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school 30 years ago. this snapshot captures their excitement before boarding a flight to new york. it was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime. the men wearing matching deshirts with the word libre which means free to honor their three decades of friendship. five were killed. among them, ariel urlidge organized the trip using his money to help friend buy plane tick tets. also killed, a 31-year-old, young belgian woman visiting sister and mother. leaves behind a 3-year-old and 3-month-old. 23-year-old nicholas kleeves killed. the new yorker software engineered described as those who new him as a sweetheart. >> he had everything going for him. nice guy. everythingen the world you can imagine. >> james drake says darren drake was his best friend. he says his son was the most innocent and delicate kid in the world. the 33-year-old was a project
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president trump responded to the terror attack in his hometown with anger for the suspect and democrats he blamed for allowing him into the country. here its chief white house correspondent major garrett. >> going to get rid of this lottery program. as soon as possible. >> meeting with his cabinet, president trump called the new york attacker an animal, and urged congress to end the visa lottery program the suspect used to enter the u.s. in 2010. >> diversity lottery. sound nice, it's not nice. it's not good. we want a merit based program. >> the diversity program created in 1990 to
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in legal entries. at the time largely the europe and middle east. applicants enter a lottery for up to 50,000 visas. they must complete the same background checks as other immigration programs. on twitter the president referred to the diversity lottery as a chuck schumer beauty. the senate minority leader did support the program when it was signed into law by george herbert walker bush. but in 2013, schumer was part of a group ofenators that unsuccessfully tried to scrap it. >> look, the president, the president, ought to stop tweeting and start leading. the american people long for leadership. not di vi sifinger pointing or calling. >> bob corker agreed. >> i don't know that's how you bring out the best in our country. >> the president also lashed out at prosecutions against terror suspects and said he would
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military prison in guantanamo bay cuba. >> we need strong justice, quicker and stronger than we have right now. because what we have right now is a joke and it is a laughingstock. >> i want to thank the terrorism prosecutors and investigators in my office. >> just hours later, saipov was charged in federal court. acting u.s. attorney june kim. >> the folks in the unit working with the fbi, nypd, jttf have a long unblemished track record of successfully investigating and prosecuting domestic and international terrorists. >> with saipov charged in federal court. moving him to guantanamo moves off the table. by way of explanation, the white house said the president was venting his frustration and will not be proposing new ways to prosecute terrorism cases. jeff. >> major, thank you straer much. the president's rns
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new york attack was in sharp contrast to what he did after the massacre in las vegas. here is noon see coancy cordes. >> reporter: one month ago today that a former accountant opened fire on a country music concert. killing 59. >> look, we have a tragedy. >> the in the days that followed the president was clear. it was not the time to discuss policy. >> the we are not going to talk about that today. won't talk about that today. >> we will talk about gun laws as time goes by. >> within hours of yesterday's terror attack in new york city he was vowing to step up our already extreme vetting program, and calling for an immigration overhaul. >> we're going to get rid of the lottery program. >> conflicting reactions angered some muslim american leaders. >> why the hypocrisy. why double standards. >> and las vegas
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were lobbying capitol hill today. >> we knew something needed to be done. we just assumed the country was behind us. i think a month later we have seen nothing happen. >> they're pushing for legislation banning the kind of devices that allowed steven paddock to wound 500 people in a matter of minutes. white house press secretary, sarah huckabee sanders said it shouldn't surprise any one the president is more focused on immigration. >> the president has been talking extreme vetting and the need for that for the purpose of protecting the citizens of this country. since he was a candidate. long before he was ever president. >> despite some initial gop interest, a senate bill banning bump stocks currently has 40 democratic co-sponsors, but no republicans. and the senate judiciary committee says, it won't even hold a hearing on bump stocks jeff until the las vegas investigation is further along. nancy
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anthony here in lower manhattan, tonight, more streets are omen. behind us that. rental truck has been taken away. last night. new yorkers to not seem in tim dated. back to you at study 57. still ahead, two las vegas survivors thank the straineningers who saved them. but up next, a first look at the social media ads posted by russians to disrupt our election.
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>> reporter: in this ad, heart of texas announced a rally a few days before last year's election. and mocked killery rotten clinton. more than 253,000 people liked the group on facebook. blaktivist build as a nongovernmental organization, 338,000 likes. the groups were fake. among the 3,000 purchased by a russian stroll troll farm. many were paid in rubles b through a rush platform. kiwi. with south united. back the badge, they focused on divisive issues including immigration, guns, and black political activism. and targeted information to audiences. >> what we are talking aboulgt its the beginning of cyberwar fares. >> lawmakers, california democart, grilled representatives from social peed yeah come faenz. >>ha
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major foreign power with the sophistication and ability involve themselves in a president sham election. a -- presidential election. and he said the ads were a small element of the disinformation campaign. included free posts. >> the original estimate that 10 million americans were exposed to russian origin content on face book was increased to 126 million. >> reporter: facebook, twitter told the committees the russian posts were a fraction of overall content. but facing the cross hairs of congress they're investing in tools to prevent what happened last year to happening again. than making it easier to deter men who is behind the ads you see. the navy said today, two collisions this year, involving pacific fleet destroyers and commercial ships were avoidable. and the result of multiple errors by the
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one mucinex lasts 12 hours. let's end this. a utah nurse settled a law suit. the violent arrest last july was captured on a salt lake city police officer's body cam. the nurse was handcuffed after refusing to let the officer draw blood from an unconscious patient which would have violated hospital policy. the officer was fired. the dustin hoffman is the latest hollywood figure accused of sexual harassment. he apologized today after a woman accused him of groping her and frequently talking about sex on the set of death of a salesman in 1985. at the time, the woman was 17 and an intern. also, today, director brett ratner accused of sexual
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including olivia munn. the direct irof the rush hour film series denies the allegations. in peru, contestants at a beauty pageant defied tradition to speak up about violence against women. each misperu contestant its expected to announce her measurements. but the figures they cited included 82 murders and 156 attempted murders of women in peru this year. the winner romina lozano said her vital statistic was more than 3,000 women registered as victims of trafficking. up next, they survived the las vegas massacre, thanks to the kindness of strangers.
