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the music video. >> is this closer for you? >> you know what, i think that everything is cyclical. it's like things come back around and people are happy and we go through things, and that's just the way it is. that's kind of the way i feel about life in general. >> #i don't is trending. i think it should be #don't mess with mimi. >> if you like it, i love it. >> the next step, you take your new boyfriend, backup dancer bryan tanaka to the release party for your new single. >> what is the most romantic thing about tanaka? >> he's got a lot of amazing qualities. >> and footbalinally you stay f on your friends, especially when they're beyonce. >> as a mommy of twins, have you reached out to her? >> last time i saw her was during christmas. she came to my show. i wish her and jay all the best. it's really hard
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>> it is? >> there's nothing like it. they're the best. >> what makes them the best? >> they crack me up when they talk to each other, they have their own little conversations. they have like their own language. it's kind of amazing. >> mariah know how to leave the past in the past. by the way, i don't is out on itunes. by the way, talking about beyonce, she may be expecting twins, but this weekend we are expecting her to make history at the grammys. >> that's right. mrs. carter is up for the big three, record, song, album of the year. so is mom adele. so who is going to win this diva-off? i got some answers in "e.t.'s" green room. >> we're talking everything grammys. so much to look forward to, right? >> absolutely. >> but all eyes are going to be on adele and beyonce. >> one thing i do know, this sunday is going to be an epic showdown between the divas in pop music. >> they're nominated in best song of the year, best album of the year.
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lemonade. and adele for her album, 25. ♪ my question for you is who do you think is going to come out on top? >> that is such a tough call. okay. to start, let's start with the hardware they already have. so beyonce has a whopping 62 nominations, making her the most nominated female artist of all time. she has won 20 awards. listen, we know the queen is keeping count. >> i unexpectedly won a grammy tonight. now the ninth grammy. >> that is beyonce from back in 2006. here's the thing. if beyonce wins eight of her nine categories that she's nominated in, she becomes the most winning female artist of all time, taking the spot from alison krause. >> adele has 18 nominations and ten wins, so that's not a bad record. >> obviously the grammys are very close to my heart. >> here's another thing about adele. she has an oscar and a golden globe for the sky fall
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♪ >> you know what, it's only a matter of time between queen bee gets those too. here's something they both have in common. these two powerhouses have so much love and respect for each other. >> i'm a huge beyonce fan. >> as far as bee's concerned, she said this about adele. when adele sings, you can hear it's coming from an unfiltered honesty and purity. >> the show airs this sunday on cbs. now, already the big winner in the new forbes list of the highest everyone earning nominees. ♪dele tops the list. >> you can't talk about the grammy red carpet without bringing up lady gaga. her style statement through the years is go big or go home. from that futuristic armi
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electric blue dress she wore in honor of david bowie. >> she came in on an egg, and you came in -- >> with an egg on my head. >> i couldn't even sit down in the suv. i didn't want it to get smushed. >> nicki minaj is another fashion risk taker. in 2011 she did bride of frankenstein. >> katy perry's mint green gucci gown was so wild it made ellen degeneres's jaw drop. and none of u csan see matador wearing outfit madonna who flashed her bare bottom at the crowd and didn't care. pharrell's grammy hat made a tamt and got its own twitter account less than a half hour after he walked the carpet. it also sparked tons of memes. and who knew cher wore the cut down to the belly button style 26 years before j.lo
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versace gown. >> i felt like an energy. it was a weird feeling. >> what's happening? >> my dress was happening and i didn't know it. >> obviously a lot of green in here but what's going to be the color trend on the grammys red carpet? have to wait until sunday and find out. keep an eye out for a little
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well, look at all those stars with birthdays this weekend. taylor lottener is 25. arsenio hall is celebrating turning 61. and sheryl crow is 55. now, take a final look at your choices. which friends star once had a painting displayed at the metropolitan museum of art? that is jennifer aniston, who is 48 this weekend. you know, when jen was 11, one of her paintings was displayed at the met in new york. happy birthday. monday on "e.t." all eyes on are beyonce at the grammys. how she slayed, pregnant with twinz. plus all the grammy fashion monday on "e.t." we're almost out of time
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but for all the late breaking hollywood news, just go to our website, etonline.com. >> before we go on this grammys weekend, we leave you with the song of the year nominee justin bieber's video for his song, love yourself. >> he's up for four awards and ed sheeran actually helped write the song. >> i like it very, very much. enjoy this and the rest of your weekend, everybody. ♪ ♪ ♪
