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that cyber attack that infected computers in every corner ever the world began to slow today. a pair of engineers figured out how to stall the attack for a few dollars. charlie d'agata has our coverage. >> reporter: from china as main oil company to a hospital in indonesia, to japan's nissan car company. the ransom ware attack ricocheted around the world again today as people went back to work. and today, asia bore the brunt of the attacks. chinese university students were even locked out from their term papers. elsewhere, germany's railroads were hit. france's renault car
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to close. businesses in mongolia were hit. the scale of the attack is called unprecedented. >> it indicates 150 countries are affected and beyond 200,000 individual victims. >> reporter: the ransom ware works by freezing the computers, encrypting the files, with hackers demanding $300 in ransom to decorrode them or they'd be destroyed. called wannacry, it exploits a weakness in microsoft software first stolen from the nag security agency. it might have been worse if not for two young cyber security researchers. one goes by the name malware tech. he noticed every time it took over, it pinged back to an unregistered website. so he registered the website for about $10. his fellow sleuth was watching in
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dare kw darian huss. >> he activated the kill switch. >> reporter: huss said once an infected computer pinged the newly-registered website, it killed the virus. >> it's what i do on a day-to-day basis. for me, it was just another day at the office, i guess. >> reporter: the head of europoll says they are working closely with the fbi to identify the culprit. and at least two cyber security firms say they're looking into technical clues that north korea may be behind the attack. >> charlie d'agata in our hon done newsroom. so thanks. what does microsoft have to say? john blackstone pincks up the story. >> reporter: security evexperts have known for months about the vulnerability. they released a
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newer versions of its operating system but not the older versions. >> microsoft hasn't been supporting their decade-old systems hike windows xp, and this attack took advantage of that. so microsoft issued an emergency patch this past weekend. >> reporter: the fix was too late to help those already attacked. in a blog post, microsoft's president, brad smith acknowledged the company has the first responsibility to address these issues. but went on to point a finger at the national security agency, which originally identified the software flaw, then lost it when hackers broke into nsa computers. an equivalent scenario with conventional weapons would be the u.s. military having some of its tomahawk missiles stolen. in so i think the nsa should probably err on the side of disclosure. >> reporter: in seattle, kyle kosher works to defend against ha
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could have done more to prevent this attack. >> they could possibly figure out when these vulnerabilities are going to be rediscovered or leaked and alert the vendors before it gets out. but it doesn't seem like that happened in this case. >> reporter: microsoft says it has more than three and a half thousand working on it. today the state department says it has evidence that syria as assad regime has carried out mass executions outside damascus. it released images that according to the u.s. show a crematorium. assad's forces had been pummeling the opposition in damascus and in the city of homs. but in a deal, it allowed hundreds to board buses out, and
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>> reporter: for years they waged war against the regime of assad. but tonight these opposition fighters and their families lined up to leave, defeated. nearly had 400 fighters, some w weapons still in hand boarded buses by sunset. soldiers watched under the watchful eye of this allies, all part of the deal to relocate the opposition to northern syria. what are you thinking about now as you get on the bus? the rebel fighters did not want to talk with us. but in a video they shot, this young man explained, it feels like a stab in the heart leaving homs, but god-willing, i'll come back one day triumphant. homs governor said the negotiations to get this far were difficult. it's a truce for the time being, he said, but he warns the government would fight them again in the future if it had
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to. assad's forces have used several different tactics to take back territory from opposition fighters. one has been to destroy entire neighborhoods. and so the shelling continues on the outskirs of the capital damascus. despite a similar relocation deal there, with thousands leaving. assad's forces have destroyed cities, killed and starved their enemies and now, scott, these rebel evacuations are bringing assad closer to a symbolic victory, solidifying control over syria's big cities. >> seth doane inside syria for us tonight. we're back in just a moment. ♪
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of guam where the u.s. has a major bomber base. it flew for 30 minute, longer than any previous north korean test. more importantly, it appears to be the test of a re-entry vehicle, a key technology north korea must master before it can develop an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of striking the unit mainland the test missile flew 1200 miles into space. as the re-entry vehicle came back to earth it encountered extreme heat and buffeting when it hit the atmosphere. the technical challenge is to withstand the heat and buffeting without losing course. it land 60 miles from russia. north korea claimed it was capable of carrying a quote, large-sized nuclear warhead, in which case, it wouldn't have to be very accurate. >> david marten at the pentagon. still ahead, air
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wants everyone to know. >> they let him suffer. he died a shlow and painful deah at the hands of these men of principle, as they call it. >> reporter: according to this grand jury report, pea piazza w forced to drink alcohol, fell downstairs twice, and was in and out of consciousness during a pledge night on february 2nd. much of it was captured on surveillance cameras. how difficult was it to read that grand jury report in >> to know that he was laying at the bottom of the basement steps for any length of time, all by himself it was terrible. >> 911, what's the address of your emergency. >> reporter:
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waited until almost 11:00 the next morning. >> he's breathing. >> reporter: the grand jury report alleges a coverup. >> they knew he needed serious help, but they decided, you know what? let's preserve ourselves, let's not do anything. and they ordered a cleanup to get rid of the alcohol, get rid of the evidence, and getting rid of the videotapes, and thank god, the police got there before that happened. >> tim was an amazing man and an even better friend. >> reporter: the piazza family is finding comfort from the hundreds of people who sent condolences. >> tim's not just our son any muir. >> he's everyone's son. >> or daughter. >> reporter: the university president says beta theta pi will never exist again at penn state university. defense attorneys say they'll
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>> reporter: after the last flight of the day landed at l.a.x., the race to move took off. there's a lot of stuff going on tonight. in all, 21 airlines will switch places thanks to an army of 200-plus movers. >> it's like ripping off that band-aid. let's just do it and get it done. >> reporter: airport spokesperson mary grady. >> we really had to find a time of the year when we thought we could get this done. and mother's day weekend is really one of the slowest times of the year at l.a.x. >> reporter: follow the signs as everything in terminals two and three must go to make way for delta coming from five and six, a distance of about seven blocks. 3,000 computers need to be moved as do 300 offices and 6300 boxes so far loaded into 14 moving vans. one of the easier parts of this move is dealing with the 25 airplanes that need to be taken to their new homes. this one came in
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start the day tomorrow on the other side of the airport. l.a.x. add 400 miles of new cable for technology, enough to stretch from l.a. to san francisco. and more than a thousand signs had to be changed. the move aims to cut congestion. delta wanted to expand and is paying for the whole thing. >> it's been a 13-month planning session. >> reporter: delta vp. >> when you're in the middle of it, you're all about getting through it. >> reporter: still, with 223,000 flyers at l.a.x. every day, there's bound to be some confusion. >> we're just being like half an hour late. >> reporter: a delay today they hope leads to more on-time departures tomorrow. kris van cleave, cbs news, los angeles. and that's overnight news for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us a little bit later for the morning news and cbs this morning.
