what they think of this nominee, could it have been worse or better from their point of view? and then perhaps they will start to answer the question that we have all been asking, which is how long do you block this person and if you a plan to step out of the way eventually, then what good does it do to stand in the way for three months, six months or what have you? >> nancy cordes at the capitol. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

besides firing sally yates, the white house attacked her personally, in line with mr. trump's way of answering questions. today the speaker of the house weighed in on all this, and nancy cordes is on capitol hill. >> regretly the rollout was confusing. >> reporter: house speaker paul ryan faulted the travel ban's launch but not the substance. >> what is happening is something we support. >> you have a lot of military and intelligence experts warning this is going to serve as a recruiting tool. >> the rhetoric around this could be used as a recruiting tool. >> reporter: it's more than just rhetoric. officials throughout the

that the timing of this has given isis a lifeline. you could not have given our adversaries better propaganda material. ryan argued it's a risk worth taking. >> there is an issue with respect to terrorists trying to infiltrate our refugee population. >> but they haven't been able to partly because our -- >> let me answer your question. there is nothing wrong with taking a pause and making sure we have the proper vetting standards in place. >> reporter: emboldened by protests, democrats are taking a harder line on a series of trump decisions. today, they locked down on confirmation votes for health and human services. >> we have great concern that senator hatch is asking us to vote on two nominees today who have out and out lied to our committee. >> reporter: republican orrin hatch was left to preside over an empty hearing room. >> i'm very

type of crap. my gosh, there's no excuse for it. >> reporter: things got more heated this afternoon when the senate's democratic leader accused the white house of incompetence leading to chaos. the republican leader shot back saying it's democrats sewing chaos because they lost the white house. a new poll out today says 49 percent of americans agree with the president's controversial travel ban from islamic countries, 41 percent oppose. mark phillips is watching the reaction of our u.s. allies. >> reporter: not just the crowds have poured on the streets -- >> refugees are welcome here. >> reporter: the disen chantment has reached the politics. along with the menace of vladimir putin's aggressive russia, and china's military buildup in the south china sea,

trump's united states has become a threat to europe, according to donald tusk, the president of the european union's most powerful body. >> we cannot surrender to those who want to weaken or invalidate the transatlantic bond, without which global order and peace cannot survive. >> reporter: what frightens the eu is president trump's support for the british to leave, expressed to prime minister theresa may, and for other countries to follow. that and his perceived lack of commitment to nato and now the refugee ban. >> this action is inhumane. it's racist. and it's immoral. >> hear, hear. >> reporter: his unpopularity is expressed in parliament. >> the wretched, bigoted man. >> reporter: and the petition calling for the president's planned state visit to be canceled has clicked up over 1.7 million signatures.

demonstrations, angry words in parliament, petition, condemnations from foreign leaders, the travel ban has driven yet another wedge between donald trump and the european allies. >> donald trump has got to go. >> reporter: and the fear is there is more to come. mark phillips, cbs news, london. that travel ban is opposed by many of the biggest american tech companies, which employ tens of thousands of foreign workers. we have more from john blackstone. >> reporter: when workers at google, silicon valley headquarters left their desks to protest president trump's immigration order, they flooded social media with images of their demonstration. >> >> i've spoken up strongly. >> reporter: the company's top executives joined them, including co-founder sergey brin, who was born in russia. >> the u.s. had the courage to take me and my family in as refugees. [ applause ] >> this is the land of the free. this is the land of opportunity. >> reporter: iranian-born, princeton educated hani goodarzi

university of california. he just canceled a trip to canada for a scheduled speech fearing as a green card holder he would not be allowed to return. >> i've lived here for ten years. i really don't have anywhere else to call home. so absolutely that feeling of not being wanted anymore, it really stinks. i cannot lie. >> reporter: companies across the technology and biotech industries have condemned the president's immigration order. in silicon valley, immigrants are seen as essential to the growth that has made this one of the most innovative places on earth. economist robert reich was labor secretary in the clinton administration. >> you have to understand, there has been for many years a brain drain from other countries to the united states. a lot of that to silicon valley. >> reporter: 37% of silicon valley workers are foreign-born, nearly three times the number in the rest of the nation. are they taking jobs away from americans? >> there is no evidence they're

taking jobs away from americans. they are adding jobs because they're innovating, and that creates more jobs for everybody else, for more innovators. >> reporter: several major tech companies are putting money into the fight against the immigration ban, including google, which has launched a $4 million crisis fund. and, scott, amazon has filed a declaration in support of a lawsuit by the state of washington challenging the president's order. >> john blackstone in the bay area. thanks. coming up next, fire destroyed a house of worship. then something remarkable happened. mom, i just saved a lot of money on my car insurance by switching to geico. i should take a closer look at geico... you know, geico can help you save money on your homeowners insurance too? great! geico can help insure our mountain chalet! how long have we been sawing this log? um, one hundred and fourteen years. man i thought my arm would be a lot more jacked by now. i'm not even sure this is real wood.

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friends of the suspect in sunday's mosque attack in quebec city say alexandre bissonnette was anti-immigrant and hostile to muslim refugees in particular. he is accused of murdering six and wounding 19 others as they prayed. in victoria, texas, muslims have been praying outside the ruins of their mosque since a weekend fire. we don't know what caused the fire, but we do know it ignited the passion of the city. here's david begnaud. >> reporter: this charred shell is all that's left of the victoria islamic center. >> this is the ladies' room here. >> reporter: dr. shahid hashmi is the center's president. he says the fire started just

he watched for three hours as firefighters lost the fight. >> it's a destroyed place but a sacred place. no doubt about it. no doubt about it. >> reporter: the mosque was burglarized nine days ago. investigators say it's too early to know what caused the fire, but the response has been uplifting. all faiths from the community have rallied in support of the center and turned out for a unity prayer service the day after the fire. around the world. >> from africa, from zimbabwe, from united kingdom. >> reporter: thousands of people have donated through an online go fund me page. you have nearly $1 million. >> we've gotten nearly $1 million from 20,000 people in three days. >> exactly. this is unbelievable. this is unbelievable and so uplifting. i can not thank enough. i cannot thank god enough. i cannot thank the supporting people enough. >> reporter: dr. gary branfman, a local jewish community leader, was one of the first to offer to help. >> what this spark did was instead of dividing us, it actually united us.

we all should learn? >> it just gives you a confirmation of the faith in humanity, no matter which faith you belong to, which color you belong to, which country you belong to, it doesn't matter, it's always good. and good always wins. >> reporter: and to that very point, scott, today we saw a couple standing on the side of the mosque, the man was holding an envelope. turns out they're from wisconsin, were vacationing here in south texas, heard about the fire, and on their way home to the midwest went out of their way to drive by and hand deliver a donation. >> david begnaud, thanks. and we'll be back in a moment.

