, the distance proved to be too much, and that's why weekes and her chief operations officer, susan williams, decided to find and partner with local factories. >> i was part of a generation ta took it away from this country and didn't know what that would do really to our economy, and here i am now 20 years later having an opportunity to bring it back. >> weekes, who has schools like duke, yale, the university of nebraska and the university of cincinnati among her clients says she's done plen i of legwork. >> finding a big factory partner is extraordinarily difficult. it was a lot of getting in the car and getting on the phone. we'd been travel across the state of north carolina uncovering these cut-and-sew facilities and meeting with fabric vendors and finding cardboard box manufacturers who are still here. >> since so many north carolina textile factories shut down, the search was intense. >> reviving an industry that was booming 20 years ago and it really took a nap. so with schoolhouse we are taking them out of the rip van winkle stage of the nap and bringing them back to life. >> if the

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susan. >>> nelson mandela left the presidency in 1999. his life has been portrayed in several movies. one, "mandela: long walk to freedom" had its debut last night in london just as he passed away. prince william and katherine attended the premiere. >> my thoughts and prayers are with him, his family right now. >> reporter: they didn't learn of his death until after the movie was other. his daughters explained they wanted the premiere to go on. we'll have much more coming up on "cbs this morning." >>> now, to other news. millions of americans are facing another big blast of winter-like weather, and the national weather service is also issuing storm and ice warnings from texas to tennessee. some parts of the midwest are expected to see several inches of snow. the snow is also bringing bitter cold to a wide swath of the eastern half of the country. >>> schools in dallas and ft. worth are closed today and residents are being told to stay home. they're calling today ice friday. sleet and freezing rain are coating ad making travel dangerous. a fleet of dump trucks is spreading sand on highways. >>> coming up on the "morning news," a murder mystery in benghazi. an american teacher shot dead in a lib

williams can keep his best friend. >>> speaking of generous donations, we have another generous donation today for our "food for bay area families" campaign. joining us now, david tucker from waste management and susan bateson from the alameda county food bank. thank you so much for being here. david, $95,000, such a generous donation. where is this money going towards? >> waste managements we have a charity golf tournament every year and through the generosity of our tournament donors we were able to raise $95,000 for the food bank to provide a new truck to help deliver food to the families in need. >> susans, how many families will this help? >> it will help us serve 49,000 people each week. it's going to be great. >> thank you so much for the generous donation. if you would like to help bay area families in need this christmas season, donate at your local whole foods market or online at our kpix.com/food. we'll be right back. ,, sleep train's interest-free for 3 event ends sunday! it's your last chance to get 3 years interest-free financing on beautyrest black, stearns & foster, serta icomfort, even tempur-pedic. plus, get free delivery and sleep train's 100-day low price guarantee. but hurry, sl

and donations will allow williams to keep orlando when the dog is retired, which is expected to happen soon. a great story. >> that's nice they could stay together. susan"the ridiculist" is coming up. [woman] you wrapped the... [man] it's nothing but tape... [woman] it's a block. we're havin' a baby! [laughter in background] [woman screams] are we havin' a baby? [ambient crying and laughter] >>> time now for "the ridiculist." i don't usually give much creed toeps popularity rankings. but one got my attention. a company called market wire looked at social media the past six months to see which news anchors were being mentioned the most and most favorably. i came in number two with more than 560,000 mentioned, 85% of which were favorable. thank you. i can tell you most are inscrutable rants. which was number one, you ask? which news anchor is mentioned more on social media than me and even more favorably? that would be none other than ron burgundy. mentioned almost 566,000 times the past six months, 91% favorable. bul burgundy beat out me, megyn kelly, katie couric and wolf blitzer. i think the data might be skewed. for one thing there's no movie about m

susan page. amazon has thought of everything. almost. their plan to use small drones to deliver purchases to your doorstep in 30 minutes or less in the future raises questions. don't worry brian williamsteven colbert are on the case. >> don't take my word for how simple it is when there's this carefully produced short film from amazon. there's the drone picking up the package and flying out of the warehouse navigating through parts of america with no trees, phone lines or building, then landing on your doorstep while your family cowers inside while the blade wielding copter leads. >> big story all over this amazon idea and we've been testing it ourselves, home delivery by drone. whether it's a new book or a dozen eggs, as long as it's under 5 pounds. what could go wrong? if i can impart one lesson to a new business owner, it would be one thing i've learned is my philosophy is real simple american express open forum is an on-line community, that helps our members connect and share ideas to make smart business decisions. if you mess up, fess up. be your partners best partner. we built it for our members, but it's open for everyone. there's not one way to do something. no details too sma

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