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>> so, omar, what are some factors behind the boom? >> combination of new and existing home sales that are driving the market. both are up more than 5%. just in october. realtors, also expect to see a strong 2018 led by millenial mortgages, buying homes and continued strong sales groint growth in the south. >> good to see you. president trump talked up the tax cult. as he visited firefighters in west palm beach, florida. based on tweets. the russia investigation is what is really weighing on his mind. chip reid is traveling with the president. >> i have nothing to do with russia. everybody knows it. that was a democrat hoax. an excuse for losing eat election. >> reporter: president trump repeatly condemned the investigation of his campaign's contacts with russia. in a tweet yesterday, he once again attacked the fbi, for its role, calling the agency tainted. but even before the investigation began, the u.s. intelligence community concluded that russia did attempt to influence the 2016 presidential election, and president trump's favor. the question for special counsel robert mueller its wheth the trump campaign or the candidate himself worked with or colluded with russia in that effort. >> there is absolutely no collusion. >> trump's lawyers predict the investigation will wrap up soon.

many legal observers say mueller appears to be only in round one. former campaign chairman, paul manafort, have been indicted and their trials are months away. two other former staffers security adviser michael flynn have pled guilty, flynn admits he lied to the fbi yesterday, flynn's brother tweeted that the president should pardon flynn. earlier this month, the president didn't rule it out. what happens. >> immediately afterward his attorney insisted there is no consideration of pardoning flynn. >> the white house emphasizes that no one has been charged with or pled guilty to working with russia to influence the election. the question is whether mueller is trying to squeeze them for information indicating that they or others did. recently the president supporters have ratcheted their attacks on mueller. some have gone after the staff. claiming they're mostly anti-trump. some others have urged the president to fire mueller.

but the president's attorney says there are no plans to do that. elaine. >> chip reid. thank you. in toledo, ohio, four teenage boys are accused of murdering a man by throwing a sandbag off an interstate overpass. jericka duncan is following this. >> the teens charged as juveniles didn't speak much today in court but did show emotion. the deputy chief prosecutor of the juvenile division. >> saw tears today. from each of the juveniles. don't always see that at detention hearing. i know one throughorney, stated how upset he was and sorry he was for the victim. >> last week, a 22-year-old was on interstate 75 in toledo when a salaunched from the overpass c the passenger side windshield severely wounding byrd. the driver pulled over and called 911. >> my friend, i don't know, something hit my car, hit my

friend. >> byrd died over the weekend.se is similar to one in octobeere five teens near flint, michigan, facing second degree murder charges after allegingly throwing a six pound rock off an overpass that killed 32-year-old kenneth white. those teens have been charged as adults. but pleaded not guilty. as for the teens in ohio, the harshest punishment they could face is staying in juvenile detention until age 21. none of the teens involved has a criminal record. ages 13-14 at the time. and elaine, all four deny any charges. >> jericka, thank you. the cbs "overnight news" will be right back.

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milligrams. or less. >> smoking marijuana is offlimits in restaurants. you may not smoke it in your local governments are banning pot shops entirely and others are working out lelolow sales of come january 1, the general public will not be able to come buy it. start taking retail applications until next week. of control. >> going to take a while for the running. but we are also asking people to be patienty patrol officers are also bracing for legal pot. so they're getting the word out that smoking marijuana a joint can get you a dui. >> authorities expect to see an just like other states where the drug is legal. >> if you can buy a drink, or, bu residents, california has the sixth largest economy in the ry here. elaine that means cash strapped state and local communities they could collect up to $1 billion a year in taxes. >> carter evans..

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two of the world's most famous men find themselves in unfamiliar roles. one trying his hand at interviewing. life outside of the white house. barry peterson on the prince and the president. >> there was no loafing for harry, in the studio at predawn just like all the interviewed. he sees his job spotlight on climate change, charity and helping soldiers. >> whether people, causes, evert is. so, i will continue to do the, pl >> and he was the man doing the interview.

scoring the first sitdown with president obama since obama left office. the two met up at the invictus games in canada last september. part of harry's efforts to raise awareness for wounded soldiers. the interview was taped there. >> obama warned about social media. in this age of a tweeting president trump. >> the dangers of is that, that people can have tirely different realities. they can be,ust cocooned in quick questions starting with the reference to the tv show, suits. that featured his fiancee, meghan markle. >> suits or the good wife? >> suits. obviously. >> great, great answer. >> cigarettes or gum? >> gum now, baby. >> gum. >> white house or buckingham palace? >> white house just because buckingham palace looks like it would take a really long time to mow. >> serious stuff to be sure. but he also talked about royal family stuff. like his fiancee, meghan markle. >> saying today, she spent her first christmas with the family, where behind the scenes, it was,as chaos.