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americans are living longer and in many cases stronger, so tonight we begin a special series celebrating the folks leading the way to longevity and inspiring the rest of us. here's omar villafranca. >> reporter: six days a week at 5:30 a.m., you'll find 75-year-old deette sauer swimming a total of 120 laps at this houston aquatic center. sauer admits when she first started swimming she felt like a fish out of water. >>it was horrible. i quit in the middle of the first lap. >> reporter: you couldn't even make a lap in the pool? >> no, and i was swimming with my head out of the water so

>> reporter: in her 40s, sauer was considered obese, tipping the scale at 250 pounds. she was ashamed when she couldn't fit into a small boat on a family vacation and decided to do something about her health. sauer changed her diet and started exercising. it wasn't easy, but she managed to lose 100 pounds in less than a year. >> you know what was funny, i had been so large that i forgot and didn't believe that you could actually get a waist back. >> reporter: she's competed in the last eight national senior games, an olympic-style competition for more than 10,000 seniors. she was 58 when she found her passion. >> i can't believe that i can be an athlete and win a medal at 58 years old. it's the senior games. >> reporter: now at 75, sauer has won more than 50 medals. michael phelps, never heard of him. >> oh, michael, what does he have, 12 or something? 23 times nine.

outside of the pool. twice a week she tutors kids at a local church, and three days a week she teaches english and history to her grandchildren via skype. sauer's personal trainer julie green is amazed at how sauer has defined living stronger. >> i am so in awe of that motivation that came from within her. >> reporter: sauer is now training for the national senior games this june in birmingham, alabama. how long do you think you'll keep swimming? >> it will have to be taken away from me. i'm not going to give it up. >> reporter: and not giving up means going for gold, even in her golden years. omar villafranca, cbs news, houston. and that's the "overnight news" for this wednesday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back with us a little it will later for the morning news and be sure not to miss "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm scott pelley.

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the "overnight news." i'm tony dokoupil. president trump's immigration ban continues to send political shockwaves around the world. the president of the european union has listed the trump administration as the third greatest threat to the eu. that after russia, china and before radical islam. the eu president donald tusk call it is trump presidency highly unpredictable. >> reporter: not just the crowds that are unhappy with donald trump, the disenha

reached the highest levels of european politics. donald trump's united states has become donald tusk, the president of the european union's most powerful body. >> we cannot surrender to those who want to weaken or invalidate the transatlantic bond, without which global order and peace cannot survive. >> reporter: what frightens the eu is president trump's support for the british to leave, expressed to prime minister theresa may, and for other countries to follow. that and his perceived lack of commitment to nato and now the refugee ban. >> this action is inhumane. it's racist. and it's immoral. >> hear, hear. >> reporter: his unpopularity is expressed in parliament. >> the wretched, bigoted man. >> reporter: and the petition calling for the president's

planned state visit to be canceled has clicked up over 1.7 million signatures. demonstrations, angry words in parliament, petition, condemnations from foreign leaders, the travel ban has driven yet another wedge between donald trump and the european allies. >> donald trump has got to go. >> reporter: and the fear is there is more to come. mark phillips, cbs news, london. quebec city is still reeling after the terror attack on a mosque that left six people dead and 17 others injured. the suspect is a local college student who later turned himself in. anna werner has more. >> reporter: police initially arrested two men following sunday night's shooting. the latest is just one. source tell cbs news that u.s. authorities did not have bissonette on their radar and police have not identified a radar. quebec cits

temperatures didn't stop thousands to pay tribute to the victims of sunday night's shooting rampage at a local mosque. >> they are home here. >> reporter: prime minister justin trudeau joined other canadian leaders showing their support for quebec's muslim community. more than 50 worshippers were in the mosque when the attack began during evening prayers. six men between the ages of 39 and 60 were shot and killed. >> our hearts are deeply troubled by what has happened to so many people in a place of worship. >> reporter: the suspect was a student at laval university. he appeared in court yesterday, charged with six points of first degree murder. >> the charges that have been made were disclosed by the evidence so far. it's an ongoing investigation. >> reporter: law enforcement sources tell cbs news they believe he's a right wing extremist.

>> make no mistake, this was a terrorist attack. >> reporter: prime minister trudeau has welcomed refugees banned by the u.s. he spoke in parliament to address the more than 1 million muslims who live in canada. >> 36 million hearts are breaking with yours. know that we value. >> reporter: one of the victims was 57-year-old store owner azidi. >> he is a friend. we didn't expect to have this in canada. >> reporter: now, white house spokesman sean spicer told reporters yesterday that this attack was an example of why president trump is taking steps to be proactive instead of reactive when it comes to national security. but of course, this attack was not from islamic terrorists but a homegrown suspect police say he

a new era has donned for the boy scouts of america. the scouts are accepting transgender boys. the change comes after a transgender boy was asked to leave his pack. david begnaud has more. >> reporter: in 2013, the scouts started accepting gay scouts. now they are making the decision to welcome transgender boys. it's an early birthday present for joe maldenado. he was born jody, but has been identifying as a boy for more than a year. we first heard from him around christmas when he was asked to leave his new jersey boy scout troop. but now he could be welcomed

if he wants to return. >> i like to go camping and do science experiments, eat cupcakes and stuff. it was fun. >> reporter: in a statement, the boy scout organization says he will accept and register youth in the programs based on the gender indicated on the application. previously, they only accepted children born male. >> this was a wakeup call for him, of our society could be so cruel. but then i'm happy, because then no other child is going to have to go through what my child went through. >> reporter: when the boy scouts started accepting gay troop leaders in 2015, after accepting gay scouts, the decision was met with both celebration and alarm. >> the young people in the scouts don't have a problem with this. it's mostly the adults having a hard time coming along. >> reporter: with the

decision to accept transgender boys, the organization remains committed to identifying program options that will help us truly serve the whole family, all while remaining true to our core values. advocates and transgender rights say in the long run, this policy change stands to benefit the scout organization's reputation. >> if you truly care about young people, what that means is you have compassion and understanding for the young kids that you're taking care of. >> reporter: we wanted to get a comment from organizations promoting traditional family values like "focus on the family." we reached out to them but have not heard back. the girl scouts, which are not affiliated with the boy scouts, reportedly started accepting transgender girls as far back as 2011. >> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

