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>> this is the cbs "overnight news." the president has also been tweeting his support for protesters in iran. they have taken to the streets for five straight days fed up with a bad economy and government corruption. state media says 12 people have been killed. elizabeth palmer covered the last big protests in iran in 2009. she joins us from london. you know what is behind the unrest? >> well, it started very small. on thursday, in the regional city of mashad with a single demonstration against as you said economic hardship, especially the price of food. but overnight, it just morphed and spread like wildfire. to the capital, tehran, where crowd vandalized one of the main shopping avenues. and to dozens of smaller cities across the country which is very

unusual. now the protesters are especially young people and the working poor and they're angry about everything from corruption and unemployment to lack of freedom and religious rule. the police have broken up appropriate tests here and there with water cannons. they have arrested hundred of people. but we have not yet anyway seen the kind of violent crackdown in 2009 when security forces shot and killed people in the street for protesting election results. >> liz, how have authority handled the protests this time? >> president hassan rouhani, a moderate went on television with a surprisingly measured response. he said people did have a legitimate right to protest, as long as there was no violence. now, that may have been a warning to the security forces too, this is a volatile, dangerous situation. and he knows that hey lethal crackdown could send it spiraling out of control and could become a bloodbath. >> elizabeth palmer in london.

thank you. >> president trump signalled he is welling to extend protections for young immigrants brought into the country illegally. but on one condition -- last week he tweeted there can be no daca without the wall needed at the southern border. do walls really work? mark phillips went to were ln to find out. >> reporter: at this point you would have been in the car, coming this way? >> if anybody knows anything about walls it is probably hans peter spitsner. >> you would have approached checkpoint charlie. >> first time he was at checkpoint charlie was when help and daughter peggy would be the last people to escape across the berlin wall before it fell. >> a great dangerous for us. >> a tourist attraction now. but from its building by the old east german regime in 1961, the wall was a death zone almost three decade. while around, 5,000 people escaped across, through, and, over, or under it. at least 139 died trying. some death estimates run to over 1,000. hans peter was desperate. >> this is the car, i crossed the border. >> owned by american gi, now a

family front. with his wife ingrid in the west allowed out for an aging aunt's birthday. with peggy 7 years old at the time, hans peter asked dozens of gis with access to east germany to smuggle them out. only eric yah agreed to hide them in his trunk. >> i said you are a member of my family. >> they have strong views about walls not just the berlin example now a living history lesson. whether it is here or the security barrier the israelis have built between them and the palestinians, or going back to the great wall of china, they see all walls as monuments to political failure. the berlin wall of course was different than all the others. others were designed to keep people out. and this one, designed to keep them in.

there is one thing they all have in common though. critics will tell you though that when governments build walls, a sign that something else isn't working. >> it is always to keep someone in, keep someone out. keep someone from doing something. always a bad thing, really. the monument with the will that can always be overcome. >> i say never again. never again. please. >> mark phillips, cbs news, berlin. ♪ now some other stories we are following in our "evening news feed." in colorado authorities

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now you can cross the street once the countdown clock starts. in other states, high school coaches must be trained to spot concussions, aimed at better protecting athletes. teens in colorado face a crackdown on texting. illinois, who gets the dog in a divorce? like children, judges will determine sole or joint custody for pets, who gets to claim them on their taxes? maybe congress can pass that later this year. >> iceland has become the first nation to require equal pay. as of today, it is illegal for icelandic companies with 25 or more workers to pay women less than men for the same work. when we come back, new year celebrations gone wrong.

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captured him on tape. >> holding a sign, the name on the sign is the name in the note. >> filmmaker, was so compelled by the story, he made a documentary about it. the story became famous in china. back in the u.s. the polars remained silent. >> you know, i asked my mom, whose tummy did i come from. i realize i'd didn't come from her tummy. >> this is really something quite big for her to deal with at this time in her life. >> the polars didn't tell katie until she was 20. >> they told my brother as the bout it. i was kind of the only one left in the dark. >> how did that make you feel? >> i was definitely upset for a little while. but, yeah, whether or not it was the best way. i don't know. but there really wasn't. a guidebook for how to approach this subject. >> this summer, katey finally got the chance to meet her birth parents.

a week after her 22nd birthday. made overwhelming by the bare barriers of language and culture. >> are they real to you? >> yes they are real. >> still a family once lost has been found. michelle miller, grand rapid, michigan. >> that's the "overnight news" for this tuesday. for some of you've the news continues. for others check back with us later for the morning news and of course, cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm jericka duncan.

