♪ good morning, it is tuesday, december 13th, 2016. welcome to "cbs this morning." breaking news. donaruld tmp chooses an oil man for secretary of state. exxonmobil ceo rex tillerson could face a confirmation fight over his ties to russia. back-to-back storms slam much of the country with snow and freezing rain. dangerous arctic air is sending temperatures plunging from the northeast. the future first lady goes to court. the challenge that melania trump faces in her $151 million lawsuit against a

newspaper and political blogger. >> but we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> this is what the russians call a useful idiot. >> donald trump makes his pick for secretary of state. >> anybody who's a friend of vladimir putin must disregard the fact that vladimir putin is a murderer, a thug, a kgb agent. the relationship between exxonmobil's tillerson and vladimir putin it is not as if they're friends or either have chosen as god fracture to their air. >> it's cold. >> arctic air making its way across the midwest. a lufthansa superjet made an emergency landing at jfk because of a bomb threat. >> 550 passengers were on board that flight. >> trouble on

police dragged a woman by her arms off the plane. >> a wild and dangerous police chase to wound through compton. >> boy, this guy will notiv ge up. >> tom brady -- off to the races! a big win for new england with an eye toward the number one seed. >> all that -- >> president obama's swan on on "the daily show." >> it's important for me to recharge. i ink it's important for me to reflect. it's important for me to get back in my wife's good graces. >> "all that mattered." >> calling for an investigation into russia's role into the presidential elonecti. >> oh, great, there's nothing more reassuring than the words, don't worry, congress will do something. they're on it! >> on "cbs this morning" -- >> clinton getting 162 more votes than his original total. i'm not saying russia had anything to do with that. here's a photograph of putin

>> announcer: this morning's "eye opener" is presented by toyota. let's go places. captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning." president-elect donald trump said exxonmobil chairman and ceo will be his secretary of state. mr. trump announced this morning that he will nominate rex tillerson as the country's next top diplomat. the decision ended a very public search process. tillerson could face a confirmation fight because of his ties to russian president vladimir putin. >> the president-elect said that tillerson is one of the truly great business leaders the world. he's decided that former governor rick perry will be his secretary of energy. nancy, good morning. >> good morning. tillerson has spent his entire career, more than four decades at exxonmobil, so he has vast experience doing business with foreign governments including

criticism, some both inside and outside his party. at age 64, rex tillerson has headed the world's largest publicly traded oil company for nearly a decade. last year, what else ranked 25 on forbes list of the most powerful people. under tillerson's leadership, exxonmobil struck a deal with russia in 2011 to begin drilling for oil in the arctic. but the project was halted three years later by western sanctions, after russia invaded crimea. >> i'm going to comply with the sanctions. there is not any conversation otherwise about that. >> reporter: tillerson earlier that his relationships with foreign governments including russia are strictly business. >> i'm not here to represent the united states government's interest. i'm not here to defend it. nor am i hear to criticize it. that's not what i do. i'm a businessman. >> reporter: but if confirmed as secretary of state, tillerson will be america's top diplomat representing u.s. foreign po

interests and will need to navigate his 15-year history with vladimir putin. >> i have a very close relationship with him. i don't agree with everything he's doing. >> reporter: putin awarded tillerson a russian order of friendship in 2015. that same year, tillerson spoke to charlie rose about how he handled international relations. >> you have to look at the state of that country eyeball to eyeball, say i'm going to meet this commitment. >> reporter: for secretary of energy, mr. trump has settled on foer texas governor rick perry who once proposed eliminate the energy department though it famously slipped his mind during the debate. >> third agency of government, i would do away with education -- commerce and, let's see -- i can't -- the third one, i can't. sorry. oops. >> with those two

still, mr. trump is now pretty close to completing his cabinets. the president-elect hasn't held an official press conference since he was a candidate back in july. and late yesterday, he postponed his highly anticipated press conference set for this thursday. where we was slated to explain how he's going to handle potential business conflicts. gayle, his aides say the lawyers need a little more time to work out the details and that he'll hold that press conference early in january. >> thank you very much, nancy. margaret brennan is at the white house with a closer look for the nominee for secretary of state and how his back ground could shape diplomacy. margaret, good morning. >> rex tillerson will be the first secretary of state of state to take the job with no government experience. he is now america's chief diplomat and face to the world. one positive i am hearing particularly from arab diplomats and from saudi arabia, they're very comfortable, they've got

they are hope, the arab diplomat said he will push back and not tear up the deal. european saying to keep in with the climate change accord. keep in mind exxonmobil has recognized that climate change is a real security threat. one of the biggest questions i've been hearing from american diplomats is just how does trump want to position the u.s. in the long term. will rex tillerson be a transactional secretary of state of state, or a positional one. meaning will he simply be cutting deals? or putting america in position for something long term? we have not heard that articulated. right now, tillerson, we know, will have to be smoothing out a lot of rough edges with russia.