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medical examiners in italy say nearly all the victims of last month's deadly avalanche died instantly when tons of snow, ice, and uprooted trees destroyed a luxury ski resort. in all, 29 people were killed, 11 others survived. steve kroft has their story for "60 minutes." >> reporter: it took place on the grand sassa, a magnificent mountain range, just a 90-minute drive from rome. a perfect getaway for those seeking tranquility in out of the way places like this hotel. a small four-star resort that's played host to dignitaries and movie stars. but on the evening of january 18th, it was anything but tranquil. 40 guests and staff were gathered wn

the worst snowstorm in decades, and spoofed by a series of earthquakes that had rattled the hotel. >> translator: everybody wanted to leave. >> reporter: among the snowed in guests was this man, a chef from a nearby town who was there with his wife and two young children. some time after 5:00, he went out to the parking lot to get medicine for his son. >> you went out to your car? >> translator: yes, i went outside to the car, opened the car door, and then behind me i heard this noise of branches breaking and then a big cascade. and i started running away. i saw a tree and i just stood near that tree. >> reporter: did the snow hit you at all, did it bury you? >> translator: yes, the snow buried me a bit. then i got up and when i turned around, i sawll

was three, four meters of snow on top. all the trees were broken and everything. >> and the hotel? >> translator: then i saw that the hotel was gone, and my world fell apart that moment. and i said a prayer before making any calls. >> reporter: both witness and messenger, he called emergency numbers, but the cell phone signal was so weak, he wasn't sure they understood him. he eventually ran across another survivor and managed to get through to his boss. >> translator: i said to him, listen, call everybody because my phone isn't working. call somebody to help us, because the hotel is gone. >> what's going through your mind? >> transator: my family, my things, everything that mattered was gone.

maybe i could still do something. >> you made the phone call, and nothing happened for hours and hours. did you hear anything, could you hear anything at all up there? >> translator: no, we didn't hear anything. we screamed, we cried out. couldn't hear anything. there was total silence. nothing, nothing. >> reporter: the first sign of help came between 3:00 and 4:00 a.m., when an alpine emergency team of 14 men bearing shovels and rescue equipment arrived on skis and snowshoes, after a perilous trek through a blinding snowstorm. this man led the patrol. how long did it take you to get there?

four hours in the snowstorm. >> dangerous? >> translator: very dangerous. pieces of snow kept falling from the side of the mountain. it was pitch black. >> reporter: he and his men knew the area well, and the hotel. but the four-story structure had all but disappeared. they had trouble finding it, even with gps. >> translator: once we got there, we saw the lights of the two survivors in the car, so we knew there were people there. when we started to move around, we saw bits of material sticking out of the snow, so we knew we were in the right place, and that's where the hotel was. >> how were you physically and mentally at that point? >> translator: destroyed. physically, my feet were practically frozen and so were my hands.

they were taking me away with the sled, i was leaving my family there. i was in tremendous pain. >> reporter: he would be airl t airlifted to a hospital, suffering from hypothermia. as daybreak unveiled the extent of the tragedy. by 7:00 a.m., helicopters were shuttling more rescue crews to the site, where they delicately began digging with hands and shovels, looking for other survivors. with the mountain cut off from the rest of the countryside and concerns about more avalanches or earthquakes, the government set up a makeshift command center here, 17 miles away from the disaster site. it mobilized an emergency force of more than 1,000 hardened professionals and highly skilled volunteers. they were rushed here from all over italy, mostly organized and

well-trained 34-man teams that would work around the clock, alternating eight-hour shifts off and on the mountain. at first, they didn't know where to dig. the force of 120,000 tons of snow and debris slamming into the hotel at 50 miles an hour had crushed the structure and pulled it off its foundation. they had dogs to smell and fancy equipment to listen. tunnelers to dig holes and snakers to go down in them. 41 hours went by with no signs of life. rescuers had no way of knowing it, but there were nine survivors down there on the other side of the snow. among them, georgia and vincenzo, who were sipping tea when the avalanche exploded through the hotel. >> what did it sound like?

>> translator: like a bomb. >> translator: yes, it was a roar, and then everything fell. >> translator: i felt like a wave pushed over me. that's what i felt. >> and three seconds later, you were in a hole? >> translator: yes. >> reporter: a very dark, tiny hole. their cell phone flashlight revealed they were trapped in a small air pocket encased in snow, ice, broken timbers and tree limbs. >> translator: we immediately screamed to see if there was anybody else, and we heard that there were other voices and other people, and we communicated with them to know how they were. >> how many people did you make contact with or could you hear? >> translator: the two of us were close to each other and this was another girl, bute

and then a guy, i think he was behind us, but we couldn't see him but we could hear. and then a mother with a child we could hear. >> you were there almost 60 hours, 50 something hours. how did you spend the time? >> translator: we slept. we spoke among each other. we did nothing. >> just waited? >> translator: yes. >> did you ever lose hope when you were down there? what's going through your mind when you were down there in the dark? >> translator: no, you're not thinking. we never lost hope that someone would come for us. >> reporter: on january 20th, after two nights of being entombed, they finally heard the voices of rescuers above. it would take ten more hours to get them out. >> that's a long time.