welcome to the "overnight news." i'm jericka duncan. president trump is starting the new year back at the white house after ringing in 2018 at his private club in florida. with the holiday festivities over. the president has a full plate of work on his desk from hammering legislative goals to several global flash-points. here's chip reid. >> hello, everybody. happy new year. >> the president, first lady, melania, trump, baron and other family members welcomed the new year at the president's mar a lago club in palm beach. >> we will have a great year. fantastic 2018. >> asked for comment on north korean leader, kim jong-un's claim he has a nuclear button on

his desk and missiles capable of hitting the u.s. president said only this. >> we'll see. we'll see. first tweet of the new year aimed at pakistan which he accused of lies and deceit and giving safe haven off to the terrorists we hunt in afghanistan. no more. pakistan fired back. noting its cooperation that decimated al qaeda over last 16 years. and accusing the u.s. of giving them nothing but invective and mistrust. >> the president visited the trump national golf club nine times and today. this evening, returning to washington he will face a litany of challenges including the government will run out of money january 19, raising threat of partial government shutdown. next weekend he will meet with republican congressional leaders at camp david to hash out 2018 legislative agenda. top priorities include massive investment in the nation's infrastructure. and, legislation to allow nearly 800,000 immigrants known as dreamers who came to the u.s. illegally as children to stay

here permanent leap. looming over everything will be the special counsel investigation of the 2016 election and possible involvement of the trump campaign. the new york times reported, former campaign aide papadopoulos, told a australian diplomat russia had political dirt on hillary clinton. information that was then passed on to the u.s. a knowledgeable former u.s. official tells cbs news that information that was provided by australia was "key" to u.s. investigators in realizing that russia might be attempting to interfere significantly in the u.s. election. jericka. >> chip reid, thank you very much. the president has been tweeting support for protesters in iran.

they have take tine the streets for five straight days, fed up with a bad economy and government corruption. state media says 12 people have been killed. elizabeth palmer covered the last big protest in iran in 2009 and she joins us from london you. know what its behind the unrest? >> well, it started very small. on thursday, in the regional city of mashad with a single demonstration against as you said economic hardship, especially the price of food. but overnight, it just morphed and spread like wildfire. to the capital, tehran, where crowd vandalized one of the main shopping avenues. and to dozens of smaller cities across the country which is very unusual. now the protesters are especially young people and the working poor and they're angry about everything from corruption and unemployment to lack of freedom and religious rule. the police have broken up fro tests here and there with water cannons. they have arrested hundred of people. but we have not yet anyway seen the kind of violent crackdown in 2009 when security forces shot

and killed people in the street for protesting election results. >> liz, how have authority handled the protests this time? >> president hassan rouhani, a moderate went on television with a surprisingly measured response. he said people did have a legitimate right to protest, as long as there was no violence. now, that may have been a warning to the security forces too, this is a volatile, dangerous situation. and he knows that hey lethal crackdown could send it spiraling out of control and could become a bloodbath. >> elizabeth palmer in london. thank you. >> president trump signalled he is welling to extend protections for young immigrants brought into the country illegally. but on one condition -- last week he tweeted there can be no daca without the desperately needed wall at the southern border. but, do walls really work?

mark phillips went to were ln to find out. >> reporter: at this point you would have been in the car, coming this way? >> if anybody knows anything about walls it is probably hans peter spitsner. >> you would have approached checkpoint charlie. >> first time he was at checkpoint charlie was when help and daughter peggy would be the last people to escape across the berlin wall before it fell. >> a great dangerous for us. >> a tourist attraction now. but from its building by the old east german regime in 1961, the wall was a death zone almost three decade. while around, 5,000 people escaped across, through, and, over, or under it. at least 139 died trying. some death estimates run to over 1,000. hans peter was desperate. >> this is the car, i crossed the border.