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york city, i'm scott pelley. this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the overnight news. i'm tony dokoupil. the worldwide ransom ware attack continues to strangle computers. more than 150 countries were affected but surprisingly no u.s. government systems were affected. >> reporter: from china's main oil company to a hospital in indonesia to japan's nissan car company. the ransom ware attack ricocheted around the world again today as people went back to work. and today asia
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chinese students were locked out of their papers. even businesses in mongolia were hit. the scale of the tack attack is called unprecedented. >> 150 countries affected and beyond 200,000 individual victims. >> reporter: the ransom ware works by freezing the computers, encrypting the files with hackers demanding $300 or files would be destroyed. the virus is called wannacry. it might have been much worse if not for two young cyber security researchers. one goes by the name malware tech. he noticed every time a virus took over a computer it pinged back to an unregistered website. so he registered the website for about $10. his fellow computer sleuth was
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watching in michigan, darian huss. >> through that registration of the domain, he activated the kill switch. >> reporter: huss says once an infected computer pinged the newly-registered website, it killed the malware, but he resisted being called a hero. >> their is is kind of what i d a day-to-day basis, so for me it was just another day at the office, i guess. >> reporter: europol is working with the united states government, and two security firms are looking into technical clues that north korea may be behind the attack. microsoft is pointing the finger of blame at the u.s. government for the ransom weare attack. john blackstone has that story. >> reporter: at microsoft's campus near seattle, security experts have known for months about the software
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that made this attack possible. in march, microsoft released a fix for users of newer versions of its operating system but not a fix for the older versions. bobby rubin teaches computer science at johns hopkins university. >> this attack took advantage of that, so microsoft issued an emergency patch this weekend. >> reporter: the fix was too late to help those already attacked. brad smith acknowledged the company has the first responsibility to address these issues. but they went on to point the finger at the national security agency which originally identified the software flaw, then lost it when hackers broke into nsa computers. an equivalent scenario with conventional weapons would be the u.s. military having some of its tomahawk missiles stolen. >> so i think the nsa should probably err on the side of disclosu
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>> reporter: in seattle. a computer researcher at the university of washington works to defend against hackers and thinks the nsa could have done more to prevent this attack. >> they could possibly figure out when these vulnerabilities are going to be rediscovered or leaked and alert the vendors before it gets out, but it doesn't seem that that happened in this case. >> reporter: microsoft says it has more than three and three and a half thousand engineers working. but among the workers finding a way in are america's own spy agencies. the trump administration is accusing syrian president bashar al assad of using a military prison outside damascus as an extermination camp. it says about 50 prisoners a day have been hanged and their bodies burned in a crematorium to hide the evidence. meanwhile, another round of
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geneva. and the syrian regime is gaining ground on control. seth doane is there. >> reporter: for years, they waged war against the regime of al-assad. but tonight these opposition fighters and their families lined up to leave, defeated. nearly 400 fighters, some with weapons still in hand had boarded buses by sunset. assad's soldiers monitored the departure under the watchful eye of their russian allies. all part of the deal to relocate the opposition to northern syria. what are you thinking about right now as you get on the bus? the rebel fighters did not want to talk with us. but in a video they shot, this young man explained -- it feels like a stab in the heart leaving homs, but god-willing, i'll come back one day triumphant. homs governor said the negotiations to
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were difficult. it's a truce for the time being, he said, but he warns the government would fight them again in the future if it had to. assad's forces have used several different tactics to take back territory from opposition fighters. one has been to destroy entire neighborhoods. and so the shelling continues on the outskirts of the capital damascus. despite a similar relocation deal there, with thousands leaving. assad's forces have destroyed cities, killed and starved their enemies and now, scott, these rebel evacuations are bringing assad closer to a symbolic victory, solidifying control over syria's big cities. north korea's rulers are gloating over this weekend's missile test. the missile only flew a few hundred miles, but the north insists it can go much farther and even carry a nuclear warhead. david martin r
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>> reporter: it's not the perfect weapon the north korean claim. but the latest test represents a significant advance for kim jong un and his nuclear weapons program. after three failures, it was the first successful test of an intermediate range missile capable of reaching the island of guam where the u.s. has a major bomber base. it flew for 30 minutes, longer than any previous north korean test. most importantly, u.s. officials say it appears to have been a test of a re-entry vehicle. a key technology north korea must master before it can develop an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of striking the united states mainland with a nuclear weapon. the missile flew 1200 miles into space. as it came back to earth, it encountered extreme heat and buffeting when it hit the atmosphere. the technology challenge is to with stand the heat and buffeting without being knocked off course.
