? good morning, it is tuesday, november 29th, 2016. welcome to "cbs this morning." two big breaking stories. a plane soccer team crashes in colombia, killing 75 people. remarkably six survive. plus out of control wildfires threaten thousands of people and tear through homes, businesses and schools near tennessee's great smokey mountains. >> and the student who toked a crowd at ohio state is angry about muss lips now administrators want to know if

and president-elect donald trum is meeting with mitt romney for a second time. >> but we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> oh, my gosh. this is not good. >> go, go, go. >> i can't see. >> raging wildfires tear through tennessee. >> the fires continue to be unpredictable. >> the national guard has been deployed to the area. >> tourists near mountain towns evacuate. >> i'm thankful. >> a chartered plane carrying 81 people including a professional brazilian soccer team has crashed in colombia. donald trump will announce his choice for health and human services secretary. >> the president-elect is holding a second meeting with mitt romney. >> forces appear on the brink of

fled the area. a car and knife attack at ohio state university is being seen as a possible act of terrorism. >> people were crying. >> tens of thousands of cubans continue to the pay their respects to fidel castro during this nine-day period of national mourning. a passenger taken into custody after jumping outside of a moving plane in houston. >> exactly what motivated -- >> all that -- >> and all the customers -- >> ooh. >> to the end zone! and a catch made in traffic. he can't throw the ball any better than that. >> a much needed win. >> and "all that mattered" -- >> do you have any evidence at all of fraud? >> no. >> donald trump, of course, won the election, he is president-elect. but i can't believe this, he's still sending out angry tweets. [ laughter ] >> on "cbs this morning" -- >> why isn't it enough for him

college. why does he have to make up the information that he won the popular election which he lost. >> the popular vote.word "popular" in it. that's the only reason he cares that's the only reason he cares about it. captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning." charlie is on assignment in cuba. and he'll join us a bit later. jeff glor good to have you here. we're following two breaking news stories this morning. first to colombia where sources say six people survived a crash of a brazilian soccer team. 75 people were killed. we've got pictures from the crash scene and they show the damaged fuselage and bags among the wreckage. >> team was heading to a soccer tournament. the flight went down on approach

josh elliott is here with what may have caused the terrible crash. good morning. >> good morning. around 10:00 p.m., the pilot of the airline declared an emergency with over 80 people on board. the plane was just five minutes from its final destination when it went down in a remote region of colombia. this morning, colombian police are looking at electrical failure as a possible cause of the crash. >> reporter: emergency crews descended on the scene searching for debris but heavy rains and rugged terrain forced the rescues to be suspended overnight, ambulances arrived at the nearby hospital with some of the passengers on it. the main objective was to rescue the survives, said a local mayor, that's our priority. aside from the people found alive. three of them are soccer players, one is a flight attendant and another a journalist. raid czar imagery shows the

circled over an area in central colombia before disappearing. the team from the small brazilian city of chapeco was in the middle of a fairy tale season. favoring a final of a major soccer competition for the first time ever. carl warman is a journalist covering the soccer. >> to be taken down after all th heartbreaking, and hard to digest. >> reporter: video from the team's facebook page shows the team moments before it boarded the flight at sao paulo's international airport. local officials have called this a tragedy not just for brazil, but the entire world. authorities have not ruled out the possibility that the plane ran out of fuel. but right now again, they're

the football federation has suspended football until further notice. saying may goddal company our athletes, officials, journalists and other guests traveling with our delegation. jeff. the tennessee wildfires. dramatic cell phone video going a desperate try to escape here. sparks and flames shoot across the roadways. cabins can be seen burning in the woods nearby. tourists were trapped inside a burned outside. >> strong winds brought the flames to nearby towns. dollywood, the dolly parton theme park is threatened. dani ruberti from our affiliate wvlt is near gatlinburg where hundreds are stranded. dani, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, one of the places where residents

homes. 600 are registered here. they've got their pets, the clothes on their backs. and most don't know what they'll find when the sun comes up in the morning. >> hit the gas! hit the gas! >> reporter: cell phone video shows flames ss surrounding a driver evacuating gatlinburg, tennessee, late monday night. fire seemed to block off the only road to safety. >> go, go, go! through over the windshield. >> almost every cabin is burning to the ground. >> reporter: the driver said he was able to escape. it's unclear whether if everyone was. flames closed in on the vista hotel in downtown gatlinburg. people trapped inside recorded video on their control phones. in the smoke-filled lobby, guests were forced to wear