beijing. china's nuclear threat and the striking a deal with vladimir putin, with concern among american. >> diplomats. if we're going to strike a deal with war actions against syria and ukraine. some hope that tillerson has some deep relationships that could be helpful from day one when he's making calls to those leaders. norah. >> thank you, margaret. cbs news has learned that the u.s. is likely to pose sanctions on the leaders of russia's largest intelligence agency. telling cbs news news that high confidence that to try and help donald trump. jeff pegues spoke to an expert who has seen evidence of riggs lv

evidence tying the hacking to russian operatives stretches back at least six months. private officials contactsing u.s. intelligence officials say what they've seen is informational warfare and a staple of russian tactics to influence the election. late monday night, president obama explained on "the daily show" with trevor noah why he asked for a review before leaving office. >> the reason that i'm -- have called for a review is really just gather all of the tlelds of the investigates, the intel against work that has been done. >> reporter: the u.s. is confident that the cyber attacks were conducted by russia's gru intelligence arm. investigators believe the hackers with information that never became public. stolen e-mails, opposition research from the campaign infoio

national committee was leaked to wikileaks and other sites. even after being exposed the hackers didn't stop. >> this is pretty bold, this is is pretty brazen adam myers works for cyberstrike that works closely with u.s. intelligence. >> there actually, definitely, were more detrimental to one candidate than the other? >> more detrimental to clinton? >> yes. >> reporter: myers said the russians have used the informational warfare to influence elections before by leaking embarrassing or sensitive documents. most notably during the 2014 elections in ukraine. the strategy is part of what some believe is a russian playbook to sow confusion and uncertainty. on capitol hill there is a ground swell for a probe. >> we ought to have a house intelligence committees to look into this. >> reporter:

the house intelligence committee adam shift is calling for sanctions. >> russians are not our friends. >> i think we ought to approach all of these issues on the assumption that the russians do not wish us well. >> and so far, president-elect trump has not acknowledged russian involvement in the hack. the russian foreign ministry says this saul part of a turf war between u.s. security agencies. charlie. >> thanks, jeff. >> cbs' political director "face the nation" john dickerson is in washington. good morning. how did they come to the decision about rex tillerson and in the end does he have an idea of how the united states should look at the world? >> i think he has ideas. specifically with regard to russia, it's interesting the relationship -- there are some people that believe the relationship with russia and

place as it has been since the early 1960s. but the world is different than the 1960s. and the united states is in a conflict position with russia, in some places watching what it's doing with baltic nations, for example. but also needs russia to counterbalance a growing china. so the complexity of the russian relationship will be a fascinating case to figure out when donald trump begins and ends and where his secretary of state begins and ends. in terms of choice, it seems that donald trump wanted somebody like he said in the campaign, a ceo who made deals. a ceo who had a strong sense of himself and would be able to do america's bidding overseas. and i think donald trump really did want mitt romney for a while and just couldn't get over the obstacles. >> you have senators rubio, lindsey graham, john mccain, have all raised concerns about his ties to russia. >> i think you'll see a difficult

trying to figure out what exactly donald trump believes about russia. or where the secretary of state, or the incoming secretary of state what he thinks about russia. what john mccain said sunday on "face the nation," the first question what do you think of vladimir putin? and john mccain thinks he's a murderer and a thug. foreign policy people think unless you get that first question right, all of the policy decisions you make after that could be wrong. >> can't you take somebody say murderer and thug and understand they're a leader of a country. and you have to deal with them. and therefore you have to bring quality that will enable you to assess him better? >> absolutely. and that's the argument democrats made with dealing with countries that republicans didn't want to talk to. they said, look, ronald reagan dealt with russians and his eyes were wide open. if you look at a murderer

thug from a position of strengths or in a supine position that let them essentially do their bidding. all the other nations, that will react if they think that the united states is not really in the game in terms of checking russian power. >> john, donald trump had said he would hold a press conference on thursday about how he would disconnect himself from any potential conflicts of interest with his businesses. he's now postponed that conference saying that the lawyers are just not ready. what are the implications? >> the implications are, that the big question is still out there. and it seems if they're not ready, it puts more focus on the tax returns. in other words, what's the real interest of donald trump's interests and how those intersect with the presidency. there's no way to know unless you look at the actual underlying documents that would suggest that. there's no evidence at the moment that donald trump is hastening to release those returns. so whatever promises he made. and there's a