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one month after the las vegas massacre three victims remain in the hospital one in critical condition. as the carter evans reports the survivors are bonded not only in tragedy, but in gratitude. i remember, everything. >> you were conscious for all of it though you were shot in the face? >> yes. yes. >> straining to speak her jaw wired shut and healing from a
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tracheotomy, natalie's voice still resonates. >> as soon as i got shot, the girl next to me, a stranger, she took her shirt off and pushed it against my face. said, hold this. >> in the ambulance she was comforted by another stranger who was also a victim. >> she talked to me the whole time to the hospital. you're going to be okay, natalie. we are almost there. >> the whole time he had been shot. >> he had been shot too. >> no way i would have made it out without the help of strangers. >> 18-year-old addison short was enjoying the festival with friend until a bullet shattered her leg. a stranger made a tourniquet and carried her to safety. >> what is life look now? >> just take it day by day. obviously, so beyond thankful that i'm still here and, and my injuries, something that i can recover from. >> there is a lot of ups and downs every day. and, i have a very long road ahead of me. i don'tw
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my face will ever work the same, but at the same time, i'm grateful to be alive. >> as natalie recovers in california with her husband and addison at home in las vegas, both say they want to honor the memories of the 58 who did not survive. and the many who risked their lives to save others. >> just because there was one horrible human being that night, disgusting, despicable act, there are more kind, loving humans out there than you could ever imagine. carter evans, cbs news, las vegas. that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back with us a little later, for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm anthony mason. thank you for watching.
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welcome tult "overnight news." i'm tony dokoupil. president trump called the suspect in the new york city terror attack an animal, branded him enemy combatant and said he may send him to guantanamo way. halloween truck attack left eight dead a dozen injured most killed were from other countries. the suspect, 29-year-old is recovering in a hospital after being shot by police officer. authorities say he was inspired by the islamic state and has been unrepentant for the carnage. saipov arrived in the united states from uzbekistan in 2010 and is a legal resident. jeff glor begins our
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late this afternoon, federal prosecutors filed two charges against the suspect. federal prosecutors filed two charges against sayfullo saipova ledged terrorists like saipov view the city as a target for hate filled crimes. the thing is, for the alleged terrorists, like saipov, they will find in new york city something else. justice. >> saipov chose october 31 because it was halloween and more civilians on the streets. on one cell phone, authorities found 90 isis related propaganda videos and 3800 propaganda images. saipov is in custody at a nearby hospital apparently talking to police. sources tell cbs news, saipov bragged about what he did and was pleased with the success. sources also say police recovered knives from the truck, and 10-15 pieces of paper which give isis credit for the attack saying isis will live forever. we also have a more detailed time line of at take.
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the truck saipov rented turned on lower manhattan bike path at 3. 04, striking bikers, pedestrians killing three. police say he traveled at a high rate of speed for about a mile. hitting and killing five others before he crashed into a school bus. >> oh, my god. >> that crash which injured four including two children, was call the on cell phone video. sources tell cbs news saipov said that was an accident. he wanted to continue down the bike path and over the brooklyn bridge. saipov attempted to get away carrying a pellet gun and paint ball gun. he was arrested after being shot by 28-year-old officer ryan nash. just five years on the force. he shot saipov once. >> i understand the importance of yesterday's events, the role, and grateful for the recognition we have received. >> nypd deputy commissioner of counterterrorism jon miller says they're still investigating
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officer, saipov was not some one investigators seemed to view as capable of mass murder or even a threat. >> i need an ambulance. >> while the 29-year-old married father of three was not himself the subject of law enforcement investigation, intelligence source tells cbs news he had some contact with individuals who work and were kidded radicalized extremists one of whom was from uzbekistan. jon miller, nypd deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism says investigators have been going through saipov's past. >> what were his communications who were they with content what's relevant to this? >> saipov from uzbekistan, hotbed of radicalization for young isis sympathizers many whom have gone on to fight in syria and iraq. he emigrated to the u.s. in 2010. settling in ohio where people who know him say he spoke little english and seemed to grow disillusioned, angry and depressed as he embraced islam. an uzbekistan activist who knows the suspect. >> after he moved from ohio i
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radicalized and you know, maybe he got some teaching from internet. >> court documents filed today, show saipov told investigators he was inspired by isis videos he watched on his cellular phone including a video by the leader, and he want to kill as many people as he could. >> he apares to have followed almost exactly to a tee the instructions isis has put out in its social media channels before with instructions to their followers on how to carry out such an attack. >> investigators say, saipov practiced the attack. nine days earlier on october 22nd he rented a truck and rehearsed the turns he would have to make during the attack on hall anyway. he also said he wanted to fly the isis flag in his hospital room. >> four people remain in critical condition. a dozen injured. eight died including tourists
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from argentina. michelle miller has the the latest. cell phone video shows the group of friend on a carefree bike ride long manhattan's waterfront minutes before they were mowed down. they were lifelong friends, all successful businessmen, all graduates from the same high school 30 years ago. this snapshot captures their excitement before boarding a flight to new york. it was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime. the men wearing matching deshirts with the word libre which means free to honor their three decades of friendship. five were killed. among them, ariel urlidge organized the trip using his money to help friend buy plane
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tick tets. also killed, a 31-year-old, young belgian woman visiting sister and mother. leaves behind a 3-year-old and 3-month-old. 23-year-old nicholas kleeves killed. the new yorker software engineered described as those who new him as a sweetheart. >> he had everything going for him. nice guy. everythingen the world you can imagine. >> james drake says darren drake was his best friend. he says his son was the most innocent and delicate kid in the world. the 33-year-old was a project manager with an investment firm. >> i'm not even angry. i'm not, i'm not angry at all. i'm hurt. i'm absolutely hurt. president trump responded to the terror attack in his >> the cbs joifr "overnight news" will be right back.
