captioning funded by cbs good morning. it's thursday, april, 2017. welcome to "cbs this morning." cable tv's popular host is out. sexual harassment claims against bill o'reilly cost the giant millions. we'll get an inside look at what's ended his job and what's next for fox. north korea warns of a mighty strike, why an aircraft carrier headed for the region really wasn't. taxing marijuana gives those in colorado millions to pay their bills. we're in colorado to show you

that comes with a pot business. but we begin this morning with today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> there are some major changes coming to the programmingeu linp here at fox news channel. >> bill o'reilly ousted from fox news. >> i have some experiences where i'm comfortable enough to know never to put myself in a situation where i was alone with bill. >> anar embrassing end to a 20-year run. >> it's the end of an era at the fox news channel. we wish him the very best. the trump administration is currently reviewing across the government the polgcy icy. >> they're looking to restore stability in this key region of the world. cbs news learns a manhunt is under way for a traitor inside the central intelligence agency. >> involved in one of the worst breaches inur secity history. >> what government opponents call the mother of a

rock flew by e.arth it's the largest to flow by. >> it's also the least creative name for a massive asteroid. >> an electric tower collapses onto a busy highway in the philippines. a> a terrifying ride. ve drir frantically waves for help. >> all that -- >> one of tennis's all-time greats will have a little volleying party. >> serena williams is expecting a baby, y'all. yeah. congratulations, serena. >> -- and all that matters. >> you pulled off the greatest super bowl comeback of all time. >> the patriots celebrated a trip to the white house. >> with your backs against the wall and all pundits -- they're around. >> -- on "cbs this morning" snooki get help. >> tight end

popped his head in. >> well paid. he's a huge patriots fan. >> all right. that was cool. >> this morning's "eye opener" is presented by toyota. let's go places. welcome to "cbs this morning." bill o'reilly remains defiant despite losing his job at fox news over a sexual harassment scandal. the biggest star of cable news was forced out yesterday from his top rated show. he was a prime time fixture for more than 20 years. o'reilly said in a statement, quote, it is tremendously disheartening that we part ways due to completely unfound claims but that's the unfortunate reality that many of us in public eye must live with today. anna werner is in fox news headquarters. good morning. >> good morning. bill o'reilly continued to draw huge

scandal enveloped him. afterer advtisers fled, fox news was questioned whether the corporate culture is hostile to women. on wednesday the parent of the network company said bill o'reilly will not be returning to the fox news channel. on wednesday night bill o'reilly's name vanished from his show. >> bill has been the undisputed king of cable news and for good reason. >> hi. i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. >> reporter: he had spent 16 years at the top of the cable news heap but then word of quiet settlements with five women came out in "the new york times." sexual harassment claims go back to 2004. and fox news came under intense pressure to drop him. npr media correspondent david

said it became untenable. >> they a had to decide whether they wanted the issue of sexual conduct to define their network. >> rupert murdoch told employees we want to underscore our consistent commitment to fostering a work environmental built on trust and respect. his ouster was announced while he was on vacation. a photo yesterday showed him at the vatican shaking hands with the pope. in a statement o'reilly called the allegations unfounded and said i will always look back on my time at fox with great pride and the unprecedented success we achieved. fox news founding chairman roger ailes resigned after similar arcizatiar accusations. >> one of the accusers, megyn kelly left in february. show was reportedly angered by comments o'reilly made on "cbs this morning" about her claims. >> i'm not interested in

that is finished that makes my network look bad. >> radio host wendy walsh came forward and said she, too, was a victim of o'reilly's advances describes fox news culture this way that they're trapped in a former time, in another era, in a time when women were beautiful ornaments in workplaces who got coffee and typed. >> reporter: now, yesterday another of roger ailes' accusers said it's time to shed a light on it. the book publisher said its plans have not changed. >> jodi kanter is with "the new york times." a little over two weeks ago. di

