mcdonald's coworker. american airlines said today despite a computer glitch, it does not expect mass cancellations during the holidays. cbs news has learned american discovered the software problem last friday. it mistakenly allowed thousands of pilots to take vacation in late december. the airline says it's been fixed, and just a few hundred pilot slots remain unfilled. coming up next, women fight for their freedom in saudi arabia. and later, he was known to the public for playing a private.

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this is the cbs overnight news. >> now to the sexual misconduct accusations rocking 30 rock. executives at nbc have received at least two new complaints about now fired "today" show host matt lauer. lauer put out a statement this morning saying he is, quote, embarrassed and ashamed. here is bianna golodryga. >> our top story is once again about our former colleague matt lauer. >> reporter: the "today" show may be without its star anchor, but matt lauer still managed to lead his old broadcast, releasing a statement just before air about the allegations that led to a stunning exit. there are no words to express my sorrow and regret for the pain i have caused others by my words

as i am writing this, i realize the depth of the damage and disappointment i have left behind at home and at nbc. lauer seen near his home in the hamptons today said some of the allegations are untrue or mischaracterized, but there is enough truth in these stories to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed. nbc says two women in addition to the female employee whose complaint led to lauer's firing have come forward. also, one woman told "the new york times" that she was sexually assaulted by lauer in his office in 2001. and some of lauer's female colleagues told variety magazine that he summoned them to his hotel room at night during nbc's olympic coverage. some told "variety" their complaints to management fell on deaf ears. variety reporters elizabeth wagmeister and ramin setoodeh wrote the story. >> matt lauer's persona is a very squeaky clean dad is very different than his private persona where he focused on

show. and there was a clear pattern of that. >> reporter: lauer is the latest in an expanding list of powerful men forced out of their jobs overcharges of sexual misconduct, including now former cbs this morning co-anchor charlie rose. new to the left def jam founder russell simmons, who earlier today resigned from his media companies after a second woman alleged that he forced her to have sex against her will. simmons doesn't deny the encounters, but says he remembers them differently. as for lauer, he said in a statement that current management was never made aware of any allegations prior to monday night when the first woman came forward. anthony? >> bianna golodryga, thanks. pressure is growing on the longest serving member of the house of representatives to step down in the face of sexual misconduct accusations. more on that now from julianna goldman. >> congressman conyers should resign. >> reporter: today the top democrat in the house of representatives called on john conyers to step down immediately.

>> zero tolerance needs consequences for everyone. no matter how great the legacy, it's no license to harass or grim nate. >> reporter: conyers' attorney arnold reed shot back, saying the 88-year-old congressman is staying put. >> nancy pelosi did not elect the congressman, and she sure as hell won't be the one to tell the congressman to leave. >> reporter: pelosi and other democratic leaders spoke out after marion brown, the staffer with whom conyers settled the charlotte complaint in 2015 came forward for the first time. >> i'm here to say that i'm not a liar. >> reporter: offering disturbing details. >> he pointed to areas of genital areas of his body and asked me to, you know, touch it. >> reporter: since brown's $27,000 settlement was first reported last week, several women have accused conyers of sexual misconduct. conyers has denied the allegations. his attorney said he was

hospitalized last night for stress-related issues and also seemed to suggest that conyers is being treated unfairly due to his race. >> nancy pelosi is going to have to explain what is the discernible difference between al franken and john conyers. >> i apologize. >> reporter: several women have accused senator al franken of groping both before and after he was elected. unlike with conyers, top democrats in the senate are not calling on franken to resign. simply today, republican congressman joe barton announced he would not seek reelection after a lewd selfie he had sent to another woman circulated online. anthony? >> julianna goldman. thank you, julianna. white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders said today it sun likely the president knew who jayda fransen was when he retweeted her videos yesterday. fransen is a leader of a group in england and

retweets set off a storm across the pond. here is charlie d'agata. >> reporter: the far right anti-muslim group britain first is used to street fighting to drive home its extremist message. but nowaday after president trump retweeted the group's inflammatory videos, the fight has spread to parliament. >> he is either a racist, incompetent, or unthinking, or all three. >> reporter: opposition politicians piled on the pressure to cancel the official state visit that has been extended to the president. >> action is needed now, not a slap on the wrist. cancel the state visit. >> he should be treated as anyone else who breaks the law and charged with inciting racial hatred. >> reporter: even members of the conservative government agreed. so the president has endorsed the views of a vile, hate-filled racist organization that hates me and people

prime minister theresa may clung to the idea of a special relationship with washington, but she too condemned the president. >> when we think united states had got it wrong, reetweeting from britain first was the wrong thing to do. >> reporter: mr. trump only fanned the flames when he rebuked the prime minister, warning her to focus on her own business. even staunch trump supporter nigel farage admitted the president had made a mistake. >> i do think these videos are in very bad taste, and he has shown poor judgment. >> reporter: tonight we learn the u.s. diplomatic post in some muslim countries have been put on a heightened security alert as a precaution. a u.s. official told us the president's retweets of the anti-muslim videos have added to those concerns. anthony? >> charlie d'agata in london, thanks. "cbs overnight" will be right back.

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her fancy. this, after all is oil rich saudi arabia. her brothers have already started giving her driving lessons in the desert, she told us. women fought for the right to drive in saudi arabia, illegally taking to the road and shaming their government with these protest videos. in this ultra conservative country, the genders have traditionally been segregated. so the driving ban has never made much sense, because women are allowed to catch taxis or use ride-ups to get a car with a male driver they've never met. most people we've spoken to here want to see women behind the wheel. and women are fighting for other freedoms too. >> they're not victims. we are not victims. we're strong. >> reporter: halah alhamrani, who has opened a boxing jim called fight like a girl told us she wants an end to saudi arabia's male guardianship

women still need a male relative's permission to travel overseas or get married. you think that needs to change? >> i hope that it does, yes. >> reporter: and you think the government is going to do it? >> i think we're going in that -- yeah, we're going in that direction inshallah, god willing. >> reporter: by saudi standards, the country's new crown prince is a reformer. he is allowing women into sport stadiums for the first time. and a stampede of saudi women is now joining the workforce. these girls could one day have very different lives from their mothers. but in saudi arabia, any change is jarring. a backlash always possible. holly williams, cbs news, jeddah, saudi arabia. and when we come back, the battle of the brains. cats versus dogs.

