -- what i think, my family thinks beau would be doing were he still here and doing it. and it gives you -- it gives you purpose. it gives you a sense of and still, you know, being with you. >> but you tell a very beautiful story in the book, mr. vice president, about the death -- the murder of police officers in new york city and you were talking to the widow of one of the police officers and you said, take a calendar, and on that day of the death, mark what -- tell the story? >> when i lost my wife and daughter when they were killed right after i got elected. a tractor trailer hit them. people would come up and say, i know how you feel. after a while you want to say -- it's awful. you want to say, you have no idea how i feel. i met the governor of new jersey. he told me he knew what i felt. he said, know what you're thinking. he told me how she died suddenly

going home for lunch and suffered an aneurysm. he said, i'll give you a piece of advice. the down days will be as bad as the moment you heard the truth. but here's what you do. every day you mark the day you had. 1, the day you hard the news, 10, the best day you had. he said don't look at it for six months. he said put it in a graph. you'll see the down days are further and further apart. >> how did that help? >> it helps that i am making progress and i am able to do something. there ar it's amazing what people said. i keep a calendar, i keep a calendar. >> and the family of the nypd officer who had been assassinated, you gave them your personal cell phone. >> sure. i mean, look. when you've been the recipient of so much generosity and empathy, it's so easy, and it

makes you -- it gives you a purpose to give back to people, and so i went out to see -- i -- you may remember, it was the middle of that -- the potential riots because of african-american had been killed on the street by the police officers and then he was acquitted and they were acqu acquitted an i was asked to come when those two police officers were assassinated. i guess it was 25,000 cops showed up, i can't remember, but a lot of cops because i have a great relationship with the cops and an overwhelming relationship with the african-americans and they asked me to speak. then i went out to mr. lu's son's house. his son had just got married. they lived in the house. they didn't have the funeral because they were waiting for the chinese relatives to come. mr. lu was a diminutive man. he hugged me. stayed on my arm. walked out in the cold with me.

here i am eight months later, my son died, and there were eight hours of people who died, eight hours who viewed the caskecaske. i stand up and look and see mr. lu standing there, and all he did was walk up and just hug me. >> hugged you. and he was giving me comfort. >> and he didn't even speak english. >> no. he spoke canton es southeast. he didn't have to speak. >> as proud as you are, your son would right you're all right, you're all right. are you all right? >> no. >> everybody speaks so glowingly, they say you're sitting down across from a young boy. what's the one thing he needs to know? >> i think the one thing you need to know is you have to -- you have to b just straightforward and honest. you have to -- it -- it's the

building block for every that happens in your life. i mean it really truly is. it's the building block for everything. and my dad had an expression. he'd say everyone -- and he meant it. every single person is entitled to be treated with dignity, no matter what. my father would never walk by a shoeshine guy or ceo, seriously. i point out, you know -- you were asking me, gayle, about the book where on nantucket island, secret service, i'm in one car. and we had people who were volunteered to be driving us. ethan, my son, my grandson are in the car and the secret service goes left, they go straight. and my grandson who's then five years old says, driver, driver, my son says pull over the car. he got in the back. he said, hunter, nobody is addressed by what they do. this is ethan. nobody's a driver, honey.

do you understand me? nobody's a driver. that's the way we were raised. it's amazing people respond also when you treat them with dignity. >> when you look at this administration and how it's being run on a daily basis, what's your biggest concern? >> my biggest concern is foreign policy. my biggest concern is two pieces of that. i think the president understandably because it's devoid of any knowledge and foreign policy, but he seems not to be a student of the detail. and then you have a guy who's really a bright guy, but he's -- who's the secretary of state, but they're decimating the state department. can you imagine we're in a situation in east asia, and we don't have a secretary of state? can you imagine? i mean and -- as a friend of mine who was the number two guy at the state department said, you can go up on the seventh

floor and holler and hear an echo at the state department. this is the time to engage and have more diplomacy. >> so the secretary of state rex tillerson made some news. he said the u.s. should negotiate with north korea without preconditions. >> yes. >> do you think that's right? >> yes. i think you have to talk. you have to talk. here's the deal. there are two things the president and i talked to the trump administration about in the ijt rim period. one was health care and the other was korea. they're an intractable problem. every president has not had the answer yet. but the one thing everybody knows, you have to have china, japan, and south korea on the same pang. here the president was referring to the president of south korea as an appeaser and taking on. i just -- >> you share the view north korea should in no way get access to any kind of nuclear

weapon or is containment a possibility? >> i think based upon this conversation, the next president could be left with a policy of containment. the reality i think is the likelihood of being able to put together this rubik's cube which is difficult to do but likely but not possible with this administration, i think the end result is going to be a policy of containment and try to move from there. the next president, i predict, will inherit that circumstances. the worry now is their submarine capability and whether or not they get the capability to have a sea launch to launch a submarine missile. we need to double down on what we're doing with china and with the rest of the world to even tighten the sanctions further. but i think nikki haley has done

a good job at the u.n. i think unfortunately the secretary of state constantly gets undercut by the president. he goes off to negotiate and the president says nothing is going to happen there. i mean what a helluva way to handle the department. >> you said something interesting. you haven't ruled it out but you're certainly not thinking about running for president. but you said i'd like to see who's up and coming. >> i think there's a lot of talented people out there. >> do you care to name any names? >> i believe you'll leave names out. you had kirsten gillibrand, senators from new jersey. there are a whole lot of really talented people, but we need somebody who's going to be really up to speed and be totally confident in the area of foreign policy and someone who is going to be -- and i think they're not able do this or reach out across the aisle. you can't run this democracy without consensus.