>> last week people said this will never happen, he make taos much money, the ratings are higher than they've ever been. >> what my colleagues michael schmidt and emily steel reported they had come forward. last month fox news said thigh had cleaned house. >> but they've known about these charges. >> as recently as yesterday another woman went on the record to say bill o'reilly had made a comment about her showing more cleve language, had tried to sleep with her, et cetera, cetera. we don't know what will come out. >> you don't think this is the end of the story. >> there's been a pretty steady stream of women coming out of fox since last summer talking about offensive things that both roger ailes and bill o'reilly have said and done. >> do you think this story both in terms of roger ailes and bill o'reilly will somehow change the client in which the institution of harass mchlt goes

>> i think it's changed. there's a much clearer definition than there used to be. 20 years ago, 30 years ago, the anita hill instance, they would say, oh, it's the workplace, you should brush it off. there's usually a common definition of what's right and wrong. >> what do you make of bill o'reilly's comment? charlie made the point he also almost seems defiant, like he's right here. >> it strikes a moral tone. >> he has a book out right now. >> as an arbiter of values. what protesters were saying outside the fox billing and inside a plane in the sky, they call him a sexual predator. that's a really tough term for a brand to sustain. >> your paper reports after news of the o'reilly settlements which dates all the way back to 2004ha

questioned whether, quote, fox executives were serious about marketing a culture based on trust and respect. >> they can reach a financial settlement and avoid trauma and embarrassment to them both, but it doesn't mean it serves the public function or the company at large what's okay, roy's not okay, let's agree. >> gretchen carlson set this whole thing in motion because roger ailes was not going to agree to give her a 2:00 p.m. show. she sued him. she got a $20 million lawsuit. as a part of that she signed a confidentiality agreement. she still can't talk about what happened. >> it's the critical m

helping each other out at fox. now these executives speaking up and bedo see over and over again in these situations when women at a company come together and say we don't feel safe, we don't respected here, that's a very powerful source. >> was the extra that broke the camel's back, a, the advertisers fleeing or them worrying about their company or news channel? >> it was seized by all. >> thank you very much. a carrier is sailing toward north korea. the agency just warned the united states it may launch a, quote, super mighty preemptive straigh strike. the white house said it was on its way to the region. they now say it was a mistake. >> a photo shows uss carl vinson

>> they're on a defensive after the serious misstatements about the location of the aircraft carrier's strike movement and how it did or did not fit into the strategic chess game with north korea. they simply wonder what's going on. no comment from president trump about the burgeoning crisis in north korea. >> we're reviewing it in terms of state sponsored terrorism as well as all the other ways we can bring pressure to bear on the regime in pyongyang. >> they're now re-evaluating george w. bush's decision. an ill-fated attempt to pursue their nuclear

the young leader has an appetite for grandiose propaganda. the u.n. ambassador nikki haley warned pyongyang to tread carefully telling reporters it's important to let north korea know we're not trying to pick a fight, so don't give us one. last week the president and his presentation secretary said the carrier "uss carl vinson" and strikeforce vessels were steaming toward the pepeninsula >> we're sending an armagh dachlt very powerful. >> when you see a carrier group steaming into an area like that, the presence of that is almost always a huge deterrent. >> but yesterday sean spicer tried to clarify his remarks. >> we were asked the question what signal is sent. i answered on that.

timing. >> they were headed in the opposite direction, toward the australian coast. the vinson strikeforce is scheduled to arrive in waters near the korean peninsula next week. news triggered ridicule in south korea and china. they boenlth accused the u.s. o bluster and lies. >> all right. thank you. j james mattis responded. in regards to the vinson, he said, the u.s. is, quote, doing exactly what we said we were going to do. mattis is meeting today with egypt's president and will travel to ee gist laegypt later this week. the bear bomber flew on tuesday. no u.s. plains responded. that followed an

day before when a pair of american fighter jets met russian bombers 100 miles off the coast and escorted the planes away from alaska. pentagon officials tell our david martin everyone followed the rules. federal investigators are trying to find a cia worker that may be a traitor. the cia and fbi are working together investigate the security breach. the stolen documents were stored a highly secured section of the cia. jeff pegues in washington uncovered this story. jeff, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. over the past several months they have been narrowing down those who may have had access to the data. sources say that number was likely in the hundreds. this morning the prevailing theory is that the source of the breach is a cia insider. investigators are looking for a cia employee or contractor who