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researcher from vanderbilt university admits to being a 100% dog person. actor and singer jim nabors died today at his home in hawaii. nabors is best known as gomer pyle, the country bum kin marine private, a spin-off of the role he created on "the andy griffith show." >> water and air is free. we don't make no charge for it. now you take gas and oil, that is a different proposition. >> amazingly, nabors' singing voice was a beautiful baritone. ♪ to dream the impossible dream ♪ >> nabors sang back home again in indiana, most years at the indy 500. and he was the first guest each season on the carol burnett show. she called him her good luck charm. jim nabors was 87. spent a lot of hours with gomer pyle as a kid.

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♪ oh, billion big old jet airliner, don't carry me too far away ♪ >> we end tonight with a woman who loves her job so much, she is walking on air. here is chris van cleef. >> how are

>> i haven't seen you. >> reporter: if it seems like everyone knows flight attendant bette nash on this early morning american shuttle flight from d.c. to boston -- >> good morning. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> reporter: they do. flight crews call the route the nash dash. >> happy anniversary. >> well, thanks. >> reporter: and this month she is celebrating her 60th anniversary in the air. frequent flier florence tate. >> she is magnificent. she is my mentor. the cup is always half filled. what is your secret? 60 years in one job is so long. >> it's the people. the people. i thrive on the people. you say something to them. they say something to you, and they're happy. of course, i like being paid too. >> reporter: nash started in november 1957. the names on the planes have sure changed. eastern, trump shuttle, usair. and now american. so has the industry. in the 1950s, flight attendants were typically required to be single a

their early 30s. >> can't take another ten years. >> reporter: nash only planned to do this a couple of years. instead she turns 82 next month with no plans to retire. what is the biggest thing that has changed in the airline business? >> technology there is nothing like technology that has changed. the people are exactly the same. everybody needs a little love. >> are you happy? >> reporter: especially at 30,000 feet. >> would you like some cookies to make you happier? >> reporter: at 6:30 in the morning. kris van cleave, cbs news, washington. >> and that's the overnight news for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for other, 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. thanks for watching.

this is the cbs overnight news. >> welcome to the overnight news. i'm david begnaud. rex tillerson's time as secretary of state is apparently coming to a close. the white house has been making plans to remove the former exxon chief and replace him with the current cia director, mike pompeo. tillerson has had a strained relationship with president trump, and it did not get any better when he was quoted as calling the president a moron. here is margaret brennan. >> he is here. rex is here. >> reporter: today president trump refused to answer questions about a white house plan to replace secretary of state rex tillerson after less than year on the job. mr. trump has been publicly frustrated with his top diplomat. >> we disagree on a couple of

little bit tougher. >> reporter: that comment came just three days after tillerson held an extraordinary news conference last month to shoot down reports that he had called the president a moron. >> there has never been a consideration in my mind to leave. i serve at the appointment of the president, and i am here for as long as the president feels i can be useful to achieving his objectives. >> reporter: the two have clashed on policy issues, including north korea. shortly after tillerson announced that the u.s. was in diplomatic contact with pyongyang, trump tweeted that, quote, he is wasting his time. >> no, we don't agree on everything. yes, sometimes he changes his mind. >> reporter: tillerson successfully convinced the president to keep the u.s. in the iran nuclear deal. but he now appears poised to lose an argument. over tillerson's objection, the president is leaning towards recognizing the disputed city of jerusalem as the capital of israel. one of tillerson's closest al allies, bob corker said mr. trump has effectively neutered tillerson. >> he said the

quote, castrate you'd before the world stage. >> i object. i'm fully intact. >> reporter: tillerson's aloof management style and cost saving plan to restructure the state department, including slashing around 2,000 positions has not helped his popularity. today corker defended him. >> it's been evident to me that for some time, somebody is seeking to undermine his presence here. i don't know who that is. >> president trump is poised for the first major legislative victory of his administration. he calls it the biggest tax cut in american history. here is nancy cordes. >> reporter: the dow surged 330 points today as wall street sensed an impending windfall after several gop holdouts said they were leaning towards voting yes. >> i think it's likely to pass. >> reporter: the centerpiece of the senate plan is a huge cut to the corporate tax rate, which republicans say i will l be a boon for u.s. workers. >> we'll have more jobs, more companies, existing companies are expanding.

past tax cuts haven't trickled down to workers. intercontinent >> this is a fantasy. this wheel greases the wheels to send more jobs overseas. >> reporter: a group of business leaders were asked recently if they would invest the tax savings in their workforce. white house economic adviser gary cohn was disappointed by the advice. >> why aren't the other hands up? >> reporter: dell democrat chris coonce. >> reporter: advisers of pfizer, coca-cola said if we get a significant rate cut we're going give it back to our shareholders and in dividends and buybacks. >> reporter: the joint committee on taxation projected today that the gop plan would boost job growth by an extra half a percent over the next ten years. the jct has also projected that the plan's individual tax changes would initially benefit earners at all levels. but those savings would quickly evaporate for those making less than $75,000 a year.

tennessee republican bob corker says that part of the plan needs major work. >> i wish we could just take the individual side, put mitt the trash can and take it quickly to the insin ratter. >> reporter: but many republicans are worried they'll miss the moment if they tinker with the bill any longer. >> i want us to pass tax reform. i think in its current structure, it would make things better than things are today. not perfect, but better. >> reporter: if republicans do manage to pass their bill, which they're hoping to do in the next 24 hours, they will have another opportunity to make some changes when they work to reconcile their plan with the very different plan that passed the house earlier this month. matt lauer is now speaking about that sexual harassment scandal that cost him his job on the "today" show. bianna golodryga has the latest. >> our top story is once again about our former colleague matt lauer. >> reporter: the "today" show may be without its star anor

lead his old broadcast, releasing a statement just before air about the allegations that led to a stunning exit. there are no words to express my sorrow and regret for the pain i have caused others by my words and actions, he said. "as i am writing this, i realize the depth of the damage and disappointment i have left behind at home and at nbc." lauer seen near his home in the hamptons today said some of the allegations are untrue or mischaracterized, but there is enough truth in these stories to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed. nbc says two women in addition to the female employee whose complaint led to lauer's firing have come forward. also, one woman told "the new york times" that she was sexually assaulted by lauer in his office in 2001. and some of lauer's female colleagues told variety magazine that he summoned them to his hotel room at night during nbc's olympic coverage. some told "variety" their complaints to management fell on deaf ears. variety reporters elizabeth wagmeister and ramin setoodeh wrote the story.

