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up and said, what did i just commit to? >> you've got one of the funniest fellows ever that lives in the house and sleeps in the bed with you. >> this is true. >> you guys can collaborate. >> in bed, i'm like, honey, is this funny? >> the self-professed theater geek, also the host of abc's special encore, reuniting a high school musical cast 20 years later to perform together again. ♪ >> what's your dream musical? >> oh, i would like to retire having turned whatever happened to baby jane, when i'm like 80, into a musical. >> come on. >> and then just be like, i'm out. like peace, i quit the business. >> oh, my gosh, i love her. you know what my dream musical would be? >> tell me. >> the wiz. not dorothy. i would play michael jackson's character, the scarecrow. >> we will let them know you're interested. >> nominations for the 24th annual screen actors
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these stars with birthdays this week, felicity huffman is 55. donny o donny osmond is 60. dame judi dench is 83. take a final look at your choices. which star of the big back theory is an accomplished pianist. this is simon helberg, who is 37 this weekend. happy birthday. monday -- ♪ >> "e.t.'s" got a backstage past to taylor swift's whirlwind weekend. she goes from new york tolan london. does this mean she'll step out with her british boyfriend? monday on "e.t." >> we're almost out of time. but for all the late-breaking hollywood news, go to our website at etonline.com. >> before we go, a little music for you. check out this video with hailee steinfeld for the song let me go. >> it features florida georgia line. this song has reached number three on billboard's hot dance electronics song chart. >> enjoy it, and enjoy the rest
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people. they have -- some of the same short comings that any of us could have. >> peggy gilligan, former faa administrator in charge of safety says a drinking problem its not necessarily the end of a pilot's career. >> there are lots of things that initially might disqualify you from being a pilot with proper care, treatment, rehabilitation, you can return to the flight deck. >> and in fact, for decades, the faa has been doing exactly that. quietly sending pilots to diagnose the substance abusers, back to work. it is called the human
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or hims. before you panic. k consider this. may be within of the most successful rehab programs ever. >> let me get the numbers straight. 80% of the pilots that enter the program don't relapse at all. >> right. >> of those that do relapse. most only relapse one time. that's right. never been an issue with the pilot. undergoing treatment while flying. >> that's right. >> why aren't you screaming this good news from every rooftop in washington, d.c. >> a really good question. >> right now, under the program, there are upwards of 1300 pilots flying with a special medical license for addiction. since the mid 1970s, 6,000 pilots have been treated and returned to the cockpit. pilots like captain dana archibald whose career nearly crashed in the 1990s when he missed the flight after a
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>> i just stopped showing up for work. >> tell your boss you have the flu. >> i would tell him every story in the book. because i am an alcoholic. tell him anything they wanted to hear. >> in another era, addicted pilots would be fired or forced to keep their addictions a secret. the faa says, that's all changed. >> what we didn't want. what we don't want to this day are pilots, who side something that could present a risk. >> of course, addiction isn't just a pilot's problem. millions of americans are struggling with it. most who need treatment, aren't in it. and relapse its common. but for airline pie lolots thos rules don't seem to apply. >> the treatment, that's stabilization. >> correct. >> the doctor who ran an addiction treatment center in south miami, says the airline pilots he treated were more likely to get sober, and stay that way. >> so, a member of the general public is three times more likely to have a relapse?
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>> than a pilot. >> correct. >> why? they don't have the system in place. >> for pilots. system means a month in an faa rehab facility. monitoring, drug tests. if the faa clears them to fly again, the treatment usually continues, for at least three years. it is not pool proof, but it works. >> since the inception of the hims program in the last 43 years there has never been even one a single, single commercial passenger carrying airline incident or accident that has been alcohol or drug related. that's the -- >> if the general public had a hims style program available to them. do you think relapse rates would fall as the low as they are for pilots? >> well, that's the big question. there is a key element missing in the general public. we don't have the leverage. >> everybody is a frayed of losing something.