>> but the smoke is here. >> reporter: at one point, at least 30 structures in gatlinburg were burning. the mountain lodge, a roadside restaurant was destroyed. high winds caused the chimney 2 fire which began in the smokey mountains last week to descend. drivers showed the fires cascading down the mountains as they were forced to earlier in the day, an ominous cloud. >> we're dealing with very difficult situations in gatlinburg, that if you are a person that prays, we could use your prayers. >> reporter: so far, officials tell me there are no reported deaths. two of the surrounding counties are closed today. that fire did burn to the door step of dolly parton's theme park.

>> dani, thank you very much. investigators are now trying to determine whether a car and knife attack at the ohio state university was an act of terrorism. the suspect abdullah zack ali artan. the attack people one in in chrritical condition but they're all expected to survive. dean reynolds is there. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, it turns out that campus police were already in this area, investigating a natural gas leak. at the time of yesterday's attack. and the osu police chief says that's why they were able to mount their almost immediate response. within about a minute of

horujko took action, shooting and killing abdul razak ali artan. >> we have several pedestrians shot by a vehicle. shots fired one down. >> reporter: artan drove a honda civic on to the sidewalk into a group of students and teachers who had assembled because a fire alarm had sounded. artan got out of the tcar and slashed as many as he could with a butcher knife. >> i heard, run, this guy's got a knife. >> reporter: he witnessed the attack. >> one of the students was like a rag doll flying through the air. i knew this was something serious. >> reporter: initially, it was said that two suspects were involved but surveillance

investigators to believe that artan acted alone. >> we have the suspect by the car by himself. >> reporter: the university sent out a alert to thousands of commands with the words, run, hide, fight. >> at first, it wasn't clear. >> reporter: jojo zamoiski said barricaded for the lockdown. >> we? just waiting for the next update what was the right thing to do. for the next few hours we didn't know what that was. >> reporter: now, classes will resume here today following yesterday's cancellation. in addition, the university is offering counseling to students and faculty.

motive. outside artan's apartment complex last night. sources say artan put an angry message on facebook before the attack. he wrote, quote, america, stop interfering with other countries especially the muslim ummah. we are not weak." jeff pegues. >> good morning, this is increasingly turning into an investigator's case, what they're discovering is a dramatic escalation. ha officials say, of someone radicalized and turning to action. >> reporter: law enforcement sources say shortly before the attack, the suspect posted a message on facebook suggesting that he was disturbed by how muslims are being treated. reportedly posting, i am sick and tired of seeing my fellow muslim brothers and sisters being killed and tortured

2014 after fleeing smoomalia, a spending seven years in a refugee camp. he first attended community college in columbus where he was on the dean's list. last august, he became a student at ohio state where he was interviews by the campus paper, "the lantern." he complained about what he believed was the media' portrayal of muslims. said but i was kind of scared with everything going on in the media. if people look at me a muslim praying i don't know what they're going to think what's going to happen. >> today, we can prove that the suspect was alone by himself in the vehicle and committed his act by himself. ongoing investigation to determine motive and if smibls was involved in this act. >> reporter: although investigators stilt have not settled on a motive for the attack, it fittings the profile

terrorist organizations have been encouraged followers to do. terrorist groups like al qaeda and isis have been encouraging supporters to carry out lone-wolf attacks like the one in nice, france, in july. and a shopping mall stabbing in minnesota in september. cbs news has learned that artan's father was abducted in somalia in 2007. and that is why his family left the country to ultimately seek refugee status in 2012. flying into new york, then to dallas and on to ohio where they settled. gayle. jeff, thank you very much. president-elect donald trump filleds another cabinets position this morning. donald trump announced that he did nominate georgia congressman tom price to lead the health and human services. he's known as say strong opponent of the affordable care act. and who will be the next secretary of state. major garrett is covering the

with the latest. major, good morning. >> good morning, the key player in this move answer for that matter all the president-elect trump's moves. pence is said to be agnostic on the choice for secretary of state, leaving that decision squarely in the lap of president-elect trump. word has drifted for days with more deliberations schedulinged for today. >> folks, this is lunacy. this is this is what happens when you put the government in charge. >> reporter: that was congressman tom price in pennsylvania a week before election day. denouncing the affordable care act as he stumped for candidate donald trump. >> this is crazinecraziness. >> reporter: price favors repealing the health care law on premiums. >> the administration spent over 1 trillion dollars on a broken medicaid system on subsidies