>> owned by american gi, now a family front. with his wife ingrid in the west allowed out for an aging aunt's birthday. with peggy 7 years old at the time, hans peter asked dozens of gis with access to east germany to smuggle them out. only eric yah agreed to hide them in his trunk. >> i said you are a member of my family. >> they have strong views about walls not just the berlin example now a living history lesson. whether it is here or the security barrier the israelis have built between them and the palestinians, or going back to the great wall of china, they see all walls as monuments to political failure. the berlin wall of course was different than all the others. others were designed to keep people out. and this one, designed to keep them in. there is one thing they all have

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getting in shape is always a top new year's resolution. if you are looking for a new workout strategy. superstar quarterback tom brady is sharing his secrets to success. at 40 years old, brady is not slowing down in a game dominated by younger players. the five time super bowl champ reveals his fitness and diet regimen in his new book, the tb 12 method huh to achieve a lifetime of sustained peak performance. published by simon and schuster, division of cbs. >> some people want denser muscles. as the an athlete, i don't want them. i want them strong and active and pliable. >> you describe pliability as lengthening and softening of the

muscles. everybody thinks they want muscles to be harder. >> we have been educated on. i have seen really strong, physically fit guys the definition of health that are ones injured the most. if i can keep my muscles pliable, i can, hopefully, you know, limit the intensity or limit injerry altogether. you know if i do absorb some of the forces. >> on average, a professional football player lasts just six years in the nfl. compare that to brady who is just wrapping up his 18th regular season. he credits his longevity to a more holistic approach to fitness. >> we talk rehab all the time. we get injured. we go to rehab. you talk about pliability in terms of, prehab. >> yeah. >> meaning, pliability can prevent injury. >> yeah.

not just athletes but for everybody. everyone, my parents could do it. my sisters can do it. i did pliability this morning on my son whose leg was sore. he is 8 years old. >> trying to make the case, pliability a whole different way to look at athleticism. >> a philosophy he adopted after meeting long time trainer and business parter alex guchlt errero. >> you describe alex not as a body coach but body engineer? >> yeah, when my elbow was in pain. basically every day. alex, through his treatments, in 2004, he started lengthening and softening all of the muscle in my forearm. it took away the tension in the muscle i was like god that makes so much sense. the band here. >> pliability can be achieved in a lot of band work? >> band work will, increase your strength. while, limiting the density of the muscle. the denser the muscle means the less ply built its. most of our workouts are, all resistance bands based.

>> brady any sports therapy center doesn't look like an average gym. 90% of the training is done with flexible bands. followed by specific massage technique to foal cuss on problem areas of the body. >> i would say i am faster now and quicker now than when i first started playing football, in high school. >> you are faster at age 40 than 18. >> yeah, i am. >> all my friend who are, moms are going to be saying to their husband. like tom brady is better at 40 than he was at 18. all of these band in their christmas. >> there should be. >> you really want to play into your mid 40s? >> yeah. that's the goal for me. >> does giselle agree with that? >> i think we go back and forth. she will say, ten years ago you told me ten years. now it's ten years. now you are saying another, five years. >> do you worry about concussions? >> i don't worry about them. no, i am not oblivious to them. some of my idols had to retire because of head injuries. yeah, i'm conscious of it. i love the sport, i will keep playing. i will do everything to take care of of my body in advance of the hits that i will take on sunday. >> the cbs "overnight news" will be right back.

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good. >> you are lying. i never hit you. you are tearing me apart, lisa! >> it is considered one of the worst movies of all time. and this guy, tommy wazou, the director and star has become a cult hero. 14 years later, his film is still in theaters. >> you really going to make the thing? >> we are going to, yeah. >> hey! >> what any more, wazou and his critical flop are the subject of a new film, that's a critical darling. >> this is my movie. this is my life. >> the disaster artist. directed by, and starring, james franco. >> you have a malevolent presence. you are perfect villain. i could see you as dracula. frankenstein. >> i am not frankenstein. i am the hero. >> he introduced franco's to the

room's fans. >> james franco. right here. >> franco decided to address them in wasou's curious accent. >> everyone close your eye and see if you know who talking. i think tommy is artist, you know, i look to tell story about artist, great artist. >> franco too is an artist. and a serious one. you may mav seen him in spiderman. if only i could cause you the pain that you caused me. or, his oscar nominated role in 127 hours. >> ah! >> but he has also written fiction and poetry. and staged art exhibitions over the course of his two decade long career. >> james. >> today franco now almost 40, says he is slowing down. and putting a new focus on -- franco. >> we have been surfing what five months now. >> yeah. >> two weeks ago he got a new surfboard and invited us along

for its maiden voyage. to hear him tell it, the new james franco swims with a different kind of hollywood shark. >> this fin, like jaws, pops up, like, from here to look right over there. >> are you telling me a story right now about a shark appearing on your very first day out as the a surfer. are you kidding me? >> no. >> wow. >> no fin sightings this time. but itch you look closely, franco barely escapes my wobbly first ride of the day. his board wasn't so lucky. >> brand new board. virgin, virgin session. tony sliced it. >> you could say franco's wild ride began as a restless teen in northern, california. >> by the tame i was 17 -- yeah, i was -- i was on probation. a ward of the court. >> he soon found a creative outlet for his energy.