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now beginning to travel. >> it's the largest drawing international travel market on the planet, and we want to be part of that. >> reporter: it's the first new casino to open in six years. the hotel is betting the new non-stop flights from beijing to las vegas will bring a surge in tourism. according to the department of commerce, in 2015, nearly 2.6
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visited the u.s. by 2020, that number is estimated to grow to 5 million. while other vegas hotels have lavish theaters featuring famous entertainers, the hottest acts at lucky dragon are in the show kitchen. here, they make authentic chinese cuisine, which often bears little resemblance to the chinese food americans are used to. >> it's very authentic. >> yes. >> reporter: instead of show girls, this casino has dragons. >> the dragon is our center piece of the resort. >> reporter: they're a symbol of good fortune in chinese culture. the bar is eight-sided, also a sign of good fortune. what are the odds that your bloody mary would come with a chicken foot? but since this is considered a delicacy in china, may as well take a chance.
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but instead of cocktails, chinese often prefer tea, so the hotel offers a traditional tea service. you're from china? >> absolutely. >> reporter: winnie gao now lives in las vegas. >> the style, the design, people are so nice. >> reporter: the department of commerce estimates chinese travelers spend $6,000 to $7,000 per person, per trip, ranking the chinese as the highest spending group of international visitors. >> they spend a lot more money on shopping and retail here, and a lot of that is high end luxury shopping. >> reporter: lucky dragon isn't alone trying to cash in on the chinese travel boone. a malaysian company has a plan to develop a world resort las vegas, an enormous hotel and casino complex scheduled to open in 2019. while lucky dragon is designed to attract asian tourists in particular, the hotel figures other visitors to vegas will find some adventure here. >> they don't want the american
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chinese chinese food and the ability to step out of their comfort zone and have an experience. >> reporter: while much about the venue is authentically asian, one thing is authentically vegas, the casino is happy to take money from anybody. john blackstone, las vegas. you got it. just say show me millions of used cars for sale at the all new carfax.com. i don't want one that's had a big wreck just say, show me cars with no accidents reported pretty cool i like it that's the power of carfax® find the cars you want, avoid the ones you don't plus you get a free carfax® report with every listing start your used car search at carfax.com ok, it says you apply the blue okone to me.y this. here? no. ah ok, here? maybe you should read the directions. have a little fun together, or a lot. k-y yours and mine.
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>> reporter: in cemeteries across america, you will see them. headstones blackened by age and the elements. what did some of these tombstones look sflik >> they were unrecognizable? they were filled with moss, very dirty. >> reporter: and what troubled andrew more was, many belonged to veterans. what disturbed you about that so much? >> they were forgotten. i couldn't properly thank them. i couldn't properly understand who they were or what they were about. >> reporter: so these were totally black? >> they were black. you could not read them at all. >> reporter: so he made it his life's goal to scrub away that grime and uncover the names on veterans' headstones so visitors would see them. >> if they can't read it all, they can't celebrate it, they can't honor or appreciate that person. whereas if you properly restore the
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entire conversation and potentially in a figurative sense, bring that person back to life. >> reporter: his regular job is specialty cleaning. though he had never worked on a headstone before, he developed his own method for cleaning them. >> i scrub and scrub and get the edges and get the letters and numbers. it could take 20 minutes, it could take two hours. >> reporter: and his results are stunning. this is what a gravestone from 1917 looked like before he cleaned it. and now. most any sunday, you can find him here. you live in tampa. you could be at the beach on sundays. >> yeah, i could. absolutely. this is more fun for me. >> reporter: this is more fun? >> hands down, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
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>> reporter: he set up his facebook page titled the good cemeterian. it's a celebration of those veterans' lives, filled with the stories of the men and women beneath the gravestones. he gets a lot of thanks from veterans and their families for what he does. but has trouble feeling like he deserves it. >> i'm appreciative of it. but i'm unworthy of the same respect of someone who chooses to go the route to serve our country. and for someone to approach me, to show me that level of respect, it's humbling to say the least. >> reporter: bringing back the names and lives of veterans, he says, is just what he does. >> i get to everyone eventually. >> reporter: that's a tall order.
