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the president-elect is making good on a campaign promise to keep jobs from leaving the country. dean reynolds has more from indianapolis. >> reporter: it was one of donald trump's sure-fire applause lines: >> companies like carrier, simply fire their workers, and move their operations to mexico. guess what? anymore. >> reporter: and to prove that point, trump and vice president- elect mike pence will be here tomorrow when carrier announces it will not be moving as much manpower to mexico, saving about 1,000 american jobs. what's your reaction to this news? >> i'm still in shock, really that mr. trump was able to actually put his words into actions. >> reporter: t.j. bray is a trump-supporting union member who's worked at carrier for 14 years. union workers--
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>> reporter: voting republican. >> because this guy was talking the things that everybody wanted to hear. >> reporter: just nine months ago, carrier shocked its workforce. >> the best way to stay competitive and protect the business for long term is to move production from our facility in indianapolis to monterey, mexico. >> reporter: under pressure to maximize profits, u.s. manufacturers have found cheap mexican labor almost irresistible. parent company, united technologies, now stands to lose $65 million it hoped to save on wages in mexico. but for a company that does a lot of business with the federal government and made $4 billion in profits last year, that's a small price to pay to get out of the doghouse and on to the right side of the president-elect. trump and the company will release details tomorrow,
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tonight the generous incentives it was promised, estimated in the millions of dollars, helped to seal this deal. >> mason: dean reynolds, thank you, dean. a cockpit recorder has captured the voice of the pilot of that doomed plane carrying a brazilian soccer team. he tells the tower he is out of fuel. the pilot also said the plane had an electrical failure. the british-made jet went down monday night in the mounta near medellin, colombia, eight miles from the airport. the pilot was among 71 killed. six others survived. the soccer team was flying to the finals of a south american tournament. a u.n. envoy said today there are no red lines left to cross in syria. every rule of war has been systematically disregarded. in aleppo, a bombing campaign by syrian government forces backed
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the regime has retaken much of the east from rebels. civilians are caught in the middle. debora patta reports from syria. >> reporter: this is what the aftermath of an artillery strike sounds like as the syrian military continues the assault on the rebel-held parts of aleppo. dozens of people were killed in this attack. grief hangs in the air. this teenaged boy just lost his mother in the strike. "one of my sisters was pulled out alive," he said. "but i don't know about the other." he is one of tens of thousands of civilians caught in the cross-fire as the syrian army continues to advance. they face an impossible choice-- to stay means facing a daily barrage of bombs. but to run can be just as deadly. this woman died in the street with a backpack on her shoulders. those who managed to escape are being housed in makeshift
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capacity. this old factory houses over 8,000 people, but still, they keep arriving and new beds have to be found. remarkably, children play, perhaps to forget the horror of what they have seen. old men cry, perhaps because they can't forget. in an impassioned plea to the united nns emergency relief coordinator stephen o'brien begged the security council to find ways to protect civilians fleeing the conflict in eastern aleppo before it became what he called one giant graveyard. >> mason: debora patta in damascus, thanks. it's all but certain president obama will leave office without fulfilling one of his original campaign promises-- to shut the u.s. military prison for terror suspects at guantanamo bay, cuba.