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truck attack in manhattan happened along the hudson river greenbay. the river side path used by thousand to walk, run and bicycle. new york city has more than 1,000 miles of bike routes and more than 200 bike lanes in manhattan. that type of public space is increasingly being targeted by terrorists with a tactic difficult to prevent. norah o'donnell. >> a recipe for terror we have seen before. a driver in's speeding truck or van, killing and injuring scores of people in their path. from nice to berlin in 20
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origin of at takes points to the 2010 issue of al qaeda's inspire magazine. a photo of a pickup truck. the headline. the ultimate mowing machine. the tear terror group's instructions mirror tuesday's attack in new york. among the ideal targets. pedestrian only locations. narrow spots are better because the it gives less chance for people to run away. >> today there was a loss of innocent life in lower manhattan. the dead and injured were going about their days. heading home from work, school. enl joying the sun on bicycles. >> listed as busiest bicycle path in the u.s., hudson river greenway stretches the entire west side of manhattan. the section targeted is no more than 20 feet wide. lined with tins courts and parks on one side busy multitie lane on the other. steel posts are
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severing intersections. >> we did extensive research. >> nypd commissioner jon miller says the department has the spent years preparing for vehicle borne attacks. >> we visited over 148 truck rental locations in the area. obvious ones, u-haul, home depot. talked about indicators, after attacks on chris market. nice. we revisited two more times. the industry has a height amount from the nypd. john miller is right. we reached out to several rental truck companies. u-haul uses combination of data and techniques influenced by law enforcement to deseed if each should be given a key. >> home depot says their standard approach if they see anything sus pip shus in their
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>> throughout the '80s. michael j. fox was personification of youthful physicality. >> the head bobble. can't see it. but i had my hand on the edge of the couch. always touching things. a decade later, starring in the hit tv series, spin city. his main acting challenge was to act like some one who didn't have parkinson's. >> grab my foot here. >> in the scene you are supposed to be nervous. it works. >> first choice to grab my foot as an acting choice. worked in the scene. ♪ >> he noticed the first troubling muscle tremor at the height of his career while fill temperaturing doc hollywood in florida. >> roll sound. >> i came done to do an in the view with you, and it's not look we were great personal friend or
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anything. but i felt at that time, is something wrong? i came away with the perception that you were distracted. am i projecting. >> once i noticed symptoms if you had come in the period i would have been distracted. >> it was his pinky finger. it wouldn't stop twitching. it would be a year before he found out why. >> what did you know about parkinson's. >> somebody's grandmother had it. it was not, not a thing that i noticed or thought about it i was a 29-year-old guy. >> did the doctor know who you were? >> in fact one of the few times in my life, i felt like saying do you know who i am. this is ridiculous you. can't tell me that. this is a case i just thought, preposterous this is happening to me. >> his slurred speech, muscle stiffness and tremors, are the signature symptoms of the disease. >> he said you have ten years left to work. they're working on things. things in the pipeline. >> a
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>> hope. but, but it wasn't, wasn't enough for me. i felt very, shocked by it. >> things like, degenerative. >> progressive. >> no cure. >> no cure. >> but there was a long, private struggle before he went public. >> i took seven years between when i was diagnosed when i want public with it. i took a long selfer period of time when i just dealt with how it affected me and was concerned with me. and me. >> ladies and gentleman, would step forward. >> finally revealing his diagnosis in 1998. >> for fox, we'll start with you. >> testifying before congress. >> as i begin to understand what research might promise for the future. i became hopeful i would not face the terrible suffering so many with parkinson's endure. i was shocked and frustrate to learn funding for it is so meager. >> in 2000, he went
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fox formed a team to raise money targeted toward research. that would lead to improve the treatments to slow, stop, or reverse the progression of the disease. and some day, find a cure. >> that poster. we don't just fund research the we find results. >> that's the idea. >> to date michael j. fox foundation raised $750 million from private donations. >> that's pushing $1 billion. >> pushing $1 billion. paced, predicated on your impatience. >> yeah. well i mean, it's -- it's -- happy-go-lucky i seem to be. and as at ease as i seem to be. i mean it sucks. i hate it. and i wish i, i wish, i wasn't in this situation. but, it has been one of the great gifts of my life that i have been in the position to, to, to take my view of
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suc suckitude of it. and merge it with other's suckitude and find an answer. >> you heard this. couldn't happen to a better person? >> getting used to the idea. >> no one here would argue. >> michael are you with the longest history in the group? >> suppose so. i mean. 25 years, since i was diagnosed. >> 25. >> next after 25 years. >> ten years. >> 11. >> 11. >> i'm at 1. >> 18. >> you must have been young? >> 29 symptoms started coming out. 31 when i got the diagnosis. >> typically late in life disease. one in ten develops early onset parkinson's like fox did. >> what was your first symptom? >> trmoemor. >> part of a fox foundation online data base. >> we need to provide all
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information. >> where patients join researchers in the quest for breakthroughs. >> tell them, parkinson's, your first symptom, what symptoms you get, bhut medications do you take. the more information they get, the faster they will get to a cure. >> but you are not expecting a cure in your lifetime? >> not expecting a cure. but expecting vastly improved therapies. take that in the sthort term. i think, the yietd of finding the eureka moment and the thing that, that, cures it, as we understand cures, i don't know that that will happen. in the next, next, 20 years. but, but, i do think we awill have therapies vastly e proved quality of life for people with parkinson's. >> yet his own struggle it is never far out of sight. >> how are you doing? right now. i have been talking to you, i am fine. i am fine with you. but, you are fighting a battle over there. >> well, i mean, i'm