sons will run the company and n, that's a big step. but it really doesn't mean anything unless they really sort of show their work and have transparency. >> how likely, john, do you think it is that we'll ever see the tax returns? >> well, based on the promised made during the campaign you'd have to be skeptical. it's kind of laid out there for the american that people can be certain that these conflicts that have been so much talked about are really taken care of. >> john dickerson, always good to see you. thank you so much. parts of the country are baking up to bitter cold temperatures. it feels like minus 21 degrees in bismarck, north dakota. in minneapolis it feels like 18 below. jamie ucheless is outside of

minneapolis. >> reporter: good morning, norah, i'm walking across a very frozen lake. i just had a dog out here playing around. last year, we could have been swimming across the lake. not the case right now. the reason we were swimming because it didn't get below zero until january 9th last year. what a difference a year makes. because right now, this week, temperatures here in the region will be 15 to 20 degrees below average. of course, that arctic blast came with all kinds of snow in the region. that's then pushed east. but as you can imagine, the cold temperatures are very dangerous. you can actually have your skin freeze in less than ten minutes and doctors concerned that people not bundled up could face hypothermia as the terms head towards the east. this also will not be the last winter storm that we see. right now, we're being told by meteorologists that another winter storm is brewing in the northwest now. expect it to hit here in the

midwest later this week. temperatures are going to remain very cold here and then move to the east, to you guys, in new york, gayle. >> thank you very much, jamie. drivers are dealing with heavy knsnow in indiana. here's a scene near gary. tracking that storm, megan, good morning. >> good morning, windchills advisories are in place this morning for parts of minnesota and iowa all the way through to montana. windchills from 20 to 35 degrees below zero. that spells frostbite in as little as 30 minutes. and high temperatures today will struggle to even reach 8 degrees in minneapolis. 12 for fargo, 14, billings. chicago, much of the day in the teens. this cold continues to spread to the south and east encompassing much of the eastern half of the country by the end of the week. in addition to that, we're watching a

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♪ donald trump has been meeting with mark barnett the creator of "the apprentice" to plan next month's inauguration ceremony. is the whole thing going to be reality show scenes? i understand to get to the white house he won an amazing race. out of the dozens of candidates, trump was the survivor. even though according to the popular vote he was the biggest loser. >> i think he could have come up with something else. welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up in this half hour, the future first lady is suing a british newspaper and a blogger, for defamation. rikki klieman looks at melania trump's

an admitted mass killer in south carolina. dylann roof described why he targeted members of a black church. prosecutors provide evidence that he planned more deadly violence. that story is ahead. some of the headlines. "the new york times" says election results in wisconsin and pennsylvania are now official. donald trump picked up an extra 131 votes in wisconsin. mr. trump won by more than 44,000 votes in pennsylvania. the electoral college votes on monday. the philadelphia inquirer says a former congressman is headed to prison for racketeering. chaka fattah. the term is one of the longest imposed on the federal lawmaker for corruption. he served two decades in the house. the bismarck tribune

on an oil pipeline spill. monitoring equipment did not detects it. it happens 150 miles from the dakota pipeline site where protesters have spent months in a standoff with police. it's new spill is not connected to the dakota pipeline. it's focused on oil recovery and environment 'cleanup. "usa today" says gas prices are rising after opec agreed to cut oil production. analysts say early next year prices could approach $3 a gallon in parts of the country. gas averaged $2.21 a gallon nationwide. reports show that workers at uber allegedly spied on customers. to spy oncelebrities like beyonce and stalked ex-boyfriends and ex-girlfriends. they estimated that thousands of workers had access to the

information. now, uber disputes those claims. prosecutors say accused church killer dylann roof may have planned more attacks. jurors head about the alleged hit list. the targets included other black churches. mark preston is 93 courthouse in charleston where the jury heard the chilling explanation about why the rampage ended. mark, chilling is the word here. >> reporter: good morning, chilling is the word. jurors have heard parts of roof's online manifesto read in open court. a former agent found it on the roof computer. he testified that roof looked at a time four hours before the shooting that left nine people dead. in federal court on monday, law enforcement officials presented evidence collected from dylann roof's car, including a handwritten list of his other potential targets.