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inside look at the prison. >> reporter: these are the remnants of guantanamo's notorious camp x-ray, where hundreds of suspected terrorists were caged in the panicked aftermath of 9/11. the picture today is far different. the 60 remaining detainees, whose faces we were not permitted to film, lounge in modern, open cell blocks, eating and praying regularly. over the past eight years, 180 detainees have been released the prison empty. donald trump has vowed to reverse course. >> and we're going to load it up with some bad dudes, believe me. we're going to load it up. >> reporter: admiral peter clarke, who commands the detention facility, says there is room for hundreds more prisoners. but he vowed never to use harsh interrogation methods like waterboarding which trump has considered reviving. >> that's the debate in washington. that's not the debate here. there is no debate here because
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humane care and custody and will continue to be so. >> reporter: there will not be torture at guantanamo? >> i am confident there will not be torture at guantanamo. >> reporter: 21 of the remaining detainees have been cleared for release to other countries, but that leaves some of the most dangerous people still at guantanamo. the obama administration's plan for those risky prisoners, like 9/11 mastermind khaled sheikh mohammed, was to transfer them to high-security prisons in the u.s., but the republican-led congress blocked it. thornberry: >> the fear is they will be a magnet for other terrorists to come and either try to break them out or just to punish the communities. >> reporter: lee wolosky, the administration's envoy for closing guantanamo, disagrees. >> we have consistently housed dangerous terrorists in our federal prison system without incident. >> reporter: the administration estimates it will soon cost $10 million per year per guantanamo
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and they say that exorbitant cost should be reason enough for the next president to shut it down. anthony? >> mason: margaret brennan, thanks, margaret. coming up next on the cbs evening news: the hunt for malibu's most-wanted-- a mountain lion. and later a new study says we're not getting enough "z"s. i really did save hundreds of dollars on my car insurance with geico. i should take a closer look at geico... geico has a long history of great savings over seventy-five years. wait. seventy-five years? that is great. speaking of great, check out these hot riffs. you like smash mouth? uh, yeah i have an early day tomorrow so... wait. almost there. goodnight, bruce. gotta tune the "a." (humming) take a closer look at geico. great savings.
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>> mason: in southern california, it's open season on a beast that may have finally bitten off more than it can chew. carter evans joined the hunt. >> reporter: in the mountains above the beaches of malibu, a neighborly dispute is under way between man and mountain lion. >> last night, he went over to the petting zoo just over the hill and killed a sheep and a pygmy goat and ate the goat. >> reporter: like many here in the santa monica mountains, wendell phillips keeps exotic animals on his ranch. recently killed by a predator known as p-45. he struck again next door killing 10 alpacas, a goat and a sheep. now he has a state permit to shoot the mountain lion. >> nobody wants to kill him. he's an animal. i wish they could preserve his life, but i don't want to keep adding my animals to the food chain. >> reporter: roughly 6,000 mountain lions live in the state and one of the largest groups roams just 40 miles from los angeles. many are tracked by the national park service.
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g.p.s. that logs every move. >> we know he was there at the time, so it's pretty darn likely that it was him. >> reporter: seth riley is a wildlife ecologist studying the mountain lions in the area, where more than 50 ranch animals have been killed in the last year. in your eyes here it sounds like the solution is pretty simple. >> it is, yeah, which is to protect livestock. what that means is bringing them in to full enclosures at night. they won't be vulnerable. >> reporter: phillips says hunting the lion is another option. >> with this mountain lion, the only-- i think the only solution is adios, mr. mountain lion. >> reporter: do you think that will solve the problem? >> well, definitely not in the long run because there are other mountain lions out there. so even if they do kill him, there are other mountain lions out there. >> reporter: phillips has just one week left to track down p-45 before his permit runs out. so for now, anthony, the hunter
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a founder of cirque du soleil, was hit by a piece of equipment last night during setup. thousands packed the streets of miami's "little havana" tonight to mark the death of fidel castro. many are cuban exiles demanding democracy in their homeland. today in havana, castro's ashes were placed in a military jeep for a 500-mile procession that will end in santiago for his funeral on sunday. new york city police released surveillance video of a suspect last seen carrying a bucket of gold. the video shows him stealing it off an armored truck on a crowded street while guards weren't looking. he made a slow getaway, lugging the 86-pound bucket of flakes worth $1.6 million. investigators believe he may have hauled it to florida. there's a retirement plan.
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a new study says we're not sleeping enough. here's dr. jon lapook. >> reporter: kristin lemkau, is a marketing executive at j.p. morgan chase who averages about 6.5 hours of sleep a night. but now her company is now promoting a healthier lifestyle and encouraging her to sleep eight hours. >> there has to be time when the brain slows down and you can get more sleep. the biggest mistakes i have made in my life recently have been when i'm tired. >> reportehe the rand corporation finds, like lemkau, 45% of american workers get less than seven hours of sleep a night, and that is costly to their employers. dr. charles czeisler directing the sleep health institute at brigham and women's hospital in boston. >> people are exhausted, they don't have the energy. sometimes they can't even get to work, and that's why-- that's why there are six lost work days per year, additional lost work days, in individuals who sleep less than six hours a night.