>> together we had an amazing time. great fun staying with my brother and sistering around with the kids. christmas was fantas >> next may is the royal wedding. the friendship with barack and michelle puts them in the running for the invite of the year. >> we haven't put the invites or guest lists together yet.s whether you will be invited or not. wouldn't want to ruin that surprise. >> translation, mr. and mrs. obama, keep a close eye on your mailbox. barry peterson, cbs news, london. that's the "overnight news" for thursday. 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.

welcome to the news." for millunder of americans, the dream of a white christmas has given way off to the nightmare of an arctic new year. bone chilling cold settled bringing with it dangerous subzero temperatures and in some places mountains of snow. demarco morgan is in eerie, pennsylvania where they have some digging out to do. this is probably the tenth time we have plowed this. and just justg. it's nonstop. >> reporter: 60f snow and counting.

ides and swings in the playground. most of the roads if not all of them here in eerie, pennsylvania look like this one. you can barely make out the roads, leading in and out. members of the pennsylvania onal guard have been deployed to help residents dig out the snow. >> ready? >> neighbors helped each other out by getting cars back on the pted to help their parents shovel snow. while eerie its tinted with snowthey aren't alone in dealing with the winter parts of wisconsin dropped to negative 23 degrees. the bridge got stuck due to the coast guard deployed a ship to break the water. falls park, sioux falls, south dakota froze over with parts of the grand haven river in michigan. and the falls in minnesota. well, today official have not said when they state of emergency because of the heavy snowfall. but we are on track to recording nearly 70 inches of snow from

this one storm. and we're not done yet. meteorologist daniel niles with our cbs boston station, wbz. >> record cold temperatures dangerously cold wind chill val use as the jet stream dives off to the south. air straight out of the arctic in place with wind chill warnings and advisories up from the plains to new england. talking wind chill values, 15 to 35 below zero. tomorrow morning in the afternoon. subzero wind chill values will continue through the end of the week in friday with the heart of the cold air digging from central canada into the great lakes and then east towards northe frost bite, 15 to 30 minutes. precautions need to be taken. bundle up. layer up. snow spreading from the northern plains to the great lakes for thursday into friday will drop an additional several inches. in fact the northern tier of the united states will see these totals, see the deep pinks here. a storm system out of the pacific will drop one to two feet of snow with elevation from idaho to montana. near zero visibility. 3 to 6 inches in central iowa aslocalized, elaine, feet of snow over a foot additional

on the eastside of the great lakes. back to you. >> millions are scrambling to make sense of the tax code. one thing icertain. a lot of homeowners stand to lose the deduction many are trying to beat the tax man to the punch. julianna goldman explains. >> it will be the greatest christmas present. >> despite that tax bill proclamation from president trump. >> how will i know what the amount is? >> homeowners with higher property values are lining of in droves. to get around paying more next year. >> wanting to prepay my real estate taxes. >> sure. >> right now, you can deduct certain state and local taxes like property taxes on your federal tax return. >> i will be guessing you a receipt. >> as of january 1st, that

deduction gets capped at $10,000. so if you own an expensive home, or live near a big city like atlanta or dallas, or in a high tax state, california, massachusetts or new york. some taxpayers are scrambling to see if it makes sense to prepay their 2018 property taxes. or even if you are allowed to. >> there is no one answer. >> joe kovar, account outside of san francisco, says some stand to lose thousands. >> if it is confusing to the tax professional community, it's doubly confusing for public. >> in new york, governor andrew cuomo signed an executive order making it easier to prepay property taxes. but in westchester county, suber north of manhattan, some municipalities can't calculate payments in time. median property tax bill there is $13,000. among the highest in the country.