as a very squeaky clean america's dad is very different than his private persona where he focused on women that worked at the "today" show. and there was a clear pattern of that. >> reporter: lauer is the latest in an expanding list of powerful men forced out of their jobs over charges of sexual misconduct, including now former cbs this morning co-anchor charlie rose. new to the left def jam founder russell simmons, who earlier today resigned from his media companies after a second woman alleged that he forced her to have sex against her will. and aid an aide for michigan congressman john conyers says he will not resign, despite the sexual allegations swirling around him. he went to the hospital after feeling light-headed. this as another woman came forward with a sordid tale of what it was like to work with him. >> congressman conyers should resign. >> reporter: today the top democrat i

representatives called on john conyers to step down immediately. >> zero tolerance means for everyone. it's no license to harass or discriminate. >> reporter: conyers' attorney shot back saying he is staying put. >> nancy pelosi did not elect the congressman, and she sure as hell won't be the one to tell the congressman to leave. >> reporter: pelosi and other democratic leaders spoke out after marion brown, the staffer with whom conyers settled the sexual harassment complaint in 2015 came forward for the first time. >> i'm here to say that i'm not a liar. >> reporter: offering disturbing details. >> he pointed to areas of -- genital areas of his body and asked me to, you know, touch it. >> reporter: unlike with conyers, top democrats in the senate are not calling on franken to resign. simply today republican

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this is the cbs overnight news. >> the civil war in syria is now nearly seven years old. it's been going on so long, the atrocities on the battlefield have largely dropped from the headlines. 400,000 people have been killed. 400,000. an 11 million people have been driven from their homes. the forces of bashar al assad have bombed civilian, gassed neighborhoods, tortured prisoners, and destroyed hospitals. some american volunteers are inside of syria right now, risking their lives to heal the wounds of war. here is the story scott pelley did for "60 minutes." >> reporter: this is a hospital during the siege of aleppo. from the looks of it, maybe an exhausted father, a distraught mother,

curled up on a gurney. that was an air strike. this hospital was hit 14 times in six months. this is aleppo again, last year. al jazeera reporter was covering the aftermath of a chemical attack. once the er filled up, the hospital was hit. >> reporter: the nursery was evacuated. then the camera found the neonatal icu.

>> reporter: targeting hospitals is the atrocity that started the geneva convention's 153 years old and led to the creation of the red cross. it is the original war crime. since 2011, there have been more than 450 attacks on syrian hospitals. emergency medicine has been driven underground. every neighborhood air strike delivers too many patients with too little time. doctors improvise with skacavend drugs. so many doctors have been killed or fled that veterinarians and

surgery. >> you work with the understanding that you might find yourself dead or crippled or dismembered, on the floor next to the people you're trying to save. >> reporter: dr. samir atar is a leading orthopedic surgeon from chicago, who volunteers in syria's makeshift hospitals. >> the bombs would land so close that. >> knock you off your feet. and at times they would directly hit the hospital. but all i did was look around and follow everyone else's lead. because they're like rocks. they don't lose their cool. they don't lose their composure. they just keep working. >> reporter: dr. atar enlisted in the syrian american medical society. which began in the 1990s as a professional association. but since the revolution, these american doctors have raised nearly $100 million in aid and sent more than 100 members into rebel-held syria, including aleppo, where dr. atar worked.

surgeries, sometimes without anesthesia on people lying on gurneys in the hallway because you're so overstretched. >> say hi to everybody. >> reporter: these are dr. atar's pictures of aleppo. >> i remember another child brought. in she couldn't have been more than 5. her whole body was pockmarked with shrapnel from her chest to her body. one of the surgeons rush herd to the operating room and opened up her belly and stopped the bleeding in her liver. but she had lost so much blood, we can't -- you can't give all of your blood to save one life if you save it to give a little bit of each to five who you know will make it. and i saw that all the time. >> reporter: did that little girl make it? >> no, she did not. seeing little bodies wrapped in white shrouds with the cloth still bleeding because the bodies still bleed. they would be wrapped in white shrouds and placed outside to be

buried. >> reporter: 6-year-old mohammed kemet was destined for a burial shroud until a surgeon saved his life. mohammed's life had been hit by a mortar, and he became unforgettable to samir atar. >> i remember him because he lost his mother and his siblings and both of his legs. the day before i left aleppo, he asked me to bring back robotic legs, prosthetic legs if i ever returned. and if only it were that simple. he thought i would deliver them like a pair of gym shoes and everything would be back to normal. he would go back to running around and playing soccer. >> it's the worst humanitarian crisis in our lifetimes. and because those are our own people. >> reporter: basel terminini is vice president of the american society. he is a gastroenterologist in steubenville, ohio. he told us the society donated 0

salaries of nearly 2,000 syrian staff, equips 135 medical facilities, and is building more. >> there have been more than 500 attacks on health care facilities. and we have more than 800 casualties from the staff. so we're trying to move all those facilities underground. >> reporter: did you say 800 medical professionals have been killed in attacks on hospitals? >> yes. more than 800. i think now the latest is 850. there are attacks on hospitals. people are detained, tortured to death there are shelling also. mostly air strikes and barrel bombs. this is number one killer for the health staff. >> who are some of the men and women who work with you inside syria? >> those are our heroes. they know they're risking their lives every day, risking their family's life. but they know if they migrate and go out, nobody is willing to provide those services. we try to support them, whatever we need, we try to

>> reporter: what they need is to know that they are not alone. how many trips in does this make for you? >> this is number four. >> reporter: we travelled into syria with dr. atar. the road to aleppo was in the hands of an islamist rebel group known azhar radar al sham. our route was through idlib, the last whole province still at war. we found a hospital hit by an air strike, but somehow still running. on the darken bud functioning side of the hospital -- >> how you? >> okay. >> reporter: samir atar spotted abdurhim ghanem. they had worked in aleppo before its fall last september. >> a massacre. bodies so much. injuries. we did our bit. >> reporter: which is all you can do? >> yes. it wasn't enough. but what we could do.