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>> if the people who slept less than six hours a night simply upped the game a little bit, that would save $200 billion a year in lost productivity. >> reporter: lack of sleep causes accidents and is linked to heart disease, diabetes, and depression. risk of death increases 13% for people who average less than six hours a night, compared to those getting seven to nine. do you have to change the culture so that if you get an e- mail at 11 p.m. and you don't answer it, it's okay? and even more, i have to not send them. >> reporter: powering up by
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this is the cbs overnight news. >> alabama governor has issued a state of emergency after a string path and caused destruction from alabama to tennessee. schools are closed and tens of thousands are left without power. mark strassman reports. >> reporter: rosalie, alabama, population 700, took the storm's first knockout punch at five minutes after midnight. this trailer home flipped and killed three people inside. part of a swath of destruction that runs along state highway 71. one resident told us the lights went out, and then he heard a loud growling sound, and in 10
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semitrucks were flipped like tonka toys. in neighboring ider, we found 14-year-old aubrey williams. her aunt and uncle own this former daycare center where her family rode out the storm. only the bathroom still stands. >> when we took off running, the wind picked us up and threw us, and we went through walls and the roof fell down and collapsed on us. >> reporter: four adults and three children hunkered down here. four of them are in the hospital, including her mother. 100 miles north, 135-mile-per- hour winds raked athens, tennessee. mcminn county sheriff joe guy: >> we have not had a fatality at this point. i think that's something that we're very blessed to be able to say. >> reporter: on the hill above this save-a-lot store, james and sherry long took shelter in this 19th century home they've been renovating. it needs a lot more work now.
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>> reporter: this is where we met 14-year-old aubrey williams. she told us her mother, uncle, and aunt all had surgery today and are recovering in the i.c.u. anthony, this severe weather system and threat will move into the carolinas overnight. president-elect donald trump has appare promise to keep jobs from moving to mexico. not all the jobs were saved, but many of them. >> well, during the campaign, donald trump repeatedly expressed a promise to keep american jobs in america. and for now it looks like he meant what he said. >> we have all of these lost jobs, all of our lost manufacturing. we're going to get it back. >> throughout the campaign, donald trump made it clear. >> companies like carrier simply
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their operations to mexico. guess what? not going to be so easy to do any more. >> it was only nine months ago that carrier, the 101-year-old manufacturer told shopped indianapolis workers their factory would close. >> is to move production from our facility in indianapolis to monterey, mexico. >> trump, who benefitted from the working class vote on election day will be here in indianapolis on thay alongside the state's governor and vice president-elect mike pence. they will announce a deal with the carrier, keeping a thousand manufacturing jobs in the state. >> and they think they're going to make air conditioners in their beautiful new plant in mexico and sell them across the border and make lots of money and we have all the unemployment. not going to happen. >> the details surrounding the agreement have not been made
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grossed $50 billion in sales just last year holds a lot of government contracts, including a billion dollar deal over the summer to produce engines for the troubled f-35 fighter jets. now there will be some layoffs at this plant behind here in indianapolis, but it's not clear how many. nor is it clear what made the company change its mind. what is clear is that other u.s. close attention to this deal. >> barack obama has been trying to close the prison at guantanamo bay, cuba, since the day he was inaugauret. he plans to send more to the prison. more with the latest. >> reporter: president-elect trump campaigned on a promise to expand this controversial
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putting americans here. that leaves president obama with just weeks to shut it down. >> entire cell blocks sit empty. over the past eight weeks, over 180 detainees have been released. but unless president obama defies congress, guantanamo will t leaves. >> we're going to load it up, believe me, we're going to lead it up. >> he said there was plenty of room for more detainees but would not be using waterboarding at guantanamo. >> i am confident there will not be torture.
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detainees whose faces we could not show lounge in the open cell blocks where they eat and pray regularly. 20 others will be released. despite congressional concern. >> lee wolosky is the administrator for closing guantanamo, citing the exorbitant cost, soon to be $10 million per year for detainee, an keeping it open. >> we've all seen their march in uniforms. >> but the detainees still are too dangerous to release. republican mac thornberry argued bringing the detainees to u.s. prisons is a bad idea.
