interfering with the kind of travel or suggesting a religious test. we need to avoid doing that kind of thing. >> reporter: house speaker paul ryan said while he supports the ban's goal to keep terrorists out, he acknowledged it had initial flaws. >> nobody wanted green card holders to get mixed up in this or people with special visas, people in transit. so i do think there was a problem with the rollout. >> reporter: nancy pelosi echoed views common among democratic leadership. >> we always have to subject our vetting to scrutiny to see if it's working. but that doesn't mean we institute a ban on muslims coming into this country. >> reporter: as president trump returns from florida, a busy week awaits. in addition to fighting for his travel ban, four of his cabinet nominees will be up for confirmation votes. excluding the vice president, only four cabinet member posts have been filled so far. >> errol barnett, thanks. >

signed up for the run for refugees in new haven, connecticut today. kenneth craig is there. >> reporter: 17-year-old mahmoud and his family are living the american dream. he's a high school senior, a runner and a refugee. today, he's pounding the pavement with a purpose and full heart. >> i feel so happy that i can see the real people that are speaking with the refugees, that they are standing with the refugees. that make mess so excited. >> reporter: his family came to the united states as refugees in 2014 from war-torn iraq. >> i was so excited to get on an airplane. maybe i'm in a dream. >> reporter: they started a new chapter in connecticut with the help of an organization known as iris, which has been resettling ref joes since 1982. this annual race took on a new life when president trump signed an executive order banning visitors from seven muslim

executive director chris george says within 48 hours, the race sold out at more than 2500 runners. >> people were so motivated to demonstrate their support for refugees, they registered in droves. >> reporter: 23-year-old refugee sam rose and his family fled iran to escape persecution for being christian. this fall they opened a family catering business. and at today's race they gave back, serving up a taste of their homeland and a lot of gratitude, one goal at a time. >> we're excited. i think if there's more of us like this, there's going to be a huge difference how people view refugees. >> reporter: organizers say this year they've raised more money than the last nine years combined. but they say it's not about the money, but instead this remarkable show of support. >> kenneth craig, thanks. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

the travel ban has rattled thousands of immigrant families and its effects are perhaps most widespread among the iranian-american community. hundreds of thousands of iranian-americans live in the u.s. mireya villarreal has their stories. >> it was the best of -- time of our life but turned out to be the worst time of our life. >> reporter: hasan spent eight months and thousands of dollars to legally get his parents into the united states. but on their way to los angeles, the elderly couple was held for more than 20 hours. despite having valid visas, customs agents, citing president trump's travel ban, sent them back to tehran. you had big plans? >> i had big plans. they took care of us when we re

turn. >> reporter: adding to the confusion, his parents were told to sign this document befo >> application for admission. the way it was presented, you need to sign this, and they believed them. >> reporter: protesters and immigration attorneys have been pushing back for more than a week, demanding answers from customs and border protection. their efforts have created enough verification to calm the confusion, reopening the door to visitors who have valid green cards and visas. emergency boarding documents were issued for this 4-month-old iranian infant with a heart defect, scheduled to have surgery in portland, oregon where her grandparents live. the hugs looked a little tighter and seemed to last a little longer at reunions happening at san francisco, minnesota, and los angeles, where just a week ago hussein was in tears after hearing his brother, who he hadn't seen in three years, was being sent back to iran. >> my brother is --

>> reporter: ali was the first iranian man to return to the u.s. on thursday after being deported because of president trump's executive order, despite having a valid visa. >> i am so happy. >> reporter: the mayor of los angeles stood by the family during their reunion, doubling down on his strong stance against president trump's immigration policies. >> we are a city of sanctuary, refuge, and also of defense of our constitution. >> reporter: after seven years living apart, eight months of planning and a week of heartache, he will finally see his parents. a reunion he says that's well worth the wait. immigration attorneys are still here at lax's international terminal helping families any way they can. the aclu received $31 million in donations over the last weekend, money to help continue their fight in federal court. >> mireya villarreal, thank you.