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intense way. keyed up. and excited and engaged. that fires up all kind of neurons. gets all kind of things happening. but the, principal thing is the exchange. so, i am, i'm much less concerned with being still and not being collaborative and, and engaged. i can make myself still. but i went be as animated. >> show me. what happens if you make yourself still. >> but we are not talk. >> if i talk i have to move. >> soon as you start talking you start to move. >> because i'm, things are firing. i have to think. and, think, the same neurons that, that fire my thinking fire my body. >> go. >> go. >> michael j. fox is more than the face of parkinson's. >> breathe. >> with
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indomitable spirit and optimism. he is the face of hope. >> it was actually his books that, that, got me out of, the first two years, i didn't plan for the future. i did nothing. i mean, i literally, didn't even have a bank account really. it was just like, i had no how long i was going to be functional. reading the books, there was a level of just like, ferocious positivity of just like, fierce optimism. that, that, got my fire lit again. but, you know, so, thank you. >> michael j. fox is a grateful man. married 29 years to actress tracy pollen, they have four children. >> unfortunately, i have my operation in a week's time. i just want to -- make sure this is handled. >> he is still a working, and award winning actor.
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failure. >> do you presume there are still special thing as head of you? >> oh, yeah. sure, sure, lots. not the least of which i think is, finding a breakthrough for parkinson's. and, look forward to grand kids. weddings. look forward to, to, books. and acting projects. >> so, 50 years from now, do you think you will be remembered for the "back to the future" movies or for a cure for parkinson's? >> i had a moment with somebody. they said. just thinking about it someday there is going to be a cure for parkinson's because of you. there is for some, that really struck me. i didn't, not that i took it seriously. but -- but, it is, i feel part of something. not necessarily, not necessarily the reason it is going to thap p -- going to happen. but i feel part of something
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new york city demonstrated resilience, fom lowing t follow attack. 1 million took to the streets for the holiday parade. the route came within blocks of where at take started. here is michelle miller. >> nypd added extra security to this year's parade which took place a few hours after the attack. but, other than the boosted police presence this year's celebration was just like all the others. and that was exactly the point. with unified spirit, costume revellers marched down 6th
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halloween parade. >> when you heard about halloween, you said got to be down here? >> yeah, out here every year. new york is strong. new york is going to come through, pull through. no matter what happens always going to be there and have a good time. >> additional police assigned to the parade route to help protect the 44-year-old tradition. new york city mayor, bill de blasio said life must continue as normal. >> we have been tested before, as a city. new yorkers do not give in, in the face of these kind of actions. >> did you foeel safe out here? >> for sure. everything is blocked off. security is more than ever. >> i have never ben to it before. >> three-month-old, and his father was celebrating first halloween parade with his parents. who were undeterred by the violence earlier in the day. >> you weren't afraid to come out?
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much to go for the parade. >> why? >> because this is, we can see this is a city like we can trust. and, we, we, should not be afraid of certain incidents. >> you have to get out. you have to enjoy life. >> autumn cromwell driving up from maryland when at take occurred. >> did you have second thoughts of coming tonight? >> no. >> no, never? >> no. >> with the new world trade center, shining over the parade route, the day's events were not lost on lifelong new yorkers, jesus and katie. >> being out here through all of the thing that we have been through, you know, times square, 9/11, all that. we want to come out show new york solidarity. a horrible tragedy. we feel you can stop what we are doing. >> that's the "overnight news" for thursday. for some the news continues. for others check back a little bit later f
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and of course, i'm tony dokoupil. he did this in the name of isis. >> new york police say the deadly truck attack was right out of the isis playbook. >> it appears he had been planning this for a number of weeks. >> and we hear from the cop who stopped him. >> also tonight, the president accuses democrats of opening the door for a terrorist. >> he came in through the diversity program. we are going to stop that. >> the president ought to stop tweeting and start leading. >> our first look at the ads russians posted on facebook to sway the u.s. election. >> what we all can learn from the survivors of las vegas. >> there are more kind, loving huma o
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ever imagine. this is the cbs "overnight news." good evening. i'm anthony mason at cbs news headquarters in new york. we begin tonight with jeff glor in downtown manhattan where federal terrorism charges have just been filed in the halloween truck attack. jeff. >> anthony, that attack left eight dead, 12 injured, the driver wounded by a police officer was taken from the hospital to district court to face a judge. sayfullo, saipov in a wheelchair, handcuffed and shackled. police say the attack had been in the works for a long time. late this afternoon. federal prosecutors filed two charges against sayfullo saipova
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ledged terrorists like saipov view the city as a target for hate filled crimes. the thing is, for the alleged terrorists, like saipov, they will find in new york city something else. justice. >> saipov chose october 31 because it was halloween and more civilians on the streets. on one cell phone, authorities found 90 isis related propaganda videos and 3800 propaganda images. saipov is in custody at a nearby hospital apparently talking to police. sources tell cbs news, saipov bragged about what he did and was pleased with the success. sources also say police recovered knives from the truck, and 10-15 pieces of paper which give isis credit for the attack saying isis will live forever. we also have a more detailed time line of at take. the truck saipov rented turned on lower manhattan bike path at 3.