>> reporter: price is an orthopedicic surgeon by trade. price also wants to privatize medicare and defund. and tends to merge with promises of actions to come. >> a number of very important announcements tomorrow. >> reporter: the president-elect held his first meeting sunday with former cia director david petraeus. the world. showed a great grasp of the varieties of challenges out there. >> reporter: after, the president-elect posted on social media that he was very impressed. he pled guilty in 2015 to knowing disclosing classified information while cia director to his mistress and biographer. eager to resurrect his career,

>> very good conversation. we'll see where it goes from here. >> the president-elect will have dinner tonight with 2012 gop nominee mitt romney. the second meeting between the two as romney vies with petraeus and rudy giuliani for secretary of state. sources also they petraeus is the runner for national intelligence. top trump aide kellyanne conway has criticized romney. tweeting out last nightki showing whether conway was defying trump's wishes as he deliberates over romney and state. in aleppo, in the past 24 hours, dramatically alter the situation on ground, sources report 20% taken by opposition fighters in 2012. thousands have been fleeing out of the battle zone. the enjoy doesn't know how long

elizabeth palmer is following developments from london. elizabeth, good morning. >> good morning, this very intensive offensive began after almost nonstop bombing and shelling in the past weeks carried out by both the russian and syrian warplanes and their allies on the ground. >> reporter: civilians carrying only the barest necessities began to move out of eastern aleppo as syrian troops m this woman fled with her mother in a wheelchair. we haven't had very much for five months she said. the government backed by russia offered bus transport away from the battle zone. since the weekend the syrian army and its allies have taken 40% of the territory held by opposition fighters since 2012. the intense bombardment of this offensive has leveled buildings across eastern aleppo.

along with her mother has been tweeting about her flight which has now gone from dire to desperate. one of her last messages read, tonight we have no house. it's bombed. i got in the rubble. i saw deaths and i almost died. as far as we know bana and her family are still in the rebel-held city along with tens of thousands. the whole area is under attack by sources who now c the upper hand. >> elizabeth, thank you so much. cuba this morning is planning to honor fidel castro with a massive rally. throughouts lined up to pay trick to the man who led the country for nearly 50 years. neither president obama nor vice president biden will attend the funeral on sunday. in the next hour, we're going to charlie rose. he is in havana with more on how

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? welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up in this half hour, the woman who left the united airlines jet by the side a little problem, though, the plane was still moving at the time. yikes. and the delta passenger who got in trouble for screaming at his captive audience about donald trump. and a north dakota sheriff warns pipeline protesters that winter is coming and they're putting themselves in danger. hear from a veteran who is leading an effort to protect the demonstrators. time to show you the morning's headlines. "the new york times" said the push for a vote count is advancing that reversing mr. trump is unlikely.

is challenging the tallies in three key states. mr. trump has 100,000 votes. a legal challenge has been filed in pennsylvania. and there's a plan to request a recount in michigan tomorrow. "the washington post" looks at how the united states took down the second in command the isis after hiding for months. in august, after surveillance by the cia and pentagon he was tracked to a sanctuary in when he climbed into a car, a bomb struck it killing him. at least high-profile officials have died in the past six months. accused church shooter dylann roof is acting as his own attorney in the federal hate crimes trial. roof is charged with killing nine black parishioners last year. yesterday, he took part in jury selection. it's possible he'll question

shooting. roof faces the death penalty if convicted. three deaths that may have been linked to a thanksgiving dinner. officials say they all ate at a dinner at a church. five others were hospitalized. and the state reports on the first locally transmitted zika case. a woman in cameron county has the viruses. she reports to going to no affected by zika. florida is the only state where zika has spread. a woman is under psychiatrist care this morning after she jumped out of a moving plane at george bush airport. tarmac camera appears to show her running away from the plane. kris van cleave is in washington national airport tracking this bizarre investigation.