>> translator: yes, but it didn't weigh on us because we were so happy they had arrived. and they always spoke to us and they made us calm. they always kept us in contact with them. they never gave up on us, not even for a moment. not one second in all those hours. >> translator: it was a miracle. >> translator: the true miracle was done by the rescuers. >> i heard somewhere that you called them angels. did that happen? >> translator: they take you out from underground, so it is fair to say they gave you a life for a second time. if you can't call them angels, i don't know who the angels are at this point. my life, my second life, i owe it to them. >> translator: you do it because of what's in

>> calling? >> yes, it's a mission. >> reporter: the witness and messenger was still in the hospital when he learned that his son, john filippo, his wife, adri adriana, and finally, hours later his 6-year-old daughter had been pulled safely from the rubble. the little girl was evacuated to the hospital with two other children that she had been alone with in an air pocket. they didn't know it at the time, but both of the boys had been orphaned. their parenting among the 29 dead. >> you can see the full story on our website, cbsnews.com. the "overnight news" will be right back. ce is there 24/7. oh dear, i got a flat tire. hmmm. uh... yeah, can you find a take where it's a bit more dramatic on that last line, yeah? yeah i got it right here. someone help me!!! i have a flat tire!!! well it's good... good for me. what do you think?

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each year, more than 2 billion tomatoes are sold around the world. but it's been cross bred to grow bigger and last longer. but at what cost? david begnaud has the story. >> reporter: a lot of people have been telling us they just don't taste like they used to. but now you have a team of researchers in florida who say they think they can change that. we went to gainesville to meet them and see exact think what they're up to. >> so this one here actually is a great example. this is an old variety of tomato that was commercial 100 years ago. >> reporter: harry klee has been researching tomatoes and their disappearing flavor for more than two decades. >> all we've done between now and then was to add water to this fruit to make it bigger and bigger.

to be commercially viable. big and hardy, but not necessarily tasty. >> there are 30 or more compounds that give us flavor in tomato. think of it as a sim pany, and think of what happened if i removed the instruments one by one. you wouldn't notice. then you get to a point where you've removed six, seven, eight, nine, ten, and all of a sudden, whoa, that doesn't sound the same. >> reporter: they sequenced genomes of 400 varieties of tomatoes. >> we gave many to consumers and said how much do you like this and what is in it? >> reporter: they matched up the flavors with specific genes. now klee says they can breed tomatoes to please farmers and eaters. so how do you make it better? >> genetics. we say this one has great flavor, this one has high yield. let's cross the two together and pick out the babies that have

great flavor. >> reporter: we constantly tell everybody eat more fruits and vegetables, but if we bred the flavor out of the food, it's not a surprise people don't want to eat them. >> reporter: mark wrote about food and flavor. >> we need to tell supermarkets we care about flavor. >> reporter: and if klee has his way, we'll all be enjoying this sweeter, more flavorable fruit very soon. >> hopefully we can have it in the supermarket in three years. >> reporter: so there you go, tomato lovers. he says they're not exactly engineering a new tomato. this is about breeding two better tasting tomatoes. >> that's the "overnight news" news for this wednesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others check back later for the morning news and

"cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm tony dokoupil. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com the supreme court decision. >> today i am keeping another promise to the american people by nominating judge neil gorsuch. >> i pledge that if i'm confirmed, i will do all my powers permit to be a faithful servant to the constitution and laws to this great country. also tonight, the firing and the firing back. >> the president's decision to fire attorney general sally yates is shameful. >> the attorney general says i'm not going to execute that order, that is a betrayal. after fire destroyed a

faiths have opened their hearts. >> it just gives you transformation of the faith in humanity. >> and living stronger, how a septuagenarian is winning the race against time. >> how long do you think you >>ll keep swimming? it will have to be taken from me. i am not going to give it up. this is the "cbs overnight news." president trump has nominated federal appeals court judge neil gorsuch to fill the vacancy on the u.s. supreme court. if confirmed by the senate and there is a big battle ahead on that, gorsuch will restore the high court's conservative majority. he clerked for justices byron white and anthony kennedy and was appointed to the bench by president george w. bush. gorsuch is 49, lives in boulder, colorado with his wife and two daughters. he raises horses, chickens and goats and got his sheepskin from columbia university, harvard law, and oxford. we have more now from our chief

crawford. jan? >> reporter: well, scott, judge gorsuch has a conservative judicial philosophy that is modeled after the justice president trump has nominated him to place, justice scalia. he has elite academic credentials. on the federal appeals court, he's considered someone with a sharp intellect. but without the sharp elbows. he has a foot in the west and many people say that is why he has that congenial manner and as president trump says he is fulfilling a campaign promise as he introduced neil gorsuch to america. >> millions of voters said this is the single most important issue to them, when they voted for me for president. i am a man of my word. i will do as i say. something that the american people have been asking for from washington for a very, very long time. >> when we judges don our ros

it doesn't make us any smarter. but it does serve as reminder of what is expected of us, impartiality and independence, collegiality and courage. >> reporter: and now the fight will begin and it will not be collegial. although judge gorsuch was confirmed unanimously, so uncontroversial it was a voice vote to the federal appeals court, democrats are already vowing a fight. this confirmation will not be unanimous. scott. >> jan crawford for us tonight. thank you. let's join cbs news political correspondent jon dickerson from his set of "face the nation." john, it looks like there is a fight coming up. >> this is going to be a fight, democrats have to show a couple of things. one, that they are going to pay back the republicans in the senate who delayed barack obama's pick of merrick garland, there is a lot of anger still about that. then secondarily, democrats who are in a mood in the country,

the grassroots of the democratic party are in a mood to fight president trump, and so they want to see the senate democrats fight on those grounds. the challenge for senate democrats though is if this -- with a candidate, nominee who has such sterling credentials, can they find a reason other than the fact they don't like donald trump? because after a while, they are going to need that and not just want to be totally obstructionist because the situation is different now than it was for barack obama at the end of his second term. >> john dickerson, thank you very much. now let's go to our chief white house correspondent and our chief congressional correspondent major garrett at the white house, nancy cordes on capitol hill. major? >> reporter: well, good evening and welcome to a still crowded east room, still very chatty, lots of conversation, reaction to president trump's nomination of neil gorsuch. it has unquestionably been a turbulent 48, 72 hours for the incoming trump white house but