churches and their addresses. >> it made me feel a little disappointed to know that morris brown was on the list, but not quite surprised. >> reporter: reverend charles keaton is senior pastor at one of those churches. >> i imagine that there was a bible study going on in this very building the night that happened. >> reporter: in a two-hour taped confession with fbi agents roof explained why he chose charleston's historic emanuel ame church? >> so that is why you chose that church? >> right, right. i wasn't going to go to another church, you know because there could have been whitea[ people there. >> were you going to shoot other people? >> reporter: in roof's car, law enforcement also recovered american and confederate flags, ammunition boxes and a firearm along with a l

attachment. >> what kind of gun was it? >> a glock 45. >> reporter: roof allegedly bought that weapon at shooter's choice in columbia, south carolina. the gun store manager testified that roof cleared the federal three-day background check to receive the handgun. he said roof bought it and five magazines on april 16th, 2015, nearly two months before the shooting. >> are you glad you did it? >> well, i wouldn't say i'm glad i did it, you know. but i've don it. >> it was something you had to do? >> yeah, i had to do it. >> the shooter's choice gun store was ultimately notified by the federal government not to sell a gun to roof because of a previous drug arrest but that notification came 12 days after the shooting. norah, the government should wrap up its case this week. >> mark, thank you. tr> future first lady melania

courtroom yesterday. in her defamation case against a daily mail blogger. for false allegations that she worked as an escort. mrs. trump was not required to attend the court conference but chose to do so to meet the judge, meet opposing counsel and show her commitment to the case. rikki klieman is here. good morning. >> good morning. >> this is a defamation case. what will melania trump need to prove? >> melania trump is indeed a public figure. he's the future lady of the president of the united states. she has to show actual malice when means a reckless disregard of the truth. it goes all the way back to "the new york times" versus sullivan. very few public figures have

burden. so, she has a big burden, but he just might satisfy it. >> why? >> i think that this is a different kind of case. when someone say public figure. the reason that we have public figures who -- it has to be a higher burden of proof is because they have a public purpose. they can defend themselves. the reason why this one is particularly offensive is what you have -- >> does she have to prove that she wasn't an escort and she didn't have a nervous breakdown? >> well, it doesn't quite work that way. what she has to prove is that when they published the statements that the statements were false. so, in essence, going back to your question. but they were done without any kind of investigation, without any kind of sourcing. without any kind of proof. in fact, both the daily mail know and say that they were throwing out rumors

were then going to continue to publish. >> they retracted those stories pretty quickly. does that make a difference? >> well, it will help them in some little bit of equity that they did the right thing. and they did retract them quickly. however, damage of reputation is done at the time of publication. so, this is a case that, as we look at it going forward, this is a big, what we call emotions case. you're going to have motions to dismiss. you're going to have motions to summary judgment. the court is going to get deeply involved in all of the legal length of these involving defamation. if this case gets past the motion phase, and it really well might in this case goes forward to a jury, with the lawyer that she has, that i think she has a decent chance of success which is rare. >> beyond the obvious reason nobody wants to have people say bad things about them that are not true, why is she doing th

>> what you're looking for here, a case you're talking about chastity and a crime. that's serious defamation. >> they did release a statement, his lawyer says that, quote, his client is a champion of the first amendment and believes that the public disor the, even when it delves into potentially sensitive matters is critical in the political arena. >> right thing to say. that would be his face. >> lawyer charles harder is the one who represented hulk hogan. rikki klieman, always good to have you here. ahead, we'll go to beijing to see why china's government is upset about a possible change in american policy. and how some are challenging the u.s. to a fight. and here's an invitation from us to you to subscribe to our "cbs this morning" podcast. you'll get the news of the day, rvinte aiewsownd h a

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the white house is stepping into the dispute between donald trump and china. the president-elect rattled relations with beijing. when he took a phone call from taiwan's president breaking decades of protocol. white house spokesman josh earnest said yesterday the obama administration does not view taiwan and relationship with taiwan as a bargaining chip. mr. trump suggested that taiwan is not bound as the one china policy. good morning. >> good morning. the one kind of policy. the notion that taiwan is inseparable part of china is a nonnegotiatesable for the government. in fact, accepting that policy is a prerequisite for any that want to have ties with beijing. the comments of donald trump not only infuriated the

here. >> reporter: china's foreign minister issued a clear warning monday. anyone who tries to damage the one china principle he says is simply lifting a rock that is dropped on their own foot. today, the global times went one step farther challenging the taos a fight. an editorial read especially in the taiwan strait, china is confident enough to arm wrestle with the u.s. and trump bruised protocol by speaking to taiwan's leader. he doubled down. >> we don't have to unless we make a deal with china. >> reporter: but for china, that policy is not up for negotiation. >> taiwan touched the most nerve in beijing. >> reporter: he's an affiliate with the carnegie institute. >> it's seen as

bilateral relationship, china will only be forced to act even tougher. >> reporter: and beijing has plenty of ways to fight back. as our largest trading partner, nearly $600 billion worth of trade is at stake. and china could retaliate against the u.s. by adding trailed barriers. and it could also stop cooperating on north korea and become more aggressive in the south china sea, a vital shipping route. the potential fallout from trump's rhetoric is causing concern on the streets of beijing. how important is it an issue for chinese people. it's very important said this man. it will be one china forever. not two. adding to the mixed signals trump's pick for ambassador here terry branstead is a long time friend of xi jinping.