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new technologies are revolutionizing how some doctors diagnose patients, especially children. one company has a 90-second test that's supposed to determine if a child has autism. another uses a face recognition app to identify rare disorders. >> reporter: he was a bright 4-year-old who presented a medical mystery. >> he was much slower to grow. all of his things he did was delayed. speech was slightly delayed. crawling was delayed. >> reporter: doctors didn't know what was wrong until keegan's parents brought him here, where dr. karen grip uploaded his picture to study his image. >> most people hooking at him
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other than he's a cute kid. >> yeah. he is. i didn't know that there was anything in particular different about him either. so that's why i was really impressed that this app was able to see something looking only at his face. >> reporter: the system developed by fdna uses the same technology as facebook to look for matches of children with rare disorders. >> this is the condition that showed the highest level of similarity shown by this bar here, completely filled. >> reporter: and this is the one. >> this is the one in the end you would diagnose with. >> reporter: the app suggested he might have a metabolic disorder. >> it was a quick answer, we knew right there. >> reporter: the app is just one of many new technologies helping doctors reach a diagnosis more quickly and efficiently. another one called right eye
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targets autism. doctors at the george washington autism center shows us how the test use infrared sensors to determine what a child like jack prefers to look like. on one side, people, on the other, geometric shapes. most children are drawn to the images of children on the right. but people with autism focus on the shapes on the left. test inventor, karen pierce. >> if you look at the geometric shapes more than 69% of the time, the chances that you have asd are exceptionally high. >> reporter: the test can be used in a regular doctor's office. the app is available in the apple store, but only medical professionals are allowed access to the database. >> we don't want, you know, the mom and pops to go on and download this app and use it to try and diagnose their kids. >>or
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served with the special forces in afghanistan is learning to live with the aftermath of a deadly terror attack, but it didn't happen in a war zone. david martin has the story. >> reporter: martinez and his children on a perfect spring day in the suburbs of san antonio. but this is no field of dreams. this is a family trying to wake from a nightmare. >> the last thing i remember before the blast was my mom laughing. >> reporter: that blast was a suitcase bomb in brussels airport last year. just as the martinez family was checking in for a trip to disney world in florida. key ony is the familiar y's old child. >> i just saw fire, burned bodies. body parts. and i looked down at my leg, and there was white sin
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it. and i realized after a couple seconds that the person i heard screaming was myself. >> reporter: how close were you to the bomb do you think? >> i was probably less than six feet. >> reporter: less than six feet? >> yes, sir. i don't know how i survived. >> reporter: cato martinez, a communications officer who worked with special operations forces was just back from afghanistan. you were probably closer to the enemy in brussels airport than you were in afghanistan. >> probably, sir. i was in some bad places in afghanistan. >> reporter: among the mayhem, he found his wife gail. >> she was laying on her back. her leg was blown off below the knee. i went to her as fast as i could. and put a tourniquet on her leg to stop
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her vitals, and there was no one there. >> i saw my dad, and he was cradling mama. her eyes were closed. and he was screaming. >> reporter: the other children, aged 7, 9, and 12 at the time, were nowhere in sight. >> i couldn't find my three youngest. so i thought, because they were so young and so small, they were vaporized or torn apart. >> reporter: paramedics carried key ony outside on a stretcher. >> and then they brought out my mom. she was smiling, but she wasn't breathing, and i knew she was gone. and then they brought out daddy to lie down right next to me. and for a while, we just lied there, and he held my hands. but then his grip started
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surrounding me, just wanted to give in to it. just quietly go into night, go to sleep. i just told her before i closed my eyes. i said i love you, and just, if you see the kids, take care of them. >> i said don't leave me. please don't leave me. so when the first responders came with some oxygen masks, they tried to put it on me, because i was the child. but i started flailing around and screaming at them to put it on daddy to make sure he was alive. >> reporter: so your daughter brought you back. >> she did. she was the, she saved me that day. >> reporter: the younger children were small enough to be shielded from the full fury of the blast by baggage piled around them at the check-in
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his father. >> i was in front of him and the bags. he would have taken a face full of shrapnel. >> reporter: still, he was badly burned by the fireball. >> third-degree burns on 30% of his body. skin and fat, burned all the way down to the muscle. we didn't know if he was going to make it or not. >> reporter: key ony's left leg was so injured they thought they would have to take it off below the knee. >> they thought it would be better for me to have it amputated. but then as a last-ditch effort, they decided to do an arterial graft from this leg and put it into this leg. so it really was a miracle surgery. >> reporter: six months later she performed her own miracle, standing on that leg for a full five seconds. it was her 18th birthday. less than a month later, she was walking. now she's running. although she'll have to wear that uncomfortable brace for the
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rest of her life. key ony also came close to losing her right arm to a piece of shrapnel that left that nasty scar. >> i don't hide my scars. i've come to the conclusion that while my scars are visible, they don't define me. >> reporter: it's your purple heart. >> yes, sir. >> reporter: cato's scars are not as visible. >> i got two piece of shrapnel on my spine, and still got 15 pieces in my right foot. so every day is painful. >> reporter: physical pain is the least of it for a veteran of two combat tours. >> you can't prepare for when they bring that war to your house, and they bring it to your family and take away your wife. all my training and experience went out the window. when i saw my wife in my arms. i failed my children and my wife. >> reporter: that sense of failure almost drove him to suicide. >> i had to go to my mom. and i thought about it, and i
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could be and how lonely i feel about what's going on with me, i knew it was a selfish act. i've got four little kids that rely on me. what are you lookin' for? i'll heat this up. >> reporter: now he's mr. mom, finding out what it takes to raise a family. >> between cleaning and cooking and taking the kids to their respective extracurricular activities and school, i broke down, i said like i got to hire someone to do this. so twice a month, i have a cleaning crew come in. >> reporter: you realize what you're telling me, going out on deployments with special operations and you come back and you break down over cleaning? >> i can lead a team of men and women in combat, but i got to tell you, it's so hard to be the father of four kids. >> reporter: lieutenant colonel martinez is back on active duty, this time a deskob