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killing three. police say he traveled at a high rate of speed for about a mile. hitting and killing five others before he crashed into a school bus. >> oh, my god. >> that crash which injured four including two children, was call the on cell phone video. sources tell cbs news saipov said that was an accident. he wanted to continue down the bike path and over the brooklyn bridge. saipov attempted to get away carrying a pellet gun and paint ball gun. he was arrested after being shot by 28-year-old officer ryan nash. just five years on the force. he shot saipov once. >> i understand the importance of yesterday's events, the role, and grateful for the recognition we have received. >> nypd deputy commissioner of counterterrorism jon miller says they're still investigating whether the radicalization. >> we have developed a level of connectivity between him and others various times the subject of investigations. we are still delving backward to further identify what was the connectivity did the have some meaning.
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>> saipov held tonight without bail. the fbi today interviewed an associate of saipov, another from uzbekistan, to see what information he may have. not a suspect. saipov had been on the fbi radar though no indication he was planning an attack. more from homeland security correspondent. >> reporter: until taken down by an alert new york city police officer, saipov was not some one investigators seemed to view as capable of mass murder or even a threat. >> i need an ambulance. >> while the 29-year-old married father of three was not himself the subject of law enforcement investigation, intelligence source tells cbs news he had some contact with individuals who work and were kidded radicalized extremists one of whom was from uzbekistan. jon miller, nypd deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism says investigators have been going througip
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>> what were his communications who were they with content what's relevant to this? >> saipov from uzbekistan, hotbed of radicalization for young isis sympathizers many whom have gone on to fight in syria and iraq. he emigrated to the u.s. in 2010. settling in ohio where people who know him say he spoke little english and seemed to grow disillusioned, angry and depressed as he embraced islam. an uzbekistan activist who knows the suspect. >> after he moved from ohio i think he becoming more and more radicalized and you know, maybe he got some teaching from internet. >> court documents filed today, show saipov told investigators he was inspired by isis videos he watched on his cellular phone including a video by the leader, and he want to kill as many people as he could.
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almost exactly to a tee the instructions isis has put out in its social media channels before with instructions to their followers on how to carry out such an attack. >> investigators say, saipov practiced the attack. nine days earlier on october 22nd he rented a truck and rehearsed the turns he would have to make during the attack on hall anyway. he also said he wanted to fly the isis flag in his hospital room. jeff. jeff, thank you very much. six of the eight people killed in the attack were foreigners. more on this now from michelle miller. cell phone video shows the group of friend on a carefree bike ride along manhattan's waterfront minutes before they were mowed down. they were lifelong friends, all successful businessmen, all graduates from the same high school 30 years ago.
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this snapshot captures their excitement before boarding a flight to new york. it was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime. the men wearing matching deshirts with the word libre which means free to honor their three decades of friendship. five were killed. among them, ariel urlidge organized the trip using his money to help friend buy plane tick tets. also killed, a 31-year-old, young belgian woman visiting sister and mother. leaves behind a 3-year-old and 3-month-old. 23-year-old nicholas kleeves killed. the new yorker software engineered described as those who new him as a sweetheart. >> he had everything going for him. nice guy. everythingen the world you can imagine. >> james drake says darren drake
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president trump responded to the terror attack in his hometown with anger for the suspect and democrats he blamed for allowing him into the country. here its chief white house correspondent major garrett. >> going to get rid of this lottery program. as soon as possible. >> meeting with his cabinet, president trump called the new york attacker an animal, and urged congress to end the visa lottery program the suspect used to enter the u.s. in 2010. >> diversity lottery. sound nice, it's not nice. it's not good. we want a merit based program. >> the diversity program created in 1990 to increase immigration from countries under represented in legal entries.
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and middle east. applicants enter a lottery for up to 50,000 visas. they must complete the same background checks as other immigration programs. on twitter the president referred to the diversity lottery as a chuck schumer beauty. the senate minority leader did support the program when it was signed into law by george herbert walker bush. but in 2013, schumer was part of a group of senators that unsuccessfully tried to scrap it. >> look, the president, the president, ought to stop tweeting and start leading. the american people long for leadership. not finger pointing or name calling. >> bob corker agreed. >> i don't know that's how you bring out the best in our country. >> the president also lashed out at prosecutions against terror suspects and said he would consider sending him to the military prison in guantanamo bay cuba.