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out there in the general public. if you threaten the pilot, take away his wings. taking away his stethoscope. that's a lot of leverage. if they want to get back in the cockpit or operating room. they got to jump through the hoops. >> and jump they do. similar programs have been used successfully by doctors and flight attendants and now police and fire departments are interest too. for pilots, it is about a lot more than just winning back their wings. >> not for the program, safe to say you wouldn't be a pilot today. >> not for the program. i wouldn't be a pilot. but more and more importantly. i don't know i've would be alive. >> dean archibald is a full time. 737 captain with major airline. flying out of miami. and the lyle prouse story ends far differently than he could have hoped. after his arrest, he was a broken man on the verge of suicide. >> i lost the will
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and i thought i was too tough for that. >> how close do you think you came to -- to taking your own life? >> within an eyelash. i was not, i was not -- roman romancing the idea. or kiddiconsidering the idea. i was an an eyelash of executing the idea. >> but after he got out of prison he was placed into the hims program. and in 1993, against all odd, he was rehired by northwest airlin airlines. five years later, lyle prouse retired honorably as the the captain of a 747. >> i got to live out more miracles than anybody i know. >> what other miracles? >> that i flew again. >> that my wife stayed with me. my kids still loved me. that i got sober. that i didn't die like my parents did. i just came back from a pilot reunion in northwest. and i get an e-mail from one of the gals,
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you are a very loved and respected member of the northwest family. i didn't have that in 1990. i suppose, without sounding preachy or evangelistic, the only thing i can attribute it to is god's praise. what is the saying. >> good watches over fools and drunks. >> something like that. i certainly earned that. >> the cbs "overnight news" will be right back. it says you apply the blue one to me. here? no. have a little fun together, or a lot. k-y yours and mine. two sensations that work together, so you can play together. you don't even want to know protection detergent alone doesn't kill bacteria but adding lysol laundry sanitizer kills 99.9% of bacteria with 0% bleach. lysol. what it takes to protect.
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a new warning about counterfeit goods as people shop for the holidays. not about knock-offs like clothing or jewelry. the concern is over fake beauty product, and other toiletries that can be bad for your health. here is jamie yuccas. >> most boxes still awaiting inspection are from china and hong kong. customs officers say, last year alone, they seized more than 2,000 shipments of counterfeit beauty products. in fact, fake personal items are more common than knock-off handbags. these customs officers are the first line of defense for catching illegal shipments. and while the products here may be fake. they can have very real health consequences for consumers. >> welcome back to my channel. beauty blogger, found that out firsth w
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popular eyeshadow from the downtown los angeles street market last year. u.s. customs officers say most discounted goods sold here, likely snuck in under the radar, at sea ports like long beach. >> i just wanted to know can this be as good as the $50 i just spent. she tested both eye shadows. when she woke up the next morning. >> my eye is uncomfortable. really itchy. and, and, i'm going to have to go to the docdoctor. >> within the first 45 minutes. i realized that, that it was an eye inspection. i couldn't get my contacts on. i look back at the footage. and it was, on the fake side, on the side i used the fake product. 100%. >> she isn't alone. other people, who used counterfeit makeup have reported allergic reactions. skin rashes, swollen lips, and chemical burns. we wanted to find out
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it is to find these products. >> hi. >> we went shopping undercover at the same downtown alley. most of the fake makeup sold here its half the price of the original. some vendors admitted products were knock-offs. but assured us they were just as good. >> the same thing as original? >> back at the studio, we compared our purchases with the same makeup from traditional retail stores. the packaging is nearly identical. >> that's interesting. at awe the colors show pretty different. >> some fake makeup made in factories like these have reportedly been found to contain dangerous chemicals. such as arsenic, mercury, and aluminum. we sent the fake and real versions of this mac lipstick and jacqueline hill eye sthad dough pallet to a lab where they were tested for 12 different metals. most concerning, some of these eye shadows in the fake pallet had nearly four times the amount of lead as those in the real
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version. in one, the amount exceeded the fda recommended maximum of 10 parts per million. the fake lipstick had nearly 15 times the amount of lead as the the real thing. >> often the unsafe consumer goods are made in factories that have, unsanitary conditions so the quality is not what you need it to be. >> customs and border protection says the counterfeit products are costing the cosmetics industry about 75 million dollars a year. they say, reducing the amount of fake products, smuggled into the country could be as simple as educating customers. >> the furthest they think, just buying a fake pallet. they don't think they could be ingredients in here that could provide a risk. >> fake makeup is not just sold in downtown los angeles. ku customers need to be aware on line. if the price is too good to be true, probably is. beauty bloggers say make sure you are getting the real
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ten weeks ago a gunman opened fire on a crowd of people at a country music festival in las vegas. 58 were killed. more than 500 wounded. we end tonight with one survivor's inspiring story of resilience. here is adrianna diaz. resilience. here is adrianna diaz. >> hi, mike. >> yea, mike. >> welcome home. >> it was a heartfelt homecoming for mike caster, the latest stop on his long road to recovery. he is back home in southern california for the first time since the night this photo was taken. at a country music festival in las vegas. caster was shot in the back, his girlfriend, tawni temple risk herd life to get him off to the hospital. we met them two days later. >> mike, if tawni wasn't there?