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his kids. >> good form, good throw. >> reporter: keyno has an arm like a canon his dad says, but the scar tissue is so dense that dropping into a squat is a major victory. he can barely grip a bat. san antonio is the tenth place the martinez family has called home as they move from post to post around the world. when somebody asks you, where's home, what do you tell them? >> well, for me, home is mama. she's the constant. >> reporter: now it's a home filled with pictures of someone no longer there. a wife and mother who was murdered by three terrorists who wheeled suitcase bombs into the brussels airport. we wish we could tell you the dark days are over, that good has triumphed over evil, but we can't. >> i
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and severe depression. from hopelessness. guilt, regret. >> reporter: key ony is starting college with wisdom no 18-year-old should have. >> i have a different mind set now going forward. i'm not afraid to die. i'm more afraid of wasting a day and regretting not doing something important, like saying i love you to my family. >> you know things other people don't know. >> if i can touch at least one person, even if that's a teenager like me in college, pick up the phone and call their parents and say thank you for everything. i
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two mountain climbing adventurers who tried to snapchat their way to mt. everett are back again. their goal is to make it to the summit without oxygen. just one was successful, but his camera died on the way up. >> reporter: they set off for everest with two goals in mind, the first to make sure adrian reaches the summit, and the second, to capture that moment on snap chat. >> 35,000 feet. >> reporter: mt. everest looms overhead. ago adrian balenjer goes. >> the body's not meant to be here. ep
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north call with the eddie bauer mountain team. >> our bodies don't love us right now. >> reporter: but cory and adrian plan on ascending and snapchatting right to the top, without supplemental oxygen. >> breathing hard just sitting. >> reporter: training for summit day is rigorous. custom diets give them a metabolic kick to combat altitude sickness. >> i'm eating sugars, which helps my body operate. >> reporter: their heart rate and oxygen levels are meticulously monitored. it's a herculean effort. nearly 300 people have died attempting to scale everest. last month, a swiss climber fell to his death in the same area cory and adrian had been training. >> his legacy is huge and it always will be. i'm not sure that those are shoe that can be
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>> reporter: they braved subzero temperatures last year while acclimating to low oxygen. >> tent's collapsing on itself. >> we had to turn around a little earlier. >> reporter: only cory made it to the top. with just over 1200 feet to go, adrian's dream was cut short. >> nothing felt right. i wasn't hydrating that well, i wasn't eating that well, and i definitely was really cold. i knew i was already getting to that foipts where i wouldn't be able to get myself down alone. >> reporter: the two palans to summit together and connect with others from the top of the world. >> our values are in the right place, we're doing this for the right reason. we're willing to accept that risk. and that's the overnight news for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back a little later for the morning news and cbs this morng
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york city. i'm tony dokoupil. \s loose lips at the white house? did the president reveal highly classified information to the ruians? the oval office? also tonight, halting the attack. computers were paralyzed in 150 countries, but an american engineer found a fix for just $10. >> it was just another day at the office, i guess. a call for justice after a fraternity hazing death. >> this wasn't boys being boys. this was murder of our son. and where's my plane? airlines swapped terminals at one of the world's busiest airports. >> we went from terminal three to terminal four. and now we've got to go to terminal six.
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this is the "cbs overnight news." the "washington post" is reporting that president trump revealed highly classified information to the russian foreign minister and the russian ambassador to the united states when the men met at the white house last week. the paper says that current and former u.s. officials say that mr. trump revealed details of an isis terror threat, details that had been learned by a u.s. ally. mr. trump has the authority to declassify secrets, but telling the russians about the information may have threatened to expose the allied country's intelligence operation. mr. trump's relentless criticism of hillary clinton's handling of classified information may be the reason he's president today. justice correspondent jeff pegues is following this. >> reporter: the meeting occurred last wednesday. president trump spoke with both the ia
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sergey lavrov, and russian ambassador sergei kislyak. the president went off script and began describing details about an islamic state terrorist threat related to the use of laptop computers on aircraft. the information reportedly came from a u.s. ally and was considered so sensitive that it had not been shared with other countries. national security adviser h.r. mcmaster told the "washington post," quote, the president and the foreign minister reviewed common threats from terrorist organizations to include threats to aviation. at no time, mcmasters says, were any intelligence sources or med methods discussed and no military operations were disclosed that weren't already known publicly. during the campaign you may recall a candidate trump was critical of hillary clinton who revealed classified information on her e-mail server. last july he tweeted this, crooked hillary clinton and her
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team were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information. not fit. you may also remember that name, sergei kislyak. he was at the meeting with the president. he is also a central figure in the fbi investigation into whether campaign representatives were coordinating with the russians. >> jeff pegues on this, and for more we're going to turn to michael morel, a senior contributor and the former number two at the ca. how serious is this? how could it happen? >> scott, i think this is highly damaging for two reasons. first, the russians will undoubtedly try to figure out the source or the method of this information to make sure that it is not also collecting on their activities in syria. and in trying to do that, they could well disrupt the source. i think the second, the second damage is that third countries
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who provide the united states with intelligence information will now have pause to do so. if the united states is sharing such information with the russians without their permissions. so highly damaging. how could it happen, scott? i think this is a president who does not stick to the script. when presidents meet with foreign officials, they are given talking points. they're told, here's what to say on an issue, here's whatnot to say. and the president doesn't seem to stick to the script. the national security adviser today said no methods or sources were compromised in what the president had to say. does that make you feel any better? >> not a lot better. certainly, it would have been more damaging had he done so. but not sharing that source or method does not make any better the problems that i outlined earlier. >> michael morel, former number two at the cia, thank you very much. now another story regarding