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it is tuesday, december 13th, 2016. welcome back to "cbs this morning." more real news ahead, including president obama's legacy as our first black president. author ta-nehisi coates is in studio 57 looking at why the last eight years may never be repeated but first here is our "eye opener" at 8:00. >> tillerson has spent his entire career at exxonmobil so he has vastex enperice doing business with foreign government. >> rex tillerson will be the first secretary of state in decades to take the job witho n government experience. >> it looks like donald trump wants somebody like he said in the campaign, a ceo who made

they've seen goes beyond just cyber attacks. a staple of russian tactics to influence elections. >> it will be 1520 degrees below average. that arctic blast came with all kinds of snow. >> this cold just continues to spread on off to the south and the east. encompassing much of the eastern half of the country. >> this case goes forward to a jury, with the lawyerha tt she has, that i think she has a decent chance at success which is rare. >> trump this morning met with carly fiorina who was a bitter rival during the campaign. trump is supposedly considering her to be the director of intelligence. >> all of these athletes have given incorrect memorabilia, i was taken by shock o'neal's shoe. >> shock o'neal, you know, the guy from the move

>> i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell. president-elect donald trump announced that exxonmobil ceo rex tillerson is his choice for secretary of state. the president-elect tweeted the thing i like about rex tillerson is that he has vast experience at dealing successfully with all types of foreign governments. the world's largest publicly paraded oil company has made big drilling deals with russia. >> tillerson will face scrutiny from both parties for his close ties with russian president vladimir putin. they've known each other for 15 years. putin awarded tillerson the friendship award in 2013. in the 2013 speech, tillerson said this, only governments can open the avenues of free trade. one of the most promising developments on this front is the ongoing effort for the transpacific parter inship.

former governor rick perry for secretary of energy. perry is not the only nominee at odds for the agency he's poised to run. scott pruitt set to head climb change, is a climb change skeptic. and tom price of the health and human services is a strong critic of obamacare. and andrew. puz derwith the minimum wage. a senior official said united states has high confidence that russia was behind the hacking aimed at the election. president obama wants a review to be completed before president-elect trump is sworn

in. the president told "the daily show" trevor noah that the country should reflect on the election. >> leaks of what were, frankly, not very interesting e-mails, ended up being an obsession. and the fact that the russians were doing this was not an obsession. this was not a secret running up to the election. the president-elect, in some of his political events, specifically said to the russians, hack hillary's e-mails. >> the president said he wants to prevent future foreign interference in american elections. president obama will leave office in 5 1/2 weeks. the new cover story in "the atlantic" is called "my president was black." the history of the first african-american

what came next. national correspondent ta-nehisi cotes writes what obama was able to offer white america is something very few african-americans could, trust. he stands firm in his own cultural traditions. and says to the country something virtually no black person can but every president must, i believe you. ta-nehisi coates joins us at the table. how many word was this? >> 17,000. >> 17,000, 20 pages. >> you guys read twitter. >> it's a great read, congratulations. >> thank you. >> but you write this, you say he never could have succeeded along normal lines. he needed a partner. >> traditionally, the president came into office thinking, you know that he basically would work with congress. and he would start in this position and they would start in that position, and they would work together. anu

you know, legislation that would be the result of compromise. that did not actually happen. they did not want to come to the table. >> you say his greatest misstep is borne out of his insight? >> the great insight is the fact that it was possible for the country to elect a black president. that indeed the barrier of white supremacy actually could be vaulted by a special individual. him specifically. but that actually, i think, also caused him to underestimate the force of it. >> and because of his own upbringing. >> yes. >> why didn't they come to the table? >> well, i think what -- you know, if you look at the history, after 40 or 50 year, increasi increasingly, the parties have been can be racialized. >> racialized? >> yes. the democraticty

basically a black party. and the republican party is basically a white party. >> to say it was based on race is not entirely fair. you have a democratic president who is talking about a massive expansion of obamacare. no significant policy differences. but back to your article, what do you think has in your article, you write about black america? >> well, very few -- when you talk about race regulations, it's very rarely i look at you and you're black and i don't like you. it usually is complicated. it's hard to ignore, and i place together in the article. the obama watchers during a primary. the birth of it. >> and the state of the union address? >> right. the whole thing. you know, about the first food stamp president. you start hearing this over and over