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she was just paying me back. >> doctors said it was too dangerous to premove the shrapnel, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. >> low, middle high. >> but caster is a fighter. for eight weeks, recoveringy has been his full time job at craig hospital. rehab center in denver. >> at 41, he has to relearn what used to be second nature. >> you never think of, all of the things that you took for granted, you know, so easy. now, you know, going to the bathroom. just sitting in a chair. >> yes, mike. >> are you angry or frustrated that you're in this position? >> i mean i go through some times where, you know, i get angry. but it is not going to change anything. you have got to kind of take it how it is. >> do you still think of the night? >> no. we haven't really gone back to watched much news we kof
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rehab getting home. >> moving forward. >> moving forward. >> he is still the same mike. >> tell pull put her life and job on hold to be with him. >> he would do it for me in a heartbeat. >> what's been the hardest part for you? >> look seeing bad days like we have. that's tough. but at the same time it's like i don't, we don't dwell. just a bump in the road. >> we have an amazing future. that's what we look forward to. >> hi, buddy. where you been? >> he is only home for a few days before he goes back to denver for out patient therapy. and again, temple will be by his side. >> she saved me. my hero. >> what's that nice mean? >> i don't like at it like that. i look at it we saved each other. >> adrianna diaz, palm springs, california. that's the "overnight news" for this monday. for some of you've the news continues. for others check back with us a little later for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm elaine quijano.
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this is the cbs "overnight news." good evening, i'm elaine quijano. rarely does a special election on a tuesday in december get this much attention. but in 48 hours, all eyes will be on alabama, where a crucial u.s. senate seat is on the line. the home of the crimson tide is politically deep red. president trump has endorsed the republican front-runner, roy moore facing sexual misconduct allegations. his opponent, doug jones is trying to rally black voters in a state that has not sent a democrat to the u.s. senate in 25 years. manuel bojorquez is there. >> i do not know them.
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i had no encounter with them. i never molested anyone. for them to say that, i don't know why they're saying it. but it is not true. >> roy moore's latest denial during a local tv show where he dismissed the allegations as nothing more than a political attack. president trump backed up his endorsement of moore with a robo call out to alabama voters. >> hi, this is president donald trump. i need alabama to go vote for roy moore. >> but alabama senior senator, richard shelby said he wrote in another republican when we he voted early. >> i didn't vote for roy moore. i wouldn't vote for roy moore. i think the republican party can do better. >> the democrat in the race, doug jones tried to capitalize on shelby's words casting moore as unfit to serve. senator cory booker stumped for jones saturday. >> bad people get elected when good people don't vote. >> reporter: with polls showing moore meeting despite allegations, democrats believe turnout among young and ri
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seat. >> we don't discriminate. >> in selma at historic bridge, he has been trying to motivate black voters with an eyepopping slogan. >> pass the word. that encapsulated how she feels about issues like health care. vote or die, a strong message? >> but if the is real. pragmatic. it is strong. bit is real. we have to come up with the slogan, that capture the attention and imagination of people. >> supporters on both sides spent the weekend canvassing neighborhoods reminding vote ears but tuesday's election. monday, roy moore will be joined on stage by one of his prominent supporters former white house chief strategist steve bannon. >> manuel, thank you. >> a six month cbs news investigation looked into sexual assault at one of the most prestigious and competitive schools in thent
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the u.s. air force academy in colorado. more than a dozen current and former cadets say their cases were mishandled and they faced retaliation from peers and commanders. here is norah o'donnell with one of the cadets. >> i was sexually assaulted my freshman year. sexual harassment i endured made me leave. >> describe harassment. >> perpetrator would follow me on runs. he would tell me he urinated on my car. he would write crude things on my car, like in the fog. he would send me horrible text messages. he would stalk me. ask me where i was going in my little brown dress. >> was he reprimanded in any way? >> talked to by his commander about a crude m
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received and told that was unbecoming of an officer. >> whatever happened to the cadet? >> he garage graduated. >> what happened to you? >> i left. >> norah's investigative reports on sexual assaults at air force academy begin tomorrow on cbs this morning. the largest of five major wildfires in southern california has triggered more evacuations along the coast north of los angeles. mireya villarreal is there. >> reporter: the ferocious thomas fire barreled into santa barbara county overnight. lighting up the night sky as firefighters battled to keep the flames at bay. >> they just told us to get out. get out. >> the fire forced residents to evacuate, the coastal town. alex and his girlfriend, lisa had a few minutes to escape. >> woke us up at 2:00 a.m. literally within five minutes looking back at the ridge there was flames coming over. >> scenes like this are popping up all over the region overnight firefighters thought they would catch a break from the weather. wind picked up early this morning. threatening hundreds of homes in
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down in the valley, where crews continue to fight it. the thomas fire has already charred nearly 200,000 acres and destroyed more than 500 homes in neighboring ventura county. >> to see this fire activity, in the middle of december, it is just, just unprecedented. >> fire spokesman, says crews are trying to prevent the same widespread destruction from happening here in santa barbara county by creating barriers ahead of the fire. he says what's really needed are calmer winds. >> you can have -- you know, 10,000 fire engines here. 10,000 fire fighters. you cannot stop a fire, when there is, fuel and wind driven. >> the conditions here are dangerous for crews behind me the terrain is steep and rugged. so air drops are essential. overnight the wind are expected to die down and for the rest of the week things should be calm. giving firefighters an opportunity to get a better handle on all of the blazes here in southern california. elaine. >> mireya villarreal, thank you. the deep south is recovering from the season's first wave of