this weekend, president trump vowed to be a peacemaker in ukraine, and issued a new defense of vladamir putin. jonathan vigliotti has the latest from london. >> reporter: calm has now returned to eastern ukraine, where violence between u.s.-backed government forces and russian-backed separatists surged last week. leaving dozens dead. today's lull in fighting came as president trump pledged to help bring peace to the region. trump phoned the ukrainian president poroshenko on saturday telling him he would "work with ukraine, russia, and all other parties involved to help restore peace." concerns have been mounting over how trump would balance the u.s.' long-time support for ukraine, while also developing warmer relations with russia. in an interview with fox news sunday, trump seemed to downplay president putin's history of violence. >> do you respect putin? >> i do respect him. >> do you? why? >> i respe a

he's the leader of his country. >> putin is a killer. >> there are a lot of killers. there are a lot of killers. do you think our country is so innocent? >> reporter: the conflict between the ukraine and russia started in 2014, when protesters ousting ukrainian president who had close ties with moscow. russia retaliated by sending in troops. it's unclear if trump's diplomatic approach could end a war that's already claimed 10,000 lives. jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, london. coming up, people working with robots and reinventing the way the wheel is made.

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some americans found jobs working alongside robo mark strassman visited a factory where automation is reinventing the way the wheel is made. >> reporter: success rode into manning, south carolina, on a bicycle built by two. man and machine. every 13 seconds, another one rolls off this assembly line. >> typically, spokes are dropped in one at a time by hand. this machine does it automatically in about 30 seconds. using the same amount of people, we can do about three times as many hubs in a day. this is the main assembly line. >> reporter: arnold camler is the ceo of bca, the bicycle corporation of america. his family's business sense 1905. the company has a factory in china, but camler recently moved 10% of bca's business back to the u.s. why? wages for chinese workers had soared out of sight.

factory and created 140 jobs, a lifeline in this distressed industrial town. but the only way to make it work was investing in robotics. >> we're creating jobs with the automation and are being price competitive with china now and it will get better in the future. >> reporter: $6 million worth of automation does the work of 100 workers. >> i don't think a lot of people would look at that as a potential threat. >> we're not replacing other jobs with these robots. we're adding equipment that makes us more efficient. >> reporter: production manager albertus jones sees these machines as co-workers. >> a lot of people have that misconception that automation increases jobs. it's just a different type job, a more skilled job. >> reporter: without the automation, the business model doesn't work, so there aren't the jobs. >> that's right. >> reporter: a new model that could allow american

manufacturing to ride high again. mark strassman, cbs news, manning, south carolina. still ahead, she's 75, swims six days a week, and is inspiring others to live longer and stronger.

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was considered obese, tipping the scales at 250 pounds. she was ashamed when she couldn't fit in 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 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. >> reporter: now at 75, she has won more than 50 medals. michael phelps, never heard of him? >> oh, michael, what does he have, 12 or something?

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 to liver stronger. >> i'm so at saw 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. >> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

we end tonight at the super bowl, where steve hartman has the inspiring story of a football player who struggled to learn a skill that many take for granted. >> ladies and gentlemen, your new england patriots. >> reporter: generally speaking, super bowl pregame interviews aren't a great source of stimulating conversation. and yet, every year reporters gather 12 deep for this cliche fest. >> saying it's good when you come together as a team. >> reporter: fortunately this year there was a rookie from new england with something novel to talk about. novels, like "gone girl." >> what about her false diary? how does the author use that in the narrative? >> the diary is almost a different character in the book. >> reporter: i first met this

voracious, reader, wide receiver three years ago. malcolm mitchell was in college then, playing for georgia. one day he ran into a woman at barnes and noble. she didn't know he was a famous football player and invited him to join her book club, which he did. and that's how one of the top wide receivers in the country began meeting monthly with his book club lady friends. >> and then he went to the wedding. >> i loved that part. >> reporter: he was the only man and the youngest by a generation. but malcolm didn't care. didn't care what anyone thought. >> somebody called me a nerd. that's not a word i'm used to hearing. >> reporter: are you okay with the label? >> i was proud of it. it's like a badge of honor to me. knowing where i came from. >> reporter: malcolm confessed to me that when he started college, he could only read at about a junior high level, and it bothered him. so he started putting as much effort into his reading game as his football game. every free moment he had a book in his hand unti w