>> if you would like to see scott's full report, it's on our website, cbsnews.com. the overnight news will be right back.

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unofficially campaigning for russia's top job. today she is speaking at a student rally in st. petersburg. she may be a new face in national politics, but she has been a russian celebrity for years. as a glamorous socialite, a playboy model, and scandalous reality tv star. now she's morphed again as a challenger to president vladimir putin, but with no illusions. >> no way putin will let anyone take away his power, even if all the people of russia would vote for me. >> reporter: so you're literally a protest candidate? >> yes. >> reporter: and here is her potential base. russians fed up, censorship, rigged elections and corruption, who last got to protest en masse in 2011. >> i don't want people to vote personally for me. i want

system. >> reporter: the system's official media is offlimits. so she is campaigning online, inspired by modern american politics. her strategist is washington-based vitale sklerov, who worked on bernie sanders's campaign. >> what did you learn from your time as an activist with the sanders campaign in the u.s.? >> quite a lot. quite a lot. in the u.s. you can manage entirely the campaign. remotely, you can build infrastructure and scale it. >> reporter: her team wants to mobilize millions of especially young voters to shake up russian politics and weaken the kremlin. but the challenge is huge. first she has to convince voters she is not just a party girl or a photogenic kremlin puppet brought in to spice up the race. the catch is if

real threat, the kremlin may decide not to let her run at all. there are some big changes happening in saudi arabia. here is holly williams. >> reporter: comic-con has arrived in saudi arabia. a celebration of comic book characters that is a sign of the times in this ultra conservative islamic kingdom. just last year, it probably wouldn't have been allowed. so things are becoming more free? >> yes. more cool, more normal. >> reporter: gender segregation used to be strictly enforced in saudi arabia, but at comic-con, the sexes mixed freely. traditional islamic dress was optional. so who changed things? who is making your country a more -- mohammed bin salman? >> yeah. >> reporter: crown prince mohammed bin salman is the favorite son of saudi arabia's ruler king salman, and he

years old, and he isn't just the king's anointed successor. he is already enormously powerful in his own right. prince mohammed has used that power to round up more than 200 members of the saudi elite, all accused of corruption, now ulocked up in this luxury hotel. critics say the prince is targeting his detractors. he has also reined in the country's religious police. they still patrol the streets and even told me to cover my hair with a scarf. >> and he is saying i should cover my hair. >> reporter: but these days they i can only hand out advice, not punishment. it seems to be popular. but this is not a democratic revolution, and publicly criticizing the crown prince would be dangerous. this man is a traditional sword seller and a diplomat. >> all people is happy. i like him so much. believe me.

>> reporter: the saudi royal family has long depended on the support of conservative

the city of baltimore is home to a literary giant, someone you probably never heard of. steve hartman read the story on the road. >> we are ready. >> reporter: when the doors open on this unassuming warehouse in baltimore, folks flood in with buckets and boxes and baskets. everyone eager for their weekly sustenan sustenance. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: russell is in charge. over the past 17 years, he has catered to thousands of hungry minds. >> everybody find what they're looking for? >> reporter: russell calls this the book thing, because it's not a library, and it's definitely not a store. you got a lot of books, but i don't see a cash register. >> don't got one. >> reporter: no cash register? >> all free. it cuts down on bb

>> reporter: you've been in the comedy section! supplied by donation and run by volunteer, here you can take and keep whatever books you want, as many books as you want. and people do hoard, although often for very good reason. >> everything is going back to my classroom. >> reporter: kim shibley is a regular. >> i'm a teacher in a baltimore city school. and i stock all the classrooms with these books. >> reporter: the place really is a gift to the city. and unlike any gift that's been around for a while, there was no way for the people of baltimore to fully appreciate it until it was gone. >> the number of people who came up to me with tears streaming down their face. i didn't realize people cared as much as they do. >> reporter: in march of 2016, fire destroyed the book bank. for many small nonprofits, there would be no climbing back from such a devastating loss. but in the days that followed, the people of baltimore

and fundraisers and more than a few books. there are 7,000 boxes of books here now, all just waiting fob freed from their cardboard confines. the book thing reopened last month, and no one is taking it for granted anymore. especially not russell. >> i don't have the patience to teach somebody to read. i don't have the diligence to be a writer. the only way i see to contribute the written word is by doing this. >> reporter: russell wattonburg. that name may never grace a cover, but he is already one of america's literary greats. steve hartman, on the road in baltimore. >> and that is the overnight news for friday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us a little later for the morning news. and of course cbs this morning starts at 7:00 a.m. eastern. from the cbs brost

when the president loses confidence in somebody, he'll no longer be here. >> will rex soon be ex? >> he is here. rex is here. also tonight, britain's retweet rebuke. >> action is needed now. cancel the state visit. pressure is growing. >> congressman conyers should resign. >> but he is not going. >> nancy pelosi sure as hell won't be the one to tell the congressman to leave. which is smarter, dogs or cats? what a new study found. what's your name? >> gomer pyle. >> remembering jim nabors. >> shazam! and 60 years on the job in the air. >>

of course, i like being paid too. >> this is the cbs overnight news. >> in ten months as america's chief diplomat, rex tillerson has found no world leader a greater challenge than the president of the united states. relations between president trump and the senior member of his cabinet, the former ceo of exxonmobil have been strained almost from the start. now cbs news has confirmed the white house has a plan to force tillerson out. here is white house and senior foreign affairs correspondent margaret brennan. >> he is here. rex is here. >> reporter: today president trump refused to answer questions about a white house plan to replace secretary of state rex tillerson after less than a year on the job. mr. trump has been publicly frustrated with his top diplomat. >> we disagree on a couple of things. sometimes i'd like him to be a little bit tou