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>> we need strong justice, quicker and stronger than we have right now. because what we have right now is a joke and it is a laughingstock. >> i want to thank the terrorism prosecutors and investigators in my office. >> just hours later, saipov was charged in federal court. acting u.s. attorney june kim. >> the folks in the unit working with the fbi, nypd, jttf have a long unblemished track record of successfully investigating and prosecuting domestic and international terrorists. >> with saipov charged in federal court. moving him to guantanamo moves off the table. by way of explanation, the white house said the president was venting his frustration and will not be proposing new ways to prosecute terrorism cases. jeff. >> major, thank you straer much. the president's response to the new york attack was in sharp
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the massacre in las vegas. here is nancy cordes. >> reporter: one month ago today that a former accountant opened fire on a country music concert. killing 59. >> look, we have a tragedy. >> the in the days that followed the president was clear. it was not the time to discuss policy. >> the we are not going to talk about that today. won't talk about that today. >> we will talk about gun laws as time goes by. >> within hours of yesterday's terror attack in new york city he was vowing to step up our already extreme vetting program, and calling for an immigration overhaul. >> we're going to get rid of the lottery program. >> conflicting reactions angered some muslim american leaders. >> why the hypocrisy. why double standards. >> and las vegas survivors who
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were lobbying capitol hill today. >> we knew something needed to be done. we just assumed the country was behind us. i think a month later we have seen nothing happen. >> they're pushing for legislation banning the kind of devices that allowed steven paddock to wound 500 people in a matter of minutes. white house press secretary, sarah huckabee sanders said it shouldn't surprise any one the president is more focused on immigration. >> the president has been talking extreme vetting and the need for that for the purpose of protecting the citizens of this country. since he was a candidate. long before he was ever president. >> despite some initial gop interest, a senate bill banning bump stocks currently has 40 democratic co-sponsors, but no republicans. and the senate judiciary committee says, it won't even hold a hearing on bump stocks jeff until the las vegas investigation is further along. nancy cordes, thank you. anthony here in lower manhattan, tonight, more streete
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julianna goldman takes a look. >> reporter: in this ad, heart of texas announced a rally a few days before last year's election. and mocked killery rotten clinton. more than 253,000 people liked the group on facebook. blaktivist build as a nongovernmental organization, 338,000 likes. the groups were fake. among the 3,000 purchased by a russian stroll troll farm. many were paid in rubles b through a rush platform. kiwi. with south united. back the badge, they focused on divisive issues including immigration, guns, and black political activism. and targeted information to audiences. >> what we are talking aboulgt its the beginning of cyberwar fares. >> lawmakers, california democart, grilled
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yeah come faenz. >> what we are talking about a major foreign power with the sophistication and ability involve themselves in a president sham election. -- presidential election. and he said the ads were a small element of the disinformation campaign. included free posts. >> the original estimate that 10 million americans were exposed to russian origin content on face book was increased to 126 million. >> reporter: facebook, twitter told the committees the russian posts were a fraction of overall content. but facing the cross hairs of congress they're investing in tools to prevent what happened last year to happening again. than making it easier to deter men who is behind the ads you see. the navy said today, two collisions this year, involving pacific fleet destroyers and commercial ships were avoidable. and the result of multiple ro
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a utah nurse settled a law suit. the violent arrest last july was captured on a salt lake city police officer's body cam. the nurse was handcuffed after refusing to let the officer draw blood from an unconscious patient which would have violated hospital policy. the officer was fired. the dustin hoffman is the latest hollywood figure accused of sexual harassment. he apologized today after a woman accused him of groping her and frequently talking about sex on the set of death of a salesman in 1985. at the time, the woman was 17 and an intern. also, today, director brett ratner accused of sexual misconduct by six women
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ratnor who directed the "rush hour" film series denies the allegations. in peru, contestants at a beauty pageant defied tradition to speak up about violence against women. each miss peru contestant its expected to announce her measurements. but the figures they cited included 82 murders and 156 attempted murders of women in peru this year. the winner romina lozano said her vital statistic was more than 3,000 women registered as victims of trafficking. up next, they survived the las vegas massacre, thanks to the kindness of strangers.
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yes. >> straining to speak her jaw wired shut and healing from a tracheotomy, natalie's voice still resonates. >> as soon as i got shot, the girl next to me, a stranger, she took her shirt off and pushed it against my face. said, hold this. >> in the ambulance she was comforted by another stranger who was also a victim. >> she talked to me the whole time to the hospital. you're going to be okay, natalie. we are almost there. >> the whole time he had been shot. >> he had been shot too. >> no way i would have made it out without the help of strangers. >> 18-year-old addison short was enjoying the festival with friend until a bullet shattered her leg. a stranger made a tourniquet and carried her to safety. >> what is life look now? >> just take it day by day. obviously, so beyond thankful that i'm still here and, and my injuries, something that i can recover from. >> there is a lot of ups and downs every day.
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and, i have a very long road ahead of me. i don't know if the left side of my face will ever work the same, but at the same time, i'm grateful to be alive. >> as natalie recovers in california with her husband and addison at home in las vegas, both say they want to honor the memories of the 58 who did not survive. and the many who risked their lives to save others. >> just because there was one horrible human being that night, disgusting, despicable act, there are more kind, loving humans out there than you could ever imagine. carter evans, cbs news, las vegas. that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back with us a little later, for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm anthony mason. thank you for watching.