>> the ending was great. >> reporter: that's why no matter what he does on sunday, malcolm says football will never be his proudest accomplishment. >> that came natural. that's a gift. i had to work to read. >> reporter: which brings us to the latest chapter in his life's story. >> after the interview we did and i saw the reaction, it kind of took on a life of its own. >> reporter: today, the reader is a writer, too. >> so i wrote the book that you got in your hands today, "the magician's hat." >> reporter: the "magician's hat" is a children's book about the magic of reading. he's also started a children's literacy foundation. all of which leads me to the same conclusion i had after my first meeting with malcolm. if we could all just follow your example, our country would be a perfectly good place. >> you don't know how much that means to me, man, seriously. >> reporter: malcolm mitchell, super bowl winner. >> that's the "cbs overnight news" for this mon

from the cbs broadcast center in new york city, i'm elaine quijano. this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm elaine quijano. president trump's travel ban on people from certain muslim countries is still on hold. a federal appeals court denied the trump administration's request for an immediate reinstatement of the ban. the president spent the weekend at his mar-a-lago resort in florida. at a red cross gala saturday night, the president was confident the travel ban will be restored. for the safety of the country, he said, we'll win. tony dokoupil has the latest. >> reporter: near midnight pacific time, the ninth court of appeals in san francisco struck another blow against president trump's immigration order. blocking its reinstatement with just three words -- appeal is denied.

temporary. the justice department has untmy to make a fuller case for a restart of the president's ban. on travelers from seven muslim majority countries. >> it is causing serious immediate harms. >> reporter: lawyers oppose it is administration have until midnight tonight to strengthen their own case. >> this tro is granted on a nationwide basis. >> reporter: the showdown began late friday when a federal judge in seattle halted president trump's executive order, raising questions about its rationale. people from the seven restricted countries did not carry out the 9/11 attacks or any other major attacks in the u.s. since then. i have to find fact opposed to fiction, the judge said from the bench. president trump fired back on twitter, writing, because the ban was lifted by a judge, many very bad and dangerous people may be pouring into our country. a terrible decision. in an interview on "face the nation" sunday, vice president pence predicted legal victory. >> president trump made it clear he's going to use his authority as president under the l

put the safety and security of the american people first.n fon, mr. trump defended the rollout of the ban. >> i think it was very smooth. you had 109 people out of hundreds of thousands of travelers, and all we did was vet those people very, very carefully. >> reporter: acting solicitor general francisco is arguing the government's case. on saturday, he claimed the president has the unreviewable authority to decide who enters or stays in the united states. but lawyers from washington state and minnesota, who brought the challenge, say the president's order targets muslims, and is unconstitutional. >> there's no harm to the government if the executive order is in effect. after all, that was the state of affairs for the past 50 years. >> reporter: he says this case could end up in the supreme court. >> if there's not a ninth justice seated, there's the possibility of a 4-4 tie. and that would leave any ruling by a court of appeals in place.