knit together the political sensibilities and energy of congressional republicans it would be this nomination for this untilled seat on the supreme court. the scalia seat. and it is important to note that in the east room tonight in the second row, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell sitting right next to him, the house speaker, paul ryan, a good number of republican senators from the leadership and rank and file are here, so is former attorney general ed meese of the reagan administration. a strong signal from this white house that is it trying to keep alive a conservative approach to the supreme court. it has found a conservative who called antonin scalia a lion of the court, if so neil gorsuch is a lion in training, intellectually, and it is that approach to the constitution, the law and his own temperament that many senate republicans have told me tonight they believe will stand in good stead for neil gorsuch as he approaches senate confirmation and they also said to the

question of why merrick garland was not even given a hearing or voted on by the senate during the campaign, they say that issue has been asked and answered. asked to the voters, answered by the election of president trump. and that will be their response to democrats who say turn about is fair play, we will try to delay this nomination. >> major garrett in the east room of the white house tonight. let's go to nancy cordes. nancy, the nomination of merrick garland by president obama was held up by republicans in the senate for 293 days, by far a record. what does this nomination have in store in the senate? >> reporter: well, democrats have been saying for weeks, scott, that they will decide just ow vigorously and how long they will try to block this nomination, once they saw who the nominee was. they said if it is someone who is in the mainstream they will consider that person, if it is someone outside of the mainstream of legal thought, then they will work very hard to prevent that person from taking a seat on the supreme court.

so what do they think of judge gorsuch? well, so far, the opinion seems to be all over the map based on the senators who have weighed in with statements so far. for example, mark werner of virginia says the judge has a very impressive resume and looks forward to learning more and other democrats like richard blumenthal of connecticut who called him an extreme idealogue. so you are going to see a debate within the democratic party of just what they think of this nominee, could it have been worse or better from their point of view? and then perhaps they will start to answer the question that we have all been asking, which is how long do you block this person and if you a plan to step out of the way eventually, then what good does it do to stand in the way for three months, six months or what have you? >> nancy cordes at the capitol. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

besides firing sally yates, the white house attacked her personally, in line with mr. trump's way of answering critics. in addition to saying that she betrayed the justice department, the white house statement called her weak on borders and very weak on immigration. today the speaker of the house weighed in on all this, and nancy cordes is on capitol hill. >> regrettably, the rollout was confusing. >> reporter: in his first public comments, house speaker paul ryan faulted the travel ban's launch but not the substance. >> what is happening is something we support. >> you have a lot of military and intelligence experts warning this is going to serve as a recruiting tool for isis. >> the rhetoric around this could be used as a recruiting tool. i think that's dangerous. >> reporter: it's more than just rhetoric. according to internal state department memos, officials throughout the

warned u.s. diplomats that the timing of this has given isis a lifeline. you could not have given our adversaries better propaganda material. ryan argued it's a risk worth taking. >> there is an issue with respect to terrorists trying to infiltrate our refugee population. >> but they haven't been able to partly because our -- >> i'm not here to debate, i'm here to answer your questions. there is nothing wrong with taking a pause and making sure we have the proper vetting standards in place. >> reporter: emboldened by protests, democrats are taking a harder line on a series of trump decisions. today, they walked down on confirmation votes for the health and human services and the treasury department. ohio democrat sherrod brown. >> we have great concern that senator hatch is asking us to vote on two nominees today who have out and out lied to our committee. >> reporter: republican orrin hatch was left to preside over an empty hearing room. >> i'm very disappointed in this mype of crap.

>> reporter: things got more heated this afternoon when the senate's democratic leader accused the white house of incompetence leading to chaos. the republican leader shot back saying it's democrats sewing chaos because they can't get over losing the white house. >> nancy cordes at the capitol. a new poll out today says 49 percent of americans agree with the travel ban. 41 percent oppose. mark phillips is watching the reaction of our u.s. allies. >> reporter: not just the crowds have poured on to the streets of europe are angry with donald trump -- >> refugees are welcome here. >> reporter: the disenchantment has reached the highest levels of european politics. along with the menace of vladimir putin's aggressive russia, and china's military buildup in the south china sea, and militant islamna

trump's united states has become a threat to europe, according to donald tusk, the president of the european union's most powerful body. >> we cannot surrender to those who want to weaken or invalidate the transatlantic bond, without which global order and pece cannot survive. >> reporter: what frightens the eu is president trump's support for the british to leave, expressed to prime minister theresa may, and for other countries to follow. that and his perceived lack of commitment to nato and now the refugee ban. >> this action is inhumane. it's racist. and it's immoral. >> hear, hear. >> reporter: his unpopularity is expressed in parliament. >> the wretched, bigoted man. >> reporter: and the petition calling for the president's planned state visit to be canceled has clicked up over 1.7 million signatures. demonstrations, an

parliament, petitions, condemnations from foreign leaders, the travel ban has driven yet another wedge between donald trump and the european allies. >> donald trump has got to go. >> reporter: and the fear is there is more to come. mark phillips, cbs news, london. that travel ban is opposed by many of the biggest american tech companies, which employ tens of thousands of foreign workers. we have more from john blackstone. >> reporter: when workers at google, silicon valley headquarters left their desks to protest president trump's immigration order, they flooded social media with images of their demonstration. >> i've spoken up strongly. >> reporter: the company's top executives joined them, including co-founder sergey brin, who was born in russia. >> the u.s. had the courage to take me and my family in as refugees. [ applause ] >> this is the land of the free. this is the land of opportunity. >> reporter: iranian-born, ce

heads a cancer lab at the university of california. he just canceled a trip to canada for a scheduled speech fearing as a green card holder he would not be allowed to return. >> i've lived here for ten years. i really don't have anywhere else to call home. so absolutely that feeling of not being wanted anymore, it really stinks. i cannot lie. >> reporter: companies across the technology and biotech industries have condemned the president's immigration order. in silicon valley, immigrants are seen as essential to the growth that has made this one of the most innovative places on earth. economist robert reich was labor secretary in the clinton administration. >> you have to understand, there has been for many years a brain drain from other countries to the united states. a lot of that to silicon valley. >> reporter: 37% of silicon valley workers are foreign-born, nearly three times the number in the rest of the nation. are they taking jobs away from americans?