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researchers have come up with a revolutionary material called graphine. it's a thousand times thinner than a human hair and 200 times stronger than steel. jonathan vigliotti has this story from london. >> reporter: they look like pages from vogue, but these photos are part of a scientific experiment, and the dress' designers along with the scientists behind the technology, say it could revolutionize every aspect of human life. ♪ >> it's so extraordinary. in 2010, scientists who made it, were awarded the nobel prize for physics. >> reporter: in 2004, two scientists from manchester, england, used scotch tape, yes, tape, to isolate graphine from
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everyday pencils. the result, while invisible to the naked eye, is stronger than steel, flexible like rubber, and energy conducting. >> it stretches and twists, it rolls in quite bendable devices, not just touch screens, but flexible, transparent components. >> reporter: in this case, it becomes one little black dress. so that's graphine. >> that's what it looks like just a few atoms thick. >> reporter: this is the design team behind cute circuit, the london based fashion label that specializes in wearable technology. the pair has illuminated stars like u-2's bono and katy perry. but the latest piece is light years ahead of the others. how is your dress different from a dress that you just put on a switch and it lights up? >> it's different in a lot of ways. the first way that comes to mind
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so if you just turn on a switch and it lights up, that's a simple circuit like a christmas tree or a flashlight. but ours is monitoring the breathing of the user and storing that in a microprocessor. so in a sense the dress is a computer in itself. >> reporter: the result, lights on the dress can change colors with the rhythm of a heart beat. so at future cocktail parties, you can tell if somebody is anxious by the color of their dress. >> well, maybe. that's one of the things people discovered about wearable technology, it suddenly redrews some of the boundaries of privacy information. >> reporter: the technology is being developed for cars and computers to medical equipment. these first steps are just the beginning. jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, london. that's the "overnight news" for this monday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us a little later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm elaine quijano.
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this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the "overnight news." i'm elaine quijano. just hours before last night's grammy awards were handed out came news that legendary jazz singer al jarreau had died. he was 76. jamie yuccas now with his life and remarkable career. ♪ >> reporter: al jarreau died at a hospital in los angeles sunday. for nearly half a century he performed on stages around the world. in 2004, he stopped by the cbs "early show" to debut his "accentuate the positive" album. he became a household name when he released his most popular single, "we're in this love together" from the album "break
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it away" in 1981. the following year, he won a grammy for best male pop vocal performance, and he was also nominated for album of the year. ♪ the legendary jazz singer's unique vocal style helped him achieve six more grammys over his career. ♪ he also recorded the theme song to the hit tv series "moonlighting." he was 76 years old. jamie yuccas, cbs news, new york. president trump is back at the white house after a weekend at his mara largo compound in florida. two more of his cabinet nominees are expected to be confirmed today by the senate, steve mnuchin to lead the treasury department and david shulkin to head the department of veterans affairs. as for his travel ban, which has been put on hold by the federal courts, mr. trump insists all options are on the table. civil rights lawyers are raising concerns about a series of
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by immigration and customs enforcement. hundreds of undocumented immigrants were arrested in at least a dozen states. president trump tweeted, the crackdown on illegal criminals is merely the keeping of my campaign promise. gang members, drug dealers and others are being removed. officials say the raids had been in the works before the election. carter evans reports. >> the people united, we'll never be defeated. >> reporter: from new york city to los angeles -- >> we are not going to tolerate the continuing attack on our families. >> reporter: activists are speaking out against immigration raids across the country. photos from an operation in atlanta show agents arresting alleged immigration fugitives and criminals. in texas, video showing a man being detained by an i.c.e. agent in front of a fast food restaurant sends a chilling message according to austin city council member dellia garza. >> the video i saw was a man on his knees at a what a burger.