material. the security breach involves the theft ia documents and hacking material. they uncovered phones they use to penetrate smartphones, smart televisions, and computer systems. they obtained the information from former contractors who worked for intelligence tochl this day ia has not called it out. >> it's time to call wikileaks out for what it is. >> just last week he called out julian assange. >>e relies on the dirty work of others to maim famous. he's a fraud hide behind a screen. >> it once again exposed view view neverabilities

information. sense edward snowden has disclosed secrets, there has been a group of them. pompeo has vowed to fundamentally change how security is handled in the system. >> unfortunately the threat has not made it. >> intelligence agencies are really grappling with how to protect u.s. secrets with so much sensitive information to so many people with just the click of a mouse. intelligence officials say these wikileaks disclosures continue to jeopardize u.s. purse and operations. gayle? >> jeff, thank you very much. venezuela is bracing for violence after a huge

drive. they called it the mother of all. venezuela is home to the largest oil reserves in the world. it faces a deepening economic crisis. secretary of state rex tillerson says the u.s. is concerned that venezuela is not allowing opposition voices to be heard. general motors says the government illegally seized one of its plants. the secret service is widening its security perimeter after one of the breaches. the boundary will be pushed back 25 yards. that's across e street. that means the sidewalk and parking lot is off limits. a man jumped over last month. he spend 16 minutes on the white house grounding before agents caught him. >> that's disappointing. that's a money grab.

the president and his family need to be safe too. george h.w. bush is in the hospital. he's in high spirits but recovering from a mild case of pneumonia. this is his second bout of pneumonia this year. there's no word on when he's expected to be released. people in the midwest are facing the threat of severe weather today. possible tonight damage damaged buildings and flipped a trailer in western iowa late last night. it brought damaging hail and rain to nebraska and kansas. a tropical depression has already formed and if it growing strong enough to get a name, it would be the only second april storm to do so. new video shows a massive asteroid more than a quarter mile wide

it's nicknamed the rock. it somed by yesterday just over 100 miles away from our planet. a soyuz rocket carried an astronaut and cosmonaut are getting ready to take off. nasa astronaut jack fischer is making his debut spate tliet. fitness superstar richard simmons is back in the light.

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here on the daily shoal we want to give o'reilly the send-off he deserves. let's face it. hec he's not going to get it on fox. they're going pretend like nothing is wrong. no news to report here. back to you meg ginn, i mean gretchen, i mean bill. i mean who's left. >> luckily he has the publicing empire. he's the author of "killing lincoln," "killing kennedy," and the latest, "killing my career." it's give to give people a lot to discuss. >> it's getting huge coverage. >>'s right.

there may be more news to the story. welcome back to "cbs this morning." on the same day bill o'reilly was ousted from fox news, the cable star got to meet with the pope. >> that's an area where you have to have a special ticket in order to get that close. >> ironic it would be on that day. "the new york times" reports on unusual activity at north korea's nuclear test sight. ijs taken sunday shows a volleyball game being played. it was one of three games. it happened during heightened tensions. they say the games were probably intended to send a message, but the message is unclear. >> the "san diego tribune" reports the high-profile case will

judge. gonzalo curiel was assigned to the case of a young man who reports he was wrongly deported to mexico last year. m "daily news" is reporting on an alleging stalker who got into a building where malia obama was interning he showed up on fourth floor where the daughter of the former president is working. he reportedly held up a sign in an office window and asked malia to marry him. secret service agents recognized him immediately as a man who had tried to get into the white house. he's not in custody as authorities consider charging against him. and there are new days about the death of former nfl star aaron hernandez. law enforcement officers say