going pretty well for this flight from new orleans. it arrived in houston early, it was taxiing to the gate when one of the passengers bolted. >> the lady just opened up the door and jumped out of the plane. >> reporter: passengers on flight 1282 were left stunned as a woman took the expressway out through a window. surveillance video captured making terminal. he opened the overhead rescue door and made the 15-foot jump without an emergency slide. >> i looked over and it's sunlight. and i just see a figure step out of it. >> reporter: the woman was quickly caught by police who were surprised she didn't have a scratch on her. >> the ramp area, where the airplanes sit at the gate, they're a dangerous place if

have the proper equipment. there were a lot of people that were 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 faa spokesman told "cbs this morning," we hardly go a day without at least one report. >> do you hear me? donald trump, baby! >> reporter: monday, delta banned this donald trump supporter for life for his rant on a flight from atlanta to week. the airline apologized to passengers in a statement saying the customer should not have been allowed to continue on the flight. >> what do you mean -- >> reporter: although disruptive passengers can face possible criminal charges and fines some faa experts say the punishment should be even harsher. >> if you punish somebody severely for disrupting a flight, there would be a lot less of it. >> now, in the most recent

the woman was taken to a psychiatric hospital for an evaluation. police say she's not going to face any criminal charges and have not elaborated why she used the exit the way she did. as for the another 98 passengers on board, they had to wait for officers with a k9 to clear the plane before they were allowed to get off at the gate. norah. >> kris, thank you. >> he raises a good point, the guy in the story, if there were more punishment, less. >> they have to crack down on that. >> i've never seen anything like that on a flight. very glad about that one. knock on that one. >> in case it's plexiglas. now to the story, thousands of people protesting an oil pipeline in north dakota say they will defy a mandatory evacuation order. the north dakota governor said wind conditions up there are life-threatening and have

inches of snow yesterday. the pipeline with the sacred sight, michelle miller is there inned in ed ned in in north dak. >> reporter: norah, good morning. this road here leadings to the access road to the encampment. it's been closed to the public since july. only law enforcement accesses this road. they say it's just too dangerous. with temperatures below freezing. he have snowfall and wind gusts of over 30 miles an hour. they're ordering protesters to move out. >> we're not planning on going nowhere. >> reporter: hunkered down at camp, these men say they're not leaving. like them, there's an estimated 10,000 people on the north

makeshift camps. warning of harsh winter conditions on the land, north dakota governor says the property is under the proprietary jurisdiction of the army corps of engineers. the norton county sheriff released his video. >> being outside for long periods of time does bring life-threatening conditions. >> inside here, it's warm. >> reporter: john bigelow represents the seven councils fire. >> we're going to stand up and sa it's over 100 years of oppression. and it has to stop now. >> reporter: expected to carry crude oil from the oil field to illinois, it's nearly complete except for the section under the encampment. the fight has caused a bridge blockade on the main road. the chairman of the standing rock sioux tribe says because of

that's a liability itself. >> everyone is worried about safety. >> reporter: u.s. marine veteran michael wood jr. says help is on the way. >> we have created an entire military battalion in less than three weeks. >> reporter: he said more than 2500 unarmed vets are mobilizing to stand between police and protesters. >> this is your fight, but if you don't take up and promote a stand up for it now, you end up saying why am i being led through. since you failed to stand and october now. >> reporter: even with the evacuation orders, the army corps of engineers and the local sheriff's department says that they will not forcibly remove any of the protesters. instead, we're going to work our way through this later today. >> michelle miller. thank you very much. >> i thought michelle was going to end by saying we're getting

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and around the clock. this is like a space shot. mission control, it looks like. >> it is. actually, it is my favorite place.e. >> reporter: m.j. austin is a technology executive at paypal. >> we've gotten better and better over the years from all of the learning that we've done to where were are seeing fraudulent transactions. >> reporter: it's cyber monday. the team is monitoring a torrent of activity in currencies and 200 countries. >> there's a bunch of smarts behind the actual monitoring. and through that monitoring, we're able to highlight only those things that seem unusual. >> reporter: but the sheer volume of transaction makes combatting cybercrime a daunting task. on cyber monday 2015, paypal

so much money paypal crashed. >> we had a small intermittent outages during that time, the reality is most customers were not impacted. >> reporter: paypal was also one of the company dhas shut down last month after hackers struck a company whose servers ruined internet traffic. the hack also with webcam, smart clock and digital recorders. cnet editor-at-large tim stevens. >> it's basically like a bunch of bankers knockin doors. they're preventing everybody from getting into the bank. not necessarily data being exposed or customers being at risk or data being at risk, it's just that service is being shut down. >> reporter: paypal said no customer information was stolen but still wonders about the future. >> as more and more devices going forward, they're going to be compromised in new ways. >> cyber monday following thanksgiving is, of course, an american creation.