>> there is no evidence they're taking jobs away from americans. they are adding jobs because they're innovating, and that creates more jobs for everybody else, for more innovators. >> reporter: several major tech companies are putting money into the fight against the immigration ban, including google, which has launched a $4 million crisis fund. and, scott, amazon has filed a declaration in support of a lawsuit by the state of washington challenging the president's order. >> john blackstone in the bay area. thanks. coming up next, fire destroyed a house of worship. then something remarkable happened. ok, let's try this. ok, it says you apply the blue one to me.

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friends of the suspect in sunday's mosque attack in quebec city say alexandre bissonnette was anti-immigrant and hostile to muslim refugees in particular. he is accused of murdering six and wounding 19 others as they prayed. in victoria, texas, muslims have been praying outside the ruins of their mosque since a weekend fire. we don't know what caused the fire, but we do know it ignited the passion of the city. here's david begnaud. >> reporter: this charred shell is all that's left of the victoria islamic center. >> this is the ladies' room here. >> reporter: dr. shahid hashmi is the center's president. he says the fire started just after 2:00 a.m. saay

he watched for three hours as firefighters lost the fight. >> it's a destroyed place but a sacred place. no doubt about it. no doubt about it. >> reporter: the mosque was burglarized nine days ago. investigators say it's too early to know what caused the fire, but the response has been uplifting. all faiths from the community have rallied in support of the center and turned out for a unity prayer service the day after the fire. around the world. >> from africa, from zimbabwe, from united kingdom. >> reporter: thousands of people have donated through an online go fund me page. you have nearly $1 million. >> we've gotten nearly $1 million from 20,000 people in three days. >> exactly. this is unbelievable. this is unbelievable and so uplifting. i can not thank enough. i cannot thank god enough. i cannot thank the supporting people enough. >> reporter: dr. gary branfman, a local jewish community leader, was one of the first to offer to help. >> what this spark did was instead of dividing us, it actually united us.

we all should learn? >> it just gives you a confirmation of the faith in humanity, no matter which faith you belong to, which color you belong to, which country you belong to, it doesn't matter, it's always good. and good always wins. >> reporter: and to that very point, scott, today we saw a couple standing on the side of the mosque, the man was holding an envelope. turns out they're from wisconsin, were vacationing here in south texas, heard about the fire, and on their way home to the midwest went out of their way to drive by and hand deliver a donation. >> david begnaud, thanks. and we'll be back in a moment.

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if it's got to be clean it's got to be tide. the boy scouts are reversing a century-old policy and will now welcome transgender children who identify as boys. there was national debate last year when eight-year-old joe maldonado of new jersey was kicked out after scout leaders found he was born a girl. budweiser gave us a preview today of a super bowl ad that turns out to fit our times. >> you don't look like you're from around here. >> the commercial tells the story of co-founder adolphous busch and his tough journey immigrating from germany to america in 1857. the company says while the tale is relevant, it was not meant to be political. it was sink or swim for deette sauer. how she turned her life around next.

americans are living longer and in many cases stronger, so tonight we begin a special series celebrating the folks leading the way to longevity and inspiring the rest of us. here's omar villafranca. >> reporter: six days a week at 5:30 a.m., you'll find 75-year-old deette sauer swimming a total of 120 laps at this houston aquatic center. sauer admits when she first started swimming she felt like a fish out of water. >> it was horrible. i quit in the middle of the first lap. >> reporter: you couldn't even make a lap in the pool? >> no, and i was swimming with my head out of the water so my hair wouldn't get wet. >> reporter: in her 40s, s

was considered obese, tipping the scale at 250 pounds. she was ashamed when she couldn't fit into a small boat on a family vacation and decided to do something about her health. sauer changed her diet and started exercising. it wasn't easy, but she managed to lose 100 pounds in less than a year. >> you know what was funny, i had been so large that i forgot and didn't believe that you could actually get a waist back. >> reporter: she's competed in the last eight national senior games, an olympic-style competition for more than 10,000 seniors. she was 58 when she found her passion. >> i can't believe that i can be an athlete and win a medal at 58 years old. it's the senior games. >> reporter: now at 75, sauer has won more than 50 medals. michael phelps, never heard of him. >> oh, michael, what does he have, 12 or something? 23 times nine.

>> reporter: she's also active outside of the pool. twice a week she tutors kids at a local church, and three days a week she teaches english and history to her grandchildren via skype. sauer's personal trainer julie green is amazed at how sauer has defined living stronger. >> i am so in awe of that motivation that came from within her. >> reporter: sauer is now training for the national senior games this june in birmingham, alabama. how long do you think you'll keep swimming? >> it will have to be taken away from me. i'm not going to give it up. >> reporter: and not giving up means going for gold, even in her golden years. omar villafranca, cbs news, houston. and that's the "overnight news" for this wednesday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back with us a little it will later for the morning news and be sure not to miss "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm scott pelley.