this has some import. you're right, it's not the only thing. but the fact that it's an easy thing that is objectionable for a lot of people. >> i was there at the white house. however, there were personal differences that people had taken. you write so much in this article about how obama was able to become president, how he talked about race sometimes as president. sometimes, how he didn't talk about race. what does that all mean? >> that's the core of it? >> yeah. >> i think we have to struggle to find -- i say this in all of my criticisms of the president that i have, we really have to struggle to find an individual who would be able to deal with the great difficulty of having the majority of the white country while rooted in in experience about black race. one side said he should have spoke more about it. i am not convinced that would

>> the african-american people. >> i don't know if that's a majority opinion, the concept that he did actually speak out, you know, i don't think it was particularly clarified. >> you also write that he had to straddle two worlds. more than just black and white. he what-h to straddle two worlds. talk about that. >> i think that you could almost overestimate the fact that the president was biracial. it wasn't that he was biracial. it was that he was born and raised in hawaii. the place where the force, the legacy of jim crow is really there. he was born to parents who made him feel good about being black. you deputy remember, obama is born in '61, his mom brings his black dude home. >> an african. >> african. and they're like, okay. that's an unique scenario for black people. biracial or not. >> what did you

going into the sessions that you spent with him? >> it was more like i suspected things and almost all of it was confirmed. he is, again, i say this with all of my criticisms and disagreements. he's sincere. the optimism is not a joke. he's still optimistic to this day. i think he really, really believes in the resiliency of america. >> a deeply moral human being. one of the greatest presidents in american history. >> i believe that, very honest. >> ta-nehisi coates, thank you very much. it's a good read. a long read. >> you young people. >> we need it in the era of twitter. articles. you're right. mortgage rates have gone up since the election. jill schlesinger is in the toyota green room with

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this morning's eye on money, mortgage rates are at their highest level since 2014. a 30-rate fixed rate loan averages 56.2% of applicantses are looking to refinance. jill schlesinger has important reminders if you're thinking about a new mortgage. good morning. mortgage rates have claimed how much? >> we're down to 3.5% below the election. now getting towards 4.25%. i just want to always say that, look, it seems like a big jump. and it is a big jump, but we've seen much worse if you go back to the early '80s. 1981, average mortgage rate, ready for this guys, 16.95%. >> wow. >> even in 1992, 8.2%. so, yes, 4.25 seems terrible if you could have gotten 3.5%.

mortgage have rates higher than 4.5% so they may be able to refinance. part of this is because home prices have increased equity has improved. >> as a point of reference, how low did they get? >> we got down to, this is where you kick yourself, basically $3.25. 3%. obviously if you're at 5.5 and now you can reify, that's great. maybe you got a huge bill that's coming up, a tuition payment. you've got equity in your house now, maybe you want to change the term of your loan. you have a 30-year, 20-year looks better. a lot of people also have to realize that a whole bunch of people were out of work, they didn't look very good creditwise, they can now qualify. now could be a really good time to get a lot of people out there, refi, locking in a good rate. >> i remember that 1981, going to the bank. going to the

saying you have to have 20% down. where do you get that from? you're supposed to say, never mind, you have to go ahead. how important is the credit rating? that's a big deal. >> it is a big deal. now years gone by, credit has improved. if you've got a rate, say, above 740, you're going to get a really good rate. for every 20 points lower than that what happens, the rates start to inch up. usually by .25%. it's hard to refi if your credit score is below 620. if you look to buy a new house, you can get an fha loan. this is an opportunity to lock in an adjustable rate -- >> they're scary. >> they are scary. they're going to get scarier as rates rise. that may be a good reason to lock in. >> jill

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michael phelps was also honored last night as "sports illustrated" greatest olympian of all time. >> i feel like i'm on top of the world. i was able to get married this year. have my first child. i mean, i literally feel like the luckiest man in the world. >> that's a nice feeling, michael phelps. >> he's a decorated olympian, 28 medals, 23 golds. get married, have a baby. congrats. >> you go, lebron. >> you know that song? >> yes. >> go ahead, charlie. >> there's j.g. standing next to lebron, he looks like a midget. i didn't know i started until i knew you. we know that line, gayle. hailee steinfeld pretty good at

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i guess you like hailee. >> this is on my running play list. welcome back to "cbs this morning," coming up in this half hour, photographer used old methods to creates a fresh perspective in an old american history. how he's using it on ellis island to remind the country where its roots are. plus, actress hailee steinfeld is in the toyota green room. yes, i know the words too. she just earned a golden globe nod. how she finds a balance and also deals with heavy subjects. time so show you this morning's headlines around the globe. for the tine says bill gates is leading a million dollar push for clean energy. amazon's jeff bezos and facebook's mark zuckerberg are among the other investors.