>> reporter: that comment came just three days after tillerson held an extraordinary news conference last month to shoot down reports that he had called the president a moron. >> there has never been a consideration in my mind to leave. i serve at the appointment of the president, and i am here for as long as the president feels i can be useful to achieving his objectives. >> reporter: the two have clashed on policy issues, including north korea. shortly after tillerson announced that the u.s. was in diplomatic contact with pyongyang, trump tweeted that, quote, he is wasting his time. >> and no, we don't agree on everything. yes, sometimes he changes his mind. >> reporter: tillerson successfully convinced the president to keep the u.s. in the iran nuclear deal. but he now appears poised to lose an argument. over tillerson's objections, the president is leaning towards recognizing the disputed city of jerusalem as the capital of israel. one of tillerson's closest al ally, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee bob corker says mr. trump has effectively neutered tillerson.

quote, castrated you before the world stage. >> i object. i'm fully intact. >> reporter: tillerson's aloof management style and cost saving plan to restructure the state department, including slashing around 2,000 positions has not helped his popularity. today corker defended him. >> it's been evident to me that for some time somebody is seeking to undermine his presence here. i don't know who that is. >> reporter: the white house insists that no change is imminent. the leading candidate to replace tillerson is current cia director mike pompeo. that would leave a vacancy at the cia, likely to be filled by either republican senator tom cotton of arkansas or retired vice admiral robert harworth. anthony? >> margaret brennan at the white house. thanks, margaret. the nonpartisan joint commission on taxation estimated today that the senate republican tax bill would add $1 trillion to the deficit over the next decade. that conflicts with gop claims the tax cuts in the bill would

even so, a final vote is expected by tomorrow, and nancy cordes tells us prospects for approval are improving. [ closing bell ] >> reporter: the dow surged 330 points today as wall street sensed an impending windfall after several gop holdouts said they were leaning towards voting yes. >> i think it's likely to pass. >> reporter: the centerpiece of the senate plan is a huge cut to the corporate tax rate, which republicans say will be a boon for u.s. workers. >> we'll have more jobs, more companies, existing companies are expanding. >> reporter: democrats argue past tax cuts haven't trickled down to workers. >> this is a fantasy. this bill greases the wheels to send more jobs overseas. >> just a show of hands? >> reporter: a group of business leaders were asked recently if they would invest those tax savings in their workforce. white house economic adviser gary cohn was disappointed by the response. >> why aren't the other hands up? >> reporter: delaware democrat

>> ceos of pfizer, cisco, coca-cola said that's not what we're going to do. if we get a significant tax cut, we're going give it back to our shareholders and dividends and in stock buybacks. >> the joint committee on taxation projected today that the gop plan would boost job growth by an extra half a percent over the next ten years. the jct has also projected that the plan's individual tax changes would initially benefit earners at all levels. but those savings would quickly evaporate for those making less than $75,000 a year. tennessee republican bob corker says that part of the plan needs major work. >> i wish we could just take the individual side, put it in the trash can and take it quickly to the incinerator. >> reporter: but many republicans are worried they'll miss the moment if they tinge tinker with the bill any longer. >> i want us to pass tax reform. i think in its current structure, it would make things better than they are today. not perfect, but better.

manage to pass their bill, which they're hoping to do in the next 24 hours, they will have another opportunity to make some changes when they work to reconcile their plan with the very different plan that passed the house earlier this month, anthony. >> nancy cordes at the capitol, thanks. it's not often that an earthquake rattles major cities in the east. but this afternoon, a magnitude 4.1 quake centered near dover air force base in delaware was felt from washington to poughkeepsie, new york. this was the scene in belleville, new jersey. there are no reports of serious injuries or damage. the suspect in a string of deadly shootings in tampa, florida appeared in court today over a video link. 24-year-old howell donaldson wore a padded robe to prevent him from harming himself. he is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of four people over five weeks. donaldson was arrested tuesday night after handing his gun to a mcdonald's coworker.

american airlines said today despite a computer glitch, it does not expect mass cancellations during the holidays. cbs news has learned american discovered the software problem last friday. it mistakenly allowed thousands of pilots to take vacation in late december. the airline says it's been fixed, and just a few hundred pilot slots remain unfilled. coming up next, women fight for their freedom in saudi arabia. and later, he was known to the public for playing a private.

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this is the cbs overnight news. >> now to the sexual misconduct accusations rocking 30 rock. executives at nbc have received at least two new complaints about now fired "today" show host matt lauer. lauer put out a statement this morning saying he is, quote, embarrassed and ashamed. here is bianna golodryga. >> our top story is once again about our former colleague matt lauer. >> reporter: the "today" show may be without its star anchor, but matt lauer still managed to lead his old broadcast, releasing a statement just before air about the allegations that led to a stunning exit. there are no words to express my sorrow and regret for the pain i have caused others by my words and actions, he said. "as i am writing this, i realize

the depth of the damage and disappointment i have left behind at home and at nbc." lauer seen near his home in the hamptons today said some of the allegations are untrue or mischaracterized, but there is enough truth in these stories to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed. nbc says two women in addition to the female employee whose complaint led to lauer's firing have come forward. also, one woman told "the new york times" that she was sexually assaulted by lauer in his office in 2001. and some of lauer's female colleagues told variety magazine that he summoned them to his hotel room at night during nbc's olympic coverage. some told "variety" their complaints to management fell on deaf ears. variety reporters elizabeth wagmeister and ramin setoodeh wrote the story. >> matt lauer's persona is a very squeaky clean america dad is very different than his

on women at the "today" show. and there was a clear pattern of that. >> reporter: lauer is the latest in an expanding list of powerful men forced out of their jobs overcharges of sexual misconduct, including now former cbs this morning co-anchor charlie rose. new to the left def jam founder russell simmons, who earlier today resigned from his media companies after a second woman alleged that he forced her to have sex against her will. simmons doesn't deny the encounters, but says he remembers them differently. as for lauer, nbc said in a statement that current management was never made aware of any allegations prior to monday night when the first woman came forward. anthony? >> bianna golodryga, thanks. pressure is growing on the longest serving member of the house of representatives to step down in the face of sexual misconduct accusations. more on that now from julianna goldman. >> congressman conyers should resign. >> reporter: today the top democrat in the house of representatives called on john conyers to step down immediately. >> zero tolerance needs