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families and children to see. >> reporter: agents arrested 161 immigrants in los angeles this week, the vast majority had criminal convictions and outstanding deportation orders. a targeted operation that is not a response to president trump's crackdown, according to the director of the i.c.e. office in los angeles. >> this operation was in the planning stations before the administration came out with their current executive orders. >> first of all, they're not rounding anyone up. >> reporter: on friday, homeland security secretary john kelly tried to set the record straight at the border in san diego. >> the people that i.c.e. apprehend are illegal and then some. >> reporter: earlier this week, secretary kelly told congress under the obama administration immigration agents expressed frustration that they were not able to do their jobs and morale was low. >> i bet if you watch the morale issue, you'll be surprised going forward. >> reporter: los
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of many cities across the country with police departments that have said they will not enforce federal immigration laws. president trump's job approval rating is on the rise. a cbs news poll found 48% still disapprove of the job he's doing, but 40% approve. dean reynolds spoke with some of them in chicago. >> reporter: we've been visiting frank's diner regularly, not just for the pancakes the size of catcher's mitts, but for presidential politics, too. what grade could you give the president so far? >> i would have to break it in two. an "a" for intentions and a "d" for implementation. >> reporter: every trump supporter here said the rollout had been rocky. but like local businessman glenn woods, they blamed the president's opponents for making things worse. >> at the moment the democratic strategy seems to be make him stand in fire ants and eventually he'll run away. >> reporter: we asked joseph santana about presidential falsehoods, presen
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charge that the media ignores terrorist attacks or that millions he says voted illegally in the last election. do you believe that millions of votes were cast illegally? >> i don't have any proof either way. >> reporter: as for fake news -- do you think that somebody from cbs is going to do fake news? going to make up something? >> i would hope that's not the case. >> reporter: nearby, dick and larry thought the president should take a breath. >> i think some of the things he's done probably should have been done a little slower. >> reporter: the executive order on immigration -- >> i don't think he gave it enough thought. i thought he would change after the election. once he became president, that he would be more presidential. he hasn't gotten to that point yet. >> reporter: they both dismissed anti-trump protests, like the big one in washington. what did you think about that? >> oh, i thought that was the worst. i mean, the vulgarity and the
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it's not american. it's not the way we should be doing things. we had an election, you move forward. he won. let him do his job. >> reporter: and that's what we heard over and over from mr. trump's supporters here. they said, give the president a chance. flu season is reaching its peak with the virus now widespread in 43 states. dr. jon lapook reports. >> reporter: with a quarter of the student body in clarkton, missouri home sick with the flu, school officials decided to park the buses and close the doors. >> we were dropping like flies. we had about 70 kids out. >> reporter: that's a first for the superintendent. >> friday i was hurting, got home friday night, sick all day saturday. >> reporter: missouri is one of 23 states with high activity this season. and we've seen a total of 20 flu-related deaths in children. >> i'm sick. >> reporter: on long island, near new york city, nassau university medical center's pediatric emergency room is open
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20/7 to deal with an influx of the flu. >> this season we're seeing the h-3 virus. so this is the one where people get very sick and it normally affects elderly people, children, and pregnant women. >> reporter: dr. bep della rosa says his emergency room has been busy. >> we're right around the time we're seeing a peak. >> reporter: audrey began to have sim pops after a co-worker was diagnosed with the flu. >> i felt like i was going to faint. and i couldn't stay awake. >> reporter: she tested negative for the flu but now plans to get the vaccine. in illinois, there's been an uptick in flu activity, with 43 people admitted to intensive care units. the cdc says this year's flu vaccine is a good match against this year's flu virus, and the 145 million doses have been shipped out.