you can't do it. it's not possible. >> well, mr. vice president, joe biden, thank you so much for joining us and for this conversation. we appreciate it. >> thank you for talking about my boy. >> i know, i know. your book "promise me dad" is on sale now. it's a terrific book. >> thank you. james dyson is an entrepreneur and innovator who likes to bring winds of change to our world. he's in studio 57 to show us how

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dyson is a company known for its bold designs and unique reinvention of common household projects. they include the world's first bagless vacuum cleaner, air purifiers, and the supersonic hair dryer. dyson is also branching into retail. cbs got a look at the company's first flagship demo store in new york city. james dyson is the founder and chief on rating officer of dyson. welcome to "cbs this morning" 57. if retail is having all kinds of difficulties, why open a store? >> it is a difficult culture but we want people to put their hands on things.

people need to be able to tell the difference. for example, our battery powered vacuum cleaners. you wouldn't believe they're as powerful, but they are, but people need to see that. we're trying to break conventions. people think batteries are useful and fade. we want people to see that. there's a very new way of vol e vacuuming. you don't have to have the cord. >> what's behind the technology? >> we started developing a new type of electric meters. we've made them much more smaller and more efficient. we also developed batteries, but that's not the story. but the motor in our hair dryer is about a quarter of the size of a standard hair dryer and it's lightweight. we put it in the handle. i'm trying to get you to buy one. we discover it's very good. if you get the technology right

and you get break throughs, you can find significant technology around it. but technology is the most important thing. >> you do the vacuum cleaners, fans, open a store, and there's a rumor that you're getting into the car business. ? >> i hate diesel pollution. governments are going around saying green is clean and it's green, so it's a good thing. and the people who use these didn't want to face it because there's the problem of disposing of the dust. so u've had a burning desire. petro engines send out nasty stuff. >> you're creating engineering schools to create more people like you. how did that come about? >> there's a tremendous shortage of engineers. you need five times the engineers you had before.

i went and saw boris johnson's brother. he said, we'll start our own university. it took me about three seconds to say yes. he's created a new act to allow people like me to start universities. it will be within the company, they'll work in the company, work on new inventions and take it to production. they'll take two days. there are no student holidays. four years. i pay for their education. >> i pay them a salary. they've got a job. and at the end of it they've got a job. if they want to leave, they can leave. there's no time. by the way, they're wonderful. mine they're quite sharp, all of our existing engineers with their questioning. two of them are 17. it's a great sort of influx. >> what's at the heart of innovations and creativity. is it looking at everything and asking questions about it? >> actually it's not very hard.

a lot of things don't work very well or there's something you don't like about it. other people aren't bothering to do that. >> your brain does work differently. what do you think? you take things apart and try to put them back together. there is a process to how you work. >> yes, there is and i learned that. but, yes, you look at something and see it isn't working. why isn't it working. or you set out. and that's how we got into hair driers, although hair dryers are not very good and they're heavy and damage your hair. >> you'll be appearing. >> you're doing blowouts at the store. >> yes. you want to show how it's true. >> james dyson, what a pleasure

to always have you hear and learn about all of your innovations. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> best to you. >> you're watching "cbs this morning." we'll be right back.

because of our extended conversation of vice president joe biden, we will not bring you the norman lear interview today. i know you understand that. we'll have it at another time. norman lear will share how he makes audiences laugh at the age of 95. that does it for us. >> those were the days. >> those were the days. be sure to tune in to the "cbs evening news" with jeff glor tonight and we'll see you back

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good morning, i'm jim donovan. state police in skippack will update us shortly on this morning's breaking news two young boys are confirmed dead after a house fire in montgomery county. earlier this morning, a father and daughter were air lifted from the scene along the 900 block of summit avenue in schwanksville, mother was rush to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, fire fighters battled huge flames and freezing conditions, and to control that fire. very sad news. lets turn to katie for a look at the forecast. >> jim, we are looking ahead to very cold day, already off to a frigid start our current feels like values are at best in the single digits right now in many locations, starting to creep into double digit

territory in allentown but brutally cold in mount pocono feeling more like well below zero. there is a new clip their comes across our region late tonight touching off very light snow. you could end up with a quick coating, maybe as far south as portions of cumberland or atlantic counties but generally, this should be a very modest event, it is just a clipper but does reenforce cold so we are stuck in the 30 's through at lee saturday, meisha. >> katie, thanks very much. we are looking outside right new we have a disabled vehicle schuylkill eastbound before montgomery drive blocking lane before but now pulled off to the shoulder but as our cameras are moving around here you can see volume in the back of several working with right now, also, a couple things paoli thorndale line suspended between thorndale and malvern. market frankford no ab service , trains stopping at all stations, just because of the cold, norristown high speed line is young 10 minute delays, make sure to check those schedules on line especially in this cold, jim,

back over to you. that is "eyewitness news" for now, join us for "eyewitness news" at noon. i'm jim donovan. make it a great

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