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the trump administration today has been whether the president is recording private conversations at the white house. the president raised the issue in a tweet storm last week, and major garrett is following this. >> reporter: the white house will not confirm or deny president trump tape records his conversations. press secretary sean spicer has only one thing to say. >> i made it clear what the president's position is on that issue. >> reporter: but the president has made nothing clear, leaving only this tweet, warning now fired fbi director james comey, the tapes might exist of their conversations. >> that i can't talk about. i won't talk about that. >> reporter: spicer responded to several reporters' questions this way today. >> the president's made it clear what his position is. that's what the president's position is. >> reporter: and friday. >> as i mentioned, the president has nothing further to add on that. i said for the third time, there is nothing further to add on that. >> reporter: spicer stonewalling comes amid reports of a west wing shakeup that could see him and communications director mike
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one says everyone knows it's coming. the question is now or august? the things can't keep going the way they are. president trump was frustrated by his communication team's handling of the comey firing. he's also upset about the slow pace of his agenda in congress. also in jeopardy, chief of staff reince priebus, counselor kellyanne conway, steve bannon and don mcgann. amid this intrigue, the search continues for a new fbi director. today the process is moving rapidly. white house officials expect an announcement before friday. >> major garrett at the white house. two people were killed today when a learjet crashed while trying to land at a new jersey airport near new york city. the jet hit a building a half-mile from the runway.
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about two dozen eighth graders were hurt today in a bus crash that shut down busy i-95 in maryland. a car hit the bus which flipped over. the students from philadelphia were on their way to a trip in washington, most were not seriously injured. next, on the cbs evening news, a new missile test increases the threat from north korea. and later, the family of a penn state fraternity pledge calls his hazing death murder.
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that cyber attack that infected computers in every corner of the world began to slow today. a pair of engineers figured out how to stall the attack for a few dollars. charlie d'agata has our coverage. >> reporter: from china as main oil company to a hospital in indonesia, to japan as nissan car company. the ransom ware attack ricocheted around the world again today as people went back to work. and today, asia bore the brunt of the attacks. chinese university students were even locked out from their term papers. elsewhere, germany's railroads were hit. france's renault car factory had to close.
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mongolia, were also hit. the scale of the attack is called unprecedented. >> it indicates 150 countries are affected and beyond 200,000 individual victims. >> reporter: the ransom ware works by freezing the computers, encrypting the files, with hackers demanding $300 in ransom to decode them or they'd be destroyed. called wannacry, it exploits a weakness in microsoft software first stolen from the nag security agency. it might have been worse if not for two young cyber security researchers. one goes by the name malware tech. he noticed every time it took over, it pinged back to an unregistered website. so he registered the website for about $10. his fellow sleuth was watching in michigan. darian huss. >> throu
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the domain, he activated the kill switch. >> reporter: huss said once an infected computer pinged the newly-registered website, it killed the malware, but he resisted being called a hero. >> it's what i do on a day-to-day basis. for me, it was just another day at the office, i guess. >> reporter: the head of europoll says they're working closely with the fbi to identify the culprit. and at least two cyber security firms say they're looking into technical clues that north korea may be behind the attack. >> charlie d'agata in our hon done newsroom. so thanks. what does microsoft have to say? john blackstone picks up the story. >> reporter: at microsoft's campus near seattle, security experts have known for months about the vulnerability that made this attack possible. they released a fix for the newer versions of its operating system but not the older versions.
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>> microsoft hasn't been supporting their decade-old systems like windows xp, and this attack took advantage of that. so microsoft issued an emergency patch this past weekend. >> reporter: the fix was too late to help those already attacked. in a blog post, microsoft's president, brad smith acknowledged the company has the first responsibility to address these issues. but went on to point a finger at the national security agency, which originally identified the software flaw, then lost it when hackers broke into nsa computers. an equivalent scenario with conventional weapons would be the u.s. military having some of its tomahawk missiles stolen. >> so i think the nsa should probably err on the side of disclosure. >> reporter: in seattle, kyle kosher works to defend against has
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have done more to prevent this attack. >> they could possibly figure out when these vulnerabilities are going to be rediscovered or leaked and alert the vendors before it gets out. but it doesn't seem like that happened in this case. >> reporter: microsoft says it has more than three and a half thousand working on it. but as this incident shows, among the hackers working to find a way in are america's own spy agencies. >> john blackstone, thanks. today the state department says it has evidence that syria as assad regime has carried out mass executions outside damascus. it released images that according to the u.s. show a crematorium. assad's forces had been pummeling the opposition in damascus and in the city of homs. but in a deal, it allowed hundreds to board buses out, and seth doane is there. >> reporter: for years they waged war against the gi
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syrian president bashar al assad. but tonight these opposition fighters and their families lined up to leave, defeated. nearly 400 fighters, some with weapons still in hand boarded buses by sunset. assad's soldiers monitored the boarding under the watchful eye of iallies. all part of the deal to relocate the opposition to northern syria. what are you thinking about now as you get on the bus? the rebel fighters did not want to talk with us. but in a video they shot, this young man explained, it feels like a stab in the heart leaving homs, but god-willing, i'll come back one day triumphant. homs governor said the negotiations to get this far were difficult. it's a truce for the time being, he said, but he warns the government would fight them again in the future if it had to. assad's forces have used several
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different tactics to take back territory from opposition fighters. one has been to destroy entire neighborhoods. and so the shelling continues on the outskirts of the capital damascus. despite a similar relooncati deal there, with thousands leaving. assad's forces have destroyed cities, killed and starved their enemies and now, scott, these rebel evacuations are bringing assad closer to a symbolic victory, solidifying control over syria's big cities. >> seth doane inside syria for us tonight. we're back in just a moment.