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a team of archaeologists and adventurers went to central america seeking the lost city of the monkey god. it was supposed to be cursed, protected by venomous snakes and horrible diseases. they found the city, the snakes and the curse. lee cowan has the story. >> reporter: the cast's best selling author doug preston will say he doesn't believe in curses. and yet, here he is, being treated for an illness he contracted while on a jungle expedition. to a site rumored for centuries to rain misfortune down on anyone who entered. >> i would never trade that experience for anything. it was so powerful. >> reporter: his tale begins in the rainforests, carpeting some
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20,000 square miles of honduras and nicaragua. >> the legend is there was a great city in the mountains struck by a series of catastrophes, and the inhabitants thought the gods were angry and left, leaving their belongings behind. >> reporter: some call it the white city. others, the city of the monkey god. its possible existence has tantalized adventure seekers since the 1500s. including steve elkins who has been obsessed with finding the city since the early '90s. >> who doesn't like a story with mystery in it? so let's go and see what happens. >> they might come back from today with the other sites. >> reporter: he launched his latest expedition in 2012 and invited doug preston to write about it. so you went along because why? >> i thought steve is never going to find a lost city, that's ridiculous. but who knows? even if he doesn't find anything, it might make a good story.
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>> reporter: but this time, elkins had something no previous expeditions to the area did. it's called lidar, a high tech laser mapping system. peering through a hole in the bottom of an old cessna sky master, it can scan hundreds of square miles of dense jungle in a matter of days. the problem? it was expensive. >> this one shows the full scale of the convoy. >> reporter: enter bill benson, who agreed to foot the $1 million bill, if he could capture the adventure on film. >> this technology could see the jungle -- through the jungle canopy and reveal the contours of what might be underneath it. it seemed like a valuable gamble. >> reporter: one that soon paid off. what the lidar
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that jungle canopy was removed shocked everyone. >> i zoomed in and i went, holy crap. i said this is what looks like rectangular structures. >> i mean, that is about as linear lines, and that's a right angle. >> they were either man made or the world's most intelligent gophers were out there doing things they had never done before. >> reporter: so what did you think you had found initially? >> i knew we found a city. an ancient city. that i knew. but what it was beyond that, that was up for the archaeologists to figure out. >> reporter: that archaeologist was colorado state's chris fisher. >> it sounds like it's a pretty big deal. >> i think it is. is it like machu picchu? no. but for this area, regionally, i think it's very, very important. >> reporter: he helped artists come up with this rendering of what the city t
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like. >> here you see the interior of the plaza. >> reporter: but he had to get there on foot to know for sure. >> there's a stairway that goes here. >> reporter: and it took three long years of planning. >> just to get into this jungle is extremely dangerous. once you're there, it's thick, thick with poisonous snakes. >> reporter: the deadliest, a pit viper called the fair delance. docile enough during the day. but when one slithered into camp under the cover of darkness, it caused an understandable panic. on the team, a jungle warfare expert, who leapt into action. >> he pinned the snake, but the snake exploded into a fury, of striking everywhere, squirting venom, streams of venom across the night air. >> reporter: the next morning, the jungle seemed a little less ominous. and the march to the site began. it was like cutting your way
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what wasn't growing was oozing with mud. >> let's go on top of this one and work our way back down. >> reporter: the jungle was so thick, all they could see were leaves, even standing right in front of what chris fisher thought was a pyramid. >> that's a pyramid right there in front of you. >> where is the pyramid? >> you're looking at it. >> a big lump. >> can't say i see a whole lot from here. >> that's what it is. that's a pyramid. it's made out of earth. >> reporter: there were no stone structures to speak of, just foundations. but the next day, almost by accident, disappointment turned to jubilation. >> did you see this? there are inscriptions right here. >> there are? >> yes. >> oh, my god. >> someone said, hey, wait a minute, there's some weird stones over here. we all came back and the first
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thing i saw was a jaguar head coming out of the ground, carved in stone, snarling. >> whoa, whoa, everybody stop, back up, don't touch anything. don't clear anything, please. >> reporter: there at their feet was a trove of artifacts believed to date from the 16th century. the personal belongings of inhabitants who fled the valley as one theory would have it, in an attempt to escape european disease and slavery. >> it was phenomenal to think that in the 21st century, you could still find something like this on the surface of the earth. >> reporter: some in the academic community, however, are not so easily impressed. >> we don't go out looking for treasure anymore, we go out looking for knowledge. >> reporter: rosemary joyce, professor of anthropology at uc berkeley, says an exhibition led by filmmakers wreaks more of indiana jones than it does real science. and some 20 other archaeologists ag
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>> anybody can make an adventure story, we have no problem with that. but it's being portrayed as arknoloar archaeolo archaeology, and it's not. >> reporter: some indigenous people bristled when the honduran president removed the first artifact. they consider the site sacred and should be left alone. so in the end, what this expedition unearthed was a lot more than just relics. it became a stew of excitement, questions, criticism, and ill health. >> maybe you'll end up in a hospital like this. >> reporter: months after leaving the jungle, doug preston noticed a bite from a sand fly that wouldn't heal. so did chris fisher. the national institutes of health diagnosed it as a frightening parasitic disease. >> the parasite migrates through the mucus membranes of your mouth and nose and basically eats them away.