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? it is tuesday, november 29th, 2016. welcome back to "cbs this morning." there's more real news ahead including president-elect trump newest cabinet choice, tom price. we'll ask what it means for the future of health care. but first is today's "eye opener" at 8:00. >> the plane was just five minutes from its final destination when it went down in a remote region of colombia. >> this red cross and residents after fleeing their homes. >> residents were already in this area.

mount their almost immediate response. >> this is turning into a terrorist take. what they're discovering is dramatic escalations online. >> and it's said to be left in the lap of donald trump. >> things were going pretty well for this flight from new orleans when one of the passengers bolted. >> i've never seen anything on say flight i'm knock on wood. very good for that. >> in case it's plexiglas. brexit club star anthony michael hall is facing seven years in prison for fighting his neighbor. however, his pllawyer is tryingo

molly -- >> i'm gayle king with norah o'donnell, jeff glor. charlie standing by in havana. he'll bring us the latest on how cuba is remembering fidel castro today. but first, there's news to bring you from colombia where a plane carrying a soccer team crashed overnight and killing at least 76 people. six people we're told survived. >> the plane went d medellin. >> investigators are focusing on a possible electrical failure, but they're also not ruling out the chance that the plane ran out of fuel. wildfires have forced thousands of people in tennessee to evacuate. more than 30 buildings have been destroyed, including two schools. officials say about 100 homes are threatened. the national guard, more than a dozen local fire departments are fighting the flames. the fire broke out last weekend in the smoky mountains.

to escape. after a car and knife attack at the ohio state university, the investigation is leading towards terrorism as the motive. police say that abdullah zack ali artan plowed into a crowd with his car and then slashed five of them with a butcher knife. a campus police shot and kill the suspect one hour later. he came to the united states back in 2014. before that, he spent seven years in a pakistan after leaving somalia. artan graduated from a community college earlier this year. he recently posted on facebook that he was, quote, sick and tired of seeing my fellow muslim brothers and sisters being killed and tortured everywhere. authorities began searching his apartment last night. they believe that he acted alone. president-elect donald trump has announced another cabinet member. mr. trump will tap tom price.

critics of obamacare. before entering congress he was an orthopedic surgeon. he's also holding meetings for two candidates for secretary of state. bob corker and 2012 gop nominee mitt romney. mr. trump talked with four star general and former cia director david petraeus. john heilemann is managing editor of bloomburg politics. good morning. >> good morning. president's choice for who he wants is one thing, but getting them confirmed is another. >> that's true. it's hard to imagine that any of the people being considered are going to have a real problem getting through a republican senate. obviously david petraeus -- >> david petraeus -- >> david petraeus has some vetting issues. clearly, there are many people who will point out that for a republican president-elect who spent a lot of his campaign attacking hillary clinton over her e-mail use and over the

classified material, with petraeus, he got in trouble with the law for, there will be a fight over if petraeus is nominated. again, it's hard for me to believe that any of these candidates will have a problem. >> do you see a problem -- kellyanne conway, and there are reports that she has gone rogue, she said that's not the case, she's a supporter of donald trump. e your mind? >> only one that matters is the whole thing about donald trump. with kellyanne conway, donald trump likes chaos. she's not dumb. i'm sure she would is not come forward saying anything that she didn't feel comfortable about maintaining her close relationship with donald trump. everyone i talked to says the same thing which is, man, we just don't know what donald