>> reporter: while this order is being fought in the courts, the state department has reinstated thousands of visas for people from the seven affected countries. there's no count how many of those visas have been used, but lawyers monitoring the situation here at jfk and elsewhere have yet to report any major problems. >> tony dokoupil at jfk airport for us. thanks. the political battle over the ban dominated the discussion on the sunday morning news programs. errol barnett has more from washington. >> we're very confident that as we move through the process of these appeals, the president's authority in this area will be upheld. >> reporter: vice president mike pence on "face the nation" said president trump is justified in both his travel ban and his criticism of the federal judge who blocked it. >> it's just frustrating to see a federal judge in washington state conducting american foreign policy or making decisions about our national security. >> reporter: senate majority leader mitch mcconnell acknowledged it's up to th

>> we'll see where it ends up. the courts are going t determine whether the initial executive order, as it was issued, is valid. >> reporter: but said there should be a balance. >> there's a fine line here between proper vetting and interfering with the kind of travel or suggesting a religious test. we need to avoid doing that kind of thing. >> reporter: house speaker paul ryan said while he supports the ban's goal to keep terrorists out, he acknowledged it had initial flaws. >> nobody wanted green card holders to get mixed up in this or people with special immigration visas, people in transit. so i do think there was a problem with the rollout. >> reporter: nancy pelosi echoed views common among democratic leadership. >> we always have to subject our vetting to scrutiny to see if it's working, but that doesn't mean we institute a ban on muslims coming into the country. >> reporter: as president trump returns from florida, a busy week awaits.

in addition to fighting for his travel ban, four of his cabinet nominees will be up for confirmation votes. excluding the vice president, only four cabinet member posts have been filled so far. >> errol barnett, thanks. oversees, the prime minister of israel still hasn't decided whether to call for a vote on a controversial bill legalizing dozens of unlawful settlements in the west bank. last week, an israeli court ordered one of these settlements to be demolished. the new bill covers thousands of israeli homes built on private palestinian land. the palestinian owners would be paid, but have no right to object to the sale. seth doane visited the west bank and filed this report. >> reporter: this is not a neglected neighborhood in america, but an israeli settlement built on land claimed by palestinians. this man has called it home for 40 years. >> we shall see real houses because of president tmp

>> reporter: he's encouraged by permits issued to israeli settlers since president trump took office. the international community has condemned these settlements. the united nations has called them illegal. and for decades, the united states has opposed any expansion here. that may be changing. this religious school has friends in high places. david friedman, mr. trump's pick for u.s. ambassador to israel, was the president of fund-raising for this school in america and raised millions. the family foundation of jared kushner, son-in-law to mr. trump, donated $38,000 and in 2003, mr. trump's foundation donated $10,000. >> i believe that they did it because they felt that it is a special and important place.

place claimed by palestinians. >> ts last thousand years. the jewish people came here 4,000 years ago. >> reporter: the settlement carves into the rocky hillside near ramallah. he says settling here stakes a claim. >> the arabs, they can live here, but they need to be quiet and not do any harm. >> reporter: your views are unwavering. >> i don't really like them actually. >> reporter: in ramallah, we asked this palestinian about the school's high profile supporters. "it shows american policies will be racist against palestinians." opinions here are as divided as the land. >> this is the biggest problem in the world in the last 2,000 years. who is the chosen people? >> reporter: an impossible question.

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last november, polls showed hillary clinton winning the white house easily. and they couldn't have been more wrong. anthony salvanto goes behind the scenes to show you how our polls are conducted. >> hello, my name is sandy miller. >> i'm calling on behalf of cbs news. >> a poll on current events. >> reporter: cbs polls started right here in allentown, pennsylvania. and in phone rooms just like this one across the country, where over 100 interviewers dial phone numbers randomly to people all over the country. >> do you think of yourself as liberal, moderate or conservative? >> reporter: the phone numbers include land lines and these days, mostly cell phones. how many numbers do we typically have to deal to do a col