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it flew for 30 minutes, longer than any previous north korean test. more importantly, it appears to be the test of a re-entry vehicle, a key technology north korea must master before it can develop an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of striking the united states mainland with a nuclear weapon. the test missile flew 1200 miles into space. as the re-entry vehicle came back to earth it encountered extreme heat and buffeting when it hit the atmosphere. the technical challenge is to withstand the heat and buffeting without losing course. it landed 60 miles south of a russian port. north korea claimed it was capable of carrying a quote, large-sized nuclear warhead, in which case, it wouldn't have to be very accurate. >> david martin at the pentagon. thanks. still ahead, airlines changed places at one of the world's busiest airports. te
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theta pi fraternity house. >> they let him suffer. he died a slow and painful death at the hands of these men of principle, as they call it. >> reporter: according to this grand jury report, piazza was forced to drink alcohol, fell downstairs twice, and was in and out of consciousness during a pledge night on february 2nd. much of it was captured on surveillance cameras. how difficult was it to read that grand jury report? >> to know that he was laying at the bottom of the basement steps for any length of time, all by himself, it was terrible. >> 911, what's the address of your emergency. >> reporter: fraternity members waited until almost 11:00 the next morning. to call for help. >> we have a friend who's
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unconscious. he hasn't moved. >> is he breathing? >> he's breathing. >> reporter: the grand jury report also details an alleged coverup. >> they knew he needed serious help, but they decided, you know what? let's preserve ourselves, let's not do anything. and they ordered a cleanup to get rid of the alcohol, get rid of the evidence, and getting rid of the videotapes, and thank god, the police got there before that happened. >> tim was an amazing man and an even better friend. >> reporter: the piazza family is finding comfort from the hundreds of people who sent condolences. >> i will miss him greatly. >> tim's not just our son anymore. >> he's everyone's son. >> or daughter. >> reporter: the university president says beta theta pi will never exist again at penn state university. defense attorneys say they'll let the facts play out in court. the preliminary hearings have been moved to next month.
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>> reporter: after the last flht of the day landed at l.a.x., the race to move took off. there's a lot of stuff going on tonight. in all, 21 airlines will switch places thanks to an army of 200-plus movers. >> it's like ripping off that band-aid. let's just do it and get it done. >> reporter: airport spokesperson mary grady. >> we really had to find a time of the year when we thought we could get this done. and mother's day weekend is really one of the slowest times of the year at l.a.x. >> reporter: follow the signs as everything in terminals two and three must go to make way for delta coming from five and six, a distance of about seven blocks. 3,000 computers need to be moved as do 300 offices and 6300 boxes so far loaded into 14 moving vans. one of the easier parts of this move is dealing with the 25 airplanes that need to be taken to their new homes. this one came in from new york to terminal five but needs to start the day tomorrow on the
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l.a.x. add 400 miles of new cable for technology, enough to stretch from l.a. to san francisco. and more than a thousand signs had to be changed. the move aims to cut congestion. delta wanted to expand and is paying for the whole thing. >> it's been a 13-month planning session. >> reporter: delta vp. >> when you're in the middle of it, you're all about getting through it. >> reporter: still, with 223,000 flyers at l.a.x. every day, there's bound to be some confusion. >> it wasn't p-2. it's p-3. so we're just being like half an hour late. >> reporter: a delay today they hope leads to more on-time departures tomorrow. kris van cleave, cbs news, los angeles. and that's overnight news for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us a little bit later for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new
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this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the overnight news. i'm tony dokoupil. the worldwide ransom ware attack continues to strangle computers. from britain to asia. the white house estimates more than 300,000 computers were affected in over 150 countries. but surprisingly, no u.s. government systems were affected. >> reporter: from china's main oil company to a hospital in indonesia to japan's nissan car company. the ransom ware attack ricocheted around the world again today as people went back to work. and today asia bore the brunt. chinese students were locked out from their term papers. elsewhere, germany's railroa
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france's renault car company had to close. businesses in australia, even mongolia, were also hit. ian wilson calls the scale of the attack unprecedented. >> 150 countries affected and beyond 200,000 individual victims. >> reporter: the ransom ware works by freezing the computers, encrypting the files with hackers demanding $300 or files would be destroyed. called wannacry, the malware exploits a vulnerability in microsoft software, first discovered in documents stolen from the national security agency. it might have been much worse if not for two young cyber security researchers. one goes by the name malware tech. he noticed every time a virus took over a computer it pinged back to an unregistered website. so he registered the website for about $10. his fellow computer sleuth was watching in michigan, darian huss.