consequences for everyone. no matter how great the legacy, it's no license to harass or discriminate. >> reporter: conyers' attorney arnold reed shot back, saying the 88-year-old congressman is staying put. >> nancy pelosi did not elect the congressman, and she sure as hell won't be the one to tell the congressman to leave. >> reporter: pelosi and other democratic leaders spoke out after marion brown, the staffer with whom conyers settled the sexual harassment complaint in 2015 came forward for the first time. >> i'm here to say that i'm not a liar. >> reporter: offering disturbing details. >> he pointed to areas of -- genital areas of his body and asked me to, you know, touch it. >> reporter: since brown's $27,000 settlement was first reported last week, several women have accused conyers of sexual misconduct. conyers has denied the allegations. his attorney said he was hospitalized last night for

seemed to suggest that conyers is being treated unfairly due to his race. >> nancy pelosi is going to have to explain what is the discernible difference between al franken and john conyers. >> i apologize. >> reporter: several women have accused senator al franken of groping both before and after he was elected. unlike with conyers, top democrats in the senate are not calling on franken to resign. simply today, republican congressman joe barton announced he would not seek reelection after a lewd selfie he had sent to another woman circulated online. anthony? >> julianna goldman. thank you, julianna. white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders said today it is unlikely the president knew who jayda fransen was when he retweeted her videos yesterday. fransen is the leader of an extremist group in britain, and

a storm across the pond. here is charlie d'agata. >> reporter: the far right anti-muslim group britain first is used to street fighting to drive home its extremist message. but now a day after president trump retweeted the group's inflammatory videos, the fight has spread to parliament. >> he is either a racist, incompetent, or unthinking, or all three. >> reporter: opposition politicians piled on the pressure to cancel the official state visit that has been extended to the president. >> action is needed now, not a slap on the wrist. cancel the state visit. >> he should be treated as anyone else who breaks the law and charged with inciting racial hatred. >> reporter: even members of the conservative government agreed. so the president has endorsed the views of a vile, hate-filled racist organization that hates me and people like me. in jordan on government business,

may clung to the idea of a special relationship with washington, but she too condemned the president. >> when we think united states had got it wrong, reetweeting from britain first was the wrong thing to do. >> reporter: mr. trump only fanned the flames when he rebuked the prime minister, warning her to focus on her own business. even staunch trump supporter nigel farage admitted the president had made a mistake. >> i do think these videos are in very bad taste, and he has shown poor judgment. >> reporter: tonight we learn the u.s. diplomatic post in some muslim countries have been put on a heightened security alert as a precaution. a u.s. official told us the president's retweets of the anti-muslim videos have added to those concerns. anthony? >> charlie d'agata in london, thanks. the cbs overnight news will be right back.

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this after all is oil rich saudi arabia. her brothers have already started giving her driving lessons in the desert, she told us. women fought for the right to drive in saudi arabia, illegally taking to the road and shaming their government with these protest videos. in this ultra conservative country, the genders have traditionally been segregated. so the driving ban has never made much sense, because women are allowed to catch taxis or use ride apps to get a car with a male driver they've never met. most people we've spoken to here want to see women behind the wheel. and women are fighting for other freedoms too. >> they're not victims. we are not victims. we're strong. >> reporter: halah alhamrani, who has opened a boxing jim gymnasium called fight like a girl told us she wants an end to saudi arabia's male

system, which means all saudi women still need a male relative's permission to travel overseas or get married. you think that needs to change? >> i hope that it does, yes. >> reporter: and you think the government is going to do it? >> i think we're going in that -- yeah, we're going in that direction inshallah, god willing. >> reporter: by saudi standards, the country's new crown prince, mohammad bin salman, is a reformer. he is allowing women into sport stadiums for the first time. and a stampede of saudi women is now joining the workforce. these girls could one day have very different lives from their mothers. but in saudi arabia, any change is jarring. a backlash always possible. holly williams, cbs news, jeddah, saudi arabia. and when we come back, the battle of the brains. cats versus dogs.

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actor and singer jim nabors died today at his home in hawaii. nabors is best known as gomer pyle, the country bumpkin marine private, a spin-off of the role he created on the andy griffith show. >> water and air is free. we don't make no charge for it. now you take gas and oil, that is a different proposition. >> amazingly, nabors' singing voice was a beautiful baritone. ♪ to dream the impossible dream ♪ >> nabors sang back home again in indiana, most years at the indy 500. and he was the first guest each season on "the carol burnett show." she called him her good luck charm. jim nabors was 87. spent a lot of hours with gomer pyle as a kid. up next, she has been flying since ike was inhe

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♪ oh, big old jet airliner, don't carry me too far away ♪ >> we end tonight with a woman who loves her job so much, she is walking on air. here is kris van cleave. >> how you doing?

>> it seems like everyone knows flight attendant bette nash on this early morning shuttle flight from d.c. to boston. >> good morning! >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> they do. flight crews call the route the nash dash. >> happy anniversary. >> well, thanks. >> reporter: and this month she is celebrating her 60th anniversary in the air. frequent flier florence tate. >> she is magnificent. she is my mentor. the cup is always half filled. >> reporter: what is your secret to do this for so long? 60 years in one job is so long. >> it's the people. the people. i thrive on the people. you say something to them. they say something to you, and they're happy. of course, i like being paid too. >> reporter: nash started in november 1957. the names on the planes have sure changed. eastern, trump shuttle, usair. and now american. so has the industry. in the 1950s, flight attendants were typically required to be single and couldn't work past their early 30s.