woman has been dropped as the united nations aim bags tions a. linda carter who played wonder woman on tv was on hand. no reason was given. there was criticism with using a superhero with a sexual image to promote equality. researchers found that the average person has gotten happier. tackle depression and anxiety would be four times more effective as tackling poverty when it comes to the rates. it says more huma humus ray -- humusry is

everybody believes the grass is greener. >> that's right. >> that's right. be grateful for what you have. "usa today" says drug rates of smoking and drinking are the lowest in years. the rate of high schoolers sploking at least half a pack a day from 1991 to 11%. to now 1.8%. seniors say they have been drunk at least one, from 53% to just to 37% now. and the advice for the perfect gift. christmas, hanukkah, get the one they asked for, people. >> it's not difficult. >> just ask me, we'll tell you. few are happier getting those on the gift registry. some some cases they're happier still to receive cash. >> what do you want, gayle? >> yeah, what do you want. but there's one

try giving cash to your spouse. that's very tacky. sometimes, you pick out the perfect gift that you think the person would like, thank you. thank you so much. it's so pretty, what is it? >> what do you want for charlie? >> i don't know yet. >> the secretary of interior commissioned ansel adams to photograph the national parks 35 years ago. ever since there's an a refer reverence and response around the job. to document the heim touch on the american land scape. the first assignment was the little known ellis island. it's tucked behind the famous great hall. as part of series "america the beauty," jim axelrod is there. jim, good morning. >> good morning. air force veteran javab ez

is a native-american. photography became an obsession for him. a dream job making sure the past is preserved for the future. while at first look his work space doesn't look so dreamy. an area like this, is this a challenge four? >> this area is very much a challenge for me. ♪ >> reporter: this building, abandoned for 60 years, boarded up and filled with debris is actually supplies photographer jarod ortiz with both a challenge -- you've got to make something interesting when it's actually nothing but wide open space. >> exactly. >> reporter: -- and some powerful inspiration. >> when you're taking a photograph especially the way the public consumes photography, it's all instinct. real quick. so what you have to do is find a composition angle tha

them. that's where the light comes into play. usually you can draw light to people's emotions. >> reporter: ortiz is snapping his way to a forgotten corner of ellis island. far from the splendor of the great hall where 12 million immigrants entered the country. >> this room in particular very evocative for you. is there a way you can take a picture in 2016 which gives us a sense of the challenges of 100 years before? >> that's the hard part. because i don't think you can really capture that. that's more of the imagination. >> reporter: 80-year-old graffiti. carved into the wall here. paul kettunen, march, '35. that must grab your eye. >> that's a remembrance of his particular person. obviously, he thought it was important.

big happening here. >> reporter: ortiz is making sure all parts of the experience the ellis island are remembered. >> i definitely think about the emotion. i just can't imagine what it must have been like to go through that boat ride and coming off, it inspires me to do the best i can. i think it's important that the stories get told. >> ellis island is important to american history because immigration is important to american history. >> reporter: historian. >> 1 in 3 americans is ascended from somebody that walked through this wall. it's about real people doing real things. >> reporter: ortiz is the newest member of an exclusive club ever american photographers. those like ansel adams, who captured our national parks for the library of congress. and just like adams in the 1940s, jarod ortiz you uses a large format

>> it's a control thing. if you're willing to take it and just want to have all control over every single aspect of your image, this is the camera to use. >> large format cameras are old school. >> they are old school. but they're still used today. the resolution you get out of that, the film will blow away any digital photograph. >> really. >> you can't even come close. >> reporter: each shot can take up to an hour and a half to set up and keta. the process involving a lot of math and precision, all for just one split second, burned into film forever. >> what i'm doing is just trying to capture the essence of history and inform the public of what's happening in this location with my photographs. >> reporter: and why is that important? >> you think a lot of people forget about where we came from. it's what shapes us. it's how we know what we know.

precisely because he's focused on photographing buildings that are part of our national parks and not just landscapes. from the beginning of his photography career he's been passionate about documenting the industrial midwest. this job is an extension of that work making sure we don't forget the lives we've led in the past. >> wow, what a great piece. what a great photographer. amazing that digital photography cannot replicate that. >> old school. >> old school is good. >> yeah, love it. >> i'm a student there. >> me, too. i went to old school. i like old school. do you like old school, charlie? >> i do. i like new school as well. speaking of new school. hailee steinfeld, she's very much schooled. she can sing, ca