>> to get a thousand interviews, such as we're going to get on this poll, we probably need to dial 20,000 numbers. >> reporter: everyone who takes the poll is included in the poll. carol is a trump supporter who took today's poll. >> when i voted for donald trump, it was a matter of hope that things would change. and as far as what he's doing now, so far i'm in favor of the things he's been doing. >> reporter: we call people from all 50 states. the key to a good poll is that it looks like a cross section of america. we call enough people so that the poll does that, which statistically happens by the time we get to 1,000 people. we make sure that the poll matches the demographics, like age, talking to both young and the old and everyone in between. on gender, talking to women and men. and the correct proportions by race. also that the poll reflects the statistical makeup of the united states.

we talked to democrats, republicans, and independents. and remember all polls have a margin of error. for any number you see, there's a range around it. if you don't talk to enough people, that range around any given number starts to get wider. >> you don't want to add anything to the questions. we never want to skip questions. >> reporter: the questions are focused on the news of the day. so today, it's the supreme court pick and the travel ban. >> do you approve or disapproval of temporarily banning refugees from entering the united states? >> reporter: the goal is to word the questions to be unbiased, so people of all different views feel like they have a choice. >> i took the poll last night because i believe that if we're given an opportunity to express ourselves as americans, that we should do that. >> thank you for your participation, sir, and you have a wonderful evening, sir. >> reporter: polls are not predictions.

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for decades, palm beach has bee island. mo rocca took a look around. >> reporter: the first thing you should know about palm beach is that it's an island unto itself. >> it was separate from the rest of florida. it was separate from the rest of america. it was the most exclusive town in america. >> reporter: writer lawrence raymer has lived here for over 20 years. he calls palm beach america's first gated community. achievement, lineage or money, what confers status here? >> they would like to think it's culture and lineage, but it's money. it's all about money. your friends are defined by money. people look at you, i know what that tie is worth. i know what that suit is worth. i know where you belong. and you're a great guy, but you don't belong among the billionaires, okay? >> reporter: today, worth avenue is one of the most glamorous stretches of shopping in america. 110 years ago, worth avenue was

alligator d yefarm. i kno s worn nicer shoes. it was henry morrison flagler who transformed palm beach. flagler, the co-pounder of standard oil, came to this tropical wilderness in the 1890s, and envisioned a paradise for the very wealthy. >> at a time when many of his peers would have been thinking about retirement, he's embarking on an enormous project. >> reporter: tracy is curator of the museum. >> the hoe pell was his first hotel property on the island. largest wooden structure in the world. it also had the distinction of being the world's largest hotel, ultimately accommodating 1500 guests. >> reporter: so he traveled in style. vanderbilts, rockefellers and carnegies arrived. most like flagler in their own private rail cars, along the railroad which flagler built, opening florida to tourism.

breaker's hotel. then his own spectacular estate, whitehall. >> he wanted to get this house built quickly, so that he and his new wife could enjoy. >> reporter: the mansion was flagler's wedding gift to his much younger third wife. >> she liked to throw parties, she liked to play the piano and sing. so she really brought some sunshine into his later years. >> reporter: what were their ages when they got married? >> 71 and 34. >> reporter: that's sort of a palm beach tradition. >> yes, i would have to agree with you on that. it is. >> you could say that flagler's home and the two hotels really were the beginning of society in palm beach. >> reporter: a society that soon needed fabulous homes to match its fabulous wealth. enter affect

addison meissner. sometimes when you're in palm beach, you forget that you're not in italy. >> that's right. you forget you're not in italy or europe or spain. >> reporter: meissner created the mediterranean revival look says jane day. a mash-up of european styles that became the architecture of choice for the palm beach elite. >> it was a very romantic style. he'll try and mix and match things from different places around the mediterranean. he wanted it to look as if it had been in the family for generations. so that it didn't look like it was all done in 1919, for example. >> reporter: villa meissner was the home of meissner himself. holy cow, look at that ceiling. today, this is home to the family of dee and nick adams, a direct descendant of president john adams. and their pet pig, mona lisa. his idea was to bring the light and air in.