>> i needed it. when i stopped acting ow and getting arested. i threw all that energy into art. >> in fact, he dropped out of college, to pursue acting. and franco's parents, especially, his father, thought their eldest son was being foolish. >> if you want to be -- an artist, of any kind, like, like, people are not going to beg you to do it. you have to want to do it. you have to put in the work. you have to prove it. my parents didn't believe in me. you know it is look i had to, do it. >> franco's career, took off. from the outside looking at that, people are thinking, guys got it all. money. success.

>> yeah, but. >> but. >> sound like you have a but. >> i was at this point where -- i was really depressed. like you said from an outside perspective. looked like, hey i have got this great career. but i was depressed. >> reporter: in search of relief. franco became a student in 2007. in typical franco fashion he didn't get one degree, he got seven. let's not forget he was still acting, directing, and teaching, at several universities. >> at one point i was doing a broadway play of mice and men. acting in a film. and on my day off mondays, i was flying back to l.a. and teaching at three schools. and, so, that is insane. that's an insane person. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ carolina baby i'm coming home to you ♪ >> these days playing a new tune with his weekly ukele group. one of the hobbies he didn't use theed to have time for. as for his relationship with his father -- who passed away in 2011. he has the had some time to

ponder that as well. >> it was really hard for him to express how proud he was. but my mother did tell me like he would follow my career and get really excited when, things wig going well. he wouldn't, maybe he dent even know that he wasn't telling me as much as he could have. but my mom said that he was really, really, happy. and so, i'm very fortunate that i got those moments before he passed. >> now, james franco is having something of a moment. with two golden globe nominations, and yes, oscar buzz. but he is bringing to it some new perspective. >> hard work does pay off. but what i didn't realize, you need, you need balance. and you cannot make your happiness contingent on work. or anything outside of you for

that matter. right? it's got to be a -- risk of sounding cheesy, it's got to be a more spiritual thing. i didn't learn that until a year

michelle miller has our final story. it begins years ago with two desperate parents who hope to one day see their baby again. >> reporter: it was a simple letter with a simple request. >> is it possible that in ten years you could meet us on this bridge. it was, so heartfelt. and i thought, oh, my. these birth parents went through a difficult time. >> reporter: the request to meet came from chinese parents who had abandoned their second born in a market. they violated china's one child policy. that child katie was adopted by michigan couple ken and ruth polar, the polars never forgot the note with katie's chinese name. when she turned 10 in 2005 they sent a messenger to the bridge. the birth father was there. by chance, a chinese tv crew

captured him on tape. >> holding a sign, the name on the sign is the name in the note. >> filmmaker, was so compelled by the story, he made a documentary about it. china. back in the u.s. the polars remained silent. >> you know, i asked my mom, whose tummy did i come from. i realize i'd didn't come from her tummy. >> this is really something quite big for her to deal with at this time in her life. >> the polars didn't tell katie until she was 20. >> they told my brother as the bout it. i was kind of the only one left in the dark. >> how did that make you feel? >> i was definitely upset for a little while.

but, yeah, whether or not it was the best way. i've don't know. but there really wasn't. a guidebook for how to approach this subject. >> this summer, katey finally got the chance to meet her birth parents. a week after her 22nd birthday. made overwhelming by the bare barriers of language and culture. >> are they real to you? >> yes they are real. >> still a family once lost has been found. michelle miller, grand rapid, michigan. >> that's the "overnight news" for this tuesday. for some of you've te news continues.

it's tuesday, january 2nd, 2018. this is the cbs morning news. anti government protesters in iran take to the streets for a sixth day leaving more dead in clashes with security forces. olympic bridge, south korea and north korea could soon come together for high level talks on participation in the winter games. and a brutal cold snap grips the u.s. closing schools, freezing lakes and sealing cars in a layer of ice. it's an arctic blast that will have people shivering most of the week.