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go ahead, hailee -- ♪ know i was starving >> starving the new hit single from the multitalented hailee steinfeld. the singer and actress picked up her first golden globe nomination yesterday. go you. she plays a teenager when she thinks the world is ending when her best friend is dating her brother. >> i didn't have a chance to do homework last night because i don't know if you know this, but my dad passed away. it's just been really hard to do anything. >> date of passing? >> sorry? >> when did he die? >> on the 2/11. >> i have a one year

>> are you serious? >> there will be other opportunities. your grand parents can't stick around forever. >> a very funny scene. haley steinfield, woody harrelson is great in it, too. she received two critics choice nominations for the role of nadine. and she joins us at the table. congratulations. >> thank you. >> the golden globes came out yesterday. oscar nominee, a golden globe nominee. when you first heard, please don't tell me you were sleeping? >> no, actually, i was on a plane on my way here. it was actually more stressful. we find out and then we took off. i couldn't do anything about it. >> what a feeling, you turned 20 over the weekend. >> yeah. >> i read this about you, when you read the script you liked because it was a perfect representation of teenagers today. what did you mean? >> i rea

i always felt slightly off with them. i could never figure outside why. i read this and it honestly felt like an interpretation of what it feels like being a teenager today. how it affects who we are, and how we meet people. it just felt real. >> you should know because you were a teenager last year. >> yeah. >> talk about the film. because it's funny, as we just saw in that clip, but it also deals with some heavy issues. >> it does. it definitely does. one thing that is so incredible about this movie. it really walks that title rope as being, you know, playing a character that is really funny and witty and quick but is so fragile and sort of broken inside. and every single character, it's really a coming of age story for everyone in this movie which is also sort of real.

club" or "sweet six teen." have you heard that? >> to have a film that's mentioned in the same sentence as that, it's an honor. >> you've been doing many things for a while now. have you missed anything in terms of growing up? >> i don't -- >> because you were professional early. >> yeah, i personally don't feel that way. i know there are some experiences that i sort of -- i have an older brother i watched him go through high school. he went to the prom, homecomings, took the buses and all of that. i look at those experiences and realize i'll never have that. but i feel like i've made up for that. >> do you relate to nadine in terms of your childhood? were you bullied as a kid? were you ostracized? you've got a great

thy self. it's so empowering for young ladies or little girls. you very do declare i love myself. >> which is a good message for everybody. >> thank you. i definitely had social issues growing up. as i still do, as think you do throughout life, no matter who you are or how old you are or what you do. and i have found that very few people can speak about it. and to have a voice in have people willing to listen to me. to spread a message like love myself, is not only something i wanted to give to people. >> singing touches you like acting. we love your voice. >> thank you. >> he's not going to put you on this ipad. >> it's on mine. "love myself" is on my running play list. thank you. >> thank you. >> do you dance, too? >>

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♪ well, don't mess with this 72-year-old grand mother in nova scotia, canada. hanna frazier won her black belt in tae kwon do. she starred against her own granddaughter who is a black belt. and the martial arts is a way to stay active after a heart attack she had four years ago. she said attitude matters more than age. she's right. >> and don't mess with people in their 70s. >> you there go.

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it is beginning to feel a lot like christmas. we have got flowers and poinsettias all over the set and we are hoping to entertain you, it is cloudy outside, but you know what? it is nice can warm in here-- and warm in here and we have great things planned. >> planned, i haven't done christmas shopping. >> i started little by little. the last few weeks, my thing is if somebody gets me a surprise present i feel obligated to reciprocate. so sometimes i am shopping until christmas eve. what about you? >> no, i go way last minute. not this year, this week, this week i will finish my christmas shopping. >> you said it here. >> made a decision. yeah. next week ask me and i will say i forgot, this week. i will cross my fingers. >> maybe here is motivation, get your christmas shopping done to stay inside and watch the holiday specials. in less than a week you can catch a one-on-one interview at the white house with first lady michelle obama, oprah w

obama's 8 years as first lady. she plans to discuss her accomplishments in the white house and her plans for the future. a lot of people are asking her to run for an office. well the oprah winfrey special may answer that question, it airs here on wusa 9 at 8:00 p.m. december 19th. i will be watching and, chris, get your christmas shopping done and maybe we will all have time to watch. >> the whole great day washington watching. >> together. >> awesome, interesting. this saturday something special happens, it started locally in 1992 called wreaths across america. the purpose is to lay a wreath on every tombstone at arlington cemetery for the fallen soldiers, the names are spoken when the wreaths are laid. they are donated based and volunteers place