this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the "overnight news." i'm tony dokoupil. president trump's immigration ban continues to send political shockwaves around the world. the president of the european union has listed the trump administration as the third greatest threat to the eu. that after russia, china and before radical islam. the eu president donald tusk calls the trump presidency highly unpredictable. mark phillips reports. >> reporter: not just the crowds that have poured on to the streets of europe are angry with donald trump, the disenchantment has reached the highest levels of european politics. along with the

vladamir putin's aggressive russia and china's military buildup in the south china sea and militant islam, donald trump's united states has become a threat to europe, according to donald tusk, the president of the european union's most powerful body. >> we cannot surrender to those who want to weaken or invalidate the transatlantic bond and peace cannot survive. >> reporter: what frightens the eu is president trump's support for the british to leave, expressed to prime minister theresa may, and for other countries to follow. that and his perceived lack of commitment to nato and now the refugee ban. >> this action is inhumane. it's racist. and it's immoral. >> hear, hear. >> reporter: his unpopularity is expressed in parliament. >> the wretched, bigoted man. >> reporter: and the petition

planned state visit to be canceled has clicked up over 1.7 million signatures. demonstrations, angry words in parliament, petitions, condemnations from foreign leaders, the travel ban has driven yet another wedge between donald trump and the european allies. >> donald trump has got to go. >> reporter: and the fear is there is more to come. mark phillips, cbs news, london. quebec city is still reeling after the terror attack on a mosque that left six people dead and 17 others injured. the suspect is a local college student who later turned himself in. anna werner has more. >> reporter: police initially arrested two men following sunday night's shooting. the latest just one. alexander bissonette remains a suspect. sources tell cbs news that u.s. authorities did not have bissonette on their radar and police have not identified a motive. quebec city's frigid temperatures didn't stop

thousands from paying tribute to the victims of sunday night's shooting rampage at a local mosque. >> they are home here. >> reporter: prime minister justin trudeau joined other canadian leaders showing their support for quebec's muslim community. more than 50 worshippers were in the mosque when the attack began during evening prayers. six men between the ages of 39 and 60 were shot and killed. >> our hearts are deeply troubled by what has happened to so many inseenlt people in a place of worship. >> reporter: the suspect was a student at laval university. he appeared in court yesterday, and was charged with six counts of first degree murder. >> the charges that have been made were disclosed by the evidence so far. it's an ongoing investigation. >> reporter: law enforcement sources tell cbs news they believe he's a right wing extremist. on facebook, he liked the

political organization generation nationale. >> make no mistake, this was a terrorist attack. >> reporter: prime minister trudeau has welcomed refugees banned by the u.s. he spoke in parliament to address the more than 1 million muslims who live in canada. >> 36 million hearts are breaking with yours. know that we value. >> reporter: one of the victims was 57-year-old store owner azidi sufuron. >> he is a friend. we didn't expect to have this in canada. >> reporter: now, white house spokesman sean spicer told reporters yesterday that this attack was an example of why president trump is taking steps to be proactive instead of reactive when it comes to national security. but of course, this attack was not from islamic terrorists but a homegrown suspect police say here in quebec. a new era has donned for t

starting this week, the scouts are accepting transgender boys as members. the change comes one month after a transgender kid from new jersey was asked to leave his cub scout pack. david begnaud has more. >> reporter: it's the latest shift in a long standing policy for an organization that's now 107 years old. back in 2013, the boy scouts started acceting gay scouts. now they say they are following trends in state laws nationwide by making the decision to welcome transgender boys. >> i definitely won. >> reporter: it's an early birthday present for joe mardano. he was born jody, but has been identifying as a boy for more than a year. we first heard from him around christmas when he was asked to leave his new jersey boy scout troop. but now the transgender boy would be welcomed back, even thoughth

>> i like to go camping and do science experiments, eat cupcakes and stuff. it was fun. >> reporter: in a statement, the boy scout organization says we will accept and register youth in the programs based on the gender indicated on the application. previously, they only accepted children born male. >> this was a wakeup call for him, of how society could be so cruel. but then i'm happy, because then no other child is going to have to go through what my child went through. >> reporter: when the boy scouts started accepting gay troop leaders in 2015, two years after accepting gay scouts, the decision was met with both celebration and alarm. >> the young people in the scouts don't have a problem with this. it's mostly the adults having a hard time coming along. >> reporter: with the new decision to accept transgender boys, the organi

committed to identifying program options that will help us truly serve the whole family, all while remaining true to our core values. ed a voi advocates of transgender rights say in the long run, this policy change stands to benefit the scout organization's rputation. >> if you truly care about young people, what that means is you have compassion and understanding for the young kids that you're taking care of. >> reporter: we wanted to get a comment from organizations promoting traditional family values like "focus on the family" and the family research council. we reached out to them but have not heard back. it's worth pointing out that the girl scouts, which are not affiliated with the boy scouts, reportedly started accepting transgender girls as far back as 2011. >> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

medical examiners in italy say nearly all the victims of last month's deadly avalanche died instantly when tons of snow, ice, and uprooted trees destroyed a luxury ski resort. in all, 29 people were killed, 11 others survived. steve kroft has their story for "60 minutes." >> reporter: it took place on the grand sassa, a magnificent mountain range with excellent skiing, just a 90-minute drive from rome. a perfect getaway for those seeking tranquility in out of the way places like this hotel. a small four-star resort that's played host to dignitaries and movie stars. but on the evening of january 18th, it was anything but tranquil. 40 guests and staff were gathered downstairs, trapped by the wors

and spooked by a series of earthquakes that had rattled the hotel. >> translator: everybody wanted to leave. >> reporter: among the snowed in guests was this man, a chef from a nearby town who was there with his wife and two young children. some time after 5:00, he went out to the parking lot to get medicine for his son. >> you went out to your car? >> translator: yes, i went outside to the car, opened the car door, and then behind me i heard this noise of branches breaking and then a big cascade. and i started running away. i saw a tree and i just stood near that tree. >> reporter: did the snow hit you at all, did it bury you? >> translator: yes, the snow buried me a bit. then i got up and when i turned around, i saw all the cars piled on top of each other, and there was three, four meters of snow on top. all the trees were broken and everything.

>> and the hotel? >> translator: then i saw that the hotel was gone, and my world fell apart that moment. and i said a prayer before making any calls. >> reporter: both witness and messenger, he called emergency numbers, but the cell phone signal was so weak, he wasn't sure they understood him. he eventually ran across another survivor and managed to get through to his boss. >> translator: i said to him, listen, call everybody because my phone isn't working. call somebody to help us, because the hotel is gone. >> what's going through your mind? >> translator: my family, my things, everything that mattered was gone. i didn't want to lose hope. maybe i could still do

>> you made the phone call, and nothing happened for hours and hours. did you hear anything, could you hear anything at all up there? >> translator: no, we didn't hear anything. we screamed, we cried out. couldn't hear anything. there was total silence. nothing, nothing. >> reporter: the first sign of help came between 3:00 and 4:00 a.m., when an alpine emergency team of 14 men bearing shovels and rescue equipment arrived on skis and snowshoes, after a perilous trek through a blinding snowstorm. this man led the patrol. how long did it take you to get there? >> translator: it took us nearly four hours in the snowstorm.