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check out cherokee county, georgia. they got 10 inches of snow. nearly 100,000 homes and businesses in the south are still without power. and look inside what appears to be a snow globe in buffalo, new york. those are workers, clearing the lines for a football game. a blizzard of negotiations is in the forecast this week on capitol hill. house and senate members are trying to work out their tax reform differences, and deliver a big item on the president's holiday wish list. here is errol barnett. >> i can think of no better christmas present for the american people than giving you a massive tax cut. >> echoing his pensacola speech, president trump tweeted this morning about the stock market's record highs, unemployment rates, 17 year low and tax cut bill getting closer. he then played golf in west palm beach with republican senator lindsay graham, in an effort to shore up gop support amid
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mounting head winds. >> i don't know where the bill is going to come out. >> republican senators susan collins is withhold sag part until she sees the final version. collins wants her amendment to eliminate automatic cuts to medicare included. >> i've don't want seniors to have anxiety of wondering whether the tax bill somehow is going to trigger a cut in medicare. >> you can save my life. >> during a thursday flit back to arizona, republican senator jeff flake was implored by a passenger suffering with als also a democratic activist, to vote no on the bill. >> my life depends on it. >> most of the country disapproves of the gop tax plan. cbs news found only 20% of americans thing it would decrease their taxes. with 76% feeling large corporations benefit most. senator richard shelby of alabama who supports the bill disagrees. >> it is a lot of relief for a lot of the working people, middle-class, probably something for just about everybody in the bill. >> the cbs "overnight news" will be right back.
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violent protests continued in the middle east today over president trump's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital. seth doane is there. >> on the streets of lebanon today, pro palestinian protesters clashed with security forces near the u.s. embassy in beirut. president trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel has sparked protests around the world. reacting to that, arab league foreign ministers held an emergency meeting in cairo this weekend. and denounced the u.s. decision. saying it undermines peace endeavors and pushes the region to an abyss of more violence and instability. french president macron pushed for peace this afternoon in a
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meeting with israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu. who said palestinians need to come to grips with reality. >> paris is the capital of france. jerusalem is the capital of israel. been the capital of israel for 3,000 years. it's been the capital of the jewish state for 70 years. >> reporter: not all israelis are as pleased with president trump's policy. >> it is stupid, stupid thing to do. >> she sees jerusalem as israel's capital but said now wasn't the time to declare it. >> i dent want our soldier to be killed because of -- stupid decision, announcement. >> israeli security guard was stabbed in jerusalem today. in the first apparent attack since mr. trump's announcement. protests and clashes continued in the west bank and gaza. where hamas' militant wing threatened the next few days
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u.s. decision was. to underline the continuing security threat, israel's military said it destroyed a significant terrorist tunnel built by hamas. which stretched from gaza hundreds of yards into israel. and in the past, tunnels have been used to ferry supplies, weapons and launch attacks. elaine. >> seth, thank you. at their meeting today, president macron told prime minister netanyahu, america's recognition of jerusalem is israel's capital is a threat to peace. macron sits down tomorrow with "cbs evening news" anchor, jeff glor see that interview tomorrow night on the "cbs evening news." there is a big vote this week in the fight for the open internet. five fcc commissioners, three republicans two democrats are scheduled to vote thursday on plan to dismantle so-called net neutrality protections. our correspondent now with what's at stake. >> michael munoz says two tech companies rely on the internet to provide research to stock
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>> all right information everything we provide for clients we live and breathe through the internet. >> reporter: he is concerned about a plan by the trump administration to rule back net neutrality. the obama era rules bar internet service providers from slowing or stopping internet traffic or charging more for faster speeds. c-net's roger chang. >> prioritizing traffic. they want to see prioritized. slowing down, blocking traffic on sites, they want to pay a premium. >> fcc chairman, told cbs news in the spring, the current rules stifle investment. >> because regulations are so prescriptive, many companies, big and small have told us they're holding back on investment in their internet networks. >> but the pro posed repeal sparked protest on capitol hill and online. critics worry that providers look comcast and verizou
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charge internet giants like netflix and google more for faster connections and those costs passed on to consumers. and, smaller companies like his won't be able to afford faster connections. >> they might go into different business or start in a different country. we don't want to see that. >> providers said they didn't have plans to block or restrict access or content on internet. do you not trust them? >> i think they're going to charge more for premium access. >> you pay more, you pass it on to clients and customers. >> i have to. >> fcc commissioners set to vote on december 14th. expected to pass along party lines. coming up, caught on camera. a small plane coming in low. it does not end well. >> later, millions of recalled airbags are still on the road. what one automaker is doing about it.