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welcome to the "overnight news". i'm tony dokoupil. president trump called the suspect in the new york city terror attack an animal, branded him enemy combatant and said he may send him to guantanamo way. halloween truck attack left eight dead a dozen injured most killed were from other countries. the suspect, 29-year-old is recovering in a hospital after being shot by police officer. authorities say he was inspired by the islamic state and has been unrepentant for the carnage. saipov arrived in the united states from uzbekistan in 2010 and is a legal resident. jeff glor begins our coverage. late this afternoon, federal prosecutors filed two charge
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against the suspect. federal prosecutors filed two charges against sayfullo saipova ledged terrorists like saipov view the city as a target for hate filled crimes. the thing is, for the alleged terrorists, like saipov, they will find in new york city something else. justice. >> saipov chose october 31 because it was halloween and more civilians on the streets. on one cell phone, authorities found 90 isis related propaganda videos and 3800 propaganda images. saipov is in custody at a nearby hospital apparently talking to police. sources tell cbs news, saipov bragged about what he did and was pleased with the success. sources also say police recovered knives from the truck, and 10-15 pieces of paper which give isis credit for the attack sayi i
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time line of at take. the truck saipov rented turned on lower manhattan bike path at 3. 04, striking bikers, pedestrians killing three. police say he traveled at a high rate of speed for about a mile. hitting and killing five others before he crashed into a school bus. >> oh, my god. >> that crash which injured four including two children, was call the on cell phone video. sources tell cbs news saipov said that was an accident. he wanted to continue down the bike path and over the brooklyn bridge. saipov attempted to get away carrying a pellet gun and paint ball gun. he was arrested after being shot by 28-year-old officer ryan nash. just five years on the force. he shot saipov once. >> i understand the importance of yesterday's events, the role, and grateful for the recognition we have received. >> nypd deputy commissioner of counterterrorism jon miller says
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they're still investigating whether the radicalization. >> we have developed a level of connectivity between him and others various times the subject of investigations. here is jeff pe guchlt es. >> reporter: until taken down by an alert new york city police officer, saipov was not some one investigators seemed to view as capable of mass murder or even a threat. there was no indication he was planning an attack. investigators are digging deep into the past of the suspect of the truck attack. here's jeff pegues. until he was taken down by an alert new york city police officer, sapiov was not some one investigators seemed to view as capable of mass murder or even a threat. >> i need an ambulance. >> while the 29-year-old married father of three was not himself the subject of law enforcement investigation, intelligence
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some contact with individuals who were considered radicalized extremists and at least one of whom was from his native uzbekistan. jon miller, nypd deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism says investigators have been going through saipov's past. >> what were his communications who were they with content what's relevant to this? >> saipov from uzbekistan, hotbed of radicalization for young isis sympathizers many whom have gone on to fight in syria and iraq. he emigrated to the u.s. in 2010. settling in ohio where people who know him say he spoke little english and seemed to grow disillusioned, angry and depressed as he embraced islam. an uzbekistan activist who knows
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the suspect. >> after he moved from ohio i think he becoming more and more radicalized and you know, maybe he got some teaching from internet. >> court documents filed today, show saipov told investigators he was inspired by isis videos he watched on his cellular phone including a video by the leader, and he want to kill as many people as he could. >> he apares to have followed almost exactly to a tee the instructions isis has put out in its social media channels before with instructions to their followers on how to carry out such an attack. >> investigators say, saipov practiced the attack. nine days earlier on october 22nd he rented a truck and rehearsed the turns he would have to make during the attack on hall anyway. he also said he wanted to fly the isis flag in his hospital room. >> four people remain in
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a dozen injured. eight died including tourists from argentina. michelle miller has the the latest. cell phone video shows the group of friend on a carefree bike ride along manhattan's waterfront minutes before they were mowed down. they were lifelong friends, all successful businessmen, all graduates from the same high school 30 years ago. this snapshot captures their excitement before boarding a flight to new york. it was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime. the men wearing matching deshirts with the word libre which means free to honor their three decades of friendship. five were killed. among them, ariel urlidge organized the trip using his money to help friend buy plane tick tets. also killed, a 31-year-old, young belgian woman visiting sister and mother. leaves behind a 3-year-old and 3-month-old. 23-year-old nicholas kleeves killed. the new yorker software engineered described as those
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who new him as a sweetheart. >> he had everything going for him. nice guy. everythingen the world you can imagine. >> james drake says darren drake was his best friend. he says his son was the most innocent and delicate kid in the world. the 33-year-old was a project manager with an investment firm. >> i'm not even angry. i'm not, i'm not angry at all. i'm hurt. i'm absolutely hurt. president trump responded to
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this the cbs "overnight news." truck attack in manhattan happened along the hudson river greenway. the riverside path its used by thousand to walk, run and bicycle. new york city has more than 1,000 miles of bike routes and more than 200 bike lanes in manhattan. that type of public space is increasingly being targeted by terrorists with a tactic difficult to prevent. norah o'donnell. >> a recipe for terror we have seen before. a driver in's speeding truck or van, killing and injuring scores of people in their path. from nice to berlin in 2016. barcelona to london this year.
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the origin of the attacks points to the 2010 issue of al qaeda's inspire magazine. a photo of a pickup truck. the headline. the ultimate mowing machine. the terror group instructions mirror tuesday's attack in new york. among the ideal targets. pedestrian only locations. narrow spots are better because the it gives less chance for people to run away. >> today there was a loss of innocent life in lower manhattan. the dead and injured were going about their days. heading home from work, school. enjoying the sun on bicycles. >> listed as busiest bicycle path in the u.s., hudson river greenway stretches the entire west side of manhattan. the section targeted is no more than 20 feet wide. lined with tennis courts and parks on one side and a busy multilane highway on the other. steel posts are installed at several insections but
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stopped saipov from getting through. >> we did extensive research. to the truck rental business. >> nypd commissioner jon miller says the department has the spent years preparing for vehicle borne attacks. >> we visited over 148 truck rental locations in the area. obvious ones, u-haul, home depot. talked about indicators, after attacks on the german christmas market, after nice, we repeated those visits two more times. so the industry has had a high level of awareness on this matter from the nypd john miller is right. in fact, we reached out to several rental truck companies. u-haul uses combination of data and techniques influenced by law enforcement to decide whether each customer should be given a key. >> home depot says their standard approach if they see anything suspicious in their store. >> the cbs "overnight news" will be right back.
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michael j. fox known to fans around the world for his work on tv shows, family ties, spin city and more. but his biggest role of all his current one as leader in the fight against parkinson's disease and search for a cure. jane pauley has his story. >> throughout the '80s. michael j. fox was personification of youthful physicality.