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>> through that registration of the domain, he activated the kill switch. >> reporter: huss says once an infected computer pinged the newly-registered website, it killed the malware, but he resisted being called a hero. >> this is kind of what i do on a day-to-day basis, so for me it was just another day at the office, i guess. >> reporter: europol is working were the fbi to identify the culprit. and at least two prom nnt cyber security firms, including one in the u.s. are looking into technical clues that north korea may be behind the attack. microsoft is pointing the finger of blame at the u.s. government for the ransom ware attack. they say intelligence agencies have been thwarting. john blackstone has that story. >> reporter: at microsoft's campus near seattle, security experts have known for months about the software vulnerability that made this attack possible. ar
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fix for users of newer versions of its operating system but not a fix for the older versions. bobby rubin teaches computer science at johns hopkins university. >> microsoft hasn't been supporting their decades-old systems like windows xp, and this attack took advantage of that. so microsoft issued an emergency patch this weekend. >> reporter: the fix was too late to help those already attacked. brad smith acknowledged the company has the first responsibility to address these issues. but they went on to point the finger at the national security agency which originally identified the software flaw, then lost it when hackers broke into nsa computers. an equivalent scenario with conventional weapons would be the u.s. military having some of its tomahawk missiles stolen. >> so i think the nsa should probably err on the side of disclosure. >> reporter: in seattle. a computer researcher at the
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university of washington works to defend against hackers and thinks the nsa could have done more to prevent this attack. >> they could possibly figure out when these vulnerabilities are going to be rediscovered or leaked and alert the vendors before it gets out, but it doesn't seem that that happened in this case. >> reporter: microsoft says it has more than three and three and a hal thousand engineers working. but as this incident shows, among the hackers trying to find a way in are america's own spy agencies. echoes of world war ii in syria. the trump administration is accusing syrian president bashar al assad of using a military prison outside damascus as an extermination camp. it says about 50 prisoners a day have been hanged and their bodies burned in a crematorium to hide the evidence. meanwhile, another round of peace talks get under way in ge
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and the syrian regime is close to gaining ground on control. seth doane is there. >> reporter: for years, they waged war against the regime of al-assad. but tonight these opposition fighters and their families lined up to leave, defeated. nearly 400 fighters, some with weapons still in hand had boarded buses by sunset. assad's soldiers monitored the departure under the watchful eye of their russian allies. all part of the deal to relocate the opposition to northern syria. what are you thinking about right now as you get on the bus? the rebel fighters did not want to talk with us. but in a video they shot, this young man explained -- it feels like a stab in the heart leaving homs, but god-willing, i'll come back one day triumphant. homs governor said the negotiations to get this far were difficult.
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it's a truce for the time being, he said, but he warns the government would fight them again in the future if it had to. assad's forces have used several different tactics to take back territory from opposition fighters. one has been to destroy entire neighborhoods. and so the shelling continues on the outskirts of the capital damascus. despite a similar relocation dealre the, with thousands leaving. assad's forces have destroyed cities, killed and starved their enemies and now, scott these rebel evacuations are bringing assad closer to a symbolic victory, solidifying control over syria's big cities. north korea's rulers are gloating over this weekend's missile test. the missile only flew a few hundred miles, but the north insists it can go much farther and even carry a nuclear warhead. david martin reports. >> reporter: it's not the perfect weapon the north
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claim. but the latest test represents a significant advance for kim jong un and his nuclear weapons program. after three failures, it was the first successful test of an intermediate range missile capable of reaching the island of guam where the u.s. has a major bomber base. it flew for 30 minutes, longer than any previous north korean test. most importantly, u.s. officials say it appears to have been a test of a re-entry vehicle. a key technology north korea must master before it can develop an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of striking the united states mainland with a nuclear weapon. the missile flew 1200 miles into space. as it came back to earth, it encountered extreme heat and buffeting when it hit the atmosphere. the technology challenge is to with stand the heat and buffeting without being knocked off course. it landed 60 miles from russia. north korea claimed the missile was carrying a quote,
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diagnose patients, especially children. one company has a 90-second test that's supposed to determine if a child has autism. another uses a face recognition app to identify rare disorders. anna werner reports. >> reporter: keegan was a bright 4-year-old who also presented a medical mystery. >> he was much slower to grow. all of his things he did was delayed. speech was slightly delayed. crawling was delayed. >> reporter: doctors didn't know what was wrong until keegan's parents brought him here, where dr. karen grip uploaded his picture into an app called fa
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most people looking at him wouldn't see anything at all, other than he's a cute kid. >> yeah. he is. i didn't know that there was anything in particular different about him either. so that's why i was really impressed that this app was able to see something looking only at his face. >> reporter: the system developed by fdna uses the same technology as facebook to look for limb similarities or matches of children with rare disorders. >> this is the condition that showed the highest level of similarity shown by this bar here, completely filled. >> reporter: and this is the one. >> this is the one in the end you would diagnose with. >> reporter: in just seconds, the app suggested keegan might have a metabolic disorder. >> it was a quick answer, we knew right there. >> reporter: the app is just one of many new technologies helping doctors reach a diagnosis more quickly and efficiently. another one called right eye targets autism. doctors at the g
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autism center shows us how the test use infrared sensors to determine what a child like jack prefers to look like. on one side, people, on the other, geometric shapes. most children are drawn to the images of children on the right. but people with autism focus on the shapes on the left. test inventor, karen pierce. >> we're categorizing it as an autism risk. if you look at the geometric shapes more than 69% of the time, the chances that you have asd are exceptionally high. >> reporter: the test can be used in a regular doctor's office. the app is available in the apple store, but only medical professionals are allowed access to the database. >> we don't want, you know, the mom and pops to go on and download this app and use it to try and diagnose their kids. >> reporter: that's the tantalizing question, isn't it? i can see a lot of people at
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live with the aftermath of a deadly terror attack, but it didn't happen in a war zone. david martin has the story. >> reporter: martinez and his children on a perfect spring day in the suburbs of san antonio. but this is no field of dreams. this is a family trying to wake from a nightmare. >> the last thing i remember before the blast was my mom laughing. >> reporter: that blast was a suitcase bomb in brussels airport last year. just as the martinez family was checking in for a trip to disney world in florida. kiani is the family's oldest child. >> i just saw fire, burned bodies. body parts. and i looked down at my leg, and there was white sticking out of it.