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now here is the cbs weekend news feed. a deadly plane crash in san diego caught on camera. see the single engine plane coming in low. and disappearing behind a row of homes. it crashed into a house and started a fire. no one was home, but two feel in the plane were killed. >> egyptian officials announced this weekend the opening of two ancient tombs in the city of luxor in egypt's valley of the kings. archaeologists say the enscriptions say the tombs date back 3500 years. the skeletons and mummy not identified. >> 40 years after the premiere of star wars, mark hamil attended the hollywood premiere last night of star wars the last jedi. luke skywalker's droids joined their cast mates.
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we have an update on the takana airbag recall, largest recall in u.s. history. less than half of the 41 million potential explosive airbag inflaters have been replaced. honda is the hardest hit. kris van cleave shows us what they're doing to fix this. >> these honda employees are going door to door, hunting for roughly 100,000 cars with the most dangerous defective takata airbags. that have a 50/50 chance of failing. faulty airbags have killed 13 people in the u.s. >> 36 -- >> millions of mailers, phone calls, targeted facebook ads haven't gotten to everyone. honda has 500 people in what it calls pit teams, going into neighborhoods, nationwide. >> good maps for you guys. 63 homes. >> they're looking for
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unrepaired 2001 to 2003 hondas like this one in false church. they carry replacement airbags allowing a tech mission to remove it. >> how unusual is this? >> unprecedented. >> the challenge here is that vehicles are 14, 15, 16 years old. they change hands, one, two, three times. >> technician needs the keys. >> a pit team changed the airbags in his 2001 honda he bought two years age of a second challenge for the automaker. as many as 144,000 vehicles with dangerous airbags ended up in scrap yards. some repaired and resold. 1-year-old corina didn't know her car was salvaged from a junkyard. nearly killed when its airbag deployed in march. >> you bought this honda to pull the airbag out. >> correct. >> tim, actively seeks out older wrecked hondas removes the airbags bere
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his salvage yard. he pulled out about 100 defective airbags this year. >> out of the car. out of the system. honda knows about it. gone. >> this isn't an airbag that will hurt any one? >> correct. >> honda has been able to get 80,000 dangerous airbags from salvage yard. 50,000 through the canvassing effort this year. still leaves many more to be found. >> kris van cleave reporting. >> up next, the emotional homecoming and long road ahead for a survivor of the las vegas massacre.
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ten weeks ago a gunman opened fire on a crowd of people at a country music festival in las vegas. 58 were killed. more than 500 wounded. we end tonight with one survivor's inspiring story of resilience. here is adrianna diaz. >> hi, mike. >> yea, mike. >> welcome home. >> it was a heartfelt homecoming for mike caster, the latest stop on his long road to recovery. he is back home in southern california for the first time since the night this photo was taken. at a country music festival in las vegas. caster was shot in the back, his girlfriend, tawni temple risk herd life to get him off to the hospital. we met them two days later. >> mike, if tawni wasn't there? >> i did take a bullet for her. she was just paying me back. >> doctors said it was too dangerous to premove the shrapnel, leaving him paralyzed
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from the waist down. >> low, middle high. >> but caster is a fighter. for eight weeks, recoveringy has been his full time job at craig hospital. rehab center in denver. >> at 41, he has to relearn what used to be second nature. >> you never think of, all of the things that you took for granted, you know, so easy. now, you know, going to the bathroom. just sitting in a chair. >> yes, mike. >> are you angry or frustrated that you're in this position? >> i mean i go through some times where, you know, i get angry. but it is not going to change anything. you have got to kind of take it how it is. >> do you still think of the night? >> no. we haven't really gone back to watched much news we kind of just have been just focused on rehab getting home. >> moving forward. >> moving forward. >> he is still the same mike. >> tell pull put her life and job on hold to be with him. >> he would do it for me in a heartbeat. >> what's been the hardest part for you?
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>> look seeing bad days like we have. that's tough. but at the same time it's like i don't, we don't dwell. just a bump in the road. >> we have an amazing future. that's what we look forward to. >> hi, buddy. where you been? >> he is only home for a few days before he goes back to denver for out patient therapy. and again, temple will be by his side. >> she saved me. my hero. >> what's that nice mean? >> i don't like at it like that. i look at it we saved each other. >> adrianna diaz, palm springs, california. that's the "overnight news" for this monday. for some of you've the news continues.