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magnet for other terrorists to come or just to punish the communities. >> lee wolosky disputes that. >> today there is absolutely no evidence of that. we have consistently housed dangerous terrorists in our federal prison system without incident. >> and with the war on terror entering its 16th year, congressman thornberry said the u.s. should once again start to capture and terrorists. >> the cbs overnight news will
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the mountain gorillas are some of the most endangered animals on the planet. there is a team of veterinarians working to keep them healthy. >> the doctors prep their medical gear on the floor of the forest. finding her had not been easy, and they did not want to lose this chance to treat her. >> and then you're going to use that volume of medicine. >> dr. mike cranfield has been
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years. dr. martin, one of his newest field veterinarians. >> so right now, eddy is getting the anesthetic ready. >> are you a good shot? >> he is an excellent shot. >> eddy grabbed his gun loaded with medicine and went to track the herself when she picked up a snare poachers had set for a smaller animal. they had to cut a path through the forest as they went. she was with her group and they were moving fast. thick vegetation gave way to a clearing where they spotted her. then eddy stepped forward and
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as soon as it hit, she took off. and the team followed. they knew she had to be close. it was now they had less than 40 minutes to treat her wound before the medicine wore off. they call this an intervention. >> eddy and martin and i have probably done 40 interventions together, it's a team, we have some of the most important patients in the world, right? if something doesn't go right,
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on it being known almost worldwide. >> how would you rate the quality of your work as an organization? >> i think it's very good. >> when they're not doing emergency interventions, mike said his doctors are out making house calls. and in the ten days we spent with them we went on a few, this one in the drc, where eddy and martin are >> all the signs. so that means she is still healthy. >> moving. using all limbs. >> i can just see like how she is breathing. i can try to count the breathing rate like now you see? you can see how she is breathing, two, three. >> these gorillas live in the
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most forbidding landscape you will ever see. when the gorilla doctors began to work here the mountain gorillas were almost extinct. today, they're the population that is growing the most. >> they increased at the amount they could, if that was the amount the human population could grow, the veterinarians are creditedit growth, or 2% a year. >> you're talking about the gorilla doctors, and you? >> we're the only veterinarians that are working on the gorillas in the past few years. >> he had a run-in with one of his patients. >> he just punched me in the face. >> did it hurt?
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miracle baby. part of her intestines were hanging out of her body, and now they rescued her. mike wanted me to meet her in the forest. layers of vegetation and up to more than 9,000 feet. there on the steep volcanic slopes in northern rawanda, we found her, and here she is, her new baby >> emoja is probably the most spectacular case we ever had. and that brought a lot of pride for gorilla doctors. >> so it's not just the animal you save. it's the future generations? >> correct, you're actually influencing not one life, but multiple lives. >> reporter: in rwanda, when we
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national symbol. he was 14 when his country was torn apart by genocide in 1994, more than 8,000 people were slaughtered in 100 days. so what do you remember of the genocide? >> darkness in the whole country, you don't have much thinking, but you can see the whole country is over. >> reporter: in 22 years, rwanda has risen from the the gorillas are at the center of the transformation. close to 30,000 tourists come to see them, and this is the major source of income for the tiny nation. >> it makes everybody feel okay, these guys are very important to us. >> reporter: these gorillas are? >> they are very important to us. everybody feels that. >> reporter: mike, who works at
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when we got the call about the wounded gorilla. before long, we were rushing for the border. from the moment you get that phone call is there pressure to move as fast as you can? >> yeah, speed is everything. 24 hours can make a difference to having function, full function in the hand. >> that is kind of tough here sometimes because speed matters. but to get there you have to take the slow >> right. >> reporter: dr. eddy kombale was waiting for us at the slow boat on the other side on the shore. and amid the crowd and chaos and struggling to hold onto our gear we boarded with minutes to spare and settled in for the long journey. a 12-hour trip across one of africa's great lakes. we woke as the sun rose and
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hustle and bustle of the early morning. and then we still had to get to the animal? >> that is still one of the most difficult parts. >> reporter: a bumpy ride and broken bridge took us to the edge of the national park. from here we went on foot hiking deep into one of the largest forests of the drc. every time we went down we had to come back up. and the hills we walked and walked. with no sign of the gorillas, stumbling and falling into the night. >> you can see the because i'm a woman... do you think i'm gonna crack under pressure or conquer the field? defy expectations any day with always infinity. made with flexfoam. absorbs 10x its weight.