marijuana before his death. he was found early yesterday hanging in his cell. prison officials believe it was a suicide. tony dokoupil is outside the prison facility in massachusetts. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. massachusetts state police and the department of corrections are still investigating her nan dez's death. investigators believe one of the last people to see the 27-year-old alive is a close friend who is now himself in an isolated cell on suicide watch. when corrections officers found aaron hernandez hanging in his prison cell, they also found an apparent message. sources tell cbs boston station wbz hernandez had john 3:16 on his forehead written in red marker. it reads for whoeverel

god -- he had a bed sheet hanging from the window and blocked the door. the family and friends express shock and promise an investigation of their own. his attorney said there was no conversation or correspondence from aaron that would have indicated anything like this was possible and his former agent tweeted absolutely no chance he took his own life. just five days before his death, hernandez wiped away tears in front of family members after being acquitted of murders of danny abreu and furtado. he is serving a prison sen

the death of odin lloyd. under the massachusetts law his conviction could be erased. >> the wrongful death case continues and we really should not be affected by this event. he died on the very same day his former team were at the white house to celebrate their super bowl victory. his former teammates declined to comment on his death. >> thank you so much. fitness guru richard simmons appeared to be reaching out for fans. he was hospitalized for severe indigestion. he took to facebook to thank fans for their well wishes and confirmed he's okay. kefr

good morning. >> good morning. you could argue that up until 2014 there was no public figure who was more public than richard simmons and that's why his continued absence and his latest statement are so fascinating. the main thing richard simmons seems to be exercising these days is his right to privacy. he apparently decided it was time to reassure fans he's okay after being hospitalized in los angeles for gastric problem monday. this post appeared wednesday on his facebook page. hello to everyone who has shown concern for me and sent their good wishes. i'm sure i will be feeling good and back home in a couple of days. >> work it. give me your best. >> reporter: after overcoming his own obesity he dedicated his life to helping others get healthy. he scribe e described

way. >> he got his life toke and decided to be the pied piper. >> but apparently he decided to leave everyone behind. he gave up his industry. dan felt so abandoned he produced a podcast. missing rich and simmons completely and inexplicably stopped being richard simmons and i want to know why. >> by now you know i'm not missing. just a little under the weather. now, even though the picture in richard's post is very similar to a photo taken in 2013, his spokesperson assures entertainment tonight that richard did write the post and i just want to point out it ends with this line. hope to see you again soon. i think even is hoping to see richard soon. gayle.

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today is april 20th or 4/20. it's date long considered to be national weed day. all those in the audience knows that. a poll shows the number of americans in favor of legalized marijuana has reached a new high. 61% of americans think

should be legal. that's a 5-point increase over last year. more than half of all states have legalized medical marijuana and eight states along with the district of columbia allow marijuana for recreation at purposes. barry pederson is in denver, colorado, on how they're handling the financial wind fall and the stigma. food morning to you. >> good morning. the marijuana plants in just this room are worth $500,000. $1.3 billion in sales last year. it turns out that good pot business is good news for cash strapped cities and even college kids. a small area of flags and front pore ps is all-american and, oh, by the way, it has six pot shops

outside who do not allow marijuana sales. this is generating $1.4 million in sales from pot. that's 20%. money for repaving 12 miles of streets and the old city hall will soon be replaced by a new $10 million complex that will include a police station and library to if finished by 2018. >> how much will be pot money? >> if it remains legal, all of it. >> reporter: he's the city manager. does anybody jump up to say it's got have all that money but it's sin city, a drug operation that's paying for all of this? >> i would say it's a few people who feel that way but it's not commonly discussed. >> reporter: marijuana owner tim cullen wanted to give back to the community by donate 2g $00,000 to a nonprofit.