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for others check back with us a little later for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm elaine quijano. welcome to the "overnight news." i'm elaine quijano. the national reckoning over sexual misconduct will come into sharp focus tomorrow in a critical special election in alabama. republican senate candidate roy moore its leading in the polls despite being accused of molesting teenage girls decades ago. one of his alleged victims says he was 14 years old at the time. moore denies the allegations and has support of president trump. here its manuel bojorquez. >> i do not know them. i had no encounter with them. never molested anyone. i don't know why. it's not true. >> reporter: the denial during a tv show where he dismissed
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political attack. president trump backed up his endorsement of moore with a robo call that will go out to alabama voters. i need alabama to go vote for roy moore. >> but alabama senior senator, richard shelby said he wrote in another republican when we he voted early. >> i didn't vote for roy moore. i wouldn't vote for roy moore. i think the republican party can do better. >> the democrat in the race, doug jones tried to capitalize on shelby's words casting moore as unfit to serve. senator cory booker stumped for jones saturday. >> bad people get elected when good people don't vote. >> reporter: with polls showing moore meeting despite allegations, democrats believe turnout among young and african-american voters may beat only way to take the senate seat. >> we don't discriminate. we try to give it to everybody. >> in selma at historic bridge, he has been trying to motivate black voters with an eyepopping
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>> pass the word. vote or die. that encapsulated how she feels about issues like health care. vote or die, a strong message? >> but it is real. it is pragmatic. it is strong. bit is real. we have to come up with the slogan, that capture the attention and imagination of people. >> supporters on both sides spent the weekend canvassing neighborhoods reminding vote voters about tuesday's election. on monday, roy moore will be joined on stage by one of his prominent supporters former white house chief strategist steve bannon. >> manuel, thank you. >> a six month cbs news investigation looked into sexual assault at one of the most prestigious and competitive schools in the country. the u.s. air force academy in colorado. more than a dozen current and former cadets say their cases were mishandled and they faced retaliation from peers and commanders. here is norah o'donnell with one
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>> i was sexually assaulted my freshman year. and the sexual harassment i endured made me leave. >> describe that harassment. >> perpetrator would follow me on runs. he would tell me he urinated on my car. he would write crude things on my car, like in the fog. he would send me horrible text messages. he would stalk me. ask me where i was going in my little brown dress. >> was he reprimanded in any way? >> talked to by his commander about a crude text message i received and told that was unbecoming of an officer. >> whatever happened to the cadet? >> he garage graduated. >> what happened to you? >> i left. >> norah's investigative reports on sexual assaults at air force academy begin tomorrow on cbs this morning. the largest of five major wildfires in southern california has triggered
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along the coast north of los angeles. mireya villarreal is there. >> reporter: the ferocious thomas fire barreled into santa barbara county overnight. lighting up the night sky as firefighters battled to keep the flames at bay. >> they just told us to get out. get out. >> the fire forced residents to evacuate, the coastal town. alex and his girlfriend, lisa had a few minutes to escape. >> woke us up at 2:00 a.m. literally within five minutes looking back at the ridge there was flames coming over. >> scenes like this are popping up all over the region overnight firefighters thought they would catch a break from the weather. wind picked up early this morning. threatening hundreds of homes in this area. down in the valley, where crews continue to fight it. the thomas fire has already charred nearly 200,000 acres and destroyed more than 500 homes in neighboring ventura county. >> to see this fire activity, in the middle of december, it is just, just unprecedented. >> fire spokesman, says crews are trying to prevent the same
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county by creating barriers ahead of the fire. he says what's really needed are calmer winds. >> you can have -- you know, 10,000 fire engines here. 10,000 fire fighters. you cannot stop a fire, when there is, fuel and wind driven. >> the conditions here are dangerous for crews behind me the terrain is steep and rugged. so air drops are essential. overnight the wind are expected to die down and for the rest of the week things should be calm. giving firefighters an opportunity to get a better handle on all of the blazes here in southern california. elaine. >> mireya villarreal, thank you. the deep south is recovering from the season's first wave of winter weather. check out cherokee county, georgia. they got 10 inches of snow.
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nearly 100,000 homes and businesses in the south are still without power. and look inside what appears to be a snow globe in buffalo, new york. those are workers, clearing the lines for a football game. a blizzard of negotiations is in the forecast this week on capitol hill. house and senate members are trying to work out their tax reform differences, and deliver a big item on the president's holiday wish list. here is errol barnett. >> i can think of no better christmas present for the american people than giving you a massive tax cut. >> echong his pensacola speech, president trump tweeted this morning about the stock market's record highs, unemployment rates, 17 year low and tax cut bill getting closer. he then played golf in west palm beach with republican senator lindsay graham, in an effort to shore up gop support amid mounting head winds. >> i don't know where the bill is going to come out. >> republican senators susan collins is withhold sag part until she sees the final version.