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and i realized after a couple seconds that the person i heard screaming was myself. >> reporter: how close were you to the bomb do you think? >> i was probably less than six feet. >> reporter: less than six feet? >> yes, sir. i don't know how i survived. >> reporter: cato martinez, a communications officer who worked with special operations forces was just back from afghanistan. you were probably closer to the enemy in brussels airport than you were in afghanistan. >> probably, sir. i was in some bad places in afghanistan. >> reporter: among the mayhem, he found his wife gail. >> she was laying on her back. her leg was blown off below the knee. i went to her as fast as i could. and put a tourniquet on her leg to stop the bleeding, checked her vitals, and there was no one
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>> i saw my dad, and he was cradling mama. her eyes were closed. and he was screaming. >> reporter: the other children, aged 7, 9, and 12 at the time, were nowhere in sight. >> i couldn't find my three youngest. so i thought, because they were so young and so small, they were vaporized or torn apart. >> reporter: paramedics carried kiani outside on a stretcher. >> and then they brought out my mom. she was smiling, but she wasn't breathing, and i knew she was gone. and then they brought out daddy to lie down right next to me. and for a while, we just lied there, and he held my hands. but then his grip started loosening. >> f
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surrounding me, just wanted to give in to it. just quietly go into night, go to sleep. i just told her before i closed my eyes. i said i love you, and just, if you see the kids, take care of them. >> i said don't leave me. please don't leave me. so when the first responders came with some oxygen masks, they tried to put it on me, because i was the child. but i started flailing around and screaming at them to put it on daddy to make sure he was alive. >> reporter: so your daughter brought you back. >> she did. she was the, she saved me that day. >> reporter: the younger children were small enough to be shielded from the full fury of the blast by baggage piled around them at the check-in counter. the 12 year old was shielded by his father.
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>> i was in front of him and the bags. he would have taken a face full of shrapnel. >> reporter: still, he was badly burned by the fireball. >> third-degree burns on 30% of his body. skin and fat, burned all the way down to the muscle. we didn't know if he was going to make it or not. >> reporter: kiani's left leg was so injured they thought they would have to take it off below the knee. >> they thought it would be better for me to have it amputated. but then as a last-ditch effort, they decided to do an arterial graft from this leg and put it into this leg. so it really was a miracle surgery. >> reporter: six months later she performed her own miracle, standing on that leg for a full five seconds. it was her 18th birthday. less than a month later, she was walking. now she's running. although she'll have to wear that uncomfortable brace for the rest of her life. kiani also came close to losing
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shrapnel that left that nasty scar. >> i don't hide my scars. i've come to the conclusion that while my scars are visible, they don't define me. >> reporter: it's your purple heart. >> yes, sir. >> reporter: cato's scars are not as visible. >> i got two piece of shrapnel on my spine, and still got 15 pieces in my right foot. so every day is painful. >> reporter: physical pain is the least of it for a veteran of two combat tours. >> you can't prepare for when they bring that war to your house, and they bring it to your family and take away your wife. all my training and experience went out the window. when i saw my wife in my arms. i failed my children and my wife. >> reporter: that sense of failure almost drove him to suicide. >> i had to go to my mom. red i thought about it, and i
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could be and how lonely i feel about what's going on with me, i knew it was a selfish act. i've got four little kids that rely on me. what are you lookin' for? i'll heat this up. >> reporter: now he's mr. mom, finding out what it takes to raise a family. >> between cleaning and cooking and taking the kids to their respective extracurricular activities and school, i broke down, i said like i got to hire someone to do this. so twice a month, i have a cleaning crew come in. >> reporter: you realize what you're telling me, going out on deployments with special operations and you come back and you break down over cleaning? >> i can lead a team of men and women in combat, but i got to tell you, it's so hard to be the father of four kids. >> reporter: lieutenant colonel martinez is back on active duty, this time a desk job. which gives him more time with his kids.
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>> reporter: keyno has an arm like a canon his dad says, but the scar tissue is so dense that dropping into a squat is a major victory. and his hand will need more surgery before he can properly grip a bat. are you going to come back? >> i think so, even better. >> reporter: san antonio is the tenth place the martinez family has called home as they've moved from post to post around the world. when somebody asks you, where's home, what do you tell them? >> well, for me, home is mama. she's the constant. >> reporter: now it's a home filled with pictures of someone no longer there. a wife and mother who was murdered by three terrorists who wheeled suitcase bombs into the brussels airport. we wish we could tell you the dark days are over, that good has triumphed over evil, but we can't. >> i still suffer from doubt.
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and severe depression. from hopelessness. guilt, regret. >> reporter: kiani is starting college with wisdom no 18-year-old should have. >> i have a different mind set now going forward. i'm not afraid to die. i'm more afraid of wasting a day and regretting not doing something important, like saying i love you to my family. >> you know things other people don't know. >> if i can touch at least one person, even if that's a teenager like me in college, pick up the phone and call their parents and say thank you for everything. i love you. then i've made a difference.
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♪ it's tuesday, may 16th, 2017. this is "cbs morning news." >> there's nothing that the president takes more seriously than the security of the american people. >> but this morning, the president of the united states is accused of handing over highly classified intel to russia. his top aides attempt damage control by refuting the report but not the actual allegations. good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green.
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