there's things like whether he things the cut of the gib. i wouldn't be surprised if any of the following people, mitt romney, david petraeus, rudy giuliani would not suffice. >> tom price, the secretary of health and human services. he called obamacare crazy. where does this tell where you the president-elect is going on the ada >> well, the president-elect spent, again, a large part of the campaign saying he was going to repeal and replace obamacare which starting on day one, which is overly dramatic, overpromising. can't really do that in one day. but this is consistent with what president-elect trump campaigned on. it's true that congressman price has put forth -- unlike many republicans who criticized the

replacement. the more interesting question is the fact that congressman price also want overhaul medicare in a pretty dramatic way along the lines that paul ryan has. saying he wants to preserve it. on the question of repealing or replacing obamacare, there's alignment on the new proposed chairman and secretary and president-elect. and the question of medicare, which is obviously the biggest federal some disagreement between the dhs proposed chair and president-elect. >> and mitt romney and trump are having dinner at a french restaurant. >> it's true. you guys have been knocking on donald trump's twitter feed? >> no. >> the news out of nowhere, the president-elect has come out with a tweet about flag burning. i'm not sure what provoked this tweet.

the american law of flag burning should be thrown in jail or lose their citizenship. i'm not sure if mr. trump is aware that's an amendment to the constitution. i'm not sure you can strip someone of their citizenship. world leaders are arriving in havana ahead of tonight's spain's former king, the president of neck raicaragua an ecuador. notably absent vladimir putin, justin true dough, barack obama and joe biden. the white house still deciding whether to send an official delegation. charlie rose, good morning to you.

during the nearly 50-year reign of fidel castro, castro crowds came to this plaza to hear his thunderous speeches. yesterday, hundreds of thousands came to bid farewell. today, they're beginning to line up. >> reporter: hundreds of mourners remain well after the sun set on revolution square. fidel's brother and cuba's president raul castrol placed flowers behind fidel's picture. the lines of mourners monday grew longer as the day wore on. many were overcome either by the heat or by grief. he is living eternally now, this man says. mourners stood hours in the sun for the chance to file past a

commandant and view his medal. the moment may have lasted only seconds but the anguish was evident. i tell you this from my heart, this farmer said. i'd like it have been me instead of him. ashes were kept at public view, even in death, he is surrounded by secrecy. alcohol sales and celebratory music are banned during this mourning schools and government offices have been shuttered. many mourners who also signed an oath of loyalties to castro's revolution are state employees or students. around the world castro is seen by some as a murderous and repressive dictator. but to these cubans -- he is a father figure and a national hero. tomorrow's rally -- tonight's

of massive sendoff for fidel castro. his remains will travel all the way to santiago. along the way, he will stop, and people will have an opportunity to bid him farewell. he will be then at the birth place of the cuban revolution. gayle. >> charlie rose in havana, thank you. safe travels as you head back to us here in new york expected to dominate the market.

is . the u.s. ambassador has made his job fun for an international audience. >> reporter: i'm mark phillips in copenhagen, denmark, where the u.s. ambassador has become a

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next year. jill schlesinger is here. good morning. >> good morning. >> let's start with mortgage rates. it was owe traumatic, it was double digits back then. now you said it's raised to 4%. >> it's weird, before the election if you were going to get a 30-year fixed rate mortgage you were paying 3.34%. now up over 4%. >> that's still good. >> 4% is amazing. but that jump is pretty dramatic. and the reason the rates have jumped is that the market believes that president-elect trump's policies where you get more spending, more tax cuts, we'll see more growth. so the federal reserve will have to raise rates faster. all interest rates will likely rise as a result. that's why mortgage rates are up. again, it's very low historically, honestly, if you're shopping for a mortgage,

more a month than a year ago. >> especially if they keep ticking up which they will presumably for a couple years now. >> and people are thinking, wait a minute, should i buy my house right now? wait a second, we're still looking at low mortgage rates and you've got to look at your financial situation. we talk financial planners all the time, what do they say, they say you should be spending up to 30% of your income on housing. housing can b can mean renting. it's tough in a high-priced mortgage to keep that housing cost at 30%. but what's really important is, if you are about to buy a house, you got to factor that in. you also have to come up with a down payment. 20%. you can do less but it's safer to do 20%. then you deputy factor in maintenance costs. the boiler can break.

first-time home buyer age? i just heard more millennials are now living at home. >> more millennials are living at home. the average age is still in the low 30s. about 33. if you want to buy a house, be clear. run your numbers. rent first and then buy. if you can stay with your parents, rock on. keep saving. >> but you don't want to date a guy who's still living at home. that's a real issue. the world chess championshi stalema stalemate, ahead see who is ahead after a series of ties. you're watching "cbs this morning." >> announcer: this morning's money is sponsored by rocket mortgage by quicken loans. with the garden patio will be gone. or you could push that button. sfx: rocket launching. cockpit sounds and music crescendo. skip the bank, skip the waiting, and go completely online.