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can't see it. but i had my hand on the edge of the couch. always touching things. a decade later, starring in the hit tv series, spin city. his main acting challenge was to act like some one who didn't have parkinson's. >> grab my foot here. >> in the scene you are supposed to be nervous. it works. >> first choice to grab my foot as an acting choice. worked in the scene. ♪ >> he noticed the first troubling muscle tremor at the height of his career while fill temperaturing doc hollywood in florida. >> roll sound. >> i came done to do an in the view with you, and it's not look we were great personal friend or anything. but i felt at that time, is something wrong? i came away with the perception that you were distracted.
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am i projecting. >> once i noticed symptoms if you had come in the period i would have been distracted. >> it was his pinky finger. it wouldn't stop twitching. it would be a year before he found out why. >> what did you know about parkinson's. >> somebody's grandmother had it. it was not, not a thing that i noticed or thought about it i was a 29-year-old guy. >> did the doctor know who you were? >> in fact one of the few times in my life, i felt like saying do you know who i am. this is ridiculous you. can't tell me that. this is a case i just thought, preposterous this is happening to me. >> his slurred speech, muscle stiffness and tremors, are the signature symptoms of the disease. >> he said you have ten years left to work. they're working on things.
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>> a little hope. >> hope. but, but it wasn't, wasn't enough for me. i felt very, shocked by it. >> things like, degenerative. >> progressive. >> no cure. >> no cure. >> but there was a long, private struggle before he went public. >> i took seven years between when i was diagnosed when i want public with it. i took a long selfer period of time when i just dealt with how it affected me and was concerned with me. and me. >> ladies and gentleman, would step forward. >> finally revealing his diagnosis in 1998. >> for fox, we'll start with you. >> testifying before congress. >> as i begin to understand what research might promise for the future. i became hopeful i would not
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i was shocked and frustrate to learn funding for it is so meager. >> in 2000, he went all in. fox formed a team to raise money targeted toward research. that would lead to improve the treatments to slow, stop, or reverse the progression of the disease. and some day, find a cure. >> that poster. we don't just fund research the we find results. >> that's the idea. >> to date michael j. fox foundation raised $750 million from private donations. >> that's pushing $1 billion. >> pushing $1 billion. paced, predicated on your impatience. >> yeah. well i mean, it's -- it's -- happy-go-lucky i seem to be. and as at ease as i seem to be. i mean it sucks. i hate it. and i wish i, i wish, i wasn't in this situation. but, it has been one of the great gifts of my life that i
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to, to take my view of this suckitude of it. and merge it with other's suckitude and find an answer. >> you heard this. couldn't happen to a better person? >> getting used to the idea. >> no one here would argue. >> michael are you with the longest history in the group? >> suppose so. i mean. 25 years, since i was diagnosed. >> 25. >> next after 25 years. >> ten years. >> 11. >> 11. >> i'm at 1. >> 18. >> you must have been young? >> 29 symptoms started coming out. 31 when i got the diagnosis. >> typically late in life disease. one in ten develops early onset parkinson's like fox did. >> what was your first symptom? >> tremor. >> part of a fox foundation online data base. >> we need to provide all the information.
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>> where patients join researchers in the quest for breakthroughs. >> tell them, parkinson's, your first symptom, what symptoms you get, bhut medications do you take. the more information they get, the faster they will get to a cure. >> but you are not expecting a cure in your lifetime? >> not expecting a cure. but expecting vastly improved therapies. take that in the sthort term. i think, the yietd of finding the eureka moment and the thing that, that, cures it, as we understand cures, i don't know that that will happen. in the next, next, 20 years. but, but, i do think we awill have therapies vastly e proved quality of life for people with parkinson's. >> yet his own struggle it is never far out of sight. >> how are you doing?
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right now. i have been talking to you, i am fine. i am fine with you. but, you are fighting a battle over there. >> well, i mean, i'm also, interacting with you in an intense way. keyed up. and excited and engaged. that fires up all kind of neurons. gets all kind of things happening. but the, principal thing is the exchange. so, i am, i'm much less concerned with being still and not being collaborative and, and engaged. i can make myself still. but i went be as animated. >> show me. what happens if you make
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>> if i talk i have to move. >> soon as you start talking you start to move. >> because i'm, things are firing. i have to think. and, think, the same neurons that, that fire my thinking fire my body. >> go. >> go. >> michael j. fox is more than the face of parkinson's. >> breathe. >> with two best selling memoirs, infused with indomitable spirit and optimism. he is the face of hope. >> it was actually his books that, that, got me out of, the first two years, i didn't plan for the future. i did nothing. i mean, i literally, didn't even have a bank account really. it was just like, i had no how long i was going to be functional. reading the books, there was a level of just like, ferocious positivity of just like, fierce that, that, got my fire lit again. but, you know, so, thank you. >> michael j. fox is a grateful man. married 29 years to actress tracy pollen, they have four children. >> unfortunately, i have my operation in a week's time. i just want to -- make sure this is handled. >> he is still a working, and award winning actor.
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>> dyspnea from my kidney failure. >> do you presume there are still special thing as head of you? >> oh, yeah. sure, sure, lots. not the least of which i think is, finding a breakthrough for parkinson's. and, look forward to grand kids. weddings. look forward to, to, books. and acting projects. >> so, 50 years from now, do you think you will be remembered for the "back to the future" movies or for a cure for parkinson's? >> i had a moment with somebody. they said. just thinking about it someday there is going to be a cure for parkinson's because of you. there is for some, that really struck me. i didn't, not that i took it seriously. but -- but, it is, i feel part of something. not necessarily, not necessarily the reason it is going to thap -- going to happen. but i feel part of something that is much more special than, if, if it happens.
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