>> reporter: nash only planned to do this a couple of years. instead she turns 82 next month with no plans to retire. what is the biggest thing that has changed in the airline business? >> technology. there is nothing like technology. that has changed. the people are exactly the same. everybody needs a little love. >> are you happy? >> reporter: especially at 30,000 feet. >> would you like some cookies to make you happier? >> reporter: at 6:30 in the morning. kris van cleave, cbs news, washington. >> and that's the overnight news for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for other, 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. thanks for watching.

this is the cbs overnight news. >> welcome to the overnight news. i'm david begnaud. rex tillerson's time as secretary of state is apparently coming to a close. the white house has been making plans to remove the former exxon chief and replace him with the current cia director, mike pompeo. now tillerson has had a strained relationship with president trump, and it did not get any better when he was quoted as calling the president a moron. here is margaret brennan. >> he is here. rex is here. >> reporter: today president trump refused to answer questions about a white house plan to replace secretary of state rex tillerson after less than year on the job. mr. trump has been publicly frustrated with his top diplomat. >> we disagree on a couple of things. sometimes i'd like him to be a little bit tougher.

just three days after tillerson held an extraordinary news conference last month to shoot down reports that he had called the president a moron. >> there has never been a consideration in my mind to leave. i serve at the appointment of the president, and i am here for as long as the president feels i can be useful to achieving his objectives. >> reporter: the two have clashed on policy issues, including north korea. shortly after tillerson announced that the u.s. was in diplomatic contact with pyongyang, trump tweeted that, quote, he is wasting his time. >> no, we don't agree on everything. yes, sometimes he changes his mind. >> reporter: tillerson successfully convinced the president to keep the u.s. in the iran nuclear deal. but he now appears poised to lose an argument. over tillerson's objection, the president is leaning towards recognizing the disputed city of jerusalem as the capital of israel. one of tillerson's closest ally, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee bob corker said mr. trump has

>> he said the president has, quote, castrate you'd before the world stage. >> i object. i'm fully intact. >> reporter: tillerson's aloof management style and cost saving plan to restructure the state department, including slashing around 2,000 positions has not helped his popularity. today corker defended him. >> it's been evident to me that for some time, somebody is seeking to undermine his presence here. i don't know who that is. >> president trump is poised for the first major legislative victory of his administration. he calls it the biggest tax cut in american history. here is nancy cordes. >> reporter: the dow surged 330 points today as wall street sensed an impending windfall after several gop holdouts said they were leaning towards voting yes. >> i think it's likely to pass. >> reporter: the centerpiece of the senate plan is a huge cut to the corporate tax rate, which republicans say will be a boon for u.s. workers. >> we'll have more jobs, more companies, existing companies are expanding. >> reporter: democrats argued past tax cha

>> this is a fantasy. this bill greases the wheels to send more jobs overseas. >> just a show of hands. >> reporter: a group of business leaders were asked recently if they would invest the tax savings in their workforce. white house economic adviser gary cohn was disappointed by the response. >> why aren't the other hands up? >> reporter: delaware democrat chris coons. advisers ceos of pfizer, coca-cola said that's not what we're going to do. if we get a significant rate cut, we're going to give it back to our shareholders and in dividends and buybacks. >> reporter: the joint committee on taxation projected today that the gop plan would boost job growth by an extra half a percent over the next ten years. the jct has also projected that the plan's individual tax changes would initially benefit earners at all levels. but those savings would quickly evaporate for those making less than $75,000 a year. tennessee republican bob corker

says that part of the plan needs major work. >> i wish we could just take the individual side, put mitt the trash can and take it quickly to the incinerator. >> reporter: but many republicans are worried they'll miss the moment if they tinker with the bill any longer. >> i want us to pass tax reform. i think in its current structure, it would make things better than things are today. not perfect, but better. >> reporter: if republicans do manage to pass their bill, which they're hoping to do in the next 24 hours, they will have another opportunity to make some changes when they work to reconcile their plan with the very different plan that passed the house earlier this month. matt lauer is now speaking about that sexual harassment scandal that cost him his job on the "today" show. bianna golodryga has the latest. >> our top story is once again about our former colleague matt lauer. >> reporter: the "today" show may be without its star anchor, but matt lauer still managed to lead his old broadcast, releasing a statement jus before air about the allegations that led to a stunning exit.

there are no words to express my sorrow and regret for the pain i have caused others by my words and actions, he said. "as i am writing this, i realize the depth of the damage and disappointment i have left behind at home and at nbc." lauer seen near his home in the hamptons today said some of the allegations are untrue or mischaracterized, but there is enough truth in these stories to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed. nbc says two women in addition to the female employee whose complaint led to lauer's firing have come forward. also, one woman told "the new york times" that she was sexually assaulted by lauer in his office in 2001. and some of lauer's female colleagues told variety magazine that he summoned them to his hotel room at night during nbc's olympic coverage. some told "variety" their complaints to management fell on deaf ears. variety reporters elizabeth wagmeister and ramin setoodeh wrote the story. >> matt lauer's public persona as a very squeaky clean

than his private persona where he focused on women that worked at the "today" show. and there was a clear pattern of that. >> reporter: lauer is the latest in an expanding list of powerful men forced out of their jobs over charges of sexual misconduct, including now former cbs this morning co-anchor charlie rose. new to the left def jam founder russell simmons, who earlier today resigned from his media companies after a second woman alleged that he forced her to have sex against her will. an aide for michigan congressman john conyers says he will not resign, despite the sexual allegations swirling around him. conyers is in the hospital this morning. he was checked in after apparently feeling light-headed. this comes as another kwam has come forward with another sordid tale of what it was like to work for him. here is julianna

>> reporter: today the top democrat in the house of representatives called on john conyers to step down immediately. >> zero tolerance means for everyone. no matter how great the legacy, it's no license to harass or discriminate. >> reporter: conyers' attorney shot back saying he is staying put. >> nancy pelosi did not elect the congressman, and she sure as hell won't be the one to tell the congressman to leave. >> reporter: pelosi and other democrati leaders spoke out after marion brown, the staffer with whom conyers settled the sexual harassment complaint in 2015 came forward for the first time. >> i'm here to say that i'm not a liar. >> reporter: offering disturbing details. >> he pointed to areas of -- genital areas of his body and asked me to, you know, touch it. >> reporter: unlike with conyers, top democrats in the senate are not calling on franken to resign.