>> with the bill being passed in december you only gave the average person approximately two, three weeks, to make an informed decision. >> outside of boston in arlington, massachusetts, town treasurer, dean carmen said over 1,000 taxpayers have come in within the past few days. >> i've don't think anybody has seen anything like this before. the russia investigation continued, and so do the president's critical tweets. chip reid reports. >> i have nothing to do with russia. everybody knows it. >> reporter: president trump repeatly condemned the investigation of his campaign's contacts with russia. in a tweet yesterday, he once again attacked the fbi, for its role, calling the agency tainted. but even before the investigation began, the uoncluded that russia did attempt to influence the 2016 presidential

election, and president trump's favor. the question for special counsel robert mueller its whether the trump campaign or the ca with russia in that effort. >> there is absolutely no collusion. trump's lawyers predict the investigation will wrap up soon. many legal observers say mueller appears to be only in round one. two former staffers including former campaign chairman, paul manafort, have been indicted andr trials are months away. two other former staffers including former n security adviser michael flynn, d to the fbi yesterday, president should pardon flynn. earlier this month, the president didn't rule it out. >> we'll see what happens. >> immediately afterward his attorney insisted there is no consideration of pardoning flynn. >> the white house emphasizes that no one has been charged with or pled guilty to working

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the islamic state's reign of terror appears to be coming to a close not before the jihadis destroyed statues, buildings and books they deemed unislamic. fortunately texts were saved by a pair of brave padres. lesley stahl has their story. >> a monk from minnesota in black, and the father, a dominican fryar fr white decide to partner up.

to rescue what old documents they could from places like this monastery, in northern iraq. that goes back to the fourth century. it was occupied and defaced by isis. >> they seem to want to destroy everything christian. >> exactly. >> to delete our htory. off to say that they nothing, nothing, before islam. and, even here the statue of virgin mary, they destroyed it. >> the monastery according to historians was sacred to both ians and muslims in medieval times. it had ama manuscri 12th century. >> this kind of containers. >> as isis was closing in the resident monks hid the texts in the barrels which they entombed behind a fake wall. >> isis never found it. >> for two years. >> exactly.

liberated last year, those intelligent monks returned, drilled through the two walls, found the barrels and the precious hand written books.o the one thing that they couldn't replace. becaus building. put a new cross up. those could not be replaced. . >> very good condition. >> very good condition. >> early fifth century author. scientific works, and this grammar book filled . fathers have been cleaning, restoring, and photographing the

documents they have rescued from all over iraq. in going through them, they're unearthing finds. like this copy of a 7th century contract, believed off to be a mandate by the prophet muhammad that says christians will be protected from their enemies, and allowed to practice their religion. middle east at time. was characterized by pluralize pluralism. different people. religions, languages co-existing all. off if it's interesting there are people who are risking their lives to preserve these documents. the very documents that isis is risking their lives to d these books. >> in that war, isis swept across northern iraq in 2014, causing christians and others to when the city was attacked by isis, 50,000 christians were driven out ipbefore the father left on the final night of the siege, he gathered up as many books as he

could from this monastery there. >> we ha and families with us. i asked them to carry something with me. anuscripts. >> little girl, and boys. 13, 14 century. >> they raced to the kurdistan as isis fighters chased after them. >> i saw many hundreds of isis kill us. >> frightening. i feel at that moment is the end of my life. an the life of >> then it got worse. when they got to the check point, the kurdish army, tin. >> try to attack isis. by fight like that. became, over our head. >> you are right in the middle. in the middle between both of them.rt to pray in my heart. forgive us our sin.eryone, christian, not christian. at that moment, check point is open. weand quickly at that moment. to be in the safe side in kurdistan. >> he said it was a miracle that all those lives were saved.

behind. as we saw when he took us back to his old house in the are you okay? >> showed us what isis did to 30,000 books in library. torched it >> the book he's managed to save are here. >> here in the holy of holies. >> holy of holies is a room in a secret location in the kurdish region of northern iraq. it is where father najib is processions.ospel. new testament. when jesus go to jerusalem. and this -- lo -- t llow. >> the egg yolks.gg yolks. >> exactly. >> pomegranate. >> pomegranate. >> yeah. the 350 saved from isis. 17th century that were used by missionaries, dispatched by the church, to spread roman catholicism in the region.