>> dangerous? >> translator: very dangerous. pieces of snow kept falling from the side of the mountain. it was pitch black. >> reporter: he and his men knew the area well, and the hotel. but the four-story structure had all but disappeared. they had trouble finding it, even with gps. >> translator: once we got there, we saw the lights of the two survivors in the car, so we knew there were people there. when we started to move around, we saw bits of material sticking out of the snow, so we knew we were in the right place, and that's where the hotel was. >> how were you physically and mentally at that point? >> translator: destroyed. physically, my feet were practically frozen and so were my hands. em

they were taking me away with the sled, i was leaving my family there. i was in tremendous pain. >> reporter: he would be airlifted to a hospital, suffering from hypothermia. as daybreak unveiled the extent of the tragedy. by 7:00 a.m., helicopters were shuttling more rescue crews to the site, where they delicately began digging with hands and shovels, looking for other survivors. with the mountain cut off from the rest of the countryside and concerns about more avalanches or earthquakes, the government set up a makeshift command center here, 17 miles away from the disaster site. it mobilized an emergency force of more than 1,000 hardened professionals and highly skilled volunteers. they were rushed here from all over italy, mostly organized and well-trained 34-man teams that

would work around the clock, alternating eight-hour shifts off and on the mountain. at first, they didn't know where to dig. the force of 120,000 tons of snow and debris slamming into the hotel at 50 miles an hour had crushed the structure and pulled it off its foundation. they had dogs to smell and fancy equipment to listen. tunnelers to dig holes and snakers to go down in them. 41 hours went by with no signs of life. rescuers had no way of knowing it, but there were nine survivors down there on the other side of the snow. among them, georgia and vincenzo, who were sipping tea when the avalanche exploded through the hotel. >> what did it sound like? >> translator: like a bomb.

>> translator: yes, it was a roar, and then everything fell. >> translator: i felt like a wave pushed over me. that's what i felt. >> and three seconds later, you were in a hole? >> translator: yes. >> reporter: a very dark, tiny hole. their cell phone flashlight revealed they were trapped in a small air pocket encased in snow, ice, broken timbers and tree limbs. >> translator: we immediately screamed to see if there was anybody else, and we heard that there were other voices and other people, and we communicated with them to know how they were. >> how many people did you make contact with or could you hear? >> translator: the two of us were close to each other and

this was another girl, but we couldn't see the other girl. and then a guy, i think he was behind us, but we couldn't see him but we could hear. and then a mother with a child we could hear. >> you were there almost 60 hours, 50 something hours. how did you spend the time? >> translator: we slept. we spoke among each other. we did nothing. >> just waited? >> translator: yes. >> did you ever lose hope when you were down there? what's going through your mind when you were down there in the dark? >> translator: no, you're not thinking. we never lost hope that someone would come for us. >> reporter: on january 20th, after two nights of being entombed, they finally heard the voices of rescuers above. it would take ten more hours to get them out. >> that's a long time. >> translator: yesbu

didn't weigh on us because we were so happy they had arrived. and they always spoke to us and they made us calm. they always kept us in contact with them. they never gave up on us, not even for a moment. not one second in all those hours. >> translator: it was a miracle. >> translator: the true miracle was done by the rescuers. >> i heard somewhere that you called them angels. did that happen? >> translator: they take you out from underground, so it is fair to say they gave you life for a second time. if you can't call them angels, i don't know who the angels are at this point. my life, my second life, i owe it to them. >> translator: you do it because

of what's in your heart. >> calling? >> yes, it's a mission. >> reporter: the witness and messenger was still in the hospital when he learned that his son, john filippo, his wife, adriana, and finally, hours later his 6-year-old daughter had been pulled safely from the rubble. the little girl was evacuated to the hospital with two other children that she had been alone with in an air pocket. they didn't know it at the time, but both of the boys had been orphaned. their parents among the 29 dead. >> you can see the full story on our website, cbsnews.com. the "overnight news" will be right back. when heartburn hits, fight back fast with tums smoothies. it starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue. and neutralizes stomach acid at the source. ♪ tum -tum -tum -tum smoothies! only from tums 48 hours of protection. ♪ i don't have to reapply this... not once! it's really soft and almost velvety... as you put it on.

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spring planting season is fast approaching, and there are new concerns about a popular weed killer. omar villafranca has our story. >> reporter: roundup is one of the most popular weed killers on the market. used by everyday gardners and farmers because of its effectiveness. david anis is with the texas a&m agrilife extension. >> it's cost effective and very effective controlling weeds. >> reporter: it's a commercially sold weed killer manufactured by monsanto. the main ingredient is glyphosate, a chemical efficient at destroying various types of weeds. >> they can spray the weeds and plant right into where they sprayed. >> reporter: but the country's largest agricultural state is

considering the new warning label on roundup. california officials want to list it as a chemical that possibly causes cancer, citing limited evidence. monsanto is suing california, rejecting that their product poses a health risk, calling the proposal flawed and baseless and that it violates the constitution. killing weeds is big business. last year, monsanto reported $3.5 billion in global sales of crop control products, which include roundup. and there's more at stake for monsanto than just the weed killer. many of the company's genetically modified crops are designed with an immunity to glyphosate. >> it's becoming one of the more widely used materials on the planet. >> reporter: jeffrey stod is a professor at cornell university. >> it's toxic to any plant and

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captioning funded by cbs it's wednesday, february 1st, 2017. this is the "cbs morning news." so was that a surprise? was it? >> the president makes his pick, tapping a conservative judge for the supreme court. neil gorsuch heads to the court this morning while democrats gear up for battle. >> i only hope democrats and republicans can come together for once for the good of the country. and speaker of the house paul ryan backs mr. trump's travel ban but stops short of full support. co regrettably the rollout was