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collins wants her amendment to eliminate automatic cuts to medicare included. >> i've don't want seniors to have anxiety of wondering whether the tax bill somehow is going to trigger a cut in medicare. >> you can save my life. >> during a thursday flit back to arizona, republican senator jeff flake was implored by a passenger suffering with als also a democratic activist, to vote no on the bill. >> my life depends on it. >> most of the country disapproves of the gop tax plan. cbs news found only 20% of americans think it would decrease their taxes. with 76% feeling large corporations benefit most. senator richard shelby of
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alabama who supports the bill disagrees. >> it is a lot of relief for a lot of the working people, middle-class, probably something for just about everybody in the bill. hoping to get a tax bill to the oval office by christmas. and delicate negotiations are under way on funding priorities to avoid a government shutdown by year's end. elaine. >> errol, thank you. >> the cbs "overnight news" will be right back. megared advanced triple absorption it supports your heart, joints, brain, and eyes. and is absorbed by your body three times better. so one megared has more omega-3 power than three standard fish oil pills. megared advanced triple absorption. it says you apply the blue one ok, letto me. this. here? no. have a little fun together, or a lot. k-y yours and mine. two sensations that work together, so you can play together.
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if a commercial airline pilots get caught while flying drunk you would think their career would be over. many pilots who struggled with addiction are getting cleared with takeoff again. a rehab program is achieving high levels of success. here its tony dokoupil. >> almost seven acres here. >> most alcoholics can tell you the exact moment they hilt rock bottom. former airline captain hit his at 30,000 feet. march 8, 1990 he was at the controls, fargo to minneapolis. 58 people aboard. after a night of heavy drinking on a layover he was drunk. >> i think, 14 rum and cokes for me. >> 14?
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>> depending upon the testimony you listen to, goes up to 1, 19, i don't know. >> one of the pilots allegedly had 19 rum and coke drinks the night before. his blood alcohol content that morning was at least, .13%. too drunk to drive, and more than triple the limit for flying. >> do you have any doubts about getting on the plane? >> no. i mean, i would fly the airplane if i thought i was going to die. >> the plane landed safely. but the crew was arrested and became the first commercial airline pilots convicted of flying while intoxicated. >> the pilot -- and all of american commercial aviation, damaged the profession like i did. that was, that hurt. >> this is not -- >> that a girl. >> the career was a long shot from day one.
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joined the marines and fought his way from a ground unit into a fighter jet. and a decorated career. some where along the way though, he became an alcoholic himself. >> our pilots are, just like all people. they have -- some of the same short comings that any of us could have. >> peggy gilligan, former faa administrator in charge of safety says a drinking problem its not necessarily the end of a pilot's career. >> there are lots of things that initially might disqualify you from being a pilot with proper care, treatment, rehabilitation, you can return to the flight deck. >> and in fact, for decades, the faa has been doing exactly that. quietly sending pilots to diagnose the substance abusers, back to work.
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or hims. before you panic. consider this. may be within of the most successful rehab programs ever. >> let me get the numbers straight. 80% of the pilots that enter the program don't relapse at all. >> right. >> of those that do relapse. most only relapse one time. that's right. never been an issue with the pilot. undergoing treatment while flying. >> that's right. >> why aren't you screaming this good news from every rooftop in washington, d.c. >> a really good question. >> right now, under the program, there are upwards of 1300 pilots flying with a special medical license for addiction. since the mid 1970s, 6,000 pilots have been treated and returned to the cockpit. pilots like captain dana archibald whose career nearly
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missed the flight after a drunken binge. >> i just stopped showing up for work. >> tell your boss you have the flu. >> i would tell him every story in the book. because i am an alcoholic. tell him anything they wanted to hear. >> in another era, addicted pilots would be fired or forced to keep their addictions a secret. the faa says, that's all changed. >> what we didn't want. what we don't want to this day are pilots, who side something that could present a risk. >> of course, addiction isn't just a pilot's problem. millions of americans are struggling with it. most who need treatment, aren't in it. and relapse its common. but for airline pilots those rules don't seem to apply. >> the treatment, that's
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stabilization. >> correct. >> the doctor who ran an addiction treatment center in south miami, says the airline pilots he treated were more likely to get sober, and stay that way. >> so, a member of the general public is three times more likely to have a relapse? >> yes. >> than a pilot. >> correct. >> why? they don't have the system in place. >> for pilots. system means a month in an faa rehab facility. monitoring, drug tests. if the faa clears them to fly again, the treatment usually continues, for at least three years. it is not pool proof, but it works. >> since the inception of the hims program in the last 43 years there has never been even one a single, single commercial passenger carrying airline incident or accident that has been alcohol or drug related. that's the -- >> if the general public had a hims style program available to them. do you think relapse rates w
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question. there is a key element missing in the general public. we don't have the leverage. >> everybody is a frayed of losing something. >> yeah, it's very easy to hide out there in the general public. if you threaten the pilot, take away his wings. taking away his stethoscope. that's a lot of leverage. if they want to get back in the cockpit or operating room. they got to jump through the hoops. >> and jump they do. similar programs have been used successfully by doctors and flight attendants and now police and fire departments are interest too. for pilots, it is about a lot more than just winning back their wings. >> not for the program, safe to say you wouldn't be a pilot today. >> not for the program. i wouldn't be a pilot. but more and more importantly. i don't know i've would be alive. >> dean archibald is a full time. 737 captain with major airline. flying out of miami. and the lyle prouse story ends far differently than he could have hoped. after his arrest, he was a broken man on the verge of
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>> i lost the will to live. and i thought i was too tough for that. >> how close do you think you came to -- to taking your own life? >> within an eyelash. i was not, i was not -- romancing the idea. or considering the idea. i was an an eyelash of executing the idea. >> but after he got out of prison he was placed into the hims program. and in 1993, against all odd, he was rehired by northwest airlines. five years later, lyle prouse retired honorably as the the captain of a 747. >> i got to live out more miracles than anybody i know. >> what other miracles? >> that i flew again. >> that my wife stayed with me. my kids still loved me. that i got sober. that i didn't die like my parents did. i just came back from a pilot reunion in northwest. and i get an e-mail from one of the gals, she said, she said,
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respected member of the northwest family. i didn't have that in 1990. i suppose, without sounding preachy or evangelistic, the only thing i can attribute it to is god's praise. what is the saying. >> good watches over fools and drunks. >> something like that. i certainly earned that. >> the cbs "overnight news" will be right back. i had this chest cold, but my medicine kept wearing off. (coughah! i missed you! then i discovered mucinex. one pill lasts 12 hours,and i'm good. why take 4-hour medicine? one mucinex lasts 12 hours. let's end this.