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this is the cbs overnight news. >> the civil war in syria is now nearly seven years old. it's been going on so long, the atrocities on the battlefield have largely dropped from the headlines. 400,000 people have been killed. 400,000. an 11 million people have been driven from their homes. the forces of bashar al assad have womaned civilians, gassed neighborhoods, tortured prisoners, and destroyed hospitals. some american volunteers are inside of syria right now, risking their lives to heal the wounds of war. here is the story scott pelley did for "60 minutes." >> reporter: this is a hospital during the siege of aleppo. from the looks of it, maybe an exhausted father, a distraught mother, and a child at left, curled up on a gurney.

that was an air strike. this hospital was hit 14 times in six months. this is aleppo again, last year. al jazeera reporter was covering the aftermath of a chemical attack. once the er filled up, the hospital was hit. >> reporter: the nursery was evacuated. then the camera found the neonatal icu.

>> reporter: targeting hospitals is the atrocity that started the geneva conventions 153 years ago and led to the creation of the red cross. it is the original war crime. since 2011, there have been more than 450 attacks on syrian hospitals. emergency medicine has been driven underground. every neighborhood air strike delivers too many patients with too little time. doctors improvise with scavenged drugs. and avenged equipment. so many doctors have been killed or fled that veterinarians and dentists are pressed to do surgery. >> you work with the understanding that you might

or dismembered, on the floor next to the people you're trying to save. >> reporter: dr. samer attar is a leading orthopedic surgeon from chicago, who volunteers in syria's makeshift hospitals. >> the bombs would land so close that they knock you off your feet. and at times they would directly hit the hospital. but all i did was look around and follow everyone else's lead. because they're like rocks. they don't lose their cool. they don't lose their composure. they just keep working. >> reporter: dr. attar enlisted in the syrian american medical society. which began in the 1990s as a professional association. but since the revolution, these american doctors have raised nearly $100 million in aid and sent more than 100 members into rebel-held syria, including aleppo, where dr. attar worked. >> we would find ourselves doing surgeries, sometimes without

gurneys in the hallway because you're so overstretched. >> say hi to everybody. >> reporter: these are dr. attar's pictures of aleppo. >> i remember another child brought in. she couldn't have been more than 5. her whole body was pockmarked with shrapnel from her chest to her belly. one of the surgeons in aleppo, we rushed her to the operating room and opened up her belly and stopped the bleeding to her liver. but she had lost so much blood, we can't -- you can't give all of your blood to save one life if you save it to give a little bit of each to five who you know will make it. and i saw that all the time. >> reporter: did that little girl make it? >> no, she did not. seeing little bodies wrapped in white shrouds with the cloth still bleeding because the bodies still bleed. they would be wrapped in white shrouds and placed outside to be taken to be buried. >> reporter: 6-year-old ha

shroud until a surgeon saved his life. mohammed's house had been hit by a mortar, and he became unforgettable to samer attar. >> i remember him because he lost his mother and his siblings and both of his legs. the day before i left aleppo, he asked me to bring back robotic legs, prosthetic legs if i ever returned. and if only it were that simple. he thought i would deliver them like a pair of gym shoes and everything would be back to normal. he would go back to running around and playing soccer. >> it's the worst humanitarian crisis in our lifetimes. and because those are our own people. >> reporter: basel terminini is vice president of the syrian american medical society. he is a gastroenterologist in steubenville, ohio. he told us the society donated 120 ambulances, pays the salaries of nearly 2,000 syrian

staff, equips 135 medical facilities, and is building more. >> there have been more than 500 attacks on health care facilities. and we have more than 800 casualties from the staff. so we're trying to move all those facilities underground. >> reporter: did you say 800 medical professionals have been killed in attacks on hospitals? >> yes. more than 800. i think now the latest is 850. there are attacks on hospitals. people are detained, tortured to death there are shelling also. mostly air strikes and barrel bombs. this is number one killer for the health staff. >> who are some of the men and women who work with you inside syria? >> those are our heroes. they know they're risking their lives every day, risking their family's life. but they know if they migrate and go out, nobody is willing to provide those services. we try to support them, whatever we need, we try to fulfill. >> reporter: what they need is

how many trips in does this make for you? >> this is number four. >> reporter: we travelled into syria with dr. attar. the road to aleppo was in the hands of an islamist rebel group known as ahrar al sham. our route was through idlib, the last whole province still at war. we found a hospital hit by an air strike, but somehow still running. on the darkened but functioning side of the hospital -- >> how are you? >> okay. >> reporter: samer attar spotted abdurhim ghanem. they had worked in aleppo before its fall last september. >> a massacre. so much bodies. so much injuries. we did our bit. >> reporter: which is all you can do? >> yes. it wasn't enough. but what we could do.

>> if you would like to see scott's full report, it's on our website, cbsnews.com. the overnight news will be right back.

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for russia's top job. today she is speaking at a student rally in st. petersburg. she may be a new face in national politics, but she has been a russian celebrity for years. as a glamorous socialite, a playboy model, and scandalous reality tv star. now she's morphed again as a challenger to president vladimir putin, but with no illusions. >> no way putin will let anyone take away his power, even if all the people of russia would vote for me. >> reporter: so you're literally a protest candidate? >> yes. >> reporter: and here is her potential base. russians fed up, censorship, rigged elections and corruption, who last got to protest en masse in 2011. >> i don't want people to vote personally for me. i want them to vote against the system.

>> reporter: the system's official media is offlimits. so sobchak is campaigning online, inspired by modern american politics. her strategist is washington-based vitaly shklyarov, who worked on bernie sanders's campaign. >> what did you learn from your time as an activist with the sanders campaign in the u.s.? >> quite a lot. quite a lot. in america you have software you can manage entirely the campaign. remotely, you can build infrastructure and scale it. >> reporter: sobchak's team wants to mobilize millions of especially young voters to shake up russian politics and weaken the kremlin. but the challenge is huge. first she has to convince voters she is not just a party girl or a photogenic kremlin puppet brought in to spice up the race. the catch is if she succeeds too well and starts looking like a

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