>> and, saint thomas aquinos. >> some show ravages of time and war.ke this fragment of the new ear 500. and, so -- >> t century. a parchment. >> wow. >> with -- with sheepskin. >> that is aramaic, language of jesus christ and our mother tongue.ther thing to remember these aren't all religious some of them are purely history. about, political events. and kings and battles. and famines. and, all of these other thit is story of every aspect of life. >> you can see the full report on our website, cbs news.com. the "overnight news" will be right back. dads don't take sick days... dads take dayquil severe. the non-drowsy, coughing aching, fever, sore throat... ...stu

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business. right here in new york, ig apple circus filed for bankrupt see. happened. anthony mason has the story. >> reporter: under the big dop in lincoln center the big apple circus marking its 40th anniversary. but it almost had nothing to celebrate. after declining ticket sale, it filed for bankrupt seep last november. then, just when the circus needed a life line, it found a doctor. >> i think that to let this disappear would have been a crime. >> the doctor, and a team of ors bought big apple circus at a bankruptcy auction. and this holiday season, have brought it back to life. some people are saying you are saving the circus. do you feel that way? >> no person can single-handedly save the circus. as a group. big apple circus family, we have saved the circus. >> what does a surgeon know about running a circus? follow the doctor into his

trailer, and you'll find he knows a lot. >> this is actually the trampoline act, and, and that's me on the bottom. >> you on the bottom. >> he spent five years on the road in the circus life. working his way from trampoline clown to trapeze artist while he was studying for his medical degree. >> were you a good trapeze artist? >> no. but, i used to tell people, i was the greatest flayeren medicine today. >> there aren't a lot of surgeon trapeze artists. >> that's why i was the best. >> the 68-year-old surgeon was about to retire when the call came. when he agreed to take the job. no surprise, he went looking for the best aerial acts. >> this year for the first time

ever, circus history, the two most daring feats in the air are being done under the same tent. >> the flying family, the quadruple somersault on the trapeze. and the fabulous walendas are performing the seven person pyramid on the high wire. risky business. in february, nick and his team, suffered an accident in training. >> we were trying to, again, up the ante, raise the limits. doing an eight person pyramid. four layers high on a wire 2 feet up. unfortunately we began to lose our balance. we don't know why. or particularly what happened. >> five members hit the ground. his sister, leana was most seriouslour sister is doing okay. >> my sister is doing incredibly well. this happened in february. she is back on the wire. amazing.o start pushing the limits. >> it hasn't kept up. >> how do you stay relevant? >> trailers where the performers

live? >> yes. >> reporter: in two weeks they'll pack up and helped for atlanta. and the doctor will go with them. ning a circus than you thought? probably the greatest understatement i have heard ever. i never worked so hard and long in my entire life. yeah. >> this puts medical school to shame. >> how does it feel to come back to the circus after all this time? >> some moments, recently where i have been able to silt a watch the show. and realize that, wow, we did this. >> do you feel look you are, closing a circle for yourselfen some way? >> you know not a circle. feel lack i am going home. to me, how many people get to run away with the circus twice? but it is nice to be home.

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more people are living in all wood buildings including skyscrapers made entirely of timber. critics say the towering inferno waiting to happen. tony dokoupil has the story from portland. >> this is the tallest wood building in the united states. >> right now that is. >> right now. >> wow. hard to tell from the outside, but inside, portland developer, eric wily walked us through the milestone in wood construction. nearly finished eight story condominium. with million dollar apartments and picturesque screws. >> these beams is in fact holding the building up. >> correct. >> the building known as carbon 12 is part of a boom in wood construction including major projects in minneapolis, vancouver and london. >> but a fire science professor at john jay college thinks wood could fuel an inferno, firefighters can't fight like the deadly fire in london which climbed the building a aluminum

cladding. >> you think some new wood high rises could go up in flames the y it did in london? >> yes, once over 10, 15 sfoer. no way to put watt r on it. unstoppable basically. >> an of the projects we are looking at primarily wood based. >> well, there are wood models. >> none of the>> architect, wh the world's tallest building in dubai worries more wood could mean more fire if code aren't >> we have got a responskable things. gl timber. need control and understanding aplayed to it. >> when you are working out of a wood office? >> we are. >> thomas robinson lead architect for framework, building in portland. at 148 feet expected to surpass carbon 12 as tallest wood building in america. >> this is the three-ply. >> designed with cross laminated timber. that robinson says is actually fire resistant to get a building permit in fact. material had to survive two hoursen a furnace at 2,000 degrees. ppened here?

>> he showed us what remand of the wood. >> the fire burned it down to there. >> exactly. >> at this level would it hold? >> it would hold. shows the you how the structure is durable. >> so durable in fact. >> you think there is going to be an explosion in this. you think there is going to be people building buildings all over. >> they're building a number of them in, in, portland. you are going to see them all over. as long as there are no termites. that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. 23478 captioning funded by cbs it's thursday december 28

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