thanks. he believes it was the stigma of pot money. >> i was shocked. honestly. it was more difficult than i thought it would be. >> reporter: he took us to a denver park where the city accepted his donation as par of a private/public project to build a pavilion for free concerts. does the day come when you make a donation like this and nobody pays attention? i mean you could be the pot shop or the corner grocery? >> maybe. maybe. i think so. i mean i think we're years away from that being the case. >> reporter: about 110 miles south of denver, public county is also benefiting from the taxes. it gets its taxes when marijuana is harvested and sold to pot shops statewide. money, now giving college kids pot money scholarships. >> are you comfortableit

marijuana? >> yes. >> this freshman wants to be a teacher. she's getting $1,000 a semester at colorado state university in pueblo. >> i think without this i wouldn't be able to continue my education without tanging loan and worrying how i will pay them back. >> reporter: this spring every student will qualify for a pot scholarship to be used at local colleges. those scholarships and their help for the city will really be hurt if the trump administration bans the sale of legal rerk yagsal pot even if it still allows sales for medical purposes. pod advocates say they will still buy pot for regular recreational use but the cities and states will get zero money from the black market. >> it's really

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it is thursday, april 20th, 2017. welcome back to "cbs this morning." fox news, as you heard, just oefted bill o'reilly. ahead, the issues that forced him out and how will the channel do without the biggest star on cable. but first here's today's "eye opener" at 8:00. biggest star of cable news was forced out from his top rated show. >> after more than 50 advertisers fled, fox news wiannel again was cononfrted th the question of whether it's corporate culture is hostile towomen. >> what do you think was the tiing point? >> what my colleagues reported is women were continuing to come forward. >> the administration is on the defensive about the

the aircraft care rear strike group. the white house tried to shift blame while adversaries in asia were wondering what's going on. they're trying to find a traitor. >> the source of the breach is a sia insider. new video shows a massive asteroid narrowly passion earth. this is a timeline satellite image nicknamed rock. >> most of the folks standing and cheering for ichiro, more than likely his final at-bat at age 43. >> a drive to right field. he e ends it all. look at this. ichiro. talk about a sense of the dramatic.% what a moment for ichiro. i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell.

bill o'reilly his job at fox news. the normxheadlines says lights out for the channel's biggest star. the paper broke the story earlier this month that o'reilly and fox paid about $13 million to settle complaints by five women. >> last night o'reilly's name vanished from the show. he was a fox news fixture for more than 20 years. the times claims the sexual harassment claims go back to 2004. the parent company of fox news said yesterday after a thorough and careful review of the allegations, bill o'reilly will not be returning to the fox news channel. >> o'reilly said in a statement, quote, it is tremendously disheartening that we part ways due to completely unfound ways but that's the reality we must live with today. i will always look back on my time with fox with great pride. last year

removed for similar reasons. one of his accusers, fox news star megan kellie wrote about it in her book. we asked him about it when he was here with james patterson who wrote a big "give please a chance." >> have you read it? >> no. >> you're in it. seems like if i was in a book -- >> i didn't know i was in a book. >> i might want to take a look. >> look. i'm trying to stay out of any of that kind of stuff. it doesn't pertain to my life. i wish her well. she's a very smart woman. it's a tough book environment. we'll see if people respond to it. but i have not read it. it's not a dis. it just came out. i'll look at it. >> bill, it just came out, but you know people. you could get the book early if you wanted. >> you know, they locked that thing down? >> did they? >> oh, yeah. >> she's not goi t

show talking about it? >> i don't know. we'll see if she's going to be on the show. i have to be very candid here. i'm not that interested in it. >> sexual harassment? >> i'm not interesting in basically litigating something that is finished that makes my network look bad, okaysome i'm not interested in making my network look bad at all. it doesn't interest me one bit. >> is that what she's doing? >> i don't know. but i'm not going to even bother with it. >> kelly left the channel in january. good morning. >> good morning. bill o'reilly is leaving after just signing a mega deal with fox to continue even though these charges have dated back to 2004. what remaining questions are there at foxsome. >> the fact that they signed him to a new coct

allegations were going to come out. obviously there were earlier allegations that everyone knew about. they were doing this, there were settlements being paid after roger ailes' sexual harassment cloud produced a lot of anger internally and made women there question whether the murdochs were committed to a workplace based on respect as they said. >> do you feel they will now? >> i do. i do. i think the women who were afraid to come forward had a new voice within the company. >> what are you hearing about the role that women at the company played behind the scenes? >> well, they were really disheartened. people described imto me as outrage. they renewed his deal knowing this story was comg