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the drama. >> i didn't hear a word you said. i love this song.

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i love rascal flatts. >> me too. >> me, too. >> we love you guys. welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up in this half hour, 94-year-old navy veteran donald traten was on the "u.s.s. arizona" when the japanese attacked pearl harbor. 75 years later. he's written the first memoir by one of the surviving crews. ahead, the stories he never told anyone including his wife. the american ambassador to diplomat into a reality tv show. now the danish series is now finding an international audience. >> you guys love him, too. >> yes. great story. right, now the morning headlines from around the globe. "the guardian" says the great barrier reef is being ravaged. more than two-thirds of the

it could take up to 15 years to grow back. "the new york times" reports that a former "playboy" model is pleading not guilty in her body shaping tape. dani mathers is facing charges. police say she posted the photo of a 70-year-old woman and smokingly posted on snap chat. i remember that. and fear or hate trred of foreigner people from different cultures. and also the word fight box of the presidential election. and "the new york times" reports on "hamilton" hitting a new high. set a record for the most money ever made in a single week by a broadway show. here's the number $3.3 million in one week. wow. thanksgiving is usually a

the highest ticket premium price ever charged by a broadway box office. $998. they don't even have many of the original cast members. because the play is so strong, so well done, people still want to see it. >> a grand ticket on average. >> that's right. "the washington post" reports on tourism in cuba taking a subdued turn after fidel castro's death. cuba is observing nine days of national mourning. many museums are closed. there's a ban on live music and nightclubs are shuttered. there's also a ban on sale of alcohol. the next netflix series, from a married divorce man and now a future king is supporting his brother and the woman that he loves. charlie d'agata has more. charlie, good morning. >> it appears prince william has stepped up for his little

kensington palace forwarded this staple. the duke of cambridge absolutely understandings the situation concerning privacy and supports the need for prince harry to support those close to him. it goes back to a larger unprecedented and strongly worded statement prince harry made regarding the treatment of his girlfriend which he described as a wave of harassment. some of this has been very public. the smear on the natio newspaper. racial under tones. comment pieces. and outright and racism of social media. and after that it looks like william wanted to set the record straight and in his own way give something of a royal seal of approval for harry's girlfriend. jeff. >> charlie, thank you very much.

pearl harbor. now comes the first memoir of that day from a survivor aboard the "u.s.s. arizona." of all of the gallant men, donald stratton writes about being on the battleship before it exploded and sank. >> reporter: the battleship arizona graces the back of donald stratton's classic truck. now at 94, he points out the anti-aircraft guns. >> reporter: where as a 19-year-old he fought the japanese sneak attack on pearl harbor, december 7th, 1941. >> in less than two hours, the american naval power was paralyze. >> they were waving at you? >> that's right. they could see our bursts in the sky and they were way short. >> reporter: "the arizona" one

unrelenting air strikes. sass shown on this. >> we see them there and it just engulfed that. >> i was like burnt over 60% of my body. >> reporter: randy stratton is don's son. >> some of his scars you can see. some you can't. some he'll never get over his whole life. any noise tos the phone goes off. he jumps through the ceiling because of that bomb going off. >> then black smoke filled the sky as the massive control tower began to teem over. >> reporter: stratton talks about how he survived after 1100 perished. all of the valiant men.