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your nose and lips fall off, and eventually your face becomes a gigantic open sore. >> reporter: over the next few months, about half the expedition came down with the early symptoms and had to undergo the painful treatment. >> that's a good helicopter shot of the overview. >> reporter: steve and bill were spared, and their documentary about their adventure is now in the final edit. doug preston, bucking the criticism, titled his book "the lost city of the monkey god." as for the site, only a fraction has been excavated and questions linger how or if to go back again. >> too dangerous to stay there. it's just too dangerous. just getting in and out is dangerous. >> reporter: it would seem the jungle is still fighting to keep its secrets. and almost impenetrable veil making an accounting of what's there difficult at best. that, in the end, may be the most lasting curse of all.
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tourists see spectacular monuments while the cash-strapped city sees spectacular expenditures it cannot afford. so rome has drawn up a wish list of monuments to help protect and is asking for help in preserving history. it was hardly a quick power wash. we watched earlier this summer as workers painstakingly scrubbed away years of grime and leveled the steps. >> there were damaged by time. >> reporter: the ceo says his company, which has a store down the street, spent more than $1.5 million refurbishing the 135 baroque steps at the heart of this city of about 3 million. >> we need to make sure the city is at its best. >> reporter: american
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offers tours of this ancient capital. it's likely no coincidence that they chose to work on something close to a store. >> location, location, location. >> reporter: he says the scale of restoration work that still needs to be done is staggering. >> it gives you an idea of, number one, why rome can say we have more world heritage than any place in the world. on the other hand, you can understand they need help. >> reporter: this place, where julius ceasar was killed, requires $1.5 million in renovation work before it can reopen. this fenced off musoleum needs $10 million. students were surprised by the state of some monuments. >> made me wonder what's happening to these sites. >> reporter: that's where claudio preshy comes in. 21 million euros for this. 16.6 million euros for that. he's rome's superintendent for culture heritage and drew up a
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very big $500 billion wish list of 100 monuments to fix. it's just the beginning. >> we have 574 archaeological areas. we have 400 fountains. we have 900 monuments. >> reporter: they've had some success. todds paid to restore the coliseum and fendy cleaned up the treby fountain. as this debt ridden city asks corporations, individuals and other countries to subsidize public restoration work. is there a danger with all of this? do you run the risk of having the xyz companies, yxy monuments? >> you won't see any banners on these sites. the state and city, they're very much concerned about preserving the integrity of these sites, and not to commercialize them. >> reporter: italy tweaked its tax laws to encourage this sort of preservation work and the
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city of rome is trying to make the case this is shared cultural heritage.
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captioning funded by cbs it's monday, february 13th, 2017. this is the "cbs morning news." breaking overnight, california officials urge more than 180,000 people to evacuate as water from damaged dam could creep closer to their homes. this morning a break in flow could be good news for investors. ♪ so hello from the other side ♪ and, hello, adele. it was a big night for the brits sweeping the biggest category

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