they made calculation that weathered this and that's what what produced a lot of the anger internally. >> do you think it was more than just the advertisers? they dropped out of bill o'reilly's show but fox wu still getting advertisers. >> they were just moving their ads to different shows on fox, but the stock price did slip. the stock price slipped on perception, perception that the house is not in order over there and when you have internal unrest, that's something that executives worry about a lot. >> so the tipping point skpangtly was in your judgment? >> i think it was a combination of women inside the network, not just women but concerned about this and outraged about this and also the perception on wall street that produces 6% stop up thes. >> how about "the new york times" piece that they had paid those wome

of the anger, that this was still going on after the murdochs had put out that statement. when they made the statement. >> ho do you think fox will do without bill o'reilly? >> they're a very strong brand and they have a monopoly on conservative opinion on television, on cable news and they also have the wind at their back as does all of cable news because the political junkies are just glued to it right now with the early tumultuous days. >> does anyone know if there was a decision made between rupert mu doc and his sons? >> they all came to an agreement on tuesday, the three of them, but, yes, there was early separation, daylight, between rupert and lachlan and james. >> and we heard their wooivs also waeged in. >> right. skbanltsly. exactly. >> nice to see you. >> thank you.

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of the world's most influential leaders. global leaders like president trump and chinese president are among the athletes. melinda gates joins the list. also john legend, the editor in chief nancy gibbs joining us. good morning. one more time for those not following us this morning. >> or in a cage. >> or both. >> how do you select them. >> it's a year long tradition. people who are fascinating, moving the needle in whatever different field. >> for good or bad? >> for good or bad. the power is a tool. influence is a skill. it's a different kind of effect that they have. so there a

who are very traditionally famous, heads of state and ceos, but there are people who a lot of people have never heard of who are acting in their realms and ways that are sure to be enormously potent for years to come. >> you always say, nancy there are no automatics. you've about got a pretty good shot of being on the list. >> you do. they've got an edge. >> you've got five people from the trump administration on the list. >> any time you have a new administration -- we're watching these people closely. they came in with so little experience in government and such a promise to the campaign they were going to blow it up anyway, we knew things were not going to be the same as it had been before. we're watching them -- even though west weng has likened it to a game of thrones kind o

atmosphere, each is influential in a way to not just their own role but the public service and roles of the president. >> it spans athletes, scientists, actors, politicians t gat mutt, as to who you choose to write. jared kushner who's taken on an outside role. henry kissinger writes up him and says we have spore at imagely changed views. >> kissinger has watched a lot of administrations come and go and he understands the thermodie nam eks with a little bit of a warning. we even seen several around president trump have their wings burnt and melted. it's a tribute to fact that kush

very. he was known for his role in vary yaus sis comes. until he took over the last latest rate show. he had a great year. >> i'm happy show made the list. next year, wrinkle in time. it's so great she made the list. you chose her why? >> you know, like barry jenkins, we're seeing these versatile directors. also others. >> and you have tom brady and. >> you have two quarterbacks. one for what he did on the

and one for what he did next to the field in the way he invited the different conversation. >> poach francis is the only religious leader to make the list and there's a question whether trump will see him in italy coming up in a few weeks. >> that will be very interesting to see. you remember when we met him many the fall. the first words out of his mouth are pray for me. the way he has captured the imagination of peoplefar beyond. he makes. >> i have to go. could i feel charlie rose made the list? you feel the gritness, don't you? >> he is indeed one of our 100. >> different