60 years had never heard. >> when i read the book, i cried. he never really talked about it. never told me his story about what happened. >> reporter: but the explosion, stratton writes, the flames found us, burning off our clothes, our hair, our skin, men stumbled around like human torches, on the deck like human torches, each collapsing into a flaming pile of flesh. how do you go trying to survive with that amount of pain. >>? >> just preservation. it just tore my skin off. >> reporter: pulled the skin off your arms? >> well, i was burned. they were just hanging down there. >> reporter: with the flames below him and using badly burned hands he somehow pulled himself along a rope about 80 feet to safety on another ship. you were coming across that

and strafing. >> reporter: it meant a series of surgeries, when doctors wanted to amputate his limbs, stratton refused. did you think you were going to make it? >> i don't think it entered my mind that i wouldn't. >> reporter: he re-enlisted and fought in the pacific. did you think you had a score to settle? >> with engagement, had the returned again and again to the arizona memorial. >> i lost so many ship mates that day. it's like going back and living it all over again. >> reporter: on the 60th anniversary japanese pilot who attacked pearl harbor came in peace and were greeted by friendship by many veterans. have you managed to forgive japan?

lost 160 men out there. >> reporter: next week on the 75th anniversary, he'll return with his whole family, including great grandchildren. >> probably, it will be the last time and that's hard. >> reporter: but the stratton family vows never to forgive like granddaughter nikki, each wears a lockett holding a fragment of the "u.s.s. arizona." >> to condistantly remind us. the a quite literally in our blood. >> reporter: now, this sacred sprays part of distant history. but it's not distant at all for donald stratton as he writes, i had lost a part of myself in the ruins of that ship and a big part of my family in the men who died there. a part of myself that now would be forever entombed with them. for "cbs this morning," john blackstone, colorado springs.

this is the most incredible story. and the perfect title, isn't it, norah, to describe mr. stratton. >> i'm reading here, don stratton is one of only five survivors of "u.s.s. arizona" still alive today. and holds the distinction of the first and second battles of world war ii. >> i love that his wife and he, and she's learning something.>> story of donald stratton. >> thank you, john blackstone for that great story. thank you. >> don stratton for writing that. >> that's right. what's a show for foreign policy geeks has become an international sensation.

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seen around the world. >> reporter: in the last months of rufus gifford's time as united states ambassador he had to handle tough questions. >> it's a frightening thought for people around the world that donald trump could be elected and have his finger near the nuclear launch button. >> reporter: if there's one thing that >> reporter: gifford a former ambassador to denmark will be leaving soon and the dans will miss him because he's been more than just another diplomat, he's been a tv star. >> thank you. >> reporter: this is the show entitled "i am the ambassador from america." >> i have the best job in the world. this is just your average wednesday.

be a behind-the-scenes look for an ambassadorial life designed for geeks. >> we thought if we were lucky we fight have 50,000 danes dutu in. >> reporter: but the audience of dans rolled in like rush shower. the numbers to the producer. >> he looks like a h perfect smile. good looking, smart. >> reporter: an american from central casting? >> yeah. >> reporter: and with an appealing sense of character, all the show needed was a plot twist. enter -- kitchen. enter his parter stephen. >> should be home by 7:00.

>> reporter: what they wanted and maybe what the show needed was a little drama. how about a good old, new fashioned wedding, this completes with banter. >> i'm still not sure if i'm going to go through with it. [ laughter ] >> reporter: it did go ahead. a happy day. a showbiz hit. and a political statement. >> as you're joine >> and there was an element of diplomacy there, or politics. whatever you want to call it. >> reporter: what are you trying to prove? >> we were in the same place in copenhagen city hall. where the first same-sex unions in the world took place. stephen and i got married. >> reporter: as a diplomatic pr exercise it all worked in liberal denmark.

hans morrison heads of danish think tank. where couldn't it work? >> in europe or russia. >> reporter: because of the attitude? >> yeah, mostly. >> reporter: but it work so well in denmark, the show has been picked up by netflix. >> you never know when you'll be on tv. >> that is true. that is true. >> reporter: the ambassador turned accidental tv star is going global and looking for a new job. for "cbs th m i'm mark phillips in copenhagen. >> wow. something tells me he won't have any trouble getting a new job. but i love the whole sentiment behind the story and how had started. that he and his husband are happy. good looking and very smart. >> how about mark phillips with that goatee.

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? here's to the happy couple. to the bride, to the b, they had their first dance in the middle of highway 35 outside of dayton. there was an accident that shut down the highway on saturday. blocking the way to the wedding reception for more than an hour or so. they thought, let's celebrate on the spot. with the hash tag, they were dancing to alison krauss' "when you say nothing at all." very, very pretty song.

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