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pport for improved mobility and flexibility, and 20% better comfort from one tiny, mighty pill... get move free ultra, and enjoy living well. anesthetic. donald trump is not only feel -- fil he will soon be leaving his mark on the cabinet door. mark philips has the story. >> reporter: in the last months of ruford gifford's time, he had to answer tough questions. >> it is a frightening thing that donald trump could be elected and thus have his
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buttons. >> on this one, i'm not certain that i can give you anything reassuring. >> reporter: gifford, a former obama fundraiser and political ambassador to copenhagen, well soon be leaving. because he has been more than a diplomat. he has been a tv star. this is the cch with. i am the ambassador from america. >> the only way you can explain it is by living. >> reporter: it was supposed to be behind the scenes looks at the life. >> we thought if we were lucky we may have 50,000 danes tune in. >> reporter: but the audience of danes, hundreds of thousands of
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rush hour. the numbers shocked them. >> to danish eyes he looks like a hollywood star, perfect, smart, good looking. >> and an american cast in it. >> reporter: and with appealing central character, all the show needed was a plot twist. enter his partner, steven. >> yeah. >> getting nervous? >> you know, i feel good. i really do. i think it's just a matter of getting started more than anything. >> reporter: what they wanted and maybe what the show needed was a little drama. how about a good old fashioned wedding. theirs, complete with banter. >> i'm so not sure i'm going to go through with it. >> that makes two of us. >> reporter: it did go ahead.
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a show biz hit, and a political statement. >> and i therefore proclaim that you are legally married. congratulations congratulations. >> and there was an element of diplomacy there or politics, whatever you want to call it. >> what were you trying to prove? >> we were in the same place, in copenhagen city hall, where same-sex marriages started. steven and i got married. >> reporter: it all works in liberal denmark. but could it work elsewhere? >> where couldn't it work? >> it couldn't work in eastern europe or russia. >> reporter: because of attitudes to gayness? >> mostly, yeah. >> reporter: but it's worked so well in denmark the show has been picked up by netflix. >> you never know what sells on
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the holiday travel season is right around the corner, and if you're one of the millions of americans who plan to fly, the faa has warnings, get to the airport early and don't have items with but you can't prepare for some things like this woman who was on the tarmac. >> things were going pretty well from this flight in new orleans and it arrived in houston early and went to the gate when one of the passengers bolted. >> the lady on the flight just opened the door and jumped out of the plane. >> reporter: passengers on united flight 1892 were left stunned monday after the woman took the expressway out through
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capture her running from the plane and making a beeline to the terminal. according to one witness, the woman exited the emergency entrance, after going to the rest room. she made the 15 foot jump without an emergency slide. hampton freedman shot this video. >> i looked out at the sunlight, and i just see a figure just stepping out of it. >> reporter: the woman was quickly caught by police who were scratch on her. >> the ramp area where the plane sits at the gate is a very dangerous place if you're not trained and don't have the proper equipment. there were a lot of people put in danger because of her. >> reporter: according to the faa, incidents of unruly passengers have actually been on the decline since 2012. but one official said we hardly go a day without one report.
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>> reporter: monday, delta banned this donald trump supporter for life after his ramp on a flight to allentown, pennsylvania last week. the airline apologized saying the customer should not be allowed to continue on the flight. although disruptive passengers can face possible criminal charges and fines, some aviation experts say the punishment should be even tougher. >> if severely for disrupting a flight
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captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs it's thursday, december 1st, 2016. this is the "cbs morning news." just happened to fast. probably two or three seconds, it was gone. >> deadly tornadoes rip through the south, unleashing destruction across four states, while communities in tennessee are still reeling from devastating wildfires. the election is over, but the president-elect is hitting the road again. mr. trump launches a thank you tour. good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you.
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