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." this is what we do every day around this time. who's handing out in the green room. there they are. christian bale and oscar isaac and the people who came with them this morning. through're here to talk about their movie, "the promise." >> it's about the genocide. >> a lot of people don't even know about it. "usa today" reports on a lawsuit of maker bose. they're accused of collecting information about its customers. it include music and aud joe voices. information was sent to third

parties without user consent. bose has not returned cbs news's request for comment. the killer whale calf was born yesterday. she was already pregnant last year when sea board said it was ending its breeding program. it falls to just over 3 million teachers. only on "cbs this morning" we're very proud to announce the 2017 national teacher of the year, drum roll, please. >> she is sydney chaffee. she's a ninth great human tees teacher in dorchester, massachusetts. we asked some of her students why they think she's so great. >> sydney is differe

way she teaches. it's a very blunt, claum, and nice at the same time. >> she motivates you to do your best and she push you. >> basically she found ways to get in my head. >> of the word use have left, what would make sense there. >> she really cares about us and takes the time to get to know us. >> she's a good listener. >> it's weird, but she can relate to us. a tull white lady talking to a bunch of black kids. >> ambiguous is unclear. if it's difficult, it's unclear, right? >> she asks questions to see if you understand. she asks questions that makes you want to ask questions. >> this has to to with the legacy of colonials and what's the legacy. >> there are probably a lot of other great teachers, but sydney is just the best. >> very good. >> very

chaffee, congratulations you tall adult white lady. i love that they said that about you an also they call you by your first name. >> you encourage that. >> we do it at our school. we call them by their first names, they call us by our first names. we want to show it's a community and we have relationships. >> what's the magic in your classroom. you say, yes, i'm a white woman teaching kids of color but you said there eeg something in message you want them to get. >> yeah. i want my students to understand that they are powerful and they ma can make change in the world, whatever the future is they want to see, they have the power and they have the agency to make that happen and so that's at the core of everything we're doing. >> what do those lessons entail? >> we learn a lot about the history of those who have been oppressed and marginalized and how they've fought for

we look at resistant movements and relate it to today. >> do youly great teachers have it happen something early? >> i'm a teacherer so i thinkive can learn. that's some special magic. >> what is the special imagine uk? >> i don't know. i don't know whattet is. there ooh a deeps dean sire. we can always get better so this award is so hum bilge because i think how i can be beer at this job and i know my colleagues are always thinking that too, teachers understand we're learners and we model that for our kids. >> tell us about your school. >> my school is amazing. i love that. it's a taney school in boston.

>> when and why did you decide to be a teacher? >> i well the to college to be a powe kwlet and they made me realize this is work i can do. i started on the path late in college. looking back i see all these signs. i was a bit of a know-it-all. >> following your lead, sydney, thank you. >> teacher of the year. ten new cheetah cubs are making themselves at home researches are working to breed more to preserve the species. fewer than 10,000 cheetahs are left in the world. chip reid

smithsonian in virginia to see how caretakers are keeping the animals healthy. good morning. >> good morning. there are 20 adult china as the. that's mom over there. these are her two others. there are 16 adults and ten tiny little cubs. we got to meet them face-to-face 678 these tiny cubs are three weeks old and steadily gaining weight. they're brothers and sisters born to 7 edgy. is that purring? >> though. they're actually gronling adrian kroeshier, a biologist with the smut sohnial is a manager of the program andck

them about twice a week. >> does it get old. no it always helped to krubs. >> reporter: this year they got 112 cubs total. while two did not survive having this many close together is a virtual population explosion. >> every day that they make it through we have a better chance of them surviving to adulthood. >> some are calling for the fast cat to be moved to the endangered species list. >> why are they vul tirrable in. >> because of the areas they habitat. the areas they grew in have left. today they're mostly found in southern africa, especially

namibia. here she and her team are doing critical work to help the species survive. >> i hear you call the cheetah cupid. >> reporter: scientists referring to the walkway between the adull cheetah and children moot, on lovers lane. >> we'll let them meet for the first time on the phen. . >> reporter: she's hopeful they can prevent the animal from disappears forever. >> having the huge litter in the. >> so the chi that's here to stay? the ch the. as for the about the cubs they're with their mothers in done. it's veryar