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a new warning about counterfeit goods as people shop for the holidays. not about knock-offs like clothing or jewelry. the concern is over fake beauty product, and other toiletries that can be bad for your health. here is jamie yuccas. >> most boxes still awaiting inspection are from china and hong kong. customs officers say, last year alone, they seized more than 2,000 shipments of counterfeit beauty products. in fact, fake personal items are more common than knock-off handbags. these customs officers are the first line of defense for catching illegal shipments. and while the products here may be fake. they can have very real health consequences for consumers. >> welcome back to my channel. beauty blogger, found that out firsthand when she purchased popular eyeshadow from the downtown los angeles street market last year. u.s. customs officers say most discounted goods sold here,
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at sea ports like long beach. >> i just wanted to know can this be as good as the $50 i just spent. she tested both eye shadows. when she woke up the next morning. >> my eye is uncomfortable. really itchy. and, and, i'm going to have to go to the doctor. >> within the first 45 minutes. i realized that, that it was an eye inspection. i couldn't get my contacts on. i look back at the footage. and it was, on the fake side, on the side i used the fake product. 100%. >> she isn't alone. other people, who used counterfeit makeup have reported allergic reactions. skin rashes, swollen lips, and chemical burns. we wanted to find out how easy it is to find these products. >> hi. >> we went shopping undercover at the same downtown alley. most of the fake makeup sold here its half the price of the original. some vendors admitted products were knock-offs. but assured us they were just as good. >> the same thing as original? >> back at th studio, we mp
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same makeup from traditional retail stores. the packaging is nearly identical. >> that's interesting. at awe the colors show pretty different. >> some fake makeup made in factories like these have reportedly been found to contain dangerous chemicals. such as arsenic, mercury, and aluminum. we sent the fake and real versions of this mac lipstick and jacqueline hill eye sthad dough pallet to a lab where they were tested for 12 different metals. most concerning, some of these eye shadows in the fake pallet had nearly four times the amount of lead as those in the real version. in one, the amount exceeded the fda recommended maximum of 10 parts per million. the fake lipstick had nearly 15
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the real thing. >> often the unsafe consumer goods are made in factories that have, unsanitary conditions so the quality is not what you need it to be. >> customs and border protection says the counterfeit products are costing the cosmetics industry about 75 million dollars a year. they say, reducing the amount of fake products, smuggled into the country could be as simple as educating customers. >> the furthest they think, just buying a fake pallet. they don't think they could be ingredients in here that could provide a risk. >> fake makeup is not just sold in downtown los angeles. customers need to be aware on line. if the price is too good to be true, probably is.
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she'll get the hang of it in no time. hailey is one of 7 million children with asthma whose parents have to worry about when the next attack will strike. today more kids suffer from asthma than from any other chronic disease. in emergency rooms, one fourth of all visits are due to asthma attacks. most asthma attacks are caused by allergic reactions to allergens. things like pollen, dust and even household pests can trigger asthma. estimates show than more than 25 percent of americans are allergic to the german cockroach. in children, pests, asthma and allergies are a bad combination that can result in twice as many asthma-related medical visits.
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captioning funded by cbs it's monday, december 11th, 2017. this is the "cbs morning news." alabama's special senate election has captivated the nation. the republican candidate continues to deny sexual misconduct allegations and has the backing of the commander in chief. >> all right. this is president donald trump and i need alabama to go vote for roy moore. >> as democrats make a final push for their candidate in the unlikely battleground state. a southern california wildfire flares up,
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