retain that gothic feel. >> reporter: these panels in the dining room are said to have originally lined spanish queen isabella's 15th century palace. >> the tiles over there are 16th century portuguese tiles. others are made to look that way. >> reporter: can you guess what addison meissner would think of palm beach today? >> i think he would say it was very much like he envisioned it. at least this area here. he himself was an eccentric. he had a monkey named charlie brown that ran around these premises. >> and we see it in your taped glass windowing. >> yes. >> reporter: another meissner landmark was home to the kennedy family. president john f. kennedy worked on his inaugural address here in what he called his winter white house. which brings us to mar-a-lago, now the winter white house of president donald trump. walking through this room in 1927, what would it look like?

>> very much as it appears now. >> reporter: built by post serial fortune heiress, margery merryweather post, and her husband e.f. hutton, mar-a-lago is dazzling even by palm beach standards. >> there's five clay tennis courts in the back. >> reporter: olivia divine has written the trump authorized history of the es kate. there is an inscription in many places. >> it means beyond the ultimate. and that is symbolic of how mrs. post lived her life and what her expectation was for this property. >> reporter: mrs. post bequeathed mar-a-lago, which means sea to lake, to the federal government to be used as a presidential retreat after her death in 1973. but then president richard nixon preferred key biscayne, so the costly white elephant was returned to the post family, who couldn't find a buyer until a certain real estate developer came along.

>> you're not going to do anything, no personal trump touches here? >> no. believe it or not, no. >> reporter: if palm beach was america's first gated community, says lawrence raymer, then donald trump was the most brazened gate crasher. >> they despised him from day one, and he didn't care. he was going to do what he was going to do. >> reporter: mr. trump bought mar-a-lago and turned it into a social club. but unlike palm beach's other infamously exclusionary clubs, mar-a-lago accepted gentiles and jews, african-americans, and openly gay members. as long as they could pay. what do you think motivated donad trump to do this? >> money. but he did it. i mean, a lot of people wouldn't do it. would they want to start a largely jewish club in palm beach? would you do that if you cared about social acceptance? you would never do that. >> reporter: a t

trump has picked plenty of fights, everything from the height of the flagpole on his club's lawn to the flight path over mar-a-lago that he wanted changed. excuse me, i have to interrupt for a moment. there's a plane. getting elected president solved that pesky problem. are you surprised this is now the winter white house? >> it's amazing. i wouldn't have dreamed it, but i don't think anyone would have thought that would happen. >> that he would become president this >> yes. and it shows in america anything can happen and it's a great thing. it's fantastic. >> reporter: bern lemke is the long-time managing director of mar-a-lago. he says mr. trump is continuing mrs. post's great tradition of hosting, with one significant difference. >> mr. trump, when he took over, he made it a club. he invited his friends, but for an initiation fee. >> so it's still a home for friends but friends that pay an initiation fee. >> yes. and this helps with the cost

>> i've got to try that with my own friends. >> reporter: for at least the last few years, members of mar-a-lago have paid $14,000 a year in dues and a $100,000 initiation fee. but when we visited in january, lemke told us this -- >> we get a lot of requests for membership. we moved the membership fee to $200,000. nonrefundable. >> reporter: the doubling of the initiation fee, effective january 1, has been confirmed. prompting some to question whether mr. trump is profiting from his election. the club claims the fee had been $200,000 back before the last recession. >> does attendance spike when mr. trump is here? >> phenomenally. instead of five people for lunch, we may have 150 people. it's incredible. >> reporter: it seems that the relationship between donald trump and palm beach has changed. >> before the election, nobody in this town would say a good word about him.

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captioning funded by cbs it's monday, february 6th, 2017. this is the "cbs morning news." the patriots win the super bowl. >> in historic fashion patriots claw their way to victory. the fight over the u.s. travel ban resumes today as president trump vows to get it reinstated. >> putin is a killer. >> we've got to a lot of killers. >> and mr. trump takes on mr. vladimir putin has some republic