to stay away. others will go to our zilts and bead nag celts around the nation. i'm going to try to sneak one out myself rngs but please don't know anybody. >> i don't know who's cuter chip or the cheetahs. >> gayle, he's a married man. >> just because you look at the -- >> nina black, she's my old trainer. thank yu very much, the new movie called "the promise" introduces audiences to one overthe left known human catastrophes. ahead their story of love amitt

actor christian bale has earned critically acclaimed awards. >> golden globe winner oscar isaac is ben noeft as resistant foghter powe in "star wars"

it chronicles the chaos in constant ta noble before the start of world war i. he plays a journalist, desperate to save his family from being rounded up by the turks. >> i have to go. i have to find them. >> mikhail, leave these people alone. >> i eemg not safe. no one here is safe. don't you see what's happening? >> we lived through turkish dleting before. >> understand. i have to get us out. trust me. i'm getting us out of here. >> christian bale and oscar isaac, welcome to studio 57. >> thank you. >> help us understand what the genocide was in the few minutes we have and secondly why the story hasn't b

>> the story hasn't been told because the turkish government suppressed it. even the he couldn't get it made. tokyo has enormous power. kirk managed to get this raised by self-financing it. he passed away unfortunately but this is also why you never get any sitting u.s. prts says. of the strategic value of turkey. >> the arminian genocide happened between 1950 and 1953. we're talk 1g 1/ armenians killed and this story brings it to life because you play a reporter, right? >> right. i play a reporter who is visiting, who has a

armenian lady. >> a little tray angle here. >> yes, you do. >> you know movie is good right there. >> but they are caught up in this genocide. there are a couple of lines that sum up something taen interesting. it must be lovely to get that. without the press, nobody would know anything about the armenian jen sign. >> i was embarrassed. after i started watching it i started googling it. what's fascinating, it's violent but you don't see the violence. yet you feel intense pain. was it deliberate? >> yeah. terry george was very adamant he wanted it to be

tool because so little of it is known as least in the west i didn't know anything about it to my shame. >> did you, christian? >> no. >> okay. >> so it's been very effective. you were say u you tnts any it about it. the terrible thing is you think of lapse of consequences. you do the 100% proceeds. >> christian is good. >> 100% proceeds of the film go to charity which i think is unprecedent. >> we should mention he's done hotel rwanda. >> yeah.

he's have interestings in that. another line from the film which i think is great is our revenge will be to stay alive. not only survive but thrived. it's a very hopeful message and hopefully people make a lot of pair reallies twoen in the same exact part of worlds. i love it go ahead and chose armenia. see if they that will do i. it's positive. you two falling in love with the seam william but you vnld ma a promise to another woman. >> one man, two women? >> he gets lured. i play a young man from a small village in armenia w

constant ta noble to learn modern medicine and bring it back to the individualage. once he arrives in the big city of con stay ta noble. >> is christian's girlfriend. >> right. >> one of the things relevant to now is how important the press is. the fact that the free press is so functional in coming. >> thank you for coming and for that too. >> the promise is in theaters tomorrow. you can find more

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[ applause ] looks like it is raining. good morning. i'm chris leary. >> i'm markette shepperd. >> it's thursday and i'm darrel green. there is news on on the internet. if you are a fan of serena williams, she dominated social media buzz after posting a selfie on her snapchat on wednesday that read, 20 weeks. serena, way to drop a bombshell! her spokesperson confirmed that they were speculating, but they confirmed she is, indeed, expecting her first child and that means serena was eight weeks pregnant when she won the australian open earlier this year. she did that while pregnant! >> not surprising. >> she is amazing. she has won so many grand slams that people have stopped counting. we will keep counting if you win a grand slam after the baby, serena and we are happy

look what she did. she posted news on her tennis rival birthday. there is a tense rivalry and she said, i'm stealing the spotlight. she got engaged to reddit cofounder, alexi ohanian and will spend the remainder of the season with him. congrats. call me! it was two against one? >> well done. okay. >> i might have the last laugh. we will talk about this, and they are excited about the team. it is a great night for the home teams. we start off with the playoff teams. the